Sources familiar with the Diddy investigation tell TMZ ... more alleged victims and witnesses are stepping up because they feel less intimidated now that Diddy is behind bars.
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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.
00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.
00:05He is very eager to tell his story.
00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over
00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.
00:15His reputation is over.
00:17The United States government, they start making this case
00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.
00:24TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, now streaming on Tubi.
00:30Diddy and what the authorities say is now become a pattern that since the indictment
00:37and since there have been a few more lawsuits filed,
00:41they are getting a wave of accusers coming forward.
00:44There is, as they put it, an uptick in the number of people calling and saying
00:48that they have had encounters with Diddy,
00:53encounters that they want to talk to the authorities about
00:56because they think it may be a crime.
00:58Now, this comes on the heels of a press conference yesterday
01:02with the Busbee law firm saying,
01:04initially, when they put a press release out that they were going to do this,
01:07they talked about 50 victims.
01:09Now they're saying, what, 100?
01:10Yeah, when he showed up yesterday, he said 120.
01:12So just in the week since Tony Busbee, the attorney,
01:16made that announcement that he was going to be filing these lawsuits,
01:20that means that many more people suddenly got in touch with him.
01:25By the way, just one thing,
01:26we're not suggesting that all of them are valid or not valid
01:30because I don't think a lot have been vetted.
01:32You would have to imagine that a lot of people see all these people coming forward
01:36and might be just kind of trying to jump on the bandwagon
01:38or think maybe this is a payday.
01:40But the other side of it is that we're being told
01:43that a lot of these people who are coming forward,
01:45now that Diddy's actually in prison,
01:47they don't feel scared to come forward
01:49or basically get any type of repercussions from Diddy
01:54for coming forward with these stories.
01:55And that's why they're getting the influx.
01:58And the reality is some of these people might just become witnesses.
02:01Maybe they just have information that will help the authorities
02:03and not necessarily that they're victims.
02:06But I would imagine there may also be alleged victims there as well.
02:10I just thought of this.
02:11There is a rub here that if there are various allegations,
02:17that doesn't mean it becomes part of a federal case.
02:20Correct.
02:20Because typically these are state cases.
02:23So everybody thinks this all gets folded.
02:27Except for the fact that one of the counts is a RICO,
02:29which is so broad that if the feds...
02:34My point is that all these people coming forward,
02:37the feds could find a way,
02:39depending on what information they have,
02:40to include them in this case.
02:43Yes, but when you read this 14-page indictment,
02:46and again, I say 14 pages because it's shockingly short for a RICO case.
02:52But they only list one alleged victim in the sex trafficking case,
02:58and that's clearly Cassie.
03:00So if they had this big number...
03:04You could have a large number of victims in the RICO part of the...
03:09But they didn't list it that way.
03:11I mean, I don't know.
03:12Correct. You're right. They didn't.
03:13And that's why I'm saying that maybe some of these people
03:15who are coming forward now,
03:17that's how they could be included in the federal...
03:20I don't know.
03:21There's something else that came out today.
03:23Wendy Williams, who had real beef with Diddy.
03:26She's spoken out now.
03:27Yes. We'll get into their history in a moment.
03:29But everyone was waiting to hear
03:32what Wendy Williams would have to say about this.
03:34This is what she told the Daily Mail.
03:36She said,
03:36What is really weird is that I have been told by so many people,
03:40Wendy, you called it,
03:42including some people from my family who have said the same.
03:46You know how I feel about that?
03:47It is about time to see this video on TV of Cassie getting pummeled.
03:52It was just horrific.
03:54But now you have to think how many more times?
03:57How many more people?
03:58How many more women?
03:59It's just so horrible.
04:01Now, they have a lot of bad blood between them.
04:03Goes back to...
04:05Hot 97.
04:05Hot 97.
04:06Wendy was a DJ there.
04:09And the story is that Diddy got her fired
04:13because he was upset that she kept repeating on the air
04:17rumors about him being gay.
04:19And her attempts to out him...
04:22Got him fired.
04:23...enough that he made a call and she ended up getting fired.
04:26Because this was back in the day when bad boy was really
04:30blowing up in the 90s.
04:31So, late 90s.
04:33So there are decades of...
04:34He would have had the power if that's what happened.
04:37But he certainly would have had the power at that point.
04:38Right.
04:39I am Andy from Berry Hills.
04:41And look, first of all, it's so good to know that Wendy is alive and breathing
04:45because we have been missing her so much.
04:47So it is kind of sad that it took so long and so many victims to come forward.
04:52But you know what?
04:53Justice for Wendy.
04:56And I think Diddy is going down.
04:58And he's going to be taking a lot of people down with him.
05:02I will say, slow the roll on projecting where this is heading.
05:07Because we don't know where the feds are going to go with this
05:09as far as whether there'll be more counts.
05:12We don't know what the defense is going to mount.
05:14What the defense is going to be.
05:14You just don't know yet.