Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes

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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.
We are talking the insane pile, the cash pile so large that your only option is to either get really into cocaine or start a series of ill-conceived small businesses. Yes, absolutely.
Diddy, I'm sure, does both, actually. So I had two choices.
No. I was going to sit in that failure.
I was going to make a decision to step out of the darkness. More like into the darkness, buddy.
He steps out of the darkness to launch a restaurant called Justin. This is named after his oldest son.
He starts the first Justin in New York City in 1997, and he franchises it out to Atlanta the following year. The New York location shuts down after about a decade.
Sean claims because he wanted to find a larger location, but he just never opens a new one. I think it just fails.
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. And then we just lived in a basement for like eight years.
Good times, mom. Thanks.
Yeah, this is Diddy's version of that. Now, the Atlanta location hangs on a little while longer.
It eventually shuts down in 2012. Why? Here's a summary from an article in BET.
In July 2011, Diddy was sued after music executive Tony Austin, a patron of the Atlanta eatery, was shot in the parking lot. Austin, former A&R 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.
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. Now- Isn't that something? Isn't that something? Shocking, shocking.
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Your savings, your way. 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.
In 1998, he launched a fashion label, Sean John. Sean John.
Sean John. Oh, man.
And it was the it brand, you know? That was the shit. It was Boss and Sean John and Fubu, man.
We can say markedly more successful than his restaurant. Absolutely.
Also, I need to fact check you on the oldest son thing. He has an adopted son who's older named Quincy.
Oh, okay. And his adopted son who is older named Quincy.
Sure. Interesting, fascinating name.
Now, that year, the year that he starts Sean John, he is nominated for five Grammys. If you want to know what a Grammy looks like, just look behind Will and Tewis right on camera.
The light actually went off, I guess. But, you know, I wasn't in the mood to turn it back on i noticed it an episode you got it fucking backlit was the first thing you did with that take a shot out of it oh yeah absolutely in fact i think you know what to be fair this is behind the bastards we should do this on air because like you know it's like what else do you do when you get a grammy yeah so also true i need you to understand that when i got this Grammy, I was about to have a kid at the time.
I had a bad month where my car, the transmission died. Basically, my point is I had like maybe like $500 in my account.
I still spent $200 on a bottle of Don Julio. Priorities are important in life.
So that I could take a shot out of my Grammy. That's right, folks.
because that's the only reason to get one of these things what kind of like what kind of person gets this to brag to their friends no like this is to take shots out of because it's funny and you're not gonna get content like this from the pod save america guys you're not getting it from the bulwark you're not getting it it from last podcast on the left. Only behind the bastards.
This is basically when Elon smoked a blunt. And honestly, maybe Joe Rogan.
You might get this on Joe Rogan. You would get this on Joe Rogan.
I'm not going to lie. Although we would both be racist and one of us have some sex pest crimes behind us.
You would be trying to convince my listeners to, I don't know, inject bleach into their assholes in order to build muscle mass yeah eating like 600 like like worms or or was it silkworms specifically lots of silkworms you have to eat silkworms for your colon health you know it's like everybody i'd be trying well i do actually think you should eat more elk it's delicious now it's very tasty now so that year the same year he opened Sean, John, he gets nominated for five Grammys. Bad Boy pulls in $130 million in revenue.
What year is that? That is 98. Oh, 98.
Okay, so do you know what Grammys those were that he won? That I don't know. I could have looked that up, but I'm a hack and a fraud.
Now, from this point forward in the story, Sean has infinite money, right? Which he still does, basically. Now, as I noted last episode, he'd always had a knack for throwing huge media-driven parties.
And now that he was actually a major celebrity himself, he kicked things up several notches. 1998 is also the year of his first white party.
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. And part of it is he becomes like the first black guy to move into this very rich white neighborhood.
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. You can be at this party with these cool people.
Yeah. This is starting to happen era of the internet.
This is 98. This is the beginning of the internet where being seen with all these different cool hit people that are big.
Because the white part is you see the pictures of them. It's the everybody's of all of entertainment.
And everyone wears white because Diddy thought he looked good in white. And to be honest, I don't want to be complimenting the man, but he doesn't look bad.
That's not a bad look for him. That's not a bad look for him.
The white part is legit. It's like a pair of Air Ones, dude.
They look good the first time you wear them. And that is white, dude.
White is, the first time you wear it, it is the most beautiful, pristine, amazing looking thing. Now, I would say what, you have lunch like 9 30 10 p.m that white starts getting kind of grody you know yeah 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 look at some of the people below him like that guy in the front like they're just wearing white t shirts.
You don't look like a rap star. Like you get this wild mix of like beautiful people.
And also sometimes beautiful people looking just like normal weirdos at a party, but which I always think is really interesting. 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. Photoshop tools aren't as easy to use.
So you get a lot of shots of famous people actually looking like normal people at a party. 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.
Like, Leo looks like a pretty normal fucking dude there. Very normal, for sure.
Yeah. Yeah next Regis Philbin yeah there's a photo of Regis Philbin and I can only describe the look on his face he looks like he is smiling like the devil like he would cast him in needful things he is selling you a cursed Victrola that's how Regis looks in this photo 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

