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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. It's a ditty celebration, that's right.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Sean Comes whining again about his birthday grill cheese sandwich.
- 0:16Speaker 1: He's worried about a grilled cheese sandwich as a grand
- 0:20Speaker 1: jury looms, I, Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank
- 0:24Speaker 1: you for being with us. Day Wilcome.
- 0:26Speaker 2: When we will name names other than Shawn Comes, and
- 0:29Speaker 2: there's a.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Lot of names.
- 0:31Speaker 2: It's a long list already because the nature of this case.
- 0:34Speaker 2: We're gonna make damn shore, damn sure that we're right
- 0:37Speaker 2: before we do that. But the names that we're going
- 0:41Speaker 2: to name are names that will shock here.
- 0:44Speaker 3: Sean diddy Comb celebrated his fifty fifth birthday behind bars
- 0:48Speaker 3: at the MDC in addition to a call from his children.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Comes enjoyed a breakfast cake for his first meal of
- 0:53Speaker 3: the day and had a choice of pizza, salad, or
- 0:56Speaker 3: pasta for dinner. The Disgrace Mogul turned a year older.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Amidst a desperate battle in state of gag order has
- 1:01Speaker 3: more damaging claims emerge from complainants and witnesses. The latest
- 1:05Speaker 3: alegation that a grand jury witness is in possession of
- 1:08Speaker 3: at least eight of Didy sex tapes with a list celebrities,
- 1:11Speaker 3: some of them miners.
- 1:13Speaker 1: There's some controversy was it pasta or was it a
- 1:16Speaker 1: grilled cheese? In any event, Sean Comms need to stop
- 1:21Speaker 1: whining about his breakfast and lunch menu at MDC Correctional
- 1:25Speaker 1: Institute and start thinking about what the Grand jury is doing.
- 1:29Speaker 1: The Feds let me tell you, I was a FED
- 1:32Speaker 1: for three years. Love to do what we call a
- 1:36Speaker 1: superseding indictment. What is that? That is when they add
- 1:40Speaker 1: to the current indictment or revise translation change the current indictment.
- 1:48Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. He's already under a federal indictment.
- 1:53Speaker 1: So why is the Green Jury continuing to meet? But
- 1:57Speaker 1: back to the urgent issue of the grill geese and
- 2:00Speaker 1: the birthday celebration. Joining me an all star panel to
- 2:03Speaker 1: make sense of what we know now? Straight out to
- 2:06Speaker 1: Rob Shooter, a longtime colleague, host of Naughty but Nice
- 2:10Speaker 1: podcast which can mean so many different things, but former
- 2:15Speaker 1: publicist to Sean Combs and author of the four word
- 2:21Speaker 1: Answer very important. He was Combs's publicist for many years.
- 2:28Speaker 1: He was also Jennifer Lopez's publicist, and he has attended
- 2:33Speaker 1: many white parties. Okay, first question to you, and I'm
- 2:40Speaker 1: honor bound to ask this, rob Shooter, when you say
- 2:43Speaker 1: that you attended the white parties number one, where you
- 2:47Speaker 1: subjected to the requirements to attend a white party. In
- 2:52Speaker 1: other words, did you weigh over one hundred and forty pounds?
- 2:55Speaker 1: Did you wear a short dress where your quote butt
- 2:59Speaker 1: cheeks show? Were you wearing stilettos? Were you quote sexy
- 3:04Speaker 1: with low cut top? Because those are some of the
- 3:06Speaker 1: requirements that had to be met before you could put
- 3:09Speaker 1: one toe in a Diddy white party. Translation, you had
- 3:12Speaker 1: to wear all white. Also, did you have to stand
- 3:16Speaker 1: on a set of skills which were right there as
- 3:19Speaker 1: people were entering to make sure you weren't over one
- 3:22Speaker 1: hundred and forty pounds? And were you subjected to an
- 3:25Speaker 1: age request where you asked how old are you? So
- 3:30Speaker 1: if you could just clear the air right now and
- 3:31Speaker 1: answer those questions, Shooter.
- 3:33Speaker 4: Let me be clear, I worked at Diddy in the
- 3:35Speaker 4: early two thousands, over twenty years ago, and he wasn't
- 3:39Speaker 4: yet the Diddy that we know today, So he was
- 3:42Speaker 4: still sort of figuring out who he was as a celebrity,
- 3:46Speaker 4: as a businessman, and so the party is that I
- 3:48Speaker 4: root for Diddy. I was a publicist. I organized the
- 3:51Speaker 4: press outside the red carpet, something we call a step
- 3:54Speaker 4: and repeat. Celebrities walk down and take pictures. Those parties
- 3:57Speaker 4: were about two thousand, Peace called. Now. There were codes
- 4:01Speaker 4: of conduct. You have to wear just white if you.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Jumped up in wait wait, wait, wait, excuse me? Code
- 4:09Speaker 1: of conduct? Are you serious? Code of conduct? You're you're
- 4:14Speaker 1: acting like he's trying to get into the Naval Academy.
- 4:17Speaker 1: A code of conduct. This is a dress code for
- 4:19Speaker 1: women only. They had to show their breasts and their backside.
- 4:24Speaker 4: I wasn't I never saw that list. What I saw
- 4:27Speaker 4: was a list to get into the regular party, the
- 4:29Speaker 4: ones that started at about ten o'clock, not the ones
- 4:32Speaker 4: that started at two or three am.
- 4:34Speaker 1: That's a very that's tenient. Isn't it that you knew
- 4:38Speaker 1: nothing about the attendance requests? But that said, I'm afraid
- 4:43Speaker 1: I'm pulling a Diddy right now. He's all worried about
- 4:46Speaker 1: having to eat a grilled cheese sandwich on his birthday
- 4:48Speaker 1: instead of the grand jury. Let's get down to what's
- 4:51Speaker 1: happening right now, other than whining about his treatment behind
- 4:56Speaker 1: at MDC. Doctor Dwayne Hendricks is joining me our associate
- 5:00Speaker 1: warden at m d C Metropolitan Detention Center. Former senior
- 5:06Speaker 1: warden with the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons,
- 5:10Speaker 1: Founder president of a New Daylight Foundation, and author of
- 5:14Speaker 1: Who Are You See It? Say It? And Sees It? Okay,
- 5:18Speaker 1: doctor Hendrix, was Diddy supposed to have a special birthday
- 5:22Speaker 1: celebration behind bars?
