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<i>[dramatic music]</i>

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>- Whoa, nobody's shooting me.
Nobody's shooting me.</i>

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<i>Nobody's shooting me.</i>

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There's three shooters to make
sure somebody is shooting me.

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You got me acting crazy
in front of all these people.

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Disney paying a lot
for this motherfucking art

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I'm going to give them--
fuck that.

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<i>- During those times,
I had to wonder</i>

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what was going on in his head.

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<i>Like, why is he really angry?</i>

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<i>[hip-hop music]</i>

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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- It was shocking to me.

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What's really
going on out here?

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>[indistinct chatter
over police radio]</i>

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- We need to be asking
the question...

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<i>not what's wrong with you...</i>

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<i>but what happened to you?</i>

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<i>[dramatic music]</i>

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>- Sean and I--
we grew up together as kids.</i>

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<i>I know Sean.</i>

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<i>And he's made
so many mistakes.</i>

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- Fuck that. I'm going to give
them their money's worth.

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<i>- I used to work
with Sean Combs.</i>

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<i>And I don't want to be here
to talk about another man</i>

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<i>unless their business
crosses my business.</i>

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[voice breaking]
If you only knew

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the shit
I fucking been through.

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<i>There was a bounty
that was put on to silence me.</i>

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- I'm back, baby.

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<i>- It's a lot worse than
what the public knows.</i>

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<i>- [crying]
It's been 20 years.</i>

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I haven't said anything
for so long.

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- Mr. Combs!
[cheering]

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- I've gone from Harlem
to Hollywood.

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[indistinct chatter]

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Diddy finally has the key
to the city!

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[cheering]

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I'm gonna show y'all
how we have fun

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and stay out of jail, too...
- Whoa.

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- And make money.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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[dog barks]

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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- Like, just show me
what's around here.

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We'll walk with you.

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- So, yeah, so...

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about 1,100 square feet.
- Uh-huh.

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- Small, but it's
kind of spacious.

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It works for me.

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But I've been here
since around 2019.

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We're somewhere
in the woods, way remote,

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I guess what they call
these days "off-grid."

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- So this is pretty similar

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to what it was like
growing up for you?

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- Right now?
- Yeah.

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- No, no, this is
a little different.

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But I grew up weird.

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I grew up in the ghetto,

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and then I moved over into
the suburbs, where Sean lived.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>My reason
for having you guys here</i>

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is because I truly believe
that what's going on right now

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is bigger than you.

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It's bigger than me.
It's bigger than media.

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It's bigger than this world.

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I just know
that where I am now,

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amongst all the noise...

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<i>- We begin with breaking news.</i>

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<i>- Mr. Combs has been accused
of sexual assault.</i>

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<i>- Amongst all the headlines...</i>

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<i>- Rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs
is out on bail this morning.</i>

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<i>- There is
a federal investigation</i>

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<i>into sex trafficking.</i>

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- Amongst all the chaos...

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<i>- Abuse, harassment,
forced drugging.</i>

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<i>- Physically assaulting...</i>

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<i>- Multiple homes raided
by federal law enforcement.</i>

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<i>- He is public enemy
number one right now.</i>

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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And a lot of things that are
being attached to Sean now...

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>I can't condone
any of the things</i>

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that I've heard or seen.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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He's "monsterized" now.

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<i>But monsters are made.</i>

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<i>You know,
that's my little bro.</i>

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<i>You know, I know Sean,
not Diddy, not Daddy Love.</i>

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I don't know those people.
I don't know them.

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I swear I don't know them.
I've never met those people.

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<i>I have to tell people
about what they don't know</i>

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<i>about his childhood.</i>

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>The making of Sean Combs...</i>

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<i>Sean is the son</i>

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of two Harlem "it" people.

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<i>Janice is Sean's mom.</i>

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Speaking of Janice,
this is Janice here.

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And Melvin is Sean's dad.

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And Sean--he grew up
in Mount Vernon.

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<i>That's where they built
a house.</i>

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<i>Now, here's the context
of it all.</i>

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Mount Vernon is
a 4-square-mile city,

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<i>maybe 25, 30 minutes</i>

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<i>from Manhattan--
New York proper.</i>

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<i>And at the north side is
where you would love to live</i>

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<i>because it's
the residential side.</i>

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<i>It's grass. It's birds.</i>

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It's everything
the south side isn't.

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The south side,
that's your ghetto.

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<i>That's where
I was born and raised</i>

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<i>until about five years old.</i>

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<i>This is a town you come to</i>

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to get away from the hip town,

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to kind of integrate yourself
into some type of normalcy.

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<i>Melvin--I've never met him,
never knew him.</i>

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<i>He passed before I met Sean.</i>

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Why he wasn't there was just
a mystery to both of us.

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<i>So Sean had to learn
about his dad</i>

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<i>through other fellas
that came up during that time.</i>

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<i>- Sean Combs' father</i>
was allegedly...

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a gangster, a hustler,
and a player

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in the streets of New York.

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- Melvin was a part
of a group of guys

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that was led by Nicky Barnes...

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<i>big Harlem kingpin,
if you want to call it.</i>

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- His father sold
to an undercover cop.

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[siren wailing]

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<i>This was a New York City
police officer.</i>

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And he gave
the cop information.

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His father was killed because
he was ratting them out.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>- I don't know how he died.</i>

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<i>I don't know.</i>

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I just know Janet
woke up one day,

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and he was not there,
and Sean was.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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Janice was left a lot of money.

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There was a brand-new house,
and Janet had to pivot.

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<i>And her desire was
to occupy that house</i>

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with someone that had a son
close to the age of her son.

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<i>- My mom knew Janet,</i>

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<i>and somehow, someway,
they hooked up,</i>

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and we were offered the bottom
floor on her brand-new house

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that her and Melvin had built.

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And we had a chance now
to move on the north side.

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<i>So, when we pulled up
to this house,</i>

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<i>I saw a whole new world,</i>

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and all I did was look
at these two people,

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because what I saw,
I saw Black people like myself,

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but they had
a different color Black.

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<i>It was golden. It was shiny.
It was healthy.</i>

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They had really nice clothes
and jewelry.

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<i>So we get up to the house.
We get out the car.</i>

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<i>Janice says, well, wait
a minute, let me go get Sean.</i>

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And she goes upstairs.

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She comes back down
with this little kid.

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And I look at him
like, oh, my God,

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this guy is different.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>He's the one in the hat.</i>

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<i>And you can see
he has jewelry on.</i>

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<i>He has rings on.
He has bracelets on.</i>

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<i>This is a 4-year-old
in a 30-year-old's wardrobe.</i>

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- My first interaction
with Sean Combs--

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He wasn't Puffy yet--

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<i>We were playing baseball
down at Brush Park</i>

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<i>in Mount Vernon, New York.</i>

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<i>He was on Little League,
had braces.</i>

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<i>And he's a shy guy.</i>

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<i>You know, he wasn't real loud
and boisterous.</i>

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I don't know
if he was <i>good</i> good,

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to where I would say
he was good in baseball.

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He was on the team.

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<i>Even with the football,
it was like,</i>

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<i>he played football
at Mount Saint Michael.</i>

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I'm not going to
say he was good.

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I heard he was on the team.
[laughs]

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- So I first met Puff

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when he came to a cousin
of mine's house party.

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<i>He was part
of a dancing fashion crew</i>

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called 7-Up Crew.

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And those guys would go
throughout New York City,

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battle people
in dancing, fashion.

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He also was one
of the first kids that I knew

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<i>that had, like, a Gucci watch.</i>

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- He always had all the best
of everything.

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<i>Like, Sean didn't go
to school with us.</i>

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<i>Sean went to the Catholic
school, private school.</i>

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- Private school.

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They always say that--
oh, yeah, he's doing good.

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Got him in private school.

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- This kid is rich.

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He was looked at
as the rich kid.

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<i>Sean was the different kid.</i>

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Sean was the kid that people
could smell was not tough.

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<i>Sean was always bullied.</i>

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You know, getting hit
up your head,

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on the side of your head
one too many times

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or getting called a bitch
one too many times.

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<i>There's one kid in particular.
Name was Jonathan.</i>

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He was about 6 feet tall
at 12 years old--

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real big, husky dude.

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And for some reason,
Jonathan would pick on him.

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<i>And he would pick on him
and hit him and make him cry</i>

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and take his bike
and just do mean stuff...

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to the point where
I couldn't watch that happen.

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I had to intervene,

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because my interaction
with Sean was a protector.

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<i>It was a bigger bro.</i>

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When something's done to them,
you step up.

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<i>But after I graduated
high school</i>

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<i>and I went into military,</i>

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Sean didn't have me
around anymore.

