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Diddy is in the crosshairs of the feds, and they mean business.

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You would have thought they were taking down a violent gang leader,

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not somebody who makes music and has charmed America for decades.

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Diddy is under criminal investigation after multiple lawsuits accused him of horrific crimes.

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Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs accused of sex trafficking and sexual assault.

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Now, people who lived in Diddy's world are talking to TMZ,

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and what they say is revealing and disturbing.

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I knew all of that was going on. I've known the whole time.

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I've seen Puff have anger spazes on producers, females.

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I'm a savage! Whatever I want, I'm going to get! Whatever I want, I have to get!

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Diddy's alleged bad behavior went unchecked for years.

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There have always been whispers and rumblings about Diddy.

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His famous friends are heading for the hills.

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They have 250 cameras they took out of his house.

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A lot of people might be running from that tape.

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I don't think it's only celebrities going to be shook.

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He had politicians in there. He had princes in there.

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He also had a couple of preachers in there.

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People may fear that somehow he makes it out of this.

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What did they fear?

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A flat tire, being murdered. I don't know.

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But Suge Knight, Diddy's arch-enemy, shockingly is sad over Diddy's undoing.

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I'm not the type of guy to cheer for people's downfall.

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And if somebody gets killed or something happens, I'm not going to pop a damn pain bottle.

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I've been seeing this dude shake back from some stuff, right?

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So, I'm not going to count him out.

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TMZ presents the Downfall of Diddy.

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I had just gotten out of the shower and walked inside of the studio.

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And it was such a nice day.

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I'm like, let me go sit outside on the bench for a little while.

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Heard a big boom.

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Then I heard like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

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Like the sounds of like armored vehicles coming, approaching.

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Simultaneous raids on March 25th, 2024.

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A massive show of force.

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Dozens of Homeland Security officers rolled up in armored vehicles at Sean Diddy Combs' mansions in Miami and L.A.

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Diddy's close friend and producer, Stevie J., was at the Miami property when things got real.

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Guys jumped out.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Guns up and aimed.

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Get up.

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Get on the fucking ground.

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Drop your fucking phone.

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You know what I'm saying?

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I'm like, yo, I'm here by myself.

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You know, I didn't ask too many questions.

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I've seen quite a lot of things, but none with the excessive force of this right here.

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You would have thought they were taking down a violent gang leader, not somebody who makes music and appears in movies and has charmed America for decades.

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Breaking news.

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The Department of Homeland Security has just confirmed to CNN that federal law enforcement agents have raided properties owned by musician and producer Sean Diddy Combs.

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You can see a crowbar to get through this gate initially as well.

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The long guns and a multitude of people, as you'll see, they'll zoom out a little bit just to see the amount of force they are using.

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You know him as Diddy, formerly Puff Daddy, big-time rapper, big-time producer, big-time superstar.

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And now, the feds at his houses in both locations.

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Federal officers spent hours removing firearms, computers, boxes, and bags of items.

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Both properties left in shambles.

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They didn't do this to Harvey Weinstein, right?

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They didn't do this like this to Epstein, right?

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Diddy's lawyer called the raids a gross overuse of military-level force and a witch hunt.

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He said Mr. Combs is innocent and will continue to fight every single day to clear his name.

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I don't know what they're looking for or where they're trying to reach.

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In L.A., two of Diddy's sons, Justin and King, were briefly detained, then released.

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A week later, Justin's mom, Misa Hilton, posted this shocking video on social media.

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Security footage from inside the house.

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Officers with guns drawn and pointed toward Justin and his brother King.

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Misa called it overzealous and deplorable.

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It's hard for me to imagine that had this been many other celebrities, particularly white celebrities,

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that their children would have been in handcuffs and they would have been forced to stare down the barrel of guns and seen armored tanks.

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It just seemed like a lot for a raid of a music producer.

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You have to remember that Diddy has been in trouble on some weapons violations in the past.

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He has security.

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These are vast compounds with multiple people at them.

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And so using this type of force was not inappropriate in any way, shape or form.

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A federal judge had determined there was evidence, significant evidence, Diddy was involved in sex trafficking, sexual assault, and soliciting and distributing illegal narcotics and firearms.

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And that's why the search warrants were signed.

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This is a massive investigation.

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The idea that the feds have taken up this investigation in the first place indicates that it's remarkably serious.

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Aubrey O'Day, a member of Danity Kane and star of Making the Band, has been the lone voice for years, saying Diddy is a bad guy.

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She has not spoken publicly since the new allegations surfaced until now.

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If these allegations are true, why did it take so long for others to speak out?

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Because you really were a lone voice.

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Real lone voice.

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I was literally text messaging producers, employers, from top to bottom levels.

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Like, y'all know what the fuck you saw.

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People were scared.

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If you know enough, you likely would be reasonable in being scared.

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What did they fear?

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Anything you possibly could, Harvey.

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A flat tire.

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Being murdered.

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I don't know.

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There's a lot of things people fear.

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People don't like to go after a powerful person unless they're sure they will be victorious.

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Because if you go after a powerful person and it doesn't work out.

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As Omar from The Wire said, you know, you come for the king, you best not miss.

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And people don't want to miss.

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Because if you miss, that means you're shut out of the music industry.

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You might be shut out of Hollywood.

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You might lose opportunities.

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And based on some of these rumors, your car might blow up in your driveway.

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Together, guys.

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In order to get the warrants, the feds got one of Diddy's ex-girlfriends, Cassie Ventura, to describe how Diddy was involved in various criminal misdeeds.

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Others who recently filed lawsuits against Diddy did the same.

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When we see, though, the Southern District of New York get involved in the way that they have, with obviously having a search warrant, which means probable cause, multi-agencies involved, it tells me that there's something that we perhaps do not know yet.

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Whether that's cooperating witnesses or whether that's allegations that are beyond what's currently in the public domain.

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Something that has given them the indication to launch this investigation at this broad of a scale.

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Based on the lawsuits and the federal search warrants that a judge signed, you know, alleging human trafficking, firearms violations, sexual assault, all these other things.

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Does any of that surprise you?

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No.

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I knew all of that was going on.

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I've known the whole time.

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I know what's gone on.

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A whole lot of people do, Harvey.

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It's a stunning downfall.

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At 54, Diddy had it all.

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Wealth, fame, power.

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The key to the city!

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But Cassie's lawsuit led to a cavalcade of other lawsuits and allegations that have rebranded the mogul as an alleged sex-crazed predator who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted.

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Diddy wasn't home when the raids went down.

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He was at a small Miami airport where he was set to leave for a vacation.

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He was questioned briefly by authorities and released.

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TMZ captured these images of Diddy pacing nervously after the encounter.

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I guess you wonder what's going to happen next, Diddy.

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I know.

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Diddy wasn't arrested that day, but a member of his entourage was.

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25-year-old Brendan Poole is now charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana candy.

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What's up, Puff? How you doing?

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How you doing, Diddy?

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How you doing, love?

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Good.

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How you doing?

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Good, good, man.

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Here's the thing.

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There were rumblings about Diddy's bad behavior for years, from drugs to physical abuse to guns.

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But none of it derailed his success.

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He seemed invincible.

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I'm the best.

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I'm not the worst.

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I'm the best.

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You know what I'm saying?

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I've had my different things and point of views and stuff like that in the past.

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But I'm cured now.

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Love and everything is all right.

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There you go.

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But everything may not be all right for Diddy anymore.

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Once the Fed's investigation is complete, Diddy could face charges that could land him in prison for the rest of his life.

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Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs accused of sex trafficking and sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in federal court here in New York.

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Cassie describing the music mogul as a vicious, cruel, and controlling man, saying she was trapped and held down by Combs.

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Cassie Ventura was Diddy's on-and-off-again girlfriend for a decade, and her allegations turned Diddy's world upside down.

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That was me and me now.

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I've been waiting, waiting.

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Think I want to make that move now.

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Cassie filed a lawsuit in November 2023, and that was the catalyst for the federal investigation and those military-style raids.

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How unusual is it for the feds to kind of have their eyes opened by civil litigation, which seems to have happened here?

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Well, it's certainly important for the feds, the Department of Justice, to have their eyes opened to what's going on around them.

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With the Department of Homeland Security involved, that indicates that this goes beyond the border.

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And that tells me that the Department of Justice and the investigators in this case may have inclinations or information about that has led to the massive scale of this investigation.

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Cassie was a 19-year-old singer when Diddy signed her to his Bad Boy record label shortly after they met.

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I wanted everybody to meet Cassie.

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Cassie.

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Yes, Cassie.

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When I saw her and I met her, that's what kind of made me really fall in love with the project, because I saw something more than just records.

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Cassie's self-titled album was released in 2006.

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About a year later, her relationship with Diddy became romantic.

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In her lawsuit, Cassie claimed Diddy quickly lured her into an ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle.