- 5:25Speaker 5: No, No, not at all. It's frequency discussed. There's a
- 5:31Speaker 5: national menu. What he ate on his birthday on Monday
- 5:35Speaker 5: was on the menu. And again, I don't continue to
- 5:38Speaker 5: understand why he's still complaining about Mills when he's been
- 5:42Speaker 5: there for well over going on two months now.
- 5:45Speaker 1: So well, hey, doctor Hendricks, nobody offered me cereal fruit
- 5:51Speaker 1: or breakfast cake whatever that is. Nobody offered me positive
- 5:54Speaker 1: with marinara sauce, meatballs and a salad. Really dinner chicken
- 5:59Speaker 1: or toad with fried rice, black beans and carrots. I
- 6:03Speaker 1: have to go in the kitchen and cout dinner every night,
- 6:06Speaker 1: and he's whining he had chicken, fried rice with black
- 6:09Speaker 1: beans and carrots. Is this all about his grilled cheese
- 6:12Speaker 1: or is it just the fact that he doesn't have
- 6:14Speaker 1: his private chef anymore. So let me see doctor Dwayne
- 6:17Speaker 1: Henrick again. Are you telling me the birthday boy did
- 6:21Speaker 1: not get special treatment on his birk?
- 6:24Speaker 5: The birthday boy did not get special treatment. He's being
- 6:26Speaker 5: treated just like every other incarcerated person in the building.
- 6:30Speaker 5: And I think the sooner that he understands that he's
- 6:32Speaker 5: just going to be just like everyone else, the better
- 6:35Speaker 5: off that he'll be in terms of him being at
- 6:39Speaker 5: the institution while he's a Wayne trial. So again, he
- 6:43Speaker 5: has welfish that's out.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Of their way. There's going to be a superseding indictment,
- 6:47Speaker 1: and he's going to have to sit put for quite
- 6:49Speaker 1: a while. Rob Shooter with me. Former publicist de Sean
- 6:52Speaker 1: Comes for many years also served as Jennifer Lopez's publicist
- 6:57Speaker 1: for a period of time, Rob Shooter, what meals did
- 7:01Speaker 1: did he normally have with his private chef? What was
- 7:05Speaker 1: on the menu at those white parties that you supervised?
- 7:08Speaker 4: He lived like a king, Nancy. I've never seen anybody
- 7:12Speaker 4: he lived like this. I worked with a lot of
- 7:13Speaker 4: celebrities and did he was the one that enjoyed being
- 7:16Speaker 4: a celebrity the most, like the perks of it. We're
- 7:18Speaker 4: talking lobster. We're talking nobu, We're talking the best sushi
- 7:23Speaker 4: in the world. He would kick his fingers and have
- 7:25Speaker 4: people deliver a cheesecake to him in the early hours
- 7:27Speaker 4: of the morning. What he has given up as far
- 7:30Speaker 4: as his LifeStyle's been taken away from him, as far
- 7:33Speaker 4: as his as his lifestyle is concerned, is extraordinary. Nobody
- 7:36Speaker 4: lived better than did.
- 7:37Speaker 1: Hey, don't you you say something about snapping his fingers
- 7:40Speaker 1: in the week morning hours and getting cheesecake delivered.
- 7:44Speaker 4: He did. If you worked for Diddy, you worked for
- 7:47Speaker 4: a tyrant. He was an absolute boss. He would text
- 7:50Speaker 4: me at four or five six am in the morning
- 7:53Speaker 4: and expect a response. It was a really stressful time.
- 7:57Speaker 4: He taught me how to be a publicist. And the
- 7:59Speaker 4: one thing about Diddy I want to point out that
- 8:01Speaker 4: people don't talk about enough if he was charming Dancy.
- 8:04Speaker 4: He was absolutely charming, which is why he'd probably got
- 8:08Speaker 4: away with what he did for so long.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Well, I don't understand what's charming about getting a text
- 8:11Speaker 1: at four am to do what? What would he want
- 8:14Speaker 1: you to do at four am?
- 8:16Speaker 4: Oh?
- 8:16Speaker 1: Guys, those are photos that have just emerged that indicate
- 8:19Speaker 1: that certain alleged victims were with Diddy at the times
- 8:24Speaker 1: they say they were, their faces have been blacked out. Okay,
- 8:28Speaker 1: what Shooter, what would anybody want at four am in
- 8:31Speaker 1: the morning.
- 8:31Speaker 4: He wanted to figure out what his next day publicity
- 8:34Speaker 4: would be. It was all about being the most famous
- 8:37Speaker 4: person in the world with pretty limited talent. He's not
- 8:40Speaker 4: the best singer or dance or actor, but get somehow
- 8:43Speaker 4: he made himself into the center of a circus. It's
- 8:45Speaker 4: almost like he was baring them. He was the ringmaster
- 8:48Speaker 4: of this circus that he ran. He was the boss.
- 8:51Speaker 1: I still don't understand exactly why he would text you
- 8:53Speaker 1: at four o'clock in the morning, and how you can't
- 8:55Speaker 1: continue to say that he was charming when.
- 8:58Speaker 4: You were wished Tod and I. I think this is
- 9:01Speaker 4: quite common with a lot of really bad people out there.
- 9:04Speaker 4: There was a sensic deity that he made you feel special.
- 9:07Speaker 4: He looked you in the eye, he showered you with gifts,
- 9:13Speaker 4: and now looking back, I can see how manipulative it
- 9:15Speaker 4: all was, But in the moment, he made everybody around
- 9:18Speaker 4: him feel very special.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Rob Shooter joining me for any but Nice podcast? Did
- 9:23Speaker 1: you just say? Did? It was not that talented.
- 9:26Speaker 4: He was not a natural finger, He was not a
- 9:30Speaker 4: natural actor. He was not a natural musician. I don't
- 9:33Speaker 4: think he plays an instrument. Yet he managed to make
- 9:35Speaker 4: himself into the center of the music business. That comes
- 9:39Speaker 4: with a certain amount of talent, with hutzpur with ambition,
- 9:43Speaker 4: But as far as traditional talents of a musical artist,
- 9:46Speaker 4: he did not possess them.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Well, guess what You're in good company. I guess you've
- 9:50Speaker 1: heard of the renowned music producer Quincy Jones. Listen.