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<i>- There's been
quite a bit of research done</i>

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<i>on a body of work
that we really refer to a lot.</i>

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<i>It's called
Adverse Childhood Experiences,</i>

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<i>or ACEs.</i>

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It can be everything
from witnessing

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domestic violence,
physical abuse.

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It could be having
a parent who's absent.

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>Here's a man who lost
his father early in life</i>

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<i>under some very violent,
tragic circumstances.</i>

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<i>♪ ♪</i>

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<i>If you've lost a parent,</i>

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<i>there's a desire</i>

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to belong to something
bigger than yourself,

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to not be isolated,

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<i>to belong to a group,
to fit in.</i>

237
00:11:41.267 --> 00:11:44.160
- This is one of the pictures

238
00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.663
<i>before Puff joined
the Same Gang.</i>

239
00:11:48.664 --> 00:11:51.591
<i>I started the Same Gang
in '89.</i>

240
00:11:51.592 --> 00:11:54.594
We were men that came together,
and we went to parties.

241
00:11:54.595 --> 00:11:56.122
You know, we clubbed.

242
00:11:56.282 --> 00:11:59.724
You had some guys
that was hustling.

243
00:11:59.725 --> 00:12:01.643
<i>Puff--man, he want
to be with us.</i>

244
00:12:01.644 --> 00:12:03.445
<i>He want to be with us.</i>

245
00:12:03.446 --> 00:12:06.132
A lot of guys didn't want him
a part of the Same Gang

246
00:12:06.292 --> 00:12:08.134
because he didn't live
in Harlem.

247
00:12:08.294 --> 00:12:11.286
<i>The dudes
didn't really like him.</i>

248
00:12:11.287 --> 00:12:13.565
<i>All right,
so one day we decided--</i>

249
00:12:13.725 --> 00:12:15.466
they said,
Puff, come over here.

250
00:12:15.627 --> 00:12:18.394
We're going to have
the young'uns tighten him up.

251
00:12:18.554 --> 00:12:20.745
<i>[indistinct shouting]</i>

252
00:12:20.746 --> 00:12:24.374
<i>And we gonna smash him
in the head...</i>

253
00:12:24.375 --> 00:12:26.126
<i>Rough him up,
or stuff like that.</i>

254
00:12:26.127 --> 00:12:28.154
<i>[indistinct shouting]</i>

255
00:12:28.314 --> 00:12:31.631
<i>When Puff came,
we was all out there.</i>

256
00:12:31.632 --> 00:12:33.034
And the young guys grabbed him.

257
00:12:33.194 --> 00:12:35.710
<i>♪ ♪</i>

258
00:12:35.711 --> 00:12:37.337
And they start trying
to rough him up.

259
00:12:37.338 --> 00:12:39.048
And he jetted, running.

260
00:12:41.144 --> 00:12:43.569
<i>They brought him back
to rough him up,</i>

261
00:12:43.570 --> 00:12:46.598
smash stuff, hit him
in the head with cakes

262
00:12:46.758 --> 00:12:49.474
and all this other stuff
like that.

263
00:12:49.475 --> 00:12:53.478
<i>After that,
Puff was in the Same Gang.</i>

264
00:12:53.479 --> 00:12:56.107
This is the picture...

265
00:12:56.267 --> 00:12:58.610
when he crossed over
into the Same Gang.

266
00:12:58.770 --> 00:13:01.070
He got
the Same Gang T-shirt on.

267
00:13:05.026 --> 00:13:07.118
<i>[chain saw whirring]</i>

268
00:13:09.531 --> 00:13:13.699
<i>- When I got home
from the military--</i>

269
00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:17.269
<i>and Sean and I hadn't seen
each other in a while,</i>

270
00:13:17.270 --> 00:13:20.355
and, you know, I'm like,
what's up, Sean?

271
00:13:20.356 --> 00:13:23.259
He's like, yeah,
they call me Puff now.

272
00:13:23.419 --> 00:13:24.803
They call me Puff.

273
00:13:26.814 --> 00:13:29.039
<i>I was being
looked at as a punk.</i>

274
00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.642
<i>I was being looked at
as a pushover.</i>

275
00:13:30.802 --> 00:13:32.517
<i>I was being looked at
as a sissy,</i>

276
00:13:32.518 --> 00:13:34.519
as a wimp, as a goofy.

277
00:13:34.520 --> 00:13:37.398
<i>I ain't even trying to know
that person again.</i>

278
00:13:39.210 --> 00:13:40.500
And I'm a Puff Daddy now.

279
00:13:40.501 --> 00:13:44.405
<i>♪ ♪</i>

280
00:13:44.566 --> 00:13:47.633
- So that insecurity,
the need to fit in...

281
00:13:47.634 --> 00:13:49.259
- I had a great time.
- Yeah?

282
00:13:49.260 --> 00:13:51.061
- I'm glad
they invited me back.

283
00:13:51.222 --> 00:13:52.387
- The need to feel powerful.

284
00:13:52.388 --> 00:13:53.656
[paparazzi shouting]

285
00:13:53.816 --> 00:13:55.423
<i>Some perpetrators</i>

286
00:13:55.424 --> 00:13:57.643
are profoundly damaged
individuals...

287
00:13:57.644 --> 00:14:00.395
[loud cheering]

288
00:14:00.396 --> 00:14:04.033
<i>And feel very powerless.</i>

289
00:14:04.194 --> 00:14:07.178
And a way of being powerful

290
00:14:07.338 --> 00:14:10.256
is controlling
and victimizing other people.

291
00:14:10.416 --> 00:14:12.807
- What's up with your
relationship with Jennifer?

292
00:14:12.808 --> 00:14:17.013
- I am a civil litigator
who has filed several cases

293
00:14:17.173 --> 00:14:19.941
against Sean Combs
for sexual assault

294
00:14:20.101 --> 00:14:21.693
in civil court.

295
00:14:21.853 --> 00:14:26.463
I have been sounding the alarm
about Mr. Combs for years.

296
00:14:26.464 --> 00:14:29.383
<i>He is a man who has done
awful things</i>

297
00:14:29.384 --> 00:14:32.203
to hundreds,
maybe thousands of people.

298
00:14:32.363 --> 00:14:34.245
- I'm wilder, I'm crazier.

299
00:14:34.246 --> 00:14:36.223
<i>- I want to speak
about this now</i>

300
00:14:36.224 --> 00:14:38.367
because I witnessed everything.

301
00:14:38.461 --> 00:14:40.411
<i>- [crying] I haven't said
anything for so long,</i>

302
00:14:40.571 --> 00:14:43.188
and it's built up--
it's been 20 years.

303
00:14:43.189 --> 00:14:46.215
- Um...

304
00:14:46.216 --> 00:14:48.294
[crying]
I don't trust anyone...

305
00:14:48.454 --> 00:14:50.722
<i>♪ ♪</i>

306
00:14:50.882 --> 00:14:55.099
Because I'm afraid that they
might come get me for speaking.

307
00:14:55.100 --> 00:14:58.062
<i>♪ ♪</i>

308
00:15:02.802 --> 00:15:05.019
<i>[soft music]</i>

309
00:15:05.179 --> 00:15:06.145
- Go.

310
00:15:06.239 --> 00:15:08.022
<i>The very first girlfriend</i>

311
00:15:08.116 --> 00:15:10.474
Sean had that I met...

312
00:15:10.635 --> 00:15:12.625
was named Tracy.

313
00:15:12.626 --> 00:15:14.477
She was from Brooklyn.

314
00:15:14.478 --> 00:15:17.380
<i>We were older now,
teenagers and stuff.</i>

315
00:15:17.381 --> 00:15:19.659
<i>So Tracy used to come
to the house.</i>

316
00:15:19.819 --> 00:15:22.587
I'm sure he had college girls,
but I wasn't around.

317
00:15:25.216 --> 00:15:27.759
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

318
00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.452
- I know some girls
that he's dated, you know,

319
00:15:30.613 --> 00:15:32.771
that have called him
a perfect gentleman.

320
00:15:32.772 --> 00:15:35.973
<i>But when Sean started getting
more and more popular</i>

321
00:15:35.974 --> 00:15:38.785
and he had one
of the hot girls on campus,

322
00:15:38.786 --> 00:15:40.605
there was a lot of jealousy
that went on.

323
00:15:42.909 --> 00:15:45.109
<i>Maybe his personality
might not have been</i>

324
00:15:45.269 --> 00:15:47.985
<i>the most sensitive.</i>

325
00:15:47.986 --> 00:15:50.839
I'm not sure what Puff
might have been focused on,

326
00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.193
but I just know
that he had a love for music.

327
00:15:54.353 --> 00:15:56.770
- Back when I was
going to Howard in '87,

328
00:15:56.931 --> 00:15:59.523
I was trying to get
into the music industry.

