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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Diddy Diaries. In this episode, we're going to start taking

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a look at a Rolling Stones article that is pretty extensive.

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So this is going to be a multi part adventure.

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So considering that, why don't we just dive right in

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and get ourselves started headline. As Sean Combs love era began,

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new accusers say he was still a demon. The disgraced

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mogul said he's a reformed man from the one caught

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on video attacking Cassie in twenty sixteen, but sources claim

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he was abusive long after what he called his rock bottom.

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This article was authored by Cheyenne Rountree and Nancy Dillon.

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On Obambi weekend last September, Sean Combs returned to Harlem

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to roam his old neighborhood with four of his seven children.

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He reveled in the attention from a pastor by who

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gasped and honked. As a billionaire hip hop mogul chatted

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and posed for pictures. Perhaps for a moment he could

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pretend the most damaging year of his life hadn't happened.

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That his former long term partner Cassandra Cassie Ventura had

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never filed the crushing sexual abuse civil lawsuit against him

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in November of twenty twenty three that triggered his personal

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and professional implosion. After spending the pass here largely out

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of the spotlight in the comfort of his massive Miami

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Beach compound, one of the two homes raided by Homeland

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Security officials last March, Combs was suddenly seen sunbathing in

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Central Park and trapesing around the city. As dusk approached

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on Monday, September sixteenth, he made a pit stop at

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the upscale Park Highatt hotel, where premium suites run as

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high as seven g's a night. Imagine spending seven thousand

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dollars on a hotel room. What would seven thousand dollars

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do for your life right now? How would it change

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your life? I'm sure there's plenty of us out there

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that seven g's would be a gigantic boon, But people

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like Diddy, ah, We'll spend seven g's on a hotel room.

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There is a huge disay connect between the rest of

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us and people like Diddy. Colms was planning on heading

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back out that evening to look for a more permanent

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residence in the area. He was aware of the Southern

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District of New York's criminal investigation into his activities was

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well underway, and he was ready to turn himself in

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to avoid a dramatic guns blazing arrest, his lawyer said.

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But seconds after he crossed the lobby threshold, two plain

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clothes federal agents approached them, holding a fourteen page criminal

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indictment that accused him of sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy, and

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transportation to engage in prostitution. The next day, COLMB stood

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in front of a US district judge and pleaded not guilty,

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wearing the same rumpled T shirt and sweatpants he'd been

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hauled off in the night before. The music executive had

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nothing to hide, colmb's lead attorney, Mark Agnefilo said at

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the initial bell hearing, the lawyer claimed that Colmbs's relationship

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with Venturro was toxic at times, but nowhere near what

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prosecutors claimed. Well, according to Cassie, that's a whole different story, huh,

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because she says that she was coerce, beaten, drug the

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whole thing, and she says that was all happening against

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her will. Now Didty, On the other hand, he said

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from the very beginning that everything that he's being accused

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of is bs because everything was consensual. But I think

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for Ditty, as we've talked about before, one of the

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most pressing issues is the video of him beating Cassie

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that we all got to see. When that kind of

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video is available for the public to take a look at, well,

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you've got to understand that the court is not going

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to look favorably on you and the narrative that you're

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attempting to push. And we've seen that several times already

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here when it comes to Ditty, the judge has absolutely

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smacked him and his lawyers down several times. Agnafilo didn't

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specifically name Ventura, but it was clear she was victim

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one in the indictment, the central target of the purported

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criminal enterprise that allegedly used violence, threats, and manipulation to

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fulfill calm sexual gratification. The indictment said colmb's pattern of

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abuse included force, participation in highly orchestrated sex performances called

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freak coughs, and referencing the damning video of Combs shoving, kicking,

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and dragging Ventura in a hotel hallway in March of

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twenty sixteen footage on Earth by CNN that had made

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international headlines four months before Comb's arrest. Defense attorneys said

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Combs was coming to court a change man. They said

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he'd sought professional help and had gone to rehab years

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prior to address his substance use issues, which is all

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an obvious lie. There's no doubt that Diddy was still

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up to no good. Now, was he trafficking people or whatever?

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Will have to see. But let's not act like Diddy

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was out here selling girl Scout cookies. Bro was out

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here living his life and we all know what that

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means when we're talking about Diddy. And as far as

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the whole change man excuse stuff you can save that,

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I don't buy that shit ever. Oh I'm a change man.

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I went to the No, you're not. What you are

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is a piece of trash that beats up on women.

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That's what you are. And frankly, that part of the

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story is not even debatable. Anyone who puts their hands

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on a woman like that, well you're a piece of shit.

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He has done tremendous things to try and change as

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a person since then, Agnifilo told a judge last September.

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He's not the same person he was then. But in

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the days and hours leading up to combs arrest last fall,

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when he supposedly was on his best behavior, he was

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still acting on his worst impulses. According to prosecutors, he

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allegedly called and texted a potential government witness fifty eight

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times over four days in a brage prosecutor is later

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labeled potential tampering. Multiple bags of paining powder were found

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in his plush hotel suite, prosecutors said, noting that the

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substance appeared similar to stimulants previously seized from Combs that

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tested positive for ecstasy and other drugs. Well, we know

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that Diddy likes toucy, and if it was a pink substance,

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then my guess is it was twocy. This dude's out

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here doing all kinds of crazy designer drugs and then

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attempting to relive an episode of Boogey Nights or some

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shit like for real, for real, imagine having billions of

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dollars and this is what you get up to at

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your time. And it was the same thing I said

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about Epstein. You have all this money, what are you doing?

