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Speaker 1: Before we jump into today's deep dive, just a quick

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Speaker 1: heads up that this episode deals with fairly distressing content,

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Speaker 1: things like sexual assault and sex trafficking. If you do

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Speaker 1: choose to listen to this episode, please listen with care.

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Speaker 1: Help is always available at one eight hundred.

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Speaker 2: Respect already. And this is the Daily OS.

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Speaker 3: This is the Daily ohs oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of September.

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Speaker 2: I'm zara, I'm emma.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this month, rapper Sean Diddy Combs was denied bail

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Speaker 1: after he was charged with sex trafficking and a slew

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Speaker 1: of other crimes. Investigators accused Combs of using his business

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Speaker 1: empire to cover up decades of abuse against women to quote.

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Speaker 2: Fulfill his sexual desires and protect his reputation.

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Speaker 1: Now, in today's deep dive, we're going to explain the

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Speaker 1: timeline leading up to those child and what it could

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Speaker 1: mean for the Rappernecks. But first, m what's making headlines.

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Speaker 3: New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows inflation

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Speaker 3: dropped to its lowest rate in three years in August,

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Speaker 3: down to two point seven percent for the twelve months

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Speaker 3: to August. That's down from three point five percent the

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Speaker 3: month before. The category with the greatest drop was electricity,

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Speaker 3: which fell by almost eighteen percent. The ABS attributed this

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Speaker 3: to the government's three hundred dollars energy rebates, which came

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Speaker 3: into effect in July. Inflation is a measure of the

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Speaker 3: rate at which prices rise, so lower inflation means prices

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Speaker 3: arising at a slower rate than before, not that they

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Speaker 3: are falling. Treasurer Jim Charmers said the figures were welcoming

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Speaker 3: and encouraging, while Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor said the price

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Speaker 3: of services remains high.

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Speaker 1: PM Anthony Albanezi has refused to rule out chain just

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Speaker 1: to tax concessions for Australians who own multiple properties. Negative gearing,

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Speaker 1: as it's known, allows poemowners to claim losses on their properties,

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Speaker 1: Nine newspapers reported the government asked the Treasury Department to

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Speaker 1: run a cost analysis for a negative gearing policy. Albernizi

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Speaker 1: said the Treasury was considering a range of proposals, but

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Speaker 1: didn't confirm any further details. Labour promised to scrap negative

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Speaker 1: gearing ahead of the twenty nineteen election, which it lost

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Speaker 1: to the Coalition. The party has refused to commit to

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Speaker 3: Australia's Foreign Minister, Penny Wong has met with her Chinese

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Speaker 3: counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the UN General

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Speaker 3: Assemblies annual meeting in New York. It comes amid continuing

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Speaker 3: efforts by the government to have China removed tariffs on

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Speaker 3: the pandemic under the previous government. Talks between high level

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Speaker 3: rock lobster. Minister Wong said she and wog Ye discussed

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Speaker 3: ways to quote progress, our interests and manage our differences.

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Speaker 1: And In today's good news, several native marsupials, including the Bilbi,

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Speaker 1: have been reintroduced to a national park in northern New

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Speaker 1: South Wales where they went extinct a century ago. Unsw

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Speaker 1: researchers and conservation experts released a group of quoals, betongs

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Speaker 1: and Bilbi's to a fenced off section of the Sturt

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Speaker 1: National Park. The animals disappeared from the wild in New

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Speaker 1: the prevalence of predators like feral cats and foxes. Now

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Speaker 1: a group of over one hundred individual marsupials have been

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Speaker 1: released in a ten thousand hecta semi bounded area where

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Speaker 1: a similar trial in South Australia.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Zara, So today we are talking about Sean Diddy

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Speaker 3: Comb's akap Diddy aka paf Daddy, a string of allegations

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Speaker 3: that he is currently facing. Now, this is a story

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Speaker 3: that's completely rocked the music industry, the entertainment industry more broadly,

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Speaker 3: and it has really far reaching implications. But let's start

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Speaker 3: from the beginning. There are a lot of layers to this,

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Speaker 3: as we'll get to for anyone who isn't familiar with

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Speaker 3: this story, with this man who is Diddy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Sean Diddy Combs and you referred there to

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Speaker 1: his many names. He's known as Puff Daddy, p Diddy,

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Speaker 1: Puffy and Diddy. He's a rapper and a producer, and

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Speaker 1: just I think for clarity, we'll just call him Diddy

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Speaker 2: So did. He founded bad.

