Secret Life Of Diddy (2024) Movie Script
GIVE IT UP FOR P. DIDDY!
MY RESUME BASICALLY SPEAKS
FOR ITSELF.
I PRODUCED THE GREATEST RAP OF
ALL TIME.
YOU KNOW, IVE JUST BEGUN.
I TELL PEOPLE THIS ALL THE TIME
AND THEY LOOK AT ME.
HOW CAN YOU SAY YOUVE JUSBEGUN?
AND I JUST KNOW IN MY HEART,
IVE JUST BEGUN.
IVE JUST STARTED.
IVE JUST STARTED GETTING TO THE
POINT WHERE IM JUST STARTING TO
GET GOOD.
IVE JUST STARTED GETTING TO THE
POINT WHERE IM BECOMING A
BETTER MAN AND IM -- IM JUSSTARTING TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE
BIT, JUST A LITTLE BIT WHAT LIFE
IS ABOUT.
EVERYBODY OFF THE RUNWAY
PLEASE.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE DIDDY
IN ONE WORD, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
SEAN COMBS!
HEY, DIDDY!
RELENTLESS.
POWERFUL.
HUSTLER.
PROBLEMATIC.
WHEN I LOOK BACK ON, NOT EVEN
JUST HIP-HOP, NOT EVEN JUST R&B,
BUT AMERICAN MUSIC, AMERICAN POP
CULTURE, ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL
THAT STORY WITHOUSEAN DIDDY COMBS.
THIS IS A GUY WHO WAS DATING
J.LO.
FASHION, ALCOHOL, TV SHOWS,
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS, VOTE OR
DIE.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS
PEOPLE IN AMERICA OVER THE LASHALF CENTURY.
DIDDY FINALLY HAS THE KEY TO
THE CITY!
SEAN COMBS WAS BIGGER THAN
BIG.
HE WAS BELOVED IN SOME CIRCLES,
REVERED IN OTHERS.
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN IN
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND THEN
SUDDENLY, IT WAS OVER.
FEDERAL AGENTS WERE SEEN
RAIDING P. DIDDYS LOS ANGELES
AND MIAMI HOMES.
FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS RAIDING
TWO HOMES OWNED BY HIP-HOP MOGUL
SEAN DIDDY COMBS.
SOURCES TELLING ABC NEWS IIS CONNECTED TO A HUMAN
TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATION.
WHEN DIDDYS HOME WAS RAIDED,
THEY FOUND AR-15-STYLE RIFLES,
NARCOTICS, AND 1,000 BOTTLES OF
BABY OIL.
IT SEEMS LIKE DIDDY DID LEAD
A SECRET LIFE.
THE GUY THAT IN THE LIMELIGHT,
THEN THERE ARE ALL OF THE PEOPLE
BEING FLOWN IN TO SPICE THINGS
UP TO SATISFY HIS SEXUAL
DESIRES.
THE RAID BY FEDERAL AGENTS
WITH HOMELAND SECURITY
INVESTIGATIONS SPILLED THE
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO
PUBLIC VIEW.
AND WE NOW KNOW THE RESULTS OF
THAT INVESTIGATION.
THE INDICTMENT ALLEGES THACOMBS ABUSED AND EXPLOITED WOMEN
AND OTHER PEOPLE FOR YEARS AND
IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.
AS ALLEGED, COMBS USED FORCE,
THREATS OF FORCE, AND COERCION
TO CAUSE VICTIMS TO ENGAGE IN
EXTENDED SEXUAL PERFORMANCES
WITH MALE COMMERCIAL SEX
WORKERS.
THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE
SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK AND ROLL
FOLKLORE THAT I THINK A LOT OF
US ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH.
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A SEX CRIME.
COMBS ALLEGEDLY PLANNED AND
CONTROLLED THE SEX PERFORMANCES,
WHICH HE CALLED "FREAK OFFS."
"FREAK OFF."
"FREAK OFF."
"FREAK OFF."
WHAT IS THAT?
HIM HAVING SEX WORKERS OR
WHOEVER COME IN AND HAVE SEX
WITH HIS PARTNER, WHOEVER IT IS,
WHILE HE WATCHES OR
PARTICIPATES.
PROSECUTORS HAVE SAID THATHESE WERE ELABORATELY PRODUCED
EVENTS.
BRINGING LIGHTING IN, CAMERAS,
LINENS.
PROSECUTORS SAID HE WOULD
MASTURBATE DURING THESE "FREAK
OFFS," AND WOMEN HAD NO CHOICE.
THESE "FREAK OFFS" WOULD LASFOR SO LONG THAT THEY WOULD
SOMETIMES HAVE TO RECOVER WITH
IV DRIPS, THAT THE BED NEEDED TO
BE SWAPPED IN, THAT HOTEL ROOMS
WERE DAMAGED, AND THAT THERE WAS
A PREPARATION, BUT ALSO A
CLEANUP AFTERWARDS TO TRY TO
HIDE THE EVIDENCE OF THESE
ALLEGEDLY ILLEGAL "FREAK OFFS."
ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS,
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A
REALLY LONG TIME.
AND THE REASON WHY THEY SAY THAHES BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH
DOING THIS FOR SO LONG IS THAHE ESSENTIALLY HAS BEEN
BLACKMAILING PEOPLE INTO BEING
SILENT.
HE BELIEVES HES INNOCENT.
I BELIEVE HES INNOCENT.
AND WERE GOING TO FIGHT THIS
CASE WITH ALL OF OUR MIGHT UNTIL
WE DONT HAVE TO FIGHT ANY
LONGER.
WE KNOW SEAN COMBS AS A
RAPPER AND PRODUCER OF SOME OF
THE BIGGEST ARTISTS.
BUT NOW WERE GONNA SEE THE
GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF
THIS DIDDY SPHERE.
ITS BEEN A GIFT AND A CURSE,
MY SUCCESS, BUT, YOU KNOW, MY
MUSICAL CAREER HAS PROBABLY BEEN
ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
MUSICAL CAREERS OF A HIP-HOP
ARTIST, PRODUCER IN HISTORY,
AND THATS SOMETHING I TAKE
PRIDE IN.
SEAN COMBS IS A HUSTLER.
PUFF BECOMES AN INTERN AUPTOWN RECORDS, RIGHT, WHERE HE
STARTS TO GET MENTORED BY
ANDRE HARRELL, ONE OF THE GREARECORD MEN OF HIS TIME.
MR. ANDRE HARRELL, THIS IS MY
MENTOR RIGHT HERE, PUT ME ON
EVERYTHING.
HE MOVES FROM INTERN TO A&R
MAN, AND THE FIRST HUGE STAR HE
MAKES IS MARY J. BLIGE.
THERE WERE STORIES THAT HE WAS
VERY IMPERIOUS TO OTHER PEOPLE,
BUT HE WAS PRACTICALLY ANDRES
SON, AND HE WAS THE BIG DOG.
AND SO HES NOT REALLY BEING
CALLED ON THE CARPET FOR THESE
THINGS.
AGAIN, HIS TALENT AND POWER AND
SUCCESS PROTECT HIM FROM
ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND ANDRE SAYS TO HIM, YOU KNOW,
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE LION IN
THE JUNGLE, AND HE FIRES HIM.
BUT HE LET HIM TAKE TWO RAPPERS
THAT ANDRE DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO
DO WITH -- CRAIG MACK AND
BIGGIE SMALLS.
HE GETS FIRED AND WITHIN A
FEW WEEKS HE CREATES BAD BOY
RECORDS.
BY 1994 EVERYONE KNEW WHO
DIDDY WAS.
HE PRODUCED SOME OF THE
BIGGEST ARTISTS IN THE WORLD.
BIGGIE --
WE GONNA DO WHAT WE CAME TO
DO
FORGET THE CLUB
WELL GO TO THE CRIB
-- MARY J. BLIGE.
WHEN YOU THINK YOURE IN LOVE
YOU ONLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO
SEE
ALL I SEE IS YOU AND YOU FOR
ME
I MEAN, THIS IS A PERSON
WHOS CREATED SOME OF THE MOSAMAZING MUSIC IN OUR CULTURE.
IT WAS THIS MIDAS TOUCH
THING, LIKE EVERYTHING THEY WERE
PUTTING OUT WAS HOT.
YOU KNOW THIS IS A BIG TIME
FOR ME.
NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN THE UNITED
STATES, DEBUTING NUMBER ONE.
SO MANY OF THEIR SONGS REALLY
EXPLODED.
"MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS."
THE MORE MONEY WE COME
ACROSS
I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY WANFROM ME.
YES, PERFORMING TONIGHT, ME AND
MATE.
WERE DOING "THE BENJAMINS," AND
"MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS."
ITS ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS.
WANNA BE BALLERS, SHOT CALLERS,
BRAWLERS.
DIDDY WAS KIND OF KNOWN FOR
PRODUCING THESE REALLY BIG
CLASSIC ICONIC SONGS, LIKE
"CANT NOBODY HOLD ME DOWN."
CANT NOBODY TAKE MY PRIDE
CANT NOBODY HOLD ME DOWN
OH NO
I GOT TO KEEP ON MOVING
I REMEMBER MULTIPLE NIGHTS OF
BEING IN A CLUB, THEYRE PLAYING
A STRING OF BAD BOY RECORDS.
YOU GET IN A CAB TO GO TO
ANOTHER CLUB, THE RADIO IS
PLAYING BAD BOY RECORDS IN THE
CAB.
YOU GET IN THE NEXT CLUB, AND
THEYRE PLAYING BAD BOY AS SOON
AS YOU WALK IN.
AND IT WAS JUST EVERYWHERE.
HE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN A
LOT OF THE THINGS THAT HE DID,
WHICH MADE HIM THIS
LARGER-THAN-LIFE AMERICAN
CELEBRITY FOR MUCH OF HIS LIFE
AND MUCH OF HIS CAREER.
AROUND 2000 THE MUSIC
BUSINESS STARTS TO CRATER.
REVENUE IS SHRINKING RAPIDLY.
AND PUFF WAS ABLE TO SAY, OKAY,
I HAVE THIS BRAND THATS ABOULIFESTYLE, THATS ABOUPARTYING, THATS ABOUT SUCCESS.
HOW CAN I TRANSLATE THE BRAND
INTO OTHER THINGS?
I THINK DIDDY IS ONE OF THE
BEST STRATEGISTS WHEN IT COMES
TO MARKETING.
SO YOU GO FROM BAD BOY TO SEAN
JOHN, SEAN JOHN TO DIAGEO DEAL
WITH CIROC.
SO YOURE SCALING AND YOURE
DIVERSIFYING YOUR PORTFOLIO.
WERE ABOUT TO DO IT.
I LOVE MY FRIENDS AND I LOVE YOU
ALL.
LETS GO.
HE WAS A CELEBRITY MAGNET.
EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE NEXT TO
SOMEBODY WHO MADE EVERYTHING
HOT.
I WAS GOING TO MAKE THE
CLOTHES THAT YOU WOULD GEDRESSED IN, THE FRAGRANCE YOU
WOULD PUT ON, TO GO TO THE CLUB
AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC THAT I
PRODUCED.
WHATEVER IS IN THE REALM OF
ENTERTAINMENT OR LIFESTYLE, A
CURATOR OF COOL, YOU KNOW,
THATS WHAT I DO.
HERES MY MUSIC, HERES MY
DRINK, HERES MY CLOTHES.
YOU CAN BE LIKE ME.
AND SO HE IS SORT OF SELLING
HIMSELF AND THE PUFF LIFESTYLE
TO THE AUDIENCE.
I LOVE A PARTY, PERIOD.
WHETHER ITS OSCAR PARTY,
WHETHER ITS MY MANS HOUSE
PARTY FROM AROUND THE WAY.
I JUST LIKE PEOPLE COMING
TOGETHER AND HAVING A GOOD TIME.
DIDDY IS VERY IN TO BEING
FAMOUS.
AT ONE POINT HE HAD A CAMERA
CREW FOLLOWING HIM AROUND AT ALL
TIMES.
I GOT SOME CAMERAS AND STUFF
COMING HERE, MAN.
IN AN ERA WHEN MTV IS
SHIFTING FROM VIDEO, VIDEO TO
SHOWS, HES LIKE, OKAY, I CAN
PROVIDE YOU WITH REALITY SHOWS.
AND THE FIRST ONE IS WITH HIM AS
MOGUL, "MAKING THE BAND."
WELCOME BACK, ITS YOUR BOY
DIDDY.
WERE BACK WITH A NEW SEASON,
"MAKING THE BAND."
WOW!
HE IS A GUY THAT IS ALWAYS
LOVED THE LIMELIGHT, HES LOVED
BEING FAMOUS, HES LOVED BEING A
CELEBRITY.
SEAN HAD SOME PRETTY
HIGH-PROFILE RELATIONSHIPS,
A LONG RELATIONSHIP WITH MODEL
KIM PORTER.
A HUGE, BIG PAPARAZZI-COVERED
RELATIONSHIP WITH
JENNIFER LOPEZ.
IT REALLY HELPED ESTABLISH
HIM AS THIS NATIONAL FIGURE, AND
REALLY SORT OF CONFIRMED LIKE,
OH, LIKE, HE REALLY IS THAT GUY.
LIKE, HES GOT ALL THE MONEY,
AND HES GOT ALL THE BUSINESS
SUCCESS.
AND HES ALSO GOT THIS AMAZING
WOMAN WHOS LIKE, YEAH, IM
ROCKING WITH HIM.
LIKE, OH, WELL, DAMN, HE MUST BE
REALLY THAT GUY.
THEY MAKE THIS MUSIC VIDEO
TOGETHER, "BEEN AROUND THE
WORLD," SEXY, SUCCESSFUL.
THERES A GREAT MOMENT WHEN
PUFF IS DANCING IN A VIDEO WITH
J.LO.
HERE HES DOING THE TANGO.