329
00:15:59.684 --> 00:16:03.703
Everybody was looking at me
like I was crazy.

330
00:16:03.863 --> 00:16:06.605
<i>- I met Puffy on Howard's
campus for the first time.</i>

331
00:16:06.606 --> 00:16:08.681
I was actually the first person
on Howard's campus

332
00:16:08.682 --> 00:16:10.743
to have a drum machine
at that time.

333
00:16:10.904 --> 00:16:12.727
<i>And I've been
in the music industry</i>

334
00:16:12.728 --> 00:16:15.513
<i>ever since I was probably
15 years old.</i>

335
00:16:15.514 --> 00:16:17.616
<i>So he wanted to get with me</i>

336
00:16:17.617 --> 00:16:20.353
<i>because he knew
that I had connections.</i>

337
00:16:20.513 --> 00:16:22.346
<i>He would tell you that,</i>

338
00:16:22.506 --> 00:16:25.874
<i>I'm going to be the biggest
record producer in the world.</i>

339
00:16:25.875 --> 00:16:29.802
Like, he already knew what
he wanted at Howard University.

340
00:16:29.803 --> 00:16:32.831
<i>- He hung out with a lot
of friends from Mount Vernon.</i>

341
00:16:32.832 --> 00:16:35.834
One of our biggest celebs
from Mount Vernon,

342
00:16:35.835 --> 00:16:37.535
<i>his name is Heavy D.</i>

343
00:16:37.536 --> 00:16:39.739
<i>Heavy D came up to campus.</i>

344
00:16:39.899 --> 00:16:43.040
<i>- Heavy D was part
of Heavy D & the Boyz.</i>

345
00:16:43.041 --> 00:16:47.663
They were actually the first
act signed to Uptown Records.

346
00:16:47.823 --> 00:16:51.282
<i>Diddy spoke to his friend
Heavy D, and he said,</i>

347
00:16:51.283 --> 00:16:53.476
can you get me an internship?

348
00:16:53.477 --> 00:16:56.472
Please get me an internship
at Uptown Records.

349
00:16:59.059 --> 00:17:00.351
- Hey, can you make
this happen?

350
00:17:03.239 --> 00:17:06.190
<i>[loud cheering]</i>

351
00:17:08.244 --> 00:17:09.742
<i>- Uptown Records</i>

352
00:17:09.743 --> 00:17:14.198
was modeled as
a boutique version of Motown,

353
00:17:14.358 --> 00:17:16.600
but we just had
the hip-hop flavor to it.

354
00:17:16.761 --> 00:17:18.751
<i>I had a little bit
of success myself,</i>

355
00:17:18.752 --> 00:17:22.830
<i>being the first number-one
artist on Uptown</i>

356
00:17:22.831 --> 00:17:25.534
<i>and the first platinum
artist on Uptown.</i>

357
00:17:25.694 --> 00:17:28.544
<i>♪ ♪</i>

358
00:17:28.545 --> 00:17:30.814
<i>I don't think
that people ever knew</i>

359
00:17:30.815 --> 00:17:34.552
that Al B. Sure! funded Uptown.

360
00:17:36.473 --> 00:17:38.271
<i>I was working with Jodeci,</i>

361
00:17:38.272 --> 00:17:40.440
<i>Mary J. Blige,</i>

362
00:17:40.441 --> 00:17:42.534
<i>Heavy D & the Boyz.</i>

363
00:17:42.535 --> 00:17:45.453
<i>We took a company
like Uptown from zero</i>

364
00:17:45.454 --> 00:17:47.780
<i>and made it into
a billion-dollar corporation</i>

365
00:17:47.781 --> 00:17:49.357
<i>or somewhere close.</i>

366
00:17:49.358 --> 00:17:51.659
[cell phone rings]
- Hello?

367
00:17:51.660 --> 00:17:54.570
<i>- Sean wanted to work
at Uptown.</i>

368
00:17:54.571 --> 00:17:56.664
He actually did some more,
like, suffering

369
00:17:56.665 --> 00:18:00.319
just to, you know, get
that internship.

370
00:18:00.479 --> 00:18:02.321
<i>- So Sean would show up
in the weirdest places--</i>

371
00:18:02.481 --> 00:18:04.622
<i>at Heavy D's doorstep.</i>

372
00:18:04.623 --> 00:18:06.826
<i>He'd show up at Uptown,
he'd show up at parties--</i>

373
00:18:06.986 --> 00:18:09.311
anything to get the attention
of the bigwigs.

374
00:18:09.312 --> 00:18:11.879
<i>- He was really trying to get</i>

375
00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.483
<i>Andre Harrell's, the president
of Uptown Records, attention.</i>

376
00:18:15.484 --> 00:18:16.985
From what I heard--

377
00:18:16.986 --> 00:18:19.487
is that he even,
like, slept outside of his car

378
00:18:19.488 --> 00:18:22.741
because he really wanted
to be in this.

379
00:18:22.742 --> 00:18:25.643
- And then Sean
forced his way in

380
00:18:25.644 --> 00:18:28.321
with what he can do for Andre

381
00:18:28.322 --> 00:18:29.774
<i>and became an intern.</i>

382
00:18:31.820 --> 00:18:36.614
<i>♪ ♪</i>

383
00:18:40.661 --> 00:18:43.687
- Yeah, I don't remember much.

384
00:18:43.848 --> 00:18:45.913
It's not like we hung out
on a daily basis

385
00:18:45.914 --> 00:18:48.042
and things of that nature.

386
00:18:48.202 --> 00:18:51.295
<i>But what you do know
about Sean,</i>

387
00:18:51.455 --> 00:18:54.698
<i>one of Sean's
best attributes was,</i>

388
00:18:54.859 --> 00:18:57.552
<i>Sean let everybody know
in the camp,</i>

389
00:18:57.712 --> 00:18:59.628
nobody's going to be
bigger than me.

390
00:18:59.788 --> 00:19:01.806
<i>♪ ♪</i>

391
00:19:01.966 --> 00:19:04.708
<i>- At first, he was just really
just getting coffee,</i>

392
00:19:04.869 --> 00:19:07.011
getting paper,
making Xerox copies.

393
00:19:07.171 --> 00:19:09.788
There wasn't that much money
in it yet.

394
00:19:09.789 --> 00:19:12.883
<i>So he started
promoting parties.</i>

395
00:19:13.044 --> 00:19:16.819
Now he's starting to make
some money with his parties.

396
00:19:16.820 --> 00:19:19.372
<i>But at the same time,
there was an event.</i>

397
00:19:19.373 --> 00:19:22.726
<i>♪ ♪</i>

398
00:19:22.887 --> 00:19:24.829
This is where he was going on
through some hard times.

399
00:19:27.100 --> 00:19:28.532
- That tragic event--

400
00:19:28.692 --> 00:19:30.484
I think the guy
wanted to kill himself...

401
00:19:30.645 --> 00:19:33.711
[chuckles]
Be honest with you.

402
00:19:33.712 --> 00:19:35.464
<i>- He was a party promoter.</i>

403
00:19:37.168 --> 00:19:40.735
But at the time, myself and
many other people

404
00:19:40.736 --> 00:19:44.472
did not know who Sean Combs,
"Puff Daddy" was,

405
00:19:44.473 --> 00:19:47.101
<i>until the City College event.</i>

406
00:19:47.261 --> 00:19:50.429
<i>- Puff and Heavy D
decided to throw</i>

407
00:19:50.589 --> 00:19:53.757
a celebrity charity
basketball game.

408
00:19:53.918 --> 00:19:57.436
And the proceeds was supposed
to go to an AIDS foundation.

409
00:19:57.596 --> 00:20:01.664
<i>When you got Mike Tyson,
LL Cool J,</i>

410
00:20:01.665 --> 00:20:04.241
<i>Heavy D himself,
a big celebrity,</i>

411
00:20:04.242 --> 00:20:06.695
the urban community
wanted to see that.

412
00:20:06.855 --> 00:20:09.448
<i>♪ ♪</i>

413
00:20:09.608 --> 00:20:11.525
<i>Highly, highly publicized.</i>

414
00:20:11.686 --> 00:20:14.602
It was promoted on WBLS.

415
00:20:14.603 --> 00:20:18.606
- 98.7 Kiss--
they were blasting it.

416
00:20:18.607 --> 00:20:20.534
If you didn't know
about that event,

417
00:20:20.695 --> 00:20:21.860
something was wrong with you,

418
00:20:21.861 --> 00:20:24.704
because it was
all over the place.

419
00:20:24.705 --> 00:20:27.873
<i>- My sister, Sonya Williams--</i>

420
00:20:27.874 --> 00:20:31.053
she met Sean through his
girlfriend at the time.