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She said Diddy gave her copious amounts of drugs, including opiates and ecstasy.

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There you go.

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Show her how to Cassie right here, guys.

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Together, guys.

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Right here, Cassie.

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Cassie claimed Diddy was often violent, forced her to carry a gun in her purse.

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She says in 2012, Diddy became enraged when he heard about a brief relationship she had with rapper Kid Cudi during a rough path with Diddy.

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Diddy threatened to blow up Kid Cudi's car.

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Kid Cudi confirmed his car had been blown up in his driveway.

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In 2015, Cassie claims a severely intoxicated Diddy dangled one of her friends off a 17th-floor hotel balcony.

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The complaint going on to accuse Combs of uncontrollable rage, alleging that he often punched, beat, kicked, and stopped on her,

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then allegedly used his money to hide evidence of abuse, including putting Ventura up in a hotel for days to heal.

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Cassie described one violent incident where Diddy stomped on her face repeatedly, causing her to bleed profusely.

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She says Diddy's head of security tried to step in, but he was unsuccessful.

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From wild sex parties to sex workers, the allegations against this music mogul are shocking.

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At one point also, she said that he would force her to interact sexually with escorts,

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and he would watch himself and enjoy himself and pleasure himself while watching her.

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They were called freak-offs.

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Very interesting term.

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I've never witnessed that type of behavior.

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I don't know what a man do in his bedroom or nothing like that.

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They was rocking together.

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From what I know.

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All I know is, they both was rock stars, living their best life in a relationship.

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Cassie claimed she only participated in those freak-off encounters because she was afraid she'd be beaten if she refused.

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Cassie also claimed near the end of their relationship, Diddy forced his way into her home and raped her.

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All of the Diddy controversy exploded because of the Cassie lawsuit.

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Once Cassie files that civil suit, now people feel like it's not rumor or innuendo anymore.

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You have somebody who was in a publicly known relationship with him for a very long time.

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And when that person is making allegations about freak-offs,

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and when that person is talking about different types of potentially criminal activity that's being alleged,

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now people believe it.

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One of the biggest legal blunders of all time was when Cassie threatened a lawsuit unless Diddy paid her $30 million.

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He told her to pound sand, never believing she'd do it.

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But she did.

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Diddy's lawyer insisted Cassie was blackmailing his client.

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But that lawsuit opened Pandora's box.

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Social media, especially TikTok, went crazy.

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And in a nanosecond, Diddy's reputation was trashed.

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Ooh, Diddy, you are in trouble.

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The stuff that he made her do is sick.

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I hope Cassie gets the justice that she deserves.

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Diddy, you are going to prison.

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Honey, Cassie has bought the receipts on Diddy, honey, and she's suing him for the things he's done to her.

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Diddy tried to stop the bleeding by settling with Cassie just a day after she filed.

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His lawyer said it was not an admission of wrongdoing, but the damage was done.

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Diddy's most egregious and fatal error strategically was not settling with Cassie behind closed doors.

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If he settles with Cassie behind closed doors, there's a good chance that none of this controversy is happening.

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There's a good chance that other people wouldn't have their own lawsuits pile on.

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There's a good chance law enforcement wouldn't have had their radars activated by all the allegations of illegal activity.

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There's a chance that Diddy would just be living his normal billionaire life right now.

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What more do I have to do, man?

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Look at my hat, man.

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Look at my hat.

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Look how I show up on the Moppy Coast B.

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It looked like she put so much information out into the streets that embarrassed you that you didn't want any more of it to come out.

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And because of that, Diddy looks more guilty than he did had he just settled behind closed doors from the beginning.

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If she said that he did it, he didn't.

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Did you read the things that he did to her?

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He did it going to jail.

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Yeah, he going to jail.

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When the lawsuit happened, it started a domino effect.

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But also what was said in the lawsuit was really the part that took people by surprise because of the rape allegations, of the sex trafficking allegations, of the abuse that she went into detail about.

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It was very much like, oh, this is definitely the one that's going to shake the table and shake its foundation.

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Suddenly, it was like everyone was just coming out of the woodwork.

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I was sick.

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I was sick of you.

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I was sick of everything that was going on around you.

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I was sick of having to cover up everything that you did.

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When Cassie found the strength to use her voice and speak her truth, it gave other people the courage to do the same.

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And I think that's also just kind of how this reckoning came to be.

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If one person has a power and has the ability to be honest and tell their story, then it allows other people to do the same.

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In fact, at least three other women came forward and filed lawsuits.

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Joy Dickerson Neal claimed Diddy drugged and sexually assaulted her 33 years ago and secretly recorded the encounter and then shared it with others.

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Liza Gardner claimed Diddy raped her and a friend in 1990.

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And another woman who refused to be named claimed Diddy and two other men gang raped her when she was just 17.

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Diddy is now facing another very serious lawsuit.

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And, you know, this all started with the Cassie lawsuit.

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And then there were two more accusers, an anonymous accuser, as a Jane Doe, filed it in federal court today.

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And her allegation goes back to 2003.

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It was bad for Diddy.

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Four women had come forward within three weeks in November and December 2023.

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Diddy himself finally released a statement saying, and this is a quote,

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Diddy's response to all these lawsuits has been, they're coming after my money.

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Everybody's an extortionist.

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That's not entirely untrue.

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I mean, everybody connected to him in these lawsuits has made money off of him.

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They've expected payment from him.

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But because somebody pays your bills doesn't mean that they're entitled to do harm to you.

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It doesn't mean that they're entitled to exploit you or abuse you or otherwise mistreat you.

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So, yes, people might want more money from you, but it doesn't mean you're off the hook.

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New allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Sean Diddy Combs.

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On February 26th, 2024, yet another lawsuit was filed against Diddy.

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This one from Rodney Lil Rod Jones, one of Diddy's former producers and videographers.

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And the allegations were even more shocking.

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He is alleging groping, fondling, grooming.

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And he goes on and on about going to a party where he says he was drugged and allegedly raped.

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Rodney Lil Rod Jones worked with Diddy for about a year starting in 2022.

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He claims he recorded hundreds of hours of video and audio of Diddy, his staff, and others engaging in serious illegal activity.

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Everybody's just telling me what he's allegedly capable of.

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And, you know, it's very scary for myself and, you know, has me worried about my kids and, you know, just sleeping with anxiety and different things like that.

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So just moving forward, just want to pause on everything until we know that it's clear and safe for me to come back outside of work.

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Jones claims he has irrefutable evidence depicting, among other things, Diddy's illicit drug use and unregistered firearms.

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Jones also claims he witnessed Diddy and other famous rappers consorting with underage girls and sex workers.

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And the lawsuit alleges Diddy kept three sex workers on a monthly retainer, including Daphne Joy, who has a son with Diddy's nemesis, 50 Cent.

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Daphne denies the claim.

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I heard the woman.

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And here's the clincher.

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Jones alleges he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Diddy.

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It's usually rare that a male was set forward and accused someone of sexual assault and, you know, participating in freak offs and things of that nature.

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When he came forward, it definitely added to the disturbing claims that Diddy was already up against.

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It's just now, from a male perspective, as someone who worked closely with him on his last album.

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I want to tell anyone out there watching, this is not about his sexuality.

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That has been a big focus highlighted everywhere.

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I think that Puffy is not man enough to come out and simply say he's bisexual.

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Bisexual, black male, sex cult.

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Do you want to know what the judicial system cares about?

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Crimes.

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They don't care if a man has sex with a man, a woman, or 18 women.

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And I believe in the justice system.

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And the justice system doesn't raid anyone's home over their sexuality.

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NBC is learning exclusively that the music producer accusing Diddy of sexual assault and harassment is also accusing actor Cuba Gooding Jr.

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Now, he's saying Gooding groped and fondled him while they were on Combs' yacht.

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His case got more holes than a Jamaican shirt.

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Little Rod is a fraud, man.

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You know, he don't got no legs to stand on.

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This is merely an extortion attempt by him and his lawyer.

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That's all I can say.

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Diddy attorney Sean Holley told TMZ in a statement,

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Little Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday.

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His reckless name dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen

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is nothing more than a transparent attempt to garner headlines.

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In fact, TMZ has learned there are some big problems with Rodney Jones' lawsuit.

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For one, it was filed by an attorney named Tyrone Blackburn,

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who is under the microscope of a federal disciplinary committee in New York.

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A judge who ordered that committee to look into Blackburn's tactics

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said the lawyer had shown a pattern of filing, and this is a quote,

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cases in federal court to garner media attention,

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embarrass defendants with salacious allegations,

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and pressure defendants to settle quickly.

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Another big problem, Jones included in the lawsuit a screen grab he claimed

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was Diddy's producer and close friend Stevie J having sex with another man.

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But apparently, it wasn't Stevie J.

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The photo is definitely not myself, you know what I'm saying?

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This lie's been ongoing for a long time.