HE LOOKS REALLY GOOD DOING THE
TANGO WITH J.LO.
HE KNEW HOW TO DO THESE THINGS
IM HANGING WITH J-LO OR MAKING
A MOVIE WITH RUSSELL BRAND, OR
IM GOING TO THE MET GALA, OR
IM IN -- IM IN VOGUE IN PARIS
WITH NAOMI CAMPBELL WEARING SOME
OPULENT THING.
AND IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE, THIS GUY
IS ABOUT SUCCESS.
HES ABOUT WEALTH, HES ABOUOPULENCE.
HE SAYS HE REPRESENTS TASTE.
YOU KNOW, HES ABOUT THE ART OF
CELEBRATION AND PARTYING.
THEY CANT STOP A KID.
THEY KNOW MY PROFESSION.
BUT HES ALSO ABOUT HIMSELF
AND ABOUT PROMOTING HIMSELF.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
HES THE BIGGEST STAR BAD BOY
EVER HAD.
HE THRIVES OFF ADULATION.
HE THRIVES OFF LOVE.
HE THRIVES OFF THE PUBLIC SEEING
HIM AS, LIKE, THIS FLASHY
PLAYBOY TYPE OF CHARACTER.
THATS GONE.
THATS GONE FOREVER.
AND FOR SEAN COMBS, FOR DIDDY, I
THINK THATS THE WORST THING FOR
HIM, BECAUSE HE CAN NEVER BE
WHO HE ONCE WAS EVER AGAIN.
A LOT OF YOU HAVE GROWN TO
KNOW ME AS THE KING OF
CELEBRATION, A MASTER IN THE ARAND CELEBRATION, DOING THE MANY
LUXURIOUS PARTIES FROM ALL
AROUND THE WORLD.
SIMPLY PUT, I ENJOY SEEING
PE
ANOTHER WOMAN HAS COME
FORWARD ACCUSING SEAN P. DIDDY
COMBS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
THIS IS THE FIFTH LAWSUIAGAINST DIDDY.
120 ALLEGED VICTIMS, MEN AND
WOMEN, WHOSE ALLEGATIONS SPAN
MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
THE MORE THE STORIES COME OUIT DOESNT SOUND LIKE HE WAS
CHANGED BY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
IT SOUNDS LIKE HE WAS EMPOWERED
BY IT, YOU KNOW?
HE DECIDED BAD BOY FOR LIFE.
HE DECIDED.
THATS A CHOICE.
WE SAT DOWN WITH TIFFANY RED,
A GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER.
SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE
WHO HAD ACCESS TO THAT WORLD,
WHO SPOKE PUBLICLY.
AND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, SHE
WAS OUT THERE BY HERSELF.
SHES PLAYED THE GAME AT THE
HIGHEST LEVEL.
SHE WORKED WITH ZENDAYA ON HER
HIT "REPLAY."
YEAH
WANNA PUT THIS
SONG ON REPLAY
I CAN LISTEN
TO IT ALL DAY
IN THIS CUT-THROAT MUSIC
INDUSTRY SHE WAS GOOD FRIENDS
WITH CASSIE VENTURA.
CASSIE IS SWEET.
SHES QUIET.
SHES KIND.
SHES A GOOD PERSON.
CASSIE CAME ONTO THE SCENE
IN 2006 WITH HER SELF-TITLED
DEBUT ALBUM AND THEN HER HISINGLE "ME & U."
THEY KNOW YOURE THE ONE
I WANNA GIVE IT TO
I CAN SEE YOU WANT ME TOO
NOW ITS ME AND YOU
SO CASSIE IS A SINGER WHO WAS
INTRODUCED TO THE WORLD BY
DIDDY.
AND CASSIE HAD ONE OF THE MOSDISASTROUS PERFORMANCES WEVE
SEEN ON LIVE TELEVISION ON
"106 AND PARK."
YOUVE BEEN WAITING
SO LONG
IM HERE TO ANSWER
YOUR CALL
IT DIDNT GO WELL.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAD A LOT TO
SAY ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE.
DIDDY, YOU KNOW, SPOKE UP ABOUIT.
HE DEFENDED HER.
GRANTED, SHE HAD A WHACK
SHOW.
BUT SHE ALSO GOT THE HOTTESSONG IN THE CLUBS AND SHE AINNEVER GOING TO GIVE UP BECAUSE
SHE DOWN WITH BAD BOY.
NOT TOO LONG AFTER THAT WE
FIND OUT THAT DIDDY AND CASSIE
ARE IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP.
THEY MET IN 2005 WHEN SHE
WAS 19.
AND HES, LIKE, 37 AND HES
RUNNING THE RECORD LABEL THASHES A PART OF.
HE CONTROLS WHETHER OR NOT HER
ALBUM COMES OUT.
YOURE SIGNED TO DIDDYS
LABEL.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE THE FIRST TIME
YOU MET HIM?
WERE YOU STARSTRUCK?
I WAS SO NERVOUS.
SO NERVOUS.
BUT WE SAT DOWN FOR ABOUT TWO
HOURS, TALKED ABOUT MY CAREER
AND THE FUTURE, AND IT WAS
GREAT.
YOU KNOW, IT TURNED OUT AMAZING.
AND HES A GREAT GUY, GREAT GUY.
I STARTED WORKING WITH CASSIE
IN 2015.
WE STARTED WORKING TOGETHER.
I STARTED WRITING FOR HER AND
THEN WE STARTED HANGING OUT.
THEY WORKED TOGETHER ON A
NUMBER OF PROJECTS.
ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST HITS,
"DONT LET GO."
YOU ALWAYS KEEP IT SO COOL
BABY DONT LET GO
MY FIRST, LIKE, INTERACTION
WITH PUFF WAS, HE WALKED UP TO
ME AND HE WAS, LIKE, YOURE THE
ONE WRITING ALL THESE SONGS
ABOUT ME?
I WAS, LIKE, YEAH.
HE WAS, LIKE, SO SHES TALKING
TO YOU, HUH?
AND THEN HE JUST LOOKED AT ME,
AND THEN HE WALKED AWAY.
WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE HE WAS
SENDING, DO YOU THINK?
I MEAN, I FELT INTIMIDATED.
YOU KNOW?, I DEFINITELY FELLIKE IT WAS LIKE, IT FELT LIKE
HE DIDNT WANT HER TO BE TALKING
TO ME.
YOU LOOK AT HER DEBUT IN
2006 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, HER
MUSIC CAREER AFTER THAT, YOU
KNOW, NOTHING THAT SHE DID
REALLY HIT THE SAME MARKS AS
THEY DO IN 2006.
WE BEGAN TO SEE HER MORE IN THE
PUBLIC AS DIDDYS GIRLFRIEND AND
LESS AS THE ARTIST, CASSIE.
SO IM WONDERING ABOUT THE
BOYFRIEND, DIDDY, WHETHER HE
CAME TO THE SET TO MAKE SURE
EVERYTHING WAS COPACETIC WITH
YOU.
NO, HE ACTUALLY REALLY
TRUSTED THE SITUATION.
HIM AND TERRENCE SPOKE
BEFOREHAND BECAUSE TERRANCE --
WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.
YOU DATE P. DIDDY?
OH, WOW.
I DIDNT KNOW THIS.
THERE WERE ALWAYS RUMORS
ABOUT DIDDY AND HIS
RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN.
YOU KNOW, THEY RANGED FROM
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR FROM
FLASHES OF -- OF RAGE AND
YELLING AT PEOPLE AND PHYSICAL
ABUSE.
THERE WAS -- THERE WAS THIS
ONE NIGHT, 2015 I BELIEVE, WE
WENT OUT, TOOK THE CAR, WENT TO
MCDONALDS TO GO GET SOME FOOD.
AND I REMEMBER HER BEING LIKE,
YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING CRAZY?
I WAS, LIKE, WHAT?
AND SHE ANSWERED THE PHONE.
AND AS SOON AS SHE ANSWERED,
HE WAS SO UPSET THAT SHE WAS
OUT.
HE WAS JUST LIKE -- I REMEMBER
HIM SCREAMING AND SAYING, IS
SOMEBODY IN THE CAR WITH YOU?
I KNOW SOMEONES IN THE CAR WITH
YOU.
SO THAT WAS, LIKE, MY FIRST TIME
BEING, LIKE, SOMETHING IS WRONG,
YOU KNOW.
I HAVE HEARD OVER THE YEARS
THAT DIDDY WAS VIOLENT WITH
CASSIE.
THERE WOULD BE AN INTERVIEW WITH
A FORMER BODYGUARD OR SOMEONE
WHO SAID THAT HE, YOU KNOW, HAD
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE WITH
CASSIE AND ALSO WITH KIM PORTER,
THE LATE MOTHER OF FOUR OF HIS
CHILDREN.
TIFFANY TALKED IN GREADETAIL ABOUT ONE PARTICULAR
NIGHT IN 2015, CASSIES 29th
BIRTHDAY.
SO I WALK OUT THE ROOM, AND
RIGHT BEHIND THE DOOR THERES --
HIS SECURITY IS AROUND HIM.
THEY HAVE HER IN THE CORNER AND
HES IN HER FACE AND HES
CUSSING HER OUT.
HE WAS REALLY MAD.
HE WAS REALLY CLOSE TO HER FACE,
AND SHE JUST HAD HER HEAD DOWN.
AND WHEN I WAS, LIKE, STANDING
OVER TO THE SIDE, SHE JUST WAS
KIND OF, LIKE, LOOKING UP AT ME.
MY SENSE WAS THAT EVERYBODY
AROUND HIM WAS AFRAID OF HIM.
WHY?
I MEAN, BECAUSE HES
EXPLOSIVE.
WHY DIDNT HER FRIENDS, WHY
DIDNT HER CIRCLE STEP UP AND
SAY, YO, MAN?
WHAT YOU GOING TO DO?
HE GOT THE KEY TO THE CITY.
HES FRIENDS WITH THE
POLITICIANS.
HES FRIENDS WITH THIS PERSON.
YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING?
ITS LIKE, WHOS GONNA
CHALLENGE THAT?
WHOS GOING TO CHALLENGE THAAND WIN AND BE BELIEVED?
YEAH, RIGHT.
SHE WAS WORKING ON AN ALBUM
FOR TEN YEARS.
IT NEVER HAD A RELEASE DATE AND
IT NEVER HAD A TITLE.
THIS WAS NEVER INTENDED TO COME
OUT.
THIS WAS A PACIFIER JUST TO KEEP
HER HAPPY IN BETWEEN WHAT WE DO
AT NIGHT.
WHY DIDNT THE ALBUM COME
OUT?
BECAUSE HE WAS USING THE
MUSIC TO CONTROL CASSIE.
BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER -- AT LEASFROM WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS
NEVER GOING TO COME OUT.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO COME
OUT.
HE WAS WAS KIND OF PLAYING
HER.
IM GOING TO PUT THE RECORD
OUT.
IM GOING TO PUT THE RECORD OUT.
I GOT YOU.
AND THE ONLY -- SHE TOLD ME
THE ONLY TIME HE WAS WILLING TO,
LIKE, REALLY TALK ABOUT THE
PLANS FOR HER MUSIC WAS DURING
THE "FREAK OFFS."
WE HEARD ABOUT THEIR
RELATIONSHIP, WE HEARD THE
RUMORS, ISSUES IN REGARDS TO
INFIDELITY.
EVERY TIME WE WOULD QUESTION IT,
THEY WOULD POP BACK UP TOGETHER
AT SOME EVENT UNTIL 2018 WHEN
THEY CALLED IT QUITS.
FIVE YEARS AFTER CASSIE AND
DIDDY BROKE UP, CASSIE FILES
THIS BOMBSHELL LAWSUIT, AND IWAS A HUGE DEAL.
YOU KNOW, NOBODY STOOD UP TO
DIDDY.
YOU WOULD HEAR THINGS ABOUT HIM,
PEOPLE WOULD SAY THINGS ABOUHIM, BUT SEEING, YOU KNOW, A
WOMAN WHO WAS SO CLOSE TO HIM
RELIVE THESE TERRIBLE AND
TRAUMATIZING, YOU KNOW, MOMENTS
AND FILE THIS LAWSUIT, IT WAS
SHOCKING.
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SEAN
MADE CASSIE DO ACCORDING TO HER
LAWSUIT, IS HAVE SEX WITH MALE
SEX WORKERS WHEN SHE DIDNT WANTO DO THAT.
HE WOULD DIRECT HER HOW TO TOUCH
THE SEX WORKER, HOW TO POUR
LIKE, OIL OVER HER BODY, AND HE
WOULD WATCH THESE THINGS HAPPEN
WHILE HE WAS MASTURBATING.
IN CASSIES LAWSUIT IT SAID
THAT DIDDY SUPPLIED HER AND SEX
WORKERS WITH DRUGS BEFORE
AND DURING THESE "FREAK OFFS."
YOU EVER PERSONALLY WITNESS
CASSIE UNDER ANY INFLUENCE.
THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY WAS A
"FREAK OFF."
HE WAS SAYING, TELL YOUR GIRL
SHE WANTS SOME BIRTHDAY
.
THAT WAS A "FREAK OFF."
THATS WHERE HE WAS TAKING HER
WHEN HE WAS CUSSING HER OUT, AND
SHE DIDNT WANT TO GO.
CASSIES LAWSUIT SETTLED
WITHIN 24 HOURS.
WE KNOW THAT SHE WAS ASKING FOR
$30 MILLION, BUT THE ACTUAL
AMOUNT WAS UNDISCLOSED.
AT THE TIME, COMBS DENIED ALL
WRONGDOING AND MADE CLEAR HE
SAID SETTLING WAS NOT AN
ADMISSION OF GUILT.
AND BECAUSE OF THE MISOGYNY
THAT EXISTS IN HIP-HOP CULTURE,
I DO NOT FEEL LIKE AT THAT TIME
PEOPLE WERE GOING TO COMPLETELY
WRITE DIDDY OFF.
