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HARVEY LEVIN Diddy is
in the crosshairs of the Feds.
And they mean business.
You would have thought they were taking down a violent gang
leader, not somebody who makes music and has
charmed America for decades.
Diddy is under criminal investigation
after multiple lawsuits accused him of horrific crimes.
Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs accused of sex
trafficking and sexual assault.
Now, people who lived in Diddy's
world are talking to TMZ.
And what they say is revealing and disturbing.
I knew all of that was going on.
I've known the whole time.
I've seen Puff have anger spazzes on producers, females.
I'm a savage!
Whatever I want, I'm going to get!
Whatever I want, I have to get!
Diddy's alleged bad behavior
went unchecked for years.
There have always been whispers
and rumblings about Diddy.
His famous friends
are heading for the hills.
They have 250 cameras they took out his house.
A lot of people might be running from that tape.
I don't think it's only celebrities going to be shook.
He had politicians in there.
He had princes in there.
He also had a couple of preachers in there.
People may fear that somehow, he makes it out of this.
What did they fear?
A flat tire, being murdered, I don't know.
But Suge knight,
Diddy's archenemy, shockingly, is sad over Diddy's undoing.
I been seeing this dude shake back from some stuff, right?
So I'm not going to count him out.
TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy.
I had just gotten out of the shower
and walked inside of the studio.
And it was such a nice day.
I'm like, let me go sit outside on a bench for a little while.
I heard a big boom.
Then I heard like, goo, goo, goo, goo, goo, goo, goo,
goo, like the sounds of like, armored vehicles coming,
approaching.
Simultaneous raids on March 25th, 2024,
a massive show of force, dozens of Homeland Security officers
rolled up in armored vehicles at Sean Diddy Combs' mansions
in Miami and LA.
Diddy's close friend and producer
Stevie J was at the Miami property when things got real.
Guys jumped out--
you know what I'm saying?--
guns up and aimed.
Get up.
Get on the fucking ground.
Drop your fucking phone.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm like, yo, I'm here by myself, you know?
I didn't ask too many questions.
I've seen quite a lot of things, but none
with the excessive force of this right here.
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.
Breaking news-- 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.
You can see a crowbar to get through this gate
initially as well, 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.
You know him as Diddy, formerly
Puff Daddy, big-time rapper, big-time producer,
big-time superstar.
And now, the Feds at his houses in both locations.
Federal officers spent hours
removing firearms, computers, boxes
and bags of items, both properties left in shambles.
They didn't do this to Harvey Weinstein, man.
They didn't do this like this to Epstein, right?
Diddy's lawyer called
the raids a gross overuse of military-level force and a witch
hunt.
He said Mr. Combs is innocent and will
continue to fight every single day to clear his name.
I don't know what they're looking for
or where they're trying to reach.
In LA, two of Diddy's sons,
Justin and King were briefly detained, then released.
A week later, Justin's mom, Misa Hylton,
posted this shocking video on social media, security footage
from inside the house.
Officers with guns drawn and pointed toward Justin
and his brother, King.
Misa called it overzealous and deplorable.
It's hard for me to imagine that, had this
been many other celebrities, particularly white celebrities,
that their children would have been in handcuffs
and they would have been forced to stare down the barrel of guns
and seeing armored tanks.
It just seemed like a lot for a raid of a music producer.
You have to remember that Diddy
has been in trouble on some weapons violations in the past.
He has security.
These are vast compounds with multiple people at them.
And so using this type of force was not
inappropriate in any way, shape, or form.
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.
And that's why the search warrants were signed.
This is a massive investigation.
The idea that the feds have taken up
this investigation in the first place
indicates that it's remarkably serious.
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.
She has not spoken publicly since the new allegations
surfaced, until now.
If these allegations are true, why did it take so
long for others to speak out?
Because you really were a lone voice.
Real lone voice--
I was literally text messaging producers,
employers from top to bottom levels, like, y'all know
what the fuck you saw.
People were scared.
If you know enough, you likely would
be reasonable in being scared.
What did they fear?
Anything you possibly could, Harvey, a flat tire,
being murdered, I don't know.
There's a lot of things people fear.
People don't like to go after a powerful person
unless they're sure they will be victorious because if you go
after a powerful person, and it doesn't work out, as Omar
from The Wire said, you know, you come for the king,
you best not miss.
And people don't want to miss because if you miss,
that means you're shut out of the music industry,
you might be shut out of Hollywood,
you might lose opportunities.
And based on some of these rumors,
your car might blow up in your driveway.
- Oh, I love that. - Together, guys.
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.
Others who recently filed lawsuits against Diddy
did the same.
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--
whether that's cooperating witnesses or whether
that's allegations that are beyond what's currently
in the public domain, something that has given them
the indication to launch this investigation
at this broad of a scale.
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,
does any of that surprise you?
No.
I knew all of that was going on.
I've known the whole time.
I know what's gone on.
A whole lot of people do, Harvey.
It's a stunning downfall.
At 54, Diddy had it all--
wealth, fame, power.
The key to the city.
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.
Diddy wasn't home when the raids went down.
He was at a small Miami airport where he was
set to leave for a vacation.
He was questioned briefly by authorities and released.
TMZ captured these images of Diddy pacing
nervously after the encounter.
I guess you wondering what's going to happen next,
Diddy?
I know.
Diddy wasn't arrested that day.
But a member of his entourage was.
25-year-old Brendan Poole is now charged with possession
of cocaine and marijuana candy.
What's up, Puff? How are you doing, man?
How you doing, Diddy?