is that Vera Wang

the wedding dress designer

I can't I don't I can't tell

it's kind of grainy all of these

people are rich some of them are famous

I don't think that bald guy got famous for

being a hip-hop star the only poor people

of the I can't tell it's kind of grainy all of these people are rich some of them are famous I don't think that bald guy got famous for being a hip hop star the only poor people at these parties were the people catering and the people being sex trafficked look at Regis Regis is like I'm not touching anybody my hands are to myself you can see both of my hands I ain't fucking up this uh what was it was it he wants to be a millionaire at this point i wish that we could just really see like like if there was like guilt aura around every person that existed in this picture like like green to red and in a scale of colors and the redder you are the guiltier you are as a human being. Because, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Yeah, that's going to be a fascinating shade above that crowd there. Everyone's going to have an aura that looks like the drink of the guy on the left, which is red.
You are just as likely to be completely innocent in one of those pictures. Well, and here's the thing.
As you are to be complicit in all the bullshit he did. There are definitely, especially at the end, at the after parties, the night parts for there are definitely some sex crimes here these are not the ditty parties where most of the sex traffic right right yeah definitely should be mentioned these are two different events like that's a reason for it the white parties are his pr this is where he goes there is 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.

Right. Right.
And that is the point of these.

And so these are largely less sketchy events for that reason. 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.

There's definitely drugs.

But the fact that someone was at a white party

doesn't mean that they committed sex crimes.

So I'm not saying Regis Philbin is a sex pest.

I don't know Regis.

Maybe there have been allegations against him.

If so, then I guess I am, but I don't know that.

But these are his show parties

and he's a lot more careful about what happens here.

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, like a dance off. But, you know, with your freak.
Get your freak on. Yeah, I shouldn't laugh.
They're dark. They're dark.
These are the sex crime parties. If someone went to a freak off, you should assume they did some bad stuff.
Yes. In almost every single one of these stories, there is a victim.
There is very little willing participants of these things. Like even the people who are willing participants might be coerced willing participants.
It's very murky with a lot of the stuff that goes on. A lot of power.
Blurred lines, you could say. Yeah.
Yeah. And again, this is definitely the place where we start talking about where blurred lines the i did it and people are also just doing lines yeah yes yeah definitely he wasn't explicitly making me do this but i knew that i could not say no type right and that is very very strong in the ditty story for sure and another big part of it is because there's different gradients of cases a lot of these people people are like, well, yeah, I said yes and I agreed and nobody threatened me.
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. And I didn't think I had any other op.
These are also some of the things that are happening. I mean, we're into now the beginning of the Justin Bieber territory, which is very much the Usher situation between Puffy and Usher,

and then Usher and Justin Bieber and Justin Bieber.

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.

Yeah.

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 nineties, Hey, let's be fair. It was the night or the night.
You know, when we're talking about Bieber, probably for 12 year old, Justin Bieber to be at Diddy's house. Who am I to judge? Who are we to judge? We should have judged.
Yeah, we should have judged. We should have been judging.
At the white party is like the most intense photo I've seen is Sean pouring champagne for what the New York Post describes as two unidentified near naked women. It doesn't look nearly as sketchy as they describe it.
The Post and a lot of other tabloid coverage of these events does tend towards sensationalism about the wrong things. For example, this piece from September.
Inside, Sean Diddy Combs' Hampton sex parties featuring gay rappers who were high on ketamine. And like, you and I have both been to parties with gay rappers high on ketamine.
That's not the problem. Yeah, not at all.
Someamine that's not what's the issue in fact someone say that was the best part of the party yeah yeah those gay rappers probably not committing sex crimes not at all maybe sometimes you know but the point is here's the thing is like those those white parties those were those were press events you don't have press at sex crime parties you have press at the events where you're committing sex crimes right yeah unless you unless you you know that's part of the blackmail you know yeah yeah yeah 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. No, no.
Because he's not again. He's not stupid.
That's

