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Sean “Diddy” Combs (Pt. 2): The Explicit Story Behind the Indictments · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Disgraceland is
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  Speaker 1: a production of Double Elvis. On September sixteenth, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: federal authorities charged Sean Diddy Combs with sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy,
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  Speaker 1: and transportation to engage in prostitution. Colmbs pleaded not guilty
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  Speaker 1: to all these charges and is currently at the time
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  Speaker 1: of this recording behind Barr's awaiting trial. These federal charges
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  Speaker 1: were preceded by a lawsuit brought against Combs in November
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three by his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
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  Speaker 1: The Ventura lawsuit alleged sexual assault and physical abuse charges
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  Speaker 1: as well. Combs settled this lawsuit within days, setting off
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  Speaker 1: a wave of similar lawsuits from different victims, male and female,
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  Speaker 1: alleging abuse. Colmbs denies all of these allegations. The horrific
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  Speaker 1: details in this episode are not imagined or manufactured by
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  Speaker 1: the author. They are ripped directly from the pages of
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  Speaker 1: the federal indictment, as well as from the original Ventura indictment. Again,
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  Speaker 1: all charges denied by Shawn Combs. The federal allegations will
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  Speaker 1: be litigated in court sometime in twenty twenty five. Until then,
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  Speaker 1: this is the story of Shawn Combs, according to some
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  Speaker 1: of his alleged victims and biographers Melochron, this is a
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  Speaker 1: story about disgrace, the ultimate disgrace, about a gangster born
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  Speaker 1: from another gangster, About a murder, a stampede, an incredible
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  Speaker 1: rise to success and power, about indictments and abuse and control.
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  Speaker 1: This is a story about Sean Diddy Combs, and depending
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  Speaker 1: on who you believe, either his girlfriend or his victim,
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  Speaker 1: Cassie Ventura. It's also a story about music, or about
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  Speaker 1: a music mogul, a music mogul who made a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money off of some great music. Unlike that music
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  Speaker 1: I played for you at the top of the show.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for
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  Speaker 1: my melotron called do the Astro Slide MK one. I
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  Speaker 1: played you that loop because I can't afford the rights
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  Speaker 1: to Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift. And why would I
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  Speaker 1: play you that specific slice of basic af cheese? Could
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  Speaker 1: I afford it? Because that was the number one song
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  Speaker 1: in America on November twenty third, twenty twenty three, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the day, Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit against
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  Speaker 1: Sean Diddy Combs, alleging rape and abuse and setting off
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  Speaker 1: a legal nightmare for the hip hop mogul. On this episode, Gangsters, Murder, Indictments,
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  Speaker 1: abuse control. In the Ultimate Disgrace, Sean Diddy Combs, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Jake Brennan in this this Disgraceland. You're born in Harlem
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine. You don't know him, but the
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  Speaker 1: world is on fire. In the ghetto where you live
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  Speaker 1: is on America's pay No Mind list. Your father he
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  Speaker 1: takes work as a driver for the notorious gangster Frank Lucas. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that Frank Lucas, the one Denzel Washington would later portray
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  Speaker 1: an American gangster for a minute there. So the story goes,
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  Speaker 1: your family's doing okay, and then the heat comes down
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  Speaker 1: and your father is forced to snitch. That doesn't go
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  Speaker 1: so well. Your dad is gunned down. The streets know
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  Speaker 1: where the bullet came from, and the streets know why.
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  Speaker 1: Gangster drivers who get all loose lips with the Feds
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  Speaker 1: don't last long in Harlem. Neither do you and your mom.
