Cheyenne Roundtree
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
That video changed a lot of people's perception of him and what he was capable of.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
He begins to kind of woo her back publicly through social media. So he's, you know, on Instagram, leaving her comments, posting, you know, throwback photos.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
I heard from sources that that was a pivotal moment for her of saying, enough is enough. Like, you don't get to bring me back into this narrative.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
These were highly orchestrated or just very elaborate sexual encounters where she alleged she was forced to have sex with other men for Diddy's enjoyment.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
Some of these encounters were allegedly videotaped, and when Cassie said that she tried to delete them, that there was at least one instance where a video she thought she had deleted was shown back to her as kind of like this, it's there forever and I control this.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
After Cassie's lawsuits filed and settled, there's a sprinkling of other civil lawsuits alleging sexual assaults and claims going back to the 1990s.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
You just kind of see a surreal scene of this beautiful mansion. crawling with federal agents for an investigation that wasn't quite clear what the scope was. And you see agents carrying out boxes of material and things.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
In a way, it was like her lawsuit served as a roadmap for prosecutors to build out a case.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
They presented to the court that he had been messaging potential witnesses. So in the end, he was denied bail.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
When he got angry when he was young, he would huff and puff, and that's where the nickname Puff Puffy came.
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Sean Combs on Trial
When Biggie dies, it is catastrophic. Biggie was bad boy, and so Diddy then takes that moment and he basically uses Biggie's death as his own kind of cross to bear.
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Sean Combs on Trial
And he comes out with this song, I'll Be Missing You, that summarizes that moment.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
And from there, I think we really see Puff Daddy emerge as he is a celebrity.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
There's a whole through line of accusations of Diddy and physical violence, that he has a temper, he is confrontational.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
This was a huge outburst of violence because there was a small dispute about a music video.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
Then... He ended up kind of making peace, and all of a sudden they make up.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
21-year-old Shine was arrested at the scene for reckless endangerment, weapons possession, and Diddy and J-Lo are nowhere to be seen. They are speeding off in a Lincoln Navigator, a police chase through Manhattan.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
His own driver from that night had claimed that Diddy offered him a pinky ring. I think it was $40,000 pinky ring to say a gun belonged to him when it didn't.
Dateline NBC
Sean Combs on Trial
And so there was this idea of that there weren't any lengths he wasn't going to go to to secure or control an outcome of a situation.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s $50m lawsuit - plus the very latest media claims
Und Diddys Team sagt, dass alle Präsenz von Objektivität verabschiedet worden ist, als ein globaler Publikum feiert das All-Du-Kann-Eat-Buffet von wilden Lügen und Konspirationstheorien.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
A big reason why we're here, why he was brought from these cases, all stems from his fight with Jay-Z. Jay-Z's team filed some type of motion, I think, Sean. Basically, Jay-Z's the camp that took it to the court and waved it around. And so this is all fallout from that. So it is kind of crazy that... The whole Jane Doe, Jay-Z kind of saga there is impacting the rest of his cases with Diddy.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
And so I reach out to Tony Busby and he basically said until that administration issue is sorted out, they're still pursuing these cases against Diddy. But it has become a little bit of a sideshow about just kind of administrative issues that normally we never really pay attention to or really understand. But it could have potentially big consequences in the rest of these cases.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
And she says now that she's left, she says former boss in her statement. But they were very, very close. They spent a lot of time together.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
Yeah. So since KK has been kind of roped into this because she was Diddy's right hand woman, she's kind of not been really seen too much. I mean, there was pictures of Diddy the day that he after he settled Cassie's lawsuit. The pictures of him are outside his Miami house. He's looking really stressed. And there's a woman there in a robe next to him. That's KK.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
But really, since that moment, we haven't seen too much of her. And she's been named in three lawsuits, one by a former producer who worked with Diddy on the Love album, a former executive assistant, Phil Pines, who we've spoken about at length on this podcast, and then a woman called Ashley Parham, who is in San Francisco. So she has not really been saying too much of anything until now.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
Yeah. So in a statement given to me at Rolling Stone, KK basically said that she's been dealing for months with these really awful allegations and they're causing her family harm. They're causing her harm. And she definitely says, I've never condoned or abated and abetted this sexual assault of anyone, nor have I drugged anyone.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
And she basically says that these allegations are heinous and disturbing and that she looks forward to clearing her name.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
Yeah, so Little Rod, and based on sources I've spoken with, is that Diddy treated his personal life like business. There was no kind of separation of church and state. And so in some instances, Diddy apparently would be taking meetings from his bathroom and would get into the shower and still talk to people. But Little Rod is saying Christina would then remove herself.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
I guess what he seems to be implying is that she knew that maybe this was a little bit you know, untraditional. She doesn't want to see her boss naked. So she leaves, but other people are expected to stay there and continue on talking with Didi about music or business or whatever. So that's kind of what he seems to be trying to paint a picture of.
