Behind the Bastards - Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
Aired: 2024-12-19
Duration: 01:15:30


=== Atlanta Location Hangs On (02:35) ===

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[00:00:04]  Ah, it's Behind the Bastards, a podcast hosted by a man who is legally a judge and his friend Greasy Will, who is legally greasy.
[00:00:17]  Will legally not allowed to drive anymore.
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[00:00:22]  Did that happen?
[00:00:24]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:24]  Every time you said Colms with an L, I took a sip over the last two episodes.
[00:00:30]  So now I'm just trash, man.
[00:00:32]  I hope you've enjoyed this behind the bastards drinking game that I have embarked upon.
[00:00:38]  Go back in time and just have like about 14 shots.
[00:00:46]  So the late 1990s is an era in which bad boy records is growing by leaps and bounds, and Diddy is getting rich as fuck.
[00:00:54]  We are talking the insane pile.
[00:00:57]  The cash pile is so large that your only option is to either get really into cocaine or start a series of ill-conceived small businesses.
[00:01:05]  Yes, absolutely.
[00:01:06]  Diddy, I'm sure, does both, actually.
[00:01:08]  Oh, I had two choices.
[00:01:11]  Oh.
[00:01:13]  I was going to sit in that failure.
[00:01:17]  I was going to make a decision to step out of the darkness.
[00:01:22]  And dig into the darkness, buddy.
[00:01:24]  He steps out of the darkness to launch a restaurant called Justin.
[00:01:29]  This is named after his oldest son.
[00:01:31]  He starts the first Justin in New York City in 1997 and he franchises it out to Atlanta the following year.
[00:01:38]  The New York location shuts down after about a decade.
[00:01:41]  Sean claims because he wanted to find a larger location, but he just never opens a new one.
[00:01:46]  I think it just failed.
[00:01:47]  This is the story of my mom when she said she was going to build the house on top of the basement that we lived in.
[00:01:53]  And then we just lived in a basement for like eight years.
[00:01:57]  Good times, mom.
[00:01:58]  Thanks.
[00:01:58]  Yeah.
[00:01:58]  Yeah.
[00:01:58]  This is Diddy's version of that.
[00:02:00]  Now, the Atlanta location hangs on a little while longer.
[00:02:04]  It eventually shuts down in 2012.
[00:02:07]  Why?
[00:02:08]  Here's a summary from an article in BET.
[00:02:10]  In July of 2011, Diddy was sued after music executive Tony Austin, a patron of the Atlanta eatery, was shot in the parking lot.
[00:02:17]  Austin, former ANR for Def Jam and the president of Russell Simmons Music Group, says he was in his car listening to music with another man when someone opened fire on the vehicle.
[00:02:26]  Austin alleged that the proprietors of Justin's were aware of dangerous and hazardous conditions at the establishment, but failed to provide warning or security.
[00:02:35]  Now, isn't that something?

=== Diddy Sued Over Shooting (03:05) ===

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=== Parties For Rich But Not Cool (14:55) ===