421
00:20:31.147 --> 00:20:33.522
And he gave her the ticket.

422
00:20:33.683 --> 00:20:35.948
<i>- My brother was excited
about it.</i>

423
00:20:35.949 --> 00:20:37.977
<i>He called everyone up.</i>

424
00:20:38.137 --> 00:20:40.152
Yo, meet me at City College.

425
00:20:40.153 --> 00:20:42.907
Had nothing...

426
00:20:43.067 --> 00:20:44.808
tragic happened,

427
00:20:44.969 --> 00:20:47.870
it would have been
the best event ever.

428
00:20:53.586 --> 00:20:55.735
<i>[serious music]</i>

429
00:20:55.736 --> 00:20:58.571
<i>- December 28, 1991--</i>

430
00:20:58.572 --> 00:21:01.474
wow, that was a day.
[scoffs]

431
00:21:01.475 --> 00:21:03.877
December 28, 1991.

432
00:21:04.038 --> 00:21:06.005
I remember, you know,
my phone was ringing,

433
00:21:06.165 --> 00:21:07.640
and people want tickets.

434
00:21:07.800 --> 00:21:10.817
Do you have tickets?
Can you get me tickets?

435
00:21:10.818 --> 00:21:12.061
- How y'all doing this morning?

436
00:21:12.221 --> 00:21:14.987
<i>- At 22, Sean was a genius
at marketing.</i>

437
00:21:14.988 --> 00:21:17.391
- They promoted it like it was

438
00:21:17.551 --> 00:21:20.861
in a 10,000-seat arena.

439
00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:27.401
- No, I said, WBLS promoted it

440
00:21:27.561 --> 00:21:30.479
as if it was a 10,000 seating.

441
00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:32.806
City College holds 2,700.

442
00:21:32.807 --> 00:21:34.709
[cheering]

443
00:21:34.869 --> 00:21:37.009
<i>- Not only
was it filled inside,</i>

444
00:21:37.010 --> 00:21:39.788
there was probably
just as many people outside

445
00:21:39.948 --> 00:21:41.114
that couldn't get inside.

446
00:21:41.275 --> 00:21:43.742
- There was this girl.

447
00:21:43.903 --> 00:21:48.746
And she was packed
in the glass door.

448
00:21:48.747 --> 00:21:50.424
And everybody was telling her,
yo, just go home.

449
00:21:50.584 --> 00:21:51.750
You can go out the back.

450
00:21:51.911 --> 00:21:53.827
- The crowd started
to get unruly.

451
00:21:53.828 --> 00:21:55.829
- The ticket crew
closed the door.

452
00:21:55.830 --> 00:21:58.281
- I heard, they locked me in.

453
00:21:58.282 --> 00:21:59.859
She locked the door.

454
00:22:00.019 --> 00:22:02.660
- Now they're crushed
against the door,

455
00:22:02.661 --> 00:22:05.588
like, packed, back to back.

456
00:22:05.589 --> 00:22:07.116
- When the crowd
rushed through...

457
00:22:07.276 --> 00:22:09.518
- All the glass and everything
just shattered.

458
00:22:09.679 --> 00:22:10.844
[imitates glass shattering]

459
00:22:10.845 --> 00:22:12.703
And people just
started running in.

460
00:22:12.704 --> 00:22:14.990
- And you got people piling up
on one another and another

461
00:22:15.150 --> 00:22:16.924
and another.

462
00:22:16.925 --> 00:22:18.777
And people are screaming,
just let me in, let me in.

463
00:22:18.938 --> 00:22:20.954
- And there were people who--

464
00:22:21.115 --> 00:22:24.682
My friends said they heard Dirk
smothered, like, mm...

465
00:22:24.683 --> 00:22:26.993
Like, they could hear him being
completely covered

466
00:22:27.155 --> 00:22:29.270
by the crowd.

467
00:22:29.271 --> 00:22:32.641
[screaming]

468
00:22:32.802 --> 00:22:35.803
- I ran around the gym,
opened one door.

469
00:22:35.897 --> 00:22:37.855
<i>People start falling down
right there.</i>

470
00:22:38.015 --> 00:22:41.273
Open up another door--people
start falling down there.

471
00:22:41.274 --> 00:22:43.944
[indistinct shouting]

472
00:22:45.823 --> 00:22:47.731
- I didn't see Diddy at all.

473
00:22:47.891 --> 00:22:50.109
- What I do see is him...

474
00:22:50.269 --> 00:22:53.211
Puffy, running around,
trying to save people.

475
00:22:53.212 --> 00:22:56.038
I saw him trying to give

476
00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:58.290
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
to people.

477
00:22:58.291 --> 00:23:02.421
- I never saw Sean Combs

478
00:23:02.581 --> 00:23:06.799
give anyone CPR.

479
00:23:06.800 --> 00:23:08.976
If anybody tells you that,

480
00:23:08.977 --> 00:23:12.054
they telling a flat-out lie.

481
00:23:12.055 --> 00:23:14.583
- Ain't nobody wanted to give
them mouth-to-mouth,

482
00:23:14.744 --> 00:23:16.185
no people mouth-to-mouth
or none of that.

483
00:23:16.345 --> 00:23:17.937
- I can't even perform CPR

484
00:23:18.097 --> 00:23:19.855
because everybody's trying
to crowd around and look.

485
00:23:28.824 --> 00:23:29.822
- 9 young people
crushed to death,

486
00:23:29.823 --> 00:23:30.950
27 others injured trying to get

487
00:23:31.110 --> 00:23:32.926
<i>into a celebrity
basketball game.</i>

488
00:23:32.927 --> 00:23:35.753
- My brother was pronounced
dead at 7:50.

489
00:23:35.754 --> 00:23:37.755
And he got there,
I think, at 7:00.

490
00:23:37.756 --> 00:23:40.332
- My sister's name
is Sonya Williams.

491
00:23:40.333 --> 00:23:43.135
That's Sonya,
the larger picture.

492
00:23:43.136 --> 00:23:46.715
And this is the stairwell
that she died in.

493
00:23:46.876 --> 00:23:50.169
- Jabaal, Dawn,
Leonard, Sonya, Dirk,

494
00:23:50.329 --> 00:23:53.973
Charise, Darren,
Laytesha, and Yul

495
00:23:54.133 --> 00:23:55.808
from New York City.

496
00:23:55.968 --> 00:23:58.686
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

497
00:23:58.846 --> 00:24:00.828
City College 9.

498
00:24:00.829 --> 00:24:03.015
- And I just pray
for the families.

499
00:24:03.175 --> 00:24:06.134
And I pray for the children
that lost their lives.

500
00:24:06.295 --> 00:24:10.138
- The news is, he oversold
an event, him and Heavy D.

501
00:24:10.299 --> 00:24:12.390
And you know why?
Because their names were on it.

502
00:24:12.552 --> 00:24:14.116
- I was a promoter
of the event.

503
00:24:14.117 --> 00:24:16.144
<i>- This thing,
somehow or another,</i>

504
00:24:16.305 --> 00:24:20.798
made him
the most famous guy around.

505
00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:22.750
- How you doing?
- Come on.

506
00:24:22.751 --> 00:24:24.802
<i>- Puffy became more known.</i>

507
00:24:24.803 --> 00:24:27.772
It almost made him,
in a real weird way.

508
00:24:27.773 --> 00:24:29.399
Yeah.

509
00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:31.091
- I just wish that everyone

510
00:24:31.092 --> 00:24:34.013
would just admit
their mistakes,

511
00:24:34.173 --> 00:24:36.089
live up
to their responsibilities.

512
00:24:36.250 --> 00:24:37.998
- He wasn't criminally charged,

513
00:24:37.999 --> 00:24:40.392
but there were lawsuits
that he had to deal with.

514
00:24:40.393 --> 00:24:43.246
- Those families are asking
a judge to decide fault

515
00:24:43.247 --> 00:24:45.098
and award a penalty.

516
00:24:45.259 --> 00:24:47.399
- When my mother
was in litigation

517
00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:48.777
<i>with the other families,</i>

518
00:24:48.938 --> 00:24:50.679
<i>then the details
start coming out.</i>

519
00:24:50.840 --> 00:24:52.764
<i>You promoted this event.</i>

520
00:24:52.925 --> 00:24:55.041
<i>You didn't hire
enough security.</i>

521
00:24:55.042 --> 00:24:57.209
You oversold the tickets.

522
00:24:57.210 --> 00:25:00.013
Someone took the money,
ran down the stairs,

523
00:25:00.014 --> 00:25:01.290
and shut the door.

