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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace, the federal government versus Sean
- 0:10Speaker 1: Come joining us now investigative reporter Lauren Colin, star of
- 0:15Speaker 1: Pop Crime TV.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Lauren, thank you for being with us. A lot happening
- 0:19Speaker 2: in the courtroom.
- 0:20Speaker 1: First of all, direct examination of a special agent, Girard Gannon.
- 0:25Speaker 2: What happened?
- 0:25Speaker 3: We finished the direct examination of special Agent Girard Gannon.
- 0:30Speaker 3: He's with the HSI and he finished showing us all
- 0:33Speaker 3: of the evidence that was collected during the Miami raid
- 0:37Speaker 3: of Seawan Colins's house. And this is his house on
- 0:40Speaker 3: Two Star Island, and what they seized from the house.
- 0:43Speaker 3: They seized two defaced AR fifteens, and these AR fifteens.
- 0:48Speaker 4: They were separated.
- 0:49Speaker 3: We saw the the lower barrels and the upper barrels.
- 0:53Speaker 3: The upper barrels were actually they were wrapped in a
- 0:55Speaker 3: towel and the lower barrels were in a separate spot.
- 0:59Speaker 3: And the magazines were not with the lower barrels. However,
- 1:04Speaker 3: the lower magazines were loaded, both of them.
- 1:07Speaker 1: You know, a lot is being made of the number
- 1:10Speaker 1: of agents at the raid, and I find that very
- 1:14Speaker 1: very disturbing. Sidney Sumner also joining US Crime Story's investigative
- 1:19Speaker 1: reporter Sydney. I understand there were dozens of federal agents at.
- 1:26Speaker 2: The raid, so what what's the issue?
- 1:29Speaker 5: Agents went in feeling like they were going to be
- 1:32Speaker 5: confronted by armed guards. That's what they thought they were
- 1:36Speaker 5: walking into when they came into this house. They specifically
- 1:40Speaker 5: waited for Combs and his family to leave before they
- 1:43Speaker 5: entered to avoid any more confrontation. They only found six
- 1:48Speaker 5: people at the home, a music producer who has not
- 1:51Speaker 5: been named, a property manager, and a few other staff members.
- 1:55Speaker 5: But they put all of those people in handcuffs to
- 1:58Speaker 5: go into the home, and there were ninety agents total
- 2:02Speaker 5: just about and they had people sitting out at the
- 2:06Speaker 5: water to make sure nobody tried to flee into the
- 2:08Speaker 5: canal right behind his home. They had to come into
- 2:11Speaker 5: this in full force, and they were right. They found
- 2:15Speaker 5: a r's with several modifications scratched off serial numbers. They
- 2:20Speaker 5: knew they were possibly coming into a firefight and prepared
- 2:23Speaker 5: for it.
- 2:24Speaker 1: The Feds even have the backside that is on the
- 2:28Speaker 1: water completely surrounded. You know what, Sidney Summer, You and
- 2:32Speaker 1: I've covered a lot of cases together when we've gone
- 2:34Speaker 1: on location and investigated a lot of cases. You know
- 2:37Speaker 1: what a gun it makes a big man little and
- 2:41Speaker 1: a little man big.
- 2:42Speaker 2: You know, let's tell it like it is.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Chris mcgunn adjoining me former homicide to detective, a star
- 2:48Speaker 1: of the Interview Room now on YouTube.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Chris mcdonnaugh. You get an ar going, you get an
- 2:55Speaker 2: M sixteen going.
- 2:56Speaker 1: How many FEDS could they shoot down up thirty seconds?
- 3:01Speaker 2: Tell it?
- 3:02Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot. And that's why these operations. You know,
- 3:06Speaker 6: you start out with an OP plan and you discover
- 3:10Speaker 6: those vulnerabilities in relationship to officer safety. You know, where
- 3:14Speaker 6: do officers need to be placed and are they safe
- 3:17Speaker 6: in those positions based on the potential threats that you
- 3:21Speaker 6: could be facing.
- 3:21Speaker 1: They would be mowed down like an old gangster movie
- 3:26Speaker 1: where machine guns are used.
- 3:28Speaker 2: And you know, you got to hand it to the fans. McDonough.
- 3:31Speaker 1: They even had the backside covered that bordered on the
- 3:33Speaker 1: water because I could absolutely see some of dde's cohorts
- 3:37Speaker 1: trying to make a getaway by water.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:40Speaker 6: Absolutely, And Nancy, I actually had a case where five
- 3:43Speaker 6: guys were mowed down within ten seconds from an automatic weapon.
- 3:47Speaker 2: It was an SKS Sidney Sunder.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Did I hear you say that the serial numbers were
- 3:53Speaker 1: scratched off some of the weapons.
- 3:55Speaker 5: Yes, both of those assault rifles, Nancy. The AR fifteens
- 4:00Speaker 5: serial numbers were scratched through, so it's unclear exactly how
- 4:04Speaker 5: they were obtained. If Colme's bot them with the seal name.
- 4:09Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't care.
- 4:11Speaker 1: If the angel Gabriel came down from heaven and dropped
- 4:14Speaker 1: them in Diddy's lap. That is a serious, serious offense. McDonough,
- 4:21Speaker 1: jump in, this is critical. You know why serial numbers
- 4:25Speaker 1: are scraped off of weapons?
- 4:27Speaker 6: Absolutely, Nancy, And this tells us maybe there's a wider
- 4:31Speaker 6: net here. Right. What the FEDS are going to do
- 4:34Speaker 6: is throw it into the system called NIVEN, which is
- 4:37Speaker 6: the National Ballistic Information Network, and they're going to see
- 4:41Speaker 6: if these weapons are tied into any other crimes.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Do you think a bad guy is going to go
- 4:48Speaker 1: to the gun and knife show down at the mall
- 4:52Speaker 1: and buy a gun?
