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00:00:00Diddy is in the crosshairs of the feds, and they mean business.
00:00:16You would have thought they were taking down a violent gang leader, not somebody who makes
00:00:20music and has charmed America for decades.
00:00:23Diddy is under criminal investigation after multiple lawsuits accused him of horrific
00:00:29crimes.
00:00:30Music mogul, Sean Diddy Combs, accused of sex trafficking and sexual assault.
00:00:35Now, people who lived in Diddy's world are talking to TMZ, and what they say is revealing
00:00:42and disturbing.
00:00:43I knew all of that was going on.
00:00:45I've known the whole time.
00:00:47I've seen Puff have anger spazzes on producers, females.
00:00:52I'm a savage!
00:00:53Whatever I want, I'm going to get!
00:00:54Whatever I want, I have to get!
00:00:56Diddy's alleged bad behavior went unchecked for years.
00:01:00There have always been whispers and rumblings about Diddy.
00:01:05His famous friends are heading for the hills.
00:01:08They have 250 cameras they took out of his house.
00:01:11A lot of people might be running from that tape.
00:01:13I don't think it's only celebrities that are going to be shook.
00:01:16He had politicians in there.
00:01:18He had princes in there.
00:01:20He also had a couple of preachers in there.
00:01:24People may fear that somehow he makes it out of this.
00:01:28What did they fear?
00:01:29A flat tire, being murdered.
00:01:32I don't know.
00:01:33But Suge Knight, Diddy's arch enemy, shockingly is sad over Diddy's undoing.
00:01:39I'm not the type of guy to cheer for people's downfalls.
00:01:43And if somebody gets killed or something happens to them, I'm not going to talk to them about it.
00:01:48I done seen this dude shake back from some stuff, right?
00:01:51So, I'm not going to count him out.
00:01:55TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy.
00:02:18The Downfall of Diddy
00:02:25I had just gotten out of the shower and walked inside of the studio.
00:02:28And it was such a nice day.
00:02:30I'm like, let me go sit outside on the bench for a little while.
00:02:33Heard a big boom.
00:02:34And then I heard like, like the sounds of like armored vehicles coming, approaching.
00:02:48The Downfall of Diddy
00:02:59Simultaneous raids on March 25, 2024.
00:03:03A massive show of force.
00:03:05Dozens of Homeland Security officers rolled up in armored vehicles at Sean Diddy Combs' mansions in Miami and L.A.
00:03:13Diddy's close friend and producer, Stevie J, was at the Miami property when things got real.
00:03:20Guys jumped out.
00:03:22You know what I'm saying?
00:03:23Guns up and aimed.
00:03:26Get up, get on the fucking ground.
00:03:28Drop your fucking phone.
00:03:30You know what I'm saying?
00:03:31I'm like, yo, I'm here by myself.
00:03:33You know, I didn't ask too many questions.
00:03:36I've seen quite a lot of things, but none with the excessive force of this right here.
00:03:43The Downfall of Diddy
00:03:49You would have thought they were taking down a violent gang leader, not somebody who makes music and appears in movies and has charmed America for decades.
00:03:57Breaking news.
00:03:58The Department of Homeland Security has just confirmed to CNN that federal law enforcement agents have raided properties owned by musician and producer Sean Diddy Combs.
00:04:08You can see a crowbar to get through this gate initially as well, the long guns and a multitude of people.
00:04:16As you'll see, they'll zoom out a little bit just to see the amount of force they are using.
00:04:20You know him as Diddy, formerly Puff Daddy, big time rapper, big time producer, big time superstar.
00:04:26And now the feds at his houses in both locations.
00:04:29Federal officers spent hours removing firearms, computers, boxes and bags of items.
00:04:35Both properties left in shambles.
00:04:48They didn't do this to Harvey Weinstein, right?
00:04:51They didn't do this like this to Epstein, right?
00:04:54Diddy's lawyer called the raids a gross overuse of military level force and a witch hunt.
00:05:00He said Mr. Combs is innocent and will continue to fight every single day to clear his name.
00:05:05I don't know what they're looking for or where they're trying to reach.
00:05:09In L.A., two of Diddy's sons, Justin and King, were briefly detained, then released.
00:05:14A week later, Justin's mom, Misa Hilton, posted this shocking video on social media.
00:05:30Security footage from inside the house.
00:05:33Officers with guns drawn and pointed toward Justin and his brother King.
00:05:38Misa called it overzealous and deplorable.
00:05:41It's hard for me to imagine that had this been many other celebrities, particularly white celebrities,
00:05:47that their children would have been in handcuffs and they would have been forced to stare down the barrel of guns and seen armored tanks.
00:05:54It just seemed like a lot for a raid of a music producer.
00:06:01You have to remember that Diddy has been in trouble on some weapons violations in the past.
00:06:08He has security. These are vast compounds with multiple people at them.
00:06:13And so using this type of force was not inappropriate in any way, shape or form.
00:06:18A federal judge had determined there was evidence, significant evidence,
00:06:23Diddy was involved in sex trafficking, sexual assault and soliciting and distributing illegal narcotics and firearms.
00:06:32And that's why the search warrants were signed.
00:06:35This is a massive investigation.
00:06:37The idea that the feds have taken up this investigation in the first place indicates that it's remarkably serious.
00:06:44Aubrey O'Day, a member of Danity Kane and star of Making the Band, has been the lone voice for years saying Diddy is a bad guy.
00:06:54She has not spoken publicly since the new allegations surfaced until now.
00:07:00If these allegations are true, why did it take so long for others to speak out?
00:07:05Because you really were a lone voice.
00:07:07Real lone voice.
00:07:08I was literally text messaging producers, employers from top to bottom levels.
00:07:15Like, y'all know what the fuck you saw.
00:07:18People were scared.
00:07:20If you know enough, you likely would be reasonable in being scared.
00:07:27What did they fear?
00:07:29Anything you possibly could, Harvey.
00:07:31A flat tire, being murdered.
00:07:34I don't know.
00:07:35There's a lot of things people fear.
00:07:37People don't like to go after a powerful person unless they're sure they will be victorious.
00:07:42Because if you go after a powerful person and it doesn't work out, as Omar from The Wire said, you know, you come for the king, you best not miss.
00:07:49And people don't want to miss because if you miss, that means you shut out of the music industry.
00:07:54You might be shut out of Hollywood.
00:07:55You might lose opportunities.
00:07:57And based on some of these rumors, your car might blow up in your driveway.
00:08:02In order to get the warrants, the feds got one of Diddy's ex-girlfriends, Cassie Ventura, to describe how Diddy was involved in various criminal misdeeds.
00:08:10Others who recently filed lawsuits against Diddy did the same.
00:08:14When we see, though, the Southern District of New York get involved in the way that they have, with obviously having a search warrant, which means probable cause, multi-agencies involved,
00:08:24it tells me that there's something that we perhaps do not know yet, whether that's cooperating witnesses or whether that's allegations that are beyond what's currently in the public domain.
00:08:34Something that has given them the indication to launch this investigation at this broad of a scale.
00:08:40Based on the lawsuits and the federal search warrants that a judge signed, you know, alleging human trafficking, firearms violations, sexual assault, all these other things, does any of that surprise you?
00:08:58No. I knew all of that was going on.
00:09:02I've known the whole time.
00:09:05I know what's gone on.