You're doing love.
- You good? - How y'all doing?
Good good, man.
Here's the thing.
There were rumblings about Diddy's bad behavior for years,
from drugs, to physical abuse, to guns.
But none of it derailed his success.
He seemed invincible.
I'm the best.
I'm not the worst.
I'm the best.
You know what I'm saying?
I've had my different things and point of views and stuff
like that in the past.
But I'm cured now, love, and everything is all right.
There you go.
But everything may not be all right for Diddy anymore.
Once the Feds' investigation is complete,
Diddy could face charges that could land him in prison
for the rest of his life.
Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs, accused of sex trafficking
and sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in federal court
here in New York.
Cassie describing the music mogul
as a vicious, cruel, and controlling man, saying she
was trapped and held down by Combs.
Cassie Ventura was Diddy's on-and-off-again
girlfriend for a decade.
And her allegations turned Diddy's world upside down.
I've been waiting, waiting
Think I want to make that move now
Cassie filed a lawsuit in November 2023.
And that was the catalyst for the federal investigation
and those military-style raids.
How unusual is it for the Feds to have their eyes
opened by civil litigation, which
seems to have happened here?
Well, it's certainly important for the Feds, the Department
of Justice, to have their eyes open to what's
going on around them.
With the Department of Homeland Security involved,
that indicates that this goes beyond the border.
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.
Cassie was a 19-year-old singer when
Diddy signed her to his Bad Boy record
label shortly after they met.
Cassie's self-titled album was released in 2006.
About a year later, her relationship with Diddy
became romantic.
In her lawsuit, Cassie claimed Diddy quickly lured
her into an ostentatious, fast-paced,
and drug-fueled lifestyle.
She said Diddy gave her copious amounts of drugs,
including opiates and ecstasy.
Cassie claimed Diddy was often violent, forced her
to carry a gun in her purse.
She says in 2012, Diddy became enraged
when he heard about a brief relationship
she had with rapper Kid Cudi during a rough patch with Diddy.
Diddy threatened to blow up Kid Cudi's car.
Kid Cudi confirmed his car had been blown up in his driveway.
In 2015, Cassie claims a severely intoxicated
Diddy dangled one of her friends off
his 17th-floor hotel balcony.
The complaint going on to accuse combs
of uncontrollable rage, alleging that he often punched, beat,
kicked, and stomped on her, then allegedly used his money to hide
evidence of abuse, including putting Ventura
up in a hotel for days to heal.
Cassie described one violent incident
where Diddy stomped on her face repeatedly,
causing her to bleed profusely.
She says Diddy's head of security tried to step in.
But he was unsuccessful.
From wild sex parties to sex workers,
the allegations against this music mogul are shocking.
At one point, also, she said that he
would force her to interact sexually with escorts.
And he would watch himself and enjoy himself and pleasure
himself while watching her.
They were called freak offs, a very interesting term.
I've never witnessed that type of behavior.
I don't know what the man do in his bedroom or nothing
like that.
They was rocking together, from what I know.
All I know is they both was rock stars, living their best
life, in a relationship.
Cassie claims she only participated in those freak-off
encounters because she was afraid
she'd be beaten if she refused.
Cassie also claimed near the end of their relationship,
Diddy forced his way into her home and raped her.
All of the Diddy controversy exploded
because of the Cassie lawsuit.
Once Cassie files that civil suit,
now people feel like it's not rumor or innuendo anymore.
You have somebody who was in a publicly known relationship
with him for a very long time.
And when that person is making allegations about freak offs,
and when that person is talking about different types
of potentially criminal activity that's being alleged,
now, people believe it.
One of the biggest legal blunders of all time
was when Cassie threatened a lawsuit unless Diddy
paid her $30 million.
He told her to pound sand, never believing she'd do it.
But she did.
Diddy's lawyer insisted Cassie was blackmailing his client.
But that lawsuit opened Pandora's box.
Social media, especially TikTok, went crazy.
And in a nanosecond, Diddy's reputation was trashed.
Ooh, Diddy, you are in trouble.
The stuff that he made her do is sick.
I hope Cassie gets the justice that she deserves.
Diddy, you are going to prison.
Honey, Cassie has brought the receipts on Diddy, honey.
And she's suing him for the things that he's done to her.
Diddy tried to stop the bleeding by settling with Cassie
just a day after she filed.
His lawyer said it was not an admission of wrongdoing.
But the damage was done.
Diddy's most egregious and fatal error
strategically was not settling with Cassie behind closed doors.
If he settles with Cassie behind closed doors,
there's a good chance that none of this controversy
is happening.
There's a good chance that other people wouldn't have
their own lawsuits pile on.
There's a good chance law enforcement
wouldn't have had their radars activated by all the allegations
of illegal activity.
There's a chance that Diddy would
just be living his normal billionaire life right now.
What more do I have to do, man?
Look at my hat, man.
Look at my hat.
Look how I show up on-- look how I
show up on the Amalfi Coast, B.
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.
And because of that, Diddy looks more guilty
than he did had he just settled behind closed
doors from the beginning.
If she said that he did it, he did it.
Did you read what-- did you read the things that he did to her?
P. Diddy going to jail.
Yeah, he going to jail.
When the lawsuit happened, it started a domino effect.
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.
It was very much like, oh, this is definitely
the one that's going to shake the table
and shake his foundation.
Suddenly, it was like everyone was just
coming out of the woodwork.
I was sick.
I was sick of you.
I was sick of everything that was going on around you.
I was sick of having to cover up everything that you did.
