September 20, 2024 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And gonna start with the news that shoo up the
entertainment industry this week, the arrest and detainment of music
mogul Sean P.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Diddy Combs.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
On Tuesday, the federal government, more specifically the Southern District
of New York unsealed a fourteen page document charging Cones
with racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion,
and transportation to engage in prostitution. If convicted on any
or all of the charges, P Diddy could be spending
(00:33):
the rest of his life in federal prison. He's currently
locked up in the same federal jail that once housed R.
Kelly during his trial. Combes appeared in court Tuesday and
pleaded not guilty to.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
All of the charges.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
However, the judge denied his bill, which means this week
may very well be his last as a freeman.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Here's the bottom line. The story's not going away.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm just reading some of the commons, y'all, and I
just want y'all to know I keep telling y'all the
biggest story in all of this my personal opinion, and
this is just an opinion. I'm deducing points and facts.
Here is here and there. Yes, he's a big enough
name to go after with these charges that have been
leveled against them, no doubt about it. Federal charges of racketeering, conspiracy,
(01:24):
sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, transportation and engage
in prostitution, ETCA. Saying those are very serious charges. And
he's a big enough name. He's worth over a four
hundred million dollars, he's a public figure, very high profile. Yes,
that's a big enough name. I don't believe all of
this is happening because it's just Showan P.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Diddy Cones thereafter.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I believe thereafter others as well, And just like I
learned from the Mission Impossible, the first one when those
guys that were chasing Ethan Hunt aka Tom Cruise was saying,
this is not applicated. You find somebody sore spot and
you squeeze, you squeeze Sean P. Diddy Coles knowing he's
(02:08):
a public figure, knowing the connections that he had, knowing
that he wasn't in this alone. Assuming they're right with
the charges and allegations that they've leveled against them. To
get others, you went after Jeffrey Empstein, You went after
Harvey Weinstein. Who else are you after? You're trying to
get everybody? And that's what I think this is about.
(02:34):
I'm just reading from some of these stories because I
think it's important to point this out. When you highlight
and you talk about some of the charges that have
been leveled against them, and you see some of the
stuff that's being said about.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Them, Look at this right here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Former Danity Kane singer Aubrey O'Day writes, I never thought
I would see this day, she told TMZ. We all
buried this inside of us in order to be able
to keep going, and not just me, but victims you
don't even know yet. We're all processing what that type
of vindication can actually feel like.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Every conversation I've had with victims last night has been
beyond moving on all levels. That was Aubrey o day.
You know, fifty Cent was gonna make sure his voice
was heard clowning P Diddy, taunting him basically because he's
long taunted P Diddy for years over the harrowing allegations
(03:37):
against him.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And what does he say here? This is yesterday, fifty Cent.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Here, I am keeping good company with the Drew Barrymore
TV Show, and I don't have one thousand bottles.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Of lube at the house.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Fifty Cent was referencing the over one thousand bottles of
baby oil and personal lubricants for the freak Offs that
the end dytmen revealed were allegedly found during the raid
of Ditty's homes in Los Angeles and Miami back in March.
Of course, Foxy Brown had something to say, shit's about
(04:13):
to really get crazy. And obviously the breakfast Clubs the
one and only Charlemagne of God, because remember this show
was carried on Revote TV that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Was once owned by P Diddy, And what did he post?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
He said, If did he gets racketeering and sex trafficking
charges for freak Offs, there will definitely be others involved.
And of course the United States attorney said, we're not done.
This investigation is ongoing. They're going after more than P Diddy.
And by the way, one of the attorneys came out
(04:46):
because they're disgusted by what's happening. Reading from an article
here on Yahoo. The arrest of music mogul Sewan P
Diddy Coons is not about the one thousand bottles of
baby oil in lube discovered during the March raids on
his li Los Angeles and Miami properties. It's about allegations
of coordinating and documented physical and sexual abuse. It's not
(05:06):
about the sickly the slickly named freak off parties. It's
about a legis systemic coercion, threats and trafficking of multiple
women over many, many years. It's not even about Ditty,
or at least not just Ditty. It's about the hundreds
of people who enabled him, the thousands who turned a
blind eye, and the culture that once again allowed the
brutal treatment of women and men to remain an open
(05:28):
secret for years as long as the perpetrator is rich, famous,
and powerful enough.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But let's stop. Let's stop with the lube jokes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That was what a column in the Los Angeles Times articulated.
