September 18, 2024 • 45 mins
Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.
Stephen A. reacts to the federal indictment against Bad Boy Entertainment mogul, Sean “Diddy” Combs. Joining him to discuss the case is “Entertainment Tonight” Host Kevin Frazier who details the music mogul’s Hollywood impact and allegations of disturbing past behavior.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look, it ain't just P Tddy that's in trouble with
all of this, because he's in a world of trouble.
He's in a world of trouble. But that's not what
I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about Hollywood being in a
world of trouble. And if you're being honest, I ain't
the only one thinking like that.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So are y'all steven A.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Smiths Show in the house, coming right at you, right now.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What's up? Everybody? Welcome to the latest edition of The
Steven A.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Smith Show, coming at you as I love to do
at the very least three days a week over the
digital airways with YouTube as always. Thank you to all
of my followers and subscribers. We now clip seven hundred
and ninety thousand subscribers on YouTube, eclipsing over more than
two point nine million downloads on iHeartRadio. Can't thank y'all
for the love and support enough. Thank you keeping coming that.
I'm gonna keep on coming. I want to get right
(01:00):
into it. I know I brought up P Diddy and
I've got to get into that. But there was a
Monday night football game that came on last night between
the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons. I'll get to
more of that a little bit later. Let me just
say this real quick about.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
The Monday night football game.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Eagles blew the game sa Kwon Barkley dropped the pass
that would have given them a first down.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Obviously they would have been able to run out the clock.
He dropped it. They kicked the field goal.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It gives out the Atlanta Falcons an opportunity to get
the ball back. Down six points twenty one to fifteen
with under two minutes to go, and what do they do? Okay,
the Eagles had held a three point lead with one
fifty six left in the game. Okay, one three point
six point lead. But they had a lead, okay, with
less than two minutes left in the game. And let
Kirk Cousins look like Joe Montana, and they go downfield
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and they handled their business.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And he throws a.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Pass off for a great route by Drake London, put
a move on Darius Slade Junior, got into the right
corner of the end zone, caught the touchdown pass, Boom
kicked the extra point and ultimately the Atlanta Falcons win
the game twenty two to twenty one. The Philadelphia Eagles
blowing fourth quarter leads. That's something that's been happening as
of recently. Over the last eleven games, they're like two
(02:09):
to nine under coaching Nick Sirianni.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That is not attractive. This is a team that I
thought and still.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Believe he has a shot to challenge for the NFC crown,
particularly with Saquon Barkley. They didn't have wide receiver aj
Brown out there. We know this, but in the event,
but in the event that they did have them, your
defense is still suspect.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
This cat Huff that was supposed to.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Be an elite edge rusher for you, he hasn't gotten
anything done for you getting him over from the Jets.
You're gonna let go of asan Reddick, okay, So he's
not there to do some things for you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He's in the New York Jets.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He's with the New York Jets, but he's not in
uniform because he can't get to a contract agreement with
the Jets. So you got a situation in Philadelphia right
now where your defense with him being gone, Rehddick being gone,
with Fletcher Cox being gone, and what have you, their defense.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Doesn't look like it's looked over the last few years.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Then as a result, it's going to be hard to
imagine the Philadelphia Eagles being formidable defensively. Offensively, I think
they will be elite once aj Brown comes back. Nevertheless,
that is not the case. That is a situation. That
is what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And what can you say?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Let me move on because I don't really want to
spend too much time today on football, not with what
has happened.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Sean P.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Diddy Combes. That's the subject right now. The topic is serious.
It's a federal case against Sean P. Diddy Combes, the
Bad Boy entertainment mogul, was arrested overnight at a Manhattan
hotel and taken into custody by US Homeland Security investigators.
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The investigators were acting on a sealed indictment filed by
the US District Court for the Southern District.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Of New York.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The fourteen page indictment, which I have read, which was
unsealed today, charges Didty with sex trafficking and racketeering. The
federal government is accused Diddy of directing a vast criminal
enterprise that he used to assault and traffic women. Here's
a section of the indictment that essentially lays out the.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Broad case against Ditty.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
He's accused of.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Quote creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged
in and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking,
forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice end quote.
The indictment also alleges did he used force or threats
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of force to courus women to engage with male sex workers.
The indictment goes on to say those acts.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Which were called quote freak offs.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
End quote, sometimes lasted days and were often recorded. Federal
prosecutor say various recordings were seized during the raids on
Ditty's home in Los Angeles homes not one home, homes
as im plural in Los Angeles and Miami earlier this year.
The government also alleges participants of the quote unquote freak
offs were often given controlled substances like kidamine an ecstasy
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to keep victims quote obedient and compliant end quote.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Cones will appear in.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Federal court today, where he's expected to plead not guilty.
Federal prosecutors laid out the case against Diddy during a
press conference earlier in the day in New York City,
during which prosecutors also said they want Bill denied and
they want Diddy to remain in jail until his trial.
P Diddy Cones is expected to plead not guilty, and
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his attorneys say he deserves to be released until the
trial date did He's wave of legal troubles were spurred
by a bombshell lawsuit filed by ex girlfriend Cassie Venturing November.
The R and B singer accused them Mogul of rape,
sex trafficking, and physical abuse. The lawsuit was settled for
an undisclosed amount a day after it was brought. He's
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in a world of trouble, y'all, My god, is he
in a world of trouble? First of all, say some
local police department.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
This is home land Secure. So let's get that out
the way first. This homeland security first off.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Secondly, the sex trafficking, the physical abuse is something the
ex girl accused him of. Remember, he settled that the
next day after the case, after.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
She publicized it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He said that the case the next day, but it
was thereafter that the video came out with him running
down the hallway, snatching her, throwing her to the ground,
kicking her throwing a vase at her, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Y'all remember that infamous video.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
He came on and he apologized, and he acknowledged that
he was in a real, bad, fed up place. That's
what he said. That's what he said. So you admitted
you were messed up. You admitted that your act was egregious.
It's the apology. Remember when he gave that quote unquote
apologetic video right there, a lot of people weren't buying
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it because it was shortly removed from him categorically and
emphatically denying there was any truth to the allegations that
were levied against them. It wasn't only it was only
after the video came out that he had to fess
up and own up to it. And even then people
weren't didn't believe that his level of contrition was satisfactory.
So we all knew this was coming. But when you
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hear racketeering, conspiracy, when you hear sex trafficking by force,
when you hear that drugs were used to keep them
obedient and compliant, when you hear about the transportation to
engage in prostitution male sex workers, and all of this other.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Stuff, he's in a world of trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I hate to bring up his name, but it
is apropos in this particular situation. Remember what sug Knight said, y'all,
Remember that when sug Knight said he was in a
world of trouble. Because sug Knight said, listen, he knows
a lot. And so you're looking at a potential situation
where it could arguably mirror that of Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Remember him.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
August tenth, twenty nineteen, prison guards found I'm reading right
from online. Guards found American financially and convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan
Correctional Center in New York City, where he was awaiting
trial on sex trafficking. Chargers tried to perform CPR, could
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have resuscitate him, pronounce dead at a downtown hospital at
six thirty nine am. What it went on to say
in the reports that there were violations because normal jail
procedures on the night of Epstein's death wasn't followed. It
talked about a malfunction of two cameras in front of
his cell.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And you got people still to this very day with.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Their conspiracy theories being thrown out there that it wasn't suicide,
but ultimately intentional harm was brought to him because he
knew too much about too many people. That's what Suge
Knight alluded to when he was talking about p Diddy.