[00:05:42]  Now, by the time Justin's opened, Sean had split from Justin's mother to date a model named Kim Porter, who gave him his second son.
[00:05:49]  In 1998, he launched a fashion label, Sean John.
[00:05:53]  Sean John.
[00:05:54]  Sean John.
[00:05:55]  Yeah.
[00:05:56]  Man.
[00:05:56]  And it was the it brand.
[00:05:58]  You know, that was the shit.
[00:05:59]  It was boss and Sean John and Foo Boo, man.
[00:06:02]  We can say markedly more successful than his restaurant.
[00:06:05]  Absolutely.
[00:06:06]  Also, I need to fact-check you on the oldest son.
[00:06:08]  Think he has an adopted son who's older named Quincy.
[00:06:10]  Oh, okay.
[00:06:11]  And his adopted son who is older named Quincy.
[00:06:13]  Sure.
[00:06:13]  Interesting, fascinating name.
[00:06:15]  Now, that year, the year that he starts Sean John, he is nominated for five Grammys.
[00:06:20]  If you want to know what a Grammy looks like, just look behind Will and Two right on camera.
[00:06:24]  The lights are going to be off, I guess.
[00:06:27]  But you know, I wasn't in the mood to turn it back on.
[00:06:29]  I noticed it episode.
[00:06:30]  You got it fucking backlit.
[00:06:33]  Was the first thing you did with that?
[00:06:35]  Take a shot out of it.
[00:06:36]  Oh, yeah, absolutely.
[00:06:37]  In fact, I think, you know what?
[00:06:39]  To be fair, this is behind the bastards.
[00:06:41]  We should do this on air because, like, you know, it's like, how do you do that?
[00:06:44]  What else do you do when you get a Grammy?
[00:06:45]  Yeah.
[00:06:46]  So also, true, I need you to understand that when I got this Grammy, I was about to have a kid at the time.
[00:06:51]  I had a bad month where my car, the transmission died.
[00:06:55]  Basically, my point is I had like maybe like $500 in my account.
[00:06:58]  I still spent $200 on a bottle of Don Julio.
[00:07:04]  Priorities are important in life.
[00:07:06]  So that I could take a shot out of my Grammy.
[00:07:08]  That's right.
[00:07:08]  Because that's the only reason to get one of these things.
[00:07:13]  What kind of like people?
[00:07:15]  What kind of person gets this to brag to their friends?
[00:07:18]  No, like this is to take shots at it because it's funny.
[00:07:22]  And you're not going to get content like this from the Pod Save America guys.
[00:07:25]  You're not getting it from the Bulwark.
[00:07:27]  You're not getting it from last podcast on the left.
[00:07:29]  Only behind the bastards.
[00:07:31]  This is basically when Elon smoked a blow.
[00:07:33]  And honestly, maybe Joe Rogan.
[00:07:34]  Joe Rogan.
[00:07:35]  You might get this on Joe Rogan.
[00:07:36]  You wouldn't get this on Joe Rogan.
[00:07:38]  I'm not going to lie.
[00:07:38]  Although we would both be racist and one of us have some sex pest crimes behind us.
[00:07:43]  You would be trying to convince my listeners to, I don't know, inject bleach into their assholes in order to build muscle mass.
[00:07:49]  Yeah.
[00:07:50]  Eating like 600 like worms or silkworms, specifically silkworms.
[00:07:57]  You have to eat silkworms for your colon health, you know?
[00:08:00]  It's like everybody.
[00:08:00]  I'd be trying.
[00:08:01]  Well, I do actually think you should eat more elk.
[00:08:03]  It's delicious.
[00:08:04]  Now it is delicious here.
[00:08:05]  It's very tasty.
[00:08:07]  Now, so that year, the same year he opens Sean John, he gets nominated for five Grammys.
[00:08:11]  Bad Boy pulls in $130 million in revenue.
[00:08:15]  What year is that?
[00:08:16]  That is 98.
[00:08:18]  Oh, 98.
[00:08:19]  98.
[00:08:19]  Okay, so do you know what Grammys those were that he won?
[00:08:22]  That I don't know.
[00:08:23]  I could have looked that up, but I'm a hack and a fraud.
[00:08:26]  Now, from this point forward in the story, Sean has infinite money, right?
[00:08:30]  Which he still does, basically.
[00:08:32]  Now, as I noted last episode, he'd always had a knack for throwing huge media-driven parties.
[00:08:36]  And now that he was actually a major celebrity himself, he kicked things up several notches.
[00:08:41]  1998 is also the year of his first white party.
[00:08:45]  These were the events where he'd invite piles of celebrities to his mansion in the Hamptons for what inevitably became the big event of the summer.
[00:08:52]  And part of it is he becomes like the first black guy to move into this very rich white neighborhood.
[00:08:58]  The white parties are in part how he kind of makes his neighbors cool with him is like, hey, you're some like lame bank CEO.
[00:09:05]  You can be at this party with these cool people.
[00:09:08]  Yeah.
[00:09:08]  This is starting to happen in the era of the internet, right?
[00:09:12]  It's like this is 98.
[00:09:13]  This is like the beginning of the internet where like being seen with all these different like cool hit people that are like being because the white parties, you see the pictures of them.
[00:09:22]  It's not everybody's all of entertainment.
[00:09:26]  Yeah.
[00:09:26]  And everyone wears white because Diddy thought he looked good in white.
[00:09:30]  And to be honest, like I don't want to be complimenting the man, but he doesn't look bad.
[00:09:34]  That's not a bad look for him.
[00:09:35]  That's not a bad look.
[00:09:35]  White parties, like legit, it's like a pair of Air Ones, dude.
[00:09:38]  They look good the first time you wear them.
[00:09:40]  And that is white, dude.
[00:09:42]  White is the first time you wear it.
[00:09:45]  It is the most beautiful, pristine, amazing looking thing.
[00:09:49]  No.
[00:09:49]  Yeah.
[00:09:50]  Then you have like what, like 9.30, 10 p.m., that white starts getting kind of grody, you know.
[00:09:56]  Well, part of what I love is you can really see the whole, like, he is, you know, part of the point of these parties is for like people who are rich but not very cool to get to feel cool.
[00:10:05]  Look at some of the people below him, like that guy in the front.
[00:10:08]  Like they're just wearing white t-shirts.
[00:10:10]  You don't look like a rap star.
[00:10:11]  Like you get this wild mix of like beautiful people and also sometimes beautiful people looking just like normal weirdos at a party, which I always think is really interesting.
[00:10:21]  You've got like, but part of it is because these first white parties are from the era before, like there's no social media, so there's no social media filters.
[00:10:29]  Photoshop tools aren't as easy to use.
[00:10:31]  So you get a lot of shots of famous people actually looking like normal people at a party.
[00:10:36]  Like here's Leo DiCaprio and some other dudes drinking champagne, smoking cigarettes and like not particularly looking like they're crazy rich and famous.
[00:10:44]  Like Leo looks like a pretty normal dude for sure.
[00:10:46]  Yeah.
[00:10:47]  Yeah.
[00:10:48]  And then Sophie's going to show you next.
[00:10:52]  Regis Philbin.
[00:10:53]  Yeah.
[00:10:54]  Here's a photo of Regis Philbin and I can only describe the look on his face.
[00:10:58]  He looks like he is smiling like the devil.
[00:11:01]  Like he like you would cast him in needful things.
[00:11:04]  He is selling you a cursed Victrola.
[00:11:07]  That's how Regis looks in this photo.
[00:11:10]  And there's a couple other middle-aged white dudes in there, one of whom is grabbing a young woman's arm in a way that I would say looks kind of off-putting to me, but I don't know what was going on.
[00:11:19]  Is that Vera Wing?
[00:11:21]  Is that Vera Wing?
[00:11:22]  The wedding class designer?
[00:11:25]  I can't tell.
[00:11:25]  I don't know.
[00:11:26]  It's kind of grainy.
[00:11:27]  All of these people are rich.
[00:11:29]  Some of them are famous.
[00:11:30]  I don't think that bald guy got famous for being a hip-hop star.
[00:11:33]  The only poor people at these parties were the people catering it.
[00:11:36]  Yeah.
[00:11:37]  And the people being sex trafficked.
[00:11:38]  And sex trafficking.
[00:11:39]  God, look at Regis.
[00:11:40]  Regis is like, I'm not touching it.
[00:11:42]  He's smiling like the devil.
[00:11:45]  My hands are too much.
[00:11:46]  You can see both of my hands.
[00:11:48]  I ain't fucking up this.
[00:11:50]  What was it?
[00:11:50]  Was it he wants to be a millionaire at this point?
[00:11:52]  I wish that we could just really see like if there was like guilt aura around every person that existed in this picture, like green to red in a scale of colors.
[00:12:04]  And the redder you are, the guiltier you are as a human being.
[00:12:10]  Yeah, that's going to be a fascinating shade above that crowd there.
[00:12:14]  Everyone's going to have an aura that looks like the drink of the guy on the left, which is red.
[00:12:18]  You are just as likely to be completely innocent in one of those.
[00:12:21]  Well, and here's the thing: as you are to be parties complicit in all the bullshit he did.
[00:12:25]  There are definitely, especially at the end, at the after parties, the night parts, which not everyone stays for, there are definitely some sex crimes here.
[00:12:32]  These are not the Diddy parties where most of the sex trafficking games are happening.
[00:12:36]  Happily should be mentioned, but these are two different events.
[00:12:39]  There's a reason for it.
[00:12:40]  The white parties are his PR.
[00:12:42]  This is where he goes to.
[00:12:43]  So legitimacy into the rich white community, like the Hamptons and all that bullshit, but also, you know, like their legitimacy into the black community as well.
[00:12:54]  Right, right.
[00:12:55]  And that is the point of these.
[00:12:56]  And so these are largely less sketchy events for that reason.
[00:13:01]  And it is his, he has another kind of party with another name that we'll be talking about that is where most of it, I'm not saying like there's no sex crimes happening here.
[00:13:09]  There's definitely drugs, but the fact that someone was at a white party doesn't mean that they committed sex crimes.
[00:13:15]  So I'm not saying Regis Philbin is a sex pest.
[00:13:18]  I don't know Regis.
[00:13:19]  Maybe there have been allegations against him.
[00:13:20]  If so, then I guess I am, but I don't know that.
[00:13:23]  But these are his show parties, and he's a lot more careful about what happens here.
[00:13:27]  The other parties, the parties you have heard stories about with the baby oil and the sex crimes, are what he called his freak off parties.
[00:13:34]  Like a dance off, but you know, with your freak.
[00:13:37]  Get your freak on.
[00:13:39]  Yeah.
[00:13:39]  I shouldn't laugh.
[00:13:40]  They're dark.
[00:13:41]  They're dark.
[00:13:42]  These are the sex crime parties.
[00:13:44]  If someone went to a freak off, you should assume they did some bad stuff.
[00:13:48]  Yes.
[00:13:48]  In almost every single one of these stories, there is a victim.
[00:13:51]  There is very little willing participants of these things.
[00:13:55]  Like even the people who are willing participants might be coerced willing participants.
[00:13:59]  It's very murky with a lot of the stuff that goes on.
[00:14:03]  A lot of power lines, you could say.
[00:14:06]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:07]  And again, this is definitely the place where we start talking about where blurred lines.
[00:14:12]  Blurred lines.
[00:14:12]  And people are also just doing lines.
[00:14:15]  Yes.
[00:14:15]  Yeah, definitely.
[00:14:16]  He wasn't explicitly making me do this, but I knew that I could not say no type shit.
[00:14:21]  And that is very, very strong in the Diddy story for sure.
[00:14:24]  And another big part of it is, because there's different gradients of cases.
[00:14:28]  A lot of these people are like, well, yeah, I said yes and I agreed and nobody threatened me.
[00:14:32]  But also, I was there because I had just gotten started in this industry and I'm in front of the guy who could make my career.
[00:14:38]  And like, I didn't think I had any other options.
[00:14:40]  Like, these are also some of the things that are happening.
[00:14:42]  I mean, we're into now the beginning of the Justin Bieber territory, which is like very much the Usher situation between Puffy and Usher and then Usher and Justin Bieber and Justin Bieber.
[00:14:52]  And there is a lot of like questionable interactions, like Justin Bieber spending a weekend at Puffy's house at like what, like 12 years old or something like that.
[00:15:04]  There's like some weird activity that happened that at the time we saw it happen and we were like, huh, okay, you know, like, but like everybody now is definitely able to look at those situations and be like, that's actually, yeah, no, that's weird, you know, but the 90s, hey, let's be fair.
[00:15:20]  It was the nine or the nineties, 2000s, you know, we're talking about Bieber.
[00:15:25]  It's probably fine.
[00:15:25]  It's a lot of people for 12-year-old Justin Bieber to be at Diddy's house.
[00:15:29]  Who am I to judge?
[00:15:30]  Who are we to judge?
[00:15:31]  We should have judged.
[00:15:32]  Yeah, we should have judged.
[00:15:33]  We should have been judged.
[00:15:34]  At the white party, it's like the most intense photo I've seen is Sean pouring champagne over what the New York Post describes as two unidentified near-naked women.
[00:15:43]  It doesn't look nearly as sketchy as they describe it.
[00:15:46]  The post and a lot of other tabloid coverage of these events does tend towards sensationalism about the wrong things.
[00:15:52]  For example, this piece from September inside Sean Diddy Combs' Hampton Sex Parties featuring gay rappers who were high on ketamine.
[00:16:02]  And like, you and I have both been to parties with gay rappers high on ketamine.
[00:16:06]  That's not the problem.
[00:16:08]  Yeah.
[00:16:08]  Not at all.
[00:16:09]  Some gay rappers are doing ketamine.
[00:16:11]  That's not what's the issue.
[00:16:12]  In fact, some would say that was the best part of the party.
[00:16:14]  Yeah.
[00:16:16]  Yeah.
[00:16:16]  Those gay rappers probably not committing sex crimes.
[00:16:20]  Not a lot.
[00:16:20]  No, maybe.
[00:16:21]  Sometimes.
[00:16:22]  You know, but the point is, here's the thing: is like those white parties, those were press events.
[00:16:28]  You don't have press at sex crime parties.
[00:16:32]  You have press at the events where you're committing sex crimes.
[00:16:35]  Right.
[00:16:35]  Yeah.
[00:16:36]  Unless you, you know, that's part of the blackmail.
[00:16:38]  You know.
[00:16:40]  But like, not that the two Venn diagram circles didn't interconnect, but without it, you know, it's like you don't invite the press to the parties where you're going to do the bad shit.
[00:16:52]  No, no, because he's not, again, he's not stupid.
[00:16:54]  That's why he got away with this for so long.
[00:16:56]  Now, I'm not sure how seriously to take this post article, which has its source as just one anonymous Coke dealer, which again, not necessarily the most credible people on the planet.
[00:17:06]  But here's a quote: The dealer said Diddy opened the door to his former Hamptons mansion while wearing nothing but a robe and brought him to a back bedroom to make a cocaine deal.
[00:17:15]  Weird shit was starting to happen.
[00:17:17]  Celebrity guys fucking each other.
[00:17:18]  There were back bedrooms and it was like the inner sanctum.
[00:17:21]  And this dealer talks about it like I lost a lot of respect for those guys.
[00:17:25]  He is not talking about the sex.
[00:17:26]  He's talking about like just people having gay sex.
[00:17:28]  Gay sex.
[00:17:29]  Famous people fucking each other in a gay way, which is like fine.
[00:17:32]  That's not the issue here.
[00:17:33]  Like the representatives to be talking about any of this stuff.
[00:17:36]  But as far as I have ever experienced inside of like the hip-hop culture of America, it has only recently become taboo to say the F-slur.
[00:17:46]  It's not like that was an insult for most of the 2000s.
[00:17:50]  You know, it's like it did not until like 2015 feel like it fell off the radar for that to be part of like your insult to another person is that they have gay sex with a person.
[00:18:01]  So it's like, certainly there is a vested interest in not publicizing this and people not knowing that it exists.
[00:18:09]  It could be very dangerous.
[00:18:11]  This being a secret of your, because you would be looked at differently, especially at this time.
[00:18:16]  But even now, you would be looked at differently for these types of actions.
[00:18:21]  And there's, you know, the dealer claims he also saw a mix of female rappers and prostitutes having sex there.
[00:18:27]  And that's kind of where we do get into, because again, some of there's probably some trafficking at the white parties.
[00:18:32]  And it's unclear to me, is he talking about a white party or a freak off?
[00:18:36]  It's at the Hamptons.
[00:18:37]  A little bit unclear, but we'll get to that later.
[00:18:39]  Real quick on that same point, I just want to say at any event, right?
[00:18:43]  Whether you are in fact a prostitute or not, like there is a certain amount of hiring of females to be at a party to be overly friendly to the people at the party, right?
[00:18:54]  Yes.
[00:18:54]  It's one, it's very good to look like there's a lot of beautiful women here for sure.
[00:19:00]  But also for the people that come to these things, they want to feel like there's girls that are there that are interested in them.
[00:19:07]  This happens all the way from the normal Hollywood club type event all the way up to these parties.
[00:19:13]  So it's not like when you talk about the sex trafficking element of all these things, like it may be somewhat innocent, but there's always an element of like hiring women to be morally available in ways at parties, you know?
[00:19:29]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:19:30]  Now, in 1999, Diddy was arrested on felony charges of assault and criminal mischief.
[00:19:37]  The chain of events began when Diddy was featured in the music video Hate Me Now with Nas.
[00:19:42]  Both Diddy and Nas were crucified on a cross, which Diddy later decided was sacrilegious and asked to have cut.
[00:19:48]  That's his line.
[00:19:49]  That's his line.
[00:19:51]  Crazy.
[00:19:51]  That's where he calls it.
[00:19:53]  Hey, man, do not portray me as Jesus being crucified on a cross.
[00:19:57]  Although, I'm not going to lie, 12-year-old me or whatever it was, I thought that was the bangingest video I ever seen in my life.
[00:20:03]  Like, I remember that coming out and I remember seeing it.
[00:20:06]  It was on TRL, and I remember my mind being blown, just like, oh my God, they crucified them.
[00:20:12]  That's so sacrilegious.
[00:20:14]  So, to be fair, as a Roman Catholic kid growing up in Pennsylvania in the 90s, I did kind of think, yeah, that, holy shit, that was sacrilegious.
[00:20:22]  Like, perspective is a very important piece of this whole thing.
[00:20:25]  And in the 90s, that was sacrilegious as hell.
[00:20:29]  You know, like that was some like Marilyn Manson level of sacrilege going on inside of the community.