Everybody's in on it. This is not going away. They're
trying to find out all culprits involved. And it ain't
just people who were employed under Bad Boy Entertainment or
any of any more of Sean p. Didty Combs's enterprises.
(06:00):
They're trying to get everybody. You got music ejecatives toil
into the Daily Mail. You got music executives that have
been put on notice to have contingency plans in case
their names are implicated. This is not going away, ladies
and gentlemen, This is not going away. And if you
(06:21):
love yourself some Sean P. Diddy Combes and you find
yourself very, very scared for him, consider yourself justified. There's
some local police department that's coming after them. This is
some officer coming out, this is homeland Security.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
These crimes are federal. These are rico charges.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You've had people who've been on the record saying they'd
rather be charged with the murder than having.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Rico charges leveled against them. That's how serious this is.
And Sean P.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Diddy Combes was willing to post fifty million dollar bond,
and with this economy, with inflation, with the government constantly
looking to get their hands on our money, they said,
keep your money. Nah, we ain't accepting it. Stay your
ass in jail. This is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This is some serious, serious business.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They ain't even just talking about his abuse, one of
which was called on video when he hit his ex
girlfriend or his then girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. This isn't even
just about continuous physical abuse spanning years. In terms of
the allegations and accusations that have been thrown out about him.
(07:33):
They're calling this a criminal enterprise, which means there's a
boatload of other people involved. They're using words like prostitution,
essentially implying there was a prostitution ring going on. I
don't know what else to say to y'all.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Other than.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We have to sit back and wait, and I pray
that some of the people that I've seen over the years,
some of the people he's done business with, some of
the people with fans of I'm not gonna throw any
names out there, but we all know who used to
work und the Bad Boy Entertainment. We all know that
he's been friends with everybody. We all know the kind
of connections this man has. I am praying that this
(08:19):
man doesn't find himself in a position where others are
inevitably implicated, and we see some of the people we
love the most, scars we revered for years, producers and
executives that we've known for years implicated in all of this.
(08:43):
Because the federal government is coming after everybody, we got
to brace ourselves, y'all. We got to brace ourselves
And gonna start with the news that shoo up the
entertainment industry this week, the arrest and detainment of music
mogul Sean P.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Diddy Combs.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
On Tuesday, the federal government, more specifically the Southern District
of New York unsealed a fourteen page document charging Cones
with racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion,
and transportation to engage in prostitution. If convicted on any
or all of the charges, P Diddy could be spending
(00:33):
the rest of his life in federal prison. He's currently
locked up in the same federal jail that once housed R.
Kelly during his trial. Combes appeared in court Tuesday and
pleaded not guilty to.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
All of the charges.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
However, the judge denied his bill, which means this week
may very well be his last as a freeman.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Here's the bottom line. The story's not going away.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm just reading some of the commons, y'all, and I
just want y'all to know I keep telling y'all the
biggest story in all of this my personal opinion, and
this is just an opinion. I'm deducing points and facts.
Here is here and there. Yes, he's a big enough
name to go after with these charges that have been
leveled against them, no doubt about it. Federal charges of racketeering, conspiracy,
(01:24):
sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, transportation and engage
in prostitution, ETCA. Saying those are very serious charges. And
he's a big enough name. He's worth over a four
hundred million dollars, he's a public figure, very high profile. Yes,
that's a big enough name. I don't believe all of
this is happening because it's just Showan P.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Diddy Cones thereafter.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I believe thereafter others as well, And just like I
learned from the Mission Impossible, the first one when those
guys that were chasing Ethan Hunt aka Tom Cruise was saying,
this is not applicated. You find somebody sore spot and
you squeeze, you squeeze Sean P. Diddy Coles knowing he's
(02:08):
a public figure, knowing the connections that he had, knowing
that he wasn't in this alone. Assuming they're right with
the charges and allegations that they've leveled against them. To
get others, you went after Jeffrey Empstein, You went after
Harvey Weinstein. Who else are you after? You're trying to
get everybody? And that's what I think this is about.
