1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 2: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. On September sixteenth, 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, federal authorities charged Sean Diddy Comb's with 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy, and transportation to engage in prostitution. 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 2: Colmbs pleaded not guilty to all these charges and is 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 2: currently at the time of this recording behind Barr's awaiting trial. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 2: These federal charges were preceded by a lawsuit brought against 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: Combs in November of twenty twenty three by his former girlfriend, 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: Cassie Ventura. The Ventura lawsuit alleged sexual assault and physical 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 2: abuse charges as well. Combs settled this lawsuit within days, 12 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,919 Speaker 2: setting off a wave of similar lawsuits from different victims, 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: male and female, alleging abuse. Colmbs denies all of these allegations. 14 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: The horrific details in this episode are not imagined or 15 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 2: manufactured by the author. They are ripped directly from the 16 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 2: pages of the federal indictment, as well as from the 17 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: original Ventura indictment. Again, all charges denied by Shawn Combs. 18 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 2: The federal allegations will be litigated in court sometime in 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Until then, this is the story of 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 2: Shawn Combs, according to some of his alleged victims and 21 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 2: biographers Melochron, this is a story about disgrace, the ultimate disgrace, 22 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: about a gangster born from another gangster, About a murder, 23 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: a stampede, an incredible rise to success and power, about 24 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 2: indictments and abuse and control. This is a story about 25 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 2: Sean Diddy Combs, and depending on who you believe, either 26 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: his girlfriend or his victim, Cassie Ventura. It's also a 27 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 2: story about music, or about a music mogul, a music 28 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: mogul who made a lot of money off of some 29 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: great music. Unlike that music I played for you at 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 2: the top of the show. That wasn't great music. That 31 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: was a preset loop for my melotron called do the 32 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 2: Astro Slide MK one. I played you that loop because 33 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: I can't afford the rights to Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift. 34 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 2: And why would I play you that specific slice of 35 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 2: basic af cheese? 36 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: Could I afford it? 37 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on 38 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 2: November twenty third, twenty twenty three, and that was the day, 39 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 2: Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit against Sean Diddy Combs, alleging 40 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: rape and abuse and setting off a legal nightmare for 41 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 2: the hip hop mogul. On this episode, Gangsters Murder, Indictments, 42 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: abuse control. In The Ultimate Disgrace, Sean Diddy Combs, I'm 43 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 2: Jake Brennan in This is Disgraceland. You're born in Harlem 44 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty nine. You don't know him, but the 45 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 2: world is on fire. In the ghetto where you live 46 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: is on America's pay No Mind list. Your father he 47 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 2: takes work as a driver for the notorious gangster Frank Lucas. Yes, 48 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: that Frank Lucas, the one Denzel Washington would later portray 49 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: an American gangster for. 50 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: A minute there. 51 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: So the story goes, your family's doing okay, and then 52 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: the heat comes down and your father is forced to snitch. 53 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: That doesn't go so well. Your dad is gunned down. 54 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 2: The streets know where the bullet came from, and the 55 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: streets know why. Gangster drivers who get all loose lips 56 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 2: with the Feds don't last. 57 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 1: Long in Harlem. Neither do you and your mom. 58 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: She moves you both ten miles north to Mount Vernon, 59 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 2: far enough from the city to have some sort of normalcy, 60 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: but close enough to feel its pole when the suburban 61 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 2: boredom sets in. Boyhood is tough, but not as tough 62 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: as it would. 63 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: Have been in Harlem. 64 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: Your mom gets by as a single mother. That you 65 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: get by on your mom's hustle in your daddy's term. 66 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: But whatever this life is. As you hit adolescence, it's 67 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: clear to you. 68 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 2: That it's not enough. You aspire to more. You put 69 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 2: your mother's hustle in your father's term to work in 70 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 2: college at Howard University, you throw parties, massive parties. One 71 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: such party results in a stampede. Nine people die. Somehow 72 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: you get away with it. You drive harder into the 73 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 2: paint with your career. You promote hip hop and R 74 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 2: and b artists for Andre Harrald's Uptown Records, Mary J. 75 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: Blige, Jodasy. 76 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 2: Soon, however, Andrea gets an idea in his head. He 77 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 2: thinks your ego is growing out of control. 78 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: He fires you. 79 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. You have an ace up your sleeve. 