=== Crucified On A Cross (05:47) ===

[00:20:37]  Oh, man.
[00:20:38]  So that's what flips him out.
[00:20:40]  And when he decides, like, hey, cut this out.
[00:20:42]  And then they air the unedited version anyway.
[00:20:45]  And when the version with him being crucified airs, he blames the president of Interscope Records, Steve Stout.
[00:20:50]  And he bursts into Stout's office with some goons and assaults him with, quote, a chair, a telephone, and a champagne bottle.
[00:20:58]  Stout said of the beating.
[00:21:00]  One minute I'm in the middle of a meeting and the next minute I'm down on the floor and Puffy and his guys are kicking and pounding me.
[00:21:05]  One of them picks up a chair and throws it at me.
[00:21:06]  Then Puffy throws my desk over and they just walk out like nothing happened.
[00:21:10]  And his stance is, I think they were trying to kill me and I just, you know, happened to not die.
[00:21:15]  I don't know.
[00:21:15]  I wasn't there.
[00:21:16]  He seems to say it was very serious.
[00:21:18]  Combs turned himself in a few days later and was charged with felony assault.
[00:21:22]  He was freed on $15,000 bail and ultimately pled down to a misdemeanor.
[00:21:26]  His sentence was one day of court-ordered anger management.
[00:21:32]  Oh, Jesus.
[00:21:33]  That's what hundreds of millions of dollars gets you in lawyers.
[00:21:35]  Yeah, man.
[00:21:37]  That's the thing is like money is the savior of all problems.
[00:21:41]  Yeah.
[00:21:41]  Yeah.
[00:21:42]  Nearly all.
[00:21:43]  Like as with Epstein, you can eventually hit a line.
[00:21:47]  Speaking of hitting a line, my line is it's time for ads.
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[00:21:56]  There's two golden rules that any man should live by.
[00:22:00]  Rule one, never mess with a country girl.
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[00:22:15]  And in this new season of The Girlfriends, oh my God, this is the same man.
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[00:22:56]  My next guest, you know, from Step Brothers, Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network.
[00:23:04]  It's Will Farrell.
[00:23:07]  My dad gave me the best advice ever.
[00:23:10]  I went and had lunch with him one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot.
[00:23:15]  I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings.
[00:23:18]  I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place they come look for up and coming talent.
[00:23:22]  He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet.
[00:23:27]  Yeah.
[00:23:27]  He goes, but there's so much luck involved.
[00:23:30]  And he's like, just give it a shot.
[00:23:32]  He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.
[00:23:40]  If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.
[00:23:43]  It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hang in there.
[00:23:50]  Yeah, it would not be.
[00:23:52]  Right, it wouldn't be that.
[00:23:53]  There's a lot of luck.
[00:23:54]  Listen to Thanks Stat on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[00:24:03]  In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckard found himself at the center of a paternity scandal.
[00:24:09]  The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story.
[00:24:15]  This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth.
[00:24:18]  You doctored this particular test twice, Ms. Owens, correct?
[00:24:22]  I doctored the test once.
[00:24:23]  It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case.
[00:24:26]  I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for.
[00:24:30]  Sunlight's the greatest disinfectant.
[00:24:33]  They would uncover a disturbing pattern.
[00:24:35]  Two more men who'd been through the same thing.
[00:24:37]  Greg Olespi and Michael Marancine.
[00:24:39]  My mind was blown.
[00:24:41]  I'm Stephanie Young.
[00:24:43]  This is Love Trap.
[00:24:45]  Laura, Scottsdale Police.
[00:24:47]  As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
[00:24:51]  Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Americopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges.
[00:24:58]  This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona.
[00:25:02]  Listen to Love Trapped Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[00:25:12]  10-10 shots five, City Hall building.
[00:25:15]  A silver .40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene.
[00:25:20]  From iHeart Podcasts and Best Case Studios, this is Rorschach, murder at City Hall.
[00:25:26]  How could this have happened in City Hall?
[00:25:27]  Somebody tell me that.
[00:25:28]  Jeffrey Hood did.
[00:25:30]  July 2003, Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest.
[00:25:36]  Both men are carrying concealed weapons.
[00:25:39]  And in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead.
[00:25:48]  Everybody in the chamber's ducks.
[00:25:51]  A shocking public murder.
[00:25:52]  I scream, get down, get down.
[00:25:54]  Those are shots.
[00:25:55]  Those are shots.
[00:25:56]  Get down.
[00:25:56]  A charismatic politician.
[00:25:58]  You know, he just bent the rules all the time, man.
[00:26:00]  I still have a weapon.
[00:26:02]  And I could shoot you.
[00:26:05]  And an outsider with a secret.
[00:26:07]  He allegedly a victim of flat down.
[00:26:10]  That may or may not have been political.
[00:26:12]  That may have been about sex.
[00:26:14]  Listen to Rorschach, murder at City Hall on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