When Cassie found the strength to use her voice
and speak her truth, it gave other people
the courage to do the same.
And I think this is also just how this reckoning came to be.
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.
In fact, at least three other women came
forward and filed lawsuits.
Joy Dickerson Neal claimed Diddy drugged and sexually assaulted
her 33 years ago and secretly recorded the encounter
and then shared it with others.
Liza Gardner claimed Diddy raped her and a friend in 1990.
And another woman who refused to be named claimed Diddy
and two other men gang raped her when she was just 17.
Diddy is now facing another very serious lawsuit.
And, you know, this all started with the Cassie lawsuit.
And then there were two more accusers.
An anonymous accuser, as a Jane Doe, filed it in federal court
today.
And her allegation goes back to 2003.
It was bad for Diddy.
Four women had come forward within three weeks
in November and December 2023.
Diddy himself finally released a statement saying,
and this is a quote, "Enough is enough.
For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched
people try to assassinate my character,
destroy my reputation and my legacy.
Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals
looking for a quick payday."
Diddy's response to all of these lawsuits has been,
they're coming after my money.
Everybody's an extortionist.
That's not entirely untrue.
I mean, everybody connected to him in these lawsuits
has made money off of him.
They've expected payment from him.
But because somebody pays your bills,
doesn't mean that they're entitled to do harm to you.
It doesn't mean that they're entitled to exploit you or abuse
you or otherwise mistreat you.
So, yes, people might want more money from you.
But it doesn't mean you're off the hook.
New allegations of sexual harassment and assault
against Sean Diddy Combs.
On February 26th, 2024, yet another lawsuit was filed
against Diddy, this one from Rodney
Lil Rod Jones, one of Diddy's former
producers and videographers.
And the allegations were even more shocking.
He is alleging groping, fondling, grooming.
And he goes on and on about going
to a party where he says he was drugged and allegedly raped.
Rodney Lil Rod Jones worked with Diddy for about a year,
starting in 2022.
He claims he recorded hundreds of hours of video and audio
of Diddy, his staff, and others engaging
in serious illegal activity.
Everybody's just telling me what he's allegedly capable of.
And, you know, it's very scary for myself.
And, you know, has me worried about my kids and, you know,
just sleeping with the anxiety and different things like that.
So just moving forward, I'm just going to pause on everything
until we know that it's clear and safe for me
to come back outside of work.
Jones claims he has irrefutable evidence depicting,
among other things, Diddy's illicit drug
use and unregistered firearms.
Jones also claims he witnessed Diddy and other famous rappers
consorting with underage girls and sex workers.
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.
Daphne denies the claim.
Her donor.
And here's the clincher.
Jones alleges he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Diddy.
It's usually rare that a male will step forward and accuse
someone of sexual assault and participating in freak
offs and things of that nature.
When he came forward, it definitely
added to the disturbing claims that Diddy
was already up against.
It's just now, from a male perspective,
as someone who worked closely with him on his last album.
What's up, Diddy?
I want to tell anyone out there watching,
this is not about his sexuality.
That has been a big focus highlighted everywhere.
I think that Puffy is not man enough to come out
and simply say he's bisexual.
Bisexual, black male, sex cult.
Do you want to know what the judicial system cares about?
Crimes.
They don't care if a man has sex with a man
or a woman or 18 women.
And I believe in the justice system.
And the justice system doesn't raid anyone's
home over their sexuality.
NBC is learning exclusively
that the music producer accusing Diddy of sexual assault
and harassment is also accusing actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Now
he's saying Gooding groped and fondled him while they
were on Combs's yacht.
His case got more holes than a Jamaican shirt.
Little Rod is a fraud, man.
You know, he ain't got no legs to stand on.
This is merely an extortion attempt by him and his lawyer.
That's all I can say.
Diddy Attorney Shawn Holley told TMZ in a statement,
"Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 million
lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday.
His reckless namedropping about events that are pure fiction
and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent
attempt to garner headlines."
In fact, TMZ has learned there are some big problems
with Rodney Jones' lawsuit.
For one, it was filed by an attorney named Tyrone Blackburn,
who is under the microscope of a federal disciplinary committee
in New York.
A judge who ordered that committee
to look into Blackburn's tactics said the lawyer
had shown a pattern of filing--
and this is a quote--
"cases in federal court to garner media attention,
embarrass defendants with salacious allegations,
and pressure defendants to settle quickly."
Another big problem--
Jones included in the lawsuit a screengrab
he claimed was Diddy's producer and close friend Stevie
J having sex with another man.
But apparently, it wasn't Stevie J.
The photo is definitely not myself,
you know what I'm saying?
This lie has been ongoing for a long time.
A guy from the LGBT community, a porn star, he raised his hand.
He said, that's my dirty work.
That ain't my work.
That's cool if dudes do that.
But that's not my thing.
I like to embrace a nice woman with, you know.
I wasn't mad.
It's just like, for the hard work I put in for these 30 years
in this industry, this is what I got to resort to watching this?
My kids got to see this?
My mom got to see this?
It seemed much more like a tell-all rag book than
it did an actual civil lawsuit.
When you combine how bizarre the lawsuit looked with his attorney
being a little bit sketchy in terms of the kind of cases
he takes up, it felt like it could
be a bit of revenge combined with legitimate concern.
With all the allegations and a federal investigation
that seems to be closing in on Diddy,
you'd think it's over for him.
But don't count him out just yet.
Diddy has dodged bullets before, and lots of them.
This is not Combs' first run-in with the law.