And as we sit here today, who the hell can
deny that potential reality?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Do we know? We don't know. But what we do
know is that these are federal charges.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
What we do know is that his attorney has been
on the record saying that he flew to New York
as recently as a couple of weeks ago because they
knew this was coming down the pike and he wanted
to show compliance and that he wasn't running from anything,
and he's expected to plead not guilty, and he turned
himself in, and months earlier had turned his passports in
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and family members had also turned their passports in. But
let's lay this out because we need to understand that
we need to gather a level of education in our
own brains to edify ourselves to the kind of trouble
you can get yourself in. Sometimes him obviously, so clearly
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you can sit up there and say you're innocent, un
tel proven guilty. Nah, that's in the court of law.
In the court of public opinion, He's already been found guilty.
Can we just be real about that. In the court
of public opinion, not law, in the court of public opinion,
and a damn soul think he's innocent. I'm not denigrating
or cassicading brother whatever. I met him at a Golden
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State Warrior's game. One time I went to a party
and it was supposed to be his party. I never
saw nothing like that. But without mentioning any names, without
incriminating anybody, you see the names. Do you see the
people who have befriended him over the years, who have
attended his parties, who are considered close to him, who
he's been in business with. Have you seen it? Have
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you seen it? Have you seen it? I mean, this
has gotten very, very scary. Hollywood's in trouble, him popping
on p trouble because the Brothers an elite success story,
had a lot of friends, had a lot of people
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with or once upon a time, vouched form in terms
of his brilliance as an artist, a producer. Rather brother
knew how to make money. And now here we are.
When you're in that position and you know so much.
(11:37):
I got news for you. It's gotten very, very scary.
If it was just him, it would be sad, it
would be very unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But I use the word scary because I get.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
The impression, to put it kindly, that his life ain't
the only life that's gonna be affected. That they ain't
after him just to get him. You got Homeland Security involved,
you got the FEDS involved. I got news for you.
(12:14):
They ain't coming just for him. They coming for a
whole bunch of people. I'll explain in detail even more
so what I mean by that statement in a minute.
Until then, we got some bills to pay. Don't go anywhere.
I'll be right back. I got some bills to pay.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Let me show you what I'm talking about right now.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay, everybody, it's that time again. Oh yeah, it's Tom
for steven a Sports Picks. And I couldn't be more
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which also means I can now be in the middle
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Speaker 2 (12:54):
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Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now let's see my winning picks today.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'll be picking for this week's Thursday night football game
with the New York Jets playing the New England Patriots.
First up, Aaron Rodgers going up against the Patriots secondary
more or less than two hundred and fifteen and a
half passing yards. You know I'm watching him pick his spots.
He ain't dropping back trying to throw thirty passes in
the game or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
He's got beasts haul to hand the ball off too.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
A couple of other cats as well. I could see
Aaron Rodgers winning this game, but still throwing for less
than two hundred and fifteen and a half yards, So
I'm gonna go with less on that particular one.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Next up, Patriots.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Quarterback Jacoby Brissett playing the New York Jets more or
less than one hundred and sixty eight and a half
passing yards. I don't recall no big time weapons the
New England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Have at their disposal.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I do recall the Jets being a big time defense.
So naturally, if your offense ain't Potland, but the defense
you're going up against this, I'm gonna go with less
on this one for Jacoby Brissett, less than one hundred
and sixty eight and a half yards. Next up, Jets
running back brist Hall more or less than sixty six
and a half rushing yards. They gonna give this brother
the ball. This brother could run in between the tackles,
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he can run outside the numbers. He can run with power,
He can run with speed.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I like him a lot. I think we all do.
I think he's a big time player.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
He's gonna get more than sixty six and a half
yards in this particular game. Because I could see the
New York Jets giving them the ball more than twenty times.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm gonna go with more on this one.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Last, but not least, New England running back Lemandre Stevenson
more or less than sixty six and a half rushing yards.
I like the Judge defense a lot. They could do
some things. New England doesn't have much of a passing game.
They gonna give this brother the ball significantly as well.
I could see him getting more than sixty six.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And a half yards.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Not one hundred, but I could see him getting more
than sixty six and a half yards. Unless revisit this
please Aaron Rodgers and Jacoby present the quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I got them at less.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, Breese Hall and Romandre Stevenson, I got them at more.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's tips topsy turb you go either way, flow with
me on this one. I think I got you covered.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Welcome back to steven They special right here with the
visual airways of YouTube, and of course iHeartRadio. Let me
tell you something Hollywood's in trouble. I'm not talking about
actors and actresses. I'm talking about the music industry because
anybody that was associated with him are going to be
considered suspect. I'm not saying any names because I ain't
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trying to do that to anybody. I'm not wishing that
on anybody. But what I'm saying to you is that
when you are associated with a figure that is being
accused of the multitude of egregious acts that he has
been accused of, sex trafficking, racketeering, drug use, prostitution, flying
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folks across state lines, and all of this other stuff. Yo,
I'm glad he did. He's got money. They talked about
fifty million dollar bond. They talking about his house on
Star Island that's worth about forty eight million dollars and
you know, putting that up as collateral.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
They rejected that. By the way, they rejected that.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Prosecutors are calling for him to be in jail. They're
saying he's a danger to society. You can't leave him
out on the streets. So the question now is is
he gonna get bail. At least at the time that
we're recording this episode, we don't know the answer to
that yet, but I'm telling you right now, anytime the
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Feds are coming your way, they're not coming just for you.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They're not coming.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I can't wait till Kevin Frazier, my man for entertainment tonight,
comes on the show in a few minutes. I can't
wait because, let me tell you something, there's lessons to
be peeled from all of this.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Be careful about the enemies that you crop up.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Be careful about people that have a target on your back,
the people you've alienated, you've infuriated, Think about the people
he's done business with. Think about the money involved. Think
about how it would have been in folks best interests
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to shut the hell up and never say anything. Yet, somehow,
some way, this stuff evidently was going on for years,
according to the Feds.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And almost nobody said anything that was before. And then
suddenly when things go bad.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
There's videotapes, his recordings, the surveillance cameras, there's electronic equipments,
there's a multitude of statements. Clearly, he's in a world
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of trouble. This man is one of the ri one
of the richest people in the world, and he can't
lead the country at this moment. He can't lead a state.
For all we know, by the.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
End of the day, he won't be able to leave
a jail cell.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You're going after him like this, not just because he's
a well known figure, not just because he's P Diddy,
not just because you want to get him off the
streets in your eyes if you're the FEDS, because supposedly
you want to stop him from committing these criminal acts.
You're after an enterprise. You're after an abundance of people,
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And I got news for you. If it were just
people employed under Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs Enterprises, or anything else,
that would be one thing.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I'm just telling you from my experience in media for
all of these decades.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You don't do all of this to go after somebody
and their coworkers. You do this because there's a bigger
fish to fry, and you suspect that he's the one
that's gonna nail it for you. That's my take on
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it for what it's worth. But coming up, somebody's got
a better take than I do.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
In my opinion. He's the host of entertainment tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
His name is Kevin Frasier, and he joins me next
to discuss the latest facts in the Sean Diddy Cohnes indictment.
Stick around, don't touch that doll. Wait till you hear
what this brother has to say, because I can assure
you he.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Knows a lot. Welcome back to the stephen A.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Smithshoal right here with the digital airways of YouTube and
of course our Heeartradio joining me to talk about the
federal indictment of Sean Diddy Combs and it's impact in Hollywood.
Is my friend, my brother, the host of entertainment tonight,
the one and only Kevin Frasier one I afectionately.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Called k Frage. What's going on? Big time? How are
you man? How's everything?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm fantastic. Let's get into this.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Today's indictments.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
A dramatic four four man who was once one of
the most respected men in the business of entertainment. Of course,
explain Diddy's impact in the world of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Let's get that out of the way first.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, let's just remember a year ago he received the
key to the City of New York.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
That tells you how important he is.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Is a son of New York, but he was always
looked at as a hit maker, one of the big
producers and moguls in this business. And then when he
built his business with Sarak Vodka, working with Adagio and
also owning a television channel in Revolt, he was looked
at as more than just a music business person, but
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as a media mogul. And that is what is stunning
about all this, because this media empire that he created
was create in many ways with force, a culture of fear.