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A guy from the LGBT community, a porn star, he raised his hand.

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He said, that's my dirty work.

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That ain't my work.

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That's cool if dudes do that, but that's not my thing.

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I like to embrace a nice woman with, you know.

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I wasn't mad.

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It's just like, for the hard work I put in for these 30 years in this industry,

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this is what I got to resort to watching this.

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My kids got to see this.

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My mom got to see this.

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It seemed much more like a tell-all rag book

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than it did an actual civil lawsuit.

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When you combine how bizarre the lawsuit looked

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with his attorney being a little bit sketchy

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in terms of the kind of cases he takes up,

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it felt like it could be a bit of revenge

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combined with legitimate concern.

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With all the allegations and a federal investigation

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that seems to be closing in on Diddy,

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you'd think it's over for him.

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But don't count him out just yet.

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Diddy has dodged bullets before, and lots of them.

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This is not Combs' first run-in with the law.

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He was arrested in April for assaulting a record executive.

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Combs testified before a grand jury this week.

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Combs was arrested at the university's

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Acosta Athletic Training Complex for assault.

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He also had run-ins with the law,

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accused of assaulting a photographer.

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He's been having controversies since the early 90s,

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and he's never been convicted of any serious crimes.

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He's been in lots of allegations, lots of accusations.

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His first bout with trouble was way back in 1991.

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Diddy co-promoted an event in New York City.

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The number of folks who showed up

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was nearly twice the capacity for the venue,

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resulting in a stampede that led to nine deaths

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and 29 injuries.

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The things I deal with

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can in no way measure up to the pain

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that the families deal with,

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and I just pray for the families,

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and I pray for the children that lost their lives.

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Diddy was at the center of a violent incident again

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in December 1999,

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and this time, one of the biggest stars on the planet

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would be pulled into the fray.

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Police say Lopez and Combs were picked up

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along with his bodyguard and driver

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fleeing a shooting in a Manhattan nightclub

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that left three people injured.

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Diddy was dating Jennifer Lopez.

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One night, he took her out to a New York City nightclub

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when all hell broke loose.

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So essentially, J-Lo and Diddy were out

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partying with a couple of his friends,

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their friends, Shine, another rapper,

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and an altercation ensued, shots were fired.

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I feel terrible that people were hurt that night.

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Puffy's talking about the shooting inside Club New York

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in the wee hours of Monday morning.

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Three people were shot,

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none of them received life-threatening injuries.

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Police say after the shooting,

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Puffy and his equally famous girlfriend,

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actress-singer Jennifer Lopez,

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fled in a Lincoln Navigator.

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Three people were shot and injured.

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Diddy, J-Lo, and a bodyguard named Anthony Wolf Jones

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were later arrested, charged, and hauled into jail.

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Mr. Combs feels very confident.

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Mr. Combs is not guilty.

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He is focused.

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He wants the trial to start,

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and he is confident that when it's over,

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we'll be standing out here telling you

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that he's just been acquitted.

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Diddy was found not guilty.

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Shine was convicted of assault

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and reckless endangerment.

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He served nine years in prison,

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but questions linger.

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Was it actually Diddy who pulled the trigger,

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and did Shine just take the fall?

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I literally watched them pull out the guns.

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I've had a clear point of view.

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I mean, for God's sake, I got shot in my nose.

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I was facing them directly.

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I watched everything occur

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and have described it, you know,

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vehemently to all parties involved.

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I have nine bullet fragments remaining in my face.

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Diddy arrested for making terrorist threats at UCLA.

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It involves his son.

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It involves a very famous football coach

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and an altercation that ended up

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with Diddy holding a kettlebell.

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And the question,

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was he trying to hit this coach with a kettlebell,

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or was he trying to defend himself?

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One thing you got to do

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is you have to be there for your kids 110%.

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So as a father, if you feel, or a mother,

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anybody can relate to

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if you feel like you have to go

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and straighten something out for your child.

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Was there a kettlebell in, though?

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I went there to communicate.

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Diddy was charged with three counts of assault

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with a deadly weapon,

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one count of making terrorist threats,

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and one count of battery.

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But the DA wound up dropping the case.

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He kind of just has a way

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of getting out of very tough situations,

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and he's been doing so for decades.

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Rapper and songwriter Mark Curry

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worked with Diddy for nearly a decade

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and says Diddy definitely has an ugly side.

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I've seen Puff have anger spazes

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on producers, females.

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I'm a savage!

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Whatever I want a boy to get!

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Whatever I want, I have to get!

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A&Rs, people who work for him.

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So not just the females.

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It's guys, producers.

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I've seen them spaz.

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Curry remembers a particularly nasty incident

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between Diddy and the mother

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of four of his children, Kim Porter.

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You saw him get physical with Kim?

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I didn't see him get physical with Kim,

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but I know situations where,

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let's say if Kim says she fell on the boat

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and broke her nose,

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and I say that's not actually what happened.

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She went into it.

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She just got a broke nose.

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I think her and Puff went to home together,

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and then next thing you know,

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she had the Band-Aid on.

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So you already know what happened.

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So she didn't use...

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She slipped and she fell.

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No, I don't think that,

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because they was just arguing real big last night.

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He was really mad.

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Kim Porter died of pneumonia in 2018,

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but she was just one of a long list of women

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who were allegedly abused by Diddy.

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Ex-girlfriend Gina Nguyen

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went public with this story in 2019.

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He, like, stomped on my stomach,

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like, really hard,

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and I, like, took the wind out of my breath.

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I couldn't even...

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I couldn't breathe,

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and he kept...

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But he kept hitting me,

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and I was, like, pleading to him,

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like, can you just...

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Can you stop?

474
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,940
I can't breathe.

475
00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:12,860
And he, like, stopped for a little bit.

476
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,420
He, like, grabbed my hair from the back

477
00:31:15,420 --> 00:31:16,900
and, like, was, like,

478
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,260
punching the back of my head,

479
00:31:18,860 --> 00:31:21,620
because he was just avoiding my face

480
00:31:21,620 --> 00:31:22,920
when he was, like, hitting me.

481
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,600
Diddy's attorney calls Wynn's allegations,

482
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:26,100
quote,

483
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,680
false and unsubstantiated.

484
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,240
If Puff put his hands on a female,

485
00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:33,760
he would do it behind a closed door,

486
00:31:33,980 --> 00:31:35,360
and when the door opened,

487
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,000
you would be like,

488
00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:37,840
wow, somebody has on a bandage.

489
00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:39,680
Did you ever see anything like that

490
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,620
where somebody came out of a room

491
00:31:41,620 --> 00:31:43,660
looking injured or upset like that?

492
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:44,200
Yeah.

493
00:31:44,540 --> 00:31:45,300
You go in the room,

494
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:45,960
you walk in,

495
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:46,580
you come out,

496
00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:48,260
not looking the way you went in.

497
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,620
Diddy's legal team tells TMZ

498
00:31:50,620 --> 00:31:52,020
Mr. Curry's statements

499
00:31:52,020 --> 00:31:53,440
about what he thinks

500
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,320
probably occurred

501
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:55,500
between Mr. Combs

502
00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:56,580
and Ms. Porter

503
00:31:56,580 --> 00:31:58,140
are pure speculation

504
00:31:58,140 --> 00:31:59,500
and not based on

505
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:01,220
any personal observations

506
00:32:01,220 --> 00:32:02,460
or knowledge.

507
00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:03,600
More money,

508
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:04,660
more problems.

509
00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:05,840
It's just the way it is.

510
00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:07,900
Hey, we're coming back to you, Billy.

511
00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:19,400
Before the latest allegations

512
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,500
came to light,

513
00:32:21,060 --> 00:32:21,920
Diddy was known

514
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,520
as one of the most powerful

515
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,800
and successful stars in music.

516
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,900
His rags to riches story,

517
00:32:28,460 --> 00:32:29,120
extraordinary.

518
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:33,900
Sean Combs

519
00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:34,900
had a rough childhood

520
00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:35,900
growing up in Harlem.

521
00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:37,480
His mother worked with kids

522
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,360
for special needs,

523
00:32:38,580 --> 00:32:39,900
his father a drug dealer.

524
00:32:40,940 --> 00:32:42,060
Diddy was exposed

525
00:32:42,060 --> 00:32:43,780
to crime and violence early on.

526
00:32:43,940 --> 00:32:45,540
When he was just three years old,

527
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,200
his father was shot and killed

528
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,520
while sitting in a car

529
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:49,240
in New York City.

530
00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:50,720
But Diddy maintains

531
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,980
his drive for success

532
00:32:51,980 --> 00:32:53,460
came from his dad.

533
00:32:53,820 --> 00:32:55,380
Even if we don't know our parents,

534
00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:58,660
we still have their DNA in us.

535
00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:03,860
We have their genes.