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  Speaker 1: She moves you both ten miles north to Mount Vernon,
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  Speaker 1: far enough from the city to have some sort of normalcy,
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  Speaker 1: but close enough to feel its pole when the suburban
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  Speaker 1: boredom sets in. Boyhood is tough, but not as tough
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  Speaker 1: as it would have been in Harlem. Your mom gets
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  Speaker 1: by as a single mother. That you get by on
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  Speaker 1: your mom's hustle and your daddy's term. But whatever this
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  Speaker 1: life is. As you hit adolescents, it's clear to you
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  Speaker 1: that it's not enough. You aspire to more. You put
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  Speaker 1: your mother's hustle in your father's charm to work. In
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  Speaker 1: college at Howard University, you throw parties, massive parties. One
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  Speaker 1: such party results in a stampede. Nine people die. Somehow
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  Speaker 1: you get away with it. You drive harder into the
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  Speaker 1: paint with your career. You promote hip hop and R
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  Speaker 1: and b artists for Andre Harrald's Uptown Records, Mary J. Blige, Jodasy. Soon, however,
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  Speaker 1: Andrea gets an idea in his head. He thinks your
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  Speaker 1: ego is growing out of control. He fires you. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You have an ace up your sleeve. The
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  Speaker 1: Notorious Big, a heavyweight talent from Brooklyn whose first record
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  Speaker 1: you stake your career on. It works. Biggie Small's debut,
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  Speaker 1: Ready to Die is a massive hit. So is your
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  Speaker 1: new record label, bad Boy. You, your label, and your
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  Speaker 1: talent are controversial for many reasons. The critics think your
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  Speaker 1: production is whack. Beef is the order of the day.
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  Speaker 1: The media blows it all out of proportion. Your loudmouthed friend,
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful and talented Tupac Secure, makes an enemy of you,
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  Speaker 1: and Biggie Tupac is gunned down, and then so is Bickie. Still,
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  Speaker 1: you take all of it in stride. You release your
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  Speaker 1: own album. Now You're the star. Your debut single goes
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  Speaker 1: to number one. Your debut album debuts at number one,
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  Speaker 1: a first for a hip hop record. You cannot be stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Success as a talent promoter, success as a labelhead, then
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  Speaker 1: as a star. You spin it all into more success
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  Speaker 1: as an actor, as a television producer. You start a
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  Speaker 1: clothing line, a vodka brand, a television network. By the
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  Speaker 1: year twenty twenty two, you're a billionaire and your hustle
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  Speaker 1: never stops. All the while. You've worked hard, but you
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  Speaker 1: played even harder. You heard the stories back when you
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  Speaker 1: were coming up. The men who knew your father cursed
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  Speaker 1: Frank Lucas the man believed to be responsible for your
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  Speaker 1: dad's death, and they praised his rival, Harlem gangster Nicky Burns.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike Frank, who patterned himself after a boring boardroom executive,
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  Speaker 1: Nicky had style. Nicki rocked a different tailored suit every
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  Speaker 1: night of the week, floor length furs, luxury cars, a
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  Speaker 1: fleet of luxury cars, multiple homes, and multiple apartments scattered
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  Speaker 1: about the city, each for a different woman. Nicki was
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  Speaker 1: a gangster, sure, but he was also on the cover
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  Speaker 1: of the New York Times magazine, decked out in his
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  Speaker 1: finest swag, looking like the motherfucking pimp king hustler that
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  Speaker 1: he was born to be. He loved the image because
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  Speaker 1: you were born to be a gangster, born to be
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  Speaker 1: a pimp king hustler as well. So you co opted
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  Speaker 1: Nicky's image for your own. And when you finally made it,
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  Speaker 1: when they let you in into the private corridors of power,
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  Speaker 1: where the whispers became a little more full throated, were
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  Speaker 1: the man who pulled the strings, dished on how the
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  Speaker 1: real players let off steam. You were all ears. Alan
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  Speaker 1: Carr was a talent guy turned producer, just like you,
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  Speaker 1: but from back in the seventies and his parties were
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  Speaker 1: still being talked about. Everyone got laid at Alan's parties.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't matter if you were openly gay like Alan or
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  Speaker 1: a gangster like Nicky Barnes. Didn't matter if you were
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  Speaker 1: Rod Stewart or Rod Steiger, Diana Ross or David Geffen.
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  Speaker 1: To Debauchery at Allen's Hollywood home parties was everywhere. The
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  Speaker 1: muscle bound men, different kinds of hustlers than the ones
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  Speaker 1: you were familiar with. The legend was that Alan had
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  Speaker 1: him bust in a Listers pool, boys, Starlit's whatever kind
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  Speaker 1: of sex you wanted, it was there for you at
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  Speaker 1: Allan's because if you were at Allen's, you'd earned it.
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  Speaker 1: You were in the entertainment business, and you were ascended.
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  Speaker 1: Some took it too far when you afforded that type
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  Speaker 1: of pleasure. When whatever you want is available to you
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  Speaker 1: whenever you want it, how do you draw the line.