=== Twenty Years Of Uncovering Truths (14:10) ===

[00:26:24]  I'm Lori Siegel, and on Mostly Human, I go beyond the headlines with the people building our future.
[00:26:30]  This week, an interview with one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
[00:26:37]  I think society is going to decide that creators of AI products bear a tremendous amount of responsibility to products we put out in the world.
[00:26:43]  From power to parenthood.
[00:26:45]  Kids, teenagers, I think they will need a lot of guardrails around AI.
[00:26:49]  This is such a powerful and such a new thing.
[00:26:51]  From addiction to acceleration.
[00:26:53]  The world we live in is a competitive world, and I don't think that's going to stop, even if you did a lot of redistribution.
[00:26:58]  You know, we have a deep desire to excel and be competitive and gain status and be useful to others.
[00:27:04]  And it's a multiplayer game.
[00:27:07]  What does the man who has extraordinary influence over our lives have to say about the weight of that responsibility?
[00:27:13]  Find out on Mostly Human.
[00:27:15]  My highest order bit is to not destroy the world of AI.
[00:27:18]  Listen to Mostly Human on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
[00:27:27]  And we're back.
[00:27:32]  So three months after he assaults this record executive, Combs goes out to a Manhattan nightclub with Jennifer Lopez, who he was dating at the time.
[00:27:42]  The couple were partying when someone else at the club insulted Diddy and threatened his protégé, a rapper named Shine.
[00:27:48]  A write-up in The Independent summarizes what happens next in the kind of voice that you usually use for like the Israeli military or cops.
[00:27:56]  A dispute ensued.
[00:27:58]  Shots were fired and three bystanders were injured, including a woman who was shot in the face.
[00:28:03]  Combs fled in a Lincoln Navigator with J-Lo, his bodyguard, and his driver, along with a stolen gun none of them had a license for, as cops found out when they stopped the car.
[00:28:13]  Combs was found not guilty in March 2001 of four counts of illegal possession of a gun and one count of bribery after a trial that doubled as a media spectacle.
[00:28:21]  Proving what a force the rapper had become, fans turned up at the courthouse for seven weeks, and workers at the building, upon his acquittal, threw open the windows to chant his name and leave him alone.
[00:28:33]  Must be nice.
[00:28:34]  I mean, you know, we have this amazing celebrity worship culture in our country.
[00:28:38]  It's just inevitable all the time, right?
[00:28:40]  It's like they will, no matter who, find some sort of martyr or savior or just God in whatever exists inside celebrity.
[00:28:49]  We're happy to have that.
[00:28:50]  We're happy to have somebody that we can go to a courthouse on our day off of work and share when they get off after probably shooting a woman in the face.
[00:29:01]  Probably shooting someone.
[00:29:02]  It's one of those, one of the things that's amazing is that like, if you read that, like a dispute ensued, shots were fired.
[00:29:08]  Diddy is so rich at this point that he has become included by journalists in the special exonerative grammatical case that only get normally it's like for cops, right?
[00:29:18]  Shots were fired.
[00:29:19]  Someone was hit.
[00:29:22]  There was a gun in the non-registered illegal gun in his possession.
[00:29:26]  Okay.
[00:29:27]  It's just so funny, man.
[00:29:29]  Amazing.
[00:29:29]  Yeah.
[00:29:30]  The whole situation, there's still a lot of like what happened exactly.
[00:29:34]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:29:34]  The story gets really convoluted.
[00:29:36]  There's stuff coming out right now about it, you know, that it's been 20 years and we're still just now getting like the pieces that come out about stuff about like, oh, this actually happened or this person was involved.
[00:29:47]  So it's definitely a bit of like, you know, lost to time and the whole concept of how unreliable human beings are at like recounting things that have happened to them, even completely sober with no issues, not at a club at two o'clock in the morning in New York.
[00:30:06]  You know, I have clear procedural memories of about 30% of our friendship.
[00:30:11]  Will it be all flashes?
[00:30:16]  It's all in my parking lot.
[00:30:22]  Turns out.
[00:30:24]  So Combs thanked God after the verdict and made a big show of going to church after.
[00:30:28]  To further separate himself from the event, he changed his name officially to P. Diddy, telling Vanity Fair, when I changed names, I put periods on those eras.
[00:30:39]  And the P. Diddy era got off from a fucking club shooting.
[00:30:44]  Time to become P. Diddy.
[00:30:47]  The P. Diddy era was lucrative indeed.
[00:30:49]  He released more albums.
[00:30:50]  He acted in several movies and he started producing reality television.
[00:30:54]  He gets that Sirokh vodka deal.
[00:30:57]  Right.
[00:30:57]  Yeah.
[00:30:58]  This is the Kennedy Kane era, right?
[00:31:00]  Yeah.
[00:31:00]  Yeah.
[00:31:01]  Yep.
[00:31:01]  Making the band.
[00:31:02]  Yep, making the band.
[00:31:04]  In 2002, he won awards for his menswear fashion line.
[00:31:08]  Sean John did cause a minor scandal for him when it was found that the clothing he sold was made in Honduran sweatshops with a terrible record for workers' rights.
[00:31:17]  It happens, doesn't it?
[00:31:19]  It happens.
[00:31:20]  Yeah.
[00:31:20]  You know, you're going to try and get that cost.
[00:31:23]  Got to be some sweatshops.
[00:31:24]  Yeah, you're going to have to sweatshop.
[00:31:26]  None of that kept him down for long.
[00:31:28]  In 2004, he performed at the Super Bowl.
[00:31:30]  He started his famous vote or die campaign that election.
[00:31:34]  Oh, man, that was huge.
[00:31:35]  If you were a teenager in the 90s, you'd be able to do that.
[00:31:37]  P. Diddy was telling you to vote.
[00:31:39]  Yep.
[00:31:40]  P. Diddy was recommending people to you.
[00:31:42]  Yeah.
[00:31:43]  Money continued to flow by the hundreds of millions.
[00:31:46]  As the Bush years came to an end, P. Diddy changed his name yet again, this time dropping the P and becoming just Diddy.
[00:31:53]  Diddy.
[00:31:53]  His white parties remained infamous social events, but he also held increasing numbers of freak offs.
[00:31:59]  These were not for public consumption and acted as an opportunity for him to provide himself and his celebrity friends with endless young women, drugs, and young women on drugs.
[00:32:09]  Ew.
[00:32:10]  This brings me to the story of Latroya Grayson, who at age 23 won tickets via a radio show to attend a Diddy party.
[00:32:17]  Her only recollections of the event were meeting Mary J. Blige, having a drink, and then blacking out because again, she was drugged.
[00:32:24]  She has hazy memories of three or four guys she didn't know taking her out of the room.
[00:32:29]  She woke up in the hospital very ill and vomiting until she was released several hours later.
[00:32:35]  Quote, I left with no shoes on.
[00:32:37]  My shirt was kind of ripped.
[00:32:38]  I noticed all my money was taken out of my purse except for like $20.
[00:32:42]  I got robbed for my money.
[00:32:43]  I had just enough to get back to a motel in a cab.
[00:32:46]  It's so fucked up.
[00:32:47]  Like these people are also not wealthy people.
[00:32:50]  They're doing this because they don't have money.
[00:32:52]  You won a contest on the radio.
[00:32:55]  And then you get robbed anyway.
[00:32:59]  Now, she also says she realized afterwards that her vagina was sore.
[00:33:03]  She's not certain what happened because again, she was drugged.
[00:33:06]  Drugged.
[00:33:07]  Yeah.
[00:33:07]  Almost certainly not a good story.
[00:33:08]  Yeah.
[00:33:09]  I don't remember half the things that happened to me yesterday.
[00:33:12]  Half sober, you know?
[00:33:13]  Yeah.
[00:33:14]  Literally, they found baby oil with GHB in it.
[00:33:18]  They weren't fucking around up in that place.
[00:33:20]  Horrible.
[00:33:21]  In the wake of all of this, I've read a ton of stories of people that have recounted like their Diddy situation and so many of them induced with drugs in the most despicable ways, the unexpected ways, not even drinking ways, like the I had a soda ways, you know, like not crossing even a boundary of alcohol, you know?
[00:33:48]  And so it's like to see this shit happen to people, it's, it's like, it's, it's targeted and mean and shitty.
[00:33:56]  It's like, it's, it's this like, yes, it's evil.
[00:33:59]  It is evil.
[00:34:00]  I'm not a God person, but it's evil.
[00:34:02]  It's like going after people that, that are just living normal lives and trying to.
[00:34:07]  This person won a contest.
[00:34:10]  Won a contest to hang out.
[00:34:12]  And this is what, and this is how, and this is how it ended.
[00:34:16]  Like, that's disgusting, vile evil.
[00:34:18]  Yeah.
[00:34:18]  Yes, it's, it's horrible.
[00:34:20]  It's like the type of shit that you're like, what the fuck?
[00:34:22]  Oh, and like, and I'm not done with the story, unfortunately.
[00:34:26]  I'm going to read next from an article on MSN.
[00:34:29]  After the incident, Grayson flew back to her home state, Oklahoma, and he claims to have received an unsettling phone call the next day in which a female allegedly attempted to dissuade Grayson from speaking up regarding the ordeal.
[00:34:40]  She recounted the anonymous woman's warning.
[00:34:42]  She had all my information and was basically telling me that I couldn't do anything about it, that Puff Daddy was a famous person and I wouldn't get anywhere with the issue if I tried to do anything.
[00:34:51]  Puzzled, Grayson queried, so I'm like, well, how did you even get my phone number?
[00:34:55]  Do you know anything about my money being missing?
[00:34:57]  She's like, no, I don't know nothing about that.
[00:34:59]  I'm like, well, I mean, how did you even get my phone number?
[00:35:03]  Brutal, man.
[00:35:05]  It's just so dark, dude.
[00:35:06]  This type of inhibitation.
[00:35:08]  The power dynamic, as someone who has been in the industry, right?
[00:35:12]  It's like even people that...
[00:35:16]  You're like a teenager, 20-year-old girl, whatever from fucking Oklahoma with no money, and he is goddamn pee ditty.
[00:35:23]  Let me put this in perspective for people for real.
[00:35:26]  Yeah.
[00:35:26]  All right.
[00:35:27]  I was going into the music industry.
[00:35:29]  I was a 26-year-old male, six foot tall, 185 pounds, in the pretty decent shape, you know.
[00:35:37]  With combat experience.
[00:35:39]  Because I was an ex-marine with combat experience who had been shot 28 times.
[00:35:45]  I felt pressure from people at times.
[00:35:49]  I felt pressured to do things that I didn't want to do at times, you know?
[00:35:54]  Yeah.
[00:35:55]  So in perspective of like being just like a naive person trying to get into the music industry, like young, like no real harsh life experience, it is easy to see that you could be asked to do something, be put in positions that you don't want to be in, and how far people will make you go just because you're afraid, because you're like actually believe that.
[00:36:20]  Like, you have power that I don't understand.
[00:36:23]  And we're talking about the people who know something was done to them and who have spoken out about it.
[00:36:27]  For every one of these, not only are there, obviously there are people who haven't spoken up, but there are also people who may be years away from like actually coming to grips with, no, actually, that was bad.
[00:36:36]  That was like really fucked up what happened.
[00:36:39]  I even thought about it as like a good thing for a while, or at least like a mixed thing bag for him, but like, no, that was actually really fucked.
[00:36:44]  Like there's people coming to terms with that right now still.
[00:36:48]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:36:49]  Grayson is not yet part of any of the ongoing lawsuits against Sean, but her case represents the edge of how women were victimized at his events, right?
[00:36:57]  In that she's not entirely sure what happened or even if she was sexually assaulted because again, drugged.
[00:37:02]  But the well-lit photos full of celebrities existed for one purpose, to burnish Sean's image.
[00:37:08]  In order to keep his famous and wealthy friends happy and to sate his own desires, he also had to bring in, as you stated, all of these young women to be at the, to act as party favors, right?
[00:37:17]  That's how we bring, you have these radio contests.
[00:37:20]  Some of them are paid sex workers.
[00:37:21]  Some of them are women.
[00:37:23]  Okay, you've just gotten started in your career, you know, in the music industry or as a model.
[00:37:27]  You're at a low level in it right now.
[00:37:30]  Why don't you like come over to this party?
[00:37:31]  You know, like, why don't you, you know, and that, and then you get there and then you get coerced.
[00:37:36]  Some of the women at these parties are paid sex workers, but many of them are like, great, women are being poached in one way or another, right?
[00:37:42]  There's a different method for all of them.
[00:37:43]  And that means Diddy's not handling this himself.
[00:37:47]  He has a team of people who are using different methods constantly to find women because these parties are happening.
[00:37:53]  1970s equivalent of the roadie who picks the girls out of the concert, you know, that look like they're down.
[00:38:00]  More people than work at the company Sophie and I run.
[00:38:03]  Their job is just to keep young women coming to these parts.
[00:38:06]  He is spending God knows how many millions of dollars a year on just that part of it.
[00:38:10]  Right.
[00:38:11]  And it shows even when he was busted in Florida, I believe it was like he had a drug mule with him at the time.
[00:38:16]  It was like he was always employing people to be the bad guy in the situation.
[00:38:22]  Right.
[00:38:23]  You have someone trying to head you with the drugs.
[00:38:24]  Yeah.
[00:38:25]  Yes.
[00:38:25]  You give that shit to somebody else.
[00:38:27]  That's their problem.
[00:38:28]  If they get caught, you have accepted.
[00:38:32]  You are the one that goes to jail.
[00:38:34]  You say, yes, this is mine and you go to jail.
[00:38:36]  That's the accepted position of that person for sure.
[00:38:40]  Yeah.
[00:38:40]  Precious Muir, a former Playboy model, was one of the women who attended a number of his parties.
[00:38:45]  She claims that he provided a car service to drive models to and from the events and that Diddy had agents basically picking women out in public and plying them with invites.
[00:38:55]  She summarized the pitch one of these guys gave her as, I host these amazing parties.
[00:38:59]  Everything is taken care of.
[00:39:00]  You don't have to worry about anything.
[00:39:01]  We provide accommodation.
[00:39:03]  So when you go to the Hamptons, there is a house you can stay at, which is very beautiful, very lavish, very stylish, and you don't have to worry about anything.
[00:39:09]  You don't have to pay for anything.
[00:39:11]  Everything is covered.
[00:39:12]  At the time she started attending, Precious was new to the industry without power or connections.
[00:39:17]  Being invited to these parties seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime.
[00:39:21]  You can impress these guys, make your career.
[00:39:23]  And then you're just kind of, as she said, we were kind of thrown in at the deep end amongst all these people that are well established.
[00:39:28]  People automatically knew that we were new faces.
[00:39:30]  We were new talent and we were vulnerable.
[00:39:32]  We were seen maybe as fresh meat.
[00:39:35]  The power of influence, the power of like being able to change your life in a moment.
[00:39:40]  Oh, yeah.
[00:39:40]  You know, like we have a thousand of these stories.
[00:39:43]  We have a thousand of bone thugs in the studio.
[00:39:45]  One woman came in and sang the hook and it was the moment of her, like that's the thing that keeps that shit going is the dream.
[00:39:53]  If you're in entertainment, I can say like when I was new in my career, if I had had to do something horrible for myself and my brain and body in order to get a break as a writer when I was a baby writer, like I thought about it.
[00:40:08]  Like I was like, yeah, I'll do anything, right?
[00:40:10]  Like that's where your head is if you're trying to break in.
[00:40:13]  And that's what, that's why so much bad stuff happens, right?
[00:40:17]  Like it's the hardest.
[00:40:18]  I mean, the reward is so great, right?
[00:40:21]  The reward of being like at the top of this industry is so great that it is really hard to deny that there is like when you want it that bad, right?
[00:40:31]  You, you want it bad enough to put in 80 hours, 100 hours a week doing it.