Diddy On Trial
Kristina Khorram speaks out and Tony Buzbee withdraws from Diddy cases
I mean, it kind of was, you know, Diddy has multiple businesses and she kind of oversaw the inner workings of his personal life and his business life. So she was, when we say number two at the company of, you know, Diddy, that was KK. And he's spoken about her before. He's called her his soul sister. Yeah, they were really, really close. I mean, she's worked with him for since 2013.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
There has been a new approach from his defence team to count three of the indictment, the transportation for prostitution charge. Namely asking for it to be dismissed on grounds of selective prosecution on the basis of race. This is what they said in their letter.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
This case is unprecedented in many ways, but perhaps most notably and most disturbingly, no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution. Sean Combs is an extraordinarily successful artist, businessman, philanthropist and one of the most accomplished black people in this country. Sean, some people are going to look at this and say he's pulling the race card.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
How much merit does this line of argument actually have?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
The idea about race or the conversation about race in this, they go quite heavy on the context. They refer to the Mann Act, which is now commonly referred to as the Mann Act, with the White Slave Traffic Act passed in 1910. And they do a lot of breakdown and context of the historical backdrop of that and how it was racist in its inception and now it's being racist in its carrying out.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Kind of a similar question, but putting all that in, the historical weight and context, does that sway you? Does that make you feel any differently about this?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
And just before we wrap up today, Cheyenne, something was filed on Sunday night that's a bit of a development in the story and something we're keeping an eye on. What exactly went down?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
And Sean Combs' team have told us their filing contends that the government withheld exculpatory facts, did not present a fair picture of the evidence and used overbroad search warrants to search his home, iCloud accounts, phones and a hotel room. It also failed to inform the magistrate that it possessed text messages between alleged victims and Mr. Combs.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
We'll keep you up to date with any developments on this, either from Diddy's defense team or the government side. Okay, we'll keep an eye on all of the developments in the Diddy case as we build up to the trial set for May, May 5th. Sean Diddy Combs denies all the charges against him and says he's never sexually assaulted anyone, man or woman, adult or minor.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Cheyenne, thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks. And Sean, thanks so much for bringing your dogs and joining me today.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
That's it for today from Diddy on Trial from BBC Sounds with me Anushka Matanda-Dowdy. Don't forget to send us your questions on WhatsApp at 0330 123 5551. That's 0330 123 5551. And before you go, I need to tell you about a new podcast. It's about Luigi Mangione, who's the 26-year-old facing charges for the murder of Brian Thompson, the health insurance CEO and father of two.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Now, some of the terms are a bit confusing. There's like lead counsel and then defense counsel. Sean, he's not his lead counsel. So is this really that big of a deal?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
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Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Sean Diddy Combs is charged with racketeering with conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He denies all the charges and says he never sexually assaulted anyone, man or woman, adult or minor. This pod is the place to come to find out everything you need to know about the upcoming trial in May.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
So he's definitely not said anything about Diddy's perspective. He said that there'll be no lapse in representation as Sean Combs will continue to be represented by five other attorneys of record.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
OK, once again, without violating any aspect of the attorney-client privilege or otherwise providing any details whatsoever on the grounds of supporting the application, the government has been notified of the filing of the motion to withdraw as counsel. OK, how do you think this looks to people with no legal background, no legal expertise?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Yeah, the language that's used out there, you know how it's going to get picked up on. We know what the court of public opinion feels and we know how information travels. Could you not have said something like, for personal reasons, or would that not fly with a judge?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
And it is still due to begin in May, even though we've had some new tactics being tried by his defense, as well as one of them quitting. Joining me today to examine what exactly this all means is our resident criminal defense attorney, Sean Kent. Hi, Sean.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
There's no formal comment from the legal team about Anthony Rico, but Diddy's team have told us this. Mr Combs' lead counsel, Mark Agnifilo and Tenny Garagas, remain the same. They've been leads since the raids were executed and remain along with every other member of Mr Combs' team. And they add that Mr Combs is proceeding to trial with a strong trial team.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Now, look, we're going to keep you up to date on what goes on there. We'll have it here for you on the pod. But right now, I want to do our Fact or Fiction here. This week... because as I was watching this play out on social media, particularly TikTok, I came across videos like these with hundreds of thousands of views, thousands of comments, loads of shares. Just take a listen.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
OK, first of all, was Anthony Rico a lawyer for Osama bin Laden? Well, he did defend one of the men who was charged and convicted in the US versus bin Laden case, which was related to the deadly 1998 American embassy bombings in Kenya by al-Qaeda. So that is partly true. It's not technically in the terms that it's being said there that he was his defence counsel for Osama bin Laden.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Sean, you're a criminal defence attorney. You know this well. Everybody gets access to a defence, don't they? Even in the most serious of cases.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
So in these videos, we hear people saying, okay, he's defended people like Osama bin Laden, and he's walking away from the Diddy case. Why, why, why? And saying it's because there has been a necromancy charge added to Diddy's case. This is communing with the dead, typically to predict the future. Now, trying to commune with the dead is not a criminal offense. I understand rage bait.
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Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
I understand driving traffic to your page. I understand that the algorithm, sometimes you might feel like it forces you to say things that are going to get eyes on your profile. But seriously, touch some grass.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
And Rolling Stone's senior investigative reporter, Cheyenne Roundtree. Hi, Cheyenne. Hi. OK, let's start with some news about Anthony Rico, one of Diddy's defense team. Here's CBS News breaking it down.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
We'd know about it, especially if it was black magic or voodoo. We'd hear about it. It would be front page news. But then some other people came in and they said, you're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about. It wasn't necromancy. It was necrophilia. You've got it all wrong. He wasn't charged with that. What he was more likely charged with... is necrophilia.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
I understand once again that this is going to drive traffic to your page, but like Sean's just said, if there was another superseding indictment that added on a fourth charge of necrophilia, you would know about it. It would be front page news. This is more than unsubstantiated. So we're going to wrap that up there. We told you what was in the letter. It didn't have anything in it about necromancy.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
of raping her when she was 13 at the VMAs in 2000. The lawsuit later added Jay-Z, real name Sean Carter, as a defendant. Both rappers denied the claims and the case has now been dropped with prejudice. Sean, what does that mean with prejudice?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Cheyenne, Jay-Z, very vocal when this was filed, uncharacteristically so. He said, I'm not paying one red penny. What's his reaction been to this?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Shan, can you walk us through exactly what went down?