According to these documents Kidnapping Coersion, there are so many
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things when you read these documents that blow your mind
about what was going on behind the scenes at Colmes Enterprise.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Was Hollywood saying about him and what have they been
saying about him over the last few months since Homeland
Security rated his homes in both Los Angeles and Miami, Well.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There's been a distancing from him, But also you have
to understand that underneath it all, people in Hollywood. There
were whispers, people knew things, They talked about things before
the lawsuits came out, but no one was ever willing
to step up. Remember Harvey Weinstein, There were whispers, was
talk about these things that were going on, but no
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one would ever step up. And then people saw the
Cassie lawsuit and that video, and the video was so
damning that everyone has been like hands off when it
comes to Diddy. You don't hear the music, you don't
see any of the things that he has produced. And
you see that video right there where he savagely beat
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Cassie in a hotel hall groom, in a hotel hallway.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
This is undeniable. And let me take you back to R. Kelly.
The video didn't lie.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You can deny everything you want, you can say I'm
innocent as much as you want, but the video doesn't lie.
And prosecutors are saying that they have a plethora of
video on hand throughout this investigation, they have gathered a
lot of video showing the different things that he has
done that have led to these charges.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know, I'm wondering when you see or you hear
of people separating themselves from him, distancing themselves from him.
Obviously the default position would be somebody that's in this
world of trouble, the sona Andrada. You want to stay
away from them, You don't want anything to do with them.
But there have been people and noise emanating out of
Hollywood that there are some who are keeping their distance
from him, because they may be culpable as well, because
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obviously they knew some people are intimating folks with other
folks who were involved, et cetera, et cetera. What kind
of indication have you gotten reporting on this story, reporting
on the business of Hollywood and so many of the
things that have transpired. What of intel can you provide
us as it pertains the possible involvement of anybody else?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Or is this all about Diddy?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
If you look at the case and they brought recal charges,
they're federal reco charges, and the reason they did that
is so they can include the entire Combs Enterprises organization.
That means the people who aided and embedded him now
are also liable and could be brought into this lawsuit.
There have been lots of interviews with lots of people,
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and so there's an expectation that either people will testify
against him or they will also be charged down the road.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And people have been.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Very vocal about some of the things they saw, like
Don Richards saying that she sat at a table with
a very high powered music executive and other entertainers and
watched as Diddy hunched Cassie in the face and then
they went about their meeting that she was John Richards
says that she was held hostage by Ditty in the
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back of a Bentley and she had to call her
father to drive into New York City to make sure
she was okay. So there are all these charges, and
remember ten lawsuits, not the criminal lawsuits, but the other
individual lawsuits that also stand right now against Ditty.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm wondering about this as well, because I'm listening. We're
talking to Kevin Frazer for the host of Entertainment Tonight
right here on Stephen Espishial over the digital air was
a YouTube and of course Heart Radio. When I think
about these charges, it says sex trafficking, racketeering charges, etc.
They're clearly after the more than just him. When did
this all begin, Kevin? It's one thing to hear the noise,
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but when did we all get the sense, Wait a minute,
the inevitable is coming. Folks are out to get him.
He'd done made the wrong enemies for crying out loud,
because the belief was this has been.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Going on for quite a long time.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Enough people had seen it, enough, people were quiet about it,
and then all of a sudden folks stop being quiet.
When did the beginning of the demise of p did
he take place? In your eyes based on this particular
case against him?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
For me, it was when Adagio decided to separate themselves
from him. Sirok had been very had done very, very well,
and then Adagio was like, we are separating from did he?
And at first, when you hear the rumblings before it
became public, when you hear the rumblings that they are
willing to pay him off just to get to separate
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from him, you wonder what more is coming down the road,
and that there must be more coming down the road.
So keep this in mind, Steve, he sold his steak
in Revolt. He has his money from Adagio, so he
is flush with cash. He is also using his homes
to put up this fifty million dollar bail package. He
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went to New York to turn himself in to show
that I am not a flight risk.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I'm around. So he plans on fighting this. He wants to.
He has to fight, but the issue will.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Be the video evidence and all the things that were
confiscated from his house. So when Adagio began, when you
heard the rumblings that things were going wrong with Adagio
and some rock. That's when I began to say something
big is going to happen, and something bad is going
to happen.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
But I mean, just a year ago, New York was
celebrating Diddy. Think about that, Steve.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
The same people who were celebrating him are now putting
him in handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But see, I'm thinking about it from the standpoint Kevin.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I'm looking at this and I'm saying, Okay, the violence
is obvious because you caught on video and the video
ain't lying.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You know, you beat Cassia Ventura up. You beat it up.
We saw that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
We witnessed that with our own two eyes. He came
on there after and said he was really in a
messed up place. He apologized, he tried to show some
level of contrition. Nobody was buying it because it was
weeks removed from him categorically and emphatically denying that the
incident ever took place before he ultimately got exposed for lying.
But when they say sex trafficking, see that's the kind
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of stuff that resonate with these freak off parties.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
In terms of those kind of details, what are people
in Hollywood saying about that. Are they saying this happens
all the time, it's par for the course, or was
it a diddy specialty that finally got exposed.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Steve, I mean, let's go back to Jeffrey Epstein and
all the things that went on with him and the
Hollywood names that were involved, and then you go to
Harvey Weinstein, and this is what drove the Me Too movement.
These things when you have people who have a power
dynamic to wave that over other people's dreams of success
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and the fear of losing that success once you're put
into the machine, and that you are forced in coal
Earth to do things against your will, To hold women.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And force them.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
To have sex with male sex workers while you work,
is a different level of depravity. And you have to
look at this and stop for a second and say,
how could a person build something like that? How could
a person have something like that? And it's because of
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the power dynamic to hold people's dreams in your hand.
People wanted to people wanted to be successful, They wanted
to be stars. And when you want to be a star,
sometimes you'll do any damn thing to be a star.
In Steve, keep this in mind when Don Richards, she
claims that after she called her father, and her father
came up and confront Diddy and said, I want to
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make sure my daughter is okay. The next night, Danity
Kane performed Ones and l and afterwards Dawn says that
did he went to her and said, don't ever get
your family involved again.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Kevin Fraser, you know a lot of people saying, you know,
they're asking the question, why aren't more people that knew
speaking out against Diddy.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I'm because indeed, they could be in trouble.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
They could be a part. I agree about this.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
If you were if you were silent, if you were
sitting at the table, as Don Richard's claims, and you
saw Diddy punch Cassie in the face in a while
you're eating and you didn't say anything, that's a problem.