=== Cuba Gooding Jr Is A Monster (04:52) ===

[00:40:35]  Yeah.
[00:40:35]  Right.
[00:40:36]  You also want it bad enough to like cross some lines every now and then.
[00:40:40]  Yeah.
[00:40:41]  You know, and it's difficult to matter.
[00:40:44]  Like what happens to me?
[00:40:45]  Right.
[00:40:45]  Yeah.
[00:40:46]  Right.
[00:40:46]  Right.
[00:40:46]  Everybody goes through that thing.
[00:40:47]  It's like, okay, I'm fine as long as it just fucks me up.
[00:40:51]  Right.
[00:40:52]  Like that's really the thing.
[00:40:54]  It's just going to fuck me up.
[00:40:55]  Like I can take some trauma.
[00:40:57]  Yeah.
[00:40:57]  Yeah.
[00:40:58]  I can take some trauma.
[00:40:59]  That, dude, everybody that's been in this industry for real knows that.
[00:41:02]  It's fine if it's fucking me.
[00:41:04]  Now, I have had my own moments of like, no, no, no, I won't watch you fuck somebody else up.
[00:41:09]  You know?
[00:41:10]  Yeah.
[00:41:10]  And I won't watch you do this to another person.
[00:41:13]  Yeah.
[00:41:13]  And the problem is that there's just so many people who don't have that line.
[00:41:17]  Right.
[00:41:18]  Right.
[00:41:18]  Of course.
[00:41:19]  The line is also, I'll let you fuck me up.
[00:41:22]  You know, like I'll let you ruin me.
[00:41:24]  Yeah.
[00:41:24]  And so it's like, as long as no one else is seeing that, it's okay.
[00:41:29]  Yeah.
[00:41:30]  So because of the nature of how the lawsuits are coming out over this, I have no choice but to jump around.
[00:41:34]  So I'm just going to say right now, in February of 2024, a record producer named Rodney Jones Jr. filed a federal complaint against Sean, accusing him of running a human trafficking network to stalk his parties with women and girls from a write-up in Vulture.
[00:41:49]  According to Jones, as he alleges in the complaint, Combs reached out to Jones in 2022 to help him produce songs.
[00:41:55]  But Jones claims the work Combs required of him went far beyond producing music.
[00:42:00]  He claims in the lawsuit that he was tasked with procuring drugs and soliciting sex workers to perform sex acts to the pleasure of Mr. Combs.
[00:42:06]  Jones alleges that Combs also required him to tape these sex acts and that Combs would often threaten to inflict bodily harm on him if he did not comply with his demands.
[00:42:14]  Jones alleged in his complaint that Combs kept specific bottles of alcohol designated for females on hand.
[00:42:20]  And according to Mr. Jones, Mr. Combs forced all the women to drink laced DeLeon liquor.
[00:42:26]  Upon information and belief, Mr. Combs laced the liquor with ecstasy, the lawsuit claims.
[00:42:31]  He also accuses Combs of sexual harassment and assault for allegedly grabbing him without his consent and forcing him to work while Combs paraded around naked.
[00:42:39]  Jones also alleges that Combs once left him alone in a makeshift studio on a yacht with Cuba Gooding Jr.
[00:42:44]  Cuba Gooding Jr.
[00:42:45]  God damn it.
[00:42:46]  I have been twitching with anticipation.
[00:42:48]  Yeah, here's where Cuba comes in.
[00:42:51]  God damn it, Cuba Gooding Jr.
[00:42:53]  Oh my God, dude, the fucking Cuba Gooding Jr.
[00:42:56]  If you start to know he gropes the guy, folks.
[00:42:59]  He is the worst Cuba Gooding Jr.
[00:43:02]  If you are watching on YouTube right now or whatever, I'm here.
[00:43:08]  I have been twitching, waiting for Cuba Gooding Jr.'s name to come out of your mouth because goddamn Cuba Gooding Jr., the disgusting piece of Cuba Gooding Jr.
[00:43:19]  Every read, spend 10 minutes of your life and read about what Cuba Gooden Jr. did to this guy and then follow that up with a cursory, I mean, the least Google search of anything else he's done.
[00:43:34]  That guy is the biggest piece of shit that has ever existed.
[00:43:38]  If you've ever wondered, like we all did for a period of time, after he won that Oscar, why hasn't he been him?
[00:43:43]  Because he's a fucking monster.
[00:43:45]  Because he's a monster.
[00:43:47]  Because he's a fucking monster.
[00:43:49]  This is my Hannibal Burtis Bill Cosby moment.
[00:43:52]  Fucking Cuba Gooding Jr. is a monster and we need to enact laws and federal goddamn statutes against this person.
[00:44:00]  He is a horrible human being and what he has done to the world is disgusting.
[00:44:06]  Take the sanctions off of Cuba the country and put them off of onto Cuba the guy.
[00:44:11]  Immediately.
[00:44:12]  Immediately.
[00:44:13]  You know who he did play though?
[00:44:15]  Radio?
[00:44:16]  He played fucking OJ Simpson in the world.
[00:44:20]  And to be honest, he was killing me.
[00:44:22]  You mean that he played OJ in the TV show where Ross from Friends played Srock.
[00:44:28]  Right, right.
[00:44:29]  One of your favorite things.
[00:44:30]  One of my favorite things.
[00:44:32]  Jude!
[00:44:34]  Dude, it breaks my heart every time I think about that thing because like, oh, God, Cuba Gooding Jr. is a horrible human being.
[00:44:40]  He did horrible things and somehow...
[00:44:43]  Knocks it out of the park is OJ.
[00:44:45]  Knocks it out of the park.
[00:44:46]  No, but like has managed to evade all of this puppy like shit.
[00:44:50]  Hopefully that's coming to an end now because stuff about him, more stuff is coming out about him.
[00:44:55]  You know, we could talk more about Cube, but I think we've made our point.
[00:44:58]  He'll get his own episode.
[00:45:01]  Give it time.
[00:45:02]  Yeah.
[00:45:02]  Combs' lawyers have denied the allegations and described Jones as a con man.
[00:45:06]  Subsequent allegations and the federal indictment against Combs seem to back up a number of the allegations made by Jones.
[00:45:13]  A few months before Jones filed that complaint in February, in December of 2023, a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit in Manhattan alleging that she was gang raped and trafficked by Combs and bad boy records president Jarve Pierre when she was in the 11th grade.