- 9:56Speaker 6: Legendary music producer Quincy Jones passed away Sunday at the
- 9:59Speaker 6: age ninety one, and with his death, many are remembering
- 10:02Speaker 6: his brutal opinion of Sean Diddy Combs. Jones said to
- 10:05Speaker 6: artist Bruno Mars at a twenty twelve Spotify events at
- 10:08Speaker 6: that he did he wouldn't know a B flat if
- 10:10Speaker 6: it hit him. Jones describes Combs as a master marketer
- 10:13Speaker 6: but a lackluster producer. Moments after encouraging artists to really
- 10:17Speaker 6: learn their craft, Jones later took to social media to
- 10:20Speaker 6: say he didn't mean to diss the rapper and had
- 10:22Speaker 6: nothing but love and respect for Combs and his achievements.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Right, nothing but love, but would know would be flat
- 10:28Speaker 1: if it bit him in the neck. Joining me, Doctor
- 10:31Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, joining us from LA, author of deal Breaker.
- 10:36Speaker 1: You can find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com
- 10:38Speaker 1: and see you're on Peacock. Doctor Bethany. Here is the
- 10:43Speaker 1: crux of what I'm getting at while a grand jury
- 10:47Speaker 1: is continuing to me. You know what that means, doctor Bethany.
- 10:50Speaker 1: That means twenty to life on multiple charges each. That's
- 10:54Speaker 1: what's happening right now. The fans are gonna pull. I'm
- 10:57Speaker 1: going to go to Josher Ritter on this in just
- 10:59Speaker 1: a moment, going to pull as they should if they've
- 11:02Speaker 1: got the evidence to support it. What we call a
- 11:04Speaker 1: superseding indictment, which means you add to or change the
- 11:09Speaker 1: existing indictment. So that's what I would be worried about
- 11:13Speaker 1: right now behind bars. Not my grilled cheese sandwich I
- 11:17Speaker 1: had on my birthday, Not whether Quincy Jones said I
- 11:21Speaker 1: wouldn't know a beef flat if it bit me in
- 11:23Speaker 1: the neck. But I guarantee, Bethany, that is what is
- 11:26Speaker 1: consuming him right now. I guarantee you too.
- 11:30Speaker 7: You know it does matter to him because he did
- 11:34Speaker 7: He only cares about his own bodily pleasures, whether it's food, sex,
- 11:39Speaker 7: the clothing that he wears. He is a glutton, okay,
- 11:43Speaker 7: so of course he's going to be staring straight at
- 11:45Speaker 7: that pasta marinara and wondering if the temperature is hot enough.
- 11:49Speaker 7: He lives his life for food and sex. He snaps
- 11:52Speaker 7: his fingers at four in the morning to get a
- 11:54Speaker 7: birthday cake delivered to him. He's I guess Freud would
- 11:57Speaker 7: use the term his royal highness the baby. He gets
- 12:00Speaker 7: everything he wants, and you know all that music, Nancy.
- 12:03Speaker 7: I think of music is a way to share a message,
- 12:06Speaker 7: share an emotional transformation you're going through, so that you
- 12:09Speaker 7: can help other people. Music for him was just to
- 12:12Speaker 7: sell through.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Mean, Bethany, you're telling me that Sean Comes aka Diddy
- 12:20Speaker 1: aka Puff aka Puffy aka puff Daddy aka Love and
- 12:25Speaker 1: anymore created music to express his own deeply failt emotions.
- 12:33Speaker 7: I'm saying the no.
- 12:35Speaker 1: I'm saying the opposite.
- 12:36Speaker 7: I'm saying most artists they express themselves through music because
- 12:41Speaker 7: they want to move and inspire others. He used music
- 12:45Speaker 7: to lure people in so he can rape them. It's
- 12:48Speaker 7: a perversion of that whole art form. It's like if
- 12:51Speaker 7: you painted a beautiful photo, painted a beautiful painting just
- 12:55Speaker 7: to invite guests to a gallery opening so you could
- 12:59Speaker 7: sure them champagne laced with drugs so you could rape
- 13:02Speaker 7: them all at the end of the night.
- 13:04Speaker 1: I think that's what.
- 13:05Speaker 7: Quincy Jones was referring to, not even knowing a bee
- 13:08Speaker 7: flat if it hit him in the face, you.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Had a mathony. Can I get us out of the
- 13:11Speaker 1: weeds and back in the middle of the road. What
- 13:13Speaker 1: does it mean when someone such in this case, such
- 13:18Speaker 1: as in this case is Sean Combs, is more worried
- 13:22Speaker 1: about his birthday grillties. He's sitting in the MDC, nobody
- 13:28Speaker 1: wants to be there, and he's angry he didn't get
- 13:32Speaker 1: his usual birthday I don't know Fantasia and he's upset
- 13:38Speaker 1: that Quincy Jones said he wouldn't be flat if it
- 13:41Speaker 1: bit him in the neck. What does this mean? And
- 13:43Speaker 1: could you please be concise because I'm trying to get
- 13:47Speaker 1: into his head. I'm trying to understand where he's going
- 13:50Speaker 1: to go at trial. People who are disturbed operate at
- 13:53Speaker 1: an infantile level. They are concerned about the things babies
- 13:57Speaker 1: are concerned with babies are concerned with being an eating
- 14:01Speaker 1: and being taken care of and coddled. And that's all
- 14:04Speaker 1: he cares about. That's his psychopathology. He's primitive and infantile.
- 14:08Speaker 8: Sean Diddy Combs has now been sued with claims of
- 14:11Speaker 8: molestation and sexual assault, whopping twenty seven times with more
- 14:16Speaker 8: on the horizon. Houston lawyer Tony Busby has filed seven
- 14:19Speaker 8: new lawsuits on top of the six already filed last week.
- 14:23Speaker 8: Two of the latest anonymous plaintiffs are miners, and several
- 14:26Speaker 8: unnamed celebrities are mentioned in the accusations. The cases have
- 14:30Speaker 8: all been assigned to different judges, with at least two
- 14:33Speaker 8: asking the filers to justify their anonymity.
