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When Diddy got arrested by the Department of Homeland Security after a flood of progressively

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worse and worse lawsuits and accusations for almost a year straight, no one was surprised.

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If Diddy had ever been one thing, it was creepy. You didn't have to look very hard or even look at

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all to see that something was wrong in Diddy's mind. Inappropriate relationships with teenage

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Justin Bieber and Usher, the rumors around the mysterious deaths of Biggie and Tupac,

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an easily recognizable thirst for attention, and even worse things that I literally can't say in

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the first five minutes of a YouTube video. Basically, people had already known for years

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that Diddy wasn't the generous, conscientious music executive that he and his team tried so

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hard to make him look like. So I had two choices. Either I was going to sit in that failure and give

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up, or I was going to make a decision to step out of the darkness. You see, when you're in that

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darkness, you want to sit there and wait for the light to come. The only way out is to step forward

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to face your fears, to become your own light.

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Behind the big donations to schools, the activism, there was always an undertone of evil that even a

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billion dollar fortune couldn't cover up. You don't get your name associated with murder and

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stealing for no reason. I'm a savage! Whatever I want, I'm going to get you! Whatever I want, I have to get you!

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But it wasn't until his arrest and the ripping off of the mask that Diddy's true nature was finally

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revealed. He wasn't a good guy with a dark side, or a nuanced figure with a complex past.

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At the exact moment when the federal government brought him in for sex trafficking charges,

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it was confirmed that Diddy was truly, deeply evil. The evidence was right there. It was the

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final piece of the puzzle, revealing that Diddy had spent his entire life taking advantage of others

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to the point where his music empire was nothing but a front for his sick obsessions. At the same

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time though, Diddy's arrest somehow created a lot more questions than it answered. We all knew he was

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a bad guy, don't get me wrong. But now, we're realizing that it went so much deeper,

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with Diddy starting to look like his sick, disturbing crimes might rival those of Jeffrey

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Epstein or Harvey Weinstein. Not just one bad actor, but instead the leader of a criminal

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operation carrying out revolting abuse and exploitation. And so now, there are even more

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questions than there were before. How did Diddy get away with it for so long? What were the full

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extent of his crimes? But even more sinister, who knew about his empire of abuse and didn't tell?

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Who, out of his massive network of celebrity friends and powerful contacts, was joining in?

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The size and scope of Diddy's alleged crimes combined with his control over the industry

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implies a much larger web of deception and evil than most of us could have ever imagined before.

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It's to the point where somehow, his arrest, finally putting a monster behind bars,

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opens more doors than it closed. So what and who was Diddy hiding?

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If you let Diddy tell the story of his own life, he's a hero. He spent massive amounts of resources and

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time throughout his career creating good optics for himself. Even as recently as 2021, one of the

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last magazine profiles that was ever done on him before his arrest, tells us a lot about how Diddy

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wanted people to see him and what he thinks of himself. During that 2021 interview with Vanity Fair

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called With Love Sean Combs, he talked about his new lifelong purpose that was literally sent to him

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by God. He says this,

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I feel like God sent me. God put on my heart, what's your purpose? I was looking at all these things,

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preachers, and different people talking about purpose because I realized purpose is something

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deep. Have I really found my purpose? I know I'm making money and I'm successful and I'm changing

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the game, but is that my purpose? And then I really prayed on it and God told me, your purpose is to

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play a part in saving the black race. The man who spent his whole career signing his fellow black

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artists into record deals designed to make him rich off their work. The guy who lied on the names of

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almost a dozen black kids from his own hometown dying at a concert he was performing at, saying he had

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tried to save their lives and then leaving the scene immediately. The same guy who testified

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against Shine and let him go to prison for 10 years, ruining his life and career rather than

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tell the truth. The guy who groomed teenage Usher. The list is endless and that's not even to mention

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the long-running rumors that he ordered the death of Biggie Smalls, his business partner and supposed

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best friend. That's the guy who's saying he is supposed to save the black race. The hypocrisy and

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self-awareness is almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, Diddy still says a lot of other highly suspect stuff in

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this article. At the time, he was embarking on a strange vanity project where he rebranded himself

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with the name Love. Talking about progress and equality in a way that was pretty meaningless back

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then, but now is just disturbing knowing what he was getting away with behind the scenes.

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He said,

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The Me Too movement inspired me. It showed me that you can get maximum change. The journalist wrote,

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He launched a diversity training program this summer. The six-week course is dubbed,

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in true Sean Combs fashion, the Excellence Program and is designed to support aspiring entertainment

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executives from underrepresented communities. But then, most ridiculously of all, he said,

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I was sent here not to just do things that are rooted in personal success, but to be able to transfer

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to we, and do things that are a real change, bringing communal success to everybody. As if he had ever

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done anything to anyone, except traumatize, abuse, and exploit. Even before it all came out, though,

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people called Diddy out for his hypocrisy. Knowing that his history in business was anything

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but loving, it's pretty ridiculous to hear him tell people that he wants to save the black race.

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But now, knowing what we know today, the interview with Vanity Fair, and many others he did at the

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time, show how deep-rooted Diddy's evil is. The whole time he's preaching about how he's gonna

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save his race, benefit his community, give back to people, he was not only already exposed for

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doing dirty business against black people his whole career, but he was also abusing black women

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behind the scenes. Even as recently as just a few months before Cassie's bombshell lawsuit was filed

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against him, destroying Diddy's image forever, he received a Global Icon Award for the Video Music Awards,

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and then, shortly after, was given the key to New York City by Eric Adams.

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And he went to great lengths to curate this good image. For many people, Diddy was this guy who

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opened schools, founded charities, and represented success against all odds. True black excellence.

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But even that was a facade. In 2016, he founded a charter school in Harlem, New York, making a big

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deal out of the PR and congratulating himself for being so charitable, promising better opportunities

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for underprivileged kids growing up in a similar situation as him. Although, later, parents of

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students at the school reported that it was mismanaged and underfunded, being plagued by high

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teacher turnover and student violence. But with Diddy, the way that he continued to seek out this

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attention and curate this image of an inspirational, generous, caring black billionaire, it reveals a lot

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about him. Any sane person who exploited his colleagues, putting them in bad deals, leaving people for dead,

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testifying against his clients, and was even rumored to have put a hit out on his supposed best friend,

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not to mention grooming kids, most people, if optics were looking that bad, would go into hiding.