00:09:08A whole lot of people do, Harvey.
00:09:13It's a stunning downfall. At 54, Diddy had it all. Wealth, fame, power.
00:09:21The key to the city!
00:09:25But Cassie's lawsuit led to a cavalcade of other lawsuits and allegations that have rebranded the mogul as an alleged sex-crazed predator who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted.
00:09:40Diddy wasn't home when the raids went down. He was at a small Miami airport where he was set to leave for a vacation.
00:09:48He was questioned briefly by authorities and released. TMZ captured these images of Diddy pacing nervously after the encounter.
00:09:56I guess you wonder what's going to happen next, Diddy.
00:10:05Diddy wasn't arrested that day, but a member of his entourage was. 25-year-old Brendan Paul is now charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana candy.
00:10:15What's up, Puff? How you doing, man?
00:10:16How you doing, Diddy?
00:10:17You doing love?
00:10:18I'm good. How y'all doing?
00:10:19Good, good, man.
00:10:20Here's the thing. There were rumblings about Diddy's bad behavior for years, from drugs to physical abuse to guns.
00:10:29But none of it derailed his success. He seemed invincible.
00:10:35I'm the best. I'm not the worst. I'm the best. You know what I'm saying?
00:10:40I've had my different things and point of views and stuff like that in the past, but I'm cured now.
00:10:46I'm loved and everything is all right. There you go.
00:10:48But everything may not be all right for Diddy anymore.
00:10:51Once the feds' investigation is complete, Diddy could face charges that could land him in prison for the rest of his life.
00:10:58Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs, accused of sex trafficking and sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in federal court here in New York.
00:11:06Cassie describing the music mogul as a vicious, cruel, and controlling man, saying she was trapped and held down by Combs.
00:11:13Diddy is now charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana candy.
00:11:18Cassie describing the music mogul as a vicious, cruel, and controlling man, saying she was trapped and held down by Combs.
00:11:27Cassie Ventura was Diddy's on-and-off-again girlfriend for a decade, and her allegations turned Diddy's world upside down.
00:11:37Now it's me, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, uh, I've been waiting. I didn't think I wanna make that move. Now, uh.
00:11:45Cassie filed a lawsuit in November 2023, and that was the catalyst for the federal investigation and those military-style raids.
00:11:54How unusual is it for the feds to kind of have their eyes opened by civil litigation, which seems to have happened here?
00:12:02Well, it's certainly important for the feds, the Department of Justice, to have their eyes open to what's going on around them.
00:12:07With the Department of Homeland Security involved, that indicates that this goes beyond the border.
00:12:12And that tells me that the Department of Justice and the investigators in this case may have inclinations or information about that has led to the massive scale of this investigation.
00:12:24Cassie was a 19-year-old singer when Diddy signed her to his Bad Boy record label shortly after they met.
00:12:30I wanted everybody to meet Cassie. When I saw her and I met her, that's what kind of made me really fall in love with the project, because I saw something more than just records.
00:12:45Cassie's self-titled album was released in 2006. About a year later, her relationship with Diddy became romantic.
00:12:53In her lawsuit, Cassie claimed Diddy quickly lured her into an ostentatious, fast-paced and drug-fueled lifestyle.
00:13:00She said Diddy gave her copious amounts of drugs, including opiates and ecstasy.
00:13:12Cassie claimed Diddy was often violent, forced her to carry a gun in her purse.
00:13:17She says in 2012, Diddy became enraged when he heard about a brief relationship she had with rapper Kid Cudi during a rough patch with Diddy.
00:13:25Diddy threatened to blow up Kid Cudi's car. Kid Cudi confirmed his car had been blown up in his driveway.
00:13:37In 2015, Cassie claims a severely intoxicated Diddy dangled one of her friends off a 17th floor hotel balcony.
00:13:45The complaint going on to accuse Colms of uncontrollable rage, alleging that he often punched, beat, kicked and stomped on her,
00:13:53then allegedly used his money to hide evidence of abuse, including putting Ventura up in a hotel for days to heal.
00:14:01Cassie described one violent incident where Diddy stomped on her face repeatedly, causing her to bleed profusely.
00:14:07She says Diddy's head of security tried to step in, but he was unsuccessful.
00:14:11From wild sex parties to sex workers, the allegations against this music mogul are shocking.
00:14:17At one point also, she said that he would force her to interact sexually with escorts and he would watch himself and enjoy himself and pleasure himself while watching her.
00:14:29They were called freak offs. Very interesting term.
00:14:32I've never witnessed that type of behavior. I don't know what a man doing in his bedroom or nothing like that. They was rocking together.
00:14:39From what I know, all I know is they both was rock stars living their best life in a relationship.
00:14:49Cassie claims she only participated in those freak off encounters because she was afraid she'd be beaten if she refused.
00:14:57Cassie also claimed near the end of their relationship, Diddy forced his way into her home and raped her.
00:15:10All of the Diddy controversy exploded because of the Cassie lawsuit.
00:15:20Once Cassie files that civil suit, now people feel like it's not rumor or innuendo anymore.
00:15:26You have somebody who was in a publicly known relationship with him for a very long time.
00:15:33And when that person is making allegations about freak offs and when that person is talking about different types of potentially criminal activity that's being alleged, now people believe it.
00:15:42One of the biggest legal blunders of all time was when Cassie threatened a lawsuit unless Diddy paid her $30 million.
00:15:52He told her to pound sand, never believing she'd do it.
00:15:56But she did. Diddy's lawyer insisted Cassie was blackmailing his client.
00:16:01But that lawsuit opened Pandora's box.
00:16:05Social media, especially TikTok, went crazy.
00:16:08And in a nanosecond, Diddy's reputation was trashed.
00:16:12Oh, Diddy, you are in trouble.
00:16:14The stuff that he made her do is sick.
00:16:18I hope Cassie gets the justice that she deserves.
00:16:23Diddy, you are going to prison.
00:16:25Honey, Cassie has bought the receipts on Diddy, honey, and she's suing him for the things he's done to her.
00:16:32Diddy tried to stop the bleeding by settling with Cassie just a day after she filed.
00:16:38His lawyer said it was not an admission of wrongdoing, but the damage was done.
00:16:42Diddy's most egregious and fatal error strategically was not settling with Cassie behind closed doors.
00:16:50If he settles with Cassie behind closed doors, there's a good chance that none of this controversy is happening.
00:16:54There's a good chance that other people wouldn't have their own lawsuits pile on.
00:17:00There's a good chance law enforcement wouldn't have had their radars activated by all the allegations of illegal activity.
00:17:06There's a chance that Diddy would just be living his normal billionaire life right now.
00:17:10What more do I have to do, man? Look at my hat, man.
00:17:13Look at my hat. Look how I show up on the Amalfi Coast beat.
00:17:18It looked like she put so much information out into the streets that embarrassed you that you didn't want any more of it to come out.
00:17:24And because of that, Diddy looks more guilty than he did had he just settled behind closed doors from the beginning.
00:17:29If she said that he did it, he did it. Did you read the things that he did to her?
00:17:35If he did it, he going to jail. Yeah, he going to jail.
00:17:40When the lawsuit happened, it started a domino effect.
00:17:43But also what was said in the lawsuit was really the part that took people by surprise because of the rape allegations of the sex trafficking allegations of the abuse that she went into detail about.