why he got away with this for so long. 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. 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. Weird shit was starting to happen.
Celebrity guys fucking each other. There were back bedrooms and it was like the inner sanctum.
And this dealer talks about it like, I lost a lot of respect for those guys. He is not talking about the sex group.
He's talking about like people having gay sex. Gay sex, yeah.
Famous people fucking each other in a gay way which is like fine that's not the issue here like the representatives to be talking about any of this stuff but like yeah as far as i have ever experienced inside of like the yeah hip-hop culture of america it has only recently become taboo to say the f-slur it's not like that was an insult for most of the 2000s 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 so it's like i certainly there is a vested interest in not publicizing this yes people not knowing not knowing that it exists. Could be very dangerous for some of these people.
And this being a secret. Yeah.
Because you would be looked at differently, especially at this time. But even now, you would be looked at differently for these types of actions.
And there's, you know, the dealer claims he also saw a mix of female rappers and prostitutes having sex there. And that's kind of where we do get into.
Because,, some of there's probably some trafficking at the white parties. And it's unclear to me, is he talking about a white party or a freak off? It's at the Hamptons.
A little bit unclear, but we'll get to that later. Real quick on that same point.
I just want to say at any event, right, 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.
Yes. It's one.
It's very good to look like there is a lot of beautiful women here. Yeah, for sure.
But also for the people that come to these things, they want to feel like there's girls that are there that are interested. And this happens all the way from the normal Hollywood club type event all the way up to these parties.
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? Yeah,

absolutely. Now, in 1999,

Diddy was arrested

on felony charges of assault and

criminal mischief. The chain of events

began when Diddy was featured

in the music video Hate Me Now with

Nas. Both Diddy and Nas were crucified

on a cross, which Diddy later decided

was sacrilegious and asked to

have cut. That's his line! That's his line.
That's where he calls it. Hey, man, do not portray me as Jesus being crucified on a cross.
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. Like, I remember that coming out and I remember seeing it was on TRL and I remember my mind being blown just like, oh my God, they crucified them.
That's so sacrilegious. 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.
Like perspective is a very important piece of this whole thing. And in the 90s, that was sacrilegious as hell you know like that was some like marilyn manson level of sacrilege going on inside of the community oh man so that's what flips him out and when the he decides like hey cut this out and then they air the unedited version anyway and when the version with him being crucified airs he blames the president of Interscope Records, Steve Stout, and he bursts in the Stout's office with some goons and assaults him with, quote, a chair, a telephone and a champagne bottle.
Stout said of the beating, 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. One of them picks up a chair and throws it at me.
Then Puffy throws my desk over and they just walk out like nothing happened. And his stance is, I think they were trying to kill me and I just happened to not die.
I don't know, I wasn't there. He seems to say it was very serious.
Combs turned himself in a few days later and was charged with felony assault. He was freed on $15,000 bail and ultimately pled down to a misdemeanor.
His sentence was one day of court ordered anger management. Oh, Jesus.
That's what hundreds of millions of dollars gets you in lawyers, man. That's the thing is like money is the savior of all problems.
Yeah. Yeah.
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So three months after he assaults this record executive, Combs goes out to a Manhattan nightclub with Jennifer Lopez, who he was dating dating at the time the couple were partying when someone else at the club insulted diddy and threatened his protege a rapper named shine a write-up in the independence summarizes what happens next in the kind of voice that you usually use for like the israeli military or cops a dispute ensued shots were fired and three bystanders were injured including a woman who was shot in the face

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

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

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. Must be nice.
I mean, you know, we have this amazing celebrity worship culture in our country. It's just inevitable all the time, right? It's's like yeah we will no matter who find some sort of martyr or savior or just god in whatever exists inside celebrity they we're happy to have that we're happy to have somebody that we can go to a courthouse on our day off of work yeah and cheer when they get off after probably shooting a woman in the face.

After probably shooting somebody.

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.

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?

Shots were fired. Someone was hit.

There was a gun, a non-registered illegal gun in his possession okay it's just so funny amazing yeah the whole situation there's there's still a lot of like what happened exactly yeah the story gets really convoluted 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 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, not at a club at two o'clock in the morning in New York. I have clear procedural memories of about 30% of our friendship, Will.
It's all flashes. It's all flashes.
It's moments. It's a polarized picture in my head in that parking lot.
Turns out. So Combs thanked God after the verdict and made a big show of going to church after.
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.
And the P. Diddy era.
I love that. Got off from a fucking club shooting.
Time to become P. Diddy.
The P. Diddy era was lucrative indeed.
He released more albums. He acted in several movies and he started producing reality television.
He gets that Ciroc vodka deal. Right.
Yeah, this is the Danny DeCaine era, right. Yeah.
Yep. Making the band.
Yep. Making the band.
In 2002, he won awards for his menswear fashion line. 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.
It happens, doesn't it? It happens. Yeah.
You know, you're gonna try and get that cost of production down. Gotta be some sweatshots.