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But with Diddy, his lack of self-awareness, his narcissism, it made him keep coming back for more

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attention. And ultimately, I think him still blowing his own trumpet while public opinion started to

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shift, played a big hand in his eventual downfall. The motivational speeches, the PR campaigns,

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the videos of the yachts on the Amalfi Coast, if he didn't spend so much money and time flaunting,

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the story around him right now might not even be half as big. Because still, the world always knew.

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And now that he's sitting in a federal jail awaiting a trial that sees him facing a sentence

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of anywhere from 15 years to life, despite his best efforts to create a narrative that he controls,

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it just never really worked in his favor. I mean, let's look at the ridiculous stuff that he had

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written about himself in his biography. Sean Combs was only two years old when he realized

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his life's passion. His mother had dressed him up for a fashion show at his daycare center,

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and as the little boy toddled out, the light hit him and the audience cooed at his adorable entrance.

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Combs later said,

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This type of ridiculous narrative shows just how dumb Diddy is.

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This type of ridiculous narrative shows just how dumb Diddy is. Despite his success and money,

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he couldn't manage to keep a low profile enough to get away with his insane crimes against humanity.

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And rumors about Diddy's true nature had been circulating for decades. The joke that you had

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to have sex with Diddy if you wanted a record deal in the rap game was an old reliable punchline,

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to the point where I doubt most people saying it even knew what they were referencing. But it always

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seemed like it really might not be a joke, with even big figures in music like Eminem, 50 Cent,

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Cat Williams, and Kanye speaking publicly on their dislike for Diddy. Not to mention that,

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even without the rumors, Diddy's business career was shady at best. With the fact of him exploiting

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his artists being public knowledge. Not just a rumor, but something literally everyone knew.

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The fact that he seemed to love fame and attention so much, always on a talk show,

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always doing some interview, or popping up to receive an award, it made him seem even more sinister.

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Being a shady businessman is one thing, but most people do that in private. Trying to draw as much

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attention to yourself as possible, as if you're congratulating yourself for getting away with it,

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it's safe to say that Diddy didn't exactly have fans. Instead, he had power and influence,

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and he was able to leverage that into as much attention as possible. And I think most people

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could tell the difference. And now, with Diddy suddenly sitting in federal jail facing 15 years

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to life, the secret is out. He was much, much worse than just a shady or unethical businessman.

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In reality, his exploitative business tactics were a cover-up for something much, much worse.

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All of those rumors were true. And more. And if you're trying to see what was going on behind the

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scenes all along, one of the first places you need to look is the women in his life.

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One of the biggest sources of clues throughout Diddy's life and career was his romantic

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relationships. And that makes sense. The long list of women he's been connected to are some of

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the people he spent the most time with. They should know him best. So when it comes out that

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he's been hiding his true character all along, that's where people are gonna look first.

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Diddy had a relationship with the model Kim Porter from 1994 to 2007, later dated singer

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Cassie Ventura from 2007 to 2018, and has also been romantically linked to Jennifer Lopez,

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Cameron Diaz, Young Miami, and many others. These women could play a key part in revealing the extent

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of Diddy's crimes, potentially providing a unique insight into what really happened behind closed

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doors. At least, the ones who are still alive. Kim Porter might be the most notable woman in

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Diddy's life. She met Diddy while working as a receptionist at Uptown Records, his first record

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label. And they were together on and off for almost 15 years, having three kids. Diddy even adopted her

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first son, Quincy. Kim herself was a successful actress, appearing in a number of roles as well

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as modeling on numerous magazine covers. She also helped start singer Janelle Monae's career while

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running a lifestyle planning company in Atlanta, Georgia. However, Kim's life was cut short in 2018

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when she died from a sudden case of pneumonia at the age of 47. Diddy was devastated. I mean,

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the mother of his children, a very important person in his life, unexpectedly gone. He tweeted

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out countless reflections, saying things like,

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For the last three days, I've been trying to wake up from this nightmare, but I haven't.

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I don't know what I'm going to do without you. I miss you so much. And later,

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We were more than best friends. We were more than soulmates. We were some other shit. And I still miss you

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so much. The tributes to Kim, the toll it took on him, it was clear Diddy cared. At least, that was

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until the conspiracies came out. You see, the circumstances surrounding Kim Porter's death were

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confusing, to put it lightly. Kim was only 47 years old, living in a beautiful, upscale neighborhood

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of Los Angeles with access to healthcare, medication, and anything else she might need. How did she end up

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dying of pneumonia at home in under four days? How did she not get to the hospital first? It's a valid

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question to ask. Young, healthy, rich people don't randomly die out of nowhere with no warning.

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Allegedly, according to a number of rumors and tabloids over the years, Kim Porter's death may

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not have been as simple as the official explanation makes it seem. There are a couple of reasons why

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Diddy might want Kim out of sight and out of mind. Most convincingly of all, there's a rumor that she

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was writing a book revealing Diddy's true character and the abusive nature of their long-time relationship

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in the year leading up to her death. Knowing what we know now about how Diddy treats women,

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it's not unbelievable that his relationship with Kim Porter was similar to the one with Cassie

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later on. There are still even deeper theories that many people online have used to point out a

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possibly even more sinister story behind the curtain. Kim Porter's autopsy was left inconclusive

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for over two months, not confirming pneumonia until sometime later when a new coroner was assigned to

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the case. There's also a discussion around how pneumonia, the sickness that killed her,

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can infamously be induced with ricin, a chemical poison that can be extracted from castor beans.

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None of this is fully confirmed on the record, but there's still a lot of noise around Kim

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Porter's death because it's understandably difficult to identify what parts of Diddy's

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possible involvement might hold water or be completely false. Trying to learn more about

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her relationship with Diddy is only made more difficult since the publishing of a completely false

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fanfiction memoir of Kim Porter that shot to bestseller status on Amazon in just a few days.

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It was almost immediately removed from the site though when it was discovered that this

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book was totally fictitious. Containing a number of ridiculous claims, it took a lot

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of the rumors about Diddy to an extreme level that seemed much more like fanfiction than actual

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reporting. Even more, the author Chris Todd had used an African-American pen name, Jamal Millwood,

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despite looking like this.

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All that is to say, the life and death of Kim Porter remains shrouded in mystery and speculation.