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  Speaker 1: The internationally famous Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nuriya have had
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  Speaker 1: no line in Hollywood in nineteen seventy four. He was
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  Speaker 1: being feted. Alan Carr was going to make sure nuriye
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  Speaker 1: Have had whatever he desired at his party. So right
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  Speaker 1: there at Allan's out in the pool house while the
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  Speaker 1: party swung in that West Coast summer breeze easy kind
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  Speaker 1: of way, while Mick Jagger tucked up Sidney Poitier by
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  Speaker 1: the pool, while Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali shared a
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  Speaker 1: joint off the patio watching May West Zipper cocktail with
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  Speaker 1: Joan Didion and Dominic Dunn watching it all, Rudolph Muriyev's
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  Speaker 1: screams of ecstasy gave Alan Carr's outdoor sound system a
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  Speaker 1: run for its money. As you heard the story years later,
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  Speaker 1: those moans came from the pool house, where outside a
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  Speaker 1: line of twenty five hustlers waited to take on Nuriev. Inside,
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  Speaker 1: where it was the ballet dancer had them all in
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  Speaker 1: succession that afternoon, while the drinks and the gossip spilled
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  Speaker 1: out by the pool in equal measure, all nonchalant, like
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  Speaker 1: that kind of hedonism was next level, Alan Carr, Nicky
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  Speaker 1: barnes Hell, even Bill Clinton. That dude got his in
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  Speaker 1: the White House while married America found out, and dude
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, so what, I'm the first black president?
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  Speaker 1: The fuck are you going to do about it? And
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  Speaker 1: he got away with it. Okay, that's not exactly how
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  Speaker 1: it went down, but in retrospect it might as well
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  Speaker 1: have been. And at the end of the day, Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton was gangster. You were gangster as well, and you
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  Speaker 1: saw yourself in the same light as you saw those
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  Speaker 1: other gangsters, Bill Clinton, Nicky Barnes, Alan Carr. Your parties
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  Speaker 1: would be just as legendary. Your parties would be just
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  Speaker 1: as hedonistic. You and you were ascending a list friends
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  Speaker 1: from the world of entertainment, would also have whatever you desired.
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  Speaker 1: Half a million dollars. That was the cost of the party,
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  Speaker 1: well for most of it, anyway, And most of that
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  Speaker 1: money went toward the buildout, and most of that buildout
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  Speaker 1: went toward the mirrors, mirrors on the walls, all of them,
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  Speaker 1: and on the ceilings. And when the herbs split around midnight,
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  Speaker 1: when the freaks came out, the strippers turned into sex workers,
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  Speaker 1: and when the party favors arrived, when the drugs kicked in,
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  Speaker 1: and when the heat in the house was literally turned up,
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  Speaker 1: and when the sweats started to glisten under the strobes,
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  Speaker 1: when the clothes started to fall off and the body
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  Speaker 1: started to stick together on the dance floor, it would
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  Speaker 1: just start to happen naturally for you, for your friends
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  Speaker 1: a listers and comers alike, hangers on and even family whoever,
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  Speaker 1: who were you to judge? You earned your hedonism just
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  Speaker 1: like the gangsters before you. This was your time, your
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  Speaker 1: chance to get your freak off. It was disgusting, blood feces,
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  Speaker 1: seamen stains. Cleaners used a black light to spot the unseen,
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  Speaker 1: settled grime. It was everywhere, on the walls, on the floors,
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  Speaker 1: even on the ceiling. Your parties, freak offs as you
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  Speaker 1: called them, as your staff called them as well, a
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  Speaker 1: mess to clean up, and if you were being honest,
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  Speaker 1: they were a bitch to put on. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: work went into them. All of it seemed like a
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  Speaker 1: herculean effort just to get off, But that was your
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  Speaker 1: new reality, being the gangster, pimp, king hustler that you
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  Speaker 1: now were. Your line had been pushed so far that
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  Speaker 1: your freak offs were the only way you could satisfy yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Sex with multiple women at once, with men as well,
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  Speaker 1: and increasingly you taking care of yourself while you watched
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  Speaker 1: other men have sex with other men and with your woman.