He was arrested in April for assaulting a record executive.
Combs testified before a grand jury this week.
Combs was arrested at the university's
Acosta Athletic Training Complex for assault.
He also had run ins with the law, accused
of assaulting a photographer.
He's been having controversy since the early '90s.
And he's never been convicted of any serious crimes.
He's been-- lots of allegations, lots of accusations.
His first bout with trouble was way back in 1991.
Diddy co-promoted an event in New York City.
The number of folks who showed up
was nearly twice the capacity for the venue,
resulting in a stampede that led to nine deaths and 29 injuries.
The things I deal with can
no way measure up to the pain that the families deal with.
And I just pray for the families.
And I pray for the children that lost their lives.
Diddy was at the center of a violent incident
again in December 1999.
And this time, one of the biggest stars on the planet
would be pulled into the fray.
Police say Lopez and Combs were picked up,
along with his bodyguard and driver,
fleeing a shooting in a Manhattan nightclub
that left three people injured.
Diddy was dating Jennifer Lopez.
One night, he took her out to a New York City nightclub
when all hell broke loose.
So essentially, J.Lo and Diddy were out,
partying with a couple of his friends, their friends,
Shyne, another rapper.
And an altercation ensued.
Shots were fired.
I feel terrible that people were hurt that night.
Puffy is talking about the shooting
inside Club New York in the wee hours of Monday morning.
Three people were shot.
None of them received life-threatening injuries.
Police say after the shooting, Puffy and his equally famous
girlfriend, actress-singer Jennifer Lopez,
fled in a Lincoln Navigator.
Three people were shot and injured.
Diddy, J.Lo and a bodyguard named
Anthony Wolf Jones were later arrested,
charged, and hauled into jail.
Mr. Combs feels very confident.
Mr. Combs is not guilty.
He is focused.
He wants the trial to start.
And he is confident that when it's over,
he'll be standing out here, telling you
that he's just been acquitted.
Diddy was found not guilty.
Shyne was convicted of assault and reckless endangerment.
He served nine years in prison.
But questions linger.
Was it actually Diddy who pulled the trigger?
And did Shyne just take the fall?
I literally watched them pull out the guns.
I had a clear point of view.
I mean, for God's sake, I got shot in my nose.
I was facing them directly.
I watched everything occur and have described it,
you know, vehemently to all parties involved.
I have nine bullet fragments remaining in my face.
Diddy arrested for making terrorist threats at UCLA.
It involves his son.
It involves a very famous football coach
and an altercation that ended up with Diddy holding a kettlebell.
And the question, was he trying to hit
this coach with a kettlebell?
Or was he trying to defend himself?
The one thing you got to do is you have
to be there for your kids 110%.
So as a father, if you feel-- or a mother--
anybody can relate to if you feel
like you have to go and straighten
something out for your child.
Was there a kettlebell involved?
I went there to communicate.
Diddy was charged with three counts of assault
with a deadly weapon, one count of making terrorist threats,
and one count of battery.
But the DA wound up dropping the case.
He kind of just has a way of getting
out of very tough situations.
And he's been doing so for decades.
Rapper and songwriter Mark Curry
worked with Diddy for nearly a decade
and says Diddy definitely has an ugly side.
I've seen Puff have anger spazzes on producers, females.
I'm a savage!
Whatever I want, I'm going to get!
Whatever I want, I have to get!
A&Rs, people who work for him,
so not just the females.
It's guys, producers.
I seen him spaz.
Curry remembers a particularly nasty incident between Diddy
and the mother of four of his children, Kim Porter.
You saw him get physical with Kim?
I didn't see him get physical with Kim.
But I know situations where, let's say if Kim said
she fell on the boat and broke her nose, and I say,
that's not actually what happened.
She went into it.
She just got a broke nose.
I think her and Puff went to home together.
And then next thing you know, she had the Band-Aid on.
So you already know what happened.
So she didn't-- she slipped and she fell.
No, I don't think that because they was just
arguing real big last night.
He was really mad.
Kim Porter died of pneumonia in 2018.
But she was just one of a long list of women who
were allegedly abused by Diddy.
Ex-girlfriend Gina Huynh went public with this story in 2019.
He, like, stomped on my stomach, like, really hard.
And I-- like, took the wind out of my breath.
I couldn't even-- I couldn't breathe.
But he kept hitting me.
And I was like, pleading to him, like, can you just--
can you stop?
I can't breathe.
And he, like, stopped for a little bit.
He, like, grabbed my hair from the back
and, like, was, like, punching the back of my head
because he was just avoiding my face
when he was, like, hitting me.
Diddy's attorney calls Huynh's allegations quote
"false and unsubstantiated."
If Puff put his hands on a female,
he would do it behind a closed door.
And when the door opened, you would be like, wow,
somebody has on a bandage.
Did you ever see anything like that
where somebody came out of a room looking injured or upset
like that?
Yeah.
You go in the room, you walk in, you come out not
looking the way you went in.
Diddy's legal team tells TMZ,
"Mr. Curry's statements about what he thinks probably occurred
between Mr. Combs and Ms. Porter are pure
speculation and not based on any personal
observations or knowledge."
More money, more problems.
It's just the way it is.
Hey, we're coming back to you, Billy.
I'm the D to the A to the DDY
I know you'd rather see me die than to see me fly
I call all the shots, rip all the spots
Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops
Before the latest allegations came to light,
Diddy was known as one of the most
powerful and successful stars in music, his rags to riches story,
extraordinary
Sean Combs had a rough childhood growing up in Harlem.