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While official reports attribute her untimely passing to pneumonia, the circumstances surrounding

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her death have fueled countless conspiracy theories. The rumors of a tell-all book being near

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completion just before she died, the unusual autopsy timeline, the unfortunate death of her

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coroner just a few weeks after the investigations against Diddy began, these whispers of foul play

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have cast a long shadow over Diddy's relationship with Kim. Whether these theories hold any truth,

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or they might just be online conspiracies, I can't tell you that. But the tragic loss of Kim Porter

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at the age of only 47, regardless of its cause, is just another strange chapter in Diddy's life that

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only goes to further support the charges against him. Still though, somehow, Diddy's relationship with

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Kim is just the tip of the iceberg. Jennifer Lopez is another person Diddy was romantically linked to

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for some time, and she is still around to tell the story today. Not that she seems very much like

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she wants to, at all. Ever since the accusations against Diddy came out, reporters, paparazzi,

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and the general public have been taking a closer look at her to see what her response might be.

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Especially since she was notably present on the night of the shooting that ruined bad boy artist

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Shine's life. Landing him in prison for 10 years for a crime that multiple witnesses and experts said

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he didn't commit, while Diddy testified against him regardless. At one recent event, she abruptly left

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an autograph signing after being asked about the nature of her relationship with Diddy.

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Understandably, being asked to recall your relationship with an accused sexual predator

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isn't a pleasant situation to be forced into. She's previously described their time together as

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tempestuous and emotionally exhausting, with multiple sources citing that Diddy's cheating

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ended their relationship prematurely. However, her ex-husband has also claimed that she attended

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several controversial parties with Diddy while they were dating. Multiple times in recent months,

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Jennifer Lopez has done her absolute best to ignore and escape questioning about her connection to

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Diddy. But if you run away at the mention of his name, it sounds more and more like there's

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something you actively want to hide. But there was one woman brave enough to share exactly what

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she knew about Diddy. Suddenly, in November of 2023, Diddy's ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura,

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an accomplished model and singer with multiple Billboard hits, filed a 35-page lawsuit against him,

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with a list of horrifying accusations, confirming almost everything people had ever said about Diddy,

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and more, at the same time. The lawsuit started with an almost morbidly funny preliminary statement

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that goes like this. In 2022, Mr. Combs received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards.

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During his acceptance speech, Mr. Combs stated, I have to give a special shout-out, thank you,

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to the people who were really there for me. He named a number of people before adding,

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and also Cassie, for holding me down in the dark times. The truth, however, is that Cassie,

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Miss Cassandra Ventura, was instead held down by Mr. Combs. But then it gets serious. The contents of

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this lawsuit is disturbing, and the wording may be altered to avoid restrictions on the video.

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I'm not going to read it all, but it's important to hear some of it.

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Miss Ventura endured over a decade of Diddy's violent behavior and disturbed demands. For Miss

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Ventura, the dark times were those she spent trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse,

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violence, and trafficking. Among other violent and unlawful acts, Mr. Combs assaulted Miss Ventura

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in her own home after she tried to leave him, often physically attacked her, resulting in bruises,

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bleeding, and more. Blew up a man's car after he learned that he was romantically interested in

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Miss Ventura. Forced Miss Ventura to engage with male sex workers while filming events. Demanded

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that Miss Ventura carry a firearm in her purse just to make her uncomfortable. And introduced

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Miss Ventura to a lifestyle of excessive alcohol and substance abuse. Being over 35 pages long,

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the lawsuit is too much to read here. But there's some really, really disturbing stuff that sounds

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almost unbelievable to any reasonable person. In the process of describing how Diddy spent years

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gradually assuming complete control of Cassie's life and finances, there's a section about halfway

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through titled, Mr. Combs forces Miss Ventura into sex trafficking. Before I get started though,

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again, this stuff is terrible. It's not for sensitive ears. This section, while far too

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disturbing to be allowed in a YouTube video without them restricting it, details a pattern of alleged

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sexual abuse, coercion, and exploitation that Ventura claims she endured during her long

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relationship with Diddy. It depicts these events in graphic detail. Combs allegedly forced Ventura

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into sexual encounters with male sex workers, which she called freak-offs. These encounters

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reportedly involved drug use, took place in various hotels around the world, and occurred

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frequently. Ventura claims she was required to facilitate these encounters, including finding

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sex workers and performing with them. These encounters reportedly caused severe anxiety and

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physical illness for Ventura, as well as giving her severe reactions to the numerous drugs she was

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forced to intake. The lawsuit also mentions an incident where Combs allegedly dangled Ventura's

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friend over a hotel balcony. When this lawsuit was filed, it was like a bomb went off. Diddy has

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already been seen for years as a weird, strange figure in the music industry. But after this,

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he immediately went from being a creepy uncle to a straight-up monster doing the unthinkable.

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He couldn't lie or hide. And the rest of the lawsuit just gets worse and worse. The descriptions of

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what Diddy put Cassie through are graphic and disturbing, and I can't say them out loud on YouTube,

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let alone the fact that it feels disgusting to read the whole thing for yourself. It's 35 pages

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of terror. Diddy paid a $30 million settlement just one day after the lawsuit was filed. He put out a

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smug and repulsive statement saying that, we have decided to resolve the matter amicably, wishing

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Cassie and her family all the best. Cassie got what she deserved, closure in the form of a ridiculous

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amount of money. But it didn't matter. The floodgates were open now, because Diddy's behavior quite

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clearly wasn't isolated. It most likely wasn't just one person. It seemed in all likelihood to be

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something he built his whole life around, a pathological obsession that he would go to any

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length to carry out. It had ruined Cassie's life, and it was about to be revealed in full.

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Over the next few months, many more lawsuits would be filed against Diddy. All of them accused Diddy

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of systematically having a lifestyle centered around doing horrible things to other people. One of the

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most disturbing lawsuits came from Rodney Lil Rod Jones, a Grammy-nominated producer who worked

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closely with Diddy for 14 months, producing nine songs for his album Off the Grid. In a lawsuit he

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filed in February of 2024, he claimed to have evidence of the following. Meek Mill on Diddy's

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yacht consorting with underage individuals, Diddy giving laced drinks to underage individuals at his

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home, and Usher in Diddy's home consorting with underage individuals. There was also a long,

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long list of things Diddy did to abuse Rodney. Throughout a long process of trying to convince him

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that he would make sure he would win producer of the year at the Grammys if he agreed to engage in

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homosexuality with him. In the lawsuit, it's written like this.