536
00:33:03,860 --> 00:33:08,020
And I have his hustler's mentality,

537
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,020
his hustler's spirit,

538
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:09,580
his drive,

539
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:10,480
his determination,

540
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,440
you know, his swag.

541
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,000
That swag landed him an internship

542
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,100
at a record company

543
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:17,140
at age 20.

544
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:18,860
And he quickly started

545
00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:19,760
moving up the ranks.

546
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:24,540
What's up?

547
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,400
My name's Puff Daddy.

548
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:26,300
This is my new artist

549
00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:28,000
the Notorious B.I.G.

550
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:28,780
when we hear

551
00:33:28,780 --> 00:33:30,020
at the Outkast picnic

552
00:33:30,020 --> 00:33:31,340
just getting our swerve

553
00:33:31,340 --> 00:33:32,520
all the way on.

554
00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:34,060
He was driven.

555
00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:35,200
He was passionate.

556
00:33:35,460 --> 00:33:36,220
He was motivated.

557
00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:37,720
He knew what he wanted

558
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:38,300
out of the gate.

559
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:39,320
We making music

560
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,340
strictly for the streets.

561
00:33:40,620 --> 00:33:41,860
We appreciate your support.

562
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,000
And it's all good.

563
00:33:43,660 --> 00:33:45,240
He knew that he was

564
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,060
going to be on top.

565
00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:48,500
He has his struggle

566
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:49,120
of an upbringing

567
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,380
and then he comes out

568
00:33:50,380 --> 00:33:51,760
and he's this ferocious beast

569
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,120
and he wants to just

570
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,160
dominate the industry.

571
00:33:54,160 --> 00:34:05,620
He had his first

572
00:34:05,620 --> 00:34:06,260
number one hit

573
00:34:06,260 --> 00:34:06,880
on the Billboard

574
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:07,640
Hip Hop charts

575
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:08,520
in 1997

576
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:09,720
with Can't Nobody

577
00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:10,460
Hold Me Down

578
00:34:10,460 --> 00:34:11,180
and would go on

579
00:34:11,180 --> 00:34:12,160
to earn the top spot

580
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,240
10 more times.

581
00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:25,080
I take pride

582
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:25,960
in being one of the

583
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,460
most successful

584
00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:30,060
producers in hip hop

585
00:34:30,060 --> 00:34:30,520
history.

586
00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:31,380
I have the most

587
00:34:31,380 --> 00:34:32,160
number ones

588
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,980
as a hip hop artist.

589
00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:34,900
Add to that

590
00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:35,820
three Grammys

591
00:34:35,820 --> 00:34:36,700
and in 2023

592
00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:38,380
the MTV Video Music

593
00:34:38,380 --> 00:34:40,040
Awards Global Icon Award.

594
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,040
Nobody deserves

595
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,240
to be called an icon

596
00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:43,460
more than this man.

597
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:45,260
Diddy Puff Daddy Love!

598
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:46,620
I don't know how I am

599
00:34:46,620 --> 00:34:47,640
as a man with ambition

600
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:48,420
to be the best

601
00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:49,040
when I fail

602
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,100
that you gave me the vision.

603
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:51,720
But conquering the music

604
00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:52,780
world wasn't enough

605
00:34:52,780 --> 00:34:53,140
for Diddy.

606
00:34:53,460 --> 00:34:55,000
He became a one-man

607
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,340
marketing machine.

608
00:34:57,820 --> 00:34:58,680
The new collection

609
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,160
is great.

610
00:35:02,860 --> 00:35:03,660
You're watching

611
00:35:03,660 --> 00:35:04,140
Revolt.

612
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:04,540
Revolt.

613
00:35:04,540 --> 00:35:04,940
Revolt.

614
00:35:05,060 --> 00:35:05,460
Revolt.

615
00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:05,480
Revolt.

616
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,060
Revolt.

617
00:35:06,060 --> 00:35:06,480
Revolt.

618
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:06,520
Revolt.

619
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:06,560
Revolt.

620
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:06,580
Revolt.

621
00:35:06,580 --> 00:35:06,600
Revolt.

622
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:06,980
Revolt.

623
00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:07,020
Revolt.

624
00:35:07,020 --> 00:35:07,060
Revolt.

625
00:35:07,060 --> 00:35:07,480
Revolt.

626
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:07,980
Revolt.

627
00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:08,420
Revolt.

628
00:35:08,420 --> 00:35:08,480
Revolt.

629
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:09,060
Revolt.

630
00:35:09,060 --> 00:35:10,060
Revolt.

631
00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:10,560
Revolt.

632
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:11,060
Revolt.

633
00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:11,560
Revolt.

634
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:12,060
Revolt.

635
00:35:12,060 --> 00:35:12,560
Revolt.

636
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,000
Revolt.

637
00:35:14,060 --> 00:35:15,060
It's almost like

638
00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:16,460
the cool stuff

639
00:35:16,460 --> 00:35:17,000
that he wanted

640
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:17,840
to tell me

641
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,560
in the back of

642
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,760
his mind.

643
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,700
Like, his end

644
00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:23,400
goal was to be a

645
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:23,660
mogul.

646
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:24,980
All this has

647
00:35:24,980 --> 00:35:25,680
made Diddy

648
00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:26,780
very, very rich.

649
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:27,980
His estimated net worth

650
00:35:27,980 --> 00:35:28,940
close to a billion

651
00:35:28,940 --> 00:35:30,540
dollars.

652
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:31,640
Spinball, Diddy!

653
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,180
Diddy has lived a life

654
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:33,860
of extravagance.

655
00:35:33,860 --> 00:35:34,640
Multiple homes.

656
00:35:34,660 --> 00:35:35,220
Planes.

657
00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:36,480
Black excellence.

658
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:37,200
Yachts.

659
00:35:37,340 --> 00:35:37,940
Cars.

660
00:35:37,940 --> 00:35:39,360
And, of course,

661
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,820
Put the motherfucking shot in the air!

662
00:35:44,740 --> 00:35:46,500
Those legendary parties.

663
00:35:46,500 --> 00:36:08,420
I would hang out and watch him throw parties.

664
00:36:09,220 --> 00:36:09,380
Sure.

665
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,260
He famously threw his, like, his white party out.

666
00:36:12,260 --> 00:36:13,100
No, he would throw parties.

667
00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:14,420
One point, I went to Philly,

668
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:15,300
followed him all the way to Philly.

669
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:17,300
He threw a party, and he said,

670
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,960
Yo, Playboy, this party cost a million and a half dollars.

671
00:36:20,540 --> 00:36:21,940
They're actually fun parties.

672
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,220
A lot of famous people star-studded.

673
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,860
You'd be sometimes amazed by some of the people that you see there.

674
00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:31,760
Some of the people who attended the parties

675
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:36,880
have said that there was a lot of sex during these parties,

676
00:36:37,220 --> 00:36:40,200
and that kind of opens the door to some of the allegations

677
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,340
that we've been reading about.

678
00:36:41,580 --> 00:36:42,120
What about that?

679
00:36:42,460 --> 00:36:44,660
So, there was a lot of sex,

680
00:36:44,660 --> 00:36:46,220
but it didn't happen at the party.

681
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:49,440
It was after parties, not necessarily at the party.

682
00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:51,720
Now, what time would your party start, let's say?

683
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:52,780
Like 9.30.

684
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:53,940
Really? That early?

685
00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:54,360
Yeah.

686
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:55,180
I could make that.

687
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:55,580
Yeah.

688
00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:57,540
But I think...

689
00:36:57,540 --> 00:36:59,960
I could think of you of starting a party at, like, midnight.

690
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,100
Like, what time would it go till?

691
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:03,540
That's a different type of party, though.

692
00:37:03,660 --> 00:37:03,980
Uh-huh.

693
00:37:03,980 --> 00:37:06,040
No, I mean, the after party.

694
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:06,300
Mm-hmm.

695
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:07,140
No, I know about them.

696
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:08,040
Um...

697
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,900
There have always been whispers and rumblings about Diddy.

698
00:37:13,260 --> 00:37:16,020
The whisperings and rumblings, though, weren't about criminal activity.

699
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,060
They were simply about his party lifestyle.

700
00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:21,820
They were about his social activities and maybe even his sexual activities.

701
00:37:21,820 --> 00:37:23,820
There's always been whispers and rumors and innuendo.

702
00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:27,120
But, like many things in Hollywood, it was on a need-to-know basis.

703
00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:28,100
Those who knew knew.

704
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,720
And many fans and everyday people, especially before social media,

705
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,140
were completely in the dark about what was going on.

706
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:35,320
What up, boss?

707
00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:35,740
How's it going?

708
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,120
Good to see you.

709
00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:37,740
Come on.

710
00:37:38,380 --> 00:37:38,820
Easy.

711
00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:43,920
Over time, however, we've come to see more, hear more, and know more.