Yeah. Gonna have to sweatshop.

None of that kept him down for long.

In 2004, he performed at the

Super Bowl. He started his famous

voter die campaign that election season.

Oh man, that was huge. If you were a teenager

in the 90s, you definitely saw the...

Pete Diddy was telling you to vote. Yep.

Pete Diddy was recommending people to you. Yeah, money continued to flow by the hundreds of millions.
As the Bush years came to an end, P. Diddy changed his name yet again, this time dropping the P and becoming just Diddy.
Diddy. His white parties remained infamous social events, but he also held increasing numbers of freak-offs.
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. Ew.
This brings me to the story of Latroia Grayson, who at age 23 won tickets via a radio show to attend a ditty party. Her only recollections of the event were meeting Mary J.
Blige, having a drink, and then blacking out because, again, she was drugged. She has hazy memories of three or four guys she didn't know taking her out of the room.
She woke up in the hospital very ill and vomiting until she was released several hours later. Quote, I left with no shoes on.
My shirt was kind of ripped. I noticed all my money was taken out of my purse except for like $20.
I got robbed for my money. I had just enough to get back to a motel in a cab.
It's so fucked up. Like these people are also not wealthy people.
They're doing this because they don't have money in the first place. No, she won a contest on the radio.
And then you get robbed anyway. It's a party.
Now, she also says she realized afterwards that her vagina was sore. She's not certain what happened because, again, she was drugged.
Drugged, yeah. Almost certainly not a good story.
Yeah. I don't remember half the things that happened to me yesterday.
Half sober, you know? Literally, they found baby oil with GHB in it. They weren't fucking around up in that place.
Horrible. In the wake of all this, I've read a ton of stories of people that have recounted 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.
And so it's like to see this shit happen to people, it's like it's targeted and mean and shitty. It's like it's evil.
Yes, it's evil. It is evil.
I'm not a God person, but it's evil. It's like going after people that that are just living normal lives and trying to survive.
This person won a contest. Won a contest to hang.
And this is what and this is how and this is how it ended. Like that's disgusting, vile evil.
Yes, it's horrible. It's like the type of shit that you're like, what the fuck? And I'm not done with the story, unfortunately.
I'm going to read next from an article on MSN. 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.
She recounted the anonymous woman's warning. 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.
Puzzled, Grayson queried, so I'm like, well, how did you even get my phone number? Do you know anything about my money being missing? She's like, no, I don't know nothing about that. I'm like,'m like well i mean how did you even get my phone number brutal man it's just so dark dude this type of manipulation the power dynamic as someone who has been in the industry right it's like even people that you're like a teenager 20 year old girl whatever from fucking oklahoma with no money and he is goddamn pd let me let me put this in perspective for people for real yeah all right i was going into the music industry i was a 26 year old male six foot tall 185 pounds in the pretty decent shape you know with combat experience because i was an ex an ex Marine with combat experience who had been shot 28 times.
I felt pressure from people at times. I felt pressured to do things that I didn't want to do at times, you know? So in perspective of like being just like a naive person trying to get into the music industry, like young, like like no real harsh life experience.
It is easy to see that you could be asked to do something, be put in positions 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. Like, yeah, you have power that I don't understand.
And we're talking about the people who know something was done to them and who have spoken out about it 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. That was like really fucked up what happened.
I even thought about it as like a good thing for a while or at least like a mixed thing bag form. But like, no, that was actually really fun.
Like there's people coming to terms with that right now still. Yeah, absolutely.
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.
In that she's not entirely sure what happened or even if she was sexually assaulted because again, drugged. But the well-lit photos full of celebrities existed for one purpose, to burnish Sean's image 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 act as party favors, right? That's how we bring, you have these radio contests. Some of them are paid sex workers.
Some of them are women. Okay, you've just gotten started in your career, you know, in the music industry or as a model, you're at a low level in it right now.
Why don't you like come over to this party, you know? Like, why don't you, you know, and then you get there and then you get coerced. 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? There's a different method for all of them.
And that means Diddy's not handling this himself. He has a team of people who are using different methods constantly to find women because these parties are happening constantly.
This is the 1970s equivalent of the roadie who picks the girls out of the concert, you know, that look like they're down. More people than work at the company, Sophie and I run.
Their job is just to keep young women coming to these parties. He is spending God knows how many millions of dollars a year on just that part of it.
Right. 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.
It was like he was always employing people to be the bad guy in the situation. Right.
You have someone right ahead of you with the drugs. Yeah.
Yes. You give that shit to somebody else.
That's their problem. If they get caught, you have accepted.
You are the one that goes to jail. You say, yes, this is mine.
And you go to jail. That's the accepted position of that person for sure.
Yeah. Precious Muir, a former Playboy model, was one of the women who attended a number of his parties.
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. She summarized the pitch one of these guys gave her as, I host these amazing parties.
Everything is taken care of. You don't have to worry about anything.
We provide accommodation. 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.
You don't have to pay for anything. Everything is covered.
At the time she started attending, Precious was new to the industry without power or connections. Being invited to these parties seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime.
You can impress these guys, make your career, 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. People automatically knew that we were new faces.
We were new talent and we were vulnerable. We were seen maybe as fresh meat.
The power of influence, the power of like being able to change your life in a moment. Oh, yeah.
You know, thousand of these stories we have a thousand of bone thugs in the studio 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 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, right? Like I thought about it. Like I was like, yeah, I'll do anything.
Right. Like that's where your head is.
If you're trying to break in and that's what, that's why so much bad stuff happens. Right.
Like it's the hardest. I mean, the reward is so great, right?