80 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 2: The Notorious Big, a heavyweight talent from Brooklyn whose first 81 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: record you stake your career on. 82 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: It works. Biggie Small's His. 83 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 2: Debut Ready to Die, is a massive hit. So is 84 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: your new record label, bad Boy. You, your label, and 85 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 2: your talent are controversial for many reasons. The critics think 86 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 2: your production is whack. Beef is the order of the day. 87 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 2: The media blows it all out of proportion. Your loudmouthed friend, 88 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: the beautiful and talented Tupac Secure, makes an enemy of you, 89 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 2: and Biggie. Tupac is gunned down, and then so is Biggie. Still, 90 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 2: you take all of it and stride. 91 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: You release your own album. Now You're the star. 92 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: Your debut single goes to number one. Your debut album 93 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 2: debuts at number one, a first for a hip hop record. 94 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: You cannot be stopped. Success as a talent promoter, success 95 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 2: as a labelhead, then as a star. You spin it 96 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 2: all into more success as an actor, as a television producer. 97 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: You start a. 98 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 2: Clothing line, a vodka brand, a television network. By the 99 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: year twenty twenty two, you're a billionaire and your hustle 100 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 2: never stops. All the while. You've worked hard, but you 101 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 2: played even harder. You heard the stories back when you 102 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 2: were coming up. The men who knew your father cursed 103 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: Frank lucas the man believed to be responsible for your 104 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 2: dad's death, and they praised his rival, Harlem gangster Nicky Burns. 105 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 2: Unlike Frank, who patterned himself after a boring boardroom executive, 106 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 2: Nicky had style. Nicki rocked a different tailored suit every 107 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: night of the week, floor length furs, luxury cars, a 108 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 2: fleet of luxury cars, multiple homes, and multiple apartments scattered 109 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 2: about the city, each for a different woman. Nicki was 110 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 2: a gangster, sure, but he was also on the cover 111 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: of the New York Times magazine, decked out in his 112 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 2: finest swag, looking like the motherfucking pimp king hustler that 113 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 2: he was born to be. He loved the image because 114 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 2: you were born to be a gangster, born to be 115 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 2: a pimp king hustler as well. So you co opted 116 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 2: Nicky's image for your own. And when you finally made it, 117 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 2: when they let you in into the private carridors of power, 118 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 2: and the whispers became a little more full throated. Were 119 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: the man who pulled the strings dished on how the 120 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 2: real players let off steam you were all years. Alan 121 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 2: Carr was a talent guy turned producer, just like you, 122 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 2: but from back in the seventies and his parties were 123 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 2: still being talked about. Everyone got laid at Alan's parties. 124 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 2: Didn't matter if you were openly gay like Alan or 125 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: a gangster like Nicky Barnes. Didn't matter if you were 126 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 2: Rod Stewart or Rod Steiger, Diana Ross or David Geffen. 127 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 2: The debauchery at Allen's Hollywood home parties was everywhere. The 128 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 2: muscle bound men, different kinds of hustlers than the ones 129 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 2: you were familiar with. Legend was that Alan had him 130 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 2: bust in a listers pool, boys, starlits, whatever kind of 131 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: sex you wanted, it was there for you at Allan's 132 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 2: because if you were at Allen's, you'd earned it. You 133 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 2: were in the entertainment business, and you were ascended. Some 134 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 2: took it too far when you afforded that type of pleasure. 135 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 2: When whatever you want is available to you whenever you 136 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 2: want it, how do you draw the line. The internationally 137 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 2: famous Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nuriya have had no line, 138 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: and Hollywood in nineteen seventy four he was being feted. 139 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 2: Alan Carr was going to make sure Nuriyev had whatever 140 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 2: he desired at his party. So right there at Allan's 141 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 2: out in the pool house while the party swung in 142 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 2: that West Coast summer breeze easy kind of way, while 143 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 2: Mick Jagger tucked up Sidney Poitier by the pool, while 144 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 2: Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali shared a joint off the 145 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: patio watching May West Zipper cocktail with Joan Diddion and 146 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 2: Dominic Dunn watching it all. Rudolph Nuriev's screams of ecstasy 147 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: gave Alan Carr's outdoor sound system a run for its money. 148 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 2: As you heard the story years later, those moans came 149 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 2: from the pool house, where outside a line of twenty 150 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: five hustlers waited to take on Nuriev. Inside, where it 151 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,239 Speaker 2: was the ballet dancer had them all in succession that afternoon, 152 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 2: while the drinks and the gossip spilled out by the 153 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 2: pool in equal measure, all nonchalant, like that kind of 154 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: hedonism was next level, Alan Carr, Nicky barnes Hell even 155 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton that dude got his in the White House 156 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 2: while married America found out and dude was like, yeah, 157 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 2: so what, I'm the first black president? 