00:17:53It was very much like, oh, this is definitely the one that's going to shake the table and shake his foundation.
00:18:00Suddenly it was like everyone was just coming out of the woodwork.
00:18:03I was sick. I was sick of you. I was sick of everything that was going on around you.
00:18:08I was sick of having to cover up everything that you did.
00:18:12When Cassie found the strength to use her voice and speak her truth, it gave other people the courage to do the same.
00:18:19And I think that's also just kind of how this reckoning came to be.
00:18:23If one person has a power and has the ability to be honest and say tell their story, then it allows other people to do the same.
00:18:30In fact, at least three other women came forward and filed lawsuits.
00:18:35Joy Dickerson Neal claimed Diddy drugged and sexually assaulted her 33 years ago and secretly recorded the encounter and then shared it with others.
00:18:44Liza Gardner claimed Diddy raped her and a friend in 1990.
00:18:49And another woman who refused to be named claimed Diddy and two other men gang raped her when she was just 17.
00:18:56Diddy is now facing another very serious lawsuit.
00:19:01And, you know, this all started with the Cassie lawsuit.
00:19:04And then there were two more accusers, an anonymous accuser as a Jane Doe, filed it in federal court today.
00:19:12And her allegation goes back to 2003.
00:19:15It was bad for Diddy. Four women had come forward within three weeks in November and December 2023.
00:19:24Diddy himself finally released a statement saying, and this is a quote,
00:19:30Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy.
00:19:41Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday.
00:19:48Diddy's response to all these lawsuits has been they're coming after my money.
00:19:52Everybody is an extortionist. That's not entirely untrue.
00:19:55Everybody connected to him in these lawsuits has made money off of them.
00:19:59They've expected payment from him. But because somebody pays your bills doesn't mean that they're entitled to do harm to you.
00:20:05It doesn't mean that they're entitled to exploit you or abuse you or otherwise mistreat you.
00:20:10So, yes, people might want more money from you, but it doesn't mean you're off the hook.
00:20:19New allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Sean Diddy Combs.
00:20:26On February 26th, 2024, yet another lawsuit was filed against Diddy.
00:20:31This one from Rodney Lil Rod Jones, one of Diddy's former producers and videographers.
00:20:36And the allegations were even more shocking.
00:20:41He is alleging groping, fondling, grooming, and he goes on and on about going to a party where he says he was drugged and allegedly raped.
00:20:52Rodney Lil Rod Jones worked with Diddy for about a year starting in 2022.
00:20:56He claims he recorded hundreds of hours of video and audio of Diddy, his staff and others engaging in serious illegal activity.
00:21:05Everybody's telling me what he's allegedly capable of.
00:21:09You know, it's very scary for myself and, you know, has me worried about my kids and, you know, just sleeping with anxiety and different things like that.
00:21:20So just moving forward, I'm just going to pause on everything until we know that it's clear and safe for me to come back outside of work.
00:21:30Jones claims he has irrefutable evidence depicting, among other things, Diddy's illicit drug use and unregistered firearms.
00:21:38Jones also claims he witnessed Diddy and other famous rappers consorting with underage girls and sex workers.
00:21:45And the lawsuit alleges Diddy kept three sex workers on a monthly retainer, including Daphne Joy, who has a son with Diddy's nemesis, 50 Cent.
00:21:54Daphne denies the claim.
00:22:01And here's the clincher. Jones alleges he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Diddy.
00:22:07It's usually rare that a male would step forward and accuse someone of sexual assault and, you know, participating in freak offs and things of that nature.
00:22:17When he came forward, it definitely added to the disturbing claims that Diddy was already up against.
00:22:24It's just now from a male perspective, as someone who worked closely with him on his last album.
00:22:30What's up, Diddy?
00:22:32I want to tell anyone out there watching, this is not about his sexuality.
00:22:38That has been a big focus highlighted everywhere.
00:22:41I think that Puffy is not man enough to come out and simply say he's bisexual.
00:22:46Bisexual, black male, sex cult.
00:22:49Do you want to know what the judicial system cares about? Crimes.
00:22:53They don't care if a man has sex with a man, a woman or 18 women.
00:22:57And I believe in the justice system. And the justice system doesn't raid anyone's home over their sexuality.
00:23:03NBC is learning exclusively that the music producer accusing Diddy of sexual assault and harassment is also accusing actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
00:23:10Now he's saying Gooding groped and fondled him while they were on Combs' yacht.
00:23:14His case got more holes than a Jamaican shirt.
00:23:17Little Rod is a fraud, man.
00:23:20You know, he don't got no legs to stand on.
00:23:23This is merely an extortion attempt by him and his lawyer.
00:23:28That's all I can say.
00:23:31Diddy attorney Sean Holley told TMZ in a statement,
00:23:35Little Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday.
00:23:43His reckless name dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to garner headlines.
00:23:52In fact, TMZ has learned there are some big problems with Rodney Jones lawsuit.
00:23:58For one, it was filed by an attorney named Tyrone Blackburn, who is under the microscope of a federal disciplinary committee in New York.
00:24:08A judge who ordered that committee to look into Blackburn's tactics said the lawyer had shown a pattern of filing.
00:24:15And this is a quote, cases in federal court to garner media attention, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations and pressure defendants to settle quickly.
00:24:28Another big problem Jones included in the lawsuit, a screen grab he claimed was Diddy's producer and close friend Stevie J having sex with another man.
00:24:37But apparently it wasn't Stevie J.
00:24:40The photo is definitely not myself.
00:24:43You know, I'm saying this life's been ongoing for a long time.
00:24:46A guy from the LGBT community, a porn star.
00:24:49He raised his hand. He said, that's my dirty work.
00:24:51That ain't my work.
00:24:53That's cool.
00:24:54If dudes do that, but that's not my thing.
00:24:56I like to embrace a nice woman.
00:24:59You know, I wasn't mad.
00:25:00It's just like for the hard work I put in for these 30 years in this industry.
00:25:05This is this is what I got to resort to watching this.
00:25:08My kids got to see this.
00:25:09My kids got to see this.
00:25:10My mom got to see this.
00:25:16It seemed much more like a tell all rag book than it did an actual civil lawsuit.
00:25:22When you combine how bizarre the lawsuit looked with his attorney being a little bit sketchy in terms of the kind of cases he takes up, it felt like it could be a bit of revenge combined with legitimate concern.
00:25:39With all the allegations and a federal investigation that seems to be closing in on Diddy, you'd think it's over for him.
00:25:46But don't count him out just yet.
00:25:48Diddy has dodged bullets before and lots of them.
00:25:53This is not Combs first run in with the law.
00:25:55He was arrested in April for assaulting a record executive.
00:25:59Combs testified before a grand jury this week.
00:26:02Combs was arrested at the university's Acosta Athletic Training Complex for assault.
00:26:07He also had run ins with the law accused of assaulting a photographer.
00:26:11He's been having controversies since the early 90s and he's never been convicted of any serious crimes.
00:26:19He's been lots of allegations, lots of accusations.
00:26:21His first bout with trouble was way back in 1991.
00:26:24Diddy co-promoted an event in New York City.
00:26:27The number of folks who showed up was nearly twice the capacity for the venue, resulting in a stampede that led to nine deaths and twenty nine injuries.
00:26:35The things I deal with can no way measure up to the pain that the families deal with.