- 4:54Speaker 2: Hgl n Oh.
- 4:56Speaker 1: They get weapons like ars, basically machine guns on the
- 5:02Speaker 1: black market. Why is a serial number scraped off? Because
- 5:06Speaker 1: that gun could be connected to another serious crime? I
- 5:12Speaker 1: want to see McDonough. McDonough, you need to get real
- 5:15Speaker 1: on this. You think they've ever found the gun that
- 5:18Speaker 1: killed Tupac Shakur, or guns that are related to many
- 5:22Speaker 1: many other agg assault shootings and murders.
- 5:25Speaker 2: No, they've never been recovered. And if they were recovered, unless.
- 5:29Speaker 1: You do a ballistics test, you don't know if it's
- 5:31Speaker 1: the murder weapon or the assault weapon. Why because criminals
- 5:35Speaker 1: scrape off the serial number.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Crime stories with Nancy Greece.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Straight back to Lauren Colin other In addition to all
- 5:55Speaker 1: the weapons, I mean a lot of weapons, what can
- 5:59Speaker 1: you tell tell me about women's shoes with seven inch
- 6:05Speaker 1: platform heels.
- 6:07Speaker 3: And it was pretty wild to see a special agent
- 6:10Speaker 3: hold up seven inch heels in court that just happened
- 6:13Speaker 3: to be pat and leather and red. We saw Balenciaga
- 6:17Speaker 3: boots that had three different cell phones in them, and
- 6:20Speaker 3: then we saw a fourth cell phone in a separate room.
- 6:23Speaker 4: We saw a.
- 6:24Speaker 3: Gucci bag that was filled with a rolled up one
- 6:27Speaker 3: hundred dollars bill. Different types of pills, yellow, orange, pink,
- 6:33Speaker 3: different powders. We saw eye drops and later these drugs
- 6:37Speaker 3: were tested and they were confirmed to be hook ketamine,
- 6:42Speaker 3: an MDMA actually in an eye dropper, and there were
- 6:45Speaker 3: actually three orange tablets they found with Tesla symbols on them,
- 6:50Speaker 3: and oh, we also saw xanax drugs were tested for xanax.
- 6:54Speaker 3: There also was a wooden box in the bathroom they
- 6:57Speaker 3: found and on top of that wooden bar was a
- 7:00Speaker 3: gold inscription that said Puffy. There were mushroom pilled in that,
- 7:04Speaker 3: and then a bag of crystal rocks that turns out
- 7:07Speaker 3: was MDMA no Sidney Sumner.
- 7:09Speaker 1: That reminds me of one of the first times we
- 7:12Speaker 1: heard about a male escort. We heard that one male
- 7:16Speaker 1: sex worker showed up, knocks at the door.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Cassie comes to the door wearing.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Scantily clad laingerie and these heels. I guarantee you it's
- 7:29Speaker 1: not ditty walking around in eight inch platform heels. He
- 7:33Speaker 1: has the women dress up in various outfits and we
- 7:37Speaker 1: see all those heels at his Miami mansion.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Sydney, and we heard.
- 7:40Speaker 5: A similar story from both of the male escorts that
- 7:43Speaker 5: have testified that they believed they were coming for some
- 7:46Speaker 5: kind of bachelorette party. And then this woman opens the door.
- 7:50Speaker 5: She's buying herself except for her purported husband in the
- 7:55Speaker 5: corner of the room, and she's disguised. She's wearing some
- 7:58Speaker 5: kind of lingerete a matching wig, some kind of heels,
- 8:03Speaker 5: and it just doesn't it doesn't make sense the defensive
- 8:07Speaker 5: theory that they're saying that this is all just private
- 8:12Speaker 5: sex matter for Sean Diddy Coulmbs, there is no reason
- 8:16Speaker 5: to own half of the Spencer store. Just keep that
- 8:20Speaker 5: in your home. If that's purely for personal use, where
- 8:23Speaker 5: there's not more than one person involved, you're not having
- 8:28Speaker 5: opious amounts of freak off parties. It just it doesn't crack.
- 8:33Speaker 1: We've heard about a Louis Vuitton bag, a huge Louis
- 8:39Speaker 1: stuffed full of horse trunk, uh, ecstasy, cocaine, pink cocaine,
- 8:48Speaker 1: plan be, birth control appeals, and of course high powered viagra.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Diddy needs his viagra. Okay, I'm gonna have to go
- 8:58Speaker 1: to our shrink. The moment about mushroom peels, crystal rocks
- 9:03Speaker 1: that are MD and A and what effect that has
- 9:07Speaker 1: you know, I'll ask him right now.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Joining me.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Scott Johnson, Forensic Psychologists, thirty three years addressing sex Predators
- 9:16Speaker 1: Forensic Consultation dot org. It's where you can find him,
- 9:19Speaker 1: author of Physical Abusers and Sex Offenders. When I Love
- 9:24Speaker 1: You Turns Violent? That's another book. Scott Johnson, thank you
- 9:27Speaker 1: for being with us.
- 9:28Speaker 2: What is MD in a and what effect does it
- 9:32Speaker 2: have on a person?
- 9:33Speaker 7: All right, So you have the ecstasy basically by the
- 9:36Speaker 7: street name, and you have people that become delusional. It's
- 9:40Speaker 7: difficult to say no. At higher levels. It may cause
- 9:45Speaker 7: a euphoric statement where people are kind of out of
- 9:47Speaker 7: touch with reality, sort of delusional. But it's very difficult
- 9:53Speaker 7: to say no or to resist when you're under the
- 9:56Speaker 7: influence of these medications.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Ecstasy moll a stimulant with psychedelic properties.
- 10:02Speaker 2: That's what it is.
- 10:03Speaker 1: And if you drop it in one of these ladies' drinks,
- 10:05Speaker 1: there's no telling what a thing it is.