158 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: The fuck are you going to do about it? And 159 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: he got away with it. Okay, that's not exactly how it. 160 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 2: Went down, but in retrospect it might as well have been. 161 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, Bill Clinton was gangster. 162 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: You were gangster as well, and you saw yourself in 163 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: the same light as you saw those other gangsters, Bill Clinton, 164 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: Nicky Barnes, Alan Carr. Your parties would be just as legendary. 165 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 2: Your parties would be just as hedonistic. 166 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: You and you were. 167 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 2: Ascending a list friends from the world of entertainment, would 168 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 2: also have whatever you desired. Half a million dollars. That 169 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 2: was the cost of the party, well for most of it, anyway, 170 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 2: And most of that money went toward the buildout, and 171 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: most of that build out went toward the mirrors, mirrors 172 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 2: on the walls, all of them, and on the ceilings. 173 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 2: And when the herbs split around midnight, when the freaks 174 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 2: came out, the strippers turned into sex workers, and when 175 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 2: the party favors arrived, when the drugs kicked in, and 176 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 2: when the heat in the house was literally turned up, 177 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 2: and when the sweat started to glisten under the strobes, 178 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 2: when the clothes started to fall off and the body 179 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 2: started to stick together on the dance floor, it would 180 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: just start to happen naturally for you for your friends 181 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 2: a listers and comers alike, hangers on and even family whoever. 182 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: Who were you to judge? 183 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 2: You earned your hedonism just like the gangsters before you. 184 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 2: This was your time, your chance to get your freak off. 185 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: It was disgusting, blood feces, seamen stains. Cleaners used a 186 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 2: black light to spot the unseen, settled grime. It was everywhere, 187 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 2: on the walls, on the floors, even on the ceiling. 188 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 2: Your parties, freak offs as you called them, as your 189 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 2: staff called them as well, a mess to clean up, 190 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 2: and if you were being honest, they were a bitch 191 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 2: to put on. A lot of work went into them. 192 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 2: All of it seemed like a herculean effort just to 193 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 2: get off, but that was your new reality, being the gangster, pimp, 194 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 2: king hustler that you now were. 195 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: Your line had been pushed. 196 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 2: So far that your freak offs were the only way 197 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 2: you could satisfy yourself. Sex with multiple women at once, 198 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: with men as well, and increasingly, you taking care of 199 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 2: yourself while you watched other men have sex with other 200 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 2: men and with your woman. She was beautiful and talented, 201 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 2: Cassie Ventura, just nineteen. When you met her, you were 202 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 2: thirty seven. You put her on the fast track at 203 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 2: Bad Boy. Bad Boy was a machine plugging the talent, 204 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 2: and the machine would do the rest. Fame hit Cassie 205 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 2: so quick to her, It's like she'd become a different 206 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 2: person entirely. Who was this snow pop star staring back. 207 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: At her in the mirror? And how had she. 208 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 2: Gone from a random club girl trying to get the 209 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 2: DJ to spinner single to a Billboard charting artist in 210 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: just seven short months. Her talent had a lot to 211 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 2: do with it, but her boyfriend, being one of the 212 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: most powerful entities in the music industry, also helped. However, 213 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 2: flexing your power came with a price. You were not 214 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 2: a stupid man. You weren't going to make Cassie a 215 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: star without getting what you wanted in return. 216 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: There were rules. Actually, there was only one real rule, 217 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: and it was this. 218 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: You controlled everything, and not just when it came to 219 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: Cassie's career. You controlled her personal life as well. Where 220 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 2: she lived, how she traveled, who she traveled with, what 221 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 2: she drove, what doctor she saw. Hell, you even had 222 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 2: her doctor send over her medical records for you to review. 223 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: You paid for her apartments one in Manhattan within walking 224 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: distance of your place, and another in La also close 225 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 2: by her home, that you paid for her car, for 226 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 2: her food, for her makeup, her clothes. In an effect, 227 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 2: the money you provided, along with your position as head 228 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 2: of the record label that employed Cassie Ventura, in totality, 229 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 2: you controlled her life entirely. You made sure the drugs 230 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 2: you took were the drugs she took. By this point, 231 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 2: you were addicted to prescription painkillers, so you instructed your 232 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 2: staff to keep pills readily available for you wherever you went, 233 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 2: and you took them at all times, especially when you drank, 234 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 2: so when Cassie drank, you made her take the. 235 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: Pills as well. Drugs and alcohol were. 236 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 2: A must during the freakoffs, and now you are hosting 237 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: many freakoffs, and they were easier to pull off than 238 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 2: the major bashes with hundreds of sex freaks. You could 239 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 2: host a minifreakoff at a hotel on the fly while 240 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 2: you were traveling, and the cleanup would be minimal compared 241 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 2: to hosting at your home. 242 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: Cassie would later. 