And let's forget about what it does to you, you know,
whether it's federally or with local officials. But let's talk
about the court of public opinion and how that can
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damage someone's career because you saw these women being abused.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm thinking along the lines of this though, and I'm
not disagreeing with what you just said. Yeah, but I'm
also con templating the federal indictment the Rico chargers. You know,
they're coming for more than just him, So the damning evidence. Remember,
they're saying that, Okay, you had these freak offs, you
had these women that you know, you had engaging in
(31:16):
all kinds of sex acts and what have you you with.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Male professional male workers.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, but you also have a situation where it wasn't
just for himself, it might have been for others. And
so they're talking about they're literally talking calling Bad Boy
Entertainment a criminal enterprise. This is what they're saying. I'm
wondering the kind of folks there after. Are the folks
in Hollywood lying back and wake wondering who's next? Because ultimately,
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if you have workers that you can target and they
can be punished and what have you, it's presumed they're
gonna dime him out and ultimately they're gonna force him
to comply. And Diddy is gonna dime out a whole
bunch of people. It seems like that's what everybody's waiting
for right now.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
See if there have been other big names that have
been associated and flooded around this, and I don't want
to say any names until legally they push forward. But
you have to understand even if it's not Diddy who turns,
it's other people in his organization. Just think about this
government obtained that I want to give ninety cell phones, laptops,
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cloud storage accounts, as well as over thirty other electronic
and storage devices like hard drives, thumb drives, cameras, and
surveillance systems and a bunch of electronic data.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
So you have to believe that when that case.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Is laid out that what you're going to see is
video of these wrongdoings and other people involved, the people
who ate it and embedded him, the people who helped
him pull this off in his organization, Well they're already in,
But what about the other people who attended these events
(33:05):
and these parties and these freak afts.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Because there were other people who attended these freak afts.
This is going to be ugly.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
There's going to be reverberations throughout Hollywood because even if
you didn't attend, if you knew, if you saw, if
you understood what.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Was going on. I mean, years and years.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Ago, I was at a party for a very high
profile star and his people had Diddy removed from that
party because they said he was out of control. He
was clearly on something other than just having drinks. There
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were issues there and they banned him from coming to
those parties. And I'm talking about a high profile star.
The information is there.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Now, it's just how much of that information is going
to come out.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
He's in a world of trouble legally, but I'm not
ruling out the possibility that he could be in more
danger than that because with all of that electronic equipment,
those cameras, those surveillance videos, all of this stuff that
he has. Chances are he was able to keep folks quiet.
One would resume because they know he had a mountain
(34:17):
of evidence against them. What if you're fearful that he's
going to target you and he's going to dime you out.
We don't know what's next, man, We really really don't know.
Kevin Fraser. Appreciate you one man.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Thank you so much to take the time schedule see
you keep this in mind real quick. Remember what happened
to Jeffrey Epstein. He didn't survive. He didn't survive.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, we know that case. We know that case all
too well. Appreciate you man, thanks a lot man.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We'll talk like that as always talks in.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It's a lot more to tap it.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I mean I thought I said enough before Kevin Fraser
came on. Listening to that, I got a lot more
to say. Then again, what can you say? This is
a bad, bad situation for every everybody in Hollywood. What
a microscope they're under right now? The hip hop community.
What a microscope they're on right now? Hip hop and
R and B community. I mean, this is bad. This
(35:09):
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Speaker 1 (36:22):
As we are taping this show, we are monitoring Sean
p j D. Combs in court. He has pled not guilty,
and the prosecutor is arguing that he should be held
in jail. He should not be released on bail because
he's reached out to witnesses and victims, and some witnesses
(36:43):
say they are scared of him. This is according to
the prosecutor. They're saying that he's reached out to some victims.
The assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson is the one making
this argument to the judge.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
She says that he's reached out to some.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Victims after On Richard, a former member of a music
group Combs started, filed her lawsuit. On September tenth, Combs
reached out to another member of the band of publicly
denied the allegations. Three days later, Johnson said, Combs called
and text that other women fifty eight times in four days.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Just reading for the report from CNN dot Com and
Kevin Fraser. You heard him allude to it just a
few minutes ago that what else is going to come
out of all of this because you know names are
going to be dropped and what have you. I'm not
attaching any names to this. All I'm doing is reading
the news, ladies and gentlemen at this particular point and
giving you my thoughts based off of the news.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
This is the kind of stuff that I.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Was alluding to when I said we need Hollywood's in
trouble hip hop, R and B the music industry. I'm
not talking about actors and actresses. I'm talking about Hollywood
in terms of the music industry. This is in a
world of trouble right now because you don't know whose
name is attached to P Diddy, and you don't know
where the dominoes are gonna fall. You see where R.
Kelly with his pedophile ass self, you know, was being
(38:00):
sued by law enforcement, by prosecutors and what have you.
It was just him. It was just him. There might
have been some people who knew or thought or heard
or whatever the.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Case may be.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
But they wanted him, Okay, they wanted him.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
When you look at P.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Diddy, it almost seems clear it's not just him. Thereafter
these are Rico chargers. It's an indictments. Homeland security homes
raided in Los Angeles and Miami, Computers and laptops and
iPads and phones and surveillance.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Videos and stuff like that confiscated. They did that in.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
May, you're talking about months later, and here they come
with this indictment, and they're trying to make it so
today today, as we're taping this show, if prosecutors have
their druthers, they're trying to make today his last day
of freedom in his life.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That's what they're trying to do. They want him.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
High boss today, not next week, not next month, not
where the trial begins and he's found guilty by a
jury of his peers. In their eyes, no, no, no, no no,
they want him in jail. Now this is the level
of urgency that they're attaching to this and then Laura,
behold on this day when P Diddy is walking into
(39:22):
a courtroom in New York to plead not guilty on
sex trafficking and racketeering chargers hip hop music industry vet
Kevin Lyles is resigning from his Warner Music.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Group executive VP gig.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I am reading from a story right here online on TMZ.
On Tuesday, Lyles sent a company memo announcing his resignation
as chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers three hundred Electric
Entertainment Chairman, passing.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
The torch to some season vets.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
The next paragraph, Ladies and gentlemen, here's what it says.
Has been with Warner since two thousand and four, which
formerly housed did these bad Boy records, and he's been
vocal defending the mounds of allegations against Puffy. That's what
it said. So it's not me talking. Every time I
(40:20):
met Kevin law has been incredibly nice to me. I
don't know anything about any of this stuff. What I
do know is that they're attaching his name to p
did he and they're doing so on the day that
he resigned. And they're showing you the connection between him
and Bad Boy Entertainment. You know why they're doing that,
(40:40):
because it's a glimpse of what's coming.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
There's a whole bunch of nations, y'all guess it. I
ain't gonna put out no polls.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
I'm not gonna put a poll out there and ask
you and give your names and multiple truths. I'm not
doing that to other human beings. The only reason I
read Kevin Lywle's name is because of the TMC report
that's plastered all over the news right now. The only
reason I read the name. I'm not mentioned in anybody's name.
But what they're saying is that's the first domino. That's
what they're saying. That's the implication, that's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Think about the parties at his home. Think about the artist.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Puffy p Diddy, Sean p Diddy Combes, Sean Diddy Combes.
Think about the artists he's represented who's worked under this label,
God do Yon homework.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Think about the people he's an ordinate amount of.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
People he's been seen with at these parties and beyond,
and it's Kevin Fraser highlighted. Think about Jeffrey Epstein, Think
about sug Knight, Think about what happened with Jeffy Epstein,
Think about how sug Knight deferred to the Jeffrey Epstein
(41:58):
situation when describing the potentiality of what could eventually.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Happen to showing Diddy khms. This is bad, This is very,
very bad.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
All we can do is keep our eyes open, watch
the case unfold, and remember as he's being as the
prosecutors are pursuing this case against him, pushed forward by
Homeland Security, of all folks, we're gonna hear more and
more and more details. I just finished watching a couple
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of news channels, a couple, not just one.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
You know what they said. They brought up the video.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Of him throwing cassa Ventura to the ground his axe
and kicking her and throwing the vos at her, and
they said, that's just one tape.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
You know they have more. That's what the news, the
news networks are saying.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
They also brought up reporters who cover or have covered
the music industry and how they're saying he's been accused
of being violent, not just with the ladies, but having
people beat up.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
And then they said allegedly having people killed.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
This is what they said in the news networks Fox
Newsy and ANEM said, we see all of that.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
That's what they said. What people were saying. Kevin Frasier
alluded to it.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
They're saying it, and prosecutors are pursuing a case against
them because of it. This is where it begins, This
is not where it ends. We all need to keep
our eyes open with regard to the fallout from all
(44:02):
of this, not just who falls, but for what reason
and how was the preponderance of evidence gathered against them?