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Throughout his time living with Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones was the victim of constant unsolicited,

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unauthorized groping and touching of his body parts by Mr. Combs. These events took place in

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Los Angeles, New York, Florida, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to the unsolicited and

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unauthorized touching, Mr. Jones was forced by Mr. Combs to work in Mr. Combs' bathroom as Mr.

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Combs walked around naked and showered in a clear glass enclosure. As a heterosexual Christian man,

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Mr. Jones was uncomfortable with Mr. Combs' advances and expressed his discomfort to Mr.

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Combs' chief of staff, who responded with, you know, Sean will be Sean. The chief of staff also

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attempted to downplay Mr. Combs' groping of Mr. Jones as friendly horseplay, stating that those

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acts were his way of showing that he likes you. There was a lot more. The lawsuit is 73 pages long.

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It even includes photographic evidence of Cuba Gooding Jr. forcing himself on Rodney Jones,

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something that he has a long and public history of doing. The suit also includes graphic details about

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Christina Corum, Diddy's long-running chief of staff, describing her as equivalent to Ghislaine

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Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former assistant who was convicted of sex trafficking and is now serving

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20 years in prison. The lawsuit says this about Christina Corum. It was important to defendant

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Corum to have Mr. Combs' drug of choice immediately ready whenever he asks for it. Defendant Corum required

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all employees from the butler to the chef to the housekeepers to walk around with a pouch filled

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with cocaine, GHB, ecstasy, marijuana, and Tusi. Defendant Corum also ordered sex workers and

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prostitutes for Mr. Combs. She ordered and distributed ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, mushrooms,

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and more to Mr. Combs and his guests who were present on his rented yacht and in his homes in LA,

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New York City, and Miami. On multiple occasions, she forced Mr. Jones to carry Mr. Combs' drug pouch

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against his will. Talking in an interview six months after the lawsuit was filed, Rodney Jones revealed

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that he was living in hiding, unable to find work in the music industry and afraid for his life.

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He said this, he's a monster. He'll do whatever is necessary to get exactly what he wants. He doesn't

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take no for an answer. Diddy's lawyers immediately filed to dismiss the lawsuit from Rodney Jones,

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calling it a cash grab, but it was far too late. The court of public opinion had already decided that

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everything in it was believable enough to take it and run. Even with relatively minimal evidence,

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at least from an outside standpoint, people made up their minds that Diddy was indeed a monster.

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Months before the feds ever came to pick him up, his career was already over. You go to old

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Facebook posts about Christina Corum, not even a public figure before she got named,

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and hundreds of people are leaving comments calling for her to go to jail, calling her evil

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and disgusting. Diddy's own Ghislaine Maxwell. And again, this is before Diddy got arrested.

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Not long after Lil Rod, Dawn Richard filed her own lawsuit. As a member of the girl group Danity

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Kane, the first girl group in history to have their first two albums debut at number one,

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and a former client of Diddy's Bad Boy Records, she knew Diddy very well. She wrote a number of

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things about her business and personal relationship with Diddy, starting with an affirmation that she

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herself witnessed Diddy's abuse against Cassie on many occasions. Dawn herself, though, was also a

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victim of Diddy's abuse. All the way back when she met him in 2004 while competing on his MTV show

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Making the Band, she wrote that Diddy often forced her and her bandmates to rehearse for up to 48 hours

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straight without food or breaks, with him instilling a culture of fear in all of the women he worked

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with. She also wrote that as she continued to work with him after her band broke up, he would often

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force her to take meetings with him while he was in his underwear or grope her body parts during

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stylist fittings before concerts and videos. She also wrote about a specific instance in 2010 when

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he tried to punch her in the face after she asked him to stop verbally abusing her in professional

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environments. Some of the most disturbing lawsuits filed against Diddy, though, have a different set of

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victims of a very specific age group. There are also other lawsuits that contain a number of claims

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so horrible I can't read the details on YouTube without this video getting restricted or even taken

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down. But it does beg the question of whether or not some of these allegations are even real,

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or if people are just chasing a payout like Cassie Ventura deservedly received.

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Fraudulent lawsuits are common in Hollywood, but before you make up your mind, I recommend looking

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into Tony Busby, the lawyer who's representing most of Diddy's alleged victims, having already filed

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dozens of lawsuits against Diddy, claiming he will be filing at least 100 more. Some of the unnamed

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yet alleged accusers claim to have been under 18 at the time of their interactions with Diddy,

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with some as young as 10. And Tony Busby himself is a high-profile lawyer with a pretty bad reputation

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in his hometown of Houston, Texas, notably having previously served as a defense lawyer on the

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impeachment trial of a Texas politician who had previously been fined by the SEC for securities fraud

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and accused of political bribery and corruption. However, Tony Busby also prosecuted NFL player

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Deshaun Watson in a case that resulted in the settling of over 20 claims of sexual misconduct.

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It's difficult to make a call on whether or not Tony Busby seems like the type of lawyer to file

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any old claim in the hopes of making a quick buck. Over 120 lawsuits is a shocking amount,

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but no amount of evil is unbelievable when it comes to what we already know has been confirmed

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with pictures and video proof of Diddy's actions. Regardless though, it doesn't matter.

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No one watching this video has access to Diddy's personal messages, his archives, his texts,

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or any other inside information that could reveal the truth once and for all. But there is someone

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who does. The Department of Homeland Security. There were dozens of other lawsuits against Diddy

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that came out across 2024, and there are still more coming out regularly. The most important one

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of all, though, was the one that was titled The United States of America vs. Sean Combs.

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The feds don't arrest you immediately. It took about 10 months from Cassie's lawsuit against Diddy

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until the day when they put him in cuffs in the lobby of a New York City hotel. The reason for

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this delay was simple. The feds never lose. On the website of the Pew Research Center,

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you can find statistics about federal criminal conviction rates. In 2022, fewer than 1% of federal

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criminal defendants were acquitted. That's only 290 people out of 71,000 being let off the hook.

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But an even more surprising number is that only 1.9% of cases in total went to trial at all.

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That's because the overwhelmingly common result of being indicted by the feds in 90% of cases

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is that you plead guilty. The feds are so thorough, so on top of their business,

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that almost no one ever gets let off. The reason why is because they only charge winning cases.