- 10:07Speaker 2: Going to have on her.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Lauren Colin very quickly, Laura, I want to ask you
- 10:12Speaker 1: about what happened when we got to Diddy's bathroom of
- 10:17Speaker 1: his mansion that was raided.
- 10:19Speaker 2: The bathrooms.
- 10:20Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we got to a bathroom where we
- 10:22Speaker 3: saw two containers and in one container there was twenty
- 10:26Speaker 3: five bottles of baby oil and thirty one bottles of astroglide.
- 10:30Speaker 3: And I actually spotted two rubber duckies, a little bit confusing,
- 10:34Speaker 3: and when they asked a special agent, were there more
- 10:38Speaker 3: baby oil?
- 10:38Speaker 4: That you found.
- 10:39Speaker 3: He said, yes, and there was because we saw a
- 10:42Speaker 3: mini crate of baby oil during his direct testimony the
- 10:45Speaker 3: day before. Now, right around when he was testifying, Diddy's sons,
- 10:49Speaker 3: Justin and Christian walked in and did he turned around.
- 10:52Speaker 4: He didn't smile, but he nodded his head at them.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Is he guilty of all the counts or any of
- 10:58Speaker 1: the counts in this federal indictment?
- 11:00Speaker 2: So far, according to my legal.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Analysis, the charges of sex trafficking have been shown by
- 11:08Speaker 1: not only Cassi Ventura, but another female witness as well.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Transportation of male sex workers across state lines to engage
- 11:16Speaker 1: in prostitution. Yes, now, racketeering is going to have to
- 11:20Speaker 1: be explained to the jury. Racketeering just think about Tony Soprano.
- 11:25Speaker 1: It is a loose confederation of people that engage altogether
- 11:31Speaker 1: to achieve a criminal act. In this criminal conspiracy, the
- 11:35Speaker 1: act would be sex trafficking, bringing people in from various
- 11:40Speaker 1: states to perform prostitution and to force women to engage
- 11:45Speaker 1: in free co offs against their wills. Bam easy. My
- 11:50Speaker 1: question is what woman in her right mind would consent
- 11:56Speaker 1: to have sex with not just a male escort, a
- 12:01Speaker 1: lot of people do that, but a convicted killer slash
- 12:06Speaker 1: male escort listen.
- 12:08Speaker 8: At least two of the male escorts Cassie identified it
- 12:11Speaker 8: worked on the Showtime reality series Jiggilows. One is also
- 12:15Speaker 8: a convicted murderer Okshaya Kubiak who uses the name ash
- 12:20Speaker 8: armand beat her lean Doulai to death. Kubiak claimed he
- 12:24Speaker 8: blacked out after taking mushrooms with Duly, one of Kubiak's clients,
- 12:28Speaker 8: and when he woke up the next morning, she was
- 12:31Speaker 8: brutally beaten to death.
- 12:32Speaker 5: I'm gonna found it in pain. Could have live in pain.
- 12:35Speaker 2: We took mustoms together last night.
- 12:37Speaker 5: They were to struggle subli concerts or breeding. We have
- 12:42Speaker 5: the male.
- 12:43Speaker 6: Detain right now.
- 12:44Speaker 9: Offsters and medical personnel arrived on scene and that female
- 12:47Speaker 9: was pronounced deceased.
- 12:48Speaker 2: This was one of the worst beatings of a person
- 12:51Speaker 2: of a human that I've seen.
- 12:52Speaker 10: The whole situation is what horror movies are made of.
- 12:56Speaker 1: On the mornings a murder, they didn't call nine one
- 12:59Speaker 1: one first, they actually called another jiggleaf that from Paramounts,
- 13:04Speaker 1: Sin City Jigglow. They find the dead body and they
- 13:10Speaker 1: don't call nine one one. They actually call another Jigglow. Okay,
- 13:15Speaker 1: you know to Rachel Fisher joining us a special guest
- 13:19Speaker 1: joining us. Rachel is an anti trafficking expert featured in
- 13:23Speaker 1: the twenty two documentary Surviving Sex Trafficking. She is a
- 13:27Speaker 1: forensic nurse, a sex assault nurse examiner, an expert witness,
- 13:32Speaker 1: and she is at Legal r inc consult dot org. Rachel,
- 13:36Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. It's one thing to
- 13:39Speaker 1: talk about Diddy dressed up in a Muslim female burka
- 13:45Speaker 1: from the neck up. It's another thing to talk about
- 13:48Speaker 1: this male escorts. Moniker is the punisher, but it's another
- 13:54Speaker 1: thing to force a woman a that would be Cassie Ventura,
- 13:59Speaker 1: and to set with not just a Jigleo, but a
- 14:01Speaker 1: convicted killer Jigglow.
- 14:04Speaker 11: That's the danger of forcing somebody to be involved in
- 14:08Speaker 11: a commercial sex act. Whether you're the recipient or you're
- 14:11Speaker 11: the one performing it and getting paid for it, that's
- 14:14Speaker 11: still a commercial sex act that she was being coerce
- 14:17Speaker 11: and forced into. And you never know who's on the
- 14:19Speaker 11: other end of the call when you click that ad
- 14:21Speaker 11: online to order an escort, because you can get one
- 14:23Speaker 11: faster than you can get a pizza in most places,
- 14:26Speaker 11: and whoever shows up, you don't know their background. It's
- 14:28Speaker 11: a very dangerous career to be in the sex industry,
- 14:32Speaker 11: and many of the people that are there are not
- 14:34Speaker 11: there willingly, and some are, but you never know what
- 14:38Speaker 11: their story is on the other side and what they're
- 14:40Speaker 11: going to come with. That's why we have so many
- 14:42Speaker 11: that are murdered when they're in the sex industry. Or
- 14:44Speaker 11: you get an in call where an escort comes to
- 14:46Speaker 11: you and you get murdered or robbed, and it's a
- 14:49Speaker 11: very dangerous thing that you're forcing somebody to be a
- 14:52Speaker 11: part of. There are multiple people involved, and so all
- 14:55Speaker 11: of those people become part of that scheme.
