Millions and Millions of Dollars
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What allegations are being made against Diddy?
The following episode explores a number of allegations regarding the artist Diddy. He denies all charges and has pled not guilty to sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world.
At the height of his career, Sean Diddy Combs had it all. It seemed like everything Diddy touched turned to gold. Now the once untouchable hip-hop mogul is fighting for his life as he faces multiple federal charges in New York, including sex trafficking and allegedly running a criminal enterprise.
Music mogul and rapper Sean Diddy Combs has faced four different lawsuits in recent weeks alleging sexual assault. Combs can be seen grabbing Ventura and throwing her to the ground.
Oh, this guy is dangerous. Another woman has now come forward alleging Combs of sexual assault. She claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs.
I'm DailyMail.com journalist Marjorie Hernandez, and over the last six months, I've been investigating this incredible story and speaking to the people in the eye of the storm Welcome to the Trial of Diddy.
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Hey, I'm Kayla Brantley, reporter at large for Daily Mail in Manhattan. And I'm Marjorie Hernandez, DailyMail.com's West Coast news editor. And welcome to episode 23 of The Trial of Diddy. I actually began last week's show by saying another week, another lawsuit. And guess what? It is another week, and now there's another request to drop a lawsuit. Yesterday, which was Tuesday, February 18th, Diddy's lawyers asked a judge to dismiss count three of the U.S. attorney's case against him from a superseding indictment last month, namely transportation to engage in prostitution, claiming that, quote, no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution.
Yes, Diddy has been charged under the Mann Act, which is also known as the White Slave Traffic Act, which is a 1910 federal law prohibiting transporting people for prostitution. Now, Diddy's lawyers have said that the law has historically been used disproportionately against Black men, citing rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry and early 20th century's most famous boxer, Jack Johnson, who was actually known as Galveston Giant, as examples. The lawyers allege that, quote, no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution, pointing out former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's case where escorts were charged, but he was not. Now, Diddy claims that he's being singled out because of his race and being, quote, prosecuted for conduct that regularly goes unpunished because he is a powerful black man.
Diddy goes on to claim that, quote, the use of escorts, male or female, is common and indeed widely accepted in American culture today, and that the escort service related to his case is, quote, a legitimate commercial business operating out in the open, which I personally thought was a very interesting argument that he's like, hey, what do you mean? Everyone's trafficking prostitutes. I thought that was interesting. But his attorneys are claiming that the government has, quote, concocted a criminal case based primarily on allegations that Mr. Combs and two of his longtime girlfriends sometimes brought a third party, a male escort, into their sexual relationship. And that, quote, no other person, and certainly no white person, has ever previously been prosecuted under the White Slave Traffic Act for hiring male escorts from another state. They go on to say that, quote, what was racist in its inception has often been racist in operation.
Adding, quote, the statute's target was black male sexuality and the statute's most notorious persecution targeted famous black men accused of deviant sexual behavior.
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