His mother worked with kids with special needs,
his father, a drug dealer.
Diddy was exposed to crime and violence early on.
When he was just three years old,
his father was shot and killed while sitting
in a car in New York City.
But did he maintains his drive for success came from his dad.
That swag landed him an internship
at a record company at age 20.
And he quickly started moving up the ranks.
What's up?
My name is Puff Daddy.
This is my new artist, The Notorious B.I.G.
And we're here at the Outkast picnic,
just getting our swerve all the way on.
He was driven.
He was passionate.
He was motivated.
He knew what he wanted out of the gate.
We making music strictly for the streets.
We appreciate y'all support.
And it's all good.
He knew that he was going to be on top.
He has his struggle of an upbringing.
And then he comes out, and he's this ferocious beast.
And he wants to just dominate the industry.
Don't push us cause we're close to the edge
We're trying not to lose our heads
Ah-ha, ha, ha, ha
He had his first number one hit on the Billboard
hip-hop charts in 1997 with Can't Nobody Hold me Down
and would go on to earn the top spot 10 more times.
Well, come on, take it low
You can even do it slow
Either way you want to go
Just take that to the floor
Drop something, move something, shake your tail feather
I take pride in being one of the, you know, most successful
producers in hip-hop history.
I have the most number ones as a hip-hop artist.
Add to that three Grammys,
and in 2023, the MTV Video Music Awards Global Icon Award.
And nobody deserves to be called
an icon more than this man, Diddy Puff Daddy love.
All I am is a man with ambition to be the best
When I failed, it just gave me the vision--
But conquering the music world wasn't enough for Diddy.
He became a one-man marketing machine.
Your collection is great.
- You're watching-- - Revolt.
- Revolt.
Revolt.
It's a revolution
Ciroc is for the culture.
I feel like he always knew in the back of his mind,
like, his end goal was to be a mogul.
All this has made Diddy very, very rich.
His estimated net worth close to $1 billion.
Big smile, Diddy.
Oh, my God.
Diddy has lived a life of extravagance--
multiple homes, planes.
Black excellence.
Yachts, cars, and of course--
--those legendary parties.
I would hang out and watch him throw parties.
Sure, he famously threw, like, his white party.
He would throw a party.
One point, I went to Philly, followed
him all the way to Philly.
He threw a party.
And he said, yo, playboy, this party costs
a million and a half dollars.
They're actually fun parties, a lot
of famous people, star studded.
You'd be sometimes amazed by some of the people
that you see there.
Some of the people who attended
the parties have said that there was a lot of sex
during these parties.
And that kind opens the door to some of the allegations
that we've been reading about.
What about that?
So there was a lot of sex.
But it didn't happen at the party.
It was after parties, not necessarily at the party.
Now, what time would your party start, let's say?
Like 9:30.
- Really, that early? - Yeah.
I could make that.
Yeah.
But I think--
I think of you of starting a party at like midnight.
Like, what time will it go till?
That's a different type of party, though.
Uh-huh.
No, I mean, the after party.
No, I know about them.
There have always been whispers
and rumblings about Diddy.
The whisperings and rumblings, though, weren't
about criminal activity.
They were simply about his party lifestyle.
They were about his social activities
and maybe even his sexual activities.
There's always been whispers and rumors and innuendo.
But, like many things in Hollywood,
it was on a need-to-know basis.
Those who knew, knew.
And many fans and everyday people,
especially before social media, were completely in the dark
about what was going on.
What's up, boss?
How's it going, sir?
Nice to see you.
Easy.
Over time, however, we've come to see
more, hear more, and know more.
Aubrey O'Day sounded the alarm for years
that Diddy was a dangerous man.
She was dismissed as disgruntled and bitter.
A lot of people now think Aubrey was telling the truth all along.
After Cassie filed her lawsuit, you said, "Been trying
to tell y'all for years."
What were you trying to tell people?
That Diddy was not a safe human
and that you should be careful if you're planning
on entering any type of relationship with him,
from business to personal.
And this was based on your personal experience.
Yes.
Did he ever mistreat you?
Yes.
Have you ever seen Making the Band?
Yeah.
"Did he ever mistreat you?" is the funniest question
I think I've ever heard.
Of course.
Aubrey worked under Diddy for close to five years
as a member of the girl group, Danity Kane.
Hey y'all, look over this way, please.
Undress me with his eye
Hold on. Hold on.
And she was famously fired from the group by Diddy
on Making the Band.
You want to show all your skin.
You want to be naked.
If you are not happy and you hate me,
then why do you have me here? - I don't have to have here.
That's one thing that we can make clear.
Why do you have me here?
That's thing we can make clear.
I don't have to have you here. - But I'm asking you.
I'm trying--
I want to know, why do you have me here?
Because every time, it's just, I'm such a problem.
Check this out. You clear on that.
You understand now.
I'm asking myself, why do I have you here?
'Cause I'mma tell you like this, I don't like her energy.
I don't like her style and direction
where she's going with it.
I don't like what she does to the brand
when she's wilding out there, being overly raunchy,
promiscuous.
So there's nothing else to talk about.
Would you like to go with her?
Because she's not going to be in Danity Kane.
The mistreatment is enough to have
changed the course and direction of my entire life.
The mistreatment was enough for me
to have to spend a good amount of time
in the hands of professionals to learn what grooming is
and unlearn the grooming.
The treatment was so bad in some regards that I'm not
ready to speak about it yet.
But I will.
Are you talking verbal, physical, or both?
That's not a question that I'm prepared to dive into right now.