I DO NOT FEEL LIKE UNTIL THE CNN
VIDEO WAS LEAKED, THAT WAS WHEN
EVERYTHING CHANGED FOR DIDDY.
DIDDYS FLYING THROUGH THE
HALLWAY OF THIS HOTEL AND HES
SO BRUTAL AND CASSIE IS SO SMALL
AND JUST APPEARS TO BE SO
BROKEN, YOU KNOW, LIKE, THERES
A POINT WHERE SHE JUST STAYS ON
THE GROUND.
WHEN I SAW THE VIDEO AND I
SAW HER TRYING TO PICK UP HER
LITTLE BAG AND THEN BE DRAGGED,
I JUST FELT LIKE I KNEW WHAT SHE
WAS FEELING, JUST WANTING TO GEOUT OF THERE.
IT JUST BROKE MY HEART.
THAT HOTEL FOOTAGE SHOWED US
THAT THERES A MONSTER WITHIN.
BECAUSE THAT VIDEO HAPPENED, AND
EVERYONE WATCHED THAT VIDEO, ICHANGED EVERYTHING FOR A LOT OF
PEOPLE, I THINK.
THERES THIS MASSIVE PUBLIC
OUTCRY ONCE THAT VIDEOTAPE IS
RELEASED.
TWO DAYS LATER, SEAN COMBS MAKES
A STATEMENT.
I WAS UP.
I MEAN, I HIT ROCK BOTTOM.
I MAKE NO EXCUSES.
MY BEHAVIOR ON THAT VIDEO IS
INEXCUSABLE.
I TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
MY ACTIONS IN THAT VIDEO.
APOLOGY VIDEO, WHATD YOU
THINK OF THAT?
YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT WAS
FOR HIM.
I MEAN, I THINK -- I THINK
THAT -- ALL OF IT WAS HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF AND HOW HE
FELT.
THIS IS THE HARDEST TIME.
THESE ARE THE DARKEST TIMES IN
MY LIFE.
AND ITS LIKE, ITS ALL ABOUHIM, HIM, HIM, HIM, HIM, HIM,
HIM.
WHEN YOU READ OR HEARD ABOUCASSIES LAWSUIT, IT WAS
HORRENDOUS AND HORRIFIC, AND
DISGUSTING, AND GROTESQUE, BUITS WORDS.
AND ITS HORRIFYING, BUT ITS
WORDS.
WHEN YOU SEE A VIDEO OF HIM
ASSAULTING HER, KICKED HER WHEN
SHES ON THE GROUND, POSING NO
THREAT TO HIM.
IT WAS -- IT WAS HEARTBREAKING
AND IT WAS THE IMMEDIATE
DESTRUCTION OF ANY SMIDGE OF
IMAGE, LEGACY, REPUTATION THAYOU MIGHT HAVE.
HIS CREDIBILITY IS OUT THE
WINDOW, ESPECIALLY AFTER THAAPOLOGY WHERE WE NOW KNOW HES
CAPABLE OF LYING.
AND NOW THE QUESTION BECOMES,
WHAT ELSE IS SEAN COMBS LYING
ABOUT?
PUFF ALWAYS WANTED TO BE
DRIVING CULTURE, NOT JUST IN IT,
BUT LIKE SHAPING IT AND CREATING
IT.
AND THERES A POINT IN TIME WHEN
THE GUYS AROUND HIM WERE LIKE,
HEY, WHATS COOL IS THE
HAMPTONS.
WELL, AN ALL-WHITE PARTY WHERE
WE HAVE TO WEAR WHITE DEFINITELY
FITS THE BEACHY VIBE OF THE
HAMPTONS.
HE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO
INVENTED HIP-HOP PARTY CULTURE.
I TAKE PRIDE ON BEING A
LEADER.
YOU GET OUT OF LIFE WHAT YOU PUINTO IT SO I TRY TO GIVE MY ALL.
SO DIDDYS WHITE PARTIES WERE
VERY FAMOUS.
ANYONE WHO YOU CAN THINK OF
WHOS A CELEBRITY HAS ATTENDED A
DIDDY WHITE PARTY.
AND THERES THESE VICTORIA
SECRET MODELS WEARING LIKE
LITTLE HALOS AND ANGEL WINGS AND
HANDING YOU CHAMPAGNE.
THEYRE, LIKE, WELCOME TO
HEAVEN.
THEY WERE SAID TO BE WILD,
RIGHT?
EVERYONE WANTS TO BE AT YOUR
PARTY.
THAT CONFIRMS A CERTAIN AMOUNOF POWER UPON YOU.
THIS IS THE LEGENDARY WHITE
PARTY.
ITS THE REAL WHITE PARTY AND TO
ALL THE KIDS, THE KIDS HAVE
LIKE, HAVE AN HOUR LEFT.
THIS THING TURNS INTO SOMETHING
THAT WHEN YALL GET OLDER YOURE
GONNA WANNA COME TO, OKAY.
NOW, DIDDY AFTER DARK IS A
DIFFERENT PARTY.
WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS AN
AFTER, AFTER PARTY AND WE HEARD
THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE WERE MUCH
MORE DEBAUCHED.
I THINK THE, MORE WILD RACY
STUFF, I MEAN, THAT WAS LIKE A
VERY RAREFIED SORT OF THING.
THAT WASNT JUST, EVERYBODY
COME, WERE DOING EYES WIDE SHUTONIGHT.
YOU NEED SOME WATER.
DIDDY EVEN WENT ON CONAN
OBRIEN, KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW
NOW, AND WATCHING THAT CLIP,
ITS LIKE HE LET US KNOW, BUPEOPLE WERENT LISTENING.
I DONT KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE
NOTICED THIS, BUT A LOT OF
LADIES DRINK WATER AT PARTIES
AND, IF YOU DONT HAVE WHAT THEY
NEED, THEY LEAVE.
GOT TO KEEP THEM THERE.
YOU NEED LOCKS ON THE DOORS.
THIS IS SOUNDING KIND OF
DANGEROUS NOW.
ITS A LITTLE KINKY BUT YOU
KNOW.
I THINK ONE OF THE NOTEWORTHY
THINGS ABOUT THIS PENDING TRIAL
IS THAT MAYBE FOR THE FIRST TIME
WELL DISCOVER WHO SEAN COMBS
REALLY IS.
THIS MAN WAS A PILLAR OF
SOCIETY FOR A REALLY LONG TIME.
HE HAD THIS REALLY GREAT UP FROM
HIS BOOTSTRAPS STORY.
MY BROTHER HERE, PUFF DADDY.
DIDDYS LIFE NOW IS A LODIFFERENT THAN HOW HE GREW UP.
BEING FROM HARLEM, YOU KNOW, HE
WAS RAISED BY HIS MOM JANICE
WITH HIS SISTER.
HES CREATED MULTIPLE
NARRATIVES.
HIS FATHER WAS A DRUG DEALER.
HE GREW UP ROUGH AND TUMBLE
LIFE.
MY FATHER WAS KILLED WHEN I
WAS THREE.
I JUST REMEMBER MY MOTHER, YOU
KNOW, WORKING FOUR JOBS.
ON THE OTHER HAND HE SAYS I
WAS A PAPER BOY IN WESTCHESTER
COUNTY.
HE SOMEHOW WAS ABLE TO
CONSOLIDATE SEVERAL PAPER
ROUTES.
SO HE HAD THESE KIDS DELIVERING
THE PAPERS ON HIS ROUTES FOR
HIM.
HES ALREADY BEING
ENTREPRENEURIAL AND CAPITALISWITHIN THAT SYSTEM.
HE WAS ALWAYS THE BOSS FROM A
VERY YOUNG AGE.
SO EVERYBODY AROUND HIM HAS TO
DO WHAT HE SAYS.
I JUST WANT TO GET PAID FOR
IT.
THATS WHAT IM SAYING.
I DONT WANT TO BE WASTING MY
TIME.
THERES A TIME EVERYBODY IN
THE MUSIC BUSINESS WANTED TO
WORK FOR PUFF, AND IT WAS SO
MUCH FUN.
IT WAS SO COOL.
AND YOU HAD -- SO LIKE IF HE
SCREAMED AT YOU SOMETIMES, WELL,
ITS PART OF THE PRICE OF
ADMISSION.
IF SO, BUMP SOMEBODY.
THERES A CLIP THAT WAS IN
HIS 2017 DOCUMENTARY, "CANSTOP, WONT STOP" WHERE, YOU
KNOW, HES IN HIS OFFICE, STARTS
LIKE, JUST DESTROYING STUFF.
I GOT MY MTV.
IM A SAVAGE!
IM A SAVAGE!
IM A SAVAGE!
WHATEVER I WANT I AM GOING TO
GET!
WHATEVER I WANT I HAVE TO GET!
YOU KNOW WHAT WAS INSPIRING
FOR ME ABOUT THAT VIDEO?
WAS WHEN PUFFY SAID, WHATS
NEXT?
WHATS NEXT?
I GOT TO GET IT.
IM NOT GOING TO STAY
DOWN.
BUT FOR HIM TO SAY WHATS
NEXT MEANS IM READY FOR
EVERYTHING.
A SAVAGE IN BUSINESS CAN BE A
PROFITABLE ENERGY.
I THINK THAT THERES A
RELENTLESSNESS IN THIS PERSON
WHO IS SAYING, I WILL DO
WHATEVER I HAVE TO DO TO
ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL.
YOU COULDNT TELL HIM NO.
THIS PERSON WAS EMOTIONALLY
VOLATILE.
THE RAPPER AND MUSIC MOGUL
ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT AFTER A
FIGHT WITH A FOOTBALL COACH AHIS SONS SCHOOL.
ALL CHARGES WERE LATER
DROPPED.
COMBS WAS ARRESTED ON ASSAULCHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY BEATING A
MUSIC INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE.
HE MANAGES TO ESCAPE ANY
SIGNIFICANT LEGAL
ACCOUNTABILITY.
THIS MAN WAS CELEBRATED FOR
SO LONG IN THE HIP-HOP CULTURE,
BUT I THINK WHEN POWERFUL PEOPLE
ARE NOT CHECKED, BAD THINGS CAN
HAPPEN.
IN 1999 PUFFY WAS DATING
J.LO.
THERE WAS AN INCIDENT IN A NEW
YORK NIGHTCLUB IN WHICH DIDDY
AND SOME OF HIS ENTOURAGE GEINTO IT WITH SOME PEOPLE AND
SHOTS ARE FIRED.
HE WENT TO CLUB NEW YORK TO
CELEBRATE A NEW ALBUM FROM
SHYNE.
SHYNE IS A RAPPER FROM BELIZE
THAT WAS SIGNED TO BAD BOY
RECORDS.
IN CLUB NEW YORK SOMETHING
HAPPENED.
SOMEBODY GOT BUMPED INTO.
SEVERAL WITNESSES SAY THAT THEY
SAW PUFF WITH A GUN.
PUFFY, LOOK THIS WAY.
THREE PEOPLE GOT SHOT IN THAINCIDENT.
POLICE SAY SHYNE HAD A GUN.
HE WAS CONVICTED AND SPENT NINE
YEARS IN PRISON.
SEAN COMBS, ACQUITTED.
IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS
THAT SHOWS, LIKE, WOW, THIS
GUY MIGHT FIND HIMSELF IN BAD
SITUATIONS, BUT EVENTUALLY HE
ALWAYS GETS OUT.
IT MADE YOU BELIEVE, AND IPROBABLY MADE DIDDY BELIEVE TO
AN EXTENT THAT, LIKE, IM PRETTY
MUCH INVINCIBLE.
PEOPLE WERE VERY AFRAID TO
COME FORWARD WITH THEIR STORIES.
HES ALWAYS BEEN MIRED BY
ALLEGATIONS AND SUSPICIONS OF
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, BUTHEYVE ALWAYS KIND OF FALLEN
APART AS WHISPERS.
IT TOOK A WATERSHED MOMENT,
WHICH WAS THE CASSIE LAWSUIT, TO
REALLY OPEN THAT PANDORAS BOX.
CASSIE DESCRIBING THE MUSIC
MOGUL AS A VICIOUS, CRUEL, AND
CONTROLLING MAN.
AFTER CASSIE FILED HER
LAWSUIT, IT KIND OF OPENED UP
THE FLOODGATES.
SEAN DIDDY COMBS FACES NEW
TRAFFICKING ALLEGATIONS.
FORMER MODEL IS NOW SUING
DIDDY.
TRAPPED IN A CYCLE OF SEX
TRAFFICKING.
ONE BECAME THREE, BECAME
FIVE.
A FORMER MEMBER OF COMBS,
GIRL GROUP, DANITY KANE, IS
ACCUSING HIM OF SEXUALLY ABUSING
HER FOR YEARS.
RICHARD IS THE EIGHTH PERSON
TO ACCUSE COMBS OF ABUSE.
SEAN COMBS ATTORNEY HAS
CALLED DAWN RICHARDS CLAIMS
FALSE AND SAID HE LOOKS FORWARD
TO PROVING THAT IN COURT.
YOU BEGAN TO SEE LAWSUIAFTER LAWSUIT AFTER LAWSUIBEING FILED.
HIS PRODUCER, RODNEY JONES,
CLAIMS DIDDY REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED HIM.
HIS ATTORNEYS ALSO RESPONDED
TO JONES LAWSUIT SAYING IN PARHES LOOKING FOR AN UNDESERVED
PAYDAY AND THAT THEY HAVE
INDISPUTABLE PROOF THAT HIS
CLAIMS ARE COMPLETE LIES.
A TEXAS ATTORNEY TONIGHT SAYS
HE NOW REPRESENTS 120 ALLEGED
VICTIMS, MEN AND WOMEN, WHOSE
ALLEGATIONS SPAN MORE THAN
30 YEARS.
THE BIGGEST SECRET IN THE
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY THAREALLY WASNT A SECRET AT ALL
HAS FINALLY BEEN REVEALED TO THE
WORLD.
