Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Diddy Diaries. In this episode, we're going to start taking
a look at a Rolling Stones article that is pretty extensive.
So this is going to be a multi part adventure.
So considering that, why don't we just dive right in
and get ourselves started headline. As Sean Combs love era began,
new accusers say he was still a demon. The disgraced
mogul said he's a reformed man from the one caught
on video attacking Cassie in twenty sixteen, but sources claim
he was abusive long after what he called his rock bottom.
This article was authored by Cheyenne Rountree and Nancy Dillon.
On Obambi weekend last September, Sean Combs returned to Harlem
to roam his old neighborhood with four of his seven children.
He reveled in the attention from a pastor by who
gasped and honked. As a billionaire hip hop mogul chatted
and posed for pictures. Perhaps for a moment he could
pretend the most damaging year of his life hadn't happened.
That his former long term partner Cassandra Cassie Ventura had
never filed the crushing sexual abuse civil lawsuit against him
in November of twenty twenty three that triggered his personal
and professional implosion. After spending the pass here largely out
of the spotlight in the comfort of his massive Miami
Beach compound, one of the two homes raided by Homeland
Security officials last March, Combs was suddenly seen sunbathing in
Central Park and trapesing around the city. As dusk approached
on Monday, September sixteenth, he made a pit stop at
the upscale Park Highatt hotel, where premium suites run as
high as seven g's a night. Imagine spending seven thousand
dollars on a hotel room. What would seven thousand dollars
do for your life right now? How would it change
your life? I'm sure there's plenty of us out there
that seven g's would be a gigantic boon, But people
like Diddy, ah, We'll spend seven g's on a hotel room.
There is a huge disay connect between the rest of
us and people like Diddy. Colms was planning on heading
back out that evening to look for a more permanent
residence in the area. He was aware of the Southern
District of New York's criminal investigation into his activities was
well underway, and he was ready to turn himself in
to avoid a dramatic guns blazing arrest, his lawyer said.
But seconds after he crossed the lobby threshold, two plain
clothes federal agents approached them, holding a fourteen page criminal
indictment that accused him of sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy, and
transportation to engage in prostitution. The next day, COLMB stood
in front of a US district judge and pleaded not guilty,
wearing the same rumpled T shirt and sweatpants he'd been
hauled off in the night before. The music executive had
nothing to hide, colmb's lead attorney, Mark Agnefilo said at
the initial bell hearing, the lawyer claimed that Colmbs's relationship
with Venturro was toxic at times, but nowhere near what
prosecutors claimed. Well, according to Cassie, that's a whole different story, huh,
because she says that she was coerce, beaten, drug the
whole thing, and she says that was all happening against
her will. Now Didty, On the other hand, he said
from the very beginning that everything that he's being accused
of is bs because everything was consensual. But I think
for Ditty, as we've talked about before, one of the
most pressing issues is the video of him beating Cassie
that we all got to see. When that kind of
video is available for the public to take a look at, well,
you've got to understand that the court is not going
to look favorably on you and the narrative that you're
attempting to push. And we've seen that several times already
here when it comes to Ditty, the judge has absolutely
smacked him and his lawyers down several times. Agnafilo didn't
specifically name Ventura, but it was clear she was victim
one in the indictment, the central target of the purported
criminal enterprise that allegedly used violence, threats, and manipulation to
fulfill calm sexual gratification. The indictment said colmb's pattern of
abuse included force, participation in highly orchestrated sex performances called
freak coughs, and referencing the damning video of Combs shoving, kicking,
and dragging Ventura in a hotel hallway in March of
twenty sixteen footage on Earth by CNN that had made
international headlines four months before Comb's arrest. Defense attorneys said
Combs was coming to court a change man. They said
he'd sought professional help and had gone to rehab years
prior to address his substance use issues, which is all
an obvious lie. There's no doubt that Diddy was still
up to no good. Now, was he trafficking people or whatever?
Will have to see. But let's not act like Diddy
was out here selling girl Scout cookies. Bro was out
here living his life and we all know what that
means when we're talking about Diddy. And as far as
the whole change man excuse stuff you can save that,
I don't buy that shit ever. Oh I'm a change man.
I went to the No, you're not. What you are
is a piece of trash that beats up on women.
That's what you are. And frankly, that part of the
story is not even debatable. Anyone who puts their hands
on a woman like that, well you're a piece of shit.
He has done tremendous things to try and change as
a person since then, Agnifilo told a judge last September.
He's not the same person he was then. But in
the days and hours leading up to combs arrest last fall,
when he supposedly was on his best behavior, he was
still acting on his worst impulses. According to prosecutors, he
allegedly called and texted a potential government witness fifty eight
times over four days in a brage prosecutor is later
labeled potential tampering. Multiple bags of paining powder were found
in his plush hotel suite, prosecutors said, noting that the
substance appeared similar to stimulants previously seized from Combs that
tested positive for ecstasy and other drugs. Well, we know
that Diddy likes toucy, and if it was a pink substance,
then my guess is it was twocy. This dude's out
here doing all kinds of crazy designer drugs and then
attempting to relive an episode of Boogey Nights or some
shit like for real, for real, imagine having billions of
dollars and this is what you get up to at
your time. And it was the same thing I said
about Epstein. You have all this money, what are you doing?