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?

You want it bad enough to put in 80 hours,

a hundred hours a week doing it.

Right.

You also want it bad enough to like cross some lines every now and then,

you know, and it's difficult to face those it matter like what happens to me right yeah right right everybody goes through that thing it's like okay i'm fine as long as it just fucks me up right like that's really the thing it's just gonna fuck me up like i i can take some trauma yeah yeah i can take some trauma that dude everybody that's been in this industry for real knows that it's fine if it's

fucking me.

Now I have had my own moments of like,

no,

no,

no.

I won't watch you fuck somebody else up.

Yeah.

No.

Yeah.

And I won't watch you do this to another person.

Yeah.

And that the problem is that there's just so many people who don't have that

line.

Right.

Of course.

The line is also,

I'll let you fuck me up.

You know,

like I'll let you ruin me.

Yeah.

And so it's like as long as no one else is seeing that it's OK. Yeah.
Yeah. So because of the nature of how the lawsuits are coming out over this, I have no choice but to jump around.
So I'm just going to stay 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, according to Jones, as he alleges in the complaint, Combs reached out to Jones in 2022 to help him produce songs, but Jones claims the work Combs required of him went far beyond producing music.
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.
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. Jones alleged in his complaint that Combs kept specific bottles of alcohol designated for females on hand.
And according to Mr. Jones, Mr.
Combs forced all the women to drink laced DeLeon liquor. Upon information and belief, Mr.
Combs laced the liquor with ecstasy, the lawsuit claims. 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.
Jones also alleges that Combs once left him alone in a makeshift studio on a yacht with Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr., goddammit!

I have been twitching with anticipation

to talk about Cuba Gooding Jr.

Yeah, yeah, here's where Cuba comes in.

Goddammit, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Oh my god, dude.

The fucking Cuba Gooding Jr.

If you start to know-

He gropes the guy, folks.