WEVE HAD OVER 14,000 PEOPLE
CONTACT OUR OFFICE IN THREE
WEEKS, AND NOW WE REPRESEN293 CLAIMS AGAINST SEAN COMBS OR
HIS ASSOCIATES.
OUR YOUNGEST VICTIM AT THE
TIME OF THE OCCURRENCE WAS 9
YEARS OLD.
WE HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS 14
YEARS OLD.
THOUGH THIS ATTORNEY HAS YETO FILE LAWSUITS, HES MADE
THESE ALLEGATIONS.
BASED ON THE PEOPLE THAWEVE TALKED TO, BASED ON WHATHEYVE TOLD US, IT SEEMED
BEFORE 2005, IT WAS MEN AND
WOMEN EQUALLY THAT WERE KIND OF
SUCKED IN THIS ORBIT.
AND THEN AFTER 2005 IT ALMOSWENT 90% TO MEN.
AN ATTORNEY FOR SEAN COMBS
SAID HE CANT ADDRESS EVERY,
QUOTE, MERITLESS ALLEGATION, BUTHAT HE DENIES ANY CLAIM THAT HE
SEXUALLY ABUSED ANYONE,
INCLUDING MINORS.
WE HAVE NOT HEARD THE LAST OF
SOMEONE FILING A LAWSUIT AGAINSSEAN COMBS.
THERES NO WAY HE ACTED
ALONE.
THE CULTURE OF SILENCE WAS
COLOSSAL.
THERE WILL BE MORE PEOPLE
LOOKING FOR DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
VERY SOON.
WHAT OTHER NAMES ARE WE GOING
TO START SEEING?
TONIGHT, BREAKING NEWS IN
NEW YORK CITY.
SEAN DIDDY COMBS ARRESTED IN
A NEW YORK CITY HOTEL BY FEDERAL
AGENTS WITH HOMELAND SECURITY
INVESTIGATIONS AFTER BEING
INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY.
HES BEEN UNDER CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION SINCE HIS FORMER
GIRLFRIEND ACCUSED HIM OF SEXUAL
AND PHYSICAL ABUSE IN A CIVIL
CASE.
ACCORDING TO HIS LAWYER,
SEAN COMBS KNEW THAT THE RAIDS
ON HIS HOME SCARED HIS KIDS, AND
HE SAID HE DIDNT WANT ANYTHING
ELSE TO BE SO SCARY.
THATS WHY, HIS LAWYER SAYS, HE
DECIDED TO RELOCATE TO NEW YORK
SO THAT EVERYBODY WOULD KNOW
WHERE HE WAS TO MAKE THE ARRESEASY.
DID YOU WITNESS ANYTHING?
HOW DO YOU SUPPORT HIM MOVING
FORWARD?
DIDDY IS THE FATHER OF SEVEN
CHILDREN.
HE HAS THREE ADULT SONS AND FOUR
DAUGHTERS.
HIS ADULT SONS HAVE BEEN VERY
PUBLICLY SUPPORTIVE AND THEY
SHOWED UP, YOU KNOW, TO SUPPORHIM AT HIS ARRAIGNMENT.
HES CONFIDENT.
HES DEALING WITH THIS HEAD
ON, JUST LIKE HES DEALT WITH
EVERY CHALLENGE IN HIS LIFE.
DIDDY PLEADED NOT GUILTY, AND
HE WAS DENIED BAIL TWICE.
THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF MONEY,
NO AMOUNT OF SECURITY MEASURES
THAT COULD BE PUT IN PLACE THATHESE JUDGES BELIEVE WOULD NOMAKE HIM A FLIGHT RISK AND NOMAKE HIM A DANGER TO THOSE
AROUND HIM.
THE FIRST TIME SEAN COMBS
CAME INTO COURT I THOUGHT HE
LOOKED KIND OF STUNNED, ALMOST.
THIS IS A WHOLE NEW REALITY THAHES FACING.
AND IN THAT MOMENT HE MAY WELL
HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE GRAVITY OF
THE CHARGES.
SEAN COMBS IS FACING A THREE
COUNT INDICTMENT -- RACKETEERING
CONSPIRACY, SEX TRAFFICKING, AND
TRANSPORTATION FOR THE PURPOSE
OF PROSTITUTION.
IT PUTS COMBS AS THE LEADER
OF WHAT PROSECUTORS CALLED THIS
CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE TO SUBJECWOMEN TO A PATTERN OF PHYSICAL
AND SEXUAL ABUSE.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE THREE
COUNTS THAT SEAN COMBS IS
FACING, THE RACKETEERING
CONSPIRACY CHARGE IS THE TOP
CHARGE.
AND WITHIN IT ARE A NUMBER OF
CRIMES.
THERE IS KIDNAPPING, FORCED
LABOR BRIBING OF WITNESSES.
PROSECUTORS BECAME CONCERNED
THAT SEAN COMBS WAS GOING TO
OBSTRUCT THE FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION, WHICH IS ONGOING,
AND TAMPER WITH WITNESSES.
IN SEAN COMBS APPEAL FOR HIS
BAIL JUDGE CARTER SAID THAOBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IS A REAL
CONCERN FOR HIM.
AND, IN SAYING THAT, HES
LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE OR THE
ALLEGED EVIDENCE THAT THE
PROSECUTION IS PROVIDING, THAAFTER CASSIES CIVIL LAWSUIT,
AFTER EVEN THE RAID, SEAN COMBS
BEGAN COMMUNICATING AND REACHING
OUT TO PEOPLE WITHIN HIS CIRCLE,
WOMEN THAT ARE ALLEGED VICTIMS,
TRYING TO ENSURE THAT THEYRE
NOT GOING TO COME FORWARD WITH
ANY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM.
THANK YOU, GUYS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
IF COMBS IS CONVICTED AS
CHARGED, HE COULD BE FACING
DECADES IN PRISON.
THE CLOSEST ANALOGY WOULD BE THE
SEX CHARGES AGAINST R. KELLY.
LATE TODAY, A FEDERAL JURY
FOUND R. KELLY GUILTY OF
RACKETEERING AND SEX
TRAFFICKING.
PROSECUTORS ACCUSING HIM OF
LEADING A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE OF
BODYGUARDS, MANAGERS AND OTHER
EMPLOYEES TO RECRUIT AND ABUSE
WOMEN, UNDERAGE GIRLS AND A
TEENAGE BOY.
WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THE
SEAN COMBS ALLEGATIONS, I WASNSURPRISED.
NOTHING REALLY SURPRISES ME
THESE DAYS.
LIZ
LIZZETT MARTINEZ MET HOLMES
IN THE EARLY 90s.
THE ONLY TIME THAT I MET SEAN
COMBS WAS IN THE LATE 90s AT A
MUSIC CONFERENCE THAT WAS GOING
ON IN MIAMI.
AND -- HES, LIKE, HEY, YOU HAVE
THE MOST -- YOU HAVE REALLY
PRETTY EYES, LIKE, STARTED TO
COMPLIMENT ME.
AND I JUST LOOKED AT MY FRIEND.
I WAS JUST, LIKE, IVE BEEN DOWN
THIS ROAD BEFORE KIND OF THING.
I DIDNT HAVE A GOOD FEELING
ABOUT IT.
I CANNOT UNSEE THAT CASSIE
VIDEO.
YOU CAN TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU
WANT ABOUT THAT VIDEO.
I COULD NOT UNSEE IT.
YOU PUT YOURSELF ON THE LINE.
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL
RECKONING MOMENTS IN THE WORLD
OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE MUSIC
WORLD.
MYSELF AND OTHER WOMEN SHARED
STORIES OF THE VARIOUS WAYS WE
WERE APPROACHED.
WE TALKED ABOUT THE MISOGYNY IN
THE INDUSTRY.
THE WAY WOMEN ARE TALKED
ABOUT IN THE HIP-HOP INDUSTRY,
ITS SO VIAL.LE.
ITS SO HATEFUL.
AS THOUGH WOMEN ARE THINGS TO BE
USED AND CONSUMED.
AND THATS NOT TO SAY THAT THERE
ISNT PREDATORY BEHAVIOR GOING
ON IN ROCK AND COUNTRY AND ANY
OTHER GENRE OF MUSIC, BUT LIKE,
HIP-HOP IS JUST OPEN ABOUT ITS
HATRED FOR WOMEN IN WAYS THAOTHER GENRES OF MUSIC ARE NOT.
EVERY TIME, WHICH IS SAD THATHERE IS AN EVERY TIME, BUT WHEN
SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS, YOU
HOPE THAT THERE IS SOME KIND OF
RECKONING, BUT THERE IS SO MUCH
INGRAINED IN THIS CULTURE THAITS REALLY HARD TO TELL.
SO, THE HOPE IS THAT THACHANGES, BUT WILL IT?
THE BIGGER THEY RISE, THE
HARDER THEY FALL.
FROM THE FANCY JETS, THE FANCY
JEWELRY, THE LUXURIOUS
LIFESTYLE, SEAN COMBS IS TONIGHIN ONE OF THE
TAKE SOME MONEY MAN
APPRECIATE YOU.
SEAN COMBS LED THE LIFE THAMANY OF US WOULD ONLY DREAM OF.
ITS A CELEBRATION OF LIFE.
THIS IS THE REAL LIFE.
THE WAY HE DRESSED, THE WAY
HE TRAVELED, THE WAY HE PARTIED,
HIS PRESENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
FEW COULD COMPARE.
THE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
HOMES, THE PRIVATE JETS, FLYING
FROM HERE TO THERE.
BUT NOW HELL BE HOUSED IN THE
METROPOLITAN DETENTION CENTER.
IT HAS HAD A RATHER NOTABLE
ROSTER OF INMATES.
R. KELLY WAS THERE FOR A TIME
BEFORE HE STOOD TRIAL IN
BROOKLYN.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL.
EL CHAPO SPENT TIME THERE.
WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT MDC,
THEY USE WORDS LIKE INFAMOUS,
CORRUPT, VIOLENT.
ITS DANGEROUS.
THERE ARE CONSTANT FIGHTS AND
LOCKDOWNS.
ITS GOING TO BE A VERY, VERY
DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE CHANGE FOR
HIM.
IN THIS INDUSTRY WHERE PEOPLE
LOVE THE TALK, NO ONE TALKED
ABOUT THIS PART OF SEAN COMBS
LIFE, BUT NOW EVERYONE HAS AN
OPINION.
PEOPLE ARE TALKING.
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD ON RADIO HAS
HAD PLENTY TO SAY.
BEING IN THAT CELL IS
PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME IN
FOREVER HES FORCED TO SISTILL.
REALITY IS GOING TO HIT HIM
HARD.
WHATEVER HES BEEN RUNNING FROM,
HE CANNOT RUN NO MORE.
HE WAS KNOWN TO HAVE THE
MIDAS TOUCH, AND NOW HIS TOUCH
IS ANYTHING BUT GOLDEN.
ITS ALLEGEDLY CRIMINAL.
IM GOING TO SCREAM FROM THE
ROOFTOPS.
ITS NOT JUST HIM.
ITS A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.
IM GONNA CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE
AND DO SOMETHING TO REALLY
CHANGE THIS.
SEAN COMBS WAS NOT MADE IN A
VACUUM.
PEOPLE ARE REALLY OVERLY
IMPRESSED BY MEN.
WE DO NOT HOLD MEN TO RIGOROUS
STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR,
PARTICULARLY FAMOUS MEN, RIGHT?
WE DONT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION
THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO WOMEN
WHEN WERE JUDGING THEIR
CHARACTER.
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS, LIKE,
WHERE THIS IS GOING TO LEAD.
CELEBRITIES WERE AT THESE
PARTIES.
PEOPLE COULD BE CAUGHT IN THANET.
AND I THINK THAT ALSO, YOU KNOW,
PLAYS INTO THE FACT OF WHY YOU
HAVENT HEARD PEOPLE SPEAK ON
DIDDY AND SPEAK ON A LOT OF
THESE ALLEGATIONS.
WEVE RECEIVED ACCUSATIONS
AGAINST VERY WELL-KNOWN
CELEBRITIES THAT ALLEGEDLY
PARTICIPATED IN THESE AFTER
PARTIES THAT WERE EITHER IN THE
ROOM, MAYBE WITNESSING THESE
SEXUAL ASSAULTS TAKING PLACE OR
EVEN PARTICIPATING IN THEM.
HOW DOES THE STORY END FOR
HIM?
HOW IT TURNS OUT, LIKE, ONCE
ALL THINGS ARE SAID AND DONE,
I CANT IMAGINE SOMEBODY THATS
LIVED A LIFE THAT LAVISH, LIKE,
FACING THE MUSIC AND, LIKE,
GOING TO JAIL.
BUT I THINK THATS WHERE ITS
GOING TO END THOUGH.
TOO MUCH HAS HAPPENED.
TOO MUCH HAS HAPPENED.
IM EXTREMELY PROUD OF THE
WOMEN AND MEN.
IM NOT GOING TO SIT HERE AND
SAY, YOU KNOW, THE TRIALS GOING
TO BE EASY.
ITS NOT.
HOWEVER, WE DID IT AND YOU HAVE
A WHOLE SURVIVOR ARMY BEHIND
YOU.
NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL THESE
PEOPLE PORTRAY THEMSELVES TO BE,
SO ARE YOU.
I THINK ONE CAN MAKE THE
ARGUMENT THAT HIP-HOP IS ON
TRIAL, BUT I THINK WEVE SEEN
WITH THE FALL OF OTHER
HIGH-PROFILE CELEBRITIES THAENTERTAINMENT IS ON TRIAL.
POWER IS ON TRIAL.
SOMEHOW, WHEN POWER IS IN THE
HANDS OF TOO FEW PEOPLE, TOO
OFTEN THEY ABUSE IT.