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Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Sean, is there not some sort of protection against this? Otherwise, wouldn't lawyers be getting sued left, right and center?
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Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
Will Busby have to respond to this?
Diddy On Trial
Diddy lawyer quits plus outlandish necromancy claims
And we asked Tony Busby for a response, and he hasn't addressed the claims by Jay-Z or the case being dismissed. And I should say, once again, Diddy denies all the charges against him, and he says he's never sexually assaulted anyone, man or woman, adult or minor. Now, today's episode is a bit packed, and this last section that we're going to do, it's got lost a little bit, I think.
Diddy On Trial
Elsewhere in the ‘Diddyverse’: Jay-Z, Buzbee and Kanye
I think there was like a collective, almost silent, like when he walked in because he has a beard now, his hair is grown out and he's fully gray. But he did seem to be in relatively good spirits. He hugged his attorneys. He spoke the most he's ever done at court, you know, answering the questions to plead not guilty to the newest kind of
Diddy On Trial
Elsewhere in the ‘Diddyverse’: Jay-Z, Buzbee and Kanye
in den beiden neuen Verabschiedungsaussagen, aber auf alle Fälle scheint er in Ordnung zu sein. Aber ich denke, dass seine Aussehung einfach der schockierendste Element ist. Ich meine, er wurde seit September verlassen. Es zeigt einfach, dass er eigentlich schon seit einiger Zeit verhaftet worden ist. Und es ist tatsächlich ein physischer Schaden in Bezug auf seine Aussehung. v.a.
Diddy On Trial
Elsewhere in the ‘Diddyverse’: Jay-Z, Buzbee and Kanye
Yeah, so the last time I think we left off on this was that Jane Doe had voluntarily dismissed her civil lawsuit against Jay-Z and Diddy. And I feel like sometimes we forget that Diddy was also part of this case, but really Jay-Z has kind of been the more dominant force in terms of fighting this case.
Diddy On Trial
Elsewhere in the ‘Diddyverse’: Jay-Z, Buzbee and Kanye
So the case went away, it was dismissed with prejudice, which means she cannot bring it back again. Aber Jay-Z kämpft noch mit Tony Busby in Kalifornien. Und er hat auch jetzt die Jane Doe gefunden und hat sie in ihrem Heimatstaat in Alabama gesucht. Und zusammen mit Tony Busby.
Diddy On Trial
Elsewhere in the ‘Diddyverse’: Jay-Z, Buzbee and Kanye
Und Jay-Z hat gesagt, dass er Informationen von zwei privaten Investitionen entdeckt hat, die auf Jane Doe's Türstehen kamen. Und sie sagte, ja, Tony Busby hat mich dazu gedrückt, Jay-Z zu sagen. Jay-Z war nicht Teil dieses sogenannten sexuellen Verbrechens. Es war wirklich Tony Busby, der mich dazu gelegt hat. Jay-Z hat also die Begründung, die er von den Untersuchern bekommen hat, ausgesprochen.
Diddy On Trial
Elsewhere in the ‘Diddyverse’: Jay-Z, Buzbee and Kanye
Und er hat gesagt, guck, das ist das, was ich allmählich geschrieben habe, dass das komplett gemacht wurde. Tony Busby sagt, nein, mein Klient hat das nicht gesagt. Sie hat gesagt, dass diese Investigator auf meinem vorderen Stuhl kamen und sie verabschiedeten. Ich habe nie etwas über dich gesagt, was mich dazu bringt, oder etwas anderes.
Diddy On Trial
Elsewhere in the ‘Diddyverse’: Jay-Z, Buzbee and Kanye
Also hat das ganze Ganze ein bisschen aus der Kontrolle gespirrt.
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New Diddy documentary allegations
Das ist veröffentlicht am Montag und Dienstag, Januar 27th und 28th, also am Ende des Monats. Es ist eine Zwei-Part-Zwei-Nacht-Serie.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
Genau. Ich denke, wenn es um Racketeering geht, ist die ganze Idee, dass es eine Organisation oder ein System von Leuten gibt, die helfen, den Top-of-the-Ring-Leiter, diese verurteilten Krimine zu erreichen. Und so, Ashley's lawsuit claims, do you point the finger at some of Diddy's employees or associates as, you know, allegedly helping him do the things that he's accused of doing?