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  Speaker 1: She was beautiful and talent, Cassie Ventura, just nineteen when
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  Speaker 1: you met her. You were thirty seven. You put her
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  Speaker 1: on the fast track at bad Boy. Bad Boy was
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  Speaker 1: a machine plugging the talent, and the machine would do
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  Speaker 1: the rest. Fame hit Cassie so quick. To her, it
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  Speaker 1: was like she'd become a different person entirely. Who was
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  Speaker 1: this new pop star staring back at her in the mirror?
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  Speaker 1: And how had she gone from a random club girl
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  Speaker 1: trying to get the DJ to spinner single to a
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  Speaker 1: Billboard charting artist in just seven short months. Her talent
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  Speaker 1: had a lot to do with it, but her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: being one of the most powerful entities in the music industry,
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  Speaker 1: also helped. However, flexing your power came with a price.
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  Speaker 1: You were not a stupid man. You weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: make Cassie a star without getting what you wanted in return.
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  Speaker 1: There were rules. Actually, there was only one real rule,
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  Speaker 1: and it was this. You controlled everything, and not just
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  Speaker 1: when it came to Cassie's career. You controlled her personal
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  Speaker 1: life as well. Where she lived, how she traveled, who
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  Speaker 1: she traveled with, what she drove, what doctor she saw. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: you even had her doctor send over her medical records
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  Speaker 1: for you to review. You paid for her apartments one
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan within walking distance of your place, and another
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  Speaker 1: in La also close by her home. That you paid
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  Speaker 1: for her car, for her food, for her makeup, her clothes.
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  Speaker 1: In an effect, the money you provided, along with your
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  Speaker 1: position as head of the record label that employed Cassie Ventura,
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  Speaker 1: in totality, you controlled her life entirely. You made sure
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  Speaker 1: the drugs you took were the drugs she took. By
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  Speaker 1: this point, you were addicted to prescription painkillers, so you've
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  Speaker 1: instructed your staff to keep pills readily available for you
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  Speaker 1: wherever you went, and you took them at all times,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you drank, so when Cassie drank, you made
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  Speaker 1: her take the pills as well. Drugs and alcohol were
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  Speaker 1: a must during the freakoffs, and now you are hosting
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  Speaker 1: many freakoffs, and they were easier to pull off than
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  Speaker 1: the major bashes with hundreds of sex freaks. You could
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  Speaker 1: host a minifreakoff at a hotel on the fly while
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  Speaker 1: you were traveling, and the cleanup would be minimal compared
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  Speaker 1: to hosting at your home. Cassie would later allege that
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  Speaker 1: her participation at these mini fos as you were now
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  Speaker 1: calling them, was mandatory increasingly for you watching your beautiful
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend perform sexually with other men was what did it
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  Speaker 1: for you the most, And as others have claimed, the
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  Speaker 1: men had to be of a certain type, big black,
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  Speaker 1: and massively endowed. Cassie did what she was told. What
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  Speaker 1: else was she going to do? It's not like she
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  Speaker 1: had a choice. You were in control, as a gangster,
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  Speaker 1: pim king hustler should be, and as Cassie Ventura now claims,
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  Speaker 1: you even had her source the hustlers from various websites
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  Speaker 1: and had her work with your staff to arrange for
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  Speaker 1: the hustlers to travel to your homes and to various
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  Speaker 1: hotels where you were now hosting these mini freakoffs, effectively
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  Speaker 1: forcing your girlfriend into sex trafficking, or so the allegation state.
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  Speaker 1: Cassie claims that for a period of your relationship, you
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  Speaker 1: insisted on a freakoff every week you spend gali these
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  Speaker 1: affairs in their entirety, insisting Cassie search for the hustlers
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  Speaker 1: online using the search term large black penises, and also
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  Speaker 1: insisting Cassie paint her nails white to better contrast against
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  Speaker 1: the color of the hustler's big black Well, you get
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  Speaker 1: the picture. Sometimes the freak offs lasted for days. The drugs,
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  Speaker 1: the alcohol, and the copious amounts of astro glad kept
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  Speaker 1: it all humming. But now this particular mini freakof was
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  Speaker 1: nearly over, and you'd taken care of yourself for a
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  Speaker 1: final time. And we're now insisting that Cassie continued with
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  Speaker 1: one of the male sex workers. She was going through
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  Speaker 1: the motions, and so was he. You didn't care. The
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  Speaker 1: only way you were getting what you wanted now was
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  Speaker 1: to make sure your girlfriend kept having sex and remained distracted,
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  Speaker 1: which was what was happening. At least that's what Cassie alleges,
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  Speaker 1: claiming that that's when you went through her back and
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  Speaker 1: then her phone, and just as you suspected, there were
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  Speaker 1: messages from another dude, another musician. The rage hit you
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  Speaker 1: like an ice pick slowly piercing your skull, but somehow,
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  Speaker 1: in the moment is swallowed and you kept it buried
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  Speaker 1: while anyway. January two thousand and nine, Los Angeles. This
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  Speaker 1: party sucked. It was nothing like the parties you threw.