But I can say this, as that seems
to be a question that a lot of people love to ask.
Does it matter?
I've been in physically abusive situations.
The verbal ones hurt me way more.
The abuse was significant enough to change the course of my life.
I don't work these amount of years
to have you talk to me this way.
I'm not meaning to disrespect you.
So I don't want you in the group no more.
OK.
Because I don't want to even have to have this conversation.
On Making the Band alone, we experienced
intimidation tactics.
We experienced body shaming, beat downs.
And then when we thought we were absolutely nothing--
and I'm talking from sleep deprivation to bunkers.
It was very like training us to be good soldiers.
Do you feel that he was looking for young people who
never had a frame of reference, like you,
where it would be easier to do whatever you say he did?
I can't tell you his intentions because I don't
live inside that man's brain.
I never plan to.
And I pray I never go anywhere close to what that is.
Everything is just always about Diddy.
And whatever Diddy's narrative is over there,
you're being told it from every angle.
And you meet a person that is an excellent groomer.
What happens is they start to let
you know what's wrong with you.
That starts to make you question the things that you
believe about yourself.
Can I ask a question?
What do you want to look like, though?
Do you want to look like a Playboy Playmate?
Do you want to look like you--
Puff, I'm done with all of that.
No, no, no.
What do you want to look like, though?
OK, I'll tell you. I'll tell you.
What do you want to look like? You like big hair, though.
- I don't like big hair. - You do like big hair.
You like big hair.
Puff, you need to stop your generalizations about me.
You like a look-- you like a lot of makeup and all that.
His narrative of me, promiscuous, problematic,
all that rah rah, you know, the bad-- all the negatives,
that's why the only offer I had after being fired on national
television in front of the world as a child
came from Hugh Hefner.
And it was to do the cover of Playboy.
But I had to work very hard to get anyone
to give me an opportunity.
I notice you have a Danity Kane necklace on.
I'm just wondering how you process Danity Kane, which,
in so many ways, gave opportunities,
but is so connected to Diddy.
Does that make you sad?
Can you distinguish between Diddy and your success there?
Or is it all just so intertwined?
Complex question-- quickest answer--
if you do enough work on yourself, you can get to a place
where you will be able to distinguish
yourself from abusers and toxic situations.
Anyone out there that has gone through that or is in that right
now, please, hear me, resonate with me in this moment.
You can distinguish every piece of it.
You can separate them.
And you can pick what parts you are going to carry
with you into your future.
So I wear this necklace for my ladies out there.
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.
Last September, Diddy did something to counter some
of the rumors he was a monster.
I read that you are going to actually give back
the publishing rights to a bunch of artists on your label, which
is incredible 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.
Yes, us, as a people, have to look
within and do the right thing.
So it was just the right thing to do.
And it's reform for the industry and reform
for just us as people.
Well, you're an incredible human.
When TMZ ran the headline-- and I
have a screenshot of it because I do want to call you out.
I received the publishing deal.
I know what it says.
I know how much money it was giving me.
I'll tell you, 330 cents.
$300.30 for a full release of all claims against
Diddy and many other players.
Never can disparage Diddy on any social media site,
on any podcast, on any format.
Never have any rights to any claims again over any type
of wrongdoings with your music or with any of these parties
listed.
Once you sign it, in fact, it said,
you can never mention the existence of this contract
ever again.
What do you think was behind him making a move
to return rights for so little?
At this point in time, what do you
think his motivation was there?
I think you would probably be making
moves to keep as many people quiet as possible.
When I went to look at the publishing deal,
it said anything but, I'm being made whole financially again.
In fact, it asked me to not be able to have access to my story
and my experience anymore.
It asked me specifically to stay silent
and never speak poorly about a human.
So then I realized something really bad
is coming because this isn't a man that was reformed.
I'm just not who I am before.
I'm something different.
So my new name is Love.
Do you know what the word "love" means to everybody?
We live and die to find a human on this Earth
that will genuinely love us.
The man took the most beautiful, precious, unreachable words,
livable lifetime words, and put it in his fucking name,
had his publicist send you a lie or a reformation of the truth.
And everybody maybe signed it and can't talk.
I don't know why no one else is coming forward and talking
about this, frankly.
How do you describe yourself?
I'm vivacious, eccentric, and I'm a Scorpio.
What's one misconception about you?
There are no misconceptions about me.
There's no doubt the conversations around Diddy
have changed significantly since Cassie's lawsuit came out.
And things that may have seemed innocent in the past
are now being looked at in an entirely different way.
You know, where we're hanging out and what we're doing,
we can't really disclose.
But it's definitely a 15-year-old's dream.
A video of Diddy with a then-15-year-old
Justin Bieber surfaced.
It was taken while Bieber was visiting Diddy's home.
And given all the new allegations,
it seemed, well, a little weird.
He signed to Usher.
I'm signed to Usher.
I had legal guardianship of Usher
when he did his first album.
Yes.
I did Usher's first album.
I don't really-- I don't have legal guardianship of him.
But for the next 48 hours, he's with me.
So, yeah, and we're going to go fool, butt fool crazy.
We're going crazy.
Speculation as to what he saw at Diddy's home
ran rampant on social media.
Did P. Diddy groom a very young Justin Bieber?
And people say it almost looks like Justin
Bieber didn't want to be there.
It looks like it was completely scripted.
And P. Diddy looked completely suspicious.
I think it's clear that Justin Bieber
definitely looks uncomfortable.
Watching it gives me, personally,
a very weird pit in my stomach, especially watching it
through the lens of all of the accusations against Diddy
right now.