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Some of the more high-profile federal cases in history have been people like Charles Manson,

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the conviction of the Unabomber, people like El Chapo, or a long list of international terrorists.

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The United States government is not going to come after you unless they are very sure you did it.

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That's why 90% of people who get charged by them just plead guilty to avoid possibly even greater

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charges and punishment if they take it to trial. The federal government would not risk the hit to

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their reputation by even allowing the chance of falsely charging a high-profile celebrity.

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There is no way. It has not happened in the past. And the feds? They took their time with Diddy.

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Because Diddy was still walking around as a free man for months after these lawsuits were coming out.

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It took over 10 months from the day Cassie filed her lawsuit and cratered Diddy's reputation

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forever, immediately causing the severance of his sponsor deals and the cancellation of any public

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appearances to the day that he got arrested. Even though he was cooked immediately, at least in

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the public eye, he was still a free man. But real consequences weren't far behind.

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Because shortly after Cassie's lawsuit was fired, it seems like the federal government,

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specifically the Department of Homeland Security, an agency normally known for preventing terrorism and

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securing the national borders, started taking a pretty close look at Diddy.

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Just four months after Cassie's lawsuit and one month after Rodney Jones' lawsuit,

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the DHS showed up at Diddy's house to take a look around. In March, they raided his homes in Miami

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and LA, seizing over 95 electronic devices and reportedly also finding illegal ghost guns and

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ammo in his house. That same day, Diddy was stopped at an airport just moments before he was going to

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board his personal jet on a flight to the Caribbean island of Antigua. Whether or not he was trying to

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flee the US is unconfirmed, but either way, he was not allowed on his own plane and remained in the US.

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He then spent another six months essentially in hiding, knowing the feds were watching him

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closely and building a case against him. And it wasn't until seven months after Cassie's lawsuit,

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when CNN released a disturbing video clip proving her accusations once and for all,

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that Diddy finally broke his silence. And so with any denial going out the window,

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he dropped a half-assed ridiculous apology for what he had done, or at least the part he was

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caught on camera doing, with no acknowledgement of anything else at all. One of Cassie Ventura's

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attorneys responded with this. Mr. Combs' most recent statement is more about himself than the

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many people he has hurt. When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and

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suggested that his victims were looking for a payday. The fact that he was only compelled to

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apologize once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one

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will be swayed by his disingenuous words. Regardless though, the feds eventually came and got him

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after a couple more months of investigation. It was then that the wildest lawsuit of all was filed.

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The United States of America vs. Sean Combs. There are three federal charges against Diddy.

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Count one is racketeering conspiracy. Count two is sex trafficking by force. And count three is

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transportation to engage in prostitution. It's very revealing of Diddy's true character to see how he

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reacted to the accusations against him, even before the federal lawsuit came out. Because the position

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that he and everyone around him would take from then on was denial. Diddy himself denied everything.

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He had his team denying everything. He was still making statements proclaiming his innocence,

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and up to the last minute, he was disparaging his victims. A massive misplay in light of everything

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that was coming out, especially knowing that the feds were looking at it. Most sane people,

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innocent or not, if they had things like this coming out about them, would go into hiding.

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That's what Harvey Weinstein did. Before he was arrested, he said nothing. He completely left the

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public eye. Diddy though, his lack of self-awareness was on a whole other level. Just a few weeks after

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Cassie's lawsuit came out, one anonymous woman accused Diddy of sexually assaulting her at his

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recording studio in the early 2000s, with the papers being filed by the same lawyer who represented

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Cassie with her lawsuit, with that lawyer also having represented accusers against several other

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powerful figures like Bill O'Reilly and Harvey Weinstein in the past. The exact details of this

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anonymous lawsuit are a bit too much to read on YouTube, but notably it includes photographic proof

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of the accuser's visit to Diddy's studio, with even some photographs of her sitting on his lap.

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Diddy's response though, was a massive mistake, and it calls back again to the

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overconfidence and narcissism we discussed earlier. He said this in a public statement.

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For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character,

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destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals

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looking for a quick payday. He also said, let me be absolutely clear. I did not do any of the

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awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family, and for the truth. Knowing now that

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Diddy was being investigated by the federal government, and he was putting out statements of complete

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denial trying to make other people look bad, knowing now that there was video proof about

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to be released of him abusing Cassie, the picture that this statement paints has guilty spelled out

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in red ink all over the paper. Even after the federal investigation that led to Diddy's arrest and

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charges, another absurd and smug side of the situation was his family's reaction. Diddy has seven

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children, many of whom are adults, and ever since Diddy was arrested, denied bail, and had a trial date set,

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they're still coming out with statements on Instagram saying things like this.

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Again, this is after video proof was shown of Diddy brutally beating his girlfriend. Diddy's

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mother Janice even wrote a letter in support of him, and it's one of the most smug, disgusting

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things you can possibly read. In the letter, she completely excuses his actions, and even uses

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bizarre guilt trip tactics to make his accusers look bad. She wrote things like this,

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I am devastated and profoundly saddened. This seems to be like a public lynching of my son

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before he has the opportunity to prove his innocence. It's some of the most self-righteous,

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ridiculous writing I've ever read. Referring to Diddy being held accountable as a public lynching

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is insane, and a horrible insult to the actual victims. Watching the world make jokes and laugh

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at my son's life crumbling before our eyes is something I'll never forget. It is truly agonizing

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to watch the world turn against my son so quickly and easily over lies, without ever affording him

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the opportunity to present his side. These lies thrown at him are motivated by those seeking a

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financial gain, not justice. This injustice has been unbearable for my family. My son is not the

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monster they painted him to be. I can only pray I am alive to see him speak his truth and be vindicated.