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
Yeah, so Diddy's old childhood friend, his name is Tim Patterson, and he actually grew up with Diddy. It sounds like he, Diddy and his mom Janice, lived on the top floor and Tim and his mom lived on the bottom floor and they became best friends. And Tim kind of Ja, genau.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
sex trafficking of sexual abuse he says that janice would host these kind of wild sexually charged parties that seemed that anyone he says was welcome to from people from harlem he says pushers you have drug dealers you have just this kind of really um Ich will nicht, ich will nicht, du weißt, einfach diese Party-Atmosphäre mit Leuten aus allen Wegen der Leben da.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
Und er sagt, es wäre nicht ungewöhnlich, wenn du eine Tür geöffnet hättest und Leute sexiert hättest. Also setzt er ein bisschen die Lage, dass diese Idee eines sexuell verantwortlichen Umfeldes Diddy von einer ziemlich jungen Zeit her sehr bekannt war.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
Yeah, definitely. It's hard not to kind of jump to that speculation when a close friend that was there is kind of serving that up on a platter.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
Yeah, I contacted Janice's lawyer and we did not get a response back there. So we'll see if she kind of addresses this when the doc airs.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
This former bad boy employee is around in recent years, but he kind of sets the stage about what it was like working for Diddy at this kind of right before his arrest. And he talks about this being a love era and the red lights that we saw throughout the rollout of, you know, the love album rollout and his recent Instagrams. He kind of says that red light means it sets the frequency for love.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
He was nervous to talk about it. I mean, obviously he's anonymous for a reason. And his kind of explanation was that it's a difficult thing for me to address. And so he leaves it open-ended. But he does kind of talk about just being solely introduced into this lifestyle. And it did escalate, he alleges, to this video in hinting that this was what maybe was expected of him at some point.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
Und ich denke, vielleicht versuchen viele Leute, das, was sie beobachtet haben, zusammenzufassen. Und ich glaube, das ist ein sehr wichtiges Thema. Ja, genau. Das ist nicht akzeptabel und du kannst dafür zählen und du hast Rechte dafür.
Diddy On Trial
New Diddy documentary allegations
Also was er, dieser Empfänger, bezeichnet, ist das Bild, dass diese Idee von Verletzungen oder roten Flaggen passiert und nicht wirklich weiß, was mit ihnen zu tun ist.
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New Diddy documentary allegations
Kim Porter ist Diddy's long-term ex-partner and this is the mother of three of his children, their twin daughters and then their son, Christian. And Diddy met Kim, well, she worked at Uptown Records as kind of an assistant. But at the time that he met her, she was with another big singer at the time, a singer by the name of Albie Scherr. And let me just say straight out the gate.
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New Diddy documentary allegations
He hints that there is some foul play there. I think he, you know, him, it's clear how much he loved Kim and he's still grieving her loss. He looked up to her. He kind of idolized her. Anyone that speaks about Kim speaks about how fantastic and beautiful and just a warm-hearted person she was. And yeah, he seems to believe that
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New Diddy documentary allegations
Und ich meine, für viele Leute wäre die Erklärung der Kinder und die Erklärung des Kanzleramtes wirklich ein Ende zu diesen Gerüchten gegeben.
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New Diddy documentary allegations
You know, I think we have to, again, kind of make our own conclusions of what he hints at by there. But I think he's indicating this idea that Cassie... Didi's lawyer said that she was writing a book before she filed this very public statement. I'll be sure saying Kim was keeping a diary that people have since denied that she was doing, that that's what he says.
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New Diddy documentary allegations
And he kind of leaves a suggestion of maybe she was about to talk about something that hadn't been talked about before. So yeah, he puts that out there. It is uncorroborated for now, but... He seems to truly believe that there was foul play somewhere in this.
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New Diddy documentary allegations
So Ashley actually filed a lawsuit last year, kind of detailing some of the things that she talks about in this documentary. And she alleges that in 2018 she was sexually assaulted by Diddy and members of his team did. Und sie geht into a lot of detail about how this came to be.
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New Diddy documentary allegations
She says that she met someone that she describes as a scout for Diddy, that Diddy then later came over to this man's house where she was kind of hanging out and that this whole kind of encounter happened and she had to escape. And it's a really horrific, very detailed and really unsettling claims.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
who wasn't almost named in this case but you had lebron james you had gloria estefan you had christian combs his son a birthday party for his son you had jay-z and beyonce you have diddy you have another alleged victim who claims that she was sex trafficked by diddy named in this. So it's a who's who of who might have been in South Beach, Florida in 2015.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
So the biggest difference is now the inclusion of victim two now with its own count of sex trafficking. So before we've heard about victim two, victim three, but they were kind of put under the racketeering count one charge. Now this victim two has its own separate count of alleged sex trafficking and the Mann Act, which is transportation to engage in prostitution.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
Yeah, I mean, I think since. Diddy was first accused by Cassie. Everyone has been pointing the finger about who else might be implicated, who else might be going down with him. And so any notion of another high profile person maybe being a witness to anything is going to get media attention. And that's exactly what happened here.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
I've never seen anything like that before.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
That's kind of the big thing here.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
I would also say that Victim 2, I believe when we first heard about Victim 2 was at his arraignment back in September. And Diddy's own lawyers said, because this is the alleged victim that said, reading Cassie's lawsuit is like reading my own sexual trauma. Zitti's team said, hey, the prosecutors have never even spoken with victim two, to our knowledge, and they didn't believe her to be a victim.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
So maybe she didn't even talk to prosecutors until well into this process. So who really knows exactly the timeline of things, but that also could be a reason why now that they're saying she's willing to testify and maybe she wasn't speaking at the time when this came down in September.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
Well, with Victim 1, we know that their experience with Diddy lasted from 2009 to 2018. And Diddy's own attorneys at his arraignment said he's different, he's changed, he's, you know, not this person. He described this relationship with Victim 1 as toxic but loving. Now this Victim 2 having a more current timeline of events with Diddy charged with the same acts as Victim 1.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
They can't still use that rhetoric because 2018, 2021 to 2024, that is not enough time to say that was in the past.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
I mean, I spoke with a alleged victim. She said that he was asking her to come to New York the day before he was arrested. So by my own reporting, when speaking with people, you know, this alleged pattern of, you know, sexual encounters with women was continuing up until his arrest.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
Victim one has said that she will come forward with her name and she plans to testify under her name. The other victims, victim two, three, four, have requested to remain anonymous because of the high profile, the sensitive nature of these allegations. But the government has said victim one is ready to testify with her full legal name.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
It means that they will use her name on the stand, that she will be introduced as that. We might even see her walk into court. She might not use the back door that they sometimes use for people that are trying to protect their identity.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
The sketch artists that are there, because we don't have cameras in this federal court, the sketch artists can draw her and the press will be able to report and say who this person is. So it's a full on, the same way that we're talking about Diddy in court, we will be able to talk about victim one.