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  Speaker 1: Alan Carr would have been bored, that's for sure. He
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  Speaker 1: watched Cassie from across the room. Who was she talking
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  Speaker 1: to another music manager? Why? What the fuck was she
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  Speaker 1: talking to that dude? For she had a manager you
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  Speaker 1: you ran her career, she was yours. Why the fuck
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  Speaker 1: was she talking to that dude in the escalade on
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  Speaker 1: the ride home from the lamest party you'd been to
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  Speaker 1: in a long time. Cassie had no answers. That's when
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  Speaker 1: the rage reappeared. That feeling in your skull was too much,
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  Speaker 1: As Cassie Ventura would later allege, you then assaulted her,
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  Speaker 1: pushing her onto the floor of the suuv and kicking
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  Speaker 1: her viciously, stomping on her face. Your bodyguard attempted to
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  Speaker 1: break it up as your driver wheeled up to your home,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no stopping you. You threw out of
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  Speaker 1: the truck and continued beating her, kicking her in the
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  Speaker 1: face over and over and over again. Cassie's blood was everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Your security brought her inside, where she promptly vomited repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: from the shock of the beating. Cassie's face was well destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: is how it appeared. You couldn't have that. He checked
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  Speaker 1: her into her hotel to heel and had your staff
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  Speaker 1: barrier with gifts, flowers, luxury items of all sorts, jewelry, clothes,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. In time, you figured she'd forgive you and
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  Speaker 1: come back. What the fuck else was she gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Give us some context on what we're about to see,
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  Speaker 1: he means, on what we're about to hear.
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  Speaker 2: This is incredibly disturbing. She claimed in her lawsuit that
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  Speaker 2: she was physically assaulted by Diddy. But I've got our
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  Speaker 2: hands on that surveillance footage. It appears to corroborate Cassie's
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  Speaker 2: claims idemically captured on multi book game Resolu film clients
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  Speaker 2: wearing a tall combs became extremely intoxicated and hoped in
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  Speaker 2: the face, giving her a black eye.
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  Speaker 1: She grabbed her, and he took glass gases in the
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  Speaker 1: highway and seeing that comes can you see the.
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  Speaker 2: Tack as the teraized on the ground comes, then kicks
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  Speaker 2: her twice, hicks her twice.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the video is out of the statute of limitations.
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  Speaker 3: Of the statute of limitations in California for a simple
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  Speaker 3: assault is a year. For domestic violence assault, it was
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  Speaker 3: three years. They moved that up to five years. But
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  Speaker 3: this is out of range for a state.
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  Speaker 4: Charge in California.
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  Speaker 3: However, let's get back to that federal investigation.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't believe it. She brought charges, charges against you.
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  Speaker 1: You made her who the fuck was? She didn't she
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  Speaker 1: know who you were after all you'd done for her
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  Speaker 1: now this, but you had to admire her hustle. She
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  Speaker 1: had you by the balls, whether you liked it or not.
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  Speaker 1: After all this time together, she knew too much, she'd
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  Speaker 1: seen too much. Hell, maybe she even had other evidence tapes.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have time now to worry about the tapes.