- 14:38Speaker 4: A birthday, I'm happy, thank you very much.
- 14:42Speaker 9: I love you.
- 14:43Speaker 5: I love you in a couple of days.
- 14:49Speaker 10: I know Daddy by right here he on the Florence
- 15:00Speaker 10: here Pops love you. You know you can't, so you're
- 15:03Speaker 10: not gonna have none love.
- 15:16Speaker 1: That is from Prince j d C on Instagram. You
- 15:20Speaker 1: know to doctor Bethany Marshall. That video to me is heartbreaking,
- 15:28Speaker 1: not for Combs because he did this to himself at
- 15:32Speaker 1: the expense of many, many alleged victims that were raped.
- 15:38Speaker 1: But it's sad to me because of his children. I
- 15:42Speaker 1: mean how many. Just the other day I did the
- 15:44Speaker 1: birthday videos of the twins for their birthday. Okay, long
- 15:47Speaker 1: and extensive birthday videos which I have already started looking
- 15:51Speaker 1: back at happily. And their father is behind bars, and
- 15:56Speaker 1: it hurts me for them to be going through this.
- 16:00Speaker 1: And of course there's no way he's ever going to
- 16:03Speaker 1: admit to any of this. I mean, think about Scott
- 16:05Speaker 1: Paterson to this day. He is dug in. He's never
- 16:10Speaker 1: going to admit no matter what, and he's dragging everybody
- 16:13Speaker 1: along with him, including his family. Same thing with Combs Nancy.
- 16:17Speaker 7: Whatever Colm's attachment style is with his victims, wanting to
- 16:21Speaker 7: have power over them, to exploit them, his attachment style
- 16:25Speaker 7: will be the same with his children. It'll just take
- 16:27Speaker 7: a different form, maybe interpersonally offending with them by getting
- 16:31Speaker 7: them to listen to his stories, by manipulating them into
- 16:34Speaker 7: thinking things that are not true. So these poor children,
- 16:37Speaker 7: not only are they living a life without their father,
- 16:40Speaker 7: but they're going to spend their entire adult lives dismantling
- 16:45Speaker 7: the mythology that their dad is great and loving and kind, and.
- 16:50Speaker 1: I don't know that they ever will, Bethany, I don't
- 16:52Speaker 1: know that they ever will. Because who wants to hear
- 16:57Speaker 1: something right about their parents? Nobody, most people, And they
- 17:01Speaker 1: attacked the tables them. I don't think they're going to
- 17:03Speaker 1: dismantle anything.
- 17:04Speaker 7: Well, maybe some will and some won't.
- 17:06Speaker 1: We'll see what their resiliency is.
- 17:07Speaker 7: I think what you're suggesting, Nancy is they'll stay in
- 17:10Speaker 7: a state of idealization and denial about their father, which
- 17:13Speaker 7: many adult children do. But look, there's sometimes we have
- 17:17Speaker 7: adult children who turn their parents in for crimes. They
- 17:20Speaker 7: can see, they can see the parent, who who the
- 17:22Speaker 7: parent is. So this is something that we will.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Learn going forward to Crime online dot Com investigative reporter
- 17:28Speaker 1: Sidney Sumner, what were the ages of the youngest alleged victims,
- 17:34Speaker 1: because many of them are younger than Didi's own children.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Let's just think about.
- 17:38Speaker 4: That for a moment, Nancy.
- 17:40Speaker 11: The latest filing from a minor at the time who
- 17:44Speaker 11: claims they were attacked as a minor with a ten
- 17:47Speaker 11: year old boy auditioning for combs. They also have a
- 17:51Speaker 11: thirteen year old and Tony Busby has said that a
- 17:54Speaker 11: nine year old victim plans to file. So lots of
- 17:58Speaker 11: young children here, sixteen, nineteen years old in Combes's youngest child,
- 18:04Speaker 11: Love is just about two years old now, and his
- 18:08Speaker 11: twins are seventeen themselves.
- 18:10Speaker 1: To Chris mcdunn and joining me, director of the Cole
- 18:12Speaker 1: Case Foundation and for my purposes, former homicide detective and
- 18:17Speaker 1: vice detective. He is a host of a blockbuster YouTube channel,
- 18:22Speaker 1: The Interview Room. Chris, I'm speaking of the alleged younger victims, juveniles,
- 18:30Speaker 1: alleged victims. This has not been proven in court yet.
- 18:32Speaker 1: There are many of them, and they all have a
- 18:34Speaker 1: startlingly similar story that they wanted to audition to get
- 18:40Speaker 1: into the music industry through Comb's and the audition would
- 18:45Speaker 1: often include him forcing or asking for oral sex from
- 18:51Speaker 1: a minor. My question to you is we see the
- 18:55Speaker 1: same modus operandi, method of operation alleged over and over
- 18:59Speaker 1: and over. I mean, can you teach an old dog
- 19:03Speaker 1: a new trick? Apparently not?
- 19:05Speaker 3: You're one hundred.
- 19:05Speaker 12: Percent right, Nancy, And that pee in his name may
- 19:09Speaker 12: have a whole different meaning. Now, the fact that he
- 19:13Speaker 12: is living this secret life, you know, behind the scenes
- 19:18Speaker 12: and projecting this public persona I e.
- 19:20Speaker 9: On that phone call. It just goes back to doctor
- 19:23Speaker 9: Bethany's thought process and relationship to you know, total power
- 19:27Speaker 9: and control, and the fact that he's choosing children. Okay,
- 19:33Speaker 9: that just puts him at a whole different level because
- 19:36Speaker 9: now as he projects, you know, hey, so I beat
- 19:40Speaker 9: somebody up in the past, I'm sorry for that, He's
- 19:43Speaker 9: going to have no feeling in relationship to these children
- 19:46Speaker 9: at all. He's past feeling there.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, so Jirov Sater to a
- 20:00Speaker 1: Not Even Nice Podcast, former publicist to Sean Combs and
- 20:05Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez Rob I'm hearing what Chris mc dunnet is saying,
- 20:09Speaker 1: and we're talking about the MOO method of operation, where
- 20:13Speaker 1: you basically think you can get away with anything, you
- 20:17Speaker 1: can demand anything, and you can get it. What was
- 20:21Speaker 1: it like? Was that true when you worked for him?