243 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 2: Allege that her participation at these mini fos as you 244 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 2: were now calling them, was mandatory increasingly for you watching 245 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 2: your beautiful girlfriend perform sexually with other men was what 246 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 2: did it for you the most, And as others have claimed, 247 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 2: the men had to be of a certain tight, big black, 248 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 2: and massively endowed. Cassie did what she was told. What 249 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 2: else was she going to do. It's not like she 250 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 2: had a choice. You were in control, as a gangster, 251 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 2: pim king hustler should be, and as Cassie Ventura now claims, 252 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 2: you even had her source the hustlers from various websites 253 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 2: and had her work with your staff to arrange for 254 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 2: the hustlers to travel to your homes to various hotels 255 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 2: where you were now hosting these mini freakoffs, effectively forcing 256 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: your girlfriend into sex trafficking, or so the allegation state. 257 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 2: Cassie claims that for a period of your relationship, you 258 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 2: insisted on a freakoff every week. You spend ghali these 259 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 2: affairs in their entirety, insisting Cassie search for the hustlers 260 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: online using the search term large black penises, and also 261 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 2: insisting Cassie paint her nails white to better contrast against 262 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: the color of the hustler's big black Well, you get 263 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 2: the picture. Sometimes the freak offs lasted for days. The drugs, 264 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: The alcohol and the copious amounts of astro glad kept 265 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 2: it all humming. But now this particular minifreakof was nearly over, 266 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 2: and you'd taken care of yourself for a final time. 267 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 2: And we're now insisting that Cassie continued with one of 268 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 2: the male sex workers. She was going through the motions, 269 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 2: and so was he. 270 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: You didn't care. 271 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 2: The only way you were getting what you wanted now 272 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 2: was to make sure your girlfriend kept having sex and 273 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 2: remain distracted, which was what was happening. At least that's 274 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 2: what Cassie alleges, claiming that that's when you went through 275 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 2: her bag and then her phone, and just as you suspected, 276 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 2: there were messages from another dude, another musician. The rage 277 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,959 Speaker 2: hit you like an ice pick slowly piercing your skull, 278 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 2: But somehow in the moment is swallowed it and you 279 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 2: kept it buried for a while. Anyway, January two thousand 280 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 2: and nine, Los Angeles. This party sucked. It was nothing 281 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 2: like the parties you threw. Alan Carr would have been bored, 282 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 2: that's for sure. He watched Cassie from across the room. 283 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: Who is she talking to another music manager? Why? What 284 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: the fuck was she talking to that dude? 285 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 2: For she had a manager you you ran her career. 286 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 1: She was yours. 287 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 2: Why the fuck was she talking to that dude in 288 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 2: the escalade on the ride home from the lamest party 289 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 2: you'd been to in a long time. Cassie had no answers. 290 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 2: That's when the rage reappeared. That feeling in your skull 291 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 2: was too much, As Cassie Ventura would later allege, you 292 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 2: then assaulted her, pushing her onto the floor of the 293 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 2: seuv and kicking her viciously, stomping on her face. Your 294 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 2: bodyguard attempted to break it up as your driver wheeled 295 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: up to your home, but there was no stopping you. 296 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 2: He threw out of the truck and continued beating her, 297 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 2: kicking her in the face over and over and over again. 298 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 2: Cassie's blood was everywhere. Your security brought her inside, where 299 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 2: she promptly vomited repeatedly from the shock of the beating. 300 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: Cassie's face was well destroyed, is how it appeared. You 301 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 2: couldn't have that. He checked her into her hotel to 302 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 2: heel and had your staff barrier with gifts, flowers, luxury 303 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 2: items of all sorts, jewelry, clothes, et cetera. In time, 304 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 2: you figured she'd forgive you and come back. What the 305 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 2: fuck else was she gonna do? 306 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: Give us some context on what we're about to see, 307 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: he means, on what we're about to hear. 308 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 3: This is incredibly disturbing. 