Was it because of videos confiscated by Homeland Security at
his homes that they raided in Los Angeles or Miami?
(44:24):
Or will it get to the point where did he
says stuff himself to protect himself his life, and Lord
knows of whom else's.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's bad, y'all, It's bad. That's it for this edition
of the Stephen A. Smith Show. Thank you for listening.
I'll be back with you and a couple of days
until next time.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Everybody, peace and love. I'm signing off, Be blessed, God,
bless
Look, it ain't just P Tddy that's in trouble with
all of this, because he's in a world of trouble.
He's in a world of trouble. But that's not what
I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about Hollywood being in a
world of trouble. And if you're being honest, I ain't
the only one thinking like that.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So are y'all steven A.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Smiths Show in the house, coming right at you, right now.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What's up? Everybody? Welcome to the latest edition of The
Steven A.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Smith Show, coming at you as I love to do
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I'm gonna keep on coming. I want to get right
(01:00):
into it. I know I brought up P Diddy and
I've got to get into that. But there was a
Monday night football game that came on last night between
the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons. I'll get to
more of that a little bit later. Let me just
say this real quick about.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
The Monday night football game.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Eagles blew the game sa Kwon Barkley dropped the pass
that would have given them a first down.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Obviously they would have been able to run out the clock.
He dropped it. They kicked the field goal.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It gives out the Atlanta Falcons an opportunity to get
the ball back. Down six points twenty one to fifteen
with under two minutes to go, and what do they do? Okay,
the Eagles had held a three point lead with one
fifty six left in the game. Okay, one three point
six point lead. But they had a lead, okay, with
less than two minutes left in the game. And let
Kirk Cousins look like Joe Montana, and they go downfield
(01:46):
and they handled their business.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And he throws a.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Pass off for a great route by Drake London, put
a move on Darius Slade Junior, got into the right
corner of the end zone, caught the touchdown pass, Boom
kicked the extra point and ultimately the Atlanta Falcons win
the game twenty two to twenty one. The Philadelphia Eagles
blowing fourth quarter leads. That's something that's been happening as
of recently. Over the last eleven games, they're like two
(02:09):
to nine under coaching Nick Sirianni.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That is not attractive. This is a team that I
thought and still.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Believe he has a shot to challenge for the NFC crown,
particularly with Saquon Barkley. They didn't have wide receiver aj
Brown out there. We know this, but in the event,
but in the event that they did have them, your
defense is still suspect.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
This cat Huff that was supposed to.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Be an elite edge rusher for you, he hasn't gotten
anything done for you getting him over from the Jets.
You're gonna let go of asan Reddick, okay, So he's
not there to do some things for you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He's in the New York Jets.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He's with the New York Jets, but he's not in
uniform because he can't get to a contract agreement with
the Jets. So you got a situation in Philadelphia right
now where your defense with him being gone, Rehddick being gone,
with Fletcher Cox being gone, and what have you, their defense.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Doesn't look like it's looked over the last few years.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Then as a result, it's going to be hard to
imagine the Philadelphia Eagles being formidable defensively. Offensively, I think
they will be elite once aj Brown comes back. Nevertheless,
that is not the case. That is a situation. That
is what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And what can you say?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Let me move on because I don't really want to
spend too much time today on football, not with what
has happened.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Sean P.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Diddy Combes. That's the subject right now. The topic is serious.
It's a federal case against Sean P. Diddy Combes, the
Bad Boy entertainment mogul, was arrested overnight at a Manhattan
hotel and taken into custody by US Homeland Security investigators.
(03:37):
The investigators were acting on a sealed indictment filed by
the US District Court for the Southern District.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Of New York.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The fourteen page indictment, which I have read, which was
unsealed today, charges Didty with sex trafficking and racketeering. The
federal government is accused Diddy of directing a vast criminal
enterprise that he used to assault and traffic women. Here's
a section of the indictment that essentially lays out the.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Broad case against Ditty.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
He's accused of.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Quote creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged
in and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking,
forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice end quote.
The indictment also alleges did he used force or threats
(04:27):
of force to courus women to engage with male sex workers.
The indictment goes on to say those acts.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Which were called quote freak offs.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
End quote, sometimes lasted days and were often recorded. Federal
prosecutor say various recordings were seized during the raids on
Ditty's home in Los Angeles homes not one home, homes
as im plural in Los Angeles and Miami earlier this year.
The government also alleges participants of the quote unquote freak
offs were often given controlled substances like kidamine an ecstasy
(05:02):
to keep victims quote obedient and compliant end quote.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Cones will appear in.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Federal court today, where he's expected to plead not guilty.
Federal prosecutors laid out the case against Diddy during a
press conference earlier in the day in New York City,
during which prosecutors also said they want Bill denied and
they want Diddy to remain in jail until his trial.
P Diddy Cones is expected to plead not guilty, and
(05:29):
his attorneys say he deserves to be released until the
trial date did He's wave of legal troubles were spurred
by a bombshell lawsuit filed by ex girlfriend Cassie Venturing November.
The R and B singer accused them Mogul of rape,
sex trafficking, and physical abuse. The lawsuit was settled for
an undisclosed amount a day after it was brought. He's
(05:50):
in a world of trouble, y'all, My god, is he
in a world of trouble? First of all, say some
local police department.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
This is home land Secure. So let's get that out
the way first. This homeland security first off.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Secondly, the sex trafficking, the physical abuse is something the
ex girl accused him of. Remember, he settled that the
next day after the case, after.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
She publicized it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He said that the case the next day, but it
was thereafter that the video came out with him running
down the hallway, snatching her, throwing her to the ground,
kicking her throwing a vase at her, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Y'all remember that infamous video.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
He came on and he apologized, and he acknowledged that
he was in a real, bad, fed up place. That's
what he said. That's what he said. So you admitted
you were messed up. You admitted that your act was egregious.
It's the apology. Remember when he gave that quote unquote
apologetic video right there, a lot of people weren't buying
(06:54):
it because it was shortly removed from him categorically and
emphatically denying there was any truth to the allegations that
were levied against them. It wasn't only it was only
after the video came out that he had to fess
up and own up to it. And even then people
weren't didn't believe that his level of contrition was satisfactory.
So we all knew this was coming. But when you
(07:16):
hear racketeering, conspiracy, when you hear sex trafficking by force,
when you hear that drugs were used to keep them
obedient and compliant, when you hear about the transportation to
engage in prostitution male sex workers, and all of this other.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Stuff, he's in a world of trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And I hate to bring up his name, but it
is apropos in this particular situation. Remember what sug Knight said, y'all,
Remember that when sug Knight said he was in a
world of trouble. Because sug Knight said, listen, he knows
a lot. And so you're looking at a potential situation
where it could arguably mirror that of Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Remember him.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
August tenth, twenty nineteen, prison guards found I'm reading right
from online. Guards found American financially and convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan
Correctional Center in New York City, where he was awaiting
trial on sex trafficking. Chargers tried to perform CPR, could
(08:28):
have resuscitate him, pronounce dead at a downtown hospital at
six thirty nine am. What it went on to say
in the reports that there were violations because normal jail
procedures on the night of Epstein's death wasn't followed. It
talked about a malfunction of two cameras in front of
his cell.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And you got people still to this very day with.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Their conspiracy theories being thrown out there that it wasn't suicide,
but ultimately intentional harm was brought to him because he
knew too much about too many people. That's what Suge
Knight alluded to when he was talking about p Diddy.