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  Speaker 1: You had to pay her to shut her up, but
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  Speaker 1: that meant paying her to go away. Thirty million, thirty
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  Speaker 1: mili for a piece of ass. Still wasn't the most
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  Speaker 1: expensive piece of ass you've ever had. That was for
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: sure when you added up all the sunk costs. Kim
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: costs more j Lo maybe too in other ways, but
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: again you couldn't think those thoughts. Now. You had to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: move forward. Gangsters don't let women break their stride or
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: slow them down. And that's when it hit you, that
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: big immovable wall, the crushing force of public opinion. We'll
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: be right back after this. We're, we're, we're. The setup
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: was perfect. Cassie would later allege in her indictment that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you had a Patsy do the deed, total deniability. Nothing
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: could come back on you if he were caught in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the act. And he was a slippery fuck though, so
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you weren't worried about him getting caught creeping. He knew
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood well, even if he didn't know the target.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: The target sat in his living room with his boys
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: doing who knows what kind of laymass bullshit. Who hangs
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: out with just other dudes on a Saturday night, losers,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that's who? And what she saw in this guy? You
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: had no idea, kid, Cutty. He wasn't good looking, that's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: for sure, and his music sucked day and night. The
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: fuck was that your drugged up security guard could come
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: up with that hook, and he barely had any bread
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: compared to you. Anyway, He did have a nice car,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a beautiful new Porsche that he loved that car, which
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: is why you had your guy creeping up on it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Unbeknown's to Cutty. Right now, your guy walked softly into
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Cutty's driveway, took his knife and drew a long slit
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: into the ragtop roof. Then the lighter igniting the oily
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: rag that was peeking out of the bottle, was the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: only sound Your guy made before dropping the mall top
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: cocktail into the front seat. A kid cut his Porsche
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: before You still laughed at the thought of cutting inside,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: freaking out, jumping into the lap of his stone friend,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: dropping the gaming controller or whatever the hell else's lame
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: ass was holding onto at the moment. He wasn't holding
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: your girl, and he wouldn't be ever again. That was
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the point. That's why you had to tell Cassie. You
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: had to tell her it was you who blew up
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: her side pieces car. It was the only way for
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: her to learn there was no leaving you, even if
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you were broken up. She should fucking anything twice before
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: running into the arms of another man. As always, it
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: was about control. Cassie had none, which is why she
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: ran to an attorney to make those claims in the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: first place, which is why you shelled out that thirty
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: mil to shut her up. But where you messed up
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: was thinking that the money wouldn't matter. Thirty million It
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: might not be shitped to a gangster like yourself, but
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to others. After you settle the lawsuit with Cassie in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: November of twenty twenty three, two more women quickly come
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: forward in two separate lawsuits alleging sexual assault. Your attorney
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: claims the allegations are false, but this isn't good. The
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: news of Cassie's lawsuit plus these two new ones turns
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: up the heat. You can feel public opinion turning on you.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: You're forced to step down as chairman of your cable
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: television network, Revolt. A week later, another woman brings another lawsuit,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: this one claiming you and two other men raped her
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: when she was just seventeen. You should have never se
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: settled with Cassie. Now everyone is looking for a payday.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You're forced to take to Instagram and issue a statement
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: denying the allegations from all of the lawsuits that spring
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: up after Cassie's saying, quote, I did not do any
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: my name, my family, and for the truth unquote. The
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: post cools things off for a bit. You try to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: get back to your business as the holidays come and go.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three he turns into twenty twenty four, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: then in February, if you're budding protege, producer Rodney Little
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Rod Jones files his own lawsuit with allegations that reinforce
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and expand upon the behavior alleged in the previous lawsuits.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Jones wants what Cassie got thirty million, and his indictment
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: sings in a way that the others do not. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: details are shocking. Jones claims that he's a heterosexual Christian man,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: but that you corrupted him, that you made him the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: quote victim of constant, unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: of his anus unquote. Jones goes on to claim that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you groomed him and that you promised him that if
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: he had sex with another producer friend of yours, Stephen
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Aaron Jordan aka Stevie j that he Rod Little Rod
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Jones would win a Grammy. Brod's allegations captivate the public's
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: attention in a way that the previous lawsuits failed to.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: The seventy five page complaint alleges not only sexual abuse,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: but goes into detail about the freakofs. It makes the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: explosive claim that quote mister Jones possesses compromising footage of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: every person that has attended his freakoff parties and house parties.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: There it is the tapes. The Internet goes berserk with
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: rumors the public knows about your legendary parties. You're on