309 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: She claimed in her the lawsuit that she was physically. 310 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 3: Assaulted by Diddy. But I've got our hands all that 311 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 3: surveillance footage it appears to corroborate Cassie's claims idemically. 312 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: Captured on multipook game resolution. 313 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 2: You almost comes wearing a tele Combs became extremely intoxicated 314 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 2: and in the face, giving her a black eye. 315 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: She grabbed her and they took glass bass in the 316 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: highway and steam that kist receive as ntories on the ground. 317 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: Comes then kicks her twice, hicks her twice. 318 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 4: Well, the video is out of the statute of limitations. 319 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 4: The statute limitations in California for a simple assault is 320 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 4: a year. For domestic violence assault, it was three years. 321 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 4: They moved that up to five years. But this is 322 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 4: out of range for a state. 323 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: Charge in California. 324 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 4: However, let's get back to that federal investigation. 325 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: You couldn't believe it. 326 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 2: She brought charges charges against you. You made her who 327 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 2: the fuck was? She didn't she know who you were 328 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 2: after all you'd done for her now this, but you 329 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 2: had to admire her hustle. She had you by the balls, 330 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 2: whether you liked it or not. After all this time together. 331 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: She knew too much, she'd seen too much. 332 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 2: Hell, maybe she even had other evidence tapes. 333 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: You didn't have time now to worry about the tapes. 334 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: You had to pay her to shut her up. 335 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: But that meant paying her to go away. Thirty million, 336 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 2: thirty mili for a piece of ass. Still wasn't the 337 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 2: most expensive piece of ass you've ever had. That was 338 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 2: for sure when you added up all the sunk costs. 339 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 2: Kim costs more j Lo maybe too in other ways. 340 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: But again you couldn't think those thoughts. 341 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 2: Now. 342 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: You had to move forward. 343 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 2: Gangsters don't let women break their stride or slow them down. 344 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: And that's when it. 345 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 2: Hit you, that big immovable wall, the crushing force of 346 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 2: public opinion. 347 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this, We're, we're, we're. The 348 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: setup was perfect. 349 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 2: Cassie would later allege in her indictment that you had 350 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 2: a patsy do the deed, total deniability. Nothing could come 351 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 2: back on you if he were caught in the act. 352 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 2: And he was a slippery fuck though, so you weren't 353 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 2: worried about him getting caught creeping. He knew the neighborhood well, 354 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,160 Speaker 2: even if he didn't know the target. The target sat 355 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 2: in his living room with his boys doing who knows 356 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 2: what kind of lay mass bullshit. Who hangs out with 357 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 2: just other dudes on a Saturday night, losers, that's who 358 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 2: and what she saw in this guy. 359 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: You had no idea, kid, Cutty. 360 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 2: He wasn't good looking, that's for sure, and his music 361 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 2: sucked day and night. The fuck was that your drugged 362 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 2: up security guard could come up with that hook, and 363 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 2: he barely had any bread compared to you. Anyway, he 364 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 2: did have a nice car, a beautiful new Porsche that 365 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 2: he loved that car, which is why you had your 366 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 2: guy creeping up on it. Unbeknow, it's to Cutty right now. 367 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 2: Your guy walked softly into Cutty's driveway, took his knife 368 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 2: and drew a long slit into the ragtop roof. Then 369 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 2: the lighter igniting the oily rag that was peeking out 370 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 2: of the bottle was the only sound your guy made 371 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 2: before dropping the mall top cocktail into the front seat, 372 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 2: a kid cutty his Porsche before you still laughed at 373 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 2: the thought of cutting inside, freaking out, jumping into the 374 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 2: lap of his stone friend, dropping the gaming controller or 375 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 2: whatever the hell else's lame ass was holding onto at 376 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 2: the moment. He wasn't holding your girl, and he wouldn't 377 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 2: be ever again. 378 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 1: That was the point. 379 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: That's why you had to tell Cassie. You had to 380 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 2: tell her it was you who blew up her side 381 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 2: pieces car. It was the only way for her to 382 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 2: learn there was no leaving you, even if you were 383 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,959 Speaker 2: broken up. She should fucking anything twice before running into 384 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 2: the arms of another man. As always, it was about control. 