524
00:25:01.450 --> 00:25:04.117
<i>♪ ♪</i>

525
00:25:04.278 --> 00:25:07.044
<i>We was in litigation
with this for six years.</i>

526
00:25:07.045 --> 00:25:09.798
<i>So now his music
is doing well.</i>

527
00:25:09.959 --> 00:25:11.482
[paparazzi shouting]

528
00:25:11.483 --> 00:25:13.450
<i>Sean John is getting
ready to come out.</i>

529
00:25:13.451 --> 00:25:17.429
- This is Sean John, Sean John.
I'm wearing Sean John.

530
00:25:17.430 --> 00:25:19.967
- So he's doing very well.

531
00:25:20.061 --> 00:25:23.962
<i>He calls me
to the BMG building.</i>

532
00:25:24.123 --> 00:25:25.889
You know, it's just me
and him in the office,

533
00:25:26.049 --> 00:25:27.465
and he seemed very nervous.

534
00:25:27.627 --> 00:25:31.118
He seemed so nervous
that his lips turned white.

535
00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:34.281
And he says, Sonny, I'm going
to offer you $50,000.

536
00:25:36.576 --> 00:25:38.876
<i>So I remember looking
around the office,</i>

537
00:25:38.877 --> 00:25:41.154
and I'm seeing all these
plaques now on the wall--

538
00:25:41.315 --> 00:25:43.306
platinum plaques, gold plaques.

539
00:25:43.307 --> 00:25:45.433
I said, brother,
you got all this going on,

540
00:25:45.434 --> 00:25:49.136
and you offering me $50,000?

541
00:25:49.137 --> 00:25:51.164
- He says, Sonny, man,
listen, man, you know,

542
00:25:51.325 --> 00:25:52.890
that's real generous.

543
00:25:52.891 --> 00:25:54.466
That's a generous donation.

544
00:25:54.467 --> 00:25:57.469
And I lost it.

545
00:25:57.470 --> 00:26:00.823
I said, is Sonya
your fucking friend?

546
00:26:00.824 --> 00:26:03.752
You offer me $50,000...

547
00:26:03.913 --> 00:26:06.329
<i>and you gave Sonya the ticket</i>

548
00:26:06.330 --> 00:26:08.906
to go to that event?

549
00:26:08.907 --> 00:26:11.110
That was a slap in my face.

550
00:26:11.270 --> 00:26:13.411
I don't want to talk money.

551
00:26:13.412 --> 00:26:17.116
I want you to help me do
something in their memory.

552
00:26:17.276 --> 00:26:20.694
I said, but is Sonya
your friend?

553
00:26:20.854 --> 00:26:22.830
He wouldn't answer me.

554
00:26:24.249 --> 00:26:27.275
<i>So I go out.
I go out the room.</i>

555
00:26:27.436 --> 00:26:29.427
<i>So now I'm conflicted.</i>

556
00:26:29.428 --> 00:26:31.955
Maybe you should take it,
and maybe he'll work with you

557
00:26:32.115 --> 00:26:34.958
and help you
with the foundation.

558
00:26:35.118 --> 00:26:37.136
So I go back in the office.

559
00:26:37.296 --> 00:26:39.496
I said, listen, man,
I don't want you bringing up

560
00:26:39.657 --> 00:26:43.342
<i>money and Sonya
in the same sentence.</i>

561
00:26:43.502 --> 00:26:45.443
I said, $50,000?

562
00:26:45.444 --> 00:26:48.046
He said, Sonny, please,
man, trust me, man.

563
00:26:48.207 --> 00:26:50.941
It's a good donation.

564
00:26:56.031 --> 00:26:58.282
I reluctantly did it.

565
00:27:05.074 --> 00:27:07.140
<i>- All families settled</i>

566
00:27:07.141 --> 00:27:10.377
<i>and were giving
a settlement amount.</i>

567
00:27:12.005 --> 00:27:15.047
We got $40,000

568
00:27:15.048 --> 00:27:17.475
from Sean Combs directly.

569
00:27:17.476 --> 00:27:19.235
[paparazzi shouting]

570
00:27:19.236 --> 00:27:22.288
<i>But he never owned up
to it, never--</i>

571
00:27:22.450 --> 00:27:24.807
never just said, I apologize.

572
00:27:24.808 --> 00:27:28.244
There's a clip of him saying
that it wasn't overbooked.

573
00:27:28.245 --> 00:27:31.122
- You know, we sold tickets,
but we didn't outsell.

574
00:27:31.123 --> 00:27:33.065
The place--it wasn't sold out.

575
00:27:33.066 --> 00:27:35.343
- That's a blatant lie.

576
00:27:35.504 --> 00:27:38.454
[paparazzi shouting,
people screaming]

577
00:27:38.455 --> 00:27:40.998
<i>His image is important
for him.</i>

578
00:27:40.999 --> 00:27:44.251
The lies go back
to City College.

579
00:27:44.252 --> 00:27:46.078
- Everything I do every day,

580
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:49.208
I try to be a shining example
of hard work

581
00:27:49.368 --> 00:27:51.109
and what you get
if you work hard.

582
00:27:51.270 --> 00:27:53.578
<i>- Had someone
found him accountable,</i>

583
00:27:53.673 --> 00:27:55.956
<i>it may have just slowed down
the process</i>

584
00:27:56.050 --> 00:28:00.092
of all the other things that
happened to other people.

585
00:28:00.093 --> 00:28:02.094
- Here with Al B. Sure!

586
00:28:02.095 --> 00:28:04.447
Mr. Al B., I'm getting a lot
of letters about you, man,

587
00:28:04.448 --> 00:28:06.524
a lot of ladies
out there watching.

588
00:28:06.525 --> 00:28:08.352
And they want to see,
what's behind those glasses?

589
00:28:08.512 --> 00:28:10.169
[laughter]

590
00:28:10.170 --> 00:28:12.806
<i>- Before Sean was an intern,</i>

591
00:28:12.966 --> 00:28:15.901
I met a woman, Kimberly.

592
00:28:16.061 --> 00:28:19.052
<i>One day, I was backstage,</i>

593
00:28:19.053 --> 00:28:20.254
<i>Madison Square Garden.</i>

594
00:28:20.255 --> 00:28:23.098
<i>And the first time I laid eyes</i>

595
00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:25.617
on Kimberly Antwinette...

596
00:28:25.618 --> 00:28:28.497
Porter...

597
00:28:28.657 --> 00:28:30.622
<i>we met.</i>

598
00:28:30.623 --> 00:28:32.126
[softly]
That was it.

599
00:28:32.286 --> 00:28:34.310
[normal voice]
Yo, I swear.

600
00:28:34.311 --> 00:28:37.129
[laughs] I still feel like
a little kid when I remember.

601
00:28:37.130 --> 00:28:38.298
That's crazy.

602
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.586
We had a son, Quincy.

603
00:28:42.746 --> 00:28:46.638
- Al had influence in getting
Kim a job at Uptown,

604
00:28:46.639 --> 00:28:50.451
<i>and Kim became
the receptionist.</i>

605
00:28:50.452 --> 00:28:53.272
<i>- At one point, I was
working on K-Ci & JoJo</i>

606
00:28:53.432 --> 00:28:54.646
<i>on one of the soundtracks.</i>

607
00:28:54.647 --> 00:28:56.398
<i>Sean came by the studio.</i>

608
00:28:56.399 --> 00:28:58.277
I believe
he may have been with...

609
00:28:58.437 --> 00:29:01.328
his significant other
at the time, who was Misa.

610
00:29:01.329 --> 00:29:03.681
<i>♪ ♪</i>

611
00:29:03.843 --> 00:29:06.401
And I was in the studio with...

612
00:29:06.495 --> 00:29:08.310
<i>Kimberly.</i>

613
00:29:08.311 --> 00:29:10.662
<i>And we had the baby with us
at that point, I think,</i>

614
00:29:10.663 --> 00:29:13.266
<i>and we were--
I was at the mixing board.</i>

615
00:29:13.267 --> 00:29:16.519
<i>He walked into the studio,
and he looked over,</i>

616
00:29:16.520 --> 00:29:20.672
and he saw
this really beautiful girl.

617
00:29:20.673 --> 00:29:24.602
<i>And she was holding
this really beautiful baby.</i>

618
00:29:24.603 --> 00:29:29.207
And he said, hey, man...

619
00:29:29.368 --> 00:29:32.102
I wish I had a beautiful girl
like that.

620
00:29:34.373 --> 00:29:38.040
I was like, uh, you do.

621
00:29:38.041 --> 00:29:40.117
It's Misa.

622
00:29:40.118 --> 00:29:43.621
- It was love at first sight

623
00:29:43.622 --> 00:29:46.306
with Sean seeing Kim.