And as we sit here today, who the hell can
deny that potential reality?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Do we know? We don't know. But what we do
know is that these are federal charges.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
What we do know is that his attorney has been
on the record saying that he flew to New York
as recently as a couple of weeks ago because they
knew this was coming down the pike and he wanted
to show compliance and that he wasn't running from anything,
and he's expected to plead not guilty, and he turned
himself in, and months earlier had turned his passports in
(09:42):
and family members had also turned their passports in. But
let's lay this out because we need to understand that
we need to gather a level of education in our
own brains to edify ourselves to the kind of trouble
you can get yourself in. Sometimes him obviously, so clearly
(10:06):
you can sit up there and say you're innocent, un
tel proven guilty. Nah, that's in the court of law.
In the court of public opinion, He's already been found guilty.
Can we just be real about that. In the court
of public opinion, not law, in the court of public opinion,
and a damn soul think he's innocent. I'm not denigrating
or cassicading brother whatever. I met him at a Golden
(10:27):
State Warrior's game. One time I went to a party
and it was supposed to be his party. I never
saw nothing like that. But without mentioning any names, without
incriminating anybody, you see the names. Do you see the
people who have befriended him over the years, who have
attended his parties, who are considered close to him, who
he's been in business with. Have you seen it? Have
(10:47):
you seen it? Have you seen it? I mean, this
has gotten very, very scary. Hollywood's in trouble, him popping
on p trouble because the Brothers an elite success story,
had a lot of friends, had a lot of people
(11:09):
with or once upon a time, vouched form in terms
of his brilliance as an artist, a producer. Rather brother
knew how to make money. And now here we are.
When you're in that position and you know so much.
(11:37):
I got news for you. It's gotten very, very scary.
If it was just him, it would be sad, it
would be very unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But I use the word scary because I get.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
The impression, to put it kindly, that his life ain't
the only life that's gonna be affected. That they ain't
after him just to get him. You got Homeland Security involved,
you got the FEDS involved. I got news for you.
(12:14):
They ain't coming just for him. They coming for a
whole bunch of people. I'll explain in detail even more
so what I mean by that statement in a minute.
Until then, we got some bills to pay. Don't go anywhere.
I'll be right back. I got some bills to pay.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
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He's got beasts haul to hand the ball off too.
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A couple of other cats as well. I could see
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Next up, Patriots.
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Quarterback Jacoby Brissett playing the New York Jets more or
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New England Patriots.
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Have at their disposal.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I do recall the Jets being a big time defense.
So naturally, if your offense ain't Potland, but the defense
you're going up against this, I'm gonna go with less
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and sixty eight and a half yards. Next up, Jets
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the ball. This brother could run in between the tackles,
(14:44):
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He can run with speed.
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I like him a lot. I think we all do.
I think he's a big time player.
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He's gonna get more than sixty six and a half
yards in this particular game. Because I could see the
New York Jets giving them the ball more than twenty times.
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I'm gonna go with more on this one.
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Last, but not least, New England running back Lemandre Stevenson
more or less than sixty six and a half rushing yards.
I like the Judge defense a lot. They could do
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They gonna give this brother the ball significantly as well.
I could see him getting more than sixty six.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And a half yards.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Not one hundred, but I could see him getting more
than sixty six and a half yards. Unless revisit this
please Aaron Rodgers and Jacoby present the quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I got them at less.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, Breese Hall and Romandre Stevenson, I got them at more.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's tips topsy turb you go either way, flow with
me on this one. I think I got you covered.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Welcome back to steven They special right here with the
visual airways of YouTube, and of course iHeartRadio. Let me
tell you something Hollywood's in trouble. I'm not talking about
actors and actresses. I'm talking about the music industry because
anybody that was associated with him are going to be
considered suspect. I'm not saying any names because I ain't
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trying to do that to anybody. I'm not wishing that
on anybody. But what I'm saying to you is that
when you are associated with a figure that is being
accused of the multitude of egregious acts that he has
been accused of, sex trafficking, racketeering, drug use, prostitution, flying
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folks across state lines, and all of this other stuff. Yo,
I'm glad he did. He's got money. They talked about
fifty million dollar bond. They talking about his house on
Star Island that's worth about forty eight million dollars and
you know, putting that up as collateral.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
They rejected that. By the way, they rejected that.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Prosecutors are calling for him to be in jail. They're
saying he's a danger to society. You can't leave him
out on the streets. So the question now is is
he gonna get bail. At least at the time that
we're recording this episode, we don't know the answer to
that yet, but I'm telling you right now, anytime the
(17:21):
Feds are coming your way, they're not coming just for you.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They're not coming.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I can't wait till Kevin Frazier, my man for entertainment tonight,
comes on the show in a few minutes. I can't
wait because, let me tell you something, there's lessons to
be peeled from all of this.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Be careful about the enemies that you crop up.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Be careful about people that have a target on your back,
the people you've alienated, you've infuriated, Think about the people
he's done business with. Think about the money involved. Think
about how it would have been in folks best interests
(18:08):
to shut the hell up and never say anything. Yet, somehow,
some way, this stuff evidently was going on for years,
according to the Feds.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And almost nobody said anything that was before. And then
suddenly when things go bad.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
There's videotapes, his recordings, the surveillance cameras, there's electronic equipments,
there's a multitude of statements. Clearly, he's in a world
(18:53):
of trouble. This man is one of the ri one
of the richest people in the world, and he can't
lead the country at this moment. He can't lead a state.
For all we know, by the.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
End of the day, he won't be able to leave
a jail cell.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You're going after him like this, not just because he's
a well known figure, not just because he's P Diddy,
not just because you want to get him off the
streets in your eyes if you're the FEDS, because supposedly
you want to stop him from committing these criminal acts.
You're after an enterprise. You're after an abundance of people,
(19:43):
And I got news for you. If it were just
people employed under Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs Enterprises, or anything else,
that would be one thing.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I'm just telling you from my experience in media for
all of these decades.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You don't do all of this to go after somebody
and their coworkers. You do this because there's a bigger
fish to fry, and you suspect that he's the one
that's gonna nail it for you. That's my take on
(20:23):
it for what it's worth. But coming up, somebody's got
a better take than I do.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
In my opinion. He's the host of entertainment tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
His name is Kevin Frasier, and he joins me next
to discuss the latest facts in the Sean Diddy Cohnes indictment.
Stick around, don't touch that doll. Wait till you hear
what this brother has to say, because I can assure
you he.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Knows a lot. Welcome back to the stephen A.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Smithshoal right here with the digital airways of YouTube and
of course our Heeartradio joining me to talk about the
federal indictment of Sean Diddy Combs and it's impact in Hollywood.
Is my friend, my brother, the host of entertainment tonight,
the one and only Kevin Frasier one I afectionately.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Called k Frage. What's going on? Big time? How are
you man? How's everything?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm fantastic. Let's get into this.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Today's indictments.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
A dramatic four four man who was once one of
the most respected men in the business of entertainment. Of course,
explain Diddy's impact in the world of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Let's get that out of the way first.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, let's just remember a year ago he received the
key to the City of New York.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
That tells you how important he is.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Is a son of New York, but he was always
looked at as a hit maker, one of the big
producers and moguls in this business. And then when he
built his business with Sarak Vodka, working with Adagio and
also owning a television channel in Revolt, he was looked
at as more than just a music business person, but
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as a media mogul. And that is what is stunning
about all this, because this media empire that he created
was create in many ways with force, a culture of fear.