YOU CANT LOOK AWAY ANYMORE.
MY RESUME BASICALLY SPEAKS
FOR ITSELF.
I PRODUCED THE GREATEST RAP OF
ALL TIME.
YOU KNOW, IVE JUST BEGUN.
I TELL PEOPLE THIS ALL THE TIME
AND THEY LOOK AT ME.
HOW CAN YOU SAY YOUVE JUSBEGUN?
AND I JUST KNOW IN MY HEART,
IVE JUST BEGUN.
IVE JUST STARTED.
IVE JUST STARTED GETTING TO THE
POINT WHERE IM JUST STARTING TO
GET GOOD.
IVE JUST STARTED GETTING TO THE
POINT WHERE IM BECOMING A
BETTER MAN AND IM -- IM JUSSTARTING TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE
BIT, JUST A LITTLE BIT WHAT LIFE
IS ABOUT.
EVERYBODY OFF THE RUNWAY
PLEASE.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE DIDDY
IN ONE WORD, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
SEAN COMBS!
HEY, DIDDY!
RELENTLESS.
POWERFUL.
HUSTLER.
PROBLEMATIC.
WHEN I LOOK BACK ON, NOT EVEN
JUST HIP-HOP, NOT EVEN JUST R&B,
BUT AMERICAN MUSIC, AMERICAN POP
CULTURE, ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL
THAT STORY WITHOUSEAN DIDDY COMBS.
THIS IS A GUY WHO WAS DATING
J.LO.
FASHION, ALCOHOL, TV SHOWS,
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS, VOTE OR
DIE.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS
PEOPLE IN AMERICA OVER THE LASHALF CENTURY.
DIDDY FINALLY HAS THE KEY TO
THE CITY!
SEAN COMBS WAS BIGGER THAN
BIG.
HE WAS BELOVED IN SOME CIRCLES,
REVERED IN OTHERS.
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN IN
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND THEN
SUDDENLY, IT WAS OVER.
FEDERAL AGENTS WERE SEEN
RAIDING P. DIDDYS LOS ANGELES
AND MIAMI HOMES.
FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS RAIDING
TWO HOMES OWNED BY HIP-HOP MOGUL
SEAN DIDDY COMBS.
SOURCES TELLING ABC NEWS IIS CONNECTED TO A HUMAN
TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATION.
WHEN DIDDYS HOME WAS RAIDED,
THEY FOUND AR-15-STYLE RIFLES,
NARCOTICS, AND 1,000 BOTTLES OF
BABY OIL.
IT SEEMS LIKE DIDDY DID LEAD
A SECRET LIFE.
THE GUY THAT IN THE LIMELIGHT,
THEN THERE ARE ALL OF THE PEOPLE
BEING FLOWN IN TO SPICE THINGS
UP TO SATISFY HIS SEXUAL
DESIRES.
THE RAID BY FEDERAL AGENTS
WITH HOMELAND SECURITY
INVESTIGATIONS SPILLED THE
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO
PUBLIC VIEW.
AND WE NOW KNOW THE RESULTS OF
THAT INVESTIGATION.
THE INDICTMENT ALLEGES THACOMBS ABUSED AND EXPLOITED WOMEN
AND OTHER PEOPLE FOR YEARS AND
IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.
AS ALLEGED, COMBS USED FORCE,
THREATS OF FORCE, AND COERCION
TO CAUSE VICTIMS TO ENGAGE IN
EXTENDED SEXUAL PERFORMANCES
WITH MALE COMMERCIAL SEX
WORKERS.
THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE
SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK AND ROLL
FOLKLORE THAT I THINK A LOT OF
US ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH.
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A SEX CRIME.
COMBS ALLEGEDLY PLANNED AND
CONTROLLED THE SEX PERFORMANCES,
WHICH HE CALLED "FREAK OFFS."
"FREAK OFF."
"FREAK OFF."
"FREAK OFF."
WHAT IS THAT?
HIM HAVING SEX WORKERS OR
WHOEVER COME IN AND HAVE SEX
WITH HIS PARTNER, WHOEVER IT IS,
WHILE HE WATCHES OR
PARTICIPATES.
PROSECUTORS HAVE SAID THATHESE WERE ELABORATELY PRODUCED
EVENTS.
BRINGING LIGHTING IN, CAMERAS,
LINENS.
PROSECUTORS SAID HE WOULD
MASTURBATE DURING THESE "FREAK
OFFS," AND WOMEN HAD NO CHOICE.
THESE "FREAK OFFS" WOULD LASFOR SO LONG THAT THEY WOULD
SOMETIMES HAVE TO RECOVER WITH
IV DRIPS, THAT THE BED NEEDED TO
BE SWAPPED IN, THAT HOTEL ROOMS
WERE DAMAGED, AND THAT THERE WAS
A PREPARATION, BUT ALSO A
CLEANUP AFTERWARDS TO TRY TO
HIDE THE EVIDENCE OF THESE
ALLEGEDLY ILLEGAL "FREAK OFFS."
ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS,
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A
REALLY LONG TIME.
AND THE REASON WHY THEY SAY THAHES BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH
DOING THIS FOR SO LONG IS THAHE ESSENTIALLY HAS BEEN
BLACKMAILING PEOPLE INTO BEING
SILENT.
HE BELIEVES HES INNOCENT.
I BELIEVE HES INNOCENT.
AND WERE GOING TO FIGHT THIS
CASE WITH ALL OF OUR MIGHT UNTIL
WE DONT HAVE TO FIGHT ANY
LONGER.
WE KNOW SEAN COMBS AS A
RAPPER AND PRODUCER OF SOME OF
THE BIGGEST ARTISTS.
BUT NOW WERE GONNA SEE THE
GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF
THIS DIDDY SPHERE.
ITS BEEN A GIFT AND A CURSE,
MY SUCCESS, BUT, YOU KNOW, MY
MUSICAL CAREER HAS PROBABLY BEEN
ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
MUSICAL CAREERS OF A HIP-HOP
ARTIST, PRODUCER IN HISTORY,
AND THATS SOMETHING I TAKE
PRIDE IN.
SEAN COMBS IS A HUSTLER.
PUFF BECOMES AN INTERN AUPTOWN RECORDS, RIGHT, WHERE HE
STARTS TO GET MENTORED BY
ANDRE HARRELL, ONE OF THE GREARECORD MEN OF HIS TIME.
MR. ANDRE HARRELL, THIS IS MY
MENTOR RIGHT HERE, PUT ME ON
EVERYTHING.
HE MOVES FROM INTERN TO A&R
MAN, AND THE FIRST HUGE STAR HE
MAKES IS MARY J. BLIGE.
THERE WERE STORIES THAT HE WAS
VERY IMPERIOUS TO OTHER PEOPLE,
BUT HE WAS PRACTICALLY ANDRES
SON, AND HE WAS THE BIG DOG.
AND SO HES NOT REALLY BEING
CALLED ON THE CARPET FOR THESE
THINGS.
AGAIN, HIS TALENT AND POWER AND
SUCCESS PROTECT HIM FROM
ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND ANDRE SAYS TO HIM, YOU KNOW,
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE LION IN
THE JUNGLE, AND HE FIRES HIM.
BUT HE LET HIM TAKE TWO RAPPERS
THAT ANDRE DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO
DO WITH -- CRAIG MACK AND
BIGGIE SMALLS.
HE GETS FIRED AND WITHIN A
FEW WEEKS HE CREATES BAD BOY
RECORDS.
BY 1994 EVERYONE KNEW WHO
DIDDY WAS.
HE PRODUCED SOME OF THE
BIGGEST ARTISTS IN THE WORLD.
BIGGIE --
WE GONNA DO WHAT WE CAME TO
DO
FORGET THE CLUB
WELL GO TO THE CRIB
-- MARY J. BLIGE.
WHEN YOU THINK YOURE IN LOVE
YOU ONLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO
SEE
ALL I SEE IS YOU AND YOU FOR
ME
I MEAN, THIS IS A PERSON
WHOS CREATED SOME OF THE MOSAMAZING MUSIC IN OUR CULTURE.
IT WAS THIS MIDAS TOUCH
THING, LIKE EVERYTHING THEY WERE
PUTTING OUT WAS HOT.
YOU KNOW THIS IS A BIG TIME
FOR ME.
NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN THE UNITED
STATES, DEBUTING NUMBER ONE.
SO MANY OF THEIR SONGS REALLY
EXPLODED.
"MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS."
THE MORE MONEY WE COME
ACROSS
I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY WANFROM ME.
YES, PERFORMING TONIGHT, ME AND
MATE.
WERE DOING "THE BENJAMINS," AND
"MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS."
ITS ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS.
WANNA BE BALLERS, SHOT CALLERS,
BRAWLERS.
DIDDY WAS KIND OF KNOWN FOR
PRODUCING THESE REALLY BIG
CLASSIC ICONIC SONGS, LIKE
"CANT NOBODY HOLD ME DOWN."
CANT NOBODY TAKE MY PRIDE
CANT NOBODY HOLD ME DOWN
OH NO
I GOT TO KEEP ON MOVING
I REMEMBER MULTIPLE NIGHTS OF
BEING IN A CLUB, THEYRE PLAYING
A STRING OF BAD BOY RECORDS.
YOU GET IN A CAB TO GO TO
ANOTHER CLUB, THE RADIO IS
PLAYING BAD BOY RECORDS IN THE
CAB.
YOU GET IN THE NEXT CLUB, AND
THEYRE PLAYING BAD BOY AS SOON
AS YOU WALK IN.
AND IT WAS JUST EVERYWHERE.
HE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN A
LOT OF THE THINGS THAT HE DID,
WHICH MADE HIM THIS
LARGER-THAN-LIFE AMERICAN
CELEBRITY FOR MUCH OF HIS LIFE
AND MUCH OF HIS CAREER.
AROUND 2000 THE MUSIC
BUSINESS STARTS TO CRATER.
REVENUE IS SHRINKING RAPIDLY.
AND PUFF WAS ABLE TO SAY, OKAY,
I HAVE THIS BRAND THATS ABOULIFESTYLE, THATS ABOUPARTYING, THATS ABOUT SUCCESS.
HOW CAN I TRANSLATE THE BRAND
INTO OTHER THINGS?
I THINK DIDDY IS ONE OF THE
BEST STRATEGISTS WHEN IT COMES
TO MARKETING.
SO YOU GO FROM BAD BOY TO SEAN
JOHN, SEAN JOHN TO DIAGEO DEAL
WITH CIROC.
SO YOURE SCALING AND YOURE
DIVERSIFYING YOUR PORTFOLIO.
WERE ABOUT TO DO IT.
I LOVE MY FRIENDS AND I LOVE YOU
ALL.
LETS GO.
HE WAS A CELEBRITY MAGNET.
EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE NEXT TO
SOMEBODY WHO MADE EVERYTHING
HOT.
I WAS GOING TO MAKE THE
CLOTHES THAT YOU WOULD GEDRESSED IN, THE FRAGRANCE YOU
WOULD PUT ON, TO GO TO THE CLUB
AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC THAT I
PRODUCED.
WHATEVER IS IN THE REALM OF
ENTERTAINMENT OR LIFESTYLE, A
CURATOR OF COOL, YOU KNOW,
THATS WHAT I DO.
HERES MY MUSIC, HERES MY
DRINK, HERES MY CLOTHES.
YOU CAN BE LIKE ME.
AND SO HE IS SORT OF SELLING
HIMSELF AND THE PUFF LIFESTYLE
TO THE AUDIENCE.
I LOVE A PARTY, PERIOD.
WHETHER ITS OSCAR PARTY,
WHETHER ITS MY MANS HOUSE
PARTY FROM AROUND THE WAY.
I JUST LIKE PEOPLE COMING
TOGETHER AND HAVING A GOOD TIME.
DIDDY IS VERY IN TO BEING
FAMOUS.
AT ONE POINT HE HAD A CAMERA
CREW FOLLOWING HIM AROUND AT ALL
TIMES.
I GOT SOME CAMERAS AND STUFF
COMING HERE, MAN.
IN AN ERA WHEN MTV IS
SHIFTING FROM VIDEO, VIDEO TO
SHOWS, HES LIKE, OKAY, I CAN
PROVIDE YOU WITH REALITY SHOWS.
AND THE FIRST ONE IS WITH HIM AS
MOGUL, "MAKING THE BAND."
WELCOME BACK, ITS YOUR BOY
DIDDY.
WERE BACK WITH A NEW SEASON,
"MAKING THE BAND."
WOW!
HE IS A GUY THAT IS ALWAYS
LOVED THE LIMELIGHT, HES LOVED
BEING FAMOUS, HES LOVED BEING A
CELEBRITY.
SEAN HAD SOME PRETTY
HIGH-PROFILE RELATIONSHIPS,
A LONG RELATIONSHIP WITH MODEL
KIM PORTER.
A HUGE, BIG PAPARAZZI-COVERED
RELATIONSHIP WITH
JENNIFER LOPEZ.
IT REALLY HELPED ESTABLISH
HIM AS THIS NATIONAL FIGURE, AND
REALLY SORT OF CONFIRMED LIKE,
OH, LIKE, HE REALLY IS THAT GUY.
LIKE, HES GOT ALL THE MONEY,
AND HES GOT ALL THE BUSINESS
SUCCESS.
AND HES ALSO GOT THIS AMAZING
WOMAN WHOS LIKE, YEAH, IM
ROCKING WITH HIM.
LIKE, OH, WELL, DAMN, HE MUST BE
REALLY THAT GUY.
THEY MAKE THIS MUSIC VIDEO
TOGETHER, "BEEN AROUND THE
WORLD," SEXY, SUCCESSFUL.
THERES A GREAT MOMENT WHEN
PUFF IS DANCING IN A VIDEO WITH
J.LO.
HERE HES DOING THE TANGO.
HE LOOKS REALLY GOOD DOING THE
TANGO WITH J.LO.
