Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of The
Diddy Diaries. We're going to pick up where we left
off with the Sarah Rivers lawsuit filed against Diddy. Defendant
Jackie French. Defendant Jackie French, upon information and belief, resides
and is domiciled within the state of New York at
all times relevant here in. Defendant Jackie was director of
original series at MTV's network in New York. Defendant Lou Pearlman.
Defendant Lou Pearlman Defendant Lou, upon information and belief, is
deceased but was domiciled within the state of New York.
Defendant Lou created the original series Making the Band with
defendant Bunnam Murray for defendant's MTV Network in New York.
Defendants Bunham Murray. Defendant Bunnam Murray is an American media
production company headquartered in California and owned by a French company,
Bonaget Entertainment since twenty ten at all relevant times herein,
Defendant bm and its subsidiaries financially benefited from, condoned and
enabled defending Ditty's misconduct as defined under all relevant statutes.
Defendant town Square Media Group Defendant town Square Media. Defendant
King is an American media company that owns radio stations, websites,
and digital marketing services. Headquartered in New York. At all
relevant times herein, Defendant and its subsidiaries financially benefited from
condoned and enabled Defendant Ditty's misconduct, as defined under all
relevant statutes. Defendant Dose, upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges
that defendant does are other parties not yet identified, who
have violated plaintiff by assaulting, battering, and threateninger conspired and
or aided and abetted the defendant Ditty and other defendants
in their participation in a corrupt organization that caused Plaintiff's injuries.
The true names, whether corporate, individual, or otherwise, of defendants
are presently unknown to Plaintiff, which therefore sues said defendants
by such fictitious names, and will seek leave to amend
this complaint to show their true names and capabilities when
same have been ascertained. Pursuing the CPLR Section ten twenty five.
Upon information and belief, Plaintiff beliefs some or all of
the defendant Dose one through ten are citizens of the
State of New York. Upon information and belief plaintiff beliefs,
and they're on alleges that at all times relevant here too.
Each of the defendant one Dose one through ten were
the agent, affiliate, officer, director, manager, principal, alter ego, and
or employee of defendants. The limitations Article sixteen of the
CPLR do not apply because one or more of the
exceptions set fourth in CPLR Section sixteen oh one and
or sixteen oh two apply factual allegations. Plaintiffs selected from
open call audition to be a semi finalist in the
inaugural hip hop edition of Ma in the Band. The
television show entitled Making the Band originally aired on ABC
on March twenty fourth, two thousand, for three seasons, ending
on March thirtieth, two thousand and two. MTB was created
by defendant Lou and the founders of Defendant BM Mary
Ellis Bonham and Jonathan Murray. The group that was made
during this inaugural season was boy band and pop group Otown.
The Otown season is referred to as MTB one. The
group Otown was assembled by defendant Lou. Defendant Lou is
also responsible for the boy band supergroups Backstreet Boys and
in sync. Upon information and belief, Defendant lou BM and
MTV decided the next season of MTB would form a
hip hop group. Defendant lou BM and MTV then enlisted
defendant Diddy to find a group from an open casting
and have it filmed, produced, and aired on television referred
to as MTB two. Plaintiff, while in Atlanta pursuing her
already blossoming music career, received a call alerting her to
an opening casting call for a music group by defendant Ditty.
Plaintiff immediately returned home to Detroit to audition for the
potential group. Plaintiff was the seventh person to be seen
out of the thousands of people who appeared to have
a chance at music stardom with defendants MTV, bad Boy,
and Diddy. Plaintiff was selected as a semi finalist and
was told that the next steps would be to come
to New York to continue the audition process, be evaluated
by Defendant Ditty, and ultimately have an opportunity to be
a member of the group being formed on the new
season of MTB called MTB two. What follows is all
a sequence of events that were documented by Defendant BM
and aired on defendant MTV's network between October nineteen, two
thousand and two and April twentieth, two thousand four. It's
important to note that plaintiff was never compensated for her
participation on mtvb T two. MTB two season one, Episode one,
Open Call Initial Talent Search. First episode describes the show
as the second installment, but this time looking to form
a hip hop group called MTB two. In this episode,
we meet plaintiff. Defendant Harve explains Defending MTV held auditions
for candidates in Detroit, Miami, New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles,
and d C Baltimore to be members of the new
hip hop group formed by defendan Ditty. On MTB two,
defendan Didty meets with an unidentified executive, John doll One,
who is never named, while appearing on the show, presumably
as an employee of Defending MTV, regarding the next steps
for the semi finalists from the open auditions of MTB two.
Also at this meeting is defendant Phil, a longtime friend
and business executive working for defendan Ditty and his enterprise.