- 20:25Speaker 4: When I started working with Diddy about twenty years ago,
- 20:27Speaker 4: he was still flexed in his muscles. He was early
- 20:29Speaker 4: on in his career. He wanted to become a big
- 20:32Speaker 4: mobile so he was still still trying to figure it
- 20:35Speaker 4: all out. Was he arrogant, was he rude? Was he
- 20:38Speaker 4: aggressive yet? Or he had yet to figure out just
- 20:42Speaker 4: how powerful he was or he was going to be.
- 20:44Speaker 4: But I think about the children, if I can just
- 20:46Speaker 4: jump in for a second here. What alarms me about
- 20:48Speaker 4: that video with the kids is that should have been
- 20:51Speaker 4: a private celebration conversation with his family. The fact that
- 20:55Speaker 4: they videoed that and put it on social media telled
- 20:58Speaker 4: me that Puffy's to use these kids in his defense.
- 21:02Speaker 4: He's now fighting two battles, a legal battle and the
- 21:05Speaker 4: battle of public opinion, which really matters to him. And
- 21:08Speaker 4: in the second battle, he will use his kids or
- 21:11Speaker 4: whoever to try and present himself as a caring father.
- 21:15Speaker 4: Not true.
- 21:17Speaker 3: The world of Diddy Freakovs has physical requirements for all
- 21:20Speaker 3: women taking part, and the list is now public. You
- 21:23Speaker 3: cannot be over one hundred and forty pounds other no
- 21:25Speaker 3: nos on the list. No flab, no celluli, nobody who's
- 21:28Speaker 3: overly pierced, are two tatted up, no short hair, no pants,
- 21:31Speaker 3: no genes. You have to be young and hot and
- 21:33Speaker 3: showing cleavage. You must wear provocative, revealing clothing with stilettos,
- 21:37Speaker 3: nothing else. Every girl has to wear a party dress,
- 21:40Speaker 3: a short party dress, short enough to just cover the
- 21:43Speaker 3: butt cheeks. The Metropolitan Detention Center has been under increased
- 21:48Speaker 3: scrutiny since two inmates were fatally stabbed over the summer.
- 21:51Speaker 3: A recent interagency operation at the MDC turned up numerous
- 21:54Speaker 3: homemade weapons, electronic devices, and drugs hidden throughout the prison.
- 21:58Speaker 3: Investigators say the large scale sweet for contraband had nothing
- 22:01Speaker 3: to do with Shaun cums incarceration, but was pre planned
- 22:04Speaker 3: and coordinated to ensure the safety and security of staff
- 22:07Speaker 3: and inmates.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Right. It has nothing to do with Sean Combs being
- 22:11Speaker 1: an inmate there after his disastrous grilled cheese sandwich. I'm
- 22:15Speaker 1: sure he's complaining.
- 22:16Speaker 4: Now.
- 22:16Speaker 1: Now let me understand to you, Sidney Sumner or Crime
- 22:18Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter, tell me about the MDC
- 22:23Speaker 1: increased scrutiny because I understand more than one agency is
- 22:29Speaker 1: investigating MDC.
- 22:30Speaker 11: Why, Nancy. We believe this is due to the stabbings
- 22:34Speaker 11: in incredible violence that happened at the MDC. We know
- 22:39Speaker 11: that federal agents and the Bureau of Prisons started this
- 22:43Speaker 11: investigation and wanted to tape all of the contraband in
- 22:47Speaker 11: the prison out. They needed to eradicate this to really
- 22:51Speaker 11: help inmates and staff stay safe because the amount of
- 22:55Speaker 11: violence at the NBC is ridiculous.
- 22:57Speaker 1: Of hornt okay well, so far in the claims by
- 23:00Speaker 1: Combs that he has been attacked or mistreated in any
- 23:02Speaker 1: way other than the grilled cheese. So large scale sweep
- 23:06Speaker 1: for contraband, including electronic devices, homemade weapons I Eate a shank,
- 23:12Speaker 1: drugs and more. Now, who else has lived at MDC?
- 23:19Speaker 1: A lot of celebrities, so Diddy is not alone. Let's
- 23:23Speaker 1: say they're sixty nine. Oh, he doesn't look happy. Alison
- 23:26Speaker 1: mack r Kelly, whose case is very similar to Combs,
- 23:31Speaker 1: is Keith Rainier, Michael Cohen, Jelaine Maxwell, in Sam Bateman freed.
- 23:38Speaker 1: There are so many high profile celebrities. But to you,
- 23:43Speaker 1: doctor Dwayne Hendrick's former associate Warden at MDC, I didn't
- 23:47Speaker 1: hear any of them whining about their grilled cheese. And
- 23:51Speaker 1: I wait a minute, Jelaine Maxwell did whine about being
- 23:55Speaker 1: cold or something to that effect that said, I didn't
- 23:59Speaker 1: hear them whining they didn't get special treatment on their birthday.
- 24:02Speaker 5: No, And in terms of the sleep that went through
- 24:07Speaker 5: the interagency action that went through the institution last week,
- 24:12Speaker 5: it's not in common that these interagency actions are occurring
- 24:16Speaker 5: several months ago and in Florida, a large prison federal
- 24:19Speaker 5: prison complex also had a multi agency sweep which led
- 24:23Speaker 5: to with LEDs to charges to inmates and staff due
- 24:27Speaker 5: to a homicide and staff bringing and contraband. Now I
- 24:31Speaker 5: will say I don't believe the sweep last week had
- 24:34Speaker 5: anything to do with Diddy. However, with the increased scrutiny
- 24:38Speaker 5: on the institution in these.
- 24:42Speaker 1: Are you telling me you believe in coincidences that Diddy
- 24:46Speaker 1: whinds about his treatment and about MDC and then suddenly
- 24:50Speaker 1: there's a sweep.
- 24:51Speaker 7: No.