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Diddy hit with additional charges, plus why are Beyonce and LeBron mentioned in a lawsuit?
I mean, they said that they needed six weeks, I believe, for their side to present their case or three weeks at one point. Now it's doubled to six and then the defense maybe two weeks. But that is they were trying to put up a buffered up until July 4th. This seems it's like it's going to go past that for sure.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
I believe it is the first lawsuit that she's accused of being more wrapped up into Diddy's businesses than previously thought.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
I mean, Diddy went so far to sue NewsNation and Kourtney and his attorney saying that's defamation, that these videos do not exist. He's been adamant that he's never sexually assaulted anyone, minors, men, women. This was the first time that Diddy sued someone for defamation and was specifically over the claims. that Courtney allegedly possesses some of these videotapes.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
And, you know, no one has seen them beyond Courtney, and I think his attorney acknowledging these videos. He said he testified at the grand jury, but, I mean, prosecutors aren't going to confirm that he did. You know, he just showed up outside and he made a press conference. So, yeah, he claims he's seen them. Diddy says they don't exist, and he's now suing him for defamation. So...
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
It should all come out in the wash of what is actually what these purported videos are.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
Yeah, I mean, I think in some ways, yes, if it's consensual and, you know, music and this idea of sex, drugs and rock and roll go hand in hand with the music industry. But at the end of the day, it's still a business. It's still a working environment. And the government is now alleging that that working environment was doubling as a criminal enterprise.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
And so all of these things come into kind of the scope of what was actually the purpose of that business. Was the purpose of that business to sex traffic people? Was that purpose of that business to intimidate and control people? And from outsiders or people working there, what were they privy to? What were they unknowingly maybe a part of? through that lens.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
And so, yes, on one hand, the name is bad boy, it's music, it's drugs, it's sex, it's all these things that we understand the music culture to be in the 80s and 90s. That still doesn't change the lens of if there was criminal activity going on, that does not give it a pass, especially when women and men are alleging there was non-consensual sex and drugging happening in these environments.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
Yeah, Sarah was one of the stars of Making the Band, the reboot that Diddy did with MTV. Sarah was the R&B singer of the group, and the group's name is Da Band, which is kind of... Confusing with making the ban. But Sarah alleges that throughout her time with the show, it was kind of this hellish experience where she had to work long hours.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
I think everyone remembers when Diddy told them to walk from, you know, this Daddy's House studio to Brooklyn and back to get him a cheesecake, which took them hours. So she kind of alleges this really horrible filming experience.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
But then on top of that, she claims that she was sexually harassed throughout the filming by Diddy, who would make comments about her body, saying that she needed to tighten up. The reason why she was there was for her to look good. And then she alleges there was an assault. And she says that was a kind of battery attack.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
where she was cornered by Diddy when she was alone in the studio and he started talking to her very suggestively and kind of cornered her and then began kind of stroking her breast. She says that she was clearly uncomfortable and Diddy kind of then backed off and then she fled. She claims that afterward she was kind of blackballed by Diddy. He disbanded the group in the third season
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
And she claims she never was really able to find her footing again. And one alleged incident is that she said she had an offer on the table from Capitol Records and Diddy called up an executive and that deal went away.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
Yeah, so the former co-founder of Bad Boy Records, Kirk Burrows, he filed a lawsuit early last week against Janice Combs, Diddy's mom. He claims back in the early 90s, Diddy walked into his office with a baseball bat, and the implication was that he was forced to sign over his 25% stake in Bad Boy Entertainment.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
Yeah. So in the past week, you know, with the Gender Motivated Violence Act statute closing, the look back window closing, he's filed a couple more lawsuits from Jane and John Doe, accusers who, again, from the 1990s up until the 2000s, alleged that Diddy assaulted them in some manner during that time period.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
Yeah, I think, you know, Cassie alleged what while our freak offs were something. And then you have Philip Pines, who says that he understood it to be something different. Cassie says that her freak offs always involved a male sex worker. And in Phil Pines case, he said that he understood that to happen between Diddy and a female guest. And Cassie alleges those were nonconsensual.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
She described those as sex trafficking cases. Phil says from his knowledge that they appear to be consensual and maybe sometimes there might have been other people brought in. But when he was kind of there, it just seemed to be Diddy and a female guest. So those are kind of the differences between, you know, a freak off and a Wild King night.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
But Janice was a beneficiary, so he filed a suit against her and some other companies associated with Diddy. that time. Kirk says that when this all happened, that Janice was fully aware of it, that she knew that he was being unjustly kind of forced out. But they played dumb throughout the years and decades that they knew known each other.