During this meeting about MTB two, defendan Ditty take a
call from his son. Defending MTV transports through various dough
Common carriers all the semi finalists to NYC to meet
the defendant Ditty for the further consideration to be part
of the group. Defending Ditty conducts auditions with the semi
finalists MTB two, Season one, Episode two, search for more talent.
In this episode, celebrity cameos are made by Andre Herrel
and Russell Simmons. Defending Ditty meets with defendants MTV and
bm to brainstorm ideas to promote casting. Defending Ditty complaints
to defend An MTV that he doesn't feel like he
has the talent from the current group of semi finalists
to make a group and defend An MTV have to
be involved with acquiring the talent so that Defendant Ditty
can form the group. Defendan Ditty complains to defend An
MTV that he feels bamboozled by Defending MTV into thinking
that this was something hot when it was not even
good enough to make it into his office. Defend and
Diddy complains to Defend at MTV that he doesn't feel
like they're doing what they need to do to help
him promote his endeavor. Defendan Didty then makes it an
analogy to describe the type of promotion he wanted from
defending MTV regarding the MTB two production. When on Puff
on trial, what happens in the trial, the whole world
knows about it. A Puffy trial is special. Defendan Diddy
went on to say since MTB was positive, he deserved
the same attention press as his trial coverage. Defendan Diddy
complains to defendant Jackie that he needs kids on MTV
to see it so everybody could get excited, and that
Defendant Ditty would not stop until he has seen everybody everywhere.
Defendan Didty then makes an analogy about not choosing a
woman to leave the club with at ten PM versus
at the height of the night at one thirty am.
In an effort to explain why he would not stop
until he has seen everybody everywhere, Defending Diddy went so
far as to say he would wait as late as
three am to decide on what woman to leave the
club with to emphasize his seriousness on his commitment to
seeing everybody everywhere. Defendant Ditty then offers the idea of
a one day New York City only talent search. Defendant
Ditty advises anyone who wants a chance at stardom the
hala at Us. Defendant Didty states that he is very
particular about choosing the members of the group because he's
not going to put his name on anything not filling
a void in the marketplace. As a result to a
seeming commitment to excellence, Defendant Ditty sends the semi finalist home.
During the scene when the contestants are told that they
are being sent home, you can see the contestants signing
documents plaintiff believes where contracts with defendants BM, MTV, Viacom,
and Paramount. Defendant Ditty scolds the contestant's behavior to members
of his staff and staff of defendant BM and MTV,
saying they were pampered because defendants BM and MTV bought
them plane tickets and put them in hotels. This episode
ends with celebrity appearances from rappers Lone and Foxy Brown.
MTV Season two to one, Episode three semifinalists selected. A
forty eight hour New York City audition process begins as
demanded by Defendan Didty. Approximately three thousand people show up
for the first day of open auditions. Defendan Didty meanwhile,
is getting ready for his performance on Defendant's MTV award
show called The Video Music Awards VMAs. Defendant Ditty calls
MTV executive Eli Cola Cola and Defendan Didty discuss Defending
Ditty's demand for more time to perform at the VMAs.
Defending Ditty's request is ultimately granted. Defendan Ditty chooses fifteen
of the original semifinalists to return to New York to
consider consideration for the group. Contestants, including plaintiff, are placed
in a hotel and share their hotel room with a roommate.
Semifinalists are then transported from the hotel tell to a
location where the audition for Defendan Ditty so he can
select the candidates for bad Boy boot Camp. During this episode,
Defendan Didty provides insight on what he's looking for in
group members, stating a lot of times some of the
biggest superstars haven't had the most talent or having had
the most vocal ability, haven't been the perfect package, and
that talent is just the icing on the cake. While
waiting on selection, a candidate complains about the lack of
receiving food. The same candidate is scolded by Defending Tracy,
who makes her first appearance as vice president of marketing
for defendant Bbe. Defending Tracy admonishes the contestant for complaining
about not being fed and told the contestant she needed
to be humble somehow, indicating that the desire to eat
lack humility. Defendant Ditty was told about the contestant's food comment,
which defendan Ditty responded by immediately eliminating the contestant from
consideration in the group. Defending Ditty exposes his intent with
the group members, stating he was literally going to break them.
Defending Ditty explains his desire to break the contestants because
he says it's what the music industry tries to do
to us every day, and complains about how being in
the music industry is one of the hardest jobs. Defending
Ditty then further advises people that they should neither let
anyone interrupt you from your dreams. Defending Ditty then selects
the contestants for bad Boy boot Camp, which plaintiff is selected.
All right, we're going to wrap up this episode right here,
and then the next episode, we're going to pick up
with MTB two, Season one, episode four. All of the information,
including my contact information, can be found in the description box.