According to these documents Kidnapping Coersion, there are so many
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things when you read these documents that blow your mind
about what was going on behind the scenes at Colmes Enterprise.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Was Hollywood saying about him and what have they been
saying about him over the last few months since Homeland
Security rated his homes in both Los Angeles and Miami, Well.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There's been a distancing from him, But also you have
to understand that underneath it all, people in Hollywood. There
were whispers, people knew things, They talked about things before
the lawsuits came out, but no one was ever willing
to step up. Remember Harvey Weinstein, There were whispers, was
talk about these things that were going on, but no
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one would ever step up. And then people saw the
Cassie lawsuit and that video, and the video was so
damning that everyone has been like hands off when it
comes to Diddy. You don't hear the music, you don't
see any of the things that he has produced. And
you see that video right there where he savagely beat
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Cassie in a hotel hall groom, in a hotel hallway.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
This is undeniable. And let me take you back to R. Kelly.
The video didn't lie.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You can deny everything you want, you can say I'm
innocent as much as you want, but the video doesn't lie.
And prosecutors are saying that they have a plethora of
video on hand throughout this investigation, they have gathered a
lot of video showing the different things that he has
done that have led to these charges.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know, I'm wondering when you see or you hear
of people separating themselves from him, distancing themselves from him.
Obviously the default position would be somebody that's in this
world of trouble, the sona Andrada. You want to stay
away from them, You don't want anything to do with them.
But there have been people and noise emanating out of
Hollywood that there are some who are keeping their distance
from him, because they may be culpable as well, because
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obviously they knew some people are intimating folks with other
folks who were involved, et cetera, et cetera. What kind
of indication have you gotten reporting on this story, reporting
on the business of Hollywood and so many of the
things that have transpired. What of intel can you provide
us as it pertains the possible involvement of anybody else?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Or is this all about Diddy?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
If you look at the case and they brought recal charges,
they're federal reco charges, and the reason they did that
is so they can include the entire Combs Enterprises organization.
That means the people who aided and embedded him now
are also liable and could be brought into this lawsuit.
There have been lots of interviews with lots of people,
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and so there's an expectation that either people will testify
against him or they will also be charged down the road.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And people have been.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Very vocal about some of the things they saw, like
Don Richards saying that she sat at a table with
a very high powered music executive and other entertainers and
watched as Diddy hunched Cassie in the face and then
they went about their meeting that she was John Richards
says that she was held hostage by Ditty in the
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back of a Bentley and she had to call her
father to drive into New York City to make sure
she was okay. So there are all these charges, and
remember ten lawsuits, not the criminal lawsuits, but the other
individual lawsuits that also stand right now against Ditty.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm wondering about this as well, because I'm listening. We're
talking to Kevin Frazer for the host of Entertainment Tonight
right here on Stephen Espishial over the digital air was
a YouTube and of course Heart Radio. When I think
about these charges, it says sex trafficking, racketeering charges, etc.
They're clearly after the more than just him. When did
this all begin, Kevin? It's one thing to hear the noise,
(26:07):
but when did we all get the sense, Wait a minute,
the inevitable is coming. Folks are out to get him.
He'd done made the wrong enemies for crying out loud,
because the belief was this has been.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Going on for quite a long time.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Enough people had seen it, enough, people were quiet about it,
and then all of a sudden folks stop being quiet.
When did the beginning of the demise of p did
he take place? In your eyes based on this particular
case against him?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
For me, it was when Adagio decided to separate themselves
from him. Sirok had been very had done very, very well,
and then Adagio was like, we are separating from did he?
And at first, when you hear the rumblings before it
became public, when you hear the rumblings that they are
willing to pay him off just to get to separate
(26:57):
from him, you wonder what more is coming down the road,
and that there must be more coming down the road.
So keep this in mind, Steve, he sold his steak
in Revolt. He has his money from Adagio, so he
is flush with cash. He is also using his homes
to put up this fifty million dollar bail package. He
(27:18):
went to New York to turn himself in to show
that I am not a flight risk.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I'm around. So he plans on fighting this. He wants to.
He has to fight, but the issue will.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Be the video evidence and all the things that were
confiscated from his house. So when Adagio began, when you
heard the rumblings that things were going wrong with Adagio
and some rock. That's when I began to say something
big is going to happen, and something bad is going
to happen.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
But I mean, just a year ago, New York was
celebrating Diddy. Think about that, Steve.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
The same people who were celebrating him are now putting
him in handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But see, I'm thinking about it from the standpoint Kevin.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I'm looking at this and I'm saying, Okay, the violence
is obvious because you caught on video and the video
ain't lying.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You know, you beat Cassia Ventura up. You beat it up.
We saw that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
We witnessed that with our own two eyes. He came
on there after and said he was really in a
messed up place. He apologized, he tried to show some
level of contrition. Nobody was buying it because it was
weeks removed from him categorically and emphatically denying that the
incident ever took place before he ultimately got exposed for lying.
But when they say sex trafficking, see that's the kind
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of stuff that resonate with these freak off parties.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
In terms of those kind of details, what are people
in Hollywood saying about that. Are they saying this happens
all the time, it's par for the course, or was
it a diddy specialty that finally got exposed.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Steve, I mean, let's go back to Jeffrey Epstein and
all the things that went on with him and the
Hollywood names that were involved, and then you go to
Harvey Weinstein, and this is what drove the Me Too movement.
These things when you have people who have a power
dynamic to wave that over other people's dreams of success
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and the fear of losing that success once you're put
into the machine, and that you are forced in coal
Earth to do things against your will, To hold women.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And force them.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
To have sex with male sex workers while you work,
is a different level of depravity. And you have to
look at this and stop for a second and say,
how could a person build something like that? How could
a person have something like that? And it's because of
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the power dynamic to hold people's dreams in your hand.
People wanted to people wanted to be successful, They wanted
to be stars. And when you want to be a star,
sometimes you'll do any damn thing to be a star.
In Steve, keep this in mind when Don Richards, she
claims that after she called her father, and her father
came up and confront Diddy and said, I want to
(30:03):
make sure my daughter is okay. The next night, Danity
Kane performed Ones and l and afterwards Dawn says that
did he went to her and said, don't ever get
your family involved again.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Kevin Fraser, you know a lot of people saying, you know,
they're asking the question, why aren't more people that knew
speaking out against Diddy.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I'm because indeed, they could be in trouble.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
They could be a part. I agree about this.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
If you were if you were silent, if you were
sitting at the table, as Don Richard's claims, and you
saw Diddy punch Cassie in the face in a while
you're eating and you didn't say anything, that's a problem.
And let's forget about what it does to you, you know,
whether it's federally or with local officials. But let's talk
about the court of public opinion and how that can
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damage someone's career because you saw these women being abused.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm thinking along the lines of this though, and I'm
not disagreeing with what you just said. Yeah, but I'm
also con templating the federal indictment the Rico chargers. You know,
they're coming for more than just him, So the damning evidence. Remember,
they're saying that, Okay, you had these freak offs, you
had these women that you know, you had engaging in
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all kinds of sex acts and what have you you with.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Male professional male workers.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, but you also have a situation where it wasn't
just for himself, it might have been for others. And
so they're talking about they're literally talking calling Bad Boy
Entertainment a criminal enterprise. This is what they're saying. I'm
wondering the kind of folks there after. Are the folks
in Hollywood lying back and wake wondering who's next? Because ultimately,
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if you have workers that you can target and they
can be punished and what have you, it's presumed they're
gonna dime him out and ultimately they're gonna force him
to comply. And Diddy is gonna dime out a whole
bunch of people. It seems like that's what everybody's waiting
for right now.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
See if there have been other big names that have
been associated and flooded around this, and I don't want
to say any names until legally they push forward. But
you have to understand even if it's not Diddy who turns,
it's other people in his organization. Just think about this
government obtained that I want to give ninety cell phones, laptops,
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cloud storage accounts, as well as over thirty other electronic
and storage devices like hard drives, thumb drives, cameras, and
surveillance systems and a bunch of electronic data.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
So you have to believe that when that case.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Is laid out that what you're going to see is
video of these wrongdoings and other people involved, the people
who ate it and embedded him, the people who helped
him pull this off in his organization, Well they're already in,
But what about the other people who attended these events
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and these parties and these freak afts.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Because there were other people who attended these freak afts.