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Speaker 1: Boy Records back in nineteen ninety three, and that was

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Speaker 1: He's a three time Grammy Award winner. He's worked with

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Speaker 1: And I do really just want to say here, I'm not,

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Speaker 1: to show the extent of Ditty's power. He kind of

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Speaker 1: had this power that wasn't just contained, as you said,

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Speaker 2: And even as a businessman.

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Speaker 3: You might know him from Sarok Vodka, like, he is

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Speaker 3: an entrepreneur in many different industries.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So he was until very recently one of the

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Speaker 3: So you've mentioned there very poignantly until recently. So when

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think that it is important to go

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Speaker 1: through this timeline because the news of this month didn't

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Speaker 1: happen in a vacuum. There were previous allegations that kind

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Speaker 1: the first allegations that were leveled at Ditty, and they

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Speaker 1: former partner Cassandra Ventura.

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Speaker 2: She's known as Cassie. She is a singer.

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Speaker 1: So Cassie accused Ditty of sexual assault back then in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. At the time, her lawyers described him

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Speaker 1: all of the allegations, and just one day after Cassie

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Speaker 1: Hope Hallway that dated back to twenty sixteen. In a

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Speaker 1: video to Instagram, did he apologize for what he called

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Speaker 1: his quote inexcusable behavior, but he didn't name Cassie in

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Speaker 1: that statement. Cassie wasn't the only person to file legal

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Speaker 1: And then, if we're to follow this timeline, in March

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Speaker 1: what we've since found out is that at his homes,

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Speaker 1: authorities uncovered things like firearms, ammunition, and also more than

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Speaker 3: Okay, so that was in March. We knew that those

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Speaker 3: and charged in New York?

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Speaker 2: Correct?

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Speaker 3: Can you talk me through the charges that are now

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, as you said, earlier this month did he

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Speaker 1: So Damian Williams, who's the US Attorney for the Southern

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Speaker 1: being charged with racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud

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Speaker 4: The indicatement alleges that between at least two thousand and

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Speaker 4: to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal

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Speaker 4: his conduct as a legend. The indicatement to carry out

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Speaker 4: this conduct. Shaan Colms led and participated in a racketeering

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Speaker 1: Now, I know that there is a fair bit of

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Speaker 1: to just explain what's being alleged here. Ultimately, what they're

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Speaker 1: saying is that Diddy used his business empire to carry

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Speaker 3: Now, one of those charges, as you mentioned, uses the

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Speaker 3: word racketeering. I think that's a word that kind of

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Speaker 1: Exactly, And as you said, that's one of the charges,

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Speaker 1: but one of many charges. Authorities alleged that did he

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Speaker 1: don't want to use the word events, but that's really

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Speaker 2: He would call them freak offs.

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Speaker 1: And according to the indictment, they were these highly orchestrated

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Speaker 3: Allegations, and that's what's really captured the media's attention and

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Speaker 3: public interest. It's also mentioned in the indictment that many

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Speaker 3: of those quote unquote free COFs were filmed, and that

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Speaker 3: Diddy would allegedly often film them himself. So he's observing

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Speaker 3: That's also a really interesting part of this.

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Speaker 1: It is and I think it's important to note that

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Speaker 1: this isn't the first time that the public had learned of.

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Speaker 2: These free coffs. It was actually also.

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Speaker 1: Included in Cassie's original case that we spoke about earlier.

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Speaker 1: In her civil lawsuit, she mentioned these free COFs. She

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Speaker 1: She claimed the drug were supplied at these events and

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Speaker 1: during these horrific encounters. And so in this latest indictment,

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Speaker 1: we have once again heard of these same events that

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Speaker 3: And also the indictment mentions or allegers that these freak

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Speaker 1: And according to the prosecutors, this is really where the

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Speaker 1: They're referring to those freakoff events, but also to the

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Speaker 3: So several really serious allegations in this federal indictment from

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Speaker 1: He's currently serving a very long sentence for the crimes

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Speaker 3: His lawyers have alleged that did he come to New

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Speaker 1: And his lawyers were pushing for that bail to be

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Speaker 3: Exactly rands above the law, no matter how wealthy or

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Speaker 3: if Ditty is found guilty, what sort of sentence is

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Speaker 3: What a lot of people are waiting to see next

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Speaker 3: So there are these rumors of these really parties that

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Speaker 3: It's also worth mentioning Zara that separately, another lawsuit against

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Speaker 1: Over again some pretty distressing allegations that are being leveled

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