Why are you out here abusing people. Why are you
out here rolling around in baby oil, whatever the fuck
it is you're doing, when you can be living your
greatest life, helping people, enjoying yourself, going on vacation, hanging
with your kids. Isn't that the whole point of breaking
your ass when you're younger, so that when you're older
you can enjoy yourself and not have to worry about
the nonsense. The problem is people like this, people like Epstein,
They're not wired the way we are. It's about power
and control. That's what gets them off. Two hotel employees
tell a Rolling Stone that a woman was waiting for
Combs upstairs when he was taken into custody. The staffers,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Combs and
the woman had planned to celebrate her birthday, specially decorating
her suite for the occasion. Can you imagine this Dude's
there no one, He's about to get hammed up. Not
only does he have some chick up in his room.
Bro got a whole load of Tussie or whatever kind
of drugs he's snorting up his nose present in the
room as well. You know you're about to get arrested,
and this is the behavior that you engage in. He
truly thought he was untouchable and did he truly thought
that if he got arrested, he'd be out the next day. Well,
guess what the jokes on you, buddy. Colmbs also had
been trying to persuade a different romantic partner to come
to New York that weekend, and what she now believes
was an attempt to keep her silent about what transpired
during their four year relationship. The last time the woman
had seen Combs, she tells Rolling Stone, was when he
summoned her to his Miami compound last July. In this
final encounter, she claims, Combs shoved two pills in her mouth,
causing her to black aad. She awoke to a destroyed
room with empty baby bottles, a hookah cowels, food and
wine bottles strewn everywhere, Like what a hookah baby will towels,
food and wine bottles strewn everywhere? What the hell was
going on? Can you imagine what this disgusting degenerate possibly
was doing to this lady while she was passed out?
In the weeks following the alleged incident, the woman who
Rolling Stone is identifying by the pseudonym. Nicole returned home
and kept her distance, ignoring Colmbs pleased to come back
to Miami. Yet, on the eve of his arrest, Colmbs
reached out, I really just need you to come to
New York, Nicole says. Colmbs told her over the phone
she was weighing if she should go and confront him.
With the news broke that he had been arrested. She
filed a lawsuit against him as a Jane Doe for
sexual assault and sexual battery, among other accusations, the next week.
The person that I was so in love with that
I cared about like family, I'm finding out every single
day that this person is a monster, says Nicole. I
was making up excuses for him drugging and sexually assaulting me.
I'm finding out that maybe I didn't know this person
and I was just manipulated. And here's the tricky part,
Right was she manipulated? Was it consensual? Was it because
she was drugged and coerced like she says, That's what
the court has to figure out, and that's why these
battles inside the court room are so contentious. And when
you see the scorched earth policy that's being used by
jay Z. You understand why. The question is how effective
is that policy going to be? Now I've said before
that I don't think that strategy is going to really
be what gets them over the finish line, because it
looks like you're intimidating witnesses and really it makes you
look like a bully to the court. And unless you
have some good grounds for doing what you're doing, a
lot of times you'll be admonished by the court. And
we've already seen that with jay Z's team. So they're
definitely walking the fine line. Like I've said before, But
when you're dealing with a situation like this, what else
can you do as a lawyer? You're in a jam,
right You know that the evidence is lined up against you,
so you have to go to you know, the Mattresses
all out wore a nuclear annihilation, and that's what we're
seeing right now. During Colmb's final months of freedom before
his arrest with the government at his doorstep, Colmbs alleged
a prave behavior continued in the face of a rapidly
developing crisis. Sources say Combs returned to his trusted playbook
of pulling strings privately while hourly rejecting an image of
control and calm. So it was bubbling under the surface
right according to just about everybody who knew him, bubbling
under the surface, and at any time did he could
get lit up and get launched into orbit. And once
he was mad, who the hell knows what he was
going to do, As he had countless times in the past,
he still believed he could bend people in circumstances to
his will. Colmb's legal team said he had real formed
and proved his trustworthiness by coming to New York and
therefore deserved to be released on bond. Prosecutors and some
in and around combs inner circle saw his actions as
calculated and performative. I said that right away everything he
was doing was measured. And when you have the kind
of legal team around you that he has, you're getting
that kind of advice. It's bullshit, says Nathan, a sex
worker who claims he was hired for several of Comb's
freak offs and is being identified by a pseudonym for
his safety reasons. He's not reformed. He just wanted to
get out of jail. He's the same person. It's his
world and if you get in his way, there's going
to be repercussions. Comb's former executive assistant Phil Pines tells
Rolling Stone he will find a way to get you.
He got me, he gets everybody. That's what he gets
off on. All Right, we're gonna wrap up the first
episode right here, and in the next episode, we're gonna
pick up where we left off. And that's with Rolling
Stone is reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents. All
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