712
00:37:45,820 --> 00:37:47,540
Let's see. Come on. Right here.

713
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:47,920
Okay.

714
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,980
Aubrey O'Day sounded the alarm for years that Diddy was a dangerous man.

715
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,320
She was dismissed as disgruntled and bitter.

716
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,160
A lot of people now think Aubrey was telling the truth all along.

717
00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:06,180
After Cassie filed her lawsuit, you said,

718
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,740
been trying to tell y'all for years.

719
00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:10,900
What were you trying to tell people?

720
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,260
That Diddy was not a safe human and that you should be careful

721
00:38:15,260 --> 00:38:21,040
if you're planning on entering any type of relationship with him,

722
00:38:21,220 --> 00:38:22,760
from business to personal.

723
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,220
And this was based on your personal experience?

724
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:27,260
Yes.

725
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,860
Did he ever mistreat you?

726
00:38:31,260 --> 00:38:31,780
Yes.

727
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:33,760
Have you ever seen Making the Band?

728
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,460
Yeah.

729
00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:39,560
Did he ever mistreat you is the funniest question I think I've ever heard.

730
00:38:40,260 --> 00:38:40,980
Of course.

731
00:38:41,460 --> 00:38:44,120
Aubrey worked under Diddy for close to five years

732
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,320
as a member of the girl group Danity King.

733
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,560
Hey, y'all, look over this way.

734
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:48,140
You guys ready?

735
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,560
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

736
00:38:55,740 --> 00:38:59,980
And she was famously fired from the group by Diddy on Making the Band.

737
00:38:59,980 --> 00:39:03,420
If you want to show all your skin, you want to be naked.

738
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,620
If you're not happy and you hate me, then why do you have me here?

739
00:39:05,740 --> 00:39:06,540
I don't have to have you here.

740
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:07,860
That's one thing that we can make clear.

741
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,200
That's one thing we can make clear.

742
00:39:09,260 --> 00:39:10,260
I don't have to have you here.

743
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,640
I want to know why do you have me here?

744
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,860
Because every time she's got such a problem.

745
00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:15,000
You're clear on that.

746
00:39:15,020 --> 00:39:15,900
You understand now.

747
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,480
I'm asking myself why do I have you here.

748
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:19,240
I'm going to tell you right this.

749
00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:20,600
I don't like her energy.

750
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,000
I don't like her style and direction where she's going with it.

751
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,200
I don't like what she does to the brand when she's wilding out there,

752
00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:29,800
being overly raunchy, promiscuous.

753
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,060
But there's nothing else to talk about.

754
00:39:32,180 --> 00:39:33,040
Would you like to go with her?

755
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,720
Because she's not going to be a damn near camera.

756
00:39:36,220 --> 00:39:42,820
The mistreatment is enough to have changed the course and direction of my entire life.

757
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:48,440
The mistreatment was enough for me to have to spend a good amount of time

758
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:54,780
in the hands of professionals to learn what grooming is and unlearn the grooming.

759
00:39:54,780 --> 00:40:02,660
The treatment was so bad in some regards that I'm not ready to speak about it yet, but I will.

760
00:40:03,020 --> 00:40:08,720
Are you talking verbal, physical, or both?

761
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:19,340
That's not a question that I'm prepared to dive into right now, but I can say this,

762
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,260
as that seems to be a question that a lot of people love to ask.

763
00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:25,320
Does it matter?

764
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,880
I've been in physically abusive situations.

765
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,280
The verbal ones hurt me way more.

766
00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:38,740
The abuse was significant enough to change the course of my life.

767
00:40:38,740 --> 00:40:42,100
I'm not, I don't work these amount of years to have you talk to me this way.

768
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:42,780
I'm not meaning to disrespect you.

769
00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:44,300
So I don't want you in the group no more.

770
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:45,420
Okay.

771
00:40:45,420 --> 00:40:47,980
All right, because I don't want to, I don't want to even have to have this conversation.

772
00:40:47,980 --> 00:40:53,540
On making the band alone, we experienced intimidation tactics.

773
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,700
We experienced body shaming, beatdowns.

774
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,760
And then when we thought we were absolutely nothing, and I'm talking from sleep deprivation

775
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,700
to bunkers, it was very like training us to be good soldiers.

776
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:16,820
Do you feel that he was looking for young people who never had a frame of reference like you,

777
00:41:17,220 --> 00:41:20,940
where it would be easier to do whatever you say he did?

778
00:41:21,380 --> 00:41:25,800
I can't tell you his intentions because I don't live inside that man's brain.

779
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,360
I never plan to, and I pray I never go anywhere close to what that is.

780
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:35,300
Everything is just always about Diddy, and whatever Diddy's narrative is over there,

781
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:42,460
you're being told it from every angle, and you meet a person that is an excellent groomer.

782
00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:48,320
What happens is they start to let you know what's wrong with you.

783
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:53,080
That starts to make you question the things that you believe about yourself.

784
00:41:53,340 --> 00:41:55,480
Can I ask the question, what do you want to look like, though?

785
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,260
Do you want to look like a playboy, playmate?

786
00:41:58,380 --> 00:41:59,440
Do you want to look like you?

787
00:41:59,460 --> 00:42:00,480
Hope, I'm done with all of that.

788
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,460
No, no, no, what do you want to look like, though?

789
00:42:02,580 --> 00:42:03,080
Okay, I'll tell you.

790
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:03,820
What do you want to look like?

791
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,040
You like big hair, though.

792
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:05,540
I don't like big hair.

793
00:42:05,540 --> 00:42:06,400
You do like big hair.

794
00:42:06,460 --> 00:42:07,280
You like big hair.

795
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,080
You like a lot of makeup and all that.

796
00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:17,320
His narrative of me, promiscuous, problematic, all that rah-rah, you know, the bad, all the

797
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:22,420
negatives, that's why the only offer I had after being fired on national television in

798
00:42:22,420 --> 00:42:28,320
front of the world as a child came from Hugh Hefner, and it was to do the cover of Playboy.

799
00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:33,720
I had to work very hard to get anyone to give me an opportunity.

800
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,800
I noticed you have a Danity Kane necklace on.

801
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:46,000
I'm just wondering how you process Danity Kane, which in so many ways gave opportunities, but

802
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,180
is so connected to Diddy.

803
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,500
Does that make you sad?

804
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:59,800
Can you distinguish between Diddy and your success there, or is it all just so intertwined?

805
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:08,080
Complex question, quickest answer, if you do enough work on yourself, you can get to a

806
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:13,980
place where you will be able to distinguish yourself from abusers and toxic situations.

807
00:43:13,980 --> 00:43:22,580
Anyone out there that has gone through that or is in that right now, please hear me, resonate with me in this moment.

808
00:43:23,300 --> 00:43:26,100
You can distinguish every piece of it.

809
00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:31,460
You can separate them, and you can pick what parts you are going to carry with you into your future.

810
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,520
So I wear this necklace for my ladies out there.

811
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:44,160
I think it's because we were surrounded by a team of men, and I don't know that any of those men ever had our best interests at hand.

812
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,780
Last September, Diddy did something to counter some of the rumors he was a monster.

813
00:43:49,220 --> 00:43:56,060
I read that you are going to actually give back the publishing rights to a bunch of artists on your label, which is incredible.

814
00:43:56,060 --> 00:44:03,000
Because it's happening at a moment that actually those rights are going for a very high dollar, and many people would keep that money for themselves.

815
00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:05,700
Yes, us as a people have to look within and do the right thing.

816
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:12,820
So it was just the right thing to do, and it's reform for the industry and reform for just us as people.

817
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,480
You're an incredible human.

818
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:20,040
When TMZ ran the headline, and I have a screenshot of it because I do want to call you out.

819
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,060
I received the publishing deal.

820
00:44:23,220 --> 00:44:24,180
I know what it says.

821
00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:26,400
I know how much money it was giving me.

822
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,340
I'll tell you, $330.

823
00:44:30,180 --> 00:44:36,980
$300.30 for a full release of all claims against Diddy and many other players.

824
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:43,280
Never can disparage Diddy on any social media site, on any podcast, on any format.

825
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:50,840
Never have any rights to any claims again over any type of wrongdoings with your music, or with any of these parties listed.

826
00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:59,280
Once you sign it, in fact, it said, you can never mention the existence of this contract ever again.

827
00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:06,520
What do you think was behind him making a move to return rights for so little?

828
00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:10,220
At this point in time, what do you think his motivation was there?

829
00:45:10,220 --> 00:45:16,580
I think you would probably be making moves to keep as many people quiet as possible.

830
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:24,300
When I went to look at the publishing deal, it said anything but I'm being made whole financially again.

831
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:31,060
In fact, it asked me to not be able to have access to my story and my experience anymore.

832
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:37,980
It asked me specifically to stay silent and never speak poorly about a human.