624
00:29:46.307 --> 00:29:48.976
<i>It was a "stop you
in your tracks" moment,</i>

625
00:29:48.977 --> 00:29:51.186
<i>a "oh, my God" moment,</i>

626
00:29:51.187 --> 00:29:53.631
"I got to have her" moment.

627
00:29:53.632 --> 00:29:55.659
And...

628
00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:59.186
he gets what he wants.

629
00:29:59.187 --> 00:30:01.089
<i>The whole staff
watched it happen.</i>

630
00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:02.740
<i>Sean had no shame
in his aggression</i>

631
00:30:02.902 --> 00:30:06.143
<i>towards Kim and his approach
to her--no shame.</i>

632
00:30:06.144 --> 00:30:09.071
Just like, this is the girl.
You're going to be my girl.

633
00:30:09.072 --> 00:30:11.675
You might not know it yet,
but...

634
00:30:11.835 --> 00:30:14.102
- Listen, there's an OG rule.

635
00:30:14.263 --> 00:30:16.980
If you my brother
and you and your wife--

636
00:30:17.140 --> 00:30:19.114
if something happens...

637
00:30:19.115 --> 00:30:21.208
she's off-limits.

638
00:30:21.209 --> 00:30:25.087
- Sean! Sean, this way!
[person shouts]

639
00:30:25.088 --> 00:30:28.724
- They dated off and on
for years...

640
00:30:28.725 --> 00:30:33.745
<i>always on in his mind
and never off.</i>

641
00:30:33.746 --> 00:30:37.284
<i>Puff was sick with her.</i>

642
00:30:37.444 --> 00:30:39.253
<i>No matter who he dealt with</i>

643
00:30:39.413 --> 00:30:43.206
or who he had over...

644
00:30:43.366 --> 00:30:46.484
<i>he always ran back to Kim.</i>

645
00:30:46.485 --> 00:30:50.964
- I have a photo of Sean
and Kim Porter

646
00:30:51.124 --> 00:30:53.240
<i>in Paris Fashion Week,</i>

647
00:30:53.241 --> 00:30:55.394
Kim and I on the yacht
in Saint-Tropez.

648
00:30:55.554 --> 00:30:58.770
<i>He would fly glam out
to even, like, vacations,</i>

649
00:30:58.771 --> 00:31:02.174
<i>because we had to make sure
Kim Porter looked perfect.</i>

650
00:31:02.175 --> 00:31:04.444
<i>And he had to look perfect.</i>

651
00:31:04.605 --> 00:31:06.405
Kim was from Georgia.

652
00:31:06.565 --> 00:31:10.457
<i>She wasn't this glam girl
that the world perceived.</i>

653
00:31:10.458 --> 00:31:12.452
<i>We made her glam.</i>

654
00:31:14.323 --> 00:31:16.022
<i>She was his arm candy.</i>

655
00:31:16.183 --> 00:31:18.250
<i>♪ ♪</i>

656
00:31:18.410 --> 00:31:22.294
<i>- It seems that Diddy
ended up adopting Quincy</i>

657
00:31:22.295 --> 00:31:24.331
and raising Quincy as his own.

658
00:31:24.425 --> 00:31:26.724
- I'm here as his father to...

659
00:31:26.725 --> 00:31:30.477
you know, to raise him
and give him advice.

660
00:31:30.478 --> 00:31:34.132
- I have to keep in mind
that...

661
00:31:34.292 --> 00:31:36.734
what people were fed

662
00:31:36.735 --> 00:31:41.339
in this propaganda against me
over the years,

663
00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:43.600
<i>about, oh, Puffy did this
and adopted your kid</i>

664
00:31:43.760 --> 00:31:45.235
and adopted this--

665
00:31:45.395 --> 00:31:48.346
there's no adoption, none.

666
00:31:48.507 --> 00:31:51.424
There's no letter to my father
and all that.

667
00:31:51.425 --> 00:31:54.326
<i>All crafted by a publicist.</i>

668
00:31:54.327 --> 00:31:59.006
And if you haven't noticed,
his name is still Brown.

669
00:31:59.007 --> 00:32:01.585
People thought I was absent
and things of that nature.

670
00:32:01.745 --> 00:32:04.537
It was basically instructed
by Kimberly.

671
00:32:04.698 --> 00:32:07.540
<i>♪ ♪</i>

672
00:32:07.701 --> 00:32:11.503
I was told that Puffy
wasn't too happy about anyone

673
00:32:11.663 --> 00:32:13.645
who had a relationship
with Kimberly.

674
00:32:13.646 --> 00:32:15.873
<i>♪ ♪</i>

675
00:32:16.035 --> 00:32:19.810
I was very much under--listen,
you promise on our son's life,

676
00:32:19.811 --> 00:32:21.638
you know, just stay
out of the way.

677
00:32:21.798 --> 00:32:24.415
Don't do this.
Don't get involved.

678
00:32:24.416 --> 00:32:26.443
<i>Being told, please,</i>

679
00:32:26.603 --> 00:32:28.419
don't do that tough-guy
Mount Vernon shit.

680
00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:30.162
You will get killed.

681
00:32:30.163 --> 00:32:32.282
<i>♪ ♪</i>

682
00:32:36.622 --> 00:32:38.613
<i>- Kimberly said,
don't do this.</i>

683
00:32:38.773 --> 00:32:41.190
<i>Don't get involved.
You will get killed.</i>

684
00:32:41.351 --> 00:32:45.669
Even to the point
where I remember...

685
00:32:45.670 --> 00:32:48.048
Oof, I can't.

686
00:32:48.208 --> 00:32:51.174
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

687
00:32:51.175 --> 00:32:54.304
<i>♪ ♪</i>

688
00:32:54.464 --> 00:32:56.680
[grunts softly]

689
00:32:56.681 --> 00:32:59.634
Yeah, man,
I can't go into that.

690
00:32:59.794 --> 00:33:01.711
There's legal proceedings
going on right now,

691
00:33:01.872 --> 00:33:03.563
so this will be...

692
00:33:03.724 --> 00:33:06.540
But, yeah, I will share that
at some point,

693
00:33:06.541 --> 00:33:11.194
but, yeah, this--
it's part of evidence.

694
00:33:11.195 --> 00:33:13.297
And...

695
00:33:13.298 --> 00:33:16.576
I'm going to have to refrain
from this part of this--

696
00:33:16.737 --> 00:33:18.302
this segment.

697
00:33:18.303 --> 00:33:20.805
<i>♪ ♪</i>

698
00:33:20.806 --> 00:33:24.626
<i>Let's just say,
you got to listen to Kimberly</i>

699
00:33:26.696 --> 00:33:30.674
<i>Because not only
was she trying to save me...</i>

700
00:33:30.834 --> 00:33:32.625
<i>she was putting
her own life in danger.</i>

701
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.893
[indistinct chatter]
- Sean!

702
00:33:34.894 --> 00:33:37.347
- Sean, right here, please.
Sean, right here.

703
00:33:41.270 --> 00:33:43.503
- One time
I was called on the phone

704
00:33:43.664 --> 00:33:46.347
to rush over
to St. Luke's Hospital.

705
00:33:46.508 --> 00:33:48.758
<i>She looked like she was
bruised and stuff like that.</i>

706
00:33:48.919 --> 00:33:51.186
But she wasn't saying
much of nothing.

707
00:33:51.346 --> 00:33:53.763
<i>♪ ♪</i>

708
00:33:53.924 --> 00:33:57.666
- I have a victim
who I now represent.

709
00:33:57.667 --> 00:33:59.619
She alleges that she also saw

710
00:33:59.780 --> 00:34:01.494
acts of violence

711
00:34:01.495 --> 00:34:02.622
with regard to Kim Porter.

712
00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:06.668
She was horrified.

713
00:34:08.939 --> 00:34:10.446
It was appalling.

714
00:34:10.607 --> 00:34:14.358
She was threatened
into not reporting it.

715
00:34:14.359 --> 00:34:16.861
[paparazzi shouting]

716
00:34:16.862 --> 00:34:18.620
<i>- Every time I went somewhere
with them,</i>

717
00:34:18.621 --> 00:34:20.990
<i>it'd be, like,
a presidential suite.</i>

718
00:34:20.991 --> 00:34:22.801
But see, if I'm outside

719
00:34:22.895 --> 00:34:25.720
because I got to watch the door
at a certain time,

720
00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:27.972
Kim might come out the room.

721
00:34:28.133 --> 00:34:31.151
And, like, she'll be in her
robe or something like that.

722
00:34:31.311 --> 00:34:33.052
And you could tell that she--

723
00:34:33.213 --> 00:34:35.805
he may have been roughing--
I'd be like, yo, you all right?

724
00:34:35.966 --> 00:34:38.408
He play too much.