- 14:57Speaker 1: I wonder what ed bd didy he is feeling and
- 15:01Speaker 1: thinking right now in a courtroom as a Homeland Security
- 15:05Speaker 1: special agent describes everything that was found in his mansion
- 15:11Speaker 1: that was rated, crates of baby oil as to glide.
- 15:16Speaker 2: That's not against the law.
- 15:18Speaker 1: What I care about are the federal counts in that
- 15:22Speaker 1: federal indictment.
- 15:23Speaker 12: Former assistant David James testifies that Combs was occasionally violent
- 15:27Speaker 12: with private chef Jordan Atkinson. According to James, after an
- 15:31Speaker 12: altercation at his Alpine, New Jersey home, Combs instructed him
- 15:35Speaker 12: to file a police report stating Atkinson was the aggressor
- 15:38Speaker 12: and hit him first. James, who witnessed the altercation, says
- 15:42Speaker 12: he simply drove around Alpine for roughly an hour before
- 15:45Speaker 12: returning and telling Combs it was filed. James says he
- 15:49Speaker 12: didn't want to comply with Combs's request because he did
- 15:52Speaker 12: not want to file a false report.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Sidney Summer joining me investigative reporter, Crime Stories. Sidney explained
- 15:57Speaker 1: to me, Am I getting this correct. The former assistant
- 16:01Speaker 1: David James described an incident where Sean Combs allegedly attacked
- 16:07Speaker 1: a female chef, but then wanted James to go file
- 16:11Speaker 1: a police report, stating it was the other way around,
- 16:15Speaker 1: but James didn't do it.
- 16:17Speaker 5: That's absolutely correct. James said that Comb's and this chef
- 16:22Speaker 5: got into an altercation, and Combs, immediately after it ended
- 16:27Speaker 5: team to James and asked him, look, let's go to
- 16:30Speaker 5: the cops. Let's file a police report, but make sure
- 16:33Speaker 5: it says that she attacked she hit me first, she
- 16:36Speaker 5: was the aggressor. And James kind of did his Okay, yeah,
- 16:41Speaker 5: I'll do that, and he got into a car and
- 16:44Speaker 5: just drove around for about an hour before returning home
- 16:48Speaker 5: and saying, yeah, filed it. It's in there. They'll contact
- 16:52Speaker 5: me if they need anything else from us. And the
- 16:55Speaker 5: whole time he never spoke to a police officer about
- 16:58Speaker 5: it because he didn't want to.
- 16:59Speaker 2: You know, is probed of about this Sydney.
- 17:02Speaker 1: This right here, here we have Rob Shooter Seawn Combs
- 17:09Speaker 1: beating the stew out of Cassie Venture. She's holding her
- 17:12Speaker 1: her little left hand to fight him off, and they're
- 17:17Speaker 1: going to argue, according to gia Ghos, And of course
- 17:19Speaker 1: this could change, just like the defense in Scott Peterson
- 17:23Speaker 1: changed from a satanic cult took Lacey to burglars took Lacy.
- 17:27Speaker 2: I mean it changed over time.
- 17:30Speaker 1: So at one point gia Ghost let it slip that
- 17:34Speaker 1: the argument to defeat this video is that Cassie ninety
- 17:38Speaker 1: pound Cassie is the aggressor here. She's the one giving
- 17:41Speaker 1: him the booty beating over text from another woman. Okay,
- 17:47Speaker 1: she's the aggressor. Same thing with the chef, see what
- 17:50Speaker 1: I'm saying. The connection, So apparently that's his modus operandi,
- 17:54Speaker 1: method of operation.
- 17:55Speaker 2: He attacks the woman according to evidence and.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Then says she's the aggress Did he ever take responsibility
- 18:02Speaker 1: for anything, Rob Shooter.
- 18:04Speaker 13: He took responsibility when everything went well, When things were
- 18:08Speaker 13: going good, it was because of him. When things were
- 18:10Speaker 13: not going well, it was because of everybody else. But
- 18:14Speaker 13: this video here, Nancy, this is the case. To me,
- 18:17Speaker 13: this video changes everything. And there's some irony that a
- 18:20Speaker 13: man who has spent his whole life putting out images,
- 18:24Speaker 13: videos to make him into the star he is is ultimately,
- 18:28Speaker 13: I believe, going to be brought down because of this video.
- 18:32Speaker 13: That is something that is going to be in the
- 18:34Speaker 13: jury's mind. And the excuses are just excuses.
- 18:38Speaker 1: You just stated that Cove spent an entire lifetime curating
- 18:43Speaker 1: an image through video and photos like what image.
- 18:48Speaker 13: Let me give you examples of this. There were images
- 18:51Speaker 13: to make him look powerful, images to make him look important,
- 18:54Speaker 13: images to make him look literally like a king. I
- 18:58Speaker 13: got Diddy was People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive issue. He
- 19:03Speaker 13: wanted the cover. He did not get that, but he
- 19:06Speaker 13: was in the issue and he shot it as if
- 19:09Speaker 13: he was a king. He asked at the photoshoot if
- 19:12Speaker 13: he could have a crown on his head, if he
- 19:13Speaker 13: could have a coat of fur coat, and he knew
- 19:18Speaker 13: the power of images. I remember distinctly he once said
- 19:21Speaker 13: to me, Rob, the story doesn't matter. The headline and
- 19:26Speaker 13: the photograph is all anybody remembers. He knew the power
- 19:31Speaker 13: of media, he knew the power of video, and he
- 19:34Speaker 13: exploited it. And now it's going to bite him in
- 19:37Speaker 13: the bum.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Straight out to sydney' sumner, Crime Story's investigative reporter who
- 19:41Speaker 1: has been on the case from the beginning and has
- 19:43Speaker 1: been analyzing Cassy Ventiro's testimony. Sidney, the high points of
- 19:49Speaker 1: Cassy Venturo's testimony, explain Nija.