833
00:45:37,980 --> 00:45:47,780
So then I realized something really bad is coming because this isn't a man that was reformed.

834
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:52,860
I'm just not who I am before.

835
00:45:53,780 --> 00:45:55,200
I'm something different.

836
00:45:56,100 --> 00:45:57,460
So my new name is Love.

837
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,660
Do you know what the word love means to everybody?

838
00:46:01,660 --> 00:46:09,300
Everybody, we live and die to find a human on this earth that will genuinely love us.

839
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:19,880
The man took the most beautiful, precious, unreachable words, livable, lifetime words,

840
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,960
and put it in his fucking name.

841
00:46:23,220 --> 00:46:29,100
Had his publicist send you a lie or a reformation of the truth.

842
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,680
And everybody maybe signed it and can't talk.

843
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,740
I don't know why no one else is coming forward and talking about this, frankly.

844
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,380
How do you describe yourself?

845
00:46:40,140 --> 00:46:43,960
I'm vivacious, eccentric, and I'm a Scorpio.

846
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,640
What's one misconception about you?

847
00:46:46,980 --> 00:46:48,940
There are no misconceptions about me.

848
00:46:48,940 --> 00:46:54,720
There's no doubt the conversations around Diddy have changed significantly since Cassie's lawsuit came out.

849
00:46:55,060 --> 00:47:01,360
And things that may have seemed innocent in the past are now being looked at in an entirely different way.

850
00:47:01,580 --> 00:47:06,740
You know, where we hanging out and what we doing, we can't really disclose.

851
00:47:07,780 --> 00:47:11,480
But it's definitely a 15-year-old's dream.

852
00:47:11,860 --> 00:47:15,620
A video of Diddy with a then 15-year-old Justin Bieber surfaced.

853
00:47:15,620 --> 00:47:18,440
It was taken while Bieber was visiting Diddy's home.

854
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,680
And given all the new allegations, it seemed, well, a little weird.

855
00:47:22,940 --> 00:47:23,780
He signed to Usher.

856
00:47:24,020 --> 00:47:24,660
I'm signed to Usher.

857
00:47:24,780 --> 00:47:29,800
I had legal guardianship of Usher when, you know, he did his first album.

858
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:30,800
I did Usher's first album.

859
00:47:31,220 --> 00:47:35,840
I don't really, I don't have legal guardianship of him, but for the next 48 hours, he's with me.

860
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:41,160
So, um, and we're gonna go full, butt-full crazy.

861
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:42,220
We're going crazy.

862
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:47,280
Speculation as to what he saw at Diddy's home ran rampant on social media.

863
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,600
Did P. Diddy groom a very young Justin Bieber?

864
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,960
And people say it almost looks like Justin Bieber didn't want to be there.

865
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:58,020
It looks like it was completely scripted and P. Diddy looked completely suspicious.

866
00:47:58,020 --> 00:48:00,940
I think it's clear that Justin Bieber definitely looks uncomfortable.

867
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,100
Watching it gives me personally a very weird pit in my stomach,

868
00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:08,120
especially watching it through the lens of all of the accusations against Diddy right now.

869
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:13,940
A few days later, a second bizarre video emerged of Diddy and Justin that just added fuel to the fire.

870
00:48:14,260 --> 00:48:15,640
Selling out arenas and everything?

871
00:48:16,140 --> 00:48:17,180
Starting to act different, huh?

872
00:48:17,860 --> 00:48:20,860
You ain't been calling me and hanging out the way we used to hang out.

873
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,000
Well, I mean, you haven't, I mean, you try to get in contact with me,

874
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,720
you know, through all my, you know, partners and whatnot.

875
00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:31,340
But you never really got my number, so my number.

876
00:48:31,740 --> 00:48:35,560
Then another video resurfaced and raised eyebrows.

877
00:48:36,020 --> 00:48:42,200
Usher talking to Howard Stern about what he saw when he moved in with Diddy when he was just 13.

878
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:47,260
His manager sent him there to learn what life as a star was all about.

879
00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:49,060
I went there to see the lifestyle.

880
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:49,540
Right.

881
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:50,420
And I saw it.

882
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:55,360
And it was, and it was, but I don't know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at.

883
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:56,400
Biggie Smalls was there.

884
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:57,900
Biggie Smalls was there.

885
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,300
Lil' Kim.

886
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:00,640
Craig Mack.

887
00:49:01,020 --> 00:49:02,280
All these people are hanging around.

888
00:49:02,580 --> 00:49:03,200
Yeah, man.

889
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,160
Faith Evans.

890
00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:05,740
Joey C.

891
00:49:05,820 --> 00:49:06,100
And your parents were okay.

892
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:07,300
Mary J. Blosh.

893
00:49:07,420 --> 00:49:08,660
They didn't know nothing about this shit.

894
00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:09,000
Oh.

895
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,540
I was having a good time, you know what I mean?

896
00:49:11,540 --> 00:49:17,880
But Usher later expressed concern about what he was exposed to when he was living with Diddy.

897
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,080
I mean, I'm 13 years old.

898
00:49:20,460 --> 00:49:21,580
I'm not here to party with you.

899
00:49:21,660 --> 00:49:22,860
I don't want to go to the clubs.

900
00:49:23,020 --> 00:49:24,640
Matter of fact, I'm too young to even be in here.

901
00:49:24,700 --> 00:49:25,800
Why you got me in clubs?

902
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:35,480
There were a lot of things I seen and a lot of positions that I think I was put in where I had to make very, very tough decisions in my life about who I would be.

903
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:41,360
Usher and Bieber have not commented on the latest allegations, but other artists have taken Diddy to task.

904
00:49:41,980 --> 00:49:44,460
50 Cent, who's tangled with him for years, tweeted,

905
00:49:44,460 --> 00:49:46,240
It's not Diddy do it.

906
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:47,700
It's Diddy done.

907
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:49,900
He's corny.

908
00:49:50,300 --> 00:49:51,320
He's Uncle Tom.

909
00:49:51,580 --> 00:49:52,760
That's who Curtis is.

910
00:49:53,140 --> 00:49:56,660
He want to see the black man go down before anybody else.

911
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:57,460
You know what I'm saying?

912
00:49:58,720 --> 00:49:59,720
He's just sore.

913
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,220
He's just sore because his baby mother is with Puff.

914
00:50:03,820 --> 00:50:04,840
Don't be sore.

915
00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:06,400
Don't be a hater.

916
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:07,420
You know what I'm saying?

917
00:50:07,740 --> 00:50:08,460
Get greater.

918
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,520
So with him, he's just a troll.

919
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:13,400
Give him a kiss.

920
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:21,040
Mary J. Blige, a friend of Diddy's for 30 years, posted,

921
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,760
Unfortunately, a lot of you all met me when I lacked boundaries and was a people pleaser.

922
00:50:26,220 --> 00:50:27,580
Let me reintroduce myself.

923
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,340
I burned bridges as needed.

924
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:32,160
Apparently referring to her own experience with Diddy.

925
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:52,040
Diddy has befriended some of the biggest names in entertainment for decades.

926
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,440
Yet none of those stars have come out to defend him.

927
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:57,400
Not one.

928
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:02,720
That may say less about Diddy and more about Hollywood.

929
00:51:03,180 --> 00:51:09,700
Hollywood is eerily and noticeably quiet about all of the Diddy controversy right now.

930
00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:13,160
And I think it's a very simple reason for it.

931
00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:17,540
And that is, people in glass houses don't want to throw stones.

932
00:51:17,540 --> 00:51:30,960
Even Ashton Kutcher, who met Diddy when they both had shows on MTV and was one of his closest friends, hasn't uttered a peep.

933
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:36,760
The radio silence around this case, in my opinion, is highly unusual.

934
00:51:37,140 --> 00:51:43,400
Even if you look at, say, R. Kelly, who's someone who is very much maligned and should be, given what he's been convicted of.

935
00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:45,860
He did have supporters early on.

936
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:47,220
Diddy has none.

937
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:48,080
It's crickets.

938
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,660
A lot of these cats, they don't have, first of all, they don't have the heart.

939
00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:57,280
Second of all, it's like, I can't be seen standing next to him while that's going on.

940
00:51:57,340 --> 00:51:58,900
I don't want people to look at me funny.

941
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:04,960
So you got those that just won't come near it because they don't want to be affected.

942
00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:07,140
And that's just the way it is.

943
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:13,200
There are a lot of people who are probably implicated in his events, in his activities.

944
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,440
Even if they're not criminally guilty, they just might have been at a party.

945
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:17,960
They may just have been hanging out.

946
00:52:18,380 --> 00:52:23,780
And if he gets attached to something that is considered awful or outside the boundaries of what you're allowed to do,

947
00:52:24,220 --> 00:52:26,500
then no one wants to be connected to him at all.

948
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,980
Is there another reason why other people ain't speaking out in his defense?

949
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,160
I think a lot of people are just trying to understand it.