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Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape
And it was only recently in the past few years that he discovered that Janice was allegedly fully aware of what happened.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
I came up in Diddy's Ciroc era where he's a good time guy. smooth, know-what's-cool tastemaker. And so, yes, when he had just gotten, you know, Keys to the City, he was just honored with Lifetime Excellence Awards. And then out of the blue, it seems like, you know, he's rocked by these really, really horrific allegations.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Bad Boy is Diddy's kind of first label. territory he marked for himself. It is his founding production company, record label. It is the nexus of everything that came from Diddy.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
The first artist he signed was Biggie. And so from the gate, you know, bad boy burst on the scene with two superstars. There was another artist by the name of Craig Mack who received a Grammy nomination and then you had Biggie. So it was in that first year or two, it was just a powerhouse, which is kind of unprecedented for him, a label that he started when he was 23 years old.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
He was kind of playing around with being an artist. I think he was rolling out his new acts and he said, you know, I can do this as well. And then so we saw his first album came after Biggie's death and it was Puff and the Family. And that also had mainstream success with I'll Be Missing You.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
It starts with, yeah, Bad Boy in New York and Death Row Records in LA. Biggie and Tupac, they saw each other as peers and they had this kind of friendship. And I spoke with people that remember that Tupac was helping Biggie out sometimes with just kind of mastering his flow. And you have to remember Tupac at the time was amazing. this massive star, and Biggie also was kind of rising to meet him.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
But then there was a fallout, as there always is in beef, in hip-hop war. And the fallout came when Tupac was shot at a recording studio, and he thought the guys at Bad Boys set him up. And so from there, this legendary rivalry started, and it ends with the two biggest superstars of the 90s, both dead within, you know, a year of each other.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Yeah, everyone is under 25 years old or like right around the young 20s, mid 20s. And so these are young men who have, you know, the world at their fingertips are generational talents. and both kind of lost to this war. And so what we saw come of it was, you know, Diddy's kind of star started to emerge after Biggie had died.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Diddy not only shaped the sound, he crafted the look. It's the whole tone, the whole character of Biggie. And they became friends and, you know, he took Biggie off the street and created him into a worldwide name that, you know, lives on forever in our legacy.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Yeah, Sean John Clothing, which had, you know, New York Fashion Week. He was, he had all the A-listers there. Anna Wintour from Vogue was there. I mean, he was also known even before Bad Boy at Uptown Records, Jodeci, Mary J. Blige. He crafted them in their image. And I think when you think of hip hop in the 90s, that was all Diddy.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
What they wore, the shiny suits, just the whole image was kind of funneled by Diddy and his kind of genius of marketing and just knowing what people wanted before they knew they wanted it.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip hop only a year or so ago. And so Diddy at that time, he's 55 now, he was coming up as hip hop was being invented and he was hearing those sounds as they were being created, you know, up in the Bronx.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
He and his predecessors actually created it for it to be this mammoth, you know, the radio stations that were devoted to playing hip hop. That was coming. at the same time that Diddy was coming up. So he was part of that wave of hip-hop that led us to the music that we hear today.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
So it's 1999. It's kind of this New Year's Eve party at this nightclub. And Diddy and his then-girlfriend J.Lo decide that they're going to go out. And so they go out to the club. They bring Diddy's new artist, Shine. And something happens. There's an altercation. Someone's bumped.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
We don't really get to the bottom of what happened, but we do know that shots rang out and three people were injured. And we know that Diddy and J.Lo take off speeding in an SUV. Shine, the artist, is arrested. Diddy and J.Lo are promptly arrested as well. for being involved in the mix-up. J.Lo is quickly, her charges are dismissed, but Diddy and Shine go on trial for this nightclub shooting.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
And Diddy is saying the gun's not his, he didn't fire any shots, and he is ultimately acquitted.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
He was found innocent of those charges in Shine. The artist says he's the fall guy, and he actually went to jail for, you know, almost 10 years, I believe, and then was deported back to Belize. So it's the first scandal, and we see where Diddy kind of changes afterward and kind of evolves now into this business mogul versus that being kind of this hip hop record label swaggy guy.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Is that the first time he's done that? It was a clear distinction of, you know, Puff Daddy was the one that was wrapped up in that shooting. P. Diddy is different. We see the shift for him being record label to businessman. And it was a very distinct choice that he did and kind of set off on that path.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
So I don't know if in the UK Ciroc was as big as it was in the US. It is, if you think of when you go out to nightclubs or if you're going to go buy a bottle of vodka for your night out, it was Ciroc. It had different kind of flavors. It was the absolute of the 2000s. And Diddy became kind of the...