00:26:40And I just pray for the families and I pray for the children that lost their lives.
00:26:45Diddy was at the center of a violent incident again in December 1999.
00:26:50And this time, one of the biggest stars on the planet would be pulled into the fray.
00:26:55Police say Lopez and Combs were picked up along with his bodyguard and driver fleeing a shooting in a Manhattan nightclub that left three people injured.
00:27:03Diddy was dating Jennifer Lopez.
00:27:05One night he took her out to a New York City nightclub when all hell broke loose.
00:27:10So essentially, J-Lo and Diddy were out partying with a couple of his friends.
00:27:15Their friends, Shine, another rapper, and an altercation ensued.
00:27:20Shots were fired.
00:27:21I feel terrible that people were hurt that night.
00:27:25Puffy's talking about the shooting inside Club New York in the wee hours of Monday morning.
00:27:30Three people were shot. None of them received life threatening injuries.
00:27:34Police say after the shooting, Puffy and his equally famous girlfriend, actress, singer Jennifer Lopez, fled in a Lincoln Navigator.
00:27:42Three people were shot and injured.
00:27:44Diddy, J-Lo and a bodyguard named Anthony Wolf Jones were later arrested, charged and hauled into jail.
00:27:53Mr. Combs feels very confident. Mr. Combs is not guilty.
00:27:57He is focused. He wants the trial to start.
00:28:00And he is confident that when it's over, we'll be standing out here telling you that he's just been acquitted.
00:28:06Diddy was found not guilty.
00:28:08Shine was convicted of assault and reckless endangerment.
00:28:12He served nine years in prison, but questions linger.
00:28:15Was it actually Diddy who pulled the trigger?
00:28:18And did Shine just take the fall?
00:28:20I literally watched them pull out the guns.
00:28:24I've had a clear point of view.
00:28:26I mean, for God's sake, I got shot in my nose.
00:28:28I was facing them directly.
00:28:30I watched everything occur and have described it, you know, vehemently to all parties involved.
00:28:36I have nine bullet fragments remaining in my face.
00:28:39Diddy arrested for making terrorist threats at UCLA.
00:28:44It involves his son.
00:28:46It involves a very famous football coach and an altercation that ended up with Diddy holding a kettlebell.
00:28:54And the question, was he trying to hit this coach with a kettlebell or was he trying to defend himself?
00:29:02The one thing you got to do is you have to be there for your kids 110 percent.
00:29:07So as a father, if you feel, or a mother, anybody can relate to if you feel like you have to go and straighten something out for your child.
00:29:15Was there a kettlebell involved?
00:29:17I went there to communicate.
00:29:20Diddy was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making terrorist threats, and one count of battery.
00:29:27But the DA wound up dropping the case.
00:29:30He kind of just has a way of getting out of very tough situations, and he's been doing so for decades.
00:29:37Rapper and songwriter Mark Curry worked with Diddy for nearly a decade and says Diddy definitely has an ugly side.
00:29:44I've seen Puff have anger spazzes on producers, females.
00:29:49I'm a savage! Whatever I want, I'm going to get! Whatever I want, I have to get!
00:29:55A&Rs, people who work for him. So not just the females, it's guys, producers. I've seen them spaz.
00:30:02Curry remembers a particularly nasty incident between Diddy and the mother of four of his children, Kim Porter.
00:30:10You saw him get physical with Kim?
00:30:13I didn't see him get physical with Kim, but I know situations where, let's say if Kim says she fell on a boat and broke her nose,
00:30:22and I say that's not actually what happened.
00:30:25She went into her and she just got a broke nose.
00:30:27I think her and Puff went to home together, and then next thing you know, she had the Band-Aid on.
00:30:32So you already know what happened.
00:30:34So she didn't, you say, she slipped and she fell.
00:30:36No, I don't think that, because they was just arguing real big last night.
00:30:39He was really mad.
00:30:41Kim Porter died of pneumonia in 2018, but she was just one of a long list of women who were allegedly abused by Diddy.
00:30:48Ex-girlfriend Gina Nguyen went public with this story in 2019.
00:30:53He like stomped on my stomach, like really hard, and I like took the wind out of my breath.
00:31:00I couldn't even, I couldn't breathe, and he kept, but he kept hitting me, and I was like pleading to him,
00:31:05like can you just, can you stop, I can't breathe, and he like stopped for a little bit.
00:31:12He like grabbed my hair from the back and like was like punching the back of my head,
00:31:18because he was just avoiding my face when he was like hitting me.
00:31:22Diddy's attorney calls Nguyen's allegations, quote, false and unsubstantiated.
00:31:28If Puff put his hands on a female, he would do it behind a closed door,
00:31:33and when the door opened, you would be like, wow, somebody has on a bandage.
00:31:37Did you ever see anything like that, where somebody came out of a room looking injured or upset like that?
00:31:43Yeah, you go in the room, you walk in, you come out, not looking the way you went in.
00:31:48Diddy's legal team tells TMZ Mr. Curry's statements about what he thinks probably occurred between Mr. Combs and Ms. Porter
00:31:56are pure speculation and not based on any personal observations or knowledge.
00:32:02More money, more problems. It's just the way it is.
00:32:05Hey, we're coming back to you, Billy.
00:32:17Before the latest allegations came to light, Diddy was known as one of the most powerful and successful stars in music.
00:32:25His rags to riches story? Extraordinary.
00:32:32Sean Combs had a rough childhood growing up in Harlem.
00:32:35His mother worked with kids with special needs, his father a drug dealer.
00:32:40Diddy was exposed to crime and violence early on.
00:32:43When he was just three years old, his father was shot and killed while sitting in a car in New York City.
00:32:49But Diddy maintains his drive for success came from his dad.
00:32:53Even if we don't know our parents, we still have their DNA in us.
00:33:02We have their genes, you know.
00:33:05I have this hustler's mentality, this hustler's spirit, his drive, his determination, you know, his swag.
00:33:12That swag landed him an internship at a record company at age 20.
00:33:17And he quickly started moving up the ranks.
00:33:23What's up? My name's Puff Daddy. This is my new artist, The Notorious B.I.G.
00:33:27And we're here at the OutKast Picnic just getting our swerve all the way on.
00:33:32He was driven. He was passionate. He was motivated.
00:33:36He knew what he wanted out of the gate.
00:33:38We're making music strictly for the streets. We appreciate your support. And it's all good.
00:33:43He knew that he was going to be on top.
00:33:46He has his struggle of an upbringing and then he comes out and he's this ferocious beast.
00:33:51And he wants to just dominate the industry.
00:33:54Don't push us cause we're close to the edge.
00:33:59We're trying not to lose our heads.
00:34:04He had his first number one hit on the Billboard Hip Hop Charts in 1997 with Can't Nobody Hold Me Down.
00:34:10It would go on to earn the top spot ten more times.
00:34:13Go, go, go, take it low. You can't even do it slow. You can't even do it slow.
00:34:17Either way you wanna go. Either way you wanna go.
00:34:21Pop a song, move some. Shake your tail, fella.
00:34:24I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip hop history.
00:34:30I have the most number ones as a hip hop artist.
00:34:33Add to that three Grammys and in 2023 the MTV Video Music Awards Global Icon Award.
00:34:39Nobody deserves to be called an icon more than this man.
00:34:43Diddy, Puff, Danny, Love.