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the record bragging about them numerous times over the past
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: two decades. We need alcohol. If you don't have what
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: they need, they gonna leave, right, gotta keep them there, right.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: You need locks on the doors. They sounding kind of dangerous.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Now that's a little kinky, but yeah, yeah, check it out.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: You need a lot of heat.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Heat affects the alcohol, and it also affects.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Like you know, everybody gets a little bit more comfortable
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and loose those up a nice little sweat.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: That just sounds disgusting.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: What do you got depends on the way you look
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: at it. This isn't good. Your whole brand is that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: of the sexy hip hop mogul party guy. Jones's allegations
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: fit too perfectly. Public opinion swings hard against you, even
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: though you deny everything in Rob Little Rob Jones's indictment,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: saying through your attorney that Jones is just a liar
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: who is quote shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday quote,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and that Jones reckless name dropping about events that are
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: pure fiction and simply did not happen. There's nothing more
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: than a transparent attempt to Garner headlines. Lawyer goes on
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to say, we have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his Jones's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: claims are complete lies. Our attempts to share this proof
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: with mister Jones's attorney have been ignored. We will address
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: these outrageous allegations in court and take all appropriate action
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: against those who make them. But the denial does next
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to nothing to dissuade the public's growing opinion of you
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: as some sort of Frankenstein version of Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Weinstein and Bill Cosby in the Internet turns its attention
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to the tapes. Who do you have compromising footage of
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: which celebrities Jennifer Lopez, Lebron When where were their cameras
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in all the bedrooms, in the bathrooms? How many years
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: have you been filming your parties? You're freaking a treasure
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: schow of a footage, that's what Rod Little Rod Jones
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is a legend you have? And why purposes? Why would
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you blackmail anyone? You're just a musician and entertainer when
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: you got right down to it, just a song and
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: dance man from the hood sort of via the burbs.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: But still maybe you needed protection. Maybe you learned your
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: lesson way back in the day that it didn't matter
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: who you worked with or who you worked for. Could
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: be any old gangster, could be Alan Carr, could be
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, It could be Nicky Barnes, or it could
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: be Frank Lucas. No matter who it was, you were
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: all alone. They'd sell you out and you'd end up
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: dead in the front seat of your boss's card, just
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: like your old man did. You needed some sort of insurance.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: The tapes, the tapes, the tapes.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: It was all about the tapes. The tape had to
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: be leaked, and it had to be the FEDS who
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: leaked it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: After all these allegations, the women who were alleging you
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: drugged and raped them. The fact that you settled was
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Cassie Lilrod's heinous claims about you. After all this, and
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you were still a freeman, often your private jets somewhere.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: It was too much. The public wanted your head on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a spit. The public wanted some accountability. That's one theory
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of why the video of you beating Cassie was leaked.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: The other theory is that there were powerful people on
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: those tapes of yours, and those people who were worried
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: about the tapes coming out, and then in the disappearing
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: days of twenty twenty four electoral politics, while those people
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: still had some juice left with the previous then current
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: administration and thus influence over those in power in the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: federal government, that those people wanted the tapes buried. Leaking
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the video of you beating the unholy hell out of
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: cast Inventor would give the government the roar of public
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: opinion that they needed to perhaps influence a judge to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: sign a search war which would allow them to raid
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: your homes to retrieve the tapes. Your attorneys later alleged
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that it was the Department of Homeland Security that leaked
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the heinous video that would justify federal authorities doing whatever
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: they wanted with you.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Law enforcement sources are telling ABC New News right right now,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: authorities are carrying out searches at properties associated with p.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Diddy forces that an arrest does not appear to be
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: imminent at this time. A video of one of these
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: searches being conducted Sean didty Kune's Los Angeles Tonys is
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: in the Beverly Hills area. Another search being conducted on
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: the other side of the country in miamimultiple allegations against
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Shan Denny Combs over the years, multiple allegations against Shan
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Denny Combs over the years, human trafficking, human trafficking. The
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: women who have made public accusations against Diddy are welcoming
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: Monday's law enforcement activity, We're told. In fact, there is
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: a statement from one of their lawyers where they're saying,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: we will always support law enforcement when it seeks to
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: prosecute those who have violated the law, the beginning of
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: a process that will hold mister Combs responsible for what