He is the worst Cuba Gooding Jr. If you are watching on youtube right now or whatever i'm what else is going on in your life 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 shit cuba gooding jr every read spend 10 minutes of your life and read about what cuba gooding jr did to this guy and and then follow that up with a cursory i mean the least the google search of anything else he's done that guy is the biggest piece of shit that has ever if you've ever wondered like we all did for a period of time after he won that Oscar, why hasn't he been in things? Because he's a fucking monster.
Because he's a monster. Because he's a fucking monster.
This is my Hannibal Buress, Bill Cosby moment. Fucking Cuba Gooding Jr.
is a monster and we need to enact laws and federal goddamn statutes against this person. He is a horrible human being and what he has done to the world is disgusting.
Take the sanctions off of Cuba the country and put them onto Cuba the guy. Immediately.
That's what we gotta do. You know who he did play though? Radio? He played fucking OJ Simpson in that.
He did play OJ. And to be honest, he was killing.
You mean he played OJ in the TV show where Ross from Friends played Rock. Right.
One of your favorite things. One of my favorite things.
Juice. Dude, it breaks my heart every time I think about that thing because like, oh God, Cuba Gooding Jr.
is a horrible human being. He did horrible things.
Yeah. And somehow knocks it out of the park is OJ.
No, but like has managed to evade all of this puppy. Like, hopefully that's coming to an end now because stuff about him more stuff is coming out about him.
You know, we could talk more about Q but I think we've we've made our point. He'll get his own episode.
Give it time. Yeah.
Combs's lawyers have denied the allegations and described Jones as a con man. Subsequent allegations and the federal indictment against Combs seem to back up a number of the allegations made by Jones.
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 Harvey Pierre when she was in the 11th grade. These allegations comport with the scenario Precious Mirror described in her interview with the mirror.
Apparently, Pierre met this 11th grader at a lounge in Detroit and used Diddy's name to draw her in. Combs then approached and told her, Hey, you're welcome on my private jet, which was flying to his studio.
Once they were there, she was given lots of drugs and quote gang raped by Combs, Pierre, and an unknown third person. There are a lot of other hideous details that I'm leaving out.
So we don't, you, you know, I think the term gang rape, make no mistake. This is a story that repeats itself dozens and dozens of times across every single accusation to the point where it starts to be like, Oh my God, we missed Jimmy Savile for like 60 years.
We didn't see it. He's getting his episode soon too.
Don't you worry. We missed it all.
Oh man. Turns out we almost always do.
Yeah. Yeah.
We miss it a lot of times, turns out. We're not as brilliant as we think we are.
The rumors abounded. There was tons of it happening.
Oh, yeah. You hear it all the time, but you just make, like, you make the decisions to keep yourselves out of those situations.
On a smaller scale, just being, you know, I've been in comedy. I was a Jace.
I was never a big standup guy, but like I did a little and a lot of my friends did. I went out to regular events as I was employed in comedy.
And like, you just get told by people, you meet someone and they'll be like, oh, we should hang out. And then someone else will be like, don't hang out with him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, don't hang out with that guy.
It's bad idea. Usually a woman that you work with who will say like, that guy's a piece of shit.
You don't want to know him. That guy's a piece of shit.
You't want to write that guy's a piece of shit you don't want to know him that guy's a piece like that you know yeah right right and i said that earlier too it's like that old crusty dude that's like hey man don't work with that guy you know like yeah you don't want to be near you hear the stories for a long time before you're ever asked to do the things you know and like but the problem comes when you don't hear the stories, 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, and getting flown in. Yeah, all you know, is the reputation of that person that exists in the tabloids or on the internet, you don't know the story about, hey, man, don't go to those parties, because it's not good.
You know, bad shit. In 2006, Diddy's longtime partner, Kim Porter, gave birth to twins.
That was the same year that a friend gave birth to his daughter Chance. Kim considered this a betrayal and broke things off with Diddy.
While all this was going on, he was also starting a quote unquote relationship with a young woman named Cassandra Ventura. He had signed her to his label at age 19 and started a sexual relationship with her shortly thereafter.
He was 37 at the time. It was Cassandra's allegations against him that would eventually open the floodgates of legal consequences for Diddy.
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.

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. Yeah.

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 son's football.

Oh my God. You got to do something real bad for me to be on the side of a football coach, guys.
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Are we going to get into the Cassie stuff now? We are. We're going to get into the Cassie stuff now.
Oh, God. Yes.
Cassie, who was for a while, his Enkidu, if we're doing the Gilgamesh. Anyway, whatever.
Let's talk Cassandra. After his split from Kim Porter, she was the woman largely seen as Diddy's public partner, right? She was a singer and a model in her own right.
Super talented. Yeah, very talented.
The two are generally depicted in media as like a power couple, right?

Sure.

In a civil 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. He assaulted her constantly, beating and kicking her and regularly leaving, quote, black eyes, bruises and blood.
Cassandra describes his freak-offs in her lawsuit