- 19:52Speaker 5: I think the high point of Cassy's testimony is that
- 19:55Speaker 5: Dinny was in control of many aspects of her life.
- 20:00Speaker 5: So she meets Comb at just nineteen years old. Their
- 20:04Speaker 5: relationship begins when she's just about twenty one, and she
- 20:08Speaker 5: talks about not even wanting to kiss Sean Combs. So
- 20:12Speaker 5: the first time that they shared a kiss, they weren't
- 20:15Speaker 5: a couple at this point, the first time he showed
- 20:17Speaker 5: romantic interest in her without her twenty first birthday party
- 20:21Speaker 5: in Las Vegas, and Kathy admits that the kids left
- 20:24Speaker 5: her feeling extremely confused. She ran from her party in tears,
- 20:29Speaker 5: not sure what to do with that as a new
- 20:31Speaker 5: artist in the industry. So their relationship starting on that
- 20:36Speaker 5: point and going from there, com just continued to take
- 20:40Speaker 5: more and more control of her life and he was
- 20:43Speaker 5: always there. Like she didn't pick up the song, he
- 20:46Speaker 5: would call her over and over until she did, or
- 20:49Speaker 5: he would send security guards to come find her. So,
- 20:53Speaker 5: on top of the freak offs, which seems to be
- 20:56Speaker 5: just a segment of their relationship, equal worse her into
- 21:00Speaker 5: anything in everything, she didn't feel like she had an
- 21:04Speaker 5: ability to say no to Combs, especially with the violence.
- 21:09Speaker 5: In the threats of releasing these videos, Ventura talks about
- 21:13Speaker 5: keeping broken iPhones and broken laptops and things of that
- 21:17Speaker 5: nature because she was so worried about what was on
- 21:21Speaker 5: them if anyone was to get their hands on them.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Speaking of a laptop incident earlier on we heard from
- 21:30Speaker 1: witness Philip Listen.
- 21:31Speaker 14: Philip describes one evening where Ventura was at the computer
- 21:35Speaker 14: during a break in sex Colms yelled for his girlfriend
- 21:38Speaker 14: to come to him, and when she did not, Calms
- 21:41Speaker 14: through a bottle of liquoric Cassie that shattered against the
- 21:44Speaker 14: wall after missing her head by inches. Philip says, Colmbs
- 21:48Speaker 14: then dragged Ventura to another room, and he overheard what
- 21:52Speaker 14: sounded like a smack, then Combs saying, when I tell
- 21:55Speaker 14: you to come here, you come here now, not later.
- 21:58Speaker 14: Moments later, the couple rear merged and Combs demanded they resume.
- 22:03Speaker 2: Joining us is Rob Shooter, publicist for Sean Combs.
- 22:07Speaker 1: Rob thank you for being with us, also star of
- 22:09Speaker 1: Naughty but Nice podcast and author of the fore word answer,
- 22:14Speaker 1: you have a particular insight into another relationship, if it
- 22:19Speaker 1: could be called that of Combs, which preceded Cassie Ventura
- 22:24Speaker 1: is basically a blueprint second verse same as the first,
- 22:27Speaker 1: and that would be Kim Porter, the mother of his
- 22:32Speaker 1: children now dead. Rob Shooter describe Combs his relationship with
- 22:39Speaker 1: miss Porter.
- 22:42Speaker 13: Puff's relationship with Kim was very much the same relationship
- 22:47Speaker 13: he had with Cassie. In fact, some people called Cassie
- 22:51Speaker 13: Kim two point zero. They had seen this method, they
- 22:56Speaker 13: had seen this relationship, they had seen this brooming, and
- 23:00Speaker 13: so Kim was shy bef what she was told.
- 23:03Speaker 6: Was very much on his arm.
- 23:05Speaker 13: He didn't like her to talk very much. He picked
- 23:07Speaker 13: the clothes that he would wear, he would decide the
- 23:10Speaker 13: events that she would go to.
- 23:12Speaker 4: Cassie seems to be doing.
- 23:14Speaker 13: That too, or have done that too. The difference though,
- 23:17Speaker 13: is that Kim didn't want to be a recording artist.
- 23:21Speaker 13: Cassie really did. She wanted to bake it brig in
- 23:26Speaker 13: show business. She wanted to record songs, and so my
- 23:30Speaker 13: heart breaks for her because she was not only in
- 23:34Speaker 13: debt to Diddy in her personal life, but also her
- 23:38Speaker 13: professional life, which must be made impossible, almost impossible for
- 23:43Speaker 13: her to get away.
- 23:44Speaker 2: From Special Guest joining me.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Brett Brown, executive director, s ASS Surviving Assault, Standing Strong.
- 23:51Speaker 2: You know, it's the same old thing, it's not a
- 23:55Speaker 2: new story. And to try to explain why.
- 23:58Speaker 1: Women stay, I mean a woman's face with losing her home,
- 24:03Speaker 1: losing her career, maybe losing her children, being blackballed in
- 24:09Speaker 1: the industry, What would you do? What would you not
- 24:13Speaker 1: do to ensure those things don't happen?
- 24:17Speaker 2: What about it? Brett?
- 24:18Speaker 15: Well, I think it's everything that you just said. The
- 24:20Speaker 15: part that we're kind of missing is the beginning and
- 24:23Speaker 15: the end. You know, these women they want to be
- 24:26Speaker 15: seen and they want to be respected, and they want
- 24:28Speaker 15: to achieve, and those desires get used against them in
- 24:31Speaker 15: this power imbalance and so whether we're talking about Harvey
- 24:34Speaker 15: Weinstein or we're talking about Sean Comb's, the recipe is
- 24:38Speaker 15: still the same. And once they're on the hook with
- 24:40Speaker 15: these powerful men, then become you enters. The threats and
- 24:45Speaker 15: the violence and the force, and so fear and financial
- 24:49Speaker 15: insecurity and so many other things start to play in.