HE KNEW HOW TO DO THESE THINGS
IM HANGING WITH J-LO OR MAKING
A MOVIE WITH RUSSELL BRAND, OR
IM GOING TO THE MET GALA, OR
IM IN -- IM IN VOGUE IN PARIS
WITH NAOMI CAMPBELL WEARING SOME
OPULENT THING.
AND IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE, THIS GUY
IS ABOUT SUCCESS.
HES ABOUT WEALTH, HES ABOUOPULENCE.
HE SAYS HE REPRESENTS TASTE.
YOU KNOW, HES ABOUT THE ART OF
CELEBRATION AND PARTYING.
THEY CANT STOP A KID.
THEY KNOW MY PROFESSION.
BUT HES ALSO ABOUT HIMSELF
AND ABOUT PROMOTING HIMSELF.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
HES THE BIGGEST STAR BAD BOY
EVER HAD.
HE THRIVES OFF ADULATION.
HE THRIVES OFF LOVE.
HE THRIVES OFF THE PUBLIC SEEING
HIM AS, LIKE, THIS FLASHY
PLAYBOY TYPE OF CHARACTER.
THATS GONE.
THATS GONE FOREVER.
AND FOR SEAN COMBS, FOR DIDDY, I
THINK THATS THE WORST THING FOR
HIM, BECAUSE HE CAN NEVER BE
WHO HE ONCE WAS EVER AGAIN.
A LOT OF YOU HAVE GROWN TO
KNOW ME AS THE KING OF
CELEBRATION, A MASTER IN THE ARAND CELEBRATION, DOING THE MANY
LUXURIOUS PARTIES FROM ALL
AROUND THE WORLD.
SIMPLY PUT, I ENJOY SEEING
PE
ANOTHER WOMAN HAS COME
FORWARD ACCUSING SEAN P. DIDDY
COMBS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
THIS IS THE FIFTH LAWSUIAGAINST DIDDY.
120 ALLEGED VICTIMS, MEN AND
WOMEN, WHOSE ALLEGATIONS SPAN
MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
THE MORE THE STORIES COME OUIT DOESNT SOUND LIKE HE WAS
CHANGED BY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
IT SOUNDS LIKE HE WAS EMPOWERED
BY IT, YOU KNOW?
HE DECIDED BAD BOY FOR LIFE.
HE DECIDED.
THATS A CHOICE.
WE SAT DOWN WITH TIFFANY RED,
A GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER.
SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE
WHO HAD ACCESS TO THAT WORLD,
WHO SPOKE PUBLICLY.
AND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, SHE
WAS OUT THERE BY HERSELF.
SHES PLAYED THE GAME AT THE
HIGHEST LEVEL.
SHE WORKED WITH ZENDAYA ON HER
HIT "REPLAY."
YEAH
WANNA PUT THIS
SONG ON REPLAY
I CAN LISTEN
TO IT ALL DAY
IN THIS CUT-THROAT MUSIC
INDUSTRY SHE WAS GOOD FRIENDS
WITH CASSIE VENTURA.
CASSIE IS SWEET.
SHES QUIET.
SHES KIND.
SHES A GOOD PERSON.
CASSIE CAME ONTO THE SCENE
IN 2006 WITH HER SELF-TITLED
DEBUT ALBUM AND THEN HER HISINGLE "ME & U."
THEY KNOW YOURE THE ONE
I WANNA GIVE IT TO
I CAN SEE YOU WANT ME TOO
NOW ITS ME AND YOU
SO CASSIE IS A SINGER WHO WAS
INTRODUCED TO THE WORLD BY
DIDDY.
AND CASSIE HAD ONE OF THE MOSDISASTROUS PERFORMANCES WEVE
SEEN ON LIVE TELEVISION ON
"106 AND PARK."
YOUVE BEEN WAITING
SO LONG
IM HERE TO ANSWER
YOUR CALL
IT DIDNT GO WELL.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAD A LOT TO
SAY ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE.
DIDDY, YOU KNOW, SPOKE UP ABOUIT.
HE DEFENDED HER.
GRANTED, SHE HAD A WHACK
SHOW.
BUT SHE ALSO GOT THE HOTTESSONG IN THE CLUBS AND SHE AINNEVER GOING TO GIVE UP BECAUSE
SHE DOWN WITH BAD BOY.
NOT TOO LONG AFTER THAT WE
FIND OUT THAT DIDDY AND CASSIE
ARE IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP.
THEY MET IN 2005 WHEN SHE
WAS 19.
AND HES, LIKE, 37 AND HES
RUNNING THE RECORD LABEL THASHES A PART OF.
HE CONTROLS WHETHER OR NOT HER
ALBUM COMES OUT.
YOURE SIGNED TO DIDDYS
LABEL.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE THE FIRST TIME
YOU MET HIM?
WERE YOU STARSTRUCK?
I WAS SO NERVOUS.
SO NERVOUS.
BUT WE SAT DOWN FOR ABOUT TWO
HOURS, TALKED ABOUT MY CAREER
AND THE FUTURE, AND IT WAS
GREAT.
YOU KNOW, IT TURNED OUT AMAZING.
AND HES A GREAT GUY, GREAT GUY.
I STARTED WORKING WITH CASSIE
IN 2015.
WE STARTED WORKING TOGETHER.
I STARTED WRITING FOR HER AND
THEN WE STARTED HANGING OUT.
THEY WORKED TOGETHER ON A
NUMBER OF PROJECTS.
ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST HITS,
"DONT LET GO."
YOU ALWAYS KEEP IT SO COOL
BABY DONT LET GO
MY FIRST, LIKE, INTERACTION
WITH PUFF WAS, HE WALKED UP TO
ME AND HE WAS, LIKE, YOURE THE
ONE WRITING ALL THESE SONGS
ABOUT ME?
I WAS, LIKE, YEAH.
HE WAS, LIKE, SO SHES TALKING
TO YOU, HUH?
AND THEN HE JUST LOOKED AT ME,
AND THEN HE WALKED AWAY.
WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE HE WAS
SENDING, DO YOU THINK?
I MEAN, I FELT INTIMIDATED.
YOU KNOW?, I DEFINITELY FELLIKE IT WAS LIKE, IT FELT LIKE
HE DIDNT WANT HER TO BE TALKING
TO ME.
YOU LOOK AT HER DEBUT IN
2006 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, HER
MUSIC CAREER AFTER THAT, YOU
KNOW, NOTHING THAT SHE DID
REALLY HIT THE SAME MARKS AS
THEY DO IN 2006.
WE BEGAN TO SEE HER MORE IN THE
PUBLIC AS DIDDYS GIRLFRIEND AND
LESS AS THE ARTIST, CASSIE.
SO IM WONDERING ABOUT THE
BOYFRIEND, DIDDY, WHETHER HE
CAME TO THE SET TO MAKE SURE
EVERYTHING WAS COPACETIC WITH
YOU.
NO, HE ACTUALLY REALLY
TRUSTED THE SITUATION.
HIM AND TERRENCE SPOKE
BEFOREHAND BECAUSE TERRANCE --
WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.
YOU DATE P. DIDDY?
OH, WOW.
I DIDNT KNOW THIS.
THERE WERE ALWAYS RUMORS
ABOUT DIDDY AND HIS
RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN.
YOU KNOW, THEY RANGED FROM
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR FROM
FLASHES OF -- OF RAGE AND
YELLING AT PEOPLE AND PHYSICAL
ABUSE.
THERE WAS -- THERE WAS THIS
ONE NIGHT, 2015 I BELIEVE, WE
WENT OUT, TOOK THE CAR, WENT TO
MCDONALDS TO GO GET SOME FOOD.
AND I REMEMBER HER BEING LIKE,
YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING CRAZY?
I WAS, LIKE, WHAT?
AND SHE ANSWERED THE PHONE.
AND AS SOON AS SHE ANSWERED,
HE WAS SO UPSET THAT SHE WAS
OUT.
HE WAS JUST LIKE -- I REMEMBER
HIM SCREAMING AND SAYING, IS
SOMEBODY IN THE CAR WITH YOU?
I KNOW SOMEONES IN THE CAR WITH
YOU.
SO THAT WAS, LIKE, MY FIRST TIME
BEING, LIKE, SOMETHING IS WRONG,
YOU KNOW.
I HAVE HEARD OVER THE YEARS
THAT DIDDY WAS VIOLENT WITH
CASSIE.
THERE WOULD BE AN INTERVIEW WITH
A FORMER BODYGUARD OR SOMEONE
WHO SAID THAT HE, YOU KNOW, HAD
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE WITH
CASSIE AND ALSO WITH KIM PORTER,
THE LATE MOTHER OF FOUR OF HIS
CHILDREN.
TIFFANY TALKED IN GREADETAIL ABOUT ONE PARTICULAR
NIGHT IN 2015, CASSIES 29th
BIRTHDAY.
SO I WALK OUT THE ROOM, AND
RIGHT BEHIND THE DOOR THERES --
HIS SECURITY IS AROUND HIM.
THEY HAVE HER IN THE CORNER AND
HES IN HER FACE AND HES
CUSSING HER OUT.
HE WAS REALLY MAD.
HE WAS REALLY CLOSE TO HER FACE,
AND SHE JUST HAD HER HEAD DOWN.
AND WHEN I WAS, LIKE, STANDING
OVER TO THE SIDE, SHE JUST WAS
KIND OF, LIKE, LOOKING UP AT ME.
MY SENSE WAS THAT EVERYBODY
AROUND HIM WAS AFRAID OF HIM.
WHY?
I MEAN, BECAUSE HES
EXPLOSIVE.
WHY DIDNT HER FRIENDS, WHY
DIDNT HER CIRCLE STEP UP AND
SAY, YO, MAN?
WHAT YOU GOING TO DO?
HE GOT THE KEY TO THE CITY.
HES FRIENDS WITH THE
POLITICIANS.
HES FRIENDS WITH THIS PERSON.
YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING?
ITS LIKE, WHOS GONNA
CHALLENGE THAT?
WHOS GOING TO CHALLENGE THAAND WIN AND BE BELIEVED?
YEAH, RIGHT.
SHE WAS WORKING ON AN ALBUM
FOR TEN YEARS.
IT NEVER HAD A RELEASE DATE AND
IT NEVER HAD A TITLE.
THIS WAS NEVER INTENDED TO COME
OUT.
THIS WAS A PACIFIER JUST TO KEEP
HER HAPPY IN BETWEEN WHAT WE DO
AT NIGHT.
WHY DIDNT THE ALBUM COME
OUT?
BECAUSE HE WAS USING THE
MUSIC TO CONTROL CASSIE.
BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER -- AT LEASFROM WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS
NEVER GOING TO COME OUT.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO COME
OUT.
HE WAS WAS KIND OF PLAYING
HER.
IM GOING TO PUT THE RECORD
OUT.
IM GOING TO PUT THE RECORD OUT.
I GOT YOU.
AND THE ONLY -- SHE TOLD ME
THE ONLY TIME HE WAS WILLING TO,
LIKE, REALLY TALK ABOUT THE
PLANS FOR HER MUSIC WAS DURING
THE "FREAK OFFS."
WE HEARD ABOUT THEIR
RELATIONSHIP, WE HEARD THE
RUMORS, ISSUES IN REGARDS TO
INFIDELITY.
EVERY TIME WE WOULD QUESTION IT,
THEY WOULD POP BACK UP TOGETHER
AT SOME EVENT UNTIL 2018 WHEN
THEY CALLED IT QUITS.
FIVE YEARS AFTER CASSIE AND
DIDDY BROKE UP, CASSIE FILES
THIS BOMBSHELL LAWSUIT, AND IWAS A HUGE DEAL.
YOU KNOW, NOBODY STOOD UP TO
DIDDY.
YOU WOULD HEAR THINGS ABOUT HIM,
PEOPLE WOULD SAY THINGS ABOUHIM, BUT SEEING, YOU KNOW, A
WOMAN WHO WAS SO CLOSE TO HIM
RELIVE THESE TERRIBLE AND
TRAUMATIZING, YOU KNOW, MOMENTS
AND FILE THIS LAWSUIT, IT WAS
SHOCKING.
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SEAN
MADE CASSIE DO ACCORDING TO HER
LAWSUIT, IS HAVE SEX WITH MALE
SEX WORKERS WHEN SHE DIDNT WANTO DO THAT.
HE WOULD DIRECT HER HOW TO TOUCH
THE SEX WORKER, HOW TO POUR
LIKE, OIL OVER HER BODY, AND HE
WOULD WATCH THESE THINGS HAPPEN
WHILE HE WAS MASTURBATING.
IN CASSIES LAWSUIT IT SAID
THAT DIDDY SUPPLIED HER AND SEX
WORKERS WITH DRUGS BEFORE
AND DURING THESE "FREAK OFFS."
YOU EVER PERSONALLY WITNESS
CASSIE UNDER ANY INFLUENCE.
THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY WAS A
"FREAK OFF."
HE WAS SAYING, TELL YOUR GIRL
SHE WANTS SOME BIRTHDAY
.
THAT WAS A "FREAK OFF."
THATS WHERE HE WAS TAKING HER
WHEN HE WAS CUSSING HER OUT, AND
SHE DIDNT WANT TO GO.
CASSIES LAWSUIT SETTLED
WITHIN 24 HOURS.
WE KNOW THAT SHE WAS ASKING FOR
$30 MILLION, BUT THE ACTUAL
AMOUNT WAS UNDISCLOSED.
AT THE TIME, COMBS DENIED ALL
WRONGDOING AND MADE CLEAR HE
SAID SETTLING WAS NOT AN
ADMISSION OF GUILT.
AND BECAUSE OF THE MISOGYNY
THAT EXISTS IN HIP-HOP CULTURE,
I DO NOT FEEL LIKE AT THAT TIME
PEOPLE WERE GOING TO COMPLETELY
WRITE DIDDY OFF.