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Why are you out here abusing people. Why are you

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out here rolling around in baby oil, whatever the fuck

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it is you're doing, when you can be living your

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greatest life, helping people, enjoying yourself, going on vacation, hanging

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with your kids. Isn't that the whole point of breaking

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your ass when you're younger, so that when you're older

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you can enjoy yourself and not have to worry about

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the nonsense. The problem is people like this, people like Epstein,

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They're not wired the way we are. It's about power

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and control. That's what gets them off. Two hotel employees

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tell a Rolling Stone that a woman was waiting for

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Combs upstairs when he was taken into custody. The staffers,

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who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Combs and

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the woman had planned to celebrate her birthday, specially decorating

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her suite for the occasion. Can you imagine this Dude's

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there no one, He's about to get hammed up. Not

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only does he have some chick up in his room.

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Bro got a whole load of Tussie or whatever kind

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of drugs he's snorting up his nose present in the

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room as well. You know you're about to get arrested,

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and this is the behavior that you engage in. He

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truly thought he was untouchable and did he truly thought

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that if he got arrested, he'd be out the next day. Well,

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guess what the jokes on you, buddy. Colmbs also had

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been trying to persuade a different romantic partner to come

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to New York that weekend, and what she now believes

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was an attempt to keep her silent about what transpired

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during their four year relationship. The last time the woman

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had seen Combs, she tells Rolling Stone, was when he

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summoned her to his Miami compound last July. In this

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final encounter, she claims, Combs shoved two pills in her mouth,

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causing her to black aad. She awoke to a destroyed

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room with empty baby bottles, a hookah cowels, food and

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wine bottles strewn everywhere, Like what a hookah baby will towels,

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food and wine bottles strewn everywhere? What the hell was

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going on? Can you imagine what this disgusting degenerate possibly

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was doing to this lady while she was passed out?

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In the weeks following the alleged incident, the woman who

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Rolling Stone is identifying by the pseudonym. Nicole returned home

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and kept her distance, ignoring Colmbs pleased to come back

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to Miami. Yet, on the eve of his arrest, Colmbs

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reached out, I really just need you to come to

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New York, Nicole says. Colmbs told her over the phone

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she was weighing if she should go and confront him.

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With the news broke that he had been arrested. She

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filed a lawsuit against him as a Jane Doe for

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sexual assault and sexual battery, among other accusations, the next week.

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The person that I was so in love with that

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I cared about like family, I'm finding out every single

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day that this person is a monster, says Nicole. I

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was making up excuses for him drugging and sexually assaulting me.

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I'm finding out that maybe I didn't know this person

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and I was just manipulated. And here's the tricky part,

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Right was she manipulated? Was it consensual? Was it because

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she was drugged and coerced like she says, That's what

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the court has to figure out, and that's why these

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battles inside the court room are so contentious. And when

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you see the scorched earth policy that's being used by

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jay Z. You understand why. The question is how effective

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is that policy going to be? Now I've said before

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that I don't think that strategy is going to really

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be what gets them over the finish line, because it

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looks like you're intimidating witnesses and really it makes you

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look like a bully to the court. And unless you

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have some good grounds for doing what you're doing, a

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lot of times you'll be admonished by the court. And

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we've already seen that with jay Z's team. So they're

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definitely walking the fine line. Like I've said before, But

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when you're dealing with a situation like this, what else

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can you do as a lawyer? You're in a jam,

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right You know that the evidence is lined up against you,

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so you have to go to you know, the Mattresses

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all out wore a nuclear annihilation, and that's what we're

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seeing right now. During Colmb's final months of freedom before

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his arrest with the government at his doorstep, Colmbs alleged

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a prave behavior continued in the face of a rapidly

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developing crisis. Sources say Combs returned to his trusted playbook

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of pulling strings privately while hourly rejecting an image of

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control and calm. So it was bubbling under the surface

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right according to just about everybody who knew him, bubbling

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under the surface, and at any time did he could

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get lit up and get launched into orbit. And once

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he was mad, who the hell knows what he was

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going to do, As he had countless times in the past,

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he still believed he could bend people in circumstances to

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his will. Colmb's legal team said he had real formed

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and proved his trustworthiness by coming to New York and

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therefore deserved to be released on bond. Prosecutors and some

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in and around combs inner circle saw his actions as

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calculated and performative. I said that right away everything he

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was doing was measured. And when you have the kind

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of legal team around you that he has, you're getting

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that kind of advice. It's bullshit, says Nathan, a sex

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worker who claims he was hired for several of Comb's

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freak offs and is being identified by a pseudonym for

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his safety reasons. He's not reformed. He just wanted to

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get out of jail. He's the same person. It's his

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world and if you get in his way, there's going

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to be repercussions. Comb's former executive assistant Phil Pines tells

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Rolling Stone he will find a way to get you.

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He got me, he gets everybody. That's what he gets

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off on. All Right, we're gonna wrap up the first

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episode right here, and in the next episode, we're gonna

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pick up where we left off. And that's with Rolling

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Stone is reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents. All

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of the information that goes with this episode can be

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found in the description box.