950
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,020
Understand what is and what's not, you know?

951
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,640
Another reason people aren't coming to Diddy's defense,

952
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:42,240
Diddy was allegedly obsessed with recording everything that went on in his homes.

953
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:43,600
Everything.

954
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,120
If they have 250 cameras they took out of his house,

955
00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:52,260
they have a whole bunch of images or footage of things that were going on around his house.

956
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,660
A lot of people might be running from that tape.

957
00:52:54,980 --> 00:52:57,220
I don't think his only celebrity is going to be sure.

958
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,500
He had politicians in there.

959
00:53:03,020 --> 00:53:05,860
He had princes in there.

960
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,700
He also had a couple of preachers in there.

961
00:53:10,700 --> 00:53:15,640
Diddy is a powerful person.

962
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:20,440
You don't get to be a billionaire without being powerful and without being connected to powerful people.

963
00:53:20,940 --> 00:53:25,980
So Diddy knows politicians, entertainers, philanthropists, academics.

964
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:29,080
You name it, he's connected to them.

965
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:35,140
And so if we start unraveling the thread of Diddy's networks, you're going to find a lot of people.

966
00:53:35,220 --> 00:53:37,560
And like Jeffrey Epstein, some of them might be implicated.

967
00:53:37,780 --> 00:53:44,120
Do you find it a little hypocritical that there are a lot of people who are so silent now,

968
00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:50,640
who are so quick to canceling others when they're not involved or even remotely associated?

969
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:56,020
There is an interesting contradiction that we are witnessing in real time right now.

970
00:53:56,100 --> 00:53:58,440
There are people who are very quick to cancel.

971
00:53:58,660 --> 00:54:01,200
People who are very quick to say, lock him up, throw away the key.

972
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:05,220
At the same time, those very same voices are saying nothing about Diddy.

973
00:54:05,620 --> 00:54:08,680
Now, it's not because their morals have changed.

974
00:54:08,780 --> 00:54:10,480
It's not because their philosophy has shifted.

975
00:54:11,180 --> 00:54:12,780
It's a much more simple answer than that.

976
00:54:13,180 --> 00:54:16,760
They're scared because they're tied up with him some way, somehow.

977
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:24,780
I think there's a possibility that people may fear that somehow he makes it out of this.

978
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:31,900
And if he does, he's probably taking a long list of anybody that's speaking on things.

979
00:54:32,420 --> 00:54:39,140
And maybe also because everybody's done things that they wouldn't want people to know.

980
00:54:39,140 --> 00:54:47,840
And they fear that involving themselves in a conversation like that puts them at risk.

981
00:54:48,220 --> 00:54:50,220
Cassie scared a whole lot of fucking men.

982
00:54:50,940 --> 00:54:57,680
There's people wrapping up their business nice and tight now because there are many more.

983
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:03,140
And some people just aren't talking because they're afraid of retaliation from Diddy's adversaries.

984
00:55:03,140 --> 00:55:10,000
TMZ was scheduled to do an interview with one of Diddy's former employees for this documentary,

985
00:55:10,380 --> 00:55:13,080
one who was actually going to defend him.

986
00:55:13,540 --> 00:55:16,380
But they backed out, stating in a text,

987
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,420
I'm worried Diddy has many enemies.

988
00:55:19,980 --> 00:55:25,540
I'm afraid that if I give my thoughts on what I experienced, I may be ruled a target.

989
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,020
I have a comfortable and cozy life.

990
00:55:28,380 --> 00:55:31,000
Not sure if I want to disrupt it.

991
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,100
But Diddy does have some defenders who aren't afraid to speak out.

992
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:39,320
And one of them is someone you would never, ever expect.

993
00:55:42,260 --> 00:55:46,540
Responsibility for the so-called feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers,

994
00:55:47,020 --> 00:55:52,220
a feud that allegedly led to the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

995
00:55:52,620 --> 00:55:57,880
Rap artists and producers call for an end to the rivalry and the violence.

996
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:01,940
But how long will the piece last? Only time will tell.

997
00:56:02,540 --> 00:56:06,200
Diddy and rap executive Suge Knight have been arch enemies for years.

998
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,880
East Coast versus West Coast, Diddy's bad boy label based in New York,

999
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:16,080
and Suge's death row records based in L.A., a rivalry that was incredibly bitter.

1000
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,780
Any artist out there that want to be an artist, that want to stay a star,

1001
00:56:20,340 --> 00:56:24,820
that don't want to have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos,

1002
00:56:25,460 --> 00:56:28,240
all on the records, dancing.

1003
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:29,600
Come to death row.

1004
00:56:30,700 --> 00:56:33,100
I know that it, I'm not, what?

1005
00:56:33,780 --> 00:56:35,060
Are they crazy?

1006
00:56:35,460 --> 00:56:36,700
I was like, wow.

1007
00:56:36,820 --> 00:56:39,500
And I was like, you know, I could blow this thing up right now, you know.

1008
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,480
And sometimes it got downright violent.

1009
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:47,360
A rivalry so bitter that it's led to the death of two of rap's most successful artists.

1010
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:52,520
So you'd think Suge Knight would be reveling in all the allegations against Diddy, right?

1011
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:54,000
Wrong.

1012
00:56:54,240 --> 00:57:01,240
I talked to him on the phone from a California prison where he's serving 28 years for a fatal hit and run.

1013
00:57:01,580 --> 00:57:05,200
And what he told me blew me away.

1014
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:10,360
My first reaction, it's not the reaction I thought I would have when the kid and the puppy.

1015
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:11,320
You know what I mean?

1016
00:57:11,660 --> 00:57:17,040
I thought it would be a reaction like he got what he got coming because everybody knows what's been going on.

1017
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:23,640
My reaction was actually different because I felt like, damn, the first thing that came to my mind was,

1018
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:27,520
you know, he had his sons, he had his daughters.

1019
00:57:28,660 --> 00:57:30,360
My reaction was first about the kids.

1020
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:40,580
And the thing is, I feel it's a bad day for hip-hop, bad day for the culture because it makes us all look bad.

1021
00:57:41,260 --> 00:57:46,000
I got to say, I am shocked at what you just said.

1022
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:55,000
I thought you were going to almost kind of dance over his troubles now just because of your history.

1023
00:57:55,520 --> 00:58:00,500
And the grace you're showing toward him and his family, I don't know.

1024
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:05,660
It's kind of remarkable to me, given the history of you two guys.

1025
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:07,560
What changed with you?

1026
00:58:08,060 --> 00:58:11,980
I'm not the type of guy to cheer for people's downfall.

1027
00:58:11,980 --> 00:58:16,500
And if somebody gets killed or something happens to them, I'm not going to pop a champagne bottle.

1028
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:24,620
And if I have a problem with a puppy, that's for him and I to sit down in the room and resolve it.

1029
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:33,800
So for the tragedy on both sides, the victim to him, that's definitely not meant to cheer about.

1030
00:58:34,020 --> 00:58:40,760
There are so many allegations now of, you know, sex trafficking and drugs and all sorts of things.

1031
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:52,400
Did this just come from out of the blue or was there kind of a buzz that some of this might have been going on with Diddy for a while, if any of it's true?

1032
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:57,100
I don't think it can't be a lie because we know what type of stuff goes on.

1033
00:58:57,100 --> 00:59:00,560
And I just say it like this.

1034
00:59:01,780 --> 00:59:17,820
I don't think puppy needs to be destroyed or hung or put to death or I think that puppy or just me or anybody else, we should be able to tell our truth.

1035
00:59:18,820 --> 00:59:21,180
By telling our truth, we can't change the past.

1036
00:59:21,180 --> 00:59:24,320
So we can have the present and we can have the future.

1037
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:29,060
So if puppy tells his story, uncut, he can help everyone.

1038
00:59:29,980 --> 00:59:30,980
Let him tell the truth.

1039
00:59:30,980 --> 00:59:46,120
Do you think that the silence of people in the music business and in entertainment generally over what's going on with Diddy right now, with all of the allegations and lawsuits,

1040
00:59:46,580 --> 00:59:56,940
do you think that silence is really kind of rooted more in fear that they're afraid, oh, my God, I have associations too?

1041
00:59:57,140 --> 00:59:59,260
Because that's sort of what you just alluded to.

1042
00:59:59,260 --> 01:00:01,540
I think they silence is guilt.

1043
01:00:02,700 --> 01:00:03,960
Guilty, guilty, guilty.

1044
01:00:05,140 --> 01:00:09,060
If they walk like a duck, crack like a duck, it's going to be a duck.

1045
01:00:09,460 --> 01:00:15,180
I don't think one person around who was hanging with puppy, who's not acting like puppy.

1046
01:00:16,780 --> 01:00:18,180
But they're the feathers flock together.

1047
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:19,400
What do you think?

