Diddy is facing a new lawsuit filed by a woman who claims the rap mogul drugged and sexually assaulted her ... and continues to menace and intimidate her.
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00:00We've got some really interesting information about Diddy, because in a few minutes you're going to hear his lawyer saying this whole prosecution, he says, is racially motivated.
00:10But before we get to that, there is a new lawsuit with a twist.
00:15Yeah, this is a new accuser now, an anonymous accuser who's filed a lawsuit alleging that Diddy sexually assaulted her, drugged her, tracked her and menaced her.
00:28She says right up until this year, in fact in the lawsuit she says to this day.
00:34Now, like I said, she's filed this anonymously, but what's interesting about this accuser that's different from a lot of the others that we've heard, this is a relatively recent incident.
00:47She says they met in 2020 overseas, they were on vacation, separately on vacation when they met, and then they hit it off and then started traveling a lot of places together.
01:02But she says she witnessed him being violent with other women, and then as far as her relationship with him, she says that he would drug her beverages at times and she would black out.
01:16In one instance in particular, in 2022, she says that he gave her ketamine and she blacked out and that while she was blacked out, he had intercourse with her and she ended up getting pregnant.
01:32And then what happened after that does sound like it's out of the playbook of the things that the feds have alleged in the indictment.
01:42By the way, she ended up having a miscarriage.
01:44Right.
01:45So before the miscarriage, there was a lot of abuse.
01:48Harassing and abuse, she says.
01:49You know, we see a lot of these lawsuits and obviously we don't know if the facts are true or not.
01:53We know the allegations are there.
01:54What we do know is that the prosecutors in the criminal case are going to start lining these witnesses up to inform a jury that there's an M.O. here, right, that he acts in the same way with all these women, that he continuously drugs them.
02:08And I think that more than just the risk of a civil lawsuit, he's got plenty of money, he can pay that off, is the additional risk that all these women are going to line up to testify against him.
02:17There's a downside to this, Jason, because if you remember in the Harvey Weinstein case, they did bring other women on the stand to show an M.O.
02:25And the appeals court reversed it and said that you can't do that with people who are going to poison the jury pool when it's not relevant to this specific charge.
02:37So you can do it to a point, but the issue is when is it then over the line?
02:43Yeah, and obviously it's something courts grapple with all the time as to what, you know, typically prior bad acts, prior acts cannot be used to prove a bad act in the case in front of the jury.
02:53Unless, right, Harvey, you can really establish there's a pattern, a modus operandi, and that's what they'll try to prove here.
02:58But you're right, it comes at the peril of a potential overturn on appeal.
03:02Yeah, so what she says about, again, in the lawsuit, she says up to this day, the lawsuit was filed Friday in New York, but she says that Diddy has continued to contact her, to harass her.
03:18She doesn't say, she also uses the word intimidate, which is interesting because that was one of the concerns from the feds.
03:26Which is how they denied bail.
03:28Right, because they were worried that he would be intimidating potential witnesses, which it certainly sounds like this woman could be a witness if the feds get the information from a lawyer about who she is and she's willing to testify.
03:43So in other Diddy news, we have a new documentary that just dropped on Tubi called The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, just dropped last night.
03:55In this documentary, Diddy's lawyer talks about how he strongly believes this is a racially motivated prosecution.
04:06Let's switch our focus to the government.
04:08In my opinion, I'm just going to say it the way it is, no friend historically of the successful black man, okay? None.
04:17And they start making this case, in my opinion, as a takedown of a successful black man.
04:24This is the government scrutinizing his businesses.
04:27His businesses are fine.
04:28Scrutinizing the taxes, he pays his taxes.
04:31He does everything right.
04:32What's the last vestige?
04:34We're going to go into his bedroom.
04:36We're going to go into his bedroom because maybe we don't like the way he's having sex.
04:40Here's a man who has made some of the most important businesses owned by a black man.
04:47Run, own, created, founded, the vision was that of a black man.
04:53What have we done?
04:54We have reduced him, not everyone, but a large amount of our society to being a monster.
05:01That should make us shake in our boots.
05:04I've got to say, that sounded, obviously the trial is months and months away, but that sounded like an opening statement.
05:11I don't think, I'm not sure that's even going to be allowed, I don't know that they can make that argument even.
05:17They might be able to make it an opening statement.
05:22Eric Adams actually is making the exact same argument in New York with the same U.S. attorney.
05:29Yes, but we should say that that same U.S. attorney that's prosecuting Eric Adams and Diddy is also himself black.
05:36Black, that's right.
05:37Maybe that doesn't work when you're standing in court as an opening statement.
05:42Hey, Steve-O here from Atlanta, Georgia.
05:44Yeah, I don't know if this is a specific target towards a successful black man, but I do feel like it is something to where he's pissed someone or a few people off,
05:54to where they want to get him for something, whether it's his actions, alleged actions, or a potential business deal that has gone wrong or something like that.
06:03There's definitely a motive there that I believe, but with all these allegations and lawsuits and the indictment,
06:08he's going to go through his due process to prove his innocence, but to me, it just doesn't look good.
06:13Yeah, and again, I get all that. You never know until the trial actually happens.
06:21I stopped guessing during way, way back in the McMartin preschool case, where it just seemed over before it started.
06:30You just don't know.