I DO NOT FEEL LIKE UNTIL THE CNN
VIDEO WAS LEAKED, THAT WAS WHEN
EVERYTHING CHANGED FOR DIDDY.
DIDDYS FLYING THROUGH THE
HALLWAY OF THIS HOTEL AND HES
SO BRUTAL AND CASSIE IS SO SMALL
AND JUST APPEARS TO BE SO
BROKEN, YOU KNOW, LIKE, THERES
A POINT WHERE SHE JUST STAYS ON
THE GROUND.
WHEN I SAW THE VIDEO AND I
SAW HER TRYING TO PICK UP HER
LITTLE BAG AND THEN BE DRAGGED,
I JUST FELT LIKE I KNEW WHAT SHE
WAS FEELING, JUST WANTING TO GEOUT OF THERE.
IT JUST BROKE MY HEART.
THAT HOTEL FOOTAGE SHOWED US
THAT THERES A MONSTER WITHIN.
BECAUSE THAT VIDEO HAPPENED, AND
EVERYONE WATCHED THAT VIDEO, ICHANGED EVERYTHING FOR A LOT OF
PEOPLE, I THINK.
THERES THIS MASSIVE PUBLIC
OUTCRY ONCE THAT VIDEOTAPE IS
RELEASED.
TWO DAYS LATER, SEAN COMBS MAKES
A STATEMENT.
I WAS UP.
I MEAN, I HIT ROCK BOTTOM.
I MAKE NO EXCUSES.
MY BEHAVIOR ON THAT VIDEO IS
INEXCUSABLE.
I TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
MY ACTIONS IN THAT VIDEO.
APOLOGY VIDEO, WHATD YOU
THINK OF THAT?
YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT WAS
FOR HIM.
I MEAN, I THINK -- I THINK
THAT -- ALL OF IT WAS HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF AND HOW HE
FELT.
THIS IS THE HARDEST TIME.
THESE ARE THE DARKEST TIMES IN
MY LIFE.
AND ITS LIKE, ITS ALL ABOUHIM, HIM, HIM, HIM, HIM, HIM,
HIM.
WHEN YOU READ OR HEARD ABOUCASSIES LAWSUIT, IT WAS
HORRENDOUS AND HORRIFIC, AND
DISGUSTING, AND GROTESQUE, BUITS WORDS.
AND ITS HORRIFYING, BUT ITS
WORDS.
WHEN YOU SEE A VIDEO OF HIM
ASSAULTING HER, KICKED HER WHEN
SHES ON THE GROUND, POSING NO
THREAT TO HIM.
IT WAS -- IT WAS HEARTBREAKING
AND IT WAS THE IMMEDIATE
DESTRUCTION OF ANY SMIDGE OF
IMAGE, LEGACY, REPUTATION THAYOU MIGHT HAVE.
HIS CREDIBILITY IS OUT THE
WINDOW, ESPECIALLY AFTER THAAPOLOGY WHERE WE NOW KNOW HES
CAPABLE OF LYING.
AND NOW THE QUESTION BECOMES,
WHAT ELSE IS SEAN COMBS LYING
ABOUT?
PUFF ALWAYS WANTED TO BE
DRIVING CULTURE, NOT JUST IN IT,
BUT LIKE SHAPING IT AND CREATING
IT.
AND THERES A POINT IN TIME WHEN
THE GUYS AROUND HIM WERE LIKE,
HEY, WHATS COOL IS THE
HAMPTONS.
WELL, AN ALL-WHITE PARTY WHERE
WE HAVE TO WEAR WHITE DEFINITELY
FITS THE BEACHY VIBE OF THE
HAMPTONS.
HE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO
INVENTED HIP-HOP PARTY CULTURE.
I TAKE PRIDE ON BEING A
LEADER.
YOU GET OUT OF LIFE WHAT YOU PUINTO IT SO I TRY TO GIVE MY ALL.
SO DIDDYS WHITE PARTIES WERE
VERY FAMOUS.
ANYONE WHO YOU CAN THINK OF
WHOS A CELEBRITY HAS ATTENDED A
DIDDY WHITE PARTY.
AND THERES THESE VICTORIA
SECRET MODELS WEARING LIKE
LITTLE HALOS AND ANGEL WINGS AND
HANDING YOU CHAMPAGNE.
THEYRE, LIKE, WELCOME TO
HEAVEN.
THEY WERE SAID TO BE WILD,
RIGHT?
EVERYONE WANTS TO BE AT YOUR
PARTY.
THAT CONFIRMS A CERTAIN AMOUNOF POWER UPON YOU.
THIS IS THE LEGENDARY WHITE
PARTY.
ITS THE REAL WHITE PARTY AND TO
ALL THE KIDS, THE KIDS HAVE
LIKE, HAVE AN HOUR LEFT.
THIS THING TURNS INTO SOMETHING
THAT WHEN YALL GET OLDER YOURE
GONNA WANNA COME TO, OKAY.
NOW, DIDDY AFTER DARK IS A
DIFFERENT PARTY.
WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS AN
AFTER, AFTER PARTY AND WE HEARD
THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE WERE MUCH
MORE DEBAUCHED.
I THINK THE, MORE WILD RACY
STUFF, I MEAN, THAT WAS LIKE A
VERY RAREFIED SORT OF THING.
THAT WASNT JUST, EVERYBODY
COME, WERE DOING EYES WIDE SHUTONIGHT.
YOU NEED SOME WATER.
DIDDY EVEN WENT ON CONAN
OBRIEN, KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW
NOW, AND WATCHING THAT CLIP,
ITS LIKE HE LET US KNOW, BUPEOPLE WERENT LISTENING.
I DONT KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE
NOTICED THIS, BUT A LOT OF
LADIES DRINK WATER AT PARTIES
AND, IF YOU DONT HAVE WHAT THEY
NEED, THEY LEAVE.
GOT TO KEEP THEM THERE.
YOU NEED LOCKS ON THE DOORS.
THIS IS SOUNDING KIND OF
DANGEROUS NOW.
ITS A LITTLE KINKY BUT YOU
KNOW.
I THINK ONE OF THE NOTEWORTHY
THINGS ABOUT THIS PENDING TRIAL
IS THAT MAYBE FOR THE FIRST TIME
WELL DISCOVER WHO SEAN COMBS
REALLY IS.
THIS MAN WAS A PILLAR OF
SOCIETY FOR A REALLY LONG TIME.
HE HAD THIS REALLY GREAT UP FROM
HIS BOOTSTRAPS STORY.
MY BROTHER HERE, PUFF DADDY.
DIDDYS LIFE NOW IS A LODIFFERENT THAN HOW HE GREW UP.
BEING FROM HARLEM, YOU KNOW, HE
WAS RAISED BY HIS MOM JANICE
WITH HIS SISTER.
HES CREATED MULTIPLE
NARRATIVES.
HIS FATHER WAS A DRUG DEALER.
HE GREW UP ROUGH AND TUMBLE
LIFE.
MY FATHER WAS KILLED WHEN I
WAS THREE.
I JUST REMEMBER MY MOTHER, YOU
KNOW, WORKING FOUR JOBS.
ON THE OTHER HAND HE SAYS I
WAS A PAPER BOY IN WESTCHESTER
COUNTY.
HE SOMEHOW WAS ABLE TO
CONSOLIDATE SEVERAL PAPER
ROUTES.
SO HE HAD THESE KIDS DELIVERING
THE PAPERS ON HIS ROUTES FOR
HIM.
HES ALREADY BEING
ENTREPRENEURIAL AND CAPITALISWITHIN THAT SYSTEM.
HE WAS ALWAYS THE BOSS FROM A
VERY YOUNG AGE.
SO EVERYBODY AROUND HIM HAS TO
DO WHAT HE SAYS.
I JUST WANT TO GET PAID FOR
IT.
THATS WHAT IM SAYING.
I DONT WANT TO BE WASTING MY
TIME.
THERES A TIME EVERYBODY IN
THE MUSIC BUSINESS WANTED TO
WORK FOR PUFF, AND IT WAS SO
MUCH FUN.
IT WAS SO COOL.
AND YOU HAD -- SO LIKE IF HE
SCREAMED AT YOU SOMETIMES, WELL,
ITS PART OF THE PRICE OF
ADMISSION.
IF SO, BUMP SOMEBODY.
THERES A CLIP THAT WAS IN
HIS 2017 DOCUMENTARY, "CANSTOP, WONT STOP" WHERE, YOU
KNOW, HES IN HIS OFFICE, STARTS
LIKE, JUST DESTROYING STUFF.
I GOT MY MTV.
IM A SAVAGE!
IM A SAVAGE!
IM A SAVAGE!
WHATEVER I WANT I AM GOING TO
GET!
WHATEVER I WANT I HAVE TO GET!
YOU KNOW WHAT WAS INSPIRING
FOR ME ABOUT THAT VIDEO?
WAS WHEN PUFFY SAID, WHATS
NEXT?
WHATS NEXT?
I GOT TO GET IT.
IM NOT GOING TO STAY
DOWN.
BUT FOR HIM TO SAY WHATS
NEXT MEANS IM READY FOR
EVERYTHING.
A SAVAGE IN BUSINESS CAN BE A
PROFITABLE ENERGY.
I THINK THAT THERES A
RELENTLESSNESS IN THIS PERSON
WHO IS SAYING, I WILL DO
WHATEVER I HAVE TO DO TO
ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL.
YOU COULDNT TELL HIM NO.
THIS PERSON WAS EMOTIONALLY
VOLATILE.
THE RAPPER AND MUSIC MOGUL
ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT AFTER A
FIGHT WITH A FOOTBALL COACH AHIS SONS SCHOOL.
ALL CHARGES WERE LATER
DROPPED.
COMBS WAS ARRESTED ON ASSAULCHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY BEATING A
MUSIC INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE.
HE MANAGES TO ESCAPE ANY
SIGNIFICANT LEGAL
ACCOUNTABILITY.
THIS MAN WAS CELEBRATED FOR
SO LONG IN THE HIP-HOP CULTURE,
BUT I THINK WHEN POWERFUL PEOPLE
ARE NOT CHECKED, BAD THINGS CAN
HAPPEN.
IN 1999 PUFFY WAS DATING
J.LO.
THERE WAS AN INCIDENT IN A NEW
YORK NIGHTCLUB IN WHICH DIDDY
AND SOME OF HIS ENTOURAGE GEINTO IT WITH SOME PEOPLE AND
SHOTS ARE FIRED.
HE WENT TO CLUB NEW YORK TO
CELEBRATE A NEW ALBUM FROM
SHYNE.
SHYNE IS A RAPPER FROM BELIZE
THAT WAS SIGNED TO BAD BOY
RECORDS.
IN CLUB NEW YORK SOMETHING
HAPPENED.
SOMEBODY GOT BUMPED INTO.
SEVERAL WITNESSES SAY THAT THEY
SAW PUFF WITH A GUN.
PUFFY, LOOK THIS WAY.
THREE PEOPLE GOT SHOT IN THAINCIDENT.
POLICE SAY SHYNE HAD A GUN.
HE WAS CONVICTED AND SPENT NINE
YEARS IN PRISON.
SEAN COMBS, ACQUITTED.
IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS
THAT SHOWS, LIKE, WOW, THIS
GUY MIGHT FIND HIMSELF IN BAD
SITUATIONS, BUT EVENTUALLY HE
ALWAYS GETS OUT.
IT MADE YOU BELIEVE, AND IPROBABLY MADE DIDDY BELIEVE TO
AN EXTENT THAT, LIKE, IM PRETTY
MUCH INVINCIBLE.
PEOPLE WERE VERY AFRAID TO
COME FORWARD WITH THEIR STORIES.
HES ALWAYS BEEN MIRED BY
ALLEGATIONS AND SUSPICIONS OF
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, BUTHEYVE ALWAYS KIND OF FALLEN
APART AS WHISPERS.
IT TOOK A WATERSHED MOMENT,
WHICH WAS THE CASSIE LAWSUIT, TO
REALLY OPEN THAT PANDORAS BOX.
CASSIE DESCRIBING THE MUSIC
MOGUL AS A VICIOUS, CRUEL, AND
CONTROLLING MAN.
AFTER CASSIE FILED HER
LAWSUIT, IT KIND OF OPENED UP
THE FLOODGATES.
SEAN DIDDY COMBS FACES NEW
TRAFFICKING ALLEGATIONS.
FORMER MODEL IS NOW SUING
DIDDY.
TRAPPED IN A CYCLE OF SEX
TRAFFICKING.
ONE BECAME THREE, BECAME
FIVE.
A FORMER MEMBER OF COMBS,
GIRL GROUP, DANITY KANE, IS
ACCUSING HIM OF SEXUALLY ABUSING
HER FOR YEARS.
RICHARD IS THE EIGHTH PERSON
TO ACCUSE COMBS OF ABUSE.
SEAN COMBS ATTORNEY HAS
CALLED DAWN RICHARDS CLAIMS
FALSE AND SAID HE LOOKS FORWARD
TO PROVING THAT IN COURT.
YOU BEGAN TO SEE LAWSUIAFTER LAWSUIT AFTER LAWSUIBEING FILED.
HIS PRODUCER, RODNEY JONES,
CLAIMS DIDDY REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED HIM.
HIS ATTORNEYS ALSO RESPONDED
TO JONES LAWSUIT SAYING IN PARHES LOOKING FOR AN UNDESERVED
PAYDAY AND THAT THEY HAVE
INDISPUTABLE PROOF THAT HIS
CLAIMS ARE COMPLETE LIES.
A TEXAS ATTORNEY TONIGHT SAYS
HE NOW REPRESENTS 120 ALLEGED
VICTIMS, MEN AND WOMEN, WHOSE
ALLEGATIONS SPAN MORE THAN
30 YEARS.
THE BIGGEST SECRET IN THE
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY THAREALLY WASNT A SECRET AT ALL
HAS FINALLY BEEN REVEALED TO THE
WORLD.