385 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 2: Cassie had none, which is why she ran to an 386 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 2: attorney to make those claims in the first place, which 387 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 2: is why you shelled out that thirty mil to shut 388 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: her up. But where you messed up was thinking that 389 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 2: the money wouldn't matter. Thirty million it might not be 390 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 2: shitped to a gangster like yourself, but to others. After 391 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 2: you settle the lawsuit with Cassie in November of twenty 392 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 2: twenty three, two more women quickly come forward in two 393 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 2: separate lawsuits alleging sexual assault your attorney claims the allegations 394 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 2: are false, but this isn't good. The news of Cassie's 395 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 2: lawsuit plus these two new ones, turns up the heat. 396 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 2: You can feel public opinion turning on you. You're forced 397 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 2: to step down as chairman of your cable television network, Revolt. 398 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 2: A week later, another woman brings another lawsuit, this one 399 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 2: claiming you and two other men raped her when she 400 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 2: was just seventeen. You should have never s settled, was Cassie. 401 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 2: Now everyone is looking for a payday. You're forced to 402 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 2: take to Instagram and issue a statement denying the allegations 403 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 2: from all of the lawsuits that spring up after Cassie's saying, quote, 404 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 2: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. 405 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: I will fight for my name, my family, and. 406 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: For the truth unquote. The post coolest things off for 407 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 2: a bit. You try to get back to your business 408 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 2: as the holidays come and go. Twenty twenty three he 409 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,479 Speaker 2: turns into twenty twenty four, and then in February, if 410 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 2: you're budding protegee producer Rodney Little Rod Jones files his 411 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 2: own lawsuit with allegations that reinforce and expand upon the 412 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 2: behavior alleged in the previous lawsuits. Jones wants what Cassie 413 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 2: got thirty million, and his indictment sings in a way 414 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 2: that the others do not. The details are shocking. Jones 415 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 2: claims that he's a heterosexual Christian man, but that you 416 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 2: corrupted him, that you made him the quote victim of constant, 417 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 2: unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus unquote. 418 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 2: Jones goes on to claim that you groomed him and 419 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 2: that you promised him that if he had sex with 420 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 2: another producer friend of yours, Stephen Aaron Jordan aka steviej 421 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 2: that he Rod Little Rod Jones would win a Grammy. 422 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 2: Brod's allegations captivate the public's attention in a way that 423 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 2: the previous lawsuits failed to. The seventy five page complaint 424 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 2: alleges not only sexual abuse, but goes into detail about 425 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 2: the freak Offs and makes the explosive claim that quote, 426 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 2: mister Jones possesses compromising footage of every person that has 427 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 2: attended his Freakoff parties and house parties. There it is 428 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 2: the tapes. The Internet goes berserk with rumors. The public 429 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 2: knows about your legendary parties. You're on the record bragging 430 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,959 Speaker 2: about them numerous times over the past two decades. 431 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: We need alcohol. 432 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 3: If you don't have what they need, they gonna leave, right, 433 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 3: gotta keep them there, right. 434 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 2: You need locks on the doors. It isn't sounding kind 435 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 2: of dangerous. Now that's a little kinky, but yeah, yeah, 436 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 2: check it out. 437 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 3: You need a lot of heat. 438 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 2: Heat affects the alcohol, and it also affects like you know, 439 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 2: everybody gets a little bit. 440 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: More comfortable and loose those up a nice little sweat. 441 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: That just sounds disgusting. 442 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 3: What you got depends on the. 443 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: Way you look at it. This isn't good. 444 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: Your whole brand is that of the sexy hip hop 445 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:38,719 Speaker 2: mogul party guy. Jones's allegations fit too perfectly. Public opinion 446 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 2: swings hard against you, even though you deny everything in 447 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 2: Rob Little Rod Jones's indictment, saying through your attorney that 448 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 2: Jones is just a liar who is quote shamelessly looking 449 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 2: for an undeserved payday unquote, and that Jones reckless name 450 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did 451 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 2: not happen. There is nothing more than a transparent attempt 452 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 2: to garner headlines. 453 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: Lawyer goes on to say, we. 454 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 2: Have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his Jones's claims are complete lies. 455 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 2: Our attempts to share this proof with mister Jones's attorney 456 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 2: have been ignored. We will address these outrageous allegations in 457 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: court and take all appropriate action against those. 458 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:17,360 Speaker 1: Who make them. 459 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: But the denial does next to nothing to dissuade the 460 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 2: public's growing opinion of you as some sort of Frankenstein 461 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 2: version of Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, and Bill Cosby in 462 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 2: the Internet turns its attention. 463 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: To the tapes. Who do you have compromising. 