This is going to be ugly.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
There's going to be reverberations throughout Hollywood because even if
you didn't attend, if you knew, if you saw, if
you understood what.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Was going on. I mean, years and years.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Ago, I was at a party for a very high
profile star and his people had Diddy removed from that
party because they said he was out of control. He
was clearly on something other than just having drinks. There
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were issues there and they banned him from coming to
those parties. And I'm talking about a high profile star.
The information is there.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Now, it's just how much of that information is going
to come out.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
He's in a world of trouble legally, but I'm not
ruling out the possibility that he could be in more
danger than that because with all of that electronic equipment,
those cameras, those surveillance videos, all of this stuff that
he has. Chances are he was able to keep folks quiet.
One would resume because they know he had a mountain
(34:17):
of evidence against them. What if you're fearful that he's
going to target you and he's going to dime you out.
We don't know what's next, man, We really really don't know.
Kevin Fraser. Appreciate you one man.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Thank you so much to take the time schedule see
you keep this in mind real quick. Remember what happened
to Jeffrey Epstein. He didn't survive. He didn't survive.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, we know that case. We know that case all
too well. Appreciate you man, thanks a lot man.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We'll talk like that as always talks in.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It's a lot more to tap it.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I mean I thought I said enough before Kevin Fraser
came on. Listening to that, I got a lot more
to say. Then again, what can you say? This is
a bad, bad situation for every everybody in Hollywood. What
a microscope they're under right now? The hip hop community.
What a microscope they're on right now? Hip hop and
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As we are taping this show, we are monitoring Sean
p j D. Combs in court. He has pled not guilty,
and the prosecutor is arguing that he should be held
in jail. He should not be released on bail because
he's reached out to witnesses and victims, and some witnesses
(36:43):
say they are scared of him. This is according to
the prosecutor. They're saying that he's reached out to some victims.
The assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson is the one making
this argument to the judge.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
She says that he's reached out to some.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Victims after On Richard, a former member of a music
group Combs started, filed her lawsuit. On September tenth, Combs
reached out to another member of the band of publicly
denied the allegations. Three days later, Johnson said, Combs called
and text that other women fifty eight times in four days.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Just reading for the report from CNN dot Com and
Kevin Fraser. You heard him allude to it just a
few minutes ago that what else is going to come
out of all of this because you know names are
going to be dropped and what have you. I'm not
attaching any names to this. All I'm doing is reading
the news, ladies and gentlemen at this particular point and
giving you my thoughts based off of the news.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
This is the kind of stuff that I.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Was alluding to when I said we need Hollywood's in
trouble hip hop, R and B the music industry. I'm
not talking about actors and actresses. I'm talking about Hollywood
in terms of the music industry. This is in a
world of trouble right now because you don't know whose
name is attached to P Diddy, and you don't know
where the dominoes are gonna fall. You see where R.
Kelly with his pedophile ass self, you know, was being
(38:00):
sued by law enforcement, by prosecutors and what have you.
It was just him. It was just him. There might
have been some people who knew or thought or heard
or whatever the.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Case may be.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
But they wanted him, Okay, they wanted him.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
When you look at P.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Diddy, it almost seems clear it's not just him. Thereafter
these are Rico chargers. It's an indictments. Homeland security homes
raided in Los Angeles and Miami, Computers and laptops and
iPads and phones and surveillance.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Videos and stuff like that confiscated. They did that in.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
May, you're talking about months later, and here they come
with this indictment, and they're trying to make it so
today today, as we're taping this show, if prosecutors have
their druthers, they're trying to make today his last day
of freedom in his life.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That's what they're trying to do. They want him.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
High boss today, not next week, not next month, not
where the trial begins and he's found guilty by a
jury of his peers. In their eyes, no, no, no, no no,
they want him in jail. Now this is the level
of urgency that they're attaching to this and then Laura,
behold on this day when P Diddy is walking into
(39:22):
a courtroom in New York to plead not guilty on
sex trafficking and racketeering chargers hip hop music industry vet
Kevin Lyles is resigning from his Warner Music.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Group executive VP gig.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I am reading from a story right here online on TMZ.
On Tuesday, Lyles sent a company memo announcing his resignation
as chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers three hundred Electric
Entertainment Chairman, passing.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
The torch to some season vets.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
The next paragraph, Ladies and gentlemen, here's what it says.
Has been with Warner since two thousand and four, which
formerly housed did these bad Boy records, and he's been
vocal defending the mounds of allegations against Puffy. That's what
it said. So it's not me talking. Every time I
(40:20):
met Kevin law has been incredibly nice to me. I
don't know anything about any of this stuff. What I
do know is that they're attaching his name to p
did he and they're doing so on the day that
he resigned. And they're showing you the connection between him
and Bad Boy Entertainment. You know why they're doing that,
(40:40):
because it's a glimpse of what's coming.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
There's a whole bunch of nations, y'all guess it. I
ain't gonna put out no polls.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
I'm not gonna put a poll out there and ask
you and give your names and multiple truths. I'm not
doing that to other human beings. The only reason I
read Kevin Lywle's name is because of the TMC report
that's plastered all over the news right now. The only
reason I read the name. I'm not mentioned in anybody's name.
But what they're saying is that's the first domino. That's
what they're saying. That's the implication, that's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Think about the parties at his home. Think about the artist.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Puffy p Diddy, Sean p Diddy Combes, Sean Diddy Combes.
Think about the artists he's represented who's worked under this label,
God do Yon homework.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Think about the people he's an ordinate amount of.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
People he's been seen with at these parties and beyond,
and it's Kevin Fraser highlighted. Think about Jeffrey Epstein, Think
about sug Knight, Think about what happened with Jeffy Epstein,
Think about how sug Knight deferred to the Jeffrey Epstein
(41:58):
situation when describing the potentiality of what could eventually.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Happen to showing Diddy khms. This is bad, This is very,
very bad.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
All we can do is keep our eyes open, watch
the case unfold, and remember as he's being as the
prosecutors are pursuing this case against him, pushed forward by
Homeland Security, of all folks, we're gonna hear more and
more and more details. I just finished watching a couple
(42:39):
of news channels, a couple, not just one.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
You know what they said. They brought up the video.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Of him throwing cassa Ventura to the ground his axe
and kicking her and throwing the vos at her, and
they said, that's just one tape.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
You know they have more. That's what the news, the
news networks are saying.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
They also brought up reporters who cover or have covered
the music industry and how they're saying he's been accused
of being violent, not just with the ladies, but having
people beat up.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
And then they said allegedly having people killed.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
This is what they said in the news networks Fox
Newsy and ANEM said, we see all of that.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
That's what they said. What people were saying. Kevin Frasier
alluded to it.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
They're saying it, and prosecutors are pursuing a case against
them because of it. This is where it begins, This
is not where it ends. We all need to keep
our eyes open with regard to the fallout from all
(44:02):
of this, not just who falls, but for what reason
and how was the preponderance of evidence gathered against them?
Was it because of videos confiscated by Homeland Security at
his homes that they raided in Los Angeles or Miami?
(44:24):
Or will it get to the point where did he
says stuff himself to protect himself his life, and Lord
knows of whom else's.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's bad, y'all, It's bad. That's it for this edition
of the Stephen A. Smith Show. Thank you for listening.
I'll be back with you and a couple of days
until next time.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Everybody, peace and love. I'm signing off, Be blessed, God,
bless
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