- 24:52Speaker 15: And so it's not a matter if I keep going
- 24:54Speaker 15: so I can get something. These women have to stay
- 24:57Speaker 15: in this situation in order to stay alive. And it's
- 25:00Speaker 15: interesting to me because Sean comes, like any abuser, has
- 25:04Speaker 15: spent an enormous amount of time on his reputation and
- 25:07Speaker 15: on his look to make sure that he seems like
- 25:09Speaker 15: the fun guy next door. And here is this predator
- 25:12Speaker 15: sitting in a courtroom with a Bible. And I just
- 25:15Speaker 15: wanted to say that even Satan quoted scripture in the Bible,
- 25:19Speaker 15: and at the end of the day, he was still
- 25:21Speaker 15: the devil.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Lauren Colin an investigative reporter and start a pop Crime TV.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Lauren, thank you for being with us. What happened in.
- 25:28Speaker 4: Courty saw Kid Cutty testify and it was fairly quick.
- 25:32Speaker 3: It took a portion of the morning, and during opening statements,
- 25:37Speaker 3: the prosecutors gave us a little bit of a taste
- 25:40Speaker 3: about this break in that involved Ditty, an assistant and
- 25:43Speaker 3: one of his associates. Well, when kid Cutty aka Scott
- 25:47Speaker 3: Mescadi took the stand, it turns out that Ditty was
- 25:51Speaker 3: the one that broke into his house kidnapped one of
- 25:54Speaker 3: his employees. Capricorn Clark with an associate went over there
- 25:59Speaker 3: looking for Cat And this was after Seawan Colmes found
- 26:03Speaker 3: out about this relationship that was going on between hit
- 26:06Speaker 3: Cutty and Cassie.
- 26:07Speaker 4: And look, kid Cutty said he was a little confused.
- 26:11Speaker 3: Cassie had told him that she and Sean Colmes were
- 26:14Speaker 3: broken up. You know, they were on again, off again.
- 26:17Speaker 3: So when he got this call from Cassie where she
- 26:20Speaker 3: was very very upset and alarmed. This was in twenty eleven,
- 26:24Speaker 3: he went to pick her up. He took her to
- 26:26Speaker 3: a hotel and it turns out she gave Sean Colmes
- 26:32Speaker 3: kid Cutty's address. This came out that was a little confusing.
- 26:36Speaker 3: So Kid Cutty finds out that Seawan Colmes is at
- 26:39Speaker 3: his house because Capricorn Clark, the assistant, calls him and
- 26:44Speaker 3: Cassie from the driveway in the car very scared and says, look,
- 26:50Speaker 3: Colmes is in the house. Now, kid Cutty gets very upset.
- 26:53Speaker 3: He says he's going over there. So he drives over there,
- 26:56Speaker 3: and he says that he calls Seawan Colmes and he says, hey, mother, effer,
- 27:01Speaker 3: why are you in my house? And Ditty says something
- 27:04Speaker 3: like I just want to talk now. When he gets
- 27:06Speaker 3: to the house, Ditty's no longer there. He notices that,
- 27:10Speaker 3: you know, nothing is broken, nothing is out of place,
- 27:13Speaker 3: but he did have some Christmas presents for his family
- 27:16Speaker 3: in chanel boxes. Those were unwrapped on the kitchen table,
- 27:19Speaker 3: and his dog was locked in a bathroom. He also
- 27:23Speaker 3: noted that the surveillance cameras outside his house appeared.
- 27:26Speaker 4: To be pointed down. Now, after this, you know, he leaves.
- 27:31Speaker 3: He sees that he's getting text messages from Colms, and
- 27:34Speaker 3: he thinks to himself, Okay, I don't really know if
- 27:37Speaker 3: I want to get involved here, because who knows if
- 27:39Speaker 3: he has weapons whatever. So he actually calls the police
- 27:42Speaker 3: and files a police report. Now we've discussed this. It's
- 27:46Speaker 3: December of twenty eleven. Kid Cutty and Cassie go to
- 27:50Speaker 3: Cassie's family home in Connecticut for the holidays. Sean Colmes
- 27:54Speaker 3: still is texting Kid Cutty, you know, trying to talk
- 27:58Speaker 3: to him, trying to to you know, get a meeting
- 28:00Speaker 3: with him, and Cuddy ignores him, and then Cassie ends
- 28:03Speaker 3: up breaking up with him. On his trip, he returns
- 28:06Speaker 3: back to la and a month later, it's January twenty twelve.
- 28:10Speaker 3: He is about forty five minutes away from his house.
- 28:12Speaker 3: Kid Cutty and his doll babysitter calls him and says,
- 28:17Speaker 3: your car is on fire in the driveway. A Molotov
- 28:20Speaker 3: cocktail has somehow been thrown in the car. We then
- 28:24Speaker 3: see pictures of the car. The roof is broken in
- 28:28Speaker 3: or sunken in with a hole in it. The inside
- 28:30Speaker 3: is all charred. He calls the police, files the police report,
- 28:35Speaker 3: and then a few days later he says.
- 28:37Speaker 4: Okay, you know that's it.
- 28:38Speaker 3: I'm contacting Combs or we're going to work this out.
- 28:41Speaker 3: So they have a meeting at the La Soho house.