- 24:51Speaker 5: I think there was obviously several weapons, cell phones, and
- 24:54Speaker 5: different things of that nature. And I think the agency
- 24:57Speaker 5: has learned from other media issues in terms of, you know,
- 25:02Speaker 5: trying to keep things in house, so to speak, and
- 25:06Speaker 5: I think by bringing our law enforcement partners, it brings
- 25:10Speaker 5: transparency and it also helps create a safer environment. But
- 25:14Speaker 5: I do I will also admit having Sean Holmes there
- 25:17Speaker 5: and all eyes on the institution, especially with some of
- 25:20Speaker 5: the issues that they've had there over the last several years,
- 25:24Speaker 5: that made that next multi agency suite probably happening a
- 25:28Speaker 5: lot faster than it would have maybe a.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Few So now you're saying it is connected. Okay, you
- 25:35Speaker 1: cannot have your cage on a similar and eat it too.
- 25:39Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you a moment to think
- 25:41Speaker 1: about what you just said and then come up with
- 25:43Speaker 1: your decision to Shawn comes being there have anything to
- 25:45Speaker 1: do with a sweep across the entire MDC revealing what
- 25:50Speaker 1: a lot of weapons, cell phone devices, and much more drugs, shanks,
- 25:55Speaker 1: you name it, Josh Ritter, When you and behind bars guys,
- 26:01Speaker 1: Joshua ridd is a renown criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor,
- 26:05Speaker 1: and host of Courtroom Confidential on YouTube. You can find
- 26:09Speaker 1: them at Joshua Ridder dot com. I'm always amazed that
- 26:14Speaker 1: people lead a life of crime and when they end
- 26:18Speaker 1: up behind bars, they're like, what this is awful? Okay, yeah,
- 26:23Speaker 1: it's jail, But do they not understand that a life
- 26:27Speaker 1: of crime leads to incarceration.
- 26:30Speaker 13: Well, I think one thing that criminals don't do is
- 26:33Speaker 13: think about consequences. Most of their life has lived on
- 26:37Speaker 13: this idea that they're going to get away with it.
- 26:39Speaker 13: So yeah, there's a lot of rude awakenings when they
- 26:42Speaker 13: end up behind bars. It's an incredibly uncomfortable is not
- 26:47Speaker 13: even the right word for it. It's an incredibly horrible
- 26:50Speaker 13: place to be in. I mean, you're you're first of all,
- 26:53Speaker 13: you're lacking all kinds of comfort. But secondly, as we're
- 26:55Speaker 13: finding out, it's also incredibly stressful, a horrible place.
- 27:00Speaker 1: How do you think those women feel when they wake
- 27:02Speaker 1: up the next morning still greased up with baby oil
- 27:05Speaker 1: infused with g HB gama hydroxy butty eight, with their
- 27:09Speaker 1: rear ends and their vagina's herding. What about that? And
- 27:13Speaker 1: you're telling me Gella is a horrible place.
- 27:15Speaker 13: To be And yeah, no, you're absolutely right, And that's
- 27:20Speaker 13: why he's ever.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Wake up morning govern baby hurting ridder.
- 27:25Speaker 13: Not No, I cannot say that that I've experienced that.
- 27:28Speaker 4: But lucky you.
- 27:30Speaker 1: I guess you didn't go to a white party, you know,
- 27:33Speaker 1: Rob Sheeter, I agree with what Richard just said that
- 27:37Speaker 1: criminals do not think about consequences of what they are doing.
- 27:41Speaker 1: Rob Sheeter, could you just give me a peek into
- 27:45Speaker 1: the lifestyle that Sean Combs enjoyed before he ended up
- 27:49Speaker 1: in MDC.
- 27:50Speaker 4: He lived like a king, like an absolute king. Could
- 27:55Speaker 4: he afford the best of the best, from private plane
- 27:57Speaker 4: to the best restaurants to the best clothes. The most
- 28:00Speaker 4: important part of this that we don't talk about enough
- 28:03Speaker 4: is that it's the way people would treat him. Puppy
- 28:06Speaker 4: could get on the stone with pretty much anybody, and
- 28:09Speaker 4: a winter who runs Vogue magazine in fd lrder If
- 28:13Speaker 4: he wanted a fravrance whatever giddy place to call, it
- 28:16Speaker 4: was returned. He loved being a celebrity. He went out
- 28:19Speaker 4: all the time, the parties he played, and he literally
- 28:23Speaker 4: was the king of New York for quite a period
- 28:25Speaker 4: of time. It wasn't that sure.
- 28:26Speaker 1: The NDC Brooklyn amenities okay, indoor outdoor facilities for games
- 28:33Speaker 1: and sports, cable TV, movie nights on weekends, True linked
- 28:40Speaker 1: tablets for communication. I guess it's like an iPad and
- 28:44Speaker 1: a library. Wait a minute, in or outdoor facilities that
- 28:47Speaker 1: mean basketball and tennis, cable TV. I hope he's watching
- 28:51Speaker 1: right now. Movie nights on weekends. Nobody's giving me a
- 28:55Speaker 1: movie night? Does that come with partcorn and soda? True
- 28:58Speaker 1: linked tablets, I guess, says an iPad and a library.
- 29:03Speaker 1: Now to you, Rob Shooter, what would a day in
- 29:07Speaker 1: the life of Ditty be like before? In DC?
- 29:12Speaker 4: It would be extraordinary. He looked like a change. He
- 29:14Speaker 4: looked like a superstar. He would wake up, he'd have
- 29:17Speaker 4: people there to make his breakfast. They'd have people there
- 29:19Speaker 4: to dress him. It'd have clothes brought him and he
- 29:22Speaker 4: could select. He would then get in a show for Limos.
- 29:25Speaker 4: He's driven to his office where he'd spend a couple
- 29:27Speaker 4: of hours, and then he would go to the gym,
- 29:30Speaker 4: and then he'd meet friends for dinner. It was an
- 29:32Speaker 4: extraordinary life and people to jump. He could send people
- 29:37Speaker 4: and they would take those calls and.
- 29:39Speaker 3: Just crime stories with Nancy Grace ja Ja Rune Subramaniam
- 29:52Speaker 3: rejects a gag order proposal from the defense team for
- 29:54Speaker 3: Sean Ditty Combs did. He claims government officials are leaking
- 29:57Speaker 3: information about him to the media in an effort make
- 30:00Speaker 3: him look dangerous to prevent every from getting out on
- 30:02Speaker 3: bond before trial. After ejecting the proposal from Ditty, the
- 30:05Speaker 3: judge adopts a gag order similar to that requested by Combs.