464 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 2: Footage of which celebrities? Jennifer Lopez, Lebron What? 465 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: When? 466 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 2: Where were their cameras in all the bedrooms, in the bathrooms? 467 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: How many years have you. 468 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: Been filming your parties? 469 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 2: You're freaking a treasure show of a footage. 470 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: That's what Rod Little Rod Jones is the legend you 471 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: have and why blackmail purposes? 472 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: Why would you blackmail anyone? You're just a musician, an 473 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 2: entertainer when you got right down to it, just a 474 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 2: song and dance man from the hood sort of via 475 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 2: the burbs. But still maybe you needed protection. Maybe you 476 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 2: learned your lesson way back in the day that it 477 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 2: didn't matter who you worked with or who you worked for. 478 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: Could be any old gangster. 479 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 2: It could be Alan Carr, could be Bill Clinton, it 480 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 2: could be Nicky Barnes, or it could be Frank Lucas. 481 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: No matter who it was, you were all alone. 482 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 2: They'd sell you out and you'd end up dead in 483 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 2: the front seat of your boss's card, just like your 484 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: old man did. You needed some sort of insurance. The tapes, 485 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,479 Speaker 2: the tapes, the tapes. It was all about the tapes. 486 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 2: The tape had to be leaked, and it had to 487 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 2: be the FEDS who leaked it. After all these allegations, 488 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,239 Speaker 2: the women who were alleging you drugged and raped them. 489 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 2: The fact that you settled was Cassie Lilrod's heinous claims 490 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 2: about you. After all this, and you were still a freeman, 491 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 2: often your private jets somewhere. 492 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: It was too much. 493 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,959 Speaker 2: The public wanted your head on a spit. The public 494 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: wanted some accountability. That's one theory of why the video 495 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 2: of you beating Cassie was leaked. The other theory is 496 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 2: that there were powerful people on those tapes of yours, 497 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 2: and those people who were worried about the tapes coming out, 498 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 2: and then in the disappearing days of twenty twenty four 499 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 2: electoral politics, while those people still had some juice left 500 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 2: with the previous then current administration and thus influence over 501 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 2: those in power in the federal government, that those people 502 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 2: wanted the tapes buried. Leaking the video of you beating 503 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: the unholy hell out of cast Inventor would give the 504 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 2: government the roar of public opinion that they needed to 505 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 2: perhaps influence a judge to sign a search war which 506 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 2: would allow them to raid your homes to retrieve the tapes. 507 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 2: Your attorneys later alleged that it was the Department of 508 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,719 Speaker 2: Homeland Security that leaked the heinous video that would justify 509 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 2: federal authorities doing whatever they. 510 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: Wanted with you. 511 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 3: Law enforcement sources are telling ABC New News right right now, 512 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 3: authorities are carrying out searches properties associated with p Diddy. 513 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: Sources that an arrest. 514 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 3: Does not appear to be imminent at this time. Video 515 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 3: of one of these surches being conducted Sean Diddy CON's 516 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 3: Los Angeles Tonys is in the Beverly Hills area. Another 517 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 3: search being conducted on the other side of the country 518 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 3: in miamimultiple allegations against Shan Denny Combs over the years, 519 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 3: multiple allegations against Shan Denny Combs over the years, human trafficking, 520 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 3: human trafficking. The women who have made public accusations against 521 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 3: Diddy are welcoming Monday's law enforcement activity, We're told. In fact, 522 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 3: there is a statement from one of their lawyers where 523 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 3: they're saying, we will always support law enforcement when it 524 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 3: seeks to prosecute those who have violated the law, the 525 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 3: beginning of a process that will hold mister Combs responsible 526 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 3: for what they call his depraved conduct. 527 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 2: Kashmir loved her job at the booby Trap on the River. 528 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 2: The strip club was just eight miles from Star Island, 529 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,479 Speaker 2: and Star Island was the home of Sean Diddy. Combs 530 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 2: when Diddy was in town, which was often his friend. 