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: they call his depraved conduct.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Kashmir loved her job at the booby Trap on the River.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: The strip club was just eight miles from Star Island,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and Star Island was the home of Sean Ditty Combs.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: When Diddy was in town, which was often his friend,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: some called him Ditty's drug Meal. Brendan Paul would come
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: in and round up Kashmir and some of her co
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: workers for an after party pies for Kashmir. Sean Combs
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: was a recession buster. Twenty twenty four. At the Booby
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Trap was no gold rush. The economy, even in Miami
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: was taking a hit. Sure on a good night especially
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: during football season, the girl could walk out with at
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: least a grant, sometimes a lot more. But on a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: slow night, Kashmir would be lucky to take home one
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: hundred bucks, sometimes less. Often, a dancer on a slow
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: knight would wind up losing money. New outfits weren't cheap,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: neither was makeup. So the parties at Ditty's house, despite
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the work you had to do and the amount of
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: drugs you had to take, went a long way and
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: paying the bills for Kashmere and some of the other
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: girls down at the Booby Trap. And that's why the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: girls snapped to attention whenever Ditty's mule walked through the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: club's doors. They were always on the lookout for him,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: especially on slow nights, which tonight most definitely was. But
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Ditty's mule, brend and Paul wasn't walking through the Booby
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Trap door on that early eve on March twenty fifth,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, or anytime soon, because he was in
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: handcuffs at Obaalaka Airport, busted for cocaine and marijuana lace
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: candy while attempting to fly out of the country on
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Sean Combs's private jet alongside Diddy, who listened intently to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: his lawyer on the other end of his cell phone,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: who was filling him in on everything he knew about
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the raids that had just happened at both his Star Island,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Miami and Los Angeles. Holmes, No, you weren't being arrested. No,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: he didn't know what exactly had been seized just yet. Yes,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: he'd let you know everything as soon as he had information. No,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Miami PDE were not going to detain you for Brendan's
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: drugs just Brendan. Yes, you could leave the country now,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: if possible, while you were still a freeman. When the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: news of the twin raids on Seawan Combs's home broke,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: so did the Internet in twenty twenty four, during a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: year nearly NonStop wild news stories. In March, Sean didty
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Combs was the biggest story on the planet. Was he guilt?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Did he do the heinous crimes that were being alleged?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: If he didn't, why did he settle with Cassie? What
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: about the video of him beating her senseless? And if
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: he was innocent, why was he now in a private
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: jet flying to Antigua? But what exactly happened during the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: raids what did the fed seas? Did they get the tapes?
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: What was on the tapes? Now? Who was on the tapes?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: How many a list celebrities attended those didty parties? Amid
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: all the Internet conjecture, all the rumors, all the gossip,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: all the conspiracy theories, there was also Sean Diddy Combs,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in his own words on video, damning himself with the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: obvious for being the gangster, pimp, king hustler that he was.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: If you don't have what they need, they gonna leave, right.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Gotta keep him there right, need locks on the doors.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Later that night, Kashmir sat backstage at the booby Trap,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: running her meager stack of cash through the counting machine.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: She didn't know why she even bothered, counting out forty
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: three dollars in ones did not require mechanical assistance. It
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: was more I have it. When she was done, she
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: leaned back in her chair and allowed herself to get
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: sucked into her phone. Like the rest of the world
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: at the moment, Curious to know what was happening with
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the world's biggest gangster, pimp, king hustler, Sean Diddy Combs,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: she scrolled up into a TikTok video of Diddy from
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, with a title promising proof Diddy has
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: always been a diddler. The Entertainment Tonight interviewer in the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: TikTok video invites Diddy to comment, saying your parties are
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the hottest ticket around. The gangster pimp King Hustler responds prophetically,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: with you're gonna hear about my parties. They're going to
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: be shutting them down. They're probably going to be arresting
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: me doing all types of crazy things just because we
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: want to have a good time. Sean Diddy Combs, even
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: way back in nineteen ninety nine, The ultimate disgrace. I'm
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Jake Brennan in this episode of Disgraceland is to be continued.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, it bears repeating. Sean Diddy Combs denies
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: every single allegation that has been put forth about him.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Just wanted to restate that right here. All right, thank
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: you for checking out this episode of Disgraceland. Obviously, there
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is a lot more to get into with the Shawn
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Combs story, and I plan on doing just that with
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: our continuation of this Diddy saga coming in the next
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: few weeks. So many questions, right, but what is our
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: question this week. I want to ask you guys a
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: simple one. Do you believe that Sean Combs is guilty
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of the horrible abuse detailed in these indictments. Let me
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: know if you do it or not and why? And
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I want your ditty theories. Okay, hit me up, let
• 37:54
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• 37:56
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• 37:58
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