=== Outsider With A Secret (08:24) ===

[00:45:27]  These allegations comport with the scenario Precious Mirror described in her interview with The Mirror.
[00:45:32]  Apparently, Pierre met this 11th grader at a lounge in Detroit and used Diddy's name to draw her in.
[00:45:39]  Combs then approached and told her, hey, you're welcome on my private jet, which was flying to his studio.
[00:45:45]  Once they were there, she was given lots of drugs and, quote, gang raped by Combs, Pierre, and an unknown third person.
[00:45:52]  There are a lot of other hideous details that I'm leaving out too.
[00:45:56]  You know, I think the term gang rape.
[00:45:59]  Make no mistake, this is a story that repeats itself dozens and dozens of times across every single station to the point where it starts to be like, oh my God, we missed Jimmy Savile for like 60 years.
[00:46:11]  We didn't see it.
[00:46:12]  He's getting his episode soon, too.
[00:46:14]  Don't you worry.
[00:46:15]  We missed it all.
[00:46:17]  Oh, man.
[00:46:18]  Turns out we almost always do.
[00:46:20]  Yeah.
[00:46:21]  Yeah, we miss it a lot of times.
[00:46:22]  Turns out.
[00:46:23]  We're not as brilliant as we think we're.
[00:46:25]  The rumors abounded.
[00:46:27]  There was tons of it happening.
[00:46:29]  Like, you hear it all the time, but you just make like you make the decisions to keep yourselves out of those situations.
[00:46:37]  On a smaller scale, just being, you know, I've been in comedy.
[00:46:40]  I was a Jace.
[00:46:40]  I was never a big stand-up guy, but like I did a little and a lot of my friends did.
[00:46:44]  I went out to regular events as I was employed in comedy.
[00:46:47]  And like, you just get told by people, you meet someone and they'll be like, oh, we should hang out.
[00:46:51]  And then someone else will be like, don't hang out with him.
[00:46:53]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:46:55]  Don't hang out with that guy.
[00:46:56]  It's usually, usually a woman that you work with who will say like, that guy's a piece of shit.
[00:47:00]  You don't want to.
[00:47:01]  That guy's a piece of shit.
[00:47:02]  You don't want to know him.
[00:47:03]  That guy's a piece.
[00:47:03]  Like, that, you know.
[00:47:05]  Yeah, right.
[00:47:06]  And I said that earlier, too.
[00:47:07]  It's like that old crusty dude that's like, hey, man, don't work with that guy.
[00:47:10]  You know, like, you don't want to be near him.
[00:47:12]  You hear the stories for a long time before you're ever asked to do the things, you know?
[00:47:17]  And like, but the problem comes when you don't hear the stories.
[00:47:21]  You know, the problem comes when you are new to town and you're the first person to sit down and somebody's like, hey, man, fucking Oklahoma, right?
[00:47:28]  And getting flown in.
[00:47:30]  Yeah.
[00:47:30]  All you know is the reputation of that person that exists in the tabloids or on the internet.
[00:47:36]  You don't know the story about, hey, man, don't go to those parties because it's not good.
[00:47:41]  You know, bad shit.
[00:47:43]  In 2006, Diddy's longtime partner, Kim Porter, gave birth to twins.
[00:47:47]  That was the same year that a friend gave birth to his daughter, Chance.
[00:47:51]  Kim considered this a betrayal and broke things off with Diddy.
[00:47:54]  While all this was going on, he was also starting a quote-unquote relationship with a young woman named Cassandra Ventura.
[00:48:00]  He had signed her to his label at age 19 and started a sexual relationship with her shortly thereafter.
[00:48:06]  He was 37 at the time.
[00:48:08]  It was Cassandra's allegations against him that would eventually open the floodgates of legal consequences for Diddy.
[00:48:14]  But before we get to that, I'm going to quote from The Independent summarizing just a series of his trials in the mid-aughts.
[00:48:21]  Eight months after his 2014 Howard commencement speech, TMZ reported that he punched Drake in a Miami nightclub because of a feud over a song, which in a rare case for these episodes, points for Diddy on that.
[00:48:34]  Six months later, he was arrested and charged in California with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making terrorist threats, and one count of battery after allegedly attacking one of his sons at UCLA.
[00:48:48]  The assault reportedly involved a kettlebell, but prosecutors ultimately decided not to pursue bloody charges.
[00:48:54]  Because his son, Justin, tried to play football.
[00:48:57]  By the way, somebody's not big enough to play football.
[00:49:01]  You got to do something real bad for me to be on the side of a football coach, guys.
[00:49:08]  Anyway, speaking of football coaches, coach yourself on over to this podcast.
[00:49:15]  Sorry, I did that.
[00:49:17]  You were worse there.
[00:49:19]  We've been at this a while.
[00:49:25]  There's two golden rules that any man should live by.
[00:49:28]  Rule one, never mess with a country girl.
[00:49:32]  If you play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.
[00:49:35]  And rule two, never mess with her friends either.
[00:49:38]  We always say, trust your girlfriends.
[00:49:42]  I'm Anna Sinfield.
[00:49:44]  And in this new season of The Girlfriends...
[00:49:46]  Oh my God, this is the same man.
[00:49:48]  A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist.
[00:49:53]  I felt like I got hit by a truck.
[00:49:55]  I thought, how could this happen to me?
[00:49:56]  The cops didn't seem to care.
[00:49:58]  So they take matters into their own hands.
[00:50:01]  I said, oh, hell no.
[00:50:03]  I vowed I will be his last target.
[00:50:05]  He's going to get what he deserves.
[00:50:10]  Listen to the girlfriends.
[00:50:12]  Trust me, babe.
[00:50:13]  On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[00:50:22]  What's up, everyone?
[00:50:23]  I'm Ago Warden.
[00:50:24]  My next guest, you know, from Step Brothers, Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network.
[00:50:32]  It's Will Farrell.
[00:50:35]  My dad gave me the best advice ever.
[00:50:39]  I went and had lunch with him one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot.
[00:50:44]  I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings.
[00:50:46]  I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place they come look for up and coming talent.
[00:50:50]  He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet.
[00:50:55]  Yeah.
[00:50:56]  He goes, but there's so much luck involved.
[00:50:58]  And he's like, just give it a shot.
[00:51:00]  He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.
[00:51:08]  If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.
[00:51:11]  It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat.
[00:51:17]  Just hang in there.
[00:51:18]  Yeah, it would not be.
[00:51:20]  Right, it wouldn't be that.
[00:51:21]  There's a lot of luck.
[00:51:23]  Listen to Thanksgiving on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[00:51:31]  In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckard found himself at the center of a paternity scandal.
[00:51:38]  The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story.
[00:51:43]  This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth.
[00:51:46]  You doctored this particular test twice, Miss Owens, correct?
[00:51:50]  I doctored the test once.
[00:51:51]  It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case.
[00:51:55]  I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for.
[00:51:58]  Sunlight's the greatest disinfected.
[00:52:01]  They would uncover a disturbing pattern.
[00:52:03]  Two more men who'd been through the same thing.
[00:52:05]  Greg Gillespie and Michael Marancini.
[00:52:08]  My mind was blown.
[00:52:09]  I'm Stephanie Young.
[00:52:11]  This is Love Trap.
[00:52:13]  Laura, Scottsdale Police.
[00:52:15]  As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
[00:52:19]  Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news out of Maricopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges.
[00:52:26]  This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona.
[00:52:31]  Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[00:52:40]  10-10 shots fired in the City Hall building.
[00:52:44]  A silver .40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene.
[00:52:48]  From iHeart Podcasts and Best Case Studios, this is Rorschach, murder at City Hall.
[00:52:54]  How could this have happened in City Hall?
[00:52:56]  Somebody tell me that.
[00:52:56]  Jeffrey Hood did it.
[00:52:58]  July 2003, Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest.
[00:53:05]  Both men are carrying concealed weapons.
[00:53:08]  And in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead.
[00:53:16]  Everybody in the chamber's ducks.
[00:53:19]  A shocking public murder.
[00:53:20]  I screamed, get down, get down.
[00:53:22]  Those are shots.
[00:53:23]  Those are shots.
[00:53:24]  Get down.
[00:53:24]  A charismatic politician.
[00:53:26]  You know, he just bent the rules all the time, man.
[00:53:28]  I still have a weapon.
[00:53:30]  And I could shoot you.
[00:53:34]  And an outsider with a secret.
[00:53:35]  He alleged he was a victim of flat down.
[00:53:38]  That may or may not have been political.
[00:53:40]  That may have been about sex.
[00:53:42]  Listen to Rorschach, murder at City Hall on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