and alleged that he would often secretly film the days of debauchery with his famous friends. 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? He has videos of them doing the crimes.
Again, the movie Don't Blink really does cover a lot of this and as a bonus has christian slater and that's never a bad time yeah christian slater is amazing man he's fucking great yeah i love him dude i love that guy yeah yeah it's dark man like this yeah i do you talk about the fact that kim porter also dies did we yes yes at age 47 that hasn't happened yet though i's a lot of, like, where it gets to the point where it's like, God, dude, like, the people around you. So many things.
Yeah, there's just too many things. The Kid Cudi explosion, like, of his car, where he says his car.
Yes, yes, yes, the Kid Cudi, yes. There's so many things that you're like, oh my God, dude, you are a bad person.
Yes. You're a bad person.
There's something bad about you. And I just like every person has a, oh, did you ever work with this guy type story? It's like it's one of those like badges of honor almost sometimes we're here in the industry where it's like, oh yeah, man, I spent a week with Diddy, man.
It was crazy, man. Speaking of which, let's talk about the Kid Cudi story because you hear about this first in 2012.
Gossip blogs report that Cassie, who was dating Kid Cudi at the time, and Diddy had had a fight in a club. 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.
And here's my favorite quote. This is from the Salon.com article.
The New York Times said through a spokesperson that Kid Cudi confirmed Cassie's account that his car exploded in his driveway. This is all true.
He said. Oh, my God.
Yeah. Just a car explosion.
Yeah. No way to say who did it.
Yeah, man. Who knows? I was pissing this one dude off.
And sometimes shit happens. Sometimes shit happens.
Also, like, like he's cool yeah i i don't know anything about him but he's cool and he has one less car than he would otherwise have we can say that for sure so true robert 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. We're not going to go into a ton of detail about the massive amount of baby oil, but there's a lot of it.
Some of it's drug. Yeah, this is how it's being used.
There was a reason why they confiscated like a thousand bottles of baby oil. Yeah, literally a thousand bottles.
Yeah, it was like, there was a reason why that that happened. And there was absolutely the point where Costco had to come out and be like, dog, we don't we don't sell that shit.
We don't sell that shit. We are not in on that shit.
The only reason I can think of to drug it is because you are getting it inside people in their mucus membranes. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, like fucking MDMA or whatever. It isn't going to absorb.
It's not a bodily. Yeah, exactly.
In someone's vagina. And so again, like it's just, it's hideous, right? Like we don't need to belabor that point.
I think you get it, right? 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. Rose is an auteur.
He's an auteur of sex crimes. Yeah.
I wonder if he and Epstein ever partied. They certainly had the opportunity.
I don't know, but Trump's the common link, which is hilarious. Right, right, right.
Yeah, of course, you say Diddy is a great guy. He's my friend and also your best friends with Epstein.
Yeah, yeah. In 2018, Kim Porter passes away.
The cause of death was initially listed as deferred, but it was later confirmed that she died of pneumonia. Right.
And there's a lot of conspiracy theories. To not conspiracy talk.
There's a lot of people. But to be fair, I know King Combs posted.
Christian. Yeah, Christian.
Christian Combs. He posted that there has never been any question amongst the children that his dad was involved in.
People do just die sometimes. Yes.
It's absolutely reasonable to say that people do, in fact, just die sometimes. But, yeah, again, people have also said maybe that death should be looked into and probably not a bad idea.
Take a look. Take a look.
JFK's head just exploded. Yeah.
Like, I don't know if you know that he just did. Just did that.
Presidents just do that. Sometimes it's a pre-existing condition.
Pre-existing. In 2017, Diddy changed his name yet again.
He told the world he would now go by love or brother love. Oh, really? Yeah.
Yeah. A A lot of people miss this era.
I knew this. I fucking knew this.
This is the Snoop Lion era of Diddy. He legally changes his name because love is his legal middle name.
He tells Vanity Fair at the time, love is a mission. I feel like that's one of the biggest missions that will actually shift things.
But besides that, we, the world is different. We have the internet, we have the power, we have a culture.
I have us on a five-year plan. First off, fucking talking like Stalin there.
Second, that was more than five years ago. How'd the plan work out? Did he? Yeah.
Yeah. Nailed it.
More loving? Did you fix it? Yeah. Nailed it.
Oh, man. Nailed it.
Good job, bro.oseph diddy baria uh fucking hell now during this period diddy's public image remained mostly benign in articles from you know he named his like youngest baby love right yes he did yeah it happens with famous people you see it with elon musk and x you know yeah just name your something else. I don't care what you name your kids.
What is wrong with Stephen, man? Yeah. Albert.
Okay. Hans.
Yeah. Why we got to be weird about everything? Yeah.
Now, in articles from the time he was vetted 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. And the very public fact that he had definitely killed people through negligence and had them murdered.
He even managed to avoid Me Too entirely. In fact, in that interview, he tells Vanity Fair the movement inspired him and quote, showed me you can get maximum change.
God damn it. God damn it.
Didn't a word about his friend weinstein that he'd been fucking looking for a project with for seven years i mean honestly sometimes people are fucking out there doing the you know dodgeball equivalent of making it through life you know just like you can't get me he must have felt like dodge that bullet clearly it's clean sailing from here on out which is crazy, I mean, Sophia backed me on this. The Danny DeCaine stuff, they talked about a lot of shit that he did.
So much. Super adjacent.
It's like never sexual assault, but super adjacent. Yeah, I talked to Robert about this because I told it.
One of the first people. Aubrey O'Day.
Yeah, Aubrey O'Day comes out for years, like at least a couple of years saying, I don't think she sees or has evidence. And obviously, you don't want to casually before all this breaks, call him a sexual.
He has a lot of money. He's a lot of money for so many years.
She did everything she could. But also, she said Don Jr.
was her soulmate. So people like really stopped taking her and like had an affair with him.