00:34:45All I need is a man with ambition to be the best.
00:34:48When I failed, she gave me the victory.
00:34:50But conquering the music world wasn't enough for Diddy.
00:34:53He became a one man marketing machine.
00:34:57Your collection is great.
00:35:02You're watching Revolt.
00:35:03Revolt.
00:35:04Revolt.
00:35:05It's a revolution.
00:35:09Sir Rock is for the culture.
00:35:11I feel like he always knew in the back of his mind.
00:35:13His end goal was to be a mogul.
00:35:16All this has made Diddy very, very rich.
00:35:19His estimated net worth? Close to a billion dollars.
00:35:27Diddy has lived a life of extravagance.
00:35:30Multiple homes.
00:35:31Planes.
00:35:33Black excellence.
00:35:34Yachts.
00:35:36Cars.
00:35:38And of course.
00:35:44Those legendary parties.
00:36:06I would hang out and watch him throw parties.
00:36:08Sure, he famously threw his white party.
00:36:11He would throw parties.
00:36:12I went to Philly, followed him all the way to Philly.
00:36:14He threw a party and he said,
00:36:16Yo, playboy, this party costs a million and a half dollars.
00:36:19They're actually fun parties.
00:36:21A lot of famous people star studded.
00:36:23You'd be sometimes amazed by some of the people that you see there.
00:36:27Some of the people who attended the parties
00:36:31have said that there was a lot of sex during these parties
00:36:36and that kind of opens the door to some of the allegations
00:36:39that we've been reading about.
00:36:40What about that?
00:36:41So, there was a lot of sex, but it didn't happen at the party.
00:36:45It was after parties, not necessarily at the party.
00:36:48Now, what time would your party start, let's say?
00:36:51Like 9.30.
00:36:52Really? That early?
00:36:53Yeah.
00:36:54I could make that.
00:36:55Yeah.
00:36:56But I think I could think of you of starting a party at like midnight.
00:36:59Like what time will it go till?
00:37:01That's a different type of party, though.
00:37:03Uh-huh.
00:37:04No, I mean the after party.
00:37:05No, I know about them.
00:37:07There have always been whispers and rumblings about Diddy.
00:37:11The whisperings and rumblings, though, weren't about criminal activity.
00:37:14They were simply about his party lifestyle.
00:37:16They were about his social activities and maybe even his sexual activities.
00:37:20There's always been whispers and rumors and innuendo,
00:37:22but like many things in Hollywood, it was on a need-to-know basis.
00:37:25Those who knew, knew, and many fans and everyday people,
00:37:28especially before social media,
00:37:30were completely in the dark about what was going on.
00:37:33What up, boss? How's it going?
00:37:36Nice to see you.
00:37:37Easy.
00:37:38Over time, however, we've come to see more, hear more, and know more.
00:37:47Aubrey O'Day sounded the alarm for years that Diddy was a dangerous man.
00:37:52She was dismissed as disgruntled and bitter.
00:37:55A lot of people now think Aubrey was telling the truth all along.
00:38:01After Cassie filed her lawsuit, you said,
00:38:05been trying to tell y'all for years.
00:38:08What were you trying to tell people?
00:38:10That Diddy was not a safe human and that you should be careful
00:38:15if you're planning on entering any type of relationship with him,
00:38:20from business to personal.
00:38:22And this was based on your personal experience?
00:38:26Yes.
00:38:27Did he ever mistreat you?
00:38:30Yes.
00:38:31Have you ever seen Making the Band?
00:38:34Yes.
00:38:35Did he ever mistreat you is the funniest question I think I've ever heard.
00:38:39Of course.
00:38:40Aubrey worked under Diddy for close to five years
00:38:43as a member of the girl group Danity King.
00:38:46Y'all look over this way, please.
00:38:52Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:38:55And she was famously fired from the group by Diddy on Making the Band.
00:38:59You want to show all your skin, you want to be naked.
00:39:02If you're not happy and you hate me, then why are you having me here?
00:39:05I don't have to have you here.
00:39:06That's one thing that we can make clear.
00:39:07That's one thing we can make clear.
00:39:08But I want to know why do you have me here?
00:39:11Because every time I see you, I have such a problem.
00:39:13Check this out, you clear on that, you understand now.
00:39:15I'm asking myself why do I have you here.
00:39:18I'm going to tell you right this, I don't like her energy.
00:39:20I don't like her style and direction where she's going with it.
00:39:23I don't like what she does to the brand where she's wilding out there,
00:39:26being overly raunchy, promiscuous.
00:39:29There's nothing else to talk about.
00:39:31Would you like to go with her?
00:39:32Because she's not going to be in Danity King.
00:39:35The mistreatment is enough to have changed the course and direction of my entire life.
00:39:42The mistreatment was enough for me to have to spend a good amount of time
00:39:47in the hands of professionals to learn what grooming is
00:39:52and unlearn the grooming.
00:39:54The treatment was so bad in some regards that I'm not ready to speak about it yet.
00:40:01But I will.
00:40:02Are you talking verbal, physical, or both?
00:40:08That's not a question that I'm prepared to dive into right now.
00:40:15But I can say this, as that seems to be a question that a lot of people love to ask,
00:40:23does it matter?
00:40:25I've been in physically abusive situations.
00:40:28The verbal ones hurt me way more.
00:40:31The abuse was significant enough to change the course of my life.
00:40:38I don't work these amount of years to have you talk to me this way.
00:40:41I'm not meaning to disrespect you.
00:40:42So I don't want you in the group no more.
00:40:44All right?
00:40:45Because I don't want to even have to have this conversation.
00:40:48On making the band alone, we experienced intimidation tactics.
00:40:53We experienced body shaming, beatdowns.
00:40:57And then when we thought we were absolutely nothing,
00:41:00and I'm talking from sleep deprivation to bunkers,
00:41:03it was very like training us to be good soldiers.
00:41:07Do you feel that he was looking for young people who never had a frame of reference like you,
00:41:16where it would be easier to do whatever you say he did?
00:41:21I can't tell you his intentions because I don't live inside that man's brain.
00:41:25I never plan to, and I pray I never go anywhere close to what that is.
00:41:30Everything is just always about Diddy, and whatever Diddy's narrative is over there,
00:41:35you're being told it from every angle.
00:41:37When you meet a person that is an excellent groomer,
00:41:42what happens is they start to let you know what's wrong with you.
00:41:48That starts to make you question the things that you believe about yourself.
00:41:52Can I ask a question?
00:41:53What do you want to look like, though?
00:41:55Do you want to look like a playboy, playmate?
00:41:57Do you want to look like you?
00:41:59I'm done with all of that.
00:42:00No, no, no.
00:42:01What do you want to look like, though?
00:42:02What do you want to look like?
00:42:03You like big hair, though.
00:42:04I don't like big hair.
00:42:05You do like big hair.
00:42:06You like big hair.
00:42:07You like a lot of makeup and all that.
00:42:09His narrative of me, promiscuous, problematic, all that rah-rah,
00:42:15you know, the bad, all the negatives,
00:42:17that's why the only offer I had after being fired on national television
00:42:21in front of the world as a child came from Hugh Hefner,
00:42:25and it was to do the cover of Playboy.
00:42:28I had to work very hard to get anyone to give me an opportunity.
00:42:33I notice you have a Danity Kane necklace on.
