Thomas Giuffra, the lawyer for three anonymous men who have accused Diddy of sodomizing them, says Diddy's a lot like another fallen Hollywood power player -- Harvey Weinstein.
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00:00To an attorney who is going after Diddy, a different attorney, not Tony Busby, but a
00:06different attorney who was recently filed on behalf of three men who say that they were
00:12sexually assaulted by Diddy.
00:14And these lawsuits were interesting in that they're not from 20, 30 years ago.
00:20They're within the last five, six years.
00:22Their attorney, Thomas Jifra, was on CNN this morning talking about the cases and made a
00:28comparison, compared Diddy to someone that I think probably wasn't shocking to the audience,
00:34though the person that he brought up is shocked by it.
00:37Here's what he had to say.
00:38Whenever you have a serial abuser, they follow a pattern.
00:41Harvey Weinstein had a pattern.
00:43Sean Combs has a pattern.
00:45And with all three of them, the stories are a little different, but the pattern's always
00:49the same.
00:50Come into my orbit, have a drink, you get woozy, take a rest, wake up to being sodomized.
00:57That was the pattern.
00:58And it was the same in every single story.
01:01Yeah, I mean, look, these are the sorts of things that you see from serial predators.
01:07You know, these are all accusations, obviously.
01:09None of it's been proven in court.
01:11But the allegations do line up with this very type of pattern.
01:15And so the comparisons between Harvey Weinstein, the patterns that he allegedly demonstrated,
01:19and those of Diddy, there's reason to draw those comparisons.
01:22Well, Harvey Weinstein begs to differ.
01:24No, Harvey Weinstein and his people were not happy with that comparison that Mr. Gifford
01:30made.
01:31In fact, this is what a spokesman for Harvey Weinstein told us.
01:36It is an outright lie to say that Harvey Weinstein had a pattern of drugging women and sexually
01:41abusing them.
01:42Not one accuser of Mr. Weinstein's ever alleged that.
01:45To make such a claim is reckless and irresponsible.
01:50Now, as they say in the law, he is defamation proof in the sense that there's nothing they're
01:58going to do about it.
01:59Nothing to be convicted of.
02:00Right.
02:01It is interesting for Harvey Weinstein to seemingly have, or at least think he has some
02:07high ground above the allegations that Diddy is facing.
02:10Weird.
02:11Hi, this is Brittany from Jersey.
02:14And I have to say, normally you are innocent until proven guilty.
02:18But at this point, Diddy and Weinstein's cultural capital is in the trash.
02:22I don't think there's anything that we would hear at this point that we wouldn't believe.
02:25It's unfortunate.
02:26I will say, you know, I stopped making those predictions after OJ Simpson.
02:32It's true.
02:33And I did.
02:34And there was also a case a long time ago when I was a young reporter, McMartin.
02:39And so, you know, I know that it certainly is leaning that way.
02:45But you never know until the jury speaks and how the trial unfolds and what kind of evidence
02:52the prosecution has and how the witnesses are cross-examined.
02:57But I think that makes a difference.
02:58I think to her point, you're talking about legally, yes, you can't decide, you don't
03:03know which way the case is going to go.
03:04I know what you're going to say.
03:05What she's saying is that regardless of what the jury says, a vast, large swath of the
03:11public believes these allegations.
03:14And to that I will say, how many autographs did OJ Simpson sign in Las Vegas over the
03:19years?
03:20How many people?
03:21You know, it's like...
03:22He did, but that doesn't mean that people thought he didn't do it.
03:26I don't think they cared so much.
03:28That may be.
03:29You know, it's weird.
03:30Which is also weird.
03:32I understand.
03:33I understand.
03:34But that's why you just, you can't make those judgments yet.