A few days later, a second bizarre video
emerged of Diddy and Justin that just added fuel to the fire.
Selling out arenas and everything,
starting to act different, huh?
You ain't been calling me and hanging out
the way we used to hang out.
Well, I mean, you haven't--
I mean, you tried to get in contact with me,
you know, through all my, you know, you know,
partners and whatnot.
Mm hmm.
But you never really got my number.
Right, OK.
Want my number?
Then another video resurfaced and raised eyebrows--
Usher talking to Howard Stern about what
he saw when he moved in with Diddy when he was just 13.
His manager sent him there to learn what life as a star
was all about.
I went there to see the lifestyle.
- Right. - And I saw it.
And it was-- but I don't know if I could indulge and understand
what I was even looking at.
Biggie Smalls was there.
Biggie Smalls was there, Lil' Kim, Craig Mack.
All these people are hanging around.
Yeah, man.
Faith Evans, Jodeci, Mary J. Blige.
And your parents were OK?
They ain't know nothing about this shit.
Oh.
I was having a good time, you know what I mean?
But Usher later expressed concern
about what he was exposed to when he was living with Diddy.
I mean, I'm 13 years old.
I'm not here to party with you.
I don't want to go to the clubs.
Matter of fact, I'm too young to even be in here.
Why you got me in clubs?
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.
Usher and Bieber have not commented
on the latest allegations.
But other artists have taken Diddy to task.
50 Cent, who's tangled with him for years, tweeted, "It's not
Diddy do it, it's Diddy done."
He's corny.
He's Uncle Tom.
That's who Curtis is.
He want to see the Black man go down before anybody else,
know what I'm saying?
He's just sore.
He's just sore because his baby mother is with Puff.
Don't be sore.
Don't be a hater.
You know what I'm saying?
Get greater.
So with him, he's just a troll.
Mary J. Blige, a friend of Diddy's for 30 years,
posted, "Unfortunately, a lot of you
all met me when I lacked boundaries
and was a people pleaser.
Let me reintroduce myself.
I burn bridges as needed," apparently referring to her
own experience with Diddy.
Diddy has befriended some of the biggest names
in entertainment for decades.
Yet, none of those stars have come out to defend him, not one.
That may say less about Diddy and more about Hollywood.
Hollywood is eerily and noticeably
quiet about all of the Diddy controversy right now.
And I think it's a very simple reason for it.
And that is, people in glass houses
don't want to throw stones.
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.
The radio silence around this case, in my opinion,
is highly unusual.
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, he did have supporters early on.
Diddy has none.
It's crickets.
A lot of these cats, they don't have-- first of all,
they don't have the heart.
Second of all, it's like, I can't
be seen standing next to him while that's going on.
I don't want people to look at me funny.
So you got those that just won't come near it because they
don't want to be affected.
And that's just the way it is.
There are a lot of people who are
probably implicated in his events, in his activities.
Even if they're not criminally guilty,
they just might have been at a party.
They may just have been hanging out.
And if he gets attached to something that is considered
awful or outside the boundaries of what you're allowed to do,
then no one wants to be connected to him at all.
Is there another reason why other people aren't
speaking out in his defense?
I think a lot of people are just trying to understand--
understand what is and what's not.
You know?
Another reason people aren't coming to Diddy's defense--
Diddy was allegedly obsessed with recording
everything that went on in his homes, everything.
If they have 250 cameras they took out his house,
they have a whole bunch of images or footage
of things that were going on around his house.
A lot of people might be running from that tape.
I don't think it's only celebrities going to be shook.
He had politicians in there.
He had princes in there.
He also had a couple of preachers in there.
Diddy is a powerful person.
You don't get to be a billionaire
without being powerful and without being
connected to powerful people.
So Diddy knows politicians, entertainers,
philanthropists, academics.
You name it, he's connected to them.
And so if we start unraveling the thread of Diddy's networks,
you're going to find a lot of people.
And like Jeffrey Epstein, some of them might be implicated.
Do you find it a little hypocritical that there are
a lot of people who are so silent now, who are so
quick to canceling others when they're not involved
or even remotely associated?
There is an interesting contradiction
that we are witnessing in real time right now.
There are people who are very quick to cancel people,
people who are very quick to say, lock
them up, throw away the key.
At the same time, those very same voices
are saying nothing about Diddy.
Now, it's not because their morals have changed.
It's not because their philosophy has shifted.
It's a much more simple answer than that.
They're scared because they're tied up with him some way,
somehow.
I think there's a possibility that people
may fear that somehow he makes it out of this.
And if he does, he's probably taking a long list of anybody
that's speaking on things.
And maybe also because everybody's
done things that they wouldn't want people to know
and they fear that involving themself in a conversation
like that puts them at risk.
Cassie scared a whole lot of fucking men.
There's people wrapping up their business nice and tight
now because there are many more.
And some people just aren't talking
because they're afraid of retaliation
from Diddy's adversaries.
TMZ was scheduled to do an interview with one of Diddy's
former employees for this documentary, one who was
actually going to defend him.
But they backed out, stating in a text,
"I'm worried Diddy has many enemies.
I'm afraid that if I give my thoughts on what I experienced,
I may be ruled a target.
I have a comfortable and cozy life.
Not sure if I want to disrupt it."
But Diddy does have some defenders
who aren't afraid to speak out.
And one of them is someone you would never, ever expect.