00:42:36I'm just wondering how you process Danity Kane,
00:42:42which in so many ways gave opportunities, but is so connected to Diddy.
00:42:48Does that make you sad?
00:42:50Can you distinguish between Diddy and your success there,
00:42:57or is it all just so intertwined?
00:42:59Complex question.
00:43:02Quickest answer, if you do enough work on yourself,
00:43:06you can get to a place where you will be able to distinguish yourself
00:43:10from abusers and toxic situations.
00:43:13Anyone out there that has gone through that or is in that right now,
00:43:17please hear me, resonate with me in this moment.
00:43:22You can distinguish every piece of it.
00:43:25You can separate them, and you can pick what parts
00:43:28you are going to carry with you into your future.
00:43:31So I wear this necklace for my ladies out there.
00:43:34I think it's because we were surrounded by a team of men,
00:43:39and I don't know that any of those men ever had our best interests at hand.
00:43:44Last September, Diddy did something to counter some of the rumors he was a monster.
00:43:48I read that you are going to actually give back the publishing rights
00:43:52to a bunch of artists on your label, which is incredible
00:43:55because it's happening at a moment that actually those rights are going for a very high dollar,
00:44:00and many people would keep that money for themselves.
00:44:02Yes, us as a people have to look within and do the right thing.
00:44:05So it was just the right thing to do, and it's reform for the industry
00:44:09and reform for just us as people.
00:44:12You're an incredible human.
00:44:14When TMZ ran the headline, and I have a screenshot of it
00:44:18because I do want to call you out.
00:44:20I received the publishing deal. I know what it says.
00:44:24I know how much money it was giving me.
00:44:26I'll tell you, $300.30, $300.30 for a full release of all claims
00:44:34against Diddy and many other players.
00:44:37Never can disparage Diddy on any social media site, on any podcast, on any format.
00:44:43Never have any rights to any claims again over any type of wrongdoings
00:44:47with your music or with any of these parties listed.
00:44:50Once you sign it, in fact, it said,
00:44:53you can never mention the existence of this contract ever again.
00:44:58What do you think was behind him making a move to return rights for so little
00:45:05at this point in time?
00:45:07What do you think his motivation was there?
00:45:09I think he would probably be making moves to keep as many people quiet as possible.
00:45:16When I went to look at the publishing deal,
00:45:19it said anything but I'm being made whole financially again.
00:45:24In fact, it asked me to not be able to have access to my story and my experience anymore.
00:45:31It asked me specifically to stay silent and never speak poorly about a human.
00:45:38So then I realized something really bad is coming
00:45:43because this isn't a man that was reformed.
00:45:47I'm just not who I am before.
00:45:53I'm something different.
00:45:55So my new name is Love.
00:45:57Do you know what the word love means to everybody?
00:46:02We live and die to find a human on this earth that will genuinely love us.
00:46:09The man took the most beautiful, precious, unreachable words,
00:46:16livable, lifetime words, and put it in his fucking name.
00:46:22Had his publicist send you a lie or a reformation of the truth
00:46:29and everybody maybe signed it and can't talk?
00:46:33I don't know why no one else is coming forward and talking about this, frankly.
00:46:37How do you describe yourself?
00:46:39I'm vivacious, eccentric, and I'm a Scorpio.
00:46:44What's one misconception about you?
00:46:46There are no misconceptions about me.
00:46:48There's no doubt the conversations around Diddy have changed significantly since Cassie's lawsuit came out.
00:46:54And things that may have seemed innocent in the past are now being looked at in an entirely different way.
00:47:01You know, where we hanging out and what we doing, we can't really disclose.
00:47:07But it's definitely a 15-year-old's dream.
00:47:11A video of Diddy with a then-15-year-old Justin Bieber surfaced.
00:47:15It was taken while Bieber was visiting Diddy's home.
00:47:18And given all the new allegations, it seemed, well, a little weird.
00:47:22He signed to Usher.
00:47:23I signed to Usher.
00:47:24I had legal guardianship of Usher when he did his first album, I did Usher's first album.
00:47:30I don't have legal guardianship of him, but for the next 48 hours, he's with me.
00:47:36And we gonna go full, buck full crazy.
00:47:40We're going crazy.
00:47:41Speculation as to what he saw at Diddy's home ran rampant on social media.
00:47:46Did P Diddy groom a very young Justin Bieber?
00:47:50And people say it almost looks like Justin Bieber didn't want to be there.
00:47:53It looks like it was completely scripted and P Diddy looked completely suspicious.
00:47:57I think it's clear that Justin Bieber definitely looks uncomfortable.
00:48:00Watching it gives me, personally, a very weird pit in my stomach.
00:48:03Especially watching it through the lens of all of the accusations against Diddy right now.
00:48:07A few days later, a second bizarre video emerged of Diddy and Justin that just added fuel to the fire.
00:48:13Selling out arenas and everything?
00:48:15Starting to act different, huh?
00:48:17You ain't been calling me and hanging out the way we used to hang out.
00:48:20Well, I mean, you try to get in contact with me through all my partners and whatnot.
00:48:26But you never really got my number.
00:48:31Then another video resurfaced and raised eyebrows.
00:48:35Usher talking to Howard Stern about what he saw when he moved in with Diddy when he was just 13.
00:48:42His manager sent him there to learn what life as a star was all about.
00:48:47I went there to see the lifestyle.
00:48:49And I saw it.
00:48:51But I don't know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at.
00:48:55Biggie Smalls was there.
00:48:56Biggie Smalls was there.
00:48:59Craig Mack.
00:49:00All these people are hanging around.
00:49:02Yeah, man.
00:49:03Faith Evans.
00:49:04And your parents were okay?
00:49:06Mary J. Blige.
00:49:07They didn't know nothing about this shit.
00:49:09I was having a good time, you know what I mean?
00:49:11But Usher later expressed concern about what he was exposed to when he was living with Diddy.
00:49:17I mean, I'm 13 years old.
00:49:19I'm not here to party with you.
00:49:21I don't want to go to the clubs.
00:49:22Matter of fact, I'm too young to even be in here.
00:49:24Why you got me in clubs?
00:49:25There were a lot of things I seen and a lot of positions that I think I was put in
00:49:31where I had to make very, very tough decisions in my life about who I would be.
00:49:35Usher and Bieber have not commented on the latest allegations,
00:49:38but other artists have taken Diddy to task.
00:49:4150 Cent, who's tangled with him for years, tweeted,
00:49:44It's not Diddy do it.
00:49:46It's Diddy done.
00:49:48He's corny.
00:49:49He's Uncle Tom.
00:49:51That's who Curtis is.
00:49:52He want to see the black man go down before anybody else.
00:49:56You know what I'm saying?
00:49:58He's just sore.
00:50:00He's just sore because his baby mother is with Puff.
00:50:03Don't be sore.
00:50:05Don't be a hater.
00:50:06You know what I'm saying?
00:50:07Get greater.
00:50:09So with him, he's just a troll.
00:50:16Mary J. Blige, a friend of Diddy's for 30 years, posted,
00:50:20Unfortunately, a lot of you all met me when I lacked boundaries and was a people pleaser.
00:50:25Let me reintroduce myself.
00:50:27I burn bridges as needed.
00:50:29Apparently referring to her own experience with Diddy.
00:50:47Diddy is befriended.
00:50:48Some of the biggest names in entertainment for decades.