- 28:44Speaker 3: He describes d Rock, the security guard that we've heard
- 28:48Speaker 3: about multiple times, ushering him into this room, and this
- 28:51Speaker 3: got a lot of laughed Nancy. He described Combs as
- 28:55Speaker 3: facing this big window in the room with his back
- 29:00Speaker 3: towards him his hands behind his back, and he actually
- 29:03Speaker 3: said he looked like a Marvel super villain. So he
- 29:07Speaker 3: said also that Ditty's demeanor was so calm that it
- 29:11Speaker 3: was almost bizarre. He offered him water twice, you know,
- 29:15Speaker 3: and and they seemed to work it out. And then
- 29:17Speaker 3: at the end of the conversation and Cassie joined later
- 29:20Speaker 3: by the way, and at the end of the conversation,
- 29:23Speaker 3: Cutty says they shook hands and while their hands.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Were clasped, he said, well, what about my car?
- 29:29Speaker 3: And Diddy basically was like, I don't know anything about
- 29:32Speaker 3: your car, and they let their hands go, and then
- 29:36Speaker 3: you know, they kind of walked out and that was that.
- 29:38Speaker 3: And he said he hadn't seen him until a few
- 29:40Speaker 3: years later he saw him again at the Soho house,
- 29:43Speaker 3: and this time Diddy was with his two daughters, and
- 29:47Speaker 3: he apologized to Kit Cutty and said, look, I'm sorry
- 29:50Speaker 3: for everything that's that happened, anything that went on between us,
- 29:54Speaker 3: but Nancy. When Brian Steele got up to do the
- 29:57Speaker 3: cross examination, he pointed out a couple of things, as
- 30:01Speaker 3: that's his job. But he pointed out that during the
- 30:04Speaker 3: break in kid Cutty's door, there's no damage to it,
- 30:08Speaker 3: the door was wide open and anybody walked in. He
- 30:12Speaker 3: also pointed out that there were DNA or fingerprints pulled
- 30:17Speaker 3: from the investigation into the car blow up, and those
- 30:22Speaker 3: that DNA was actually it belonged to a female.
- 30:25Speaker 2: Okay, let me understand something.
- 30:27Speaker 1: So one month later, after the whole Cassie Ventura relationship
- 30:33Speaker 1: blows up, one month later, Kid Cutty's car is bombed
- 30:38Speaker 1: with a molotov? So isn't it true that Shawn Combs
- 30:44Speaker 1: had discussed blowing up his car?
- 30:47Speaker 4: Yes, Cassie, this is through Cassie.
- 30:49Speaker 3: She said that this was discussed and he was going
- 30:53Speaker 3: to do it when one of Kid Cutty's friends were present.
- 30:57Speaker 1: So Shawn Combs's fingerprints and DNA were not on the
- 31:01Speaker 1: car that was blown up with a molotov?
- 31:04Speaker 2: One month after? Did he threaten to blow it up? Okay? Sorry,
- 31:08Speaker 2: not impressed.
- 31:08Speaker 1: I mean, do you really think Shawn Colmbs Diddy was
- 31:12Speaker 1: going to run down to the sip Go or the
- 31:14Speaker 1: Valero would pump his own gas into a container and
- 31:18Speaker 1: make his own molotov? I mean, he didn't even clean
- 31:21Speaker 1: up his own disgusting hotel rooms that were covered with
- 31:25Speaker 1: a baby oil slick he made somebody else do it,
- 31:28Speaker 1: so of course his DNA isn't there. Why is it important?
- 31:32Speaker 1: Because that is what a criminal enterprise is. Now we
- 31:35Speaker 1: see former assistant George Kaplan on the stand. Now talk
- 31:41Speaker 1: about an unindicted co conspirator.
- 31:45Speaker 2: That would be him. Listen.
- 31:47Speaker 8: Assistant George Kaplan says he was sent to pick up
- 31:50Speaker 8: drugs for his famous boss. Kaplin says Sean Combs gave
- 31:54Speaker 8: him cash and a phone.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Number to call. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 32:08Speaker 8: Assistant George Kaplan says he was sent to pick up
- 32:11Speaker 8: drugs for his famous boss. Caplin says Shawn Combs gave
- 32:15Speaker 8: him cash and a phone number to.
- 32:17Speaker 1: Call so Shawn Combs could talk a grown man into
- 32:22Speaker 1: going and buying his drugs for him.
- 32:26Speaker 2: No wonder this went down in the courtroom.
- 32:28Speaker 12: Listen, did He's former assistant George Kaplan takes the stand.
- 32:31Speaker 12: Kaplan tells the judge he is only here because of
- 32:34Speaker 12: a subpoena and he plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right.
- 32:36Speaker 12: Judge Supermany in grants Kaplin immunity. The deal does not
- 32:40Speaker 12: cover perjury.
- 32:40Speaker 1: You see a little snippet of all the drugs seized
- 32:46Speaker 1: at Shawn Comb's mansion. Now we know that Frank Black
- 32:52Speaker 1: was a name, a pseudonym used to check Shaan Comb's
- 32:57Speaker 1: in and out of hotel rooms, also used to get
- 33:02Speaker 1: fake prescriptions, which is illegal. You think that Shawn comes
- 33:07Speaker 1: rolled up in his SUV to the CVS or the
- 33:12Speaker 1: Dwayne Read or the Walgreens and got his own stuff.
- 33:15Speaker 2: No, uh huh, there had to be a minion, Troy Slayton.
- 33:21Speaker 1: Shawn Holmes convinced Kaplan to perform crimes for him buying drugs,
- 33:29Speaker 1: get illegal drugs such as MDMA. Also convinced him to
- 33:34Speaker 1: get prescription drugs under a fake name, where Slatin also
- 33:39Speaker 1: a crime. So now he is talking his minion into
- 33:47Speaker 1: buying his astroglide, lubricant, his baby oil, his candles, his liquor,
- 33:56Speaker 1: all of that and importantly critically using the company credit
- 34:01Speaker 1: card choice Layton.
- 34:02Speaker 9: Well buy an astro glide, although it may sound gross
- 34:07Speaker 9: in this situations not illegal. Buying drugs yes, illegal, but
- 34:12Speaker 9: that doesn't make a Rico case. The government still has
- 34:15Speaker 9: to prove that the purchasing the drugs was to advance
- 34:21Speaker 9: the criminal enterprise, was to advance his business interest, his
- 34:26Speaker 9: legitimate business interests he had.