Responsibility for the so-called feud
between East Coast and West Coast rappers,
a feud that allegedly led to the murders of Tupac Shakur
and Notorious B.I.G. Rap artists and producers call for an end
to the rivalry and the violence.
But how long will the peace last?
Only time will tell.
Diddy and rap executive Suge Knight have
been arch enemies for years.
East Coast versus West Coast, Diddy's Bad Boy Label
based in New York and Suge's Death Row Records
based in LA, a rivalry that was incredibly bitter.
Any artist out there want to be an artist
and want to stay a star and don't
want to have to worry about the executive producer trying to be
all in the videos, all on the records, dancing,
come to Death Row.
I know that it--
what?
Are they crazy?
I was like, wow.
And I was like, you know, I could blow this thing up
right now, you know?
And sometimes, it got downright violent.
A rivalry so bitter that it's
led to the death of two of rap's most successful artists.
So you'd think Suge Knight would
be reveling in all the allegations against Diddy,
right?
Wrong.
I talked to him on the phone from a California prison
where he's serving 28 years for a fatal hit and run.
And what he told me blew me away.
I got to say, I am shocked at what you just said.
I thought you were going to almost
kind of dance over his troubles now,
just because of your history.
And the grace you're showing toward him and his family--
I don't know-- it's kind of remarkable to me, given
the history of you two guys.
What changed with you?
There are so many allegations now of sex trafficking and drugs
and all sorts of things.
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?
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,
do you think that silence is really kind
of rooted more in fear, that they're afraid,
oh, my god, I have associations, too?
Because that's sort of what you just alluded to.
One person who could literally hold the key
to Diddy's future and freedom is a young man named Brendan Paul.
Brendan was the only person arrested and charged on the day
of those raids back in March.
Authorities say they found cocaine and marijuana
candy in his luggage at the airport
where Diddy was questioned.
According to Rodney Jones' lawsuit,
Brendan is Diddy's drug mule, who
allegedly acquires and distributes
Mr. Combs' drugs and guns.
Jones also claims Brendan was responsible for paying
prostitutes for the freak-off parties.
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.
It's interesting, such a young guy--
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.
Only two years out of college, Brendan became
part of Diddy's inner circle.
On social media, he's seen celebrating at Diddy's
latest album release party.
Brendan's one of Diddy's assistant.
We used to play ball together, kick it.
Producer, has an artist.
He's a pretty cool dude.
He and Diddy, you know, he was Diddy's assistant.
I mean, he was with him all the time.
So they had a cool little, you know,
relationship, a cool little brotherhood.
Brendan was released the day after
his arrest on a $2,500 bond.
His attorney has refused to comment on the case.
But given his proximity to Diddy,
authorities are no doubt interested in what
he saw behind closed doors.
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.
So they're going to be looking to cut deals.
They're going to be looking to grant immunity deals.
They will be looking for those people
around the center of the orbit to turn on their targets.
The Feds have their work cut out for them,
especially if they want to get Diddy on the more serious
charge of sex trafficking.
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.
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.
I have heard the stories regarding Diddy having
prostitutes that willingly want to go with him
across state lines.
But there's a couple of things that need to be
looked at in regards to that.
Was there a power dynamic?
Were they fearful?
Was something making it so that they
felt that they needed to or else there
would be consequences for not?
It just takes one of them to be doing this against their will
for that to be human trafficking.
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.
Witnesses can be forced to cooperate.
They can be subpoenaed and brought in.
And that's something that the Feds have the power to do.
That goes beyond just the idea that perhaps he's
settled lawsuits, for example, with Cassie.
She can still be subpoenaed.
She can still be brought in and essentially
made to tell the truth, and if she doesn't, face
her own consequences.
In fact, as those raids at Diddy's home were going down,
Cassie's lawyer posted on X, "We will always
support law enforcement when it seeks to prosecute those
that have violated the law.
Hopefully, this is the beginning of a process that will hold Mr.
Combs responsible for his depraved conduct."
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.
And so, in my opinion, it's going to be near impossible
for him to get out of.
Everybody, put your glasses up in the air.
Let's take a toast to Sean Combs.
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.
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.
Now, in the aftermath of all of these allegations, all
these rumors, all these innuendos,
I don't know what Diddy's legacy is going to be.
It's really still an open question.
Everyone who interacts with him has their own version
of how they would describe him.
To some people, he's a saint.
To some people, he is their hero.
To some people, he is a monster.
I think it's just all about how people interact with him
and what they've experienced and witnessed being around him.
What would I want people to know about Diddy?
That, you know, he's like any other man, loves his mother,
loves his children, takes care of a ton of people,
gives jobs to a ton of people.
Even when the scenario was going on, when all this is going on,
people still call him, asking him for stuff.
And he's still there for people.
It's like, you know, he's a good dude.
Are we all perfect?
Nah, none of us.
Spread love.
I love y'all.
Love, love, love, love.
Savage!
I'm a savage!
Without y'all, I wouldn't be on this stage.
Ba, ba, ba, Bad Boy.
I done seen this dude shake back from some stuff, right?
So I'm not going to count him out.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not going to make a prediction.
But I'm going to say, you know, I ain't going to count him out.
Anyone on this Earth has the ability
to be both good and bad, have done good things and bad things.
So it's hard to just say, this is a bad guy,
or this is a good guy.
I don't even want to be forced into that place.
For all my friends that love to throw
the word "karma" around, my response was always,
yeah, good luck.
Karma is a poor man's excuse.
I know a lot of bad people.
And they're not seeing karma.
They're getting better and better.
They're getting more and more.
I witnessed it for years.
I never thought I would see this.