=== People Around You Matter (15:45) ===

[00:53:52]  Hey, I'm Nora Jones, and I love playing music with people so much that my podcast called Playing Along is back.
[00:53:58]  I sit down with musicians from all musical styles to play songs together in an intimate setting.
[00:54:03]  Every episode's a little different, but it all involves music and conversation with some of my favorite musicians.
[00:54:08]  Over the past two seasons, I've had special guests like Dave Grohl, Leve, Mavis Staples, Remy Wolf, Jeff Tweedy, really too many to name.
[00:54:18]  And this season, I've sat down with Alessia Cara, Sarah McLaughlin, John Legend, and more.
[00:54:23]  Check out my new episode with Josh Grobin.
[00:54:26]  He related to the Phantom at that point.
[00:54:29]  Yeah, I was definitely the Phantom in that.
[00:54:31]  That's so funny.
[00:54:32]  Share each day with me each night, each morning.
[00:54:41]  Say you love me.
[00:54:44]  You know I.
[00:54:45]  So come hang out with us in the studio and listen to Playing Along on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[00:54:54]  And we're back and finishing up the epic tale.
[00:54:58]  Epic tale of Gilgamesh and P. Diddy.
[00:55:01]  Are we going to get into the Cassie stuff now?
[00:55:03]  We are.
[00:55:04]  We're going to get into the Cassie stuff now.
[00:55:06]  Yes.
[00:55:06]  Cassie, who was for a while, is in Ketu.
[00:55:09]  If we're doing the Gilgamesh.
[00:55:10]  Anyway, whatever.
[00:55:12]  Let's talk to Sandra.
[00:55:13]  After his split from Kim Porter, she was the woman largely seen as Diddy's public partner, right?
[00:55:19]  She was a singer and a model in her own right.
[00:55:21]  Super talented.
[00:55:22]  Yeah, very talented.
[00:55:23]  The two are generally depicted in media as like a power couple, right?
[00:55:26]  Sure.
[00:55:26]  In a Sybil lawsuit filed earlier this year, Miss Ventura claims that from the beginning, Sean used his wealth and power to force her into a, quote, manipulative and coercive romantic and sexual relationship.
[00:55:37]  He assaulted her constantly, beating and kicking her and regularly leaving, quote, black eyes, bruises, and blood.
[00:55:44]  Cassandra describes his freak offs in her lawsuit and alleged that he would often secretly film the days of debauchery with his famous friends.
[00:55:52]  The videotapes doubled as fuel for extortion if anyone crossed him, which is part of why his social circle was so loyal and so quiet for so long, right?
[00:56:01]  He has videos of them doing the crimes.
[00:56:04]  Again, the movie Don't Blink really does cover a lot of this.
[00:56:08]  And as a bonus, has Christian Slater, and that's never a bad time.
[00:56:11]  Yeah, Christian Slater is amazing, man.
[00:56:13]  He's fucking great.
[00:56:13]  Yeah.
[00:56:14]  I love him.
[00:56:15]  I love that guy.
[00:56:16]  It's dark, man.
[00:56:19]  Do you talk about the fact that Kim Porter also dies?
[00:56:22]  Did we?
[00:56:22]  Yes, at age 47.
[00:56:24]  That hasn't happened yet, though.
[00:56:26]  I mean, it's happening.
[00:56:26]  There's a lot of like where it gets to the point where it's like, God, dude, like the people around you.
[00:56:32]  So many things.
[00:56:33]  Yeah, there's just too many things.
[00:56:35]  The Kid Cuddy explosion, like of his car, where he says his car.
[00:56:39]  Yes, yes, yes.
[00:56:40]  The Kid Cutty.
[00:56:41]  Yes.
[00:56:41]  There's so many things that you're like, oh my God, dude, you are a bad person.
[00:56:46]  Yes.
[00:56:46]  You're a bad person.
[00:56:47]  There's something bad about you.
[00:56:49]  And I just like every person has a, oh, did you ever work with this guy type story?
[00:56:54]  It's like, it's one of those like badges of honor almost sometimes right here in the industry where it's like, oh yeah, man, I spent a week with Diddy, man.
[00:57:01]  You know, it was crazy, man.
[00:57:03]  Speaking of which, let's talk about the Kid Cuddy story because you hear about this first in 2012.
[00:57:08]  Gossip blogs report that Cassie, who was dating Kid Cuddy at the time and Diddy, had had a fight in a club.
[00:57:15]  And now in the lawsuit, Cassie claims that Diddy, quote, blew up a man's car after he learned he was romantically interested in Ventura.
[00:57:23]  And here's my favorite quote.
[00:57:24]  This is from the salon.com article.
[00:57:26]  The New York Times said through a spokesperson that Kid Cuddy confirmed Cassie's account that his car exploded in his driveway.
[00:57:32]  This is all true, he said.
[00:57:34]  Oh my God.
[00:57:35]  Yeah.
[00:57:35]  Just a car explosion.
[00:57:37]  No way to say who did it.
[00:57:38]  Yeah.
[00:57:39]  Hey, man, who knows?
[00:57:40]  I was pissing this one dude off.
[00:57:42]  And sometimes shit happens.
[00:57:45]  Sometimes shit happens.
[00:57:46]  Also, like Cuddy's cool.
[00:57:48]  Yeah.
[00:57:49]  I don't know anything about him, but he's cool and he has one less car than he would otherwise have.
[00:57:53]  We can say that for sure.
[00:57:54]  So true, Robert.
[00:57:55]  From the New York Times, quote, Cassie in her lawsuit said that Mr. Combs directed frequent freak offs at high-end hotels around the country, directing her at the events to pour excessive amounts of oil on herself and tell her where to touch the prostitutes while he filmed and masturbated.
[00:58:11]  We're not going to like go into a ton of detail about the massive amount of baby oil, but there's a lot of it.
[00:58:16]  Some of it's drugged.
[00:58:17]  Yeah, this is how it's being used.
[00:58:19]  There was a reason why they confiscated like a thousand bottles of baby oil from literally a thousand.
[00:58:24]  Yeah, it was like, it was like there was a reason why that that happened.
[00:58:27]  And there was absolutely to the point where Costco had to come out and be like, dog, we don't, we don't sell that shit.
[00:58:32]  Yeah, we don't sell that shit.
[00:58:34]  We are not in on that shit.
[00:58:35]  The only reason I can think of to drug it is because you are getting it inside people in their mucus membranes or absolutely.
[00:58:42]  Like fucking MDMA or whatever isn't going to absorb it in someone's vagina.
[00:58:48]  And so again, like, it's hideous, right?
[00:58:51]  Like, we don't need to belabor that point.
[00:58:53]  I think you get it, right?
[00:58:55]  Cassie says in her lawsuit, he treated the forced encounter as a personal art project, adjusting the candles he used for lighting to frame the videos that he took.
[00:59:04]  Bro, this is an artur.
[00:59:06]  He's an autour of sex crimes.
[00:59:08]  Yeah.
[00:59:10]  I wonder if he and Epstein ever partied.
[00:59:11]  They certainly had the opportunity.
[00:59:13]  I don't know, but Trump's the common link, which is hilarious because it's like, yeah, of course, you say Diddy is a great guy.
[00:59:20]  He's my friend and also your best friends with Epstein.
[00:59:23]  Yeah.
[00:59:24]  Yeah.
[00:59:24]  In 2018, Kim Porter passes away.
[00:59:27]  The cause of death was initially listed as deferred, but it was later confirmed that she died of pneumonia.
[00:59:33]  Right.
[00:59:34]  And there's a lot of confusion.
[00:59:37]  Conspiracy talk.
[00:59:38]  There's a lot of people.
[00:59:40]  But to be fair, I know King Combs posted his son.
[00:59:44]  Yeah, Christian.
[00:59:44]  Christian.
[00:59:45]  He posted that there has never been any question amongst children that his daddy is.
[00:59:51]  People do just die sometimes.
[00:59:52]  Yes.
[00:59:53]  It's absolutely reasonable to say that people do, in fact, just die sometimes.
[00:59:57]  But yeah, again, people have also said maybe that death should be looked into and probably not a bad idea.
[01:00:03]  Take a look.
[01:00:03]  Take a look.
[01:00:04]  JFK's head just exploded.
[01:00:06]  It's like, I don't just know that.
[01:00:08]  He just did that.
[01:00:09]  Presidents just do that sometimes.
[01:00:11]  Sometimes it's a pre-existing condition.
[01:00:14]  Pre-existing.
[01:00:16]  In 2017, Diddy changed his name yet again.
[01:00:19]  He told the world he would now go by love or brother love.
[01:00:23]  Really?
[01:00:24]  Yeah.
[01:00:24]  I didn't know this.
[01:00:25]  A lot of people miss this era.
[01:00:27]  I knew this.
[01:00:28]  I fucking knew this.
[01:00:29]  This is the Snoop Lion era of Diddy.
[01:00:32]  He legally changes his name because love is his legal middle name.
[01:00:36]  He tells Vanity Fair at the time, love is a mission.
[01:00:39]  I feel like that's one of the biggest missions that will actually shift things.
[01:00:43]  But besides that, we, the world, is different.
[01:00:45]  We have the internet.
[01:00:46]  We have the power.
[01:00:47]  We have a culture.
[01:00:48]  I have us on a five-year plan.
[01:00:51]  First off, fucking talking like Stalin there.
[01:00:56]  That was more than five years ago.
[01:00:57]  How'd the plan work out?
[01:00:58]  Diddy?
[01:00:59]  Yeah.
[01:00:59]  Yeah.
[01:01:00]  A little more loving?
[01:01:01]  Did he fix it?
[01:01:05]  Good job, bro.
[01:01:06]  Fucking Joseph Diddy Beria.
[01:01:09]  Fucking hell.
[01:01:10]  Now, during this period, Diddy's public image remained mostly benign in articles from...
[01:01:15]  You know, he named his like youngest baby love, right?
[01:01:18]  Yes, he did.
[01:01:18]  Yeah.
[01:01:19]  It happens with famous people.
[01:01:20]  You see it with Elon Musk and X, you know?
[01:01:23]  Yeah.
[01:01:24]  Just name your kids something else.
[01:01:27]  I don't care what you name your kids.
[01:01:28]  What is wrong with Scott?
[01:01:30]  Yeah.
[01:01:30]  Albert.
[01:01:32]  Hans.
[01:01:33]  Yeah.
[01:01:33]  Why do we got to be weird about everything?
[01:01:36]  Yeah.
[01:01:37]  Now, in articles from the time he was feted as a genius producer and interviewers seemed happy to ignore the numerous assault allegations that, you know, were kind of in the shadows, but not too shadowy to have found.
[01:01:49]  And the very public fact that he had definitely killed people through negligence and had them murdered.
[01:01:54]  He even managed to avoid Me Too entirely.
[01:01:57]  In fact, in that interview, he tells Vanity Fair the movement inspired him and, quote, showed me you can get maximum change.
[01:02:04]  God damn it.
[01:02:05]  God damn it.
[01:02:05]  He didn't say a word about his friend Weinstein that he'd been fucking looking for a project with for seven years.
[01:02:11]  I mean, honestly, sometimes people are fucking out there doing the, you know, dodgeball equivalent to making it through life.
[01:02:18]  You know, it's just like, you can't get healed.
[01:02:19]  He must have felt like, whew, dodge that bullet.
[01:02:23]  Clearly, it's clean sailing from here on out.
[01:02:26]  Which is crazy because, I mean, Sophie will backed me on this.
[01:02:28]  The Danny the Cain stuff, they talked about a lot of shit that he did.
[01:02:32]  Yeah.
[01:02:32]  So much.
[01:02:33]  Super adjacent.
[01:02:34]  You know, it's like never sexual assault, but super adjacent.
[01:02:39]  Yeah, I talked to Robert about this because I was Aubrey O'Day.
[01:02:43]  Yeah, Aubrey Day comes out for years, like at least a couple of years, saying I don't think she sees or has evidence.
[01:02:50]  And obviously, you don't want to casually, before all this breaks, call him a sexual.
[01:02:55]  He has a lot of money.
[01:02:56]  Right.
[01:02:56]  She was vocal about him for so many years.
[01:03:00]  She did everything she could.
[01:03:02]  But also, she said Don Jr. was her soulmate.
[01:03:05]  So people like really stopped taking her and like had an affair with him.
[01:03:09]  There's like a lot of stuff there.
[01:03:11]  So people didn't believe her, but she was fucking right.
[01:03:14]  Yeah.
[01:03:14]  Yeah.
[01:03:15]  I think one of the most direct things she said in 2022 in an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast, she said that Diddy had fired her because she, quote, wasn't willing to do what was expected, not talent-wise, but in other areas.
[01:03:27]  Right.
[01:03:27]  Right.
[01:03:28]  Brutal.
[01:03:29]  Brutal, brutal, brutal.
[01:03:31]  Very clear what that means.
[01:03:33]  Yeah.
[01:03:34]  And here's another quote from an article.
[01:03:35]  Again, this is before everything breaks in varieties.
[01:03:37]  This is 2019 called Aubrey O'Day is still recovering from making the band PTSD and making the band the reality show that Diddy.
[01:03:45]  All of them suffered so much.
[01:03:47]  It's so horrible.
[01:03:48]  Puff is a very difficult person to work with.
[01:03:51]  Everything had to be perfect.
[01:03:52]  I remember times where he looked at my toenails and was like, what is your third toenail doing?
[01:03:56]  Go get that shit fixed before you walk into a room.
[01:03:59]  Or we would be in rehearsals performing an hour and a half separately.
[01:04:01]  Since you get your toenails correct or I will fucking end you.
[01:04:06]  I would walk in for five minutes with a camera and say, Aubrey, why are you sweating?
[01:04:10]  You look like a wet dog.
[01:04:11]  You're the hot one.
[01:04:12]  So you think anyone wants to see that?
[01:04:15]  And again, this is all pretty minor next to all the horrible sex.
[01:04:18]  He's a dick.
[01:04:19]  It's like, you understand, it's like somebody that will go to the lengths of like fucking with your third toe is like the type of person that will make you feel power about who you are.
[01:04:29]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:04:29]  It's like, no, guys, listen, I distinctly remember a clip from that show where all of them were presented to him and he like went one by one critiquing their personal appearance.
[01:04:43]  And the things he said were just horrific.
[01:04:46]  Yeah, horrific and inhumane.
[01:04:48]  But specifically, that story is crazy because like Aubrey, like basically, you could even see it in her, like morphed into like whatever was asked of her.
[01:04:56]  And then he'd tear that down too.
[01:04:59]  So, you know.
[01:05:00]  To devil's advocate this stupid situation because I hate to do it.
[01:05:04]  But like, I've been on the, I've been in reality shows.
[01:05:07]  For some reason, when you want to like hire somebody to pretend to be an engineer in a reality show because all these people want to be musicians, like I get hired to do these like stupid reality shows to play myself in a reality show.
[01:05:20]  And so I've had these situations where I see the way it actually goes down.
[01:05:24]  And it is absolutely people pushing the worst narrative.
[01:05:28]  But here's the thing that I think that is really important to understand about it is that some people, their worst is not that bad, you know, like in comparative speaking.
[01:05:38]  It's like you see them do these like, oh, they're trying to ham it up for TV and they're not really good at being like mean people, right?
[01:05:44]  You can feel the difference between somebody who's capable of actually coming up with shit that makes people feel horrible about themselves, you know, like to really like be a shitty person towards somebody.
[01:05:55]  And that's the type of thing that you see in this where it's like, man, to like attack your toes, like the way your toes look, to attack like these like arbitrary things.
[01:06:05]  They know that that's something that cuts deep on a person that makes them second guess themselves, like deep inside themselves, you know?
[01:06:12]  Yep.
[01:06:13]  Yep.
[01:06:13]  Absolutely.
[01:06:14]  So about five years after saying that he was inspired by me too, in that article for Vanity Fair, Cassandra came forward with her lawsuit and she was joined very quickly in a flood of lawsuits.
[01:06:26]  Not all of the people charging Sean with sexual assault are women.
[01:06:29]  We have mostly focused on that, but I want to be very clear that he is alleged of assaulting men too, not just through Cuba.
[01:06:35]  One man currently incarcerated in Michigan for kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct himself says that Diddy drugged and raped him in Detroit in 1997.
[01:06:44]  A judgment was briefly issued on that case, but Diddy's lawyers, because they hadn't appeared in court, unclear to me what happened, you know, but like that's not the only allegation of him abusing a man too, right?
[01:06:55]  I just want to be clear about that.
[01:06:57]  There's just less of it.
[01:06:58]  It's damn near 50-50 on the ratio on this.
[01:07:01]  It's like it's pretty even.
[01:07:03]  He seems to be an equal opportunity sexual assaulter.
[01:07:07]  And he's got famous friends who are gay and creeps.
[01:07:10]  Yeah.
[01:07:10]  And there's also just like so many like allegedly things that have happened that like, obviously we can't comment as fact right now.
[01:07:18]  But like as this trial proceeds, I'm sure a lot more will come out, but there's a lot of grooming allegations as well.
[01:07:26]  And to be very fair, it would be irresponsible to not mention the amount of people that will jump on a situation because they are themselves shitty people that will like jump on something.
[01:07:39]  Oh, this happened to me because they see the wave and it will give them a tiny bit of respect or money or whatever the fuck.
[01:07:47]  But without a doubt, there is allegations that exist inside of this that are horrifying.
[01:07:55]  Yeah, horrifying and real.
[01:07:56]  Yeah.
[01:07:57]  You know, so there are so many of these allegations that we're not going to cover more than them, right?
[01:08:02]  We've done it.
[01:08:03]  Seven part of it.
[01:08:04]  I think this gives you a pretty good understanding of him.
[01:08:07]  And the fact that I've cut out allegations, which I've cut out like two for everyone I've included, says nothing about the legitimacy of those.
[01:08:12]  It's just a space thing.
[01:08:14]  I should say a bit here about Christina Coram, K-H-O-R-R-A-M.
[01:08:18]  She was Combs' chief of staff and is a co-defendant in the Jones lawsuit.
[01:08:22]  We talked about the lady from Oklahoma who was like brought into a party and drugged and possibly sexually assaulted and then called by a woman afterwards and threatened.
[01:08:31]  I think there's a decent chance that was Christina Coram.
[01:08:34]  Jones claims that Corham bought a lot of the drugs and actually handled the booking and paying of sex workers for Combs' parties.
[01:08:40]  She was his Gillen Maxwell, in other words.
[01:08:43]  And also it's worth noting, again, I keep bringing up that movie that I didn't appreciate as much until this all came out, Blink Twice.
[01:08:50]  The woman who is, there's like an older woman who is like the creepy sex CEO's like fixer.
[01:08:57]  And she's Christina Corum.
[01:08:59]  I didn't realize how directed was.
[01:09:01]  There is always somebody who is adjacent and willing to use their vulnerability with people, you know, their ability to access the vulnerability of people, you know, that makes you feel like, oh, it's a woman.
[01:09:16]  I don't have to worry about what they'll do.
[01:09:17]  There was always one of those.
[01:09:19]  There is always one of those every single time.
[01:09:21]  Yeah.
[01:09:21]  And that's Christina Corum in this story.
[01:09:23]  We'll see what happens to her.
[01:09:24]  Sean Cuffy Combs was arrested on September 16th, 2024, several months after the FBI raided his LA mansion and seized firearms, illegal drugs, and more than a thousand bottles of baby oil.