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If that isn't a ridiculous response to your son getting arrested by the federal government for

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sexually abusing people, I don't know what is. Even Diddy's own Instagram account has these

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strangely smug posts celebrating his youngest daughter's second birthday. It's not really

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something that would stick out if he wasn't in jail for trafficking people, but knowing what we know,

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it's almost creepy and weird to see him and his team pretending everything's okay

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when the entire world knows the truth. Diddy already denied everything he did to Cassie,

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and then ended up admitting it once the proof came out. So how could anyone believe what he's

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saying outside of that? And it's almost easy to see his family gathering around him and talking

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00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:55,560
about how the truth will prevail and say, hey, you know, they know him best. Maybe there's some

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truth to what he's saying. But looking deeper, the real reason why Diddy's kids are standing by him

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might be because they aren't too different from him. His son Christian was recently named in a

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lawsuit against Diddy and himself for assaulting a woman in 2022, with an audio recording from the

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scene being included in the filing. That's not to say Diddy's kids are all involved in his crimes or

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anything like that. But with their father being an influential billionaire, they stand to lose a lot

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if he goes away and gain much more if he remains free. But there's one thing Diddy's team is right

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about. The fact that the case has become a media circus. That is, mostly on Diddy's side. With his

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kids and mother defending him despite the mountain of evidence, it's a terrible look. They're not alone

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though. Even Diddy's lawyer called the federal prosecutors racist and claimed that they were trying

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to bring down a successful black man with their charges. At the same time as he was making strange

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excuses for Diddy being in possession of massive amounts of baby oil, saying it was just how Diddy

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likes to shop at Costco, buying in bulk. It's almost like everyone involved on Diddy's side

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can't help themselves but to make outright ridiculous excuses that make no sense at all.

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I think it shouldn't be a surprise that Diddy's former legal team quit all the way back in June,

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realizing the case mounting against them was a losing one that they wanted nothing to do with.

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And I think it should also be mentioned that Diddy's new lawyer was mentored earlier in his career

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by Harvey Weinstein's defense attorney. Not long ago, Diddy's lawyers filed a motion

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demanding that the names of his accusers be published to prevent fraudulent false accusations

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against him. And while maybe that makes sense hypothetically, in reality it turns out that

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there was a darker evil side to that request as well. According to prosecutors from an article

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released just a day after he was arrested, he repeatedly contacted witnesses and victims in the

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months leading up to his arrest, even offering to pay a victim's rent if she would agree to

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publicly support him in return. Somehow he still continued to be straight up evil even while

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facing jail for the rest of his life, his ego not letting him realize he should have gone into

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hiding and shut his mouth a long time ago. That particular victim had texted Diddy to tell him

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that Cassie's lawsuit was shockingly similar to her own experience with him, only to have him try to

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bribe her with money on a call that was recorded and is in the possession of prosecutors.

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From Rolling Stone, Combs' alleged witness tampering was a focal point of Southern District of New York

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Prosecutor's argument that he should remain in federal custody as the high-profile case heads

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to trial. The former billionaire's long history of obstruction and violence demonstrates that the

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defendant simply cannot overcome the presumption that no condition or combination of conditions

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can ensure the safety of the community. His influence makes it difficult to ensure that

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witnesses can share their experiences and trust that the government can keep them safe,

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said attorney Emily Johnson, one of the prosecutors. In the months leading up to Combs' indictment,

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prosecutors claimed that Combs and his co-conspirators had constant contact with witnesses

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over several different methods, sometimes after the witnesses received subpoenas to testify in front

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of a grand jury. After the feds picked him up and brought him to jail in September, Diddy asked

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for bail three times, offering up a $50 million bond payment, yet he was denied each time by the

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judges on the case, with concerns of him being a flight risk and the past precedent of witness

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intimidation. He currently still sits in a cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a notoriously

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horrific facility. Other former inmates of note include R. Kelly, his cellmate Sam Bankman-Fried,

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and even Ghislaine Maxwell, a key figure in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise, among many others.

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And that's where Diddy's story basically ends. Once a billionaire businessman, an executive and

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producer known around the world, one of the biggest figures in Hollywood, running one of the biggest

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90s and 2000s hip-hop labels ever, helping create some of the largest artists of the time, and being one

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of the most influential people in entertainment, he now faces three counts that, if convicted for all of

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them, will result in a sentence of at least 15 years, with the possibility for life in prison.

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And there are still more accusations and evidence coming out on a regular basis.

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What I'm trying to say here is that Diddy's cards are on the table. The feds know what he did. They

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know what he's in for. I've said it once and I'll say it again, 90% of people who get indicted on federal

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charges just plead guilty immediately to avoid even worse punishment that might happen at a trial.

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Diddy making all these statements about his innocence, pleading not guilty, his family sticking

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by him, it means nothing when we've seen a pile of evidence from videos to texts to Diddy's own

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personal history of being involved with scamming artists out of their royalties, possibly being

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linked to people's mysterious deaths, and having inappropriate relationships with underage boys.

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Denying anything that Homeland Security accuses you of doing when the entire world has seen the

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evidence against you is only further proof that while Diddy might have been a savvy businessman

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or a clever entertainer, he's ultimately stupid. But that's just Diddy's story. And it might be a

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dramatic story for sure. Diddy goes from being a kid in Harlem, growing up without a dad, to a key

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player in the 90s hip-hop and R&B scenes, to a household name with more endorsements, connections,

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and money than one person could ever know what to do with, to even becoming the third figure in hip-hop

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history to ever be a billionaire. For many people, Diddy was known as a guy who opened schools,

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00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:48,100
founded charities, and represented success against all odds. He went to great lengths to give himself this

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good image, an inspiring image for the black community. But even that was a facade, as all

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he ever did behind closed doors was exploit and abuse other black people. Ultimately, his persona

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was a mask, a mask so full of holes that it's difficult to believe a human could even do what

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he did. Looking deep into the allegations against him, looking at his history, I mean even looking

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at his music career where he did nothing but exploit others as much as he possibly could for over 30 years,

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the life and actions of Diddy alone are enough to make a horror movie out of. But still,

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somehow, the mystery isn't over. Even though he's behind bars, the book isn't closed yet,

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because the big hole in the plot is Diddy's network. It's very telling that when the law

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started to shine their light on Diddy, the silence that followed was deafening. The lack of response

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from his peers, his friends, it says a thousand words, because the one thing Diddy always was,

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was popular. He was friends with Oprah and Ellen. He was always on the late night shows.

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He was referenced in pop songs. He was in many photos with different politicians over the years,

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not to mention his longtime friendships with people like LeBron, Jay-Z, and countless other

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A-listers. When Diddy gets arrested and a life of abuse and crime is revealed, it throws every public

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relationship he ever had into question. And with no one coming to his defense, and dozens if not

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00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:08,360
hundreds of other figures who have been known to associate with him going totally silent,

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00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:13,920
it seems to point to something much, much bigger than one guy acting alone. And when you combine

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00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:18,980
that long list of friends with the ever-increasing disturbing level of stories that just keep coming

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00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:23,900
out about what happened behind the scenes at Diddy's parties, the implication gets pretty serious.