1048
01:00:19,940 --> 01:00:23,980
They're all going to stick together and keep everything soap on that rug.

1049
01:00:23,980 --> 01:00:28,940
If they lift that rug up, you're going to find a whole bunch of shit that you don't want to see.

1050
01:00:28,940 --> 01:00:48,340
One person who could literally hold the key to Diddy's future and freedom is a young man named Brendan Paul.

1051
01:00:48,340 --> 01:00:52,960
Brendan was the only person arrested and charged on the day of those raids back in March.

1052
01:00:53,540 --> 01:00:58,620
Authorities say they found cocaine and marijuana candy in his luggage at the airport, where Diddy was questioned.

1053
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:06,620
According to Rodney Jones' lawsuit, Brendan is Diddy's drug mule, who allegedly acquires and distributes Mr. Combs' drugs and guns.

1054
01:01:07,620 --> 01:01:12,720
Jones also claims Brendan was responsible for paying prostitutes for the freak-off parties.

1055
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:21,160
I'm particularly interested in Brendan Paul because he's 25 years old and he's allegedly the one who's obtaining drugs for P. Diddy.

1056
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:22,980
It's interesting, such a young guy.

1057
01:01:23,100 --> 01:01:31,680
I don't know if that indicates that P. Diddy's organization is as large or as complicated as perhaps the feds would need to make it out to be.

1058
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:39,880
Only two years out of college, Brendan became part of Diddy's inner circle.

1059
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:44,280
On social media, he's seen celebrating at Diddy's latest album release party.

1060
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,160
Brendan wanted Diddy's assistant.

1061
01:01:47,100 --> 01:01:48,920
We used to play ball together, kick it.

1062
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:50,820
Producer, has an artist.

1063
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:52,100
He's a pretty cool dude.

1064
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,300
He and Diddy, you know, he was Diddy's assistant.

1065
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:58,960
He was with him all the time, so they had a cool little, you know, relationship, a cool little brotherhood.

1066
01:01:59,180 --> 01:02:03,120
Brendan was released the day after his arrest on a $2,500 bond.

1067
01:02:03,540 --> 01:02:05,760
His attorney has refused to comment on the case.

1068
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:12,540
But given his proximity to Diddy, authorities are no doubt interested in what he saw behind closed doors.

1069
01:02:13,020 --> 01:02:23,720
The feds are going to be looking for anybody close to P. Diddy or whoever their targets are in this investigation to essentially turn on the people that they're most focused on.

1070
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:25,200
So they're going to be looking to cut deals.

1071
01:02:25,340 --> 01:02:27,520
They're going to be looking to grant immunity deals.

1072
01:02:27,740 --> 01:02:32,900
They will be looking for those people around the center of the orbit to turn on their targets.

1073
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:45,540
The feds have their work cut out for them, especially if they want to get Diddy on the more serious charge of sex trafficking.

1074
01:02:45,540 --> 01:03:00,020
Sex trafficking, when looking at adults involved in a crime of that nature, the feds are required to actually prove that there's force or coercion that's involved in addition to the commercial situation that's going on.

1075
01:03:00,020 --> 01:03:12,500
And so, in addition to just payment, they're going to need testimony and evidence that these individuals were actually forced or coerced to engage in these sexual acts or the ongoing sexual business that they're alleging occurred here.

1076
01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:20,400
I have heard the stories regarding Diddy having prostitutes that willingly want to go with him across state lines.

1077
01:03:20,820 --> 01:03:24,140
But there's a couple of things that need to be looked at in regards to that.

1078
01:03:24,580 --> 01:03:26,140
Was there a power dynamic?

1079
01:03:26,660 --> 01:03:27,600
Were they fearful?

1080
01:03:28,060 --> 01:03:35,600
Was something making it so that they felt that they needed to or else there would be consequences for not?

1081
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:42,220
It just takes one of them to be doing this against their will for that to be human trafficking.

1082
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:52,440
One thing that could help the feds, Cassie Ventura can still be compelled to testify against Diddy in federal court, even if she agreed not to talk as part of the settlement.

1083
01:03:52,940 --> 01:03:54,720
Witnesses can be forced to cooperate.

1084
01:03:54,900 --> 01:03:56,380
They can be subpoenaed and brought in.

1085
01:03:56,500 --> 01:03:59,060
And that's something that the feds have the power to do.

1086
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:04,600
That goes beyond just the idea that perhaps he's settled lawsuits, for example, with Cassie.

1087
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,660
She can still be subpoenaed.

1088
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:10,080
She can still be brought in and essentially made to tell the truth.

1089
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,220
And if she doesn't, face her own consequences.

1090
01:04:12,660 --> 01:04:17,460
In fact, as those raids at Diddy's home were going down, Cassie's lawyer posted on X,

1091
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:22,980
we will always support law enforcement when it seeks to prosecute those that have violated the law.

1092
01:04:23,420 --> 01:04:29,380
Hopefully, this is the beginning of a process that will hold Mr. Combs responsible for his depraved conduct.

1093
01:04:29,380 --> 01:04:37,880
I think he's going to have a very difficult time getting out of this one because you've got the magnitude of the federal government now that is coming in.

1094
01:04:38,020 --> 01:04:41,640
And so, in my opinion, it's going to be near impossible for him to get out of.

1095
01:04:42,180 --> 01:04:44,080
Everybody put your glasses up in the air.

1096
01:04:44,500 --> 01:04:46,740
Let's take a toast to Sean Cole.

1097
01:04:46,740 --> 01:04:57,840
If you would have asked me 20 years ago what Diddy's legacy was, I would have said he was one of the stewards of one of the most important and beautiful moments in hip-hop.

1098
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:06,460
If you would have asked me 10 years ago what Diddy's legacy was going to be, I would say he was the template for the billionaire rap star.

1099
01:05:06,460 --> 01:05:14,840
Now, in the aftermath of all these allegations, all these rumors, all these innuendos, I don't know what Diddy's legacy is going to be.

1100
01:05:14,900 --> 01:05:16,320
It's really still an open question.

1101
01:05:16,820 --> 01:05:21,000
Everyone who interacts with him has their own version of how they would describe him.

1102
01:05:21,300 --> 01:05:23,180
To some people, he's a saint.

1103
01:05:23,300 --> 01:05:25,000
To some people, he is their hero.

1104
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,040
To some people, he is a monster.

1105
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:36,220
I think it's just all about how people interact with him and what they've experienced and witnessed being around him.

1106
01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:38,920
What would I want people to know about Diddy?

1107
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,420
That, you know, he's like any other man.

1108
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:45,240
Loves his mother.

1109
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:48,660
Loves his children.

1110
01:05:50,580 --> 01:05:53,140
Takes care of a ton of people.

1111
01:05:53,780 --> 01:05:56,740
Gives jobs to a ton of people.

1112
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:02,660
Even when the scenario is going on with all this is going on, people still call him, asking him for stuff.

1113
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:04,340
And he's still there for people.

1114
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,220
It's like, you know, he's a good dude.

1115
01:06:08,500 --> 01:06:09,420
Are we all perfect?

1116
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:11,360
Nah.

1117
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:12,700
None of us.

1118
01:06:14,700 --> 01:06:15,580
Spread love.

1119
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:16,380
I love y'all.

1120
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:18,220
Love, love, love, love.

1121
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:18,960
Savage.

1122
01:06:19,140 --> 01:06:19,960
I'm a savage.

1123
01:06:20,460 --> 01:06:22,400
Without y'all, I wouldn't be on this stage.

1124
01:06:22,820 --> 01:06:23,560
Fuck, fuck, fuck.

1125
01:06:23,900 --> 01:06:24,600
Bad boy.

1126
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,960
I done seen this dude shake back from some stuff, right?

1127
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,200
So, I'm not going to count him out.

1128
01:06:33,580 --> 01:06:34,120
You know what I'm saying?

1129
01:06:34,260 --> 01:06:41,600
And I'm not going to make a prediction, but I'm going to say, you know, I ain't going to count him out.

1130
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:52,660
Anyone on this earth has the ability to be both good and bad, have done good things and bad things.

1131
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:56,100
So, it's hard to just say, this is a bad guy or this is a good guy.

1132
01:06:56,100 --> 01:06:58,540
I don't even want to be forced into that place.

1133
01:06:58,700 --> 01:07:04,640
For all my friends that love to throw the word karma around, my response was always, yeah, good luck.

1134
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:06,380
Karma's a poor man's excuse.

1135
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,620
I know a lot of bad people, and they're not seeing karma.

1136
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:10,700
They're getting better and better.

1137
01:07:11,260 --> 01:07:12,560
They're getting more and more.

1138
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,080
I witnessed it for years.

1139
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:15,820
I never thought I would see this.

1140
01:07:15,820 --> 01:07:15,840
I never thought I would see this.

1141
01:07:44,080 --> 01:08:14,060
I never thought I would see this.