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
influencer of it it was his he promoted it and so that is where he kind of stepped into not just you know record money music not just clothing music but this is multiple millions and I believe recently Ciroc or the brand Ciroc Diageo said over the course of that partnership with Diddy they paid him a billion dollars so that on top of all the other avenues of revenues he's coming in
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
That alcohol sponsorship and that partnership was so lucrative for him. And it kind of really stuffed him up into that mogul status.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think when you think of what Diddy represents is opportunity and legitimate opportunity where you're respected, not just by your community, but by the world and business leaders. I think, you know, he founded a media company with Revolt that's hugely successful. And he hosts, you know, black excellence brunches.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
And so he's provided a pathway for other people to replicate and show if he could do it, I can do it as well.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Yeah, Cassie came out on the scene. She was a model and she wanted to be a singer. And she had this breakthrough song, Me and You, which I think we all remember. It was everywhere. she got signed to Bad Boy off of that song. And so as an artist, she is under the Bad Boy umbrella. And I think a lot of people were questioning why. She had some singles dropped.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
She had some music kind of come out a little bit, but it never kind of hit that same fame with me and you. And then we kind of resigned ourselves to saying she wasn't a singer, but, you know, she's with Diddy now, and that's maybe her focus. And we would come to find out that... Her music was being suppressed is what she says.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
So she was this kind of had this really white hot moment when she signed with the Off the Back of Me and You. She modeled and she just goes kind of this ever present figure in our pop culture landscape.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
Yeah, so in 2021, he makes this kind of big splash in Vanity Fair and says that he wants to be known as Love. He legally changes his middle name to be Love. And it's just this whole mantra about, you know, spreading love. And he has his album, the love album, off the grid. But, you know, I think that it might chart back to the loss of his long-term partner, Kim Porter, who died in 2018.
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The history of Diddy: What you need to know
And I think after that, you see a real shift of him pulling his children closer and becoming more of this family man.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
I've never seen anything like that before.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
Diddy's team had claimed that the video was deceptive, that CNN had sped up Certain aspects of the video that there was different camera angles that the sequences events weren't exactly accurate. So they didn't want the video to be included at trial.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
However, the government said that they have cell phone footage of the camera that shows the events similarly, but it's not the full video and that they have witnesses that can testify to its authenticity. The judge did rule that this video will be allowed into evidence into court. We'll just see exactly how much will be shown.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
What did he say? He basically admitted that Diddy considers himself a swinger. And I think, you know, this whole case is boiling down to consent or what was happening in the bedroom between Diddy and these other alleged victims. And It seems that Diddy's defense is saying, you know, this is a swinging lifestyle. This is his lifestyle. This is what he thought was common.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
You know, it is common to bring in sex workers for these events. And what he was doing was under what he thought was normal. He's a swinger. So it kind of grabs people's attention.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
But I think we're forgetting, I mean, not forgetting, but this is a trial for his life. And so while in other media reports and speculative reports about, oh, who's at this party, who's at this party, if there's someone in the room that is a high-profile name that can vouch for it, this is something we all have done.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
Of course, I'm sure Diddy's team was like, please come and say that what he's doing is nothing wrong, that we all do this, that this is common within our circles. And why wouldn't they add that to the defense? So versus then just kind of throwing it out there for no purpose, just for gossip and spectator sport. This is actually where this testimony would come in handy.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
At the end of the hearing, one of the prosecutors stands up and makes mention of a plea deal that was offered to Diddy at some point and noted that Diddy rejected it. And so at Thursday's hearing, the judge will kind of get into the specifications of maybe what was offered. But for right now, it's the first that we're hearing that there was a plea deal on the table.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
But I'm sure Sean can elaborate more. This is not so uncommon.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
Yeah, so there was talk about the government wanting to introduce testimony or evidence regarding to this one alleged victim that had a medical procedure that would speak to Diddy's alleged influence or control over this person's life.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
I believe Diddy's team, obviously they have argued against it, but, you know, it's speaking to this idea of what's being contested as coercive control, which I believe the judge ruled that you can't call it that in court. However, it's speaking to, you know. Why would this person stay with this person that's doing all these awful things to them?
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
And this medical procedure is speaking to supposedly the idea of how much sway and control that he had over this one person down to their medical decisions.