=== Arrested After FBI Raid (05:52) ===

[01:09:37]  Combs has denied all charges and pled not guilty.
[01:09:40]  More recently, a judge declined to set bail for him, noting that he still posed a danger to the community.
[01:09:46]  He gets denied bail like once a week.
[01:09:48]  Motherfucker tries to get out once a week.
[01:09:50]  Yeah, he's in the same part of the jail.
[01:09:52]  Very recently, there's been all sorts of allegations of him, you know, stealing phones or bribing other inmates to let him use their phone time and like to intimidate witnesses specifically.
[01:10:04]  Like he's already in jail trying to run shit from what they say.
[01:10:08]  So it's like, it's not like he's just chilling out in there being calm.
[01:10:12]  He is absolutely still trying to run an intimidation game from inside prison.
[01:10:18]  Yep.
[01:10:18]  And that's the episode, everybody.
[01:10:21]  Well, you know, I feel really good about money.
[01:10:25]  Confidential party.
[01:10:26]  Yeah.
[01:10:27]  I just, I just want to make a lot of money so I can do anything I want.
[01:10:31]  I don't know, man.
[01:10:32]  I'm with you.
[01:10:32]  I think, I think we just, we build an empire, take it to the FDA.
[01:10:38]  We really want to.
[01:10:38]  Take it to the FDA.
[01:10:40]  And that'll save us, you know, and our reputations.
[01:10:43]  We'll die historic, you know, in a gunfight with the FDA.
[01:10:47]  That's all I want.
[01:10:47]  That's the way to go down.
[01:10:49]  Yeah.
[01:10:49]  So all I'm wondering is that, you know, because they say you only die when the last person that remembers your name dies, you know, it's like every one of those FDA agents is going to remember us forever.
[01:11:00]  Children, all of their children's children.
[01:11:04]  They'll never forget.
[01:11:05]  Yep.
[01:11:06]  Now we're going to have to start selling supplements first, Will.
[01:11:09]  Oh my God.
[01:11:12]  Oh, God.
[01:11:13]  Do you know what's funny to me, man?
[01:11:14]  Every time I post on TikTok, people will be like, man, you would really like this Behind the Bastards podcast.
[01:11:23]  And I always, every time I'm... I linked with him.
[01:11:28]  Do I ever?
[01:11:29]  I know that guy.
[01:11:31]  So funny.
[01:11:33]  Yep.
[01:11:34]  So, this has been Behind the Bastards, a podcast about a guy I almost named a goat for.
[01:11:40]  It has been a fantastic time.
[01:11:42]  I appreciate the shit out of you, man.
[01:11:44]  Thank you so much.
[01:11:45]  Appreciate you too, Will.
[01:11:46]  Let me hang out and get very drunk.
[01:11:50]  Yeah.
[01:11:50]  Get extremely drunk while listening to somebody that made me feel icky.
[01:11:55]  Cool.
[01:11:56]  That's the podcast experience.
[01:11:58]  I hope you're at home or drunk or something too, and buddy.
[01:12:02]  And Godspeed.
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[01:13:11]  He goes, just give it a shot.
[01:13:13]  But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit.
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[01:14:29]  This is one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics.
[01:14:35]  They screamed, get down, get down.
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[01:14:44]  That may have been about sex.
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