- 34:29Speaker 1: You think Dandy took all those drugs himself. No, that
- 34:32Speaker 1: was being dropped in the woman's drinks.
- 34:33Speaker 2: I mean you need to go.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Back to law school, man and take a refresher course
- 34:38Speaker 1: on rico. Rico is anything any act that advances a crime,
- 34:44Speaker 1: and the crimes have to be laid out in the indictment.
- 34:46Speaker 2: Which they are. I've already read them to you. I'll
- 34:48Speaker 2: read them again. Sex trapping, for labor, kidnapping, arson stressing.
- 34:55Speaker 9: Those are all terrible things, but that doesn't make rico.
- 34:59Speaker 9: You have to prove what are you.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Saying Diddy was using all those drugs for. He'd be
- 35:04Speaker 1: dead if he took them all. He was feeding them
- 35:07Speaker 1: to these women in their drinks. What do you think
- 35:09Speaker 1: the astrog line the baby oles for for a free
- 35:12Speaker 1: off according to these women against their will and bringing
- 35:15Speaker 1: in mal sex workers from another state that is against
- 35:19Speaker 1: the law recoverent.
- 35:21Speaker 9: That would be that sex trafficking. So we're we're mixing
- 35:24Speaker 9: up two different things there, Nancy, you know that those
- 35:26Speaker 9: are separate them.
- 35:30Speaker 1: Yes, you're the one that said asked why i'd I
- 35:31Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it. It has everything to
- 35:33Speaker 1: do with it, just like the.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Baby oil.
- 35:37Speaker 9: Just because somebody is having a rock star is having
- 35:41Speaker 9: a drug fueled party, doesn't mean that they're guilty of rico.
- 35:45Speaker 1: To doctor Bethany Marshall, that video of the literally a
- 35:48Speaker 1: Dixie dumpster going down the hallway of the hotel, Doctor Bethany,
- 35:53Speaker 1: how do you convince grown men and women to do
- 35:58Speaker 1: your illegal bidding and clean up your bodily fluids, your spink, Nancy,
- 36:05Speaker 1: your baby oil, your astro glide if they do.
- 36:08Speaker 16: It, all of it, Nancy. Probably what he did is
- 36:11Speaker 16: he started out being super charming with them, pretending to
- 36:14Speaker 16: be their friend, buying them gifts, pretending to advance their
- 36:18Speaker 16: interests in some way, and once he gained their trust,
- 36:22Speaker 16: he would send them out on some criminal act. Once
- 36:25Speaker 16: they committed the criminal act, now they were stuck and
- 36:28Speaker 16: could not get away.
- 36:29Speaker 1: Isn't it true City Summer, That sworn testimony is that
- 36:34Speaker 1: Shawn Colmes tried to bribe a security guy.
- 36:38Speaker 5: That's correct, Nancy. He tried to hand this security guard
- 36:42Speaker 5: a stack of money as big as his hand to
- 36:47Speaker 5: leave them alone and to just drop the whole situation
- 36:50Speaker 5: and not get Cassie Ventura out of that Intercontinental Hotel room.
- 36:54Speaker 1: So Tom Smith, former NYPD, star of Goalshields podcast, Tom Smith.
- 36:58Speaker 2: I guess it's just a did world and we all
- 37:01Speaker 2: live in it.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Because all these people are so afraid or have their
- 37:06Speaker 1: careers at stake, they go along with it. It will
- 37:08Speaker 1: be a cold day in hubl that I would go
- 37:11Speaker 1: clean up somebody else's bodily fluids unless my children threw up.
- 37:14Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen. But all these people just went
- 37:18Speaker 2: along to get along, yep.
- 37:20Speaker 10: And its influence and it's his power that controlled them.
- 37:24Speaker 10: What can he do for them in the future, How
- 37:27Speaker 10: can he propel their jobs, their careers anything like that.
- 37:32Speaker 10: That all is involved in this power trip that he
- 37:35Speaker 10: was on. And like you know, Nancy, once you get
- 37:37Speaker 10: away with it a little bit, you keep pushing the
- 37:40Speaker 10: envelope to the next level, to the next level.
- 37:42Speaker 1: Right now, Shawn Combs in a federal courthouse being charged
- 37:46Speaker 1: and being tried for.
- 37:46Speaker 2: A multi count federal indictment.
- 37:49Speaker 1: And what Rico means, which is the major prize for
- 37:52Speaker 1: the state, is that Shawn Combs headed up a criminal
- 37:56Speaker 1: enterprise involving many many crimes including arson, blowing up Kid
- 38:02Speaker 1: Cuddy's cawn.
- 38:06Speaker 2: You hear that Troy Slayton, it's the death nail. It's
- 38:10Speaker 2: the death nail.
- 38:12Speaker 1: Kid Cutty's testimony, and the testimony of all these other assistants,
- 38:17Speaker 1: the nail and the coffin the death nail.
- 38:20Speaker 9: For Diddy, it might be Nancy, but the government is
- 38:23Speaker 9: still going to have to weave together all these disparate
- 38:27Speaker 9: dots and tie it together to show that this was
- 38:30Speaker 9: an overarching grand conspiracy to further a criminal enterprise. And
- 38:37Speaker 9: I think we're going to hear a lot from Diddy's
- 38:40Speaker 9: attorneys when it comes time for his defense to put
- 38:43Speaker 9: on their presentation.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Well, you're right, Slayton. I don't know what they've got
- 38:47Speaker 1: up their sleeves, but you're absolutely right. In the state
- 38:49Speaker 1: better be ready. Thank you to our guest, but especially
- 38:52Speaker 1: to you for being with us, Nancy gray soning Off,
- 38:55Speaker 1: good night, friend,