00:50:52Yet none of those stars have come out to defend him.
00:50:56Not one.
00:50:57That may say less about Diddy and more about Hollywood.
00:51:02Hollywood is eerily and noticeably quiet about all of the Diddy controversy right now.
00:51:09And I think it's a very simple reason for it.
00:51:12And that is people in glass houses don't want to throw stones.
00:51:19How are you guys?
00:51:23Even Ashton Kutcher, who met Diddy when they both had shows on MTV and was one of his closest friends, hasn't uttered a peep.
00:51:30The radio silence around this case, in my opinion, is highly unusual.
00:51:36Even if you look at, say, R. Kelly, who's someone who is very much maligned and should be given what he's been convicted of.
00:51:43He did have supporters early on.
00:51:45Diddy has none.
00:51:46It's crickets.
00:51:47A lot of these cats, they don't have, first of all, they don't have a heart.
00:51:51Second of all, it's like, I can't be seen standing next to him while that's going on.
00:51:56I don't want people to look at me funny.
00:51:58So you got those that just won't come near it because they don't want to be affected.
00:52:04And that's just the way it is.
00:52:06There are a lot of people who are probably implicated in his events, in his activities.
00:52:12Even if they're not criminally guilty, they just might have been at a party.
00:52:15They may just have been hanging out.
00:52:17And if he gets attached to something that is considered awful or outside the boundaries of what you're allowed to do,
00:52:23then no one wants to be connected to him at all.
00:52:25Is there another reason why other people aren't speaking out in his defense?
00:52:29I think a lot of people are just trying to understand it.
00:52:31Understand what is and what's not, you know?
00:52:34Another reason people aren't coming to Diddy's defense, Diddy was allegedly obsessed with recording everything that went on in his homes.
00:52:41Everything.
00:52:43If they have 250 cameras they took out his house, they have a whole bunch of images or footage of things that were going on around his house.
00:52:51A lot of people might be running from that tape.
00:52:54I don't think it's only celebrities that are going to be shook.
00:52:57He had politicians in there.
00:53:02He had princes in there.
00:53:06He also had a couple of preachers in there.
00:53:12Diddy is a powerful person.
00:53:15You don't get to be a billionaire without being powerful and without being connected to powerful people.
00:53:20So Diddy knows politicians, entertainers, philanthropists, academics, you name it, he's connected to them.
00:53:28And so if we start unraveling the thread of Diddy's networks, you're going to find a lot of people.
00:53:34And like Jeffrey Epstein, some of them might be implicated.
00:53:37Do you find it a little hypocritical that there are a lot of people who are so silent now, who are so quick to canceling others when they're not involved or even remotely associated?
00:53:50There is an interesting contradiction that we are witnessing in real time right now.
00:53:55There are people who are very quick to cancel people, people who are very quick to say, lock them up, throw away the key.
00:54:01At the same time, those very same voices are saying nothing about Diddy.
00:54:05Now, it's not because their morals have changed. It's not because their philosophy has shifted.
00:54:10It's a much more simple answer to that.
00:54:12They're scared because they're tied up with him some way, somehow.
00:54:16I think there's a possibility that people may fear that somehow he makes it out of this.
00:54:24And if he does, he's probably taking a long list of anybody that's speaking on things.
00:54:31And maybe also because everybody's done things that they wouldn't want people to know.
00:54:38And they fear that involving themselves in a conversation like that puts them at risk.
00:54:47Cassie scared a whole lot of fucking men.
00:54:49There's people wrapping up their business nice and tight now because there are many more.
00:54:57And some people just aren't talking because they're afraid of retaliation from Diddy's adversaries.
00:55:03TMZ was scheduled to do an interview with one of Diddy's former employees for this documentary.
00:55:09One who was actually going to defend him.
00:55:12But they backed out, stating in a text,
00:55:16I'm worried Diddy has many enemies.
00:55:19I'm afraid that if I give my thoughts on what I experienced, I may be ruled a target.
00:55:25I have a comfortable and cozy life.
00:55:27Not sure if I want to disrupt it.
00:55:30But Diddy does have some defenders who aren't afraid to speak out.
00:55:34And one of them is someone you would never, ever expect.
00:55:41Responsibility for the so-called feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers.
00:55:46A feud that allegedly led to the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
00:55:52Rap artists and producers call for an end to the rivalry and the violence.
00:55:57But how long will the peace last? Only time will tell.
00:56:01Diddy and rap executive Suge Knight have been arch enemies for years.
00:56:05East Coast versus West Coast, Diddy's Bad Boy label based in New York,
00:56:10and Suge's Death Row Records based in L.A.
00:56:13A rivalry that was incredibly bitter.
00:56:15Any artist out there that want to be an artist, that want to stay a star,
00:56:19and don't want to have to worry about the executive producer trying to be
00:56:22all in the videos, all on the records, dancing, come to Death Row.
00:56:30I know that it, what? Are they crazy?
00:56:34I was like, wow, and I was like, you know, I could blow this thing up right now, you know?
00:56:39And sometimes it got downright violent.
00:56:42A rivalry so bitter that it's led to the death of two of rap's most successful artists.
00:56:47So you'd think Suge Knight would be reveling in all the allegations against Diddy, right?
00:56:52Wrong. I talked to him on the phone from a California prison
00:56:57where he's serving 28 years for a fatal hit-and-run.
00:57:01And what he told me blew me away.
00:57:05My first reaction, it's not the reaction I thought I would have when it came to Puffy.
00:57:10You know what I mean? I thought it would be a reaction like,
00:57:13he got what he got coming, because everybody knows what's been going on.
00:57:17My reaction was actually different, because I felt like, damn,
00:57:21the first thing that came to my mind was, you know, he had his sons, he had his daughters.
00:57:27My reaction was first about the kids, and the thing is,
00:57:31I feel it's a bad day for hip-hop.
00:57:35It's a bad day for the culture, because it makes us all look bad.
00:57:40I gotta say, I am shocked at what you just said.
00:57:45I thought you were going to almost kind of dance over his troubles now,
00:57:52just because of your history.
00:57:55And the grace you're showing toward him and his family,
00:57:59I don't know, it's kind of remarkable to me,
00:58:02given the history of you two guys.
00:58:05What changed with you?
00:58:07I'm not the type of guy to cheer for people's downfalls.
00:58:12And if somebody gets killed or something happens to them,
00:58:14I'm not going to pop a champagne bottle.
00:58:16And if I have a problem with Puffy,
00:58:19that's for him and I to sit down in the room and resolve it.
00:58:24So for the tragedy on both sides,
00:58:29the victim and him, that's definitely not nothing to cheer about.
00:58:33There are so many allegations now of, you know,
00:58:36sex trafficking and drugs and all sorts of things.
00:58:40Did this just come from out of the blue,
00:58:43or was there kind of a buzz that some of this
00:58:47might have been going on with Diddy for a while, if any of it's true?
00:58:52I don't think Cassie a liar,
00:58:54because we know what type of stuff goes on.
00:58:57And I'll just say it like this.
00:59:01I don't think Puffy needed to be destroyed or hung or put to death or...
00:59:07I think that Puffy or just me or anybody else,
00:59:14we should be able to tell our truth.
00:59:18By telling our truth, we can change the past,
00:59:21and we can help the present, and we can help the future.