There's like a lot of stuff there.

So people didn't believe her, but she was fucking right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think one of the most direct things she said in 2022,

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. Right.
Right. Brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal.
Very clear what that means. Yeah.
And here's another quote from an article. Again, this is before everything breaks in Variety.
This is 2019 called Aubrey O'Day is still recovering from making the band PTSD and making the reality show that did all of them suffered so much it's so horrible puff is a very difficult person to work with everything had to be perfect I remember times where he looked at my toenails and was like what is your third toenail doing go get that shit fixed before you walk into a room or we would be in rehearsals performing an hour and a half set you get your toenails correct or I will end you. I would walk in for five minutes with a camera and say, Aubrey, why are you sweating? You look like a wet dog.
You're the hot one. So you think anyone wants to see that? And again, this is all pretty minor next to all the horrible sex.
Yeah, he's a dick, too. It's like you understand.
It's like somebody that will go to the lengths of like fucking with your third toe. Right.
It's like the type of person that will make you feel the worst about who you are. Yeah, yeah.
No, guys, listen. I distinctly remember a clip from that show where all of them were presented to him, and he went one by one critiquing their personal appearance, and the things he said were just inhumane.
Yeah, specifically that story is crazy because like aubrey like basically you could even see it in it like morphed into like whatever was asked of her and then he'd tear that down too so you know to devil's advocate this stupid situation because i hate to do it but like yeah i've been on the i've been in reality shows 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 and so i've had these situations where i see the way it actually goes down and it is is absolutely people pushing the worst narrative. 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, it's like you see them do these like, like, like, oh, they're trying to ham it up for TV and they're not really good at being like mean people. Right.
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. 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.
They know that that's something that cuts deep on a person that makes them second guess themselves like deep inside themselves, you know? Yep. Yep.
Absolutely. 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.

Not all of the people charging Sean with sexual assault are women. 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. One man currently incarcerated in Michigan for kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct himself says that Diddy drugged and raped him in Detroit in 1997.
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? I just want to be clear about that.
There's just less of it. It's damn near 50-50 on the ratio on this.
It's like it's pretty even. He seems to be an equal opportunity sexual assaulter.
And he's got famous friends who are gay and creeps. And there's also just like so many allegedly things that have happened that obviously we can't comment as fact right now.
But as this trial proceeds, I'm sure a lot more will come out. But there's a lot of grooming allegations as well.
well 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 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 but without a doubt there is actual allegations that exist inside of this that are horrifying yeah horrifying and real you know so there are so many of these allegations that we're not going to cover more of them right we've done it seven parter I think this gives a pretty good understanding of him. 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.
It's just a space thing. I should say a bit here about Christina Coram, K-H-O-R-R-A-M.
She was Combs's chief of staff and is a co-defendant in the Jones lawsuit. 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.
I think there's a decent chance that was Christina Corum. Jones claims that Corum bought a lot of the drugs and actually handled the booking and paying of sex workers for Combs' parties.
She was his Gillen Maxwell, in other words. 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 link twice the woman who is or there's like an older woman who is like the creepy sex ceos like like fixer and i she's christina cora that's who i didn't realize how direct it was there is always somebody who is adjacent and willing to use their vulnerability with people, you know, their ability.

Yeah. And that's Christina Coram in this story.
We'll see what happens to her. Sean Puffy Combs was arrested on September 16th, 2024, several months after the FBI raided his L.A.
mansion and seized firearms, illegal drugs and more than a thousand bottles of baby oil. Combs has denied all charges and pled not guilty.
More recently, a judge declined to set bail for him, noting that he still posed a danger to the community. He gets denied bail like once a week.
Motherfucker tries to get out once a week. He's in the same part of the jail.
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. Like he's already in jail trying to run shit from what they say.
So it's like it's not like he's just chilling out in there being calm. He is absolutely still trying to run an intimidation game from inside prison.
Yep. And that's the episode, everybody.
Well, you know, I feel really good about money. Time to go party.
Yeah. I just want to make a lot of money so I can do anything I want.
I don't know, man. I'm with you.
I think we just build an empire, take it to the FDA. We really run.
Take it to the FDA. And that'll save us and our reputations.
We'll die historic in a gunfight with the FDA.

That's all I want, man.

That's the way to go down.

Yeah.

That's all I want.

That's the dream, Will.

Because they say you only die when the last person that remembers your name dies.

And every one of those FDA agents is going to remember us forever.

All of their children.

All of their children's children.

They'll never forget.