(02:34):
I'm just reading from some of these stories because I
think it's important to point this out. When you highlight
and you talk about some of the charges that have
been leveled against them, and you see some of the
stuff that's being said about.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Them, Look at this right here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Former Danity Kane singer Aubrey O'Day writes, I never thought
I would see this day, she told TMZ. We all
buried this inside of us in order to be able
to keep going, and not just me, but victims you
don't even know yet. We're all processing what that type
of vindication can actually feel like.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Every conversation I've had with victims last night has been
beyond moving on all levels. That was Aubrey o day.
You know, fifty Cent was gonna make sure his voice
was heard clowning P Diddy, taunting him basically because he's
long taunted P Diddy for years over the harrowing allegations
(03:37):
against him.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And what does he say here? This is yesterday, fifty Cent.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Here, I am keeping good company with the Drew Barrymore
TV Show, and I don't have one thousand bottles.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Of lube at the house.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Fifty Cent was referencing the over one thousand bottles of
baby oil and personal lubricants for the freak Offs that
the end dytmen revealed were allegedly found during the raid
of Ditty's homes in Los Angeles and Miami back in March.
Of course, Foxy Brown had something to say, shit's about
(04:13):
to really get crazy. And obviously the breakfast Clubs the
one and only Charlemagne of God, because remember this show
was carried on Revote TV that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Was once owned by P Diddy, And what did he post?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
He said, If did he gets racketeering and sex trafficking
charges for freak Offs, there will definitely be others involved.
And of course the United States attorney said, we're not done.
This investigation is ongoing. They're going after more than P Diddy.
And by the way, one of the attorneys came out
(04:46):
because they're disgusted by what's happening. Reading from an article
here on Yahoo. The arrest of music mogul Sewan P
Diddy Coons is not about the one thousand bottles of
baby oil in lube discovered during the March raids on
his li Los Angeles and Miami properties. It's about allegations
of coordinating and documented physical and sexual abuse. It's not
(05:06):
about the sickly the slickly named freak off parties. It's
about a legis systemic coercion, threats and trafficking of multiple
women over many, many years. It's not even about Ditty,
or at least not just Ditty. It's about the hundreds
of people who enabled him, the thousands who turned a
blind eye, and the culture that once again allowed the
brutal treatment of women and men to remain an open
(05:28):
secret for years as long as the perpetrator is rich, famous,
and powerful enough.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But let's stop. Let's stop with the lube jokes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That was what a column in the Los Angeles Times articulated.
Everybody's in on it. This is not going away. They're
trying to find out all culprits involved. And it ain't
just people who were employed under Bad Boy Entertainment or
any of any more of Sean p. Didty Combs's enterprises.
(06:00):
They're trying to get everybody. You got music ejecatives toil
into the Daily Mail. You got music executives that have
been put on notice to have contingency plans in case
their names are implicated. This is not going away, ladies
and gentlemen, This is not going away. And if you
(06:21):
love yourself some Sean P. Diddy Combes and you find
yourself very, very scared for him, consider yourself justified. There's
some local police department that's coming after them. This is
some officer coming out, this is homeland Security.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
These crimes are federal. These are rico charges.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You've had people who've been on the record saying they'd
rather be charged with the murder than having.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Rico charges leveled against them. That's how serious this is.
And Sean P.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Diddy Combes was willing to post fifty million dollar bond,
and with this economy, with inflation, with the government constantly
looking to get their hands on our money, they said,
keep your money. Nah, we ain't accepting it. Stay your
ass in jail. This is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
This is some serious, serious business.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They ain't even just talking about his abuse, one of
which was called on video when he hit his ex
girlfriend or his then girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. This isn't even
just about continuous physical abuse spanning years. In terms of
the allegations and accusations that have been thrown out about him.
(07:33):
They're calling this a criminal enterprise, which means there's a
boatload of other people involved. They're using words like prostitution,
essentially implying there was a prostitution ring going on. I
don't know what else to say to y'all.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Other than.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We have to sit back and wait, and I pray
that some of the people that I've seen over the years,
some of the people he's done business with, some of
the people with fans of I'm not gonna throw any
names out there, but we all know who used to
work und the Bad Boy Entertainment. We all know that
he's been friends with everybody. We all know the kind
of connections this man has. I am praying that this
(08:19):
man doesn't find himself in a position where others are
inevitably implicated, and we see some of the people we
love the most, scars we revered for years, producers and
executives that we've known for years implicated in all of this.
(08:43):
Because the federal government is coming after everybody, we got
to brace ourselves, y'all. We got to brace ourselves
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