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It's very difficult to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the history of Diddy and his

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personal connections. Just because someone appears in a photo or a video at Diddy's house doesn't mean

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they can be implicated in a sex trafficking scandal. At the same time, though, there are a number of

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people who stick out above the hundreds of artists, politicians, actors, and socialites who have

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associated with Diddy over the years, to the point where most people seem to agree it doesn't make

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sense for them to not have known what was going on behind closed doors. Looking back at the beginning

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of Diddy's career, there's one name that comes up more than any others, Clive Davis. Clive Davis is a

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massively influential record producer and music executive from New York that has won five Grammy Awards

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and helped build the careers of many artists, including Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin,

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Dionne Warwick, Sly and the Family Stone, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Pink Floyd,

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and countless others. Essentially, he did what Diddy did for the music industry, but in the 70s and

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the 80s. Despite having a huge influence on the sound of modern music, though, Clive Davis' own story

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is stained by a long history of corruption and abuse. The start of his career was marked by him getting

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fired when he used company funds to pay for his son's bar mitzvah, and although most discussions of his

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00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:35,060
behavior behind the scenes are scrubbed from the internet, there are rumors about his personality

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that persist to this day. Specifically, the questionable circumstances that led to the

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founding of Diddy's Bad Boy Records, the home of Biggie Smalls, Mays, and more. You see, when Diddy

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00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:48,860
got fired from his first music industry job after just a couple years of experience, it was Clive Davis

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that funded the beginning of Diddy's next project, giving Diddy a $50 million advance to get started on

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Bad Boy Records. That in itself wasn't a reason to be suspicious, but rumors have gone around for many years

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that Clive Davis was originally willing to give Diddy opportunities on the condition that they

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would have an intimate relationship similarly to what Diddy may have had with his artists,

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perpetuating the same type of behavior that Diddy himself would go on to use as a means of

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controlling others in the industry. Nothing has ever been confirmed, but Clive Davis' own character,

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including his appearance at a party while his artist Whitney Houston had just been discovered

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passed away in the same building, only asks more questions than it answers, painting a picture of a

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complex web of evil that goes much deeper than just Diddy himself. There are many other names that

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Diddy's been associated with when it comes to abusive artists like L.A. Reid or Andre Harrell,

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00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:39,040
some of his early industry mentors, but it's probably hard to prove, and I doubt more information is

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00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,580
coming out anytime soon, with many of these figures being elderly or passed away long ago.

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All of that is to say, Diddy certainly wasn't the first or the last person to exploit artists in one

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00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:52,420
way or another. But of course, it doesn't stop there. The point of looking at Diddy's connections is to

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identify that while not everyone Diddy knows was necessarily engaging in the terrible things he was

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doing, it's difficult to imagine that these people don't know what Diddy was up to, and it seems far

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more likely that they were just conveniently looking the other way, at the very least. Although, many of

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the people around Diddy look at least a little suspicious of taking part in his evil ways.

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00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:15,100
Meek Mill started vehemently denying that he had anything to do with Diddy at all after countless

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video clips of him and Diddy's strangely intimate interactions were publicized, painting a picture of

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a close relationship behind the scenes. Similarly, the Kardashian family were once close friends and

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00:42:25,140 --> 00:42:28,960
supporters of Diddy, with a then 20-year-old Justin Bieber where many of the attendees were

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00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,540
completely naked. And that's just one example of the Kardashian family talking about Diddy the same

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00:42:33,540 --> 00:42:35,480
way you would talk about having a favorite co-worker.

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Another strange connection is Diddy's relationship with Oprah Winfrey, the billionaire TV host known for

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her inspiring success story and empathetic personality. She not only attended many of Diddy's

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infamous parties, but was also known for a close relationship with Harvey Weinstein.

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There is an absurdity to the self-congratulatory short films where Diddy is standing with Jay-Z

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in the mirror talking about black excellence while they drink champagne, and meanwhile Diddy is running

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00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:19,720
a sex trafficking empire behind the scenes, and somehow no one has any idea he's a monster?

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With Diddy abusing so many people for so long, it's all but certain that there are many,

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many people in powerful places who knew exactly what he was really about and just said nothing.

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Right now though, we don't know exactly who knows what or to what degree anyone was involved,

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at least not for sure, but the photographic evidence is damning to say the least.

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With Diddy's trial beginning in May, it's almost certain that a lot more will be revealed over

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time. Because Diddy wasn't a shadowy character that stayed out of the spotlight as much as possible.

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He was in the spotlight for so long that there were almost less people who didn't associate with

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him than there were people who stood by his side. But Diddy, who once stood at the top of the

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00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:01,120
mountain, the king of the entertainment industry, controlling and influencing so many people with

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00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:06,880
his face and brands all over the world, is now alone. Not just alone in his cell, but also alone

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00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,620
in Hollywood. He's been abandoned by his former friends, with all of them scattering as quietly as

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00:44:11,620 --> 00:44:16,200
they can to get away from his name. The list of celebrities coming out in support of Diddy is

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00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:22,140
literally empty. It's zero people. Not one person who he was previously seen with countless times

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00:44:22,140 --> 00:44:27,060
has said a single word to defend him. Because the fact is that a lot of the entertainment industry,

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these people's careers are make or break based on public opinion. All of these people, if not

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perceived as relatable or people you could aspire to be, they stand to lose a lot of money. With their

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careers being based entirely on how much attention they get, there's a lot of incentive for them to

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00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:48,720
look good. But is there any incentive for them to be good? Not really. It makes sense that a lot of the

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people who could have spoken out about Diddy wouldn't, at least from their perspective.

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Why would you risk your own connections, reputation, and income to speak out against

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00:44:57,300 --> 00:45:01,420
someone around you who had immense power and connections and was willing to threaten people

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00:45:01,420 --> 00:45:06,520
who he didn't like? Why would Oprah ever risk her multi-billion dollar empire and her reputation

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00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:12,640
as a generous, empathetic person for any reason? The same goes for Ellen or Kim Kardashian or LeBron

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or Leonardo DiCaprio. You don't get to be where these people are without worshipping money. And when you

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worship money, there's nothing you'll put before it. Not even speaking out against injustice and evil.