725
00:34:44.466 --> 00:34:47.525
<i>- There were whispers maybe</i>

726
00:34:47.686 --> 00:34:51.395
of things that were happening
behind the scenes.

727
00:34:51.396 --> 00:34:53.522
[paparazzi shouting]

728
00:34:53.523 --> 00:34:54.966
- Thanks a lot.

729
00:34:55.127 --> 00:34:58.336
<i>- There was
a little blip of coverage</i>

730
00:34:58.496 --> 00:35:00.245
<i>but nothing beyond that.</i>

731
00:35:00.246 --> 00:35:01.890
- Make some noise.

732
00:35:02.050 --> 00:35:04.309
<i>- By that time, Sean--</i>

733
00:35:04.469 --> 00:35:06.485
probably one
of the hardest-working

734
00:35:06.486 --> 00:35:07.811
up-and-coming executives.

735
00:35:07.812 --> 00:35:09.813
- And I work, like,
20 hours a day.

736
00:35:09.814 --> 00:35:12.692
And I feel
as a young Black man,

737
00:35:12.853 --> 00:35:15.595
anything I put my mind to,
I can do.

738
00:35:15.756 --> 00:35:18.997
- He worked his way from intern
to the director of A&R

739
00:35:18.998 --> 00:35:22.801
in the space of about a year
or a year and a half.

740
00:35:22.802 --> 00:35:26.039
<i>- That was the person
at the label</i>

741
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.433
who was responsible
for signing new artists

742
00:35:29.434 --> 00:35:31.084
to the record label.

743
00:35:31.085 --> 00:35:34.713
- I never knew I would be here,
but, you know, I'm grateful,

744
00:35:34.714 --> 00:35:36.723
and, you know,
I'm definitely honored.

745
00:35:36.724 --> 00:35:38.593
- You had the keys
to the kingdom.

746
00:35:38.753 --> 00:35:42.222
<i>Like, you were able to say
what was hot.</i>

747
00:35:42.382 --> 00:35:43.623
<i>You were able to say,</i>

748
00:35:43.784 --> 00:35:44.975
<i>that's going to be
the next big artist.</i>

749
00:35:45.135 --> 00:35:48.452
And you had that power
really to put somebody on.

750
00:35:48.453 --> 00:35:50.129
And after that,

751
00:35:50.290 --> 00:35:53.958
he launches his own
record label, Bad Boy.

752
00:35:53.959 --> 00:35:55.810
<i>- This is it,
Bad Boy Entertainment.</i>

753
00:35:55.970 --> 00:35:58.036
<i>- Bad Boy Entertainment,
no doubt.</i>

754
00:35:58.037 --> 00:36:00.064
- Totally, totally familiar, totally.

755
00:36:00.225 --> 00:36:02.841
This is a brand-new start
at a brand-new label,

756
00:36:02.842 --> 00:36:04.569
brand-new money.

757
00:36:04.729 --> 00:36:07.998
<i>So, at Uptown, Sean left,</i>

758
00:36:08.158 --> 00:36:11.751
and the founder of Uptown
gave me Sean's workload,

759
00:36:11.912 --> 00:36:14.127
along with the workload
I already had.

760
00:36:14.128 --> 00:36:17.507
<i>At night, I'm inheriting
his workload.</i>

761
00:36:17.667 --> 00:36:20.133
And he's inheriting
a new label.

762
00:36:20.134 --> 00:36:21.469
It's crazy.

763
00:36:21.630 --> 00:36:24.389
<i>- Diddy looked at hip-hop
in a very different way.</i>

764
00:36:24.549 --> 00:36:26.841
People felt
that it had to be gritty

765
00:36:27.001 --> 00:36:29.493
<i>and very tied to the streets.</i>

766
00:36:29.494 --> 00:36:31.271
<i>But in Diddy's mind...</i>

767
00:36:31.431 --> 00:36:34.323
[cheering, paparazzi shouting]

768
00:36:34.324 --> 00:36:37.676
<i>Why can't hip-hop be you
driving around in a Bentley?</i>

769
00:36:37.677 --> 00:36:40.829
Why can't hip-hop be
having Rolexes,

770
00:36:40.830 --> 00:36:43.533
having mansions, and living
that kind of high life?

771
00:36:43.693 --> 00:36:45.976
[paparazzi shouting]

772
00:36:45.977 --> 00:36:49.096
<i>- It's this shiny-suit era,
this glossy era.</i>

773
00:36:49.097 --> 00:36:52.090
It's all about spending
and making money.

774
00:36:52.091 --> 00:36:53.793
<i>He had just come out</i>

775
00:36:53.954 --> 00:36:57.130
<i>with the Notorious B.I.G.,
Craig Mack.</i>

776
00:36:57.290 --> 00:37:02.067
<i>He had a heavy-hitter roster
in hip-hop.</i>

777
00:37:02.068 --> 00:37:05.178
<i>- That's the beginning
of Sean's ending,</i>

778
00:37:05.179 --> 00:37:09.107
because he was given way more
than your average rapper,

779
00:37:09.108 --> 00:37:12.936
an average inner-city
Black industry person.

780
00:37:12.937 --> 00:37:15.563
- I'm from Harlem, young man
from Harlem, New York.

781
00:37:15.564 --> 00:37:17.567
This is crazy right here.

782
00:37:17.727 --> 00:37:20.144
I'm reaching big.
I'm going for the big-time.

783
00:37:20.305 --> 00:37:22.546
I'm trying to have my name
in lights one day, baby.

784
00:37:22.547 --> 00:37:23.947
- Here's Sean and I.

785
00:37:23.948 --> 00:37:27.601
That's when he was
a brand-new millionaire.

786
00:37:27.763 --> 00:37:30.804
Around that time, he showed me
a check for $60 million,

787
00:37:30.805 --> 00:37:32.332
and I couldn't believe it.

788
00:37:32.492 --> 00:37:34.734
- Puffy was able to negotiate

789
00:37:34.895 --> 00:37:37.662
a $55 million advance,

790
00:37:37.822 --> 00:37:40.507
<i>reportedly, from Clive Davis.</i>

791
00:37:41.843 --> 00:37:44.818
<i>- It was a check,
and it was crumbled up.</i>

792
00:37:44.819 --> 00:37:46.921
And he has that Kool-Aid look
on his mouth.

793
00:37:47.081 --> 00:37:48.955
He licked his lips and said,

794
00:37:48.956 --> 00:37:51.158
<i>yeah, I'm about to turn
this shit on--watch.</i>

795
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:53.285
<i>He was rubbing elbows
with Tommy Hilfiger.</i>

796
00:37:53.286 --> 00:37:55.788
He was on the top 10
of the record charts.

797
00:37:55.789 --> 00:37:57.515
He's known worldwide.

798
00:37:57.675 --> 00:37:59.908
<i>He's probably one</i>

799
00:37:59.909 --> 00:38:02.836
<i>of the most photographed
Black men in history.</i>

800
00:38:02.837 --> 00:38:05.089
And he's not even
25 years old yet.

801
00:38:05.090 --> 00:38:06.691
<i>And this wasn't, like,</i>

802
00:38:06.851 --> 00:38:08.741
<i>his first and last
million-dollar check.</i>

803
00:38:08.742 --> 00:38:10.219
This was the first of many.

804
00:38:10.220 --> 00:38:14.615
<i>But now Sean is the 1%
of the 1% of the 1%</i>

805
00:38:14.710 --> 00:38:16.626
<i>of the 1% in the Black world.</i>

806
00:38:16.786 --> 00:38:19.028
<i>I ain't never met
nobody this rich,</i>

807
00:38:19.189 --> 00:38:21.179
and this is Sean.

808
00:38:21.180 --> 00:38:24.634
What does that do to a person?
I can only imagine.

809
00:38:26.546 --> 00:38:29.889
<i>[line trilling]</i>

810
00:38:30.050 --> 00:38:31.308
<i>[line beeps]</i>

811
00:38:47.642 --> 00:38:49.826
<i>♪ ♪</i>

812
00:39:09.731 --> 00:39:13.097
- It's been taking me
fucking ever

813
00:39:13.098 --> 00:39:17.771
to get back to my exact tone
of not giving a fuck.

814
00:39:24.613 --> 00:39:26.613
- You got me acting crazy.

815
00:39:29.201 --> 00:39:31.067
- I can show y'all
how we have fun

816
00:39:31.161 --> 00:39:33.661
and stay out of jail, too,
and make money.