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Diddy’s defence: ‘He’s a swinger’, plus jury selection begins for trial
Sure. So this is one of the last hearings that we'll have before Diddy is in court. And so this hearing was to kind of hash out some last issues on the table. One of the big things was the CNN hotel video that I think everyone has seen where Diddy is seen kicking, dragging Cassie in a hotel as she was supposedly leaving a freak off.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
Yeah, so during court, we only, the press only have a little bit of insight into what they're actually talking and discussing about. So there was an issue on the table today about if the government was going to be allowed to introduce, to show the jury a photo of victim one with a friend of theirs. So it was in 2005, this picture is from in May, and
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
The government is describing this photo or saying that this photo is going to be used to establish a relationship between the victim and a witness who will be testifying as part of the trial. And it's to show this alleged victim in the state how they looked like right before they met Diddy and went on to have a relationship with Diddy.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
Now, Diddy's team objected to the photo being entered because they say this is kind of prejudicial, that the victim looks quite young in this photo and basically they were making the argument that it looked like if they introduced this photo of this victim looking very young, there would be some maybe inference that Diddy was having a sexual relationship with a teenager. Now,
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
The victim was of age at this time, but she just looked young. And the judge ruled that it actually would be allowed in because this is showing this victim how she looked right before she signed a record deal with Diddy, which happened six months later. So it was allowed in the evidence.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
So it just kind of shows the bigger scale of we're up to the nitty gritty point and we're still haggling out issues over a single photo that's just kind of there to set the stage.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
Das Herz eines Verhandlungsverhandlungsverfahrens scheint mit Victim 1 zu lügen. Diese Angelegenheiten in der Angelegenheit zu Victim 1 scheinen die Angelegenheiten, die Cassie Bintour in ihrem eigenen Verhandlungsverfahren erwähnt hat, zu beurteilen. Und von der Angelegenheit, von den Verhandlungen,
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
Didi's attorney had said his relationship with victim one, they described it as deeply toxic in this idea that this was a very toxic relationship. And today in court, Didi's attorney said, you know, mutually violent or mutually physical domestic violence happening at both sides. And it seemed to, the defense seemed to suggest that victim one had
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
separate instances or at least two instances they referenced where she was allegedly physically violent with someone else, not Diddy, someone else. And they were trying to say we should be able to ask her about this because they say it shows that she was an independent, confident person and not afraid of confrontation.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
And this idea that, you know, the government says that this victim one was coerced into sexual acts with male sex workers, the freak-offs. And Diddy's team is saying, no, you know, she is not a peaceful person by nature, that she's capable of starting confrontations on her own, that she has been allegedly physical with other people in the past.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
And we should be able to bring that into questioning her when she claims that she is coerced into a sexual relationship that she was scared and that Diddy was allegedly using violence with her, that this was kind of a rough and tumble relationship and this all comes into the framework when we're talking about coercion, when we're talking about sex trafficking.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
The judge hasn't made a ruling whether that can come up or not, but it was interesting to hear because it's clear the defense is going to say that this was a mutual toxic relationship, abusive relationship on both sides.
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Ja, ich denke, er sprach im Allgemeinen dazu, dass jeder ein Opfer sein kann. Es gibt keine Art von Persönlichkeit, die man besitzen könnte. Man kann die stärkste, unabhängige Körperbilder-Figur sein. Und die Idee ist, dass man immer noch verurteilt werden kann. Man kann von etwas oder jemandem verurteilt werden.
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Und ich denke, er hat diese Art von Argument ausgestattet, indem er sagte, es ist egal, wenn man sich als unabhängiger Person befindet, gibt es immer noch Situationen, in denen jemand verurteilt werden kann oder in etwas verurteilt werden kann.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
Also, das war dann in der Art und Weise aufgeräumt, aber wir müssen immer noch warten, bis wir sehen, was er auf die Fähigkeit des Charakters zu sprechen, die er als Gefühle besitzt, und wie es in die Argumente der Verteidigung auswirkt.
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Diddy’s trial begins: What's it like at court?
Ich glaube, alle sagten, wirklich? Ich werde sagen, als sie für die Streiks am Freitag antworteten, sagten sie, vielleicht würden wir in einer Stunde auf dem Weg sein.
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I have a hankering it will go on a little bit longer, but the judge agreed with them that it was stronger to have a full, complete pool the day of than having to risk any dropouts, which then would actually delay the trial further than, let's say, an hour on Monday.
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If I tell all the details, you won't believe it anymore.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
Yeah, it's kind of more explanations to say why they believe he should be charged with racketeering. Obviously, forced labour, making employees do things against their will that would fall under racketeering, prosecutors say.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
Yeah, Phil Pines was Diddy's executive assistant from 2019 to 2021. And he says in that docuseries that he testified from the grand jury. And what he said was that he was working all the time, had little hours of sleep, that he was charged with setting up for these wild king nights, taking women home afterward. And he alleges himself was forced into a non-consensual situation.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
type of encounter where he claims that Diddy forced him to have sex with a woman while he watched. So it falls under this umbrella. Again, we're not sure if prosecutors are using Phil's story as part of this, but we have heard stories from former employees that say that there was an abusive, toxic work environment while working for Diddy.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
Yeah, it is surprising. We are less than two months out from the start of the trial when it's supposed to start on May 5th. And, you know, prosecutors have alleged that he has this enterprise and they talk about co-conspirators and co-conspirators talking to alleged victims and witnesses, yet we haven't seen anyone else charged yet. So who's to say if that day will come, if ever?
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
But yeah, it's not exactly quite what we're expecting, especially since this new superseding indictment only has one new paragraph added from the 15 pages that were already there.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
Yeah. When they filed the superseding indictment in this letter to the judge, they said, you know, we still maintain that we are on track for this May 5th trial date, even though we've added a little bit more detail to this indictment. But they have already said that they turned over a bunch of their discovery already on New Year's Eve of 2024.
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And so it seems like they're pointing of he already had all this information and now we're adding this information to the indictment. So it shouldn't affect, you know, pushing back the start of the trial date.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
He was supposed to be arraigned on the first superseding indictment and our prosecutors are saying, we'll do the second one too while we're at it.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
The second superseding indictment follows the first one very closely. However, there is a new paragraph added under count one, which is racketeering conspiracy. And this section kind of builds out a section about his employees. It alleges that Diddy and members of his alleged criminal enterprise
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
threatened employees and through financial harm, physical force, kind of just threats to them, working long hours. I think the government calls it forced labor. They've expanded the racketeering to include his treatment of employees.
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Diddy accused of threatening employees and forcing one into sex act
And they say specifically in regard to one employee, they said that he did all of these things to them as well as force them into sex acts with him, prosecutors allege. So there's not too much different, but prosecutors are making a case that his employees, as well as female victims, were subjected to different forms of abuse.