WEVE HAD OVER 14,000 PEOPLE
CONTACT OUR OFFICE IN THREE
WEEKS, AND NOW WE REPRESEN293 CLAIMS AGAINST SEAN COMBS OR
HIS ASSOCIATES.
OUR YOUNGEST VICTIM AT THE
TIME OF THE OCCURRENCE WAS 9
YEARS OLD.
WE HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS 14
YEARS OLD.
THOUGH THIS ATTORNEY HAS YETO FILE LAWSUITS, HES MADE
THESE ALLEGATIONS.
BASED ON THE PEOPLE THAWEVE TALKED TO, BASED ON WHATHEYVE TOLD US, IT SEEMED
BEFORE 2005, IT WAS MEN AND
WOMEN EQUALLY THAT WERE KIND OF
SUCKED IN THIS ORBIT.
AND THEN AFTER 2005 IT ALMOSWENT 90% TO MEN.
AN ATTORNEY FOR SEAN COMBS
SAID HE CANT ADDRESS EVERY,
QUOTE, MERITLESS ALLEGATION, BUTHAT HE DENIES ANY CLAIM THAT HE
SEXUALLY ABUSED ANYONE,
INCLUDING MINORS.
WE HAVE NOT HEARD THE LAST OF
SOMEONE FILING A LAWSUIT AGAINSSEAN COMBS.
THERES NO WAY HE ACTED
ALONE.
THE CULTURE OF SILENCE WAS
COLOSSAL.
THERE WILL BE MORE PEOPLE
LOOKING FOR DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
VERY SOON.
WHAT OTHER NAMES ARE WE GOING
TO START SEEING?
TONIGHT, BREAKING NEWS IN
NEW YORK CITY.
SEAN DIDDY COMBS ARRESTED IN
A NEW YORK CITY HOTEL BY FEDERAL
AGENTS WITH HOMELAND SECURITY
INVESTIGATIONS AFTER BEING
INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY.
HES BEEN UNDER CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION SINCE HIS FORMER
GIRLFRIEND ACCUSED HIM OF SEXUAL
AND PHYSICAL ABUSE IN A CIVIL
CASE.
ACCORDING TO HIS LAWYER,
SEAN COMBS KNEW THAT THE RAIDS
ON HIS HOME SCARED HIS KIDS, AND
HE SAID HE DIDNT WANT ANYTHING
ELSE TO BE SO SCARY.
THATS WHY, HIS LAWYER SAYS, HE
DECIDED TO RELOCATE TO NEW YORK
SO THAT EVERYBODY WOULD KNOW
WHERE HE WAS TO MAKE THE ARRESEASY.
DID YOU WITNESS ANYTHING?
HOW DO YOU SUPPORT HIM MOVING
FORWARD?
DIDDY IS THE FATHER OF SEVEN
CHILDREN.
HE HAS THREE ADULT SONS AND FOUR
DAUGHTERS.
HIS ADULT SONS HAVE BEEN VERY
PUBLICLY SUPPORTIVE AND THEY
SHOWED UP, YOU KNOW, TO SUPPORHIM AT HIS ARRAIGNMENT.
HES CONFIDENT.
HES DEALING WITH THIS HEAD
ON, JUST LIKE HES DEALT WITH
EVERY CHALLENGE IN HIS LIFE.
DIDDY PLEADED NOT GUILTY, AND
HE WAS DENIED BAIL TWICE.
THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF MONEY,
NO AMOUNT OF SECURITY MEASURES
THAT COULD BE PUT IN PLACE THATHESE JUDGES BELIEVE WOULD NOMAKE HIM A FLIGHT RISK AND NOMAKE HIM A DANGER TO THOSE
AROUND HIM.
THE FIRST TIME SEAN COMBS
CAME INTO COURT I THOUGHT HE
LOOKED KIND OF STUNNED, ALMOST.
THIS IS A WHOLE NEW REALITY THAHES FACING.
AND IN THAT MOMENT HE MAY WELL
HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE GRAVITY OF
THE CHARGES.
SEAN COMBS IS FACING A THREE
COUNT INDICTMENT -- RACKETEERING
CONSPIRACY, SEX TRAFFICKING, AND
TRANSPORTATION FOR THE PURPOSE
OF PROSTITUTION.
IT PUTS COMBS AS THE LEADER
OF WHAT PROSECUTORS CALLED THIS
CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE TO SUBJECWOMEN TO A PATTERN OF PHYSICAL
AND SEXUAL ABUSE.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE THREE
COUNTS THAT SEAN COMBS IS
FACING, THE RACKETEERING
CONSPIRACY CHARGE IS THE TOP
CHARGE.
AND WITHIN IT ARE A NUMBER OF
CRIMES.
THERE IS KIDNAPPING, FORCED
LABOR BRIBING OF WITNESSES.
PROSECUTORS BECAME CONCERNED
THAT SEAN COMBS WAS GOING TO
OBSTRUCT THE FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION, WHICH IS ONGOING,
AND TAMPER WITH WITNESSES.
IN SEAN COMBS APPEAL FOR HIS
BAIL JUDGE CARTER SAID THAOBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IS A REAL
CONCERN FOR HIM.
AND, IN SAYING THAT, HES
LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE OR THE
ALLEGED EVIDENCE THAT THE
PROSECUTION IS PROVIDING, THAAFTER CASSIES CIVIL LAWSUIT,
AFTER EVEN THE RAID, SEAN COMBS
BEGAN COMMUNICATING AND REACHING
OUT TO PEOPLE WITHIN HIS CIRCLE,
WOMEN THAT ARE ALLEGED VICTIMS,
TRYING TO ENSURE THAT THEYRE
NOT GOING TO COME FORWARD WITH
ANY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM.
THANK YOU, GUYS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
IF COMBS IS CONVICTED AS
CHARGED, HE COULD BE FACING
DECADES IN PRISON.
THE CLOSEST ANALOGY WOULD BE THE
SEX CHARGES AGAINST R. KELLY.
LATE TODAY, A FEDERAL JURY
FOUND R. KELLY GUILTY OF
RACKETEERING AND SEX
TRAFFICKING.
PROSECUTORS ACCUSING HIM OF
LEADING A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE OF
BODYGUARDS, MANAGERS AND OTHER
EMPLOYEES TO RECRUIT AND ABUSE
WOMEN, UNDERAGE GIRLS AND A
TEENAGE BOY.
WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THE
SEAN COMBS ALLEGATIONS, I WASNSURPRISED.
NOTHING REALLY SURPRISES ME
THESE DAYS.
LIZ
LIZZETT MARTINEZ MET HOLMES
IN THE EARLY 90s.
THE ONLY TIME THAT I MET SEAN
COMBS WAS IN THE LATE 90s AT A
MUSIC CONFERENCE THAT WAS GOING
ON IN MIAMI.
AND -- HES, LIKE, HEY, YOU HAVE
THE MOST -- YOU HAVE REALLY
PRETTY EYES, LIKE, STARTED TO
COMPLIMENT ME.
AND I JUST LOOKED AT MY FRIEND.
I WAS JUST, LIKE, IVE BEEN DOWN
THIS ROAD BEFORE KIND OF THING.
I DIDNT HAVE A GOOD FEELING
ABOUT IT.
I CANNOT UNSEE THAT CASSIE
VIDEO.
YOU CAN TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU
WANT ABOUT THAT VIDEO.
I COULD NOT UNSEE IT.
YOU PUT YOURSELF ON THE LINE.
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL
RECKONING MOMENTS IN THE WORLD
OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE MUSIC
WORLD.
MYSELF AND OTHER WOMEN SHARED
STORIES OF THE VARIOUS WAYS WE
WERE APPROACHED.
WE TALKED ABOUT THE MISOGYNY IN
THE INDUSTRY.
THE WAY WOMEN ARE TALKED
ABOUT IN THE HIP-HOP INDUSTRY,
ITS SO VIAL.LE.
ITS SO HATEFUL.
AS THOUGH WOMEN ARE THINGS TO BE
USED AND CONSUMED.
AND THATS NOT TO SAY THAT THERE
ISNT PREDATORY BEHAVIOR GOING
ON IN ROCK AND COUNTRY AND ANY
OTHER GENRE OF MUSIC, BUT LIKE,
HIP-HOP IS JUST OPEN ABOUT ITS
HATRED FOR WOMEN IN WAYS THAOTHER GENRES OF MUSIC ARE NOT.
EVERY TIME, WHICH IS SAD THATHERE IS AN EVERY TIME, BUT WHEN
SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS, YOU
HOPE THAT THERE IS SOME KIND OF
RECKONING, BUT THERE IS SO MUCH
INGRAINED IN THIS CULTURE THAITS REALLY HARD TO TELL.
SO, THE HOPE IS THAT THACHANGES, BUT WILL IT?
THE BIGGER THEY RISE, THE
HARDER THEY FALL.
FROM THE FANCY JETS, THE FANCY
JEWELRY, THE LUXURIOUS
LIFESTYLE, SEAN COMBS IS TONIGHIN ONE OF THE
TAKE SOME MONEY MAN
APPRECIATE YOU.
SEAN COMBS LED THE LIFE THAMANY OF US WOULD ONLY DREAM OF.
ITS A CELEBRATION OF LIFE.
THIS IS THE REAL LIFE.
THE WAY HE DRESSED, THE WAY
HE TRAVELED, THE WAY HE PARTIED,
HIS PRESENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
FEW COULD COMPARE.
THE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
HOMES, THE PRIVATE JETS, FLYING
FROM HERE TO THERE.
BUT NOW HELL BE HOUSED IN THE
METROPOLITAN DETENTION CENTER.
IT HAS HAD A RATHER NOTABLE
ROSTER OF INMATES.
R. KELLY WAS THERE FOR A TIME
BEFORE HE STOOD TRIAL IN
BROOKLYN.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL.
EL CHAPO SPENT TIME THERE.
WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT MDC,
THEY USE WORDS LIKE INFAMOUS,
CORRUPT, VIOLENT.
ITS DANGEROUS.
THERE ARE CONSTANT FIGHTS AND
LOCKDOWNS.
ITS GOING TO BE A VERY, VERY
DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE CHANGE FOR
HIM.
IN THIS INDUSTRY WHERE PEOPLE
LOVE THE TALK, NO ONE TALKED
ABOUT THIS PART OF SEAN COMBS
LIFE, BUT NOW EVERYONE HAS AN
OPINION.
PEOPLE ARE TALKING.
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD ON RADIO HAS
HAD PLENTY TO SAY.
BEING IN THAT CELL IS
PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME IN
FOREVER HES FORCED TO SISTILL.
REALITY IS GOING TO HIT HIM
HARD.
WHATEVER HES BEEN RUNNING FROM,
HE CANNOT RUN NO MORE.
HE WAS KNOWN TO HAVE THE
MIDAS TOUCH, AND NOW HIS TOUCH
IS ANYTHING BUT GOLDEN.
ITS ALLEGEDLY CRIMINAL.
IM GOING TO SCREAM FROM THE
ROOFTOPS.
ITS NOT JUST HIM.
ITS A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.
IM GONNA CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE
AND DO SOMETHING TO REALLY
CHANGE THIS.
SEAN COMBS WAS NOT MADE IN A
VACUUM.
PEOPLE ARE REALLY OVERLY
IMPRESSED BY MEN.
WE DO NOT HOLD MEN TO RIGOROUS
STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR,
PARTICULARLY FAMOUS MEN, RIGHT?
WE DONT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION
THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO WOMEN
WHEN WERE JUDGING THEIR
CHARACTER.
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS, LIKE,
WHERE THIS IS GOING TO LEAD.
CELEBRITIES WERE AT THESE
PARTIES.
PEOPLE COULD BE CAUGHT IN THANET.
AND I THINK THAT ALSO, YOU KNOW,
PLAYS INTO THE FACT OF WHY YOU
HAVENT HEARD PEOPLE SPEAK ON
DIDDY AND SPEAK ON A LOT OF
THESE ALLEGATIONS.
WEVE RECEIVED ACCUSATIONS
AGAINST VERY WELL-KNOWN
CELEBRITIES THAT ALLEGEDLY
PARTICIPATED IN THESE AFTER
PARTIES THAT WERE EITHER IN THE
ROOM, MAYBE WITNESSING THESE
SEXUAL ASSAULTS TAKING PLACE OR
EVEN PARTICIPATING IN THEM.
HOW DOES THE STORY END FOR
HIM?
HOW IT TURNS OUT, LIKE, ONCE
ALL THINGS ARE SAID AND DONE,
I CANT IMAGINE SOMEBODY THATS
LIVED A LIFE THAT LAVISH, LIKE,
FACING THE MUSIC AND, LIKE,
GOING TO JAIL.
BUT I THINK THATS WHERE ITS
GOING TO END THOUGH.
TOO MUCH HAS HAPPENED.
TOO MUCH HAS HAPPENED.
IM EXTREMELY PROUD OF THE
WOMEN AND MEN.
IM NOT GOING TO SIT HERE AND
SAY, YOU KNOW, THE TRIALS GOING
TO BE EASY.
ITS NOT.
HOWEVER, WE DID IT AND YOU HAVE
A WHOLE SURVIVOR ARMY BEHIND
YOU.
NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL THESE
PEOPLE PORTRAY THEMSELVES TO BE,
SO ARE YOU.
I THINK ONE CAN MAKE THE
ARGUMENT THAT HIP-HOP IS ON
TRIAL, BUT I THINK WEVE SEEN
WITH THE FALL OF OTHER
HIGH-PROFILE CELEBRITIES THAENTERTAINMENT IS ON TRIAL.
POWER IS ON TRIAL.
SOMEHOW, WHEN POWER IS IN THE
HANDS OF TOO FEW PEOPLE, TOO
OFTEN THEY ABUSE IT.
YOU CANT LOOK AWAY ANYMORE.