- 30:09Speaker 3: The judges order insists federal agents, investigators, and Ditty's team
- 30:13Speaker 3: must follow the laws forbidding them from leaking grand jury
- 30:16Speaker 3: proceedings that can create problems for a fair trial.
- 30:19Speaker 1: Two. Joshua Ritter high profile lawyer. Isn't it true that
- 30:22Speaker 1: Combs is facing new grand jury testimony while prosecutors have
- 30:28Speaker 1: rejected a demand that he that they be forced to
- 30:34Speaker 1: reveal the accusers' identities, and that Comb's is insisting that
- 30:41Speaker 1: everyone potential witnesses be under a gag order. Is that
- 30:46Speaker 1: what they are arguing right now?
- 30:48Speaker 13: Yes, And the government's saying absolutely no. Dies, There's no
- 30:51Speaker 13: way they're going to be handing over this information about
- 30:54Speaker 13: the alleged victims impossible witnesses because they're trying to protect
- 30:58Speaker 13: these people. They know the kind of power this man.
- 31:00Speaker 1: Well, another thing is that this is another thing, Joshua,
- 31:06Speaker 1: is that such a gag order would be placed on
- 31:09Speaker 1: potential witnesses, including civil compliance that are suing for money. Well,
- 31:15Speaker 1: I do see one problem. A grand jury witness came
- 31:19Speaker 1: out and had a press conference. Listen.
- 31:21Speaker 6: Courtney Burgess, reportedly a friend of the late Kim Porter,
- 31:24Speaker 6: tells reporters outside the courthouse that he just testified in
- 31:27Speaker 6: front of the Diddy grand jury as a witness. Burgess
- 31:30Speaker 6: claims that Porter gave him eleven flash drives for safekeeping
- 31:33Speaker 6: shortly before her death. Burgess says the drive store at
- 31:36Speaker 6: least eight sex tapes picturing Colmns with different a list
- 31:39Speaker 6: celebrities who Burgess describes as victims, two or three of
- 31:43Speaker 6: whom appear to be minors. Burgess claims he no longer
- 31:45Speaker 6: has possession of the tapes.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Why did a grand jury witness come out and hold
- 31:50Speaker 1: a presser claiming that he has videos of celebrities at
- 31:54Speaker 1: the party. Why would he do that? What is his
- 31:58Speaker 1: motivation for implicating celebrities?
- 32:00Speaker 14: Well after that presser this happened two days after Courtney
- 32:04Speaker 14: Burgess publicly discusses his testimony, Shawn Combs's legal team submits
- 32:07Speaker 14: a letter to Judge Subramanian demanding with renewed urgency that
- 32:11Speaker 14: he established a gag order. The defense attorneys specifically cite
- 32:14Speaker 14: Courtney Burgess' eagerness to speak with the media and a
- 32:18Speaker 14: New York Post article using a federal agent as a
- 32:20Speaker 14: source as improper pre trial publicity that is making it
- 32:25Speaker 14: impossible for comes to have a fair trial.
- 32:28Speaker 1: If that's true, that a federal agent or a federal employee,
- 32:31Speaker 1: it could be the person making xerox copies for all
- 32:33Speaker 1: I know that works in the courthouse. The state's got
- 32:36Speaker 1: to ferret out who is making links if anyone. But
- 32:39Speaker 1: the Feds are fighting back. Listen.
- 32:42Speaker 6: Federal prosecutors are fighting Comb's requests to identify his accusers,
- 32:45Speaker 6: calling the defense's petition an attempt to hijack the criminal
- 32:49Speaker 6: case to fight civil claims against him. Prosecutors cite serious
- 32:53Speaker 6: and ongoing concerns for victims and witnesses safety as reason
- 32:57Speaker 6: enough to deny Comb's demand, But the Feds also that
- 33:00Speaker 6: asking the judge to force an early disclosure of evidence
- 33:03Speaker 6: is a thinly veiled attempt to restrict the government's proof
- 33:06Speaker 6: at an early stage of the case.
- 33:08Speaker 1: In the middle of all of this, a celeb weighs
- 33:13Speaker 1: in slamming, of all people, Jennifer Lopez. Okay to you,
- 33:19Speaker 1: Rob Shooter. Look, I don't have an opinion one way
- 33:22Speaker 1: or the other. On Elon Musk, he must be brilliant
- 33:25Speaker 1: to be launching rockets. Well, some of them work. But
- 33:28Speaker 1: that said, the guy's got to be a braining act.
- 33:31Speaker 1: But why is he waiting into the show?
- 33:35Speaker 14: On Combs Controversy, listen, Elon Musk is slamming Jennifer Lopez
- 33:39Speaker 14: for her failure to warn anyone about Ditty's disgusting behavior.
- 33:43Speaker 14: Musk comments that someone had to know that Combs was
- 33:46Speaker 14: abusing women and children, but the music industry continued to
- 33:50Speaker 14: feed him victims. Lopez has always remained very tight lipped
- 33:54Speaker 14: about their relationship, but did reveal Combs often referred to
- 33:57Speaker 14: their relationship as a marriage and frequently threatened her with divorce.
- 34:02Speaker 1: Rob Shooter, you repped j Loo and Sean Combs. What
- 34:07Speaker 1: was the nature of their relationship? All I know was
- 34:10Speaker 1: after that nightclub shooting, she broke.
- 34:13Speaker 4: Up with him, right, That's right. Jennison would credit Sean
- 34:17Speaker 4: with creating a lot of her career. She changed the
- 34:19Speaker 4: name to j Loo because of his recommendation. He's the
- 34:22Speaker 4: one that encouraged her to get into the music this
- 34:25Speaker 4: to release albums. He stead her up with several different
- 34:28Speaker 4: producers so early on in her career. He was quite
- 34:30Speaker 4: helpful for her. However, after that shooting incident in the
- 34:35Speaker 4: nightclub where she was presented at the time, that was
- 34:37Speaker 4: the end of their relationship. Rantically, they did stay friend,
- 34:41Speaker 4: don't talk to one another.