00:59:24So if Puffy's telling his story uncut,
00:59:27he can help everyone.
00:59:30Do you think that the silence of people in the music business
00:59:37and in entertainment generally over what's going on with Diddy right now,
00:59:43with all of the allegations and lawsuits,
00:59:45do you think that silence is really kind of rooted more in fear,
00:59:51that they're afraid, oh, my God, I have associations too?
00:59:56Because that's sort of what you just alluded to.
01:00:26Oh, but shit, she don't go free.
01:00:39One person who could literally hold the key to Diddy's future and freedom
01:00:45is a young man named Brendan Paul.
01:00:48Brendan was the only person arrested and charged
01:00:50on the day of those raids back in March.
01:00:52Authorities say they found cocaine and marijuana candy
01:00:55in his luggage at the airport, where Diddy was questioned.
01:00:58According to Rodney Jones' lawsuit,
01:01:00Brendan is Diddy's drug mule,
01:01:02who allegedly acquires and distributes Mr. Combs' drugs and guns.
01:01:06Jones also claims Brendan was responsible
01:01:09for paying prostitutes for the freak-off parties.
01:01:12I'm particularly interested in Brendan Paul
01:01:15because he's 25 years old,
01:01:17and he's allegedly the one who's obtaining drugs for P. Diddy.
01:01:20It's interesting, such a young guy.
01:01:22I don't know if that indicates that P. Diddy's organization
01:01:25is as large or as complicated
01:01:28as perhaps the feds would need to make it out to be.
01:01:35Only two years out of college,
01:01:37Brendan became part of Diddy's inner circle.
01:01:39On social media, he's seen celebrating
01:01:41at Diddy's latest album release party.
01:01:43Brendan's one of Diddy's assistants.
01:01:46We used to play ball together, kick it.
01:01:48Producer has an artist. He's a pretty cool dude.
01:01:51He and Diddy, you know, he was Diddy's assistant.
01:01:53He was with them all the time, so they had a cool little,
01:01:56you know, relationship, a cool little brotherhood.
01:01:58Brendan was released the day after his arrest on a $2,500 bond.
01:02:02His attorney has refused to comment on the case,
01:02:05but given his proximity to Diddy,
01:02:07authorities are no doubt interested
01:02:09in what he saw behind closed doors.
01:02:12The feds are going to be looking for anybody close to P. Diddy
01:02:15or whoever their targets are in this investigation
01:02:18to essentially turn on the people that they're most focused on.
01:02:22So they're going to be looking to cut deals,
01:02:24they're going to be looking to grant immunity deals.
01:02:27They will be looking for those people
01:02:29around the centre of the orbit to turn on their targets.
01:02:38The feds have their work cut out for them,
01:02:40especially if they want to get Diddy
01:02:42on the more serious charge of sex trafficking.
01:02:45Sex trafficking, when looking at adults
01:02:48involved in a crime of that nature,
01:02:51the feds are required to actually prove
01:02:53that there's force or coercion that's involved
01:02:56in addition to the commercial situation that's going on.
01:02:59So in addition to just payment,
01:03:01they're going to need testimony and evidence
01:03:03that these individuals were actually forced or coerced
01:03:06to engage in these sexual acts
01:03:08or the ongoing sexual business that they're alleging occurred here.
01:03:12I have heard the stories regarding Diddy having prostitutes
01:03:17that willingly want to go with him across state lines,
01:03:20but there's a couple of things that need to be looked at
01:03:22in regards to that.
01:03:24Was there a power dynamic? Were they fearful?
01:03:27Was something making it so that they felt that they needed to
01:03:32or else there would be consequences for not?
01:03:35It just takes one of them to be doing this against their will
01:03:40for that to be human trafficking.
01:03:42One thing that could help the feds,
01:03:44Cassie Ventura can still be compelled
01:03:46to testify against Diddy in federal court,
01:03:48even if she agreed not to talk as part of the settlement.
01:03:52Witnesses can be forced to cooperate.
01:03:54They can be subpoenaed and brought in,
01:03:56and that's something that the feds have the power to do.
01:03:58That goes beyond just the idea that perhaps he's settled lawsuits,
01:04:02for example, with Cassie.
01:04:04She can still be subpoenaed, she can still be brought in
01:04:07and essentially made to tell the truth,
01:04:09and if she doesn't, face her own consequences.
01:04:11In fact, as those raids at Diddy's home were going down,
01:04:14Cassie's lawyer posted on X,
01:04:16we will always support law enforcement
01:04:19when it seeks to prosecute those that have violated the law.
01:04:22Hopefully, this is the beginning of a process
01:04:25that will hold Mr. Combs responsible for his depraved conduct.
01:04:29I think he's going to have a very difficult time
01:04:31getting out of this one
01:04:33because you've got the magnitude of the federal government now
01:04:36that is coming in, and so, in my opinion,
01:04:38it's going to be near impossible for him to get out of.
01:04:41Everybody put your glasses up in the air.
01:04:43Let's take a toast to Sean Combs.
01:04:46If you would have asked me 20 years ago what Diddy's legacy was,
01:04:50I would have said he was one of the stewards
01:04:54of one of the most important and beautiful moments in hip-hop.
01:04:57If you would have asked me 10 years ago
01:04:59what Diddy's legacy was going to be,
01:05:01I would say he was the template for the billionaire rap star.
01:05:06Now, in the aftermath of all these allegations,
01:05:09all these rumors, all these innuendos,
01:05:12I don't know what Diddy's legacy is going to be.
01:05:14It's really still an open question.
01:05:16Everyone who interacts with him has their own version
01:05:19of how they would describe him.
01:05:21To some people, he's a saint.
01:05:23To some people, he is their hero.
01:05:25To some people, he is a monster.
01:05:27I think it's just all about how people interact with him
01:05:32and what they've experienced and witnessed being around him.
01:05:36What would I want people to know about Diddy?
01:05:41That, you know, he's like any other man.
01:05:44He loves his mother,
01:05:47loves his children,
01:05:50takes care of a ton of people,
01:05:53gives jobs to a ton of people.
01:05:56Even when the scenario is going on,
01:05:58when all this is going on,
01:06:00people still call him, asking him for stuff,
01:06:02and he's still there for people.
01:06:04It's like, you know, he's a good dude.
01:06:07Are we all perfect?
01:06:10Nah, none of us.
01:06:14Spread love. I love y'all.
01:06:16Love, love, love, love.
01:06:18Savage! I'm a savage!
01:06:20Without y'all, I wouldn't be on this stage!
01:06:23Savage!
01:06:27I done seen this dude shake back from some stuff, right?
01:06:30So I'm not gonna count him out, you know what I'm saying?
01:06:34I'm not gonna make a prediction,
01:06:36but I'm gonna say, you know,
01:06:39I ain't gonna count him out.
01:06:45Anyone on this Earth has the ability to be both good and bad,
01:06:50have done good things and bad things.
01:06:52So it's hard to just say, this is a bad guy or this is a good guy.
01:06:55I don't even want to be forced into that place.
01:06:58For all my friends that love to throw the word karma around,
01:07:01my response was always, yeah, good luck.
01:07:04Karma's a poor man's excuse.
01:07:06I know a lot of bad people, and they're not seeing karma.
01:07:09They're getting better and better.
01:07:11They're getting more and more.
01:07:13I witnessed it for years. I never thought I would see this.
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