531 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 2: Some called him Ditty's drug mule. Brendan Paul would come 532 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 2: in and round up Kashmir and some of her co 533 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 2: workers for an after party pies for Kashmir. Sean Combs 534 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 2: was a recession buster. Twenty twenty four. At the Booby 535 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 2: Trap was no gold rush. The economy, even in Miami 536 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 2: was taking a hit. Sure on a good night, especially 537 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 2: during football season, the girl could walk out with at 538 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 2: least a grant, sometimes a lot more. But on a 539 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: slow night, Kashmir would be lucky to take home one 540 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 2: hundred bucks, sometimes less often, a dancer on a slow 541 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 2: knight would wind up losing money. New outfits weren't cheap, 542 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 2: neither was makeup. So the parties at Ditty's house, despite 543 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 2: the work you had to do and the amount of 544 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 2: drugs you had to take, went a long way and 545 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 2: paying the bills for Kashmere and some of the other 546 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 2: girls down at the Booby Trap. And that's why the 547 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 2: girls snapped to attention whenever Ditty's mule walked through the 548 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 2: club's doors. They were always on the lookout for him, 549 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:55,320 Speaker 2: especially on slow nights, which tonight most definitely was. But 550 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 2: Ditty's mule, Brendan Paul wasn't walking through the Booby Trap 551 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 2: door on that early EA on March twenty fifth, twenty 552 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 2: twenty four, or anytime soon, because he was in handcuffs 553 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 2: at Opa Loaca Airport, busted for cocaine and marijuana lace 554 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 2: candy while attempting to fly out of the country on 555 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 2: Sean Combs's private jet alongside Diddy. Who listened intently to 556 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 2: his lawyer on the other end of his cell phone, 557 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 2: who was filling him in on everything he knew about 558 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 2: the raids that had just happened at both his Star Island, 559 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 2: Miami and Los Angeles. Holmes, No, you weren't being arrested. No, 560 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 2: he didn't know what exactly had been seized just yet. Yes, 561 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 2: he'd let you know everything as soon as he had information. No, 562 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 2: Miami pde were not going to detain you for Brendan's 563 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 2: drugs just Brendan. Yes, you could leave the country now, 564 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 2: if possible. 565 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,240 Speaker 1: While you were still a freeman. 566 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 2: When the news of the twin raids on Seawan Combs's 567 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,879 Speaker 2: home broke, so did the Internet in twenty twenty four, 568 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 2: during a year nearly NonStop wild news stories. In March, 569 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 2: Sean Ditty Combs was the biggest story on the planet. 570 00:34:59,440 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: Was he guilt? 571 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 2: Did he do the heinous crimes that were being alleged? 572 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,760 Speaker 2: If he didn't, why did he settle with Cassie? 573 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: What about the video of. 574 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 2: Him beating her senseless? And if he was innocent, why 575 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 2: was he now in a private jet flying to Antigua. 576 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,760 Speaker 2: What exactly happened during the raids what did the fed seas? 577 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 2: Did they get the tapes? 578 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: What was on the tapes? 579 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 2: Now? 580 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: Who was on the tapes? 581 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,880 Speaker 2: How many a list celebrities attended those ditty parties? Amid 582 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,720 Speaker 2: all the Internet conjecture, all the rumors, all the gossip, 583 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 2: all the conspiracy theories. There was also Sean Diddy Combs, 584 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 2: in his own words on video, damning himself with the 585 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 2: obvious for being the gangster, pimp, king hustler that he was. 586 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: If you don't have what they need, they're gonna leave. 587 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,720 Speaker 2: Gotta keep him there right he locks on the doors. 588 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 2: Later that night, Kashmir sat backstage at the booby Trap, 589 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 2: running her meager stack of cash through the counting machine. 590 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 1: She didn't know why she even bothered counting. 591 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 2: Out forty three dollars in ones did not require mechanical assistance. 592 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: It was more on a habit. 593 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,839 Speaker 2: When she was done, she leaned back in her chair 594 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,279 Speaker 2: and allowed herself to get sucked into her phone. Like 595 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,960 Speaker 2: the rest of the world at the moment, Curious to 596 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,959 Speaker 2: know what was happening with the world's biggest gangster, pimp, 597 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 2: king hustler, Sean Diddy Combs, she scrolled up into a 598 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 2: TikTok video of Diddy from nineteen ninety nine with a 599 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 2: title promising proof Diddy has always been a diddler. The 600 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,640 Speaker 2: Entertainment Tonight interviewer in the TikTok video invites Diddy to comment, 601 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 2: saying your parties are the hottest ticket around. The gangster 602 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,799 Speaker 2: pimp king Hustler responds prophetically, with you're gonna hear about 603 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,879 Speaker 2: my parties. They're going to be shutting them down. They're 604 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 2: probably going to be arrested me doing all types of 605 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 2: crazy things just because we want to have a good time. 606 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,239 Speaker 2: Sean Diddy Combs, even way back in nineteen ninety nine, 607 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 2: the ultimate disgrace. I'm Jake Brennan in this episode of 608 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,360 Speaker 2: Disgraceland is. 609 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: To be continued. 610 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,840 Speaker 2: All right, guys, it bears repeating. Sean Diddy Combs denies 611 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,239 Speaker 2: every single allegation that has been put forth about him. 612 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,000 Speaker 2: Just wanted to restate that right here. All right, thank 613 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 2: you for checking out this episode of Disgraceland. 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