- 34:43Speaker 1: It is praise please stop stop stop, Rob Shooter. They
- 34:48Speaker 1: stayed friends. Uh uh she all you can see j
- 34:52Speaker 1: Lo was elbows and tailhole. She ran the other way.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Of course, She's saying, oh, we're still friends. Who wants
- 34:59Speaker 1: to store up before was Sean comes? For Pete's sake?
- 35:01Speaker 1: Why are you saying they stayed at friends? That's stuff
- 35:04Speaker 1: when you break up with a bad boyfriend. Oh yeah,
- 35:06Speaker 1: we're still friends. No you're not. Why are you saying that?
- 35:09Speaker 4: Good question. She did maintain publicly that her and puppy
- 35:13Speaker 4: was still friends. Now, I represented both of them, and
- 35:15Speaker 4: I can tell you when I worked for them, they
- 35:17Speaker 4: were not together romantically, and both accounts were very separate.
- 35:21Speaker 4: She never ever asked me about him. He always asked
- 35:24Speaker 4: me about her.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Hmm. Interesting, So he was thinking about her a lot
- 35:28Speaker 1: more than she was thinking about him. Doctor Bethony Marshall again,
- 35:32Speaker 1: I would not know Musk if he bit me in then, Nick,
- 35:35Speaker 1: but you've got to agree he's a brainiac, Okay. Why
- 35:38Speaker 1: he would inject himself in the middle of all this
- 35:41Speaker 1: much less attack?
- 35:42Speaker 2: J Lo.
- 35:43Speaker 1: So what if she did disagree with his behavior? Why
- 35:48Speaker 1: do you think she turned hail? I'm wondering with Elon Musk.
- 35:51Speaker 7: If you have one power hungry man taking advantage of
- 35:55Speaker 7: another person's waning power. Now Elon Musk is going to
- 35:58Speaker 7: be at the head of the heap right, And I'm
- 36:00Speaker 7: sure j Lo had to say that she was friends
- 36:03Speaker 7: with P Diddy because he was probably stalking her like
- 36:07Speaker 7: he stalked all of his victims. And when a woman
- 36:10Speaker 7: is being stalked, the last thing she's going to do
- 36:13Speaker 7: is say anything negative about the stalker. She's going to
- 36:16Speaker 7: smooth it over as much as she can.
- 36:19Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't like seeing Jennifer Lopez attacked
- 36:24Speaker 1: because of not taking a public stand against her benefactor
- 36:30Speaker 1: and mentor that helped her in her career, that said
- 36:36Speaker 1: final word to you.
- 36:37Speaker 7: Bethany, Well, she probably had a lot to lose by
- 36:39Speaker 7: taking a stand because he probably had power over her,
- 36:42Speaker 7: like he had power over every other victim in his life.
- 36:44Speaker 3: A form playboy model claims Diddy invited her and two
- 36:47Speaker 3: friends to a Tokyo party that she now believes was
- 36:49Speaker 3: a freak off. Rachel Kennedy says she met Combs at
- 36:52Speaker 3: a Tokyo club where she worked, and he returned the
- 36:55Speaker 3: next night to invite her to a party. When Kennedy
- 36:57Speaker 3: and two friends arrived to come hotel room, was alone
- 37:00Speaker 3: in a bathroom with a bottle of champagne. Kennedy says,
- 37:03Speaker 3: Combs had a j Lo music video playing in a
- 37:06Speaker 3: loop on the TV while he talked on the phone
- 37:08Speaker 3: with his then girlfriend.
- 37:09Speaker 1: Chris mcdunna joining me, former homicide and vice cop. Again,
- 37:14Speaker 1: the arrogance of inviting somebody over and then you pop
- 37:17Speaker 1: out in nothing but a bathroom and a bottle of champagne.
- 37:20Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, you can't make this stuff up. But
- 37:22Speaker 9: let's remember he is a very dangerous individual in terms
- 37:27Speaker 9: of as a hunter. His whole persona is is to
- 37:33Speaker 9: lure that victim men. And this is an obvious situation
- 37:38Speaker 9: here where he gives these two women to come to
- 37:41Speaker 9: his apartment or his hotel room, whatever it was. There,
- 37:45Speaker 9: He's already prepared, and that's what a hunter does. He's
- 37:49Speaker 9: already staked out, you know, the where he's going to
- 37:51Speaker 9: do the hunting. He's already got it figured out, you know,
- 37:54Speaker 9: if he's gonna you know, how he's going to execute,
- 37:58Speaker 9: you know, the the event that evening. He is a
- 38:02Speaker 9: very dangerous individual.
- 38:04Speaker 1: The grand jury is meeting now are they hearing these
- 38:09Speaker 1: other alleged victims? And remember, Sean Comes is innocent until
- 38:14Speaker 1: proven guilty in a court of law. All of this
- 38:16Speaker 1: is just allegations that said the longtime manager of superstar
- 38:22Speaker 1: John Legend has now been added to the alleged victim
- 38:26Speaker 1: list listen.
- 38:26Speaker 3: John Legend's longtime manager, tys To Gloria has wrote about
- 38:29Speaker 3: her terrifying experience at a ditty party. In an op
- 38:32Speaker 3: ed for The New York Times. Sir Cloria says she
- 38:34Speaker 3: was a recent college graduate when she snuck into a
- 38:36Speaker 3: Saint Bart's got party with her brother Stacloria's belief she
- 38:40Speaker 3: was following a man to a disco room, but wound
- 38:42Speaker 3: up locked in a bedroom with him alone. Sir Cloria's
- 38:44Speaker 3: managed to convince the man her brother would be looking for,
- 38:47Speaker 3: but to this day she wonders how much worse that
- 38:49Speaker 3: situation could have been.
- 38:51Speaker 1: As the grand jury continues to meet and what I
- 38:55Speaker 1: believe gathering testimony for a superseding felony indictment against Shawn Combs,
- 39:02Speaker 1: he is concerned about his grilled cheese birthday sandwich. Let's
- 39:08Speaker 1: stop and remember an American hero. Police officer Cody James
- 39:12Speaker 1: Brotherson West Valley CITYPD, Utah struck and killed in the
- 39:17Speaker 1: line of duty just twenty five, survived by grieving fiancee
- 39:22Speaker 1: Jessica and their fur baby, Bolo, American hero police officer
- 39:28Speaker 1: Cody James brotherson Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,