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In some ways, that makes it easier for a celebrity to get away with something horrible

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than for a random regular person. When everyone around you has a brand to protect and so much at

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stake, they'll never speak out against the person next to them and risk even the tiniest stain on their

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manufactured persona of perfection. It's totally possible that the list of people who took part in

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Diddy's abuse could be smaller than you think. But the list of people who knew about it and were

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perfectly okay to do nothing is probably a mile long. But in that way, does the difference between

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those two things even matter? Even more than just turning a blind eye though, there are a lot of real

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reasons why crimes like Diddy's wouldn't get exposed, even if many people knew about it. Diddy is known to

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have threatened people with firearms, stalked people he didn't like as a form of intimidation,

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and even blew up Kid Cudi's Porsche when he got involved with Cassie during a break in the

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relationship. He went to great lengths to maintain a dangerous image to the people around him, and was

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even found to have ghost guns in his house, firearms with serial numbers scratched off that can be more

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easily used to commit crimes. Basically, many people around Diddy knew that he was willing to do whatever

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it would take to maintain control. He had no issue threatening or intimidating others, even as we've

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heard from far back in his music career in the early 90s. Still though, the silence from Diddy's friends

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is pretty deafening. It's hard not to start to make assumptions, because if you're associated with

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someone and they turn out to be a monster, and you never knew about it, you would probably tell

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everybody that you had no idea what was going on. That's exactly the first thing anyone would say

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about a friend or a co-worker or an acquaintance who turns out to be a terrible person. I had no idea.

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And Diddy had a lot of friends, but suddenly, they're all silent. There's this kind of well-known

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theory in the aliens community called the Dark Forest Hypothesis. In the Dark Forest Hypothesis,

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it says that we aren't alone in the universe, but that there are many alien civilizations around us

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everywhere. It's just that they stay completely silent, because they're advanced enough to

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realize there are many other civilizations who could destroy them instantly. This is obviously

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hypothetical, but I think it applies to the world of celebrity that Diddy thrived in. If he was the

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only one involved in the racketeering, the abuse, the trafficking, he would have people selling him

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up the river immediately. Celebrities love attention. It's their currency. The only reason why that

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wouldn't be happening is if someone, or maybe everyone, was afraid of what could be said about

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them if they opened their mouths. Looking at it that way, it makes a lot of sense that almost none

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of Diddy's peers have said anything about him at all. Tabloids are all over Diddy right now. You never

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know how real a source might be when it comes to random blogs or magazines, but when it comes to

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their commentary today, it kind of makes sense. One website wrote this,

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Diddy is still in total denial, and he actually expected all of his high-profile friends to stand

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up for him, especially his exes like Cameron Diaz and JLo. The source continued, he can't wrap his

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head around the fact that everyone's dropped him. They said there's a legitimate fear among a huge

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swath of people in Hollywood that he could seriously embarrass them if he decides to talk

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about what they shared with him back in the day. There are rumors that he's kept meticulous records

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and even video recordings of all the crazy stuff that went on his parties over the years, and it's only

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adding to everyone's panic. The word is, he's got enough dirt to hang half of Hollywood.

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Of course, these sources could be totally made up, but if it weren't, wouldn't these celebrities,

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always so quick to speak out and get some attention, always wanting to make themselves look like heroes

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or get their name in the news, these people who thrive off of engagement, why are they quiet now?

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Why would they pass up an opportunity to make themselves look good, or to speak out on an important

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topic? The only logical answer is because what it reflects back on them is either too difficult to talk

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about, maybe in the case of Justin Bieber or Usher, or because it says something about them as people

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too. Earlier in the video, I mentioned Diddy's ambition. I think it's clear for a lot of people

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who reach the point he did, that can be a double-edged sword. With ambition, you can go far. From the bottom

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of the ladder, growing up without two parents, in poverty, no opportunities around you, then becoming

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a billionaire, there's so much that could be done with that power and influence. The unfortunate truth

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is though, for most people, not just Diddy, the kind of person who gets to that point of wealth,

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they don't have anything in their heart that stops them from going too far. Hypothetically,

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a fast car is useful. If you want to get home to visit a sick family member, going home faster

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allows you to get home sooner. But if you go too fast and don't pay attention, you might just end up

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running over three old ladies along the way. And so looking at it like that, Diddy's so-called

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ambition, his empire, it ultimately just became a cover-up for his narcissistic, abusive,

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psychopathic personality. He wants to be the best. He wants to be a billionaire. He wants to have

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whatever he wants. But what did he do with all of that energy? He did nothing but build a facade to

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cover up his pathological need to take advantage of people. I'll quote Cassie's lawyer's response to

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his apology video. They said, Combs' most recent statement is more about himself than the people he

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hurt. The fact that he was only compelled to apologize once his repeated denials were proven

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false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.

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And that's just Diddy. Looking at the countless people around him who seemed like they were

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oblivious to his actions at the time, you're left with a chilling realization. There's almost no way

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Diddy was completely alone. From the Kardashians to Oprah, from Beyonce and Jay-Z to Meek Mill and

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Ellen DeGeneres, it's not just about one man's crimes. It's about an entire system that values image

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and wealth over morality and justice. And as we wait for Diddy's trial in May,

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you're left wondering, how deep does this rabbit hole go? And who else might be implicated in the

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web of secrets and lies? The fall of Diddy might just be the first domino in a much larger,

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more sinister picture. One that could shake the very foundations of Hollywood and the music industry

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as you know it. You can look back through thousands of photos and videos portraying Diddy as a fun guy,

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a party guy, an entertainer. And knowing what he was really doing to people behind the scenes,

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it casts a massive shadow over the entirety of Hollywood that he was allowed to do that by his

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peers in the first place. Diddy obviously isn't the only person like this though. Bill Cosby,

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Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, so many others. It's only becoming more and more obvious that

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influence and power attracts a very specific type of person. In a world where public opinion decides who

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thrives and who gets forgotten though, the amount of control Diddy had over the people around him

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more than likely led to a sort of standoff, where many, if not most people who knew exactly what his

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true character was would rather have protected themselves than stand up. Not only is that in

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itself a horrible injustice, but it begs the question, what else is being kept under wraps?

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A lot of the contents in this video comes down to conjecture or clues, but with Diddy in prison until

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his trial in May, it seems like his prosecutors might know exactly what they're looking for.

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As of right now though, it's hard to say that the underbelly of the entertainment industry

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isn't looking more sinister and evil than anyone ever thought was possible before.