817
00:39:40.878 --> 00:39:42.903
<i>- ♪ It just don't stop ♪</i>

818
00:39:43.064 --> 00:39:45.380
<i>♪ Sunup to sundown,
my people get it ♪</i>

819
00:39:45.381 --> 00:39:47.083
<i>♪ Distressed jeans,
Timb boots ♪</i>

820
00:39:47.243 --> 00:39:49.135
<i>♪ And a Yankee fitted,
the way the chain hang... ♪</i>

821
00:40:16.089 --> 00:40:18.838
- The one, the only,
Mr. Can't Stop, Won't Stop,

822
00:40:18.839 --> 00:40:20.834
Mr. Combs!

823
00:40:36.359 --> 00:40:39.284
- I was going to do
whatever it took

824
00:40:39.285 --> 00:40:42.362
to be successful
in the industry.

825
00:40:42.363 --> 00:40:44.640
- To Puff,
image was his livelihood.

826
00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:46.809
[indistinct chatter]

827
00:40:46.903 --> 00:40:48.460
- Excuse me,
excuse me, excuse me.

828
00:40:48.461 --> 00:40:52.073
- He felt like that, in order
for him to have this image,

829
00:40:52.233 --> 00:40:54.949
you have to be
larger than life.

830
00:40:54.950 --> 00:40:59.379
<i>And he thought that if people
fear him, they respect him.</i>

831
00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:00.939
- Nobody's shooting me.
Nobody's shooting me.

832
00:41:00.940 --> 00:41:02.933
Nobody's shooting me.

833
00:41:02.934 --> 00:41:04.911
There's three shooters to make
sure somebody is shooting me.

834
00:41:05.071 --> 00:41:06.838
You got me acting crazy
in front of all these people.

835
00:41:06.998 --> 00:41:08.214
JJ, you got me acting crazy.

836
00:41:13.405 --> 00:41:15.395
- Disney paying a lot
for this motherfucking art

837
00:41:15.396 --> 00:41:17.223
I'm going to give them--
fuck that.

838
00:41:22.505 --> 00:41:25.914
- Right now.
Nah...

839
00:41:25.915 --> 00:41:30.686
<i>- I worked with Diddy
on MTV's 'Making the Band 2."</i>

840
00:41:30.846 --> 00:41:33.839
When he got angry
with one of my band members,

841
00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:36.442
he said, you make me so mad,
I want to eat your flesh.

842
00:41:36.602 --> 00:41:38.444
And then he said to another one
of my band members--

843
00:41:38.604 --> 00:41:40.771
he said, you rolling
your eyes and everyt--

844
00:41:40.932 --> 00:41:43.173
you know, I could go get
a crackhead and pay them $20

845
00:41:43.174 --> 00:41:44.876
to smack the shit out of you.

846
00:41:45.036 --> 00:41:47.328
Who says that?
That's crazy.

847
00:41:47.488 --> 00:41:49.929
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

848
00:41:49.930 --> 00:41:51.931
<i>- We're in the studio.</i>

849
00:41:51.932 --> 00:41:53.885
<i>You know, he had said
some stuff about the band.</i>

850
00:41:54.045 --> 00:41:58.513
And Puff said, they going
to keep fucking around with me,

851
00:41:58.514 --> 00:42:00.365
and I'm going to drug
they ass out

852
00:42:00.366 --> 00:42:02.143
and pimp them out to my niggas.

853
00:42:04.271 --> 00:42:06.963
And I said, nigga, them
is somebody's daughters.

854
00:42:06.964 --> 00:42:08.799
What the fuck is
you talking about?

855
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:11.802
<i>♪ ♪</i>

856
00:42:11.963 --> 00:42:14.030
I seen him cuss at his mother
at one time.

857
00:42:15.942 --> 00:42:17.457
<i>She gets in the car,</i>

858
00:42:17.458 --> 00:42:19.661
<i>and she was trying
to tell him something.</i>

859
00:42:19.821 --> 00:42:21.035
He said, didn't I tell you

860
00:42:21.036 --> 00:42:23.138
to stay out
my motherfucking business?

861
00:42:23.139 --> 00:42:25.265
And I said, motherfucker,
you don't talk

862
00:42:25.266 --> 00:42:26.793
to your mother like that.

863
00:42:26.953 --> 00:42:28.501
You apologize to her.

864
00:42:28.502 --> 00:42:30.345
You ain't going to bring
nothing but bad luck--

865
00:42:30.346 --> 00:42:32.423
But, Gene, Gene,
I told her to stay--

866
00:42:32.584 --> 00:42:34.450
You wouldn't have
no motherfucking business

867
00:42:34.611 --> 00:42:36.226
if it wasn't for her.

868
00:42:36.227 --> 00:42:38.553
And that's what
our conversation was.

869
00:42:38.554 --> 00:42:41.332
Now, apologize to her.

870
00:42:41.493 --> 00:42:45.435
- Fast forward to actually
making the band,

871
00:42:45.436 --> 00:42:46.961
<i>and he said--</i>

872
00:42:46.962 --> 00:42:49.932
- I want me a piece
of cheesecake.

873
00:42:50.092 --> 00:42:51.442
- When you're watching it,

874
00:42:51.603 --> 00:42:53.543
you're like, yeah,
go get a slice of cheesecake.

875
00:42:53.544 --> 00:42:55.446
Like, you want this.
You got to want it that bad.

876
00:42:55.607 --> 00:42:58.507
- Puffy just told us to go
to the store in Brooklyn

877
00:42:58.508 --> 00:43:00.875
and bring him back
a cheesecake and walk.

878
00:43:00.876 --> 00:43:02.427
<i>- Say what?</i>

879
00:43:02.428 --> 00:43:06.932
- People looked at that like,
yo, this dude is crazy.

880
00:43:06.933 --> 00:43:09.860
- We walked for eight hours
over the Brooklyn Bridge.

881
00:43:10.021 --> 00:43:12.288
We went from Manhattan
to Brooklyn, walking.

882
00:43:12.448 --> 00:43:15.089
And so I'm doing that stuff
because I'm like,

883
00:43:15.090 --> 00:43:17.075
I ain't going to go home.

884
00:43:17.076 --> 00:43:19.220
This is what
I've been working for.

885
00:44:29.667 --> 00:44:30.866
- I was a part of a group

886
00:44:31.026 --> 00:44:32.267
before, you know,

887
00:44:32.268 --> 00:44:33.593
but this is a whole different

888
00:44:33.594 --> 00:44:35.371
level of awesomeness
right here.

889
00:44:35.531 --> 00:44:37.022
But you know what?
It feels good.

890
00:44:37.023 --> 00:44:39.950
I always--like Puff says, it
feels good to work with a team.

891
00:44:40.111 --> 00:44:41.377
I'm better with a team.

892
00:44:41.537 --> 00:44:43.528
And these people make me
better, and I just feel like--

893
00:44:43.529 --> 00:44:45.932
- Dawn Richard was selected
to be in the band Danity Kane.

894
00:44:46.092 --> 00:44:47.958
[indistinct shouting]

895
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:52.012
Later, she was in a second band
that Sean Combs produced,

896
00:44:52.173 --> 00:44:53.688
called Diddy - Dirty Money.

897
00:44:53.689 --> 00:44:56.440
- It feels good and to be here
and have y'all see

898
00:44:56.441 --> 00:44:58.602
how great we really are
and what we could be.

899
00:44:58.763 --> 00:45:00.596
- What people don't know
is behind the scenes,

900
00:45:00.757 --> 00:45:03.181
<i>she was denied food.</i>

901
00:45:03.182 --> 00:45:05.250
<i>She was denied water.</i>

902
00:45:05.251 --> 00:45:07.702
She was denied sleep.

903
00:45:07.703 --> 00:45:11.999
<i>Dawn Richard is alleging that
Sean Combs threatened her...</i>

904
00:45:12.160 --> 00:45:15.260
<i>♪ ♪</i>

905
00:45:15.261 --> 00:45:17.220
That he committed acts
of violence.

906
00:45:17.221 --> 00:45:19.356
- Get the fuck up, B, for real.

907
00:45:19.357 --> 00:45:21.417
<i>- He would throw things
across the room--</i>

908
00:45:21.577 --> 00:45:24.302
<i>furniture,
studio equipment, laptops.</i>

909
00:45:24.303 --> 00:45:26.062
<i>He had a lot
of angry outbursts.</i>

910
00:45:26.063 --> 00:45:28.532
- Damn.
- Cool.

911
00:45:28.533 --> 00:45:30.375
<i>- He sexually assaulted her</i>

912
00:45:30.537 --> 00:45:32.503
<i>by groping and grabbing
parts of her body.</i>

913
00:45:32.664 --> 00:45:35.229
<i>And she witnessed
other women being groped</i>

914
00:45:35.230 --> 00:45:37.256
<i>and grabbed in front of her.</i>

915
00:45:37.257 --> 00:45:39.609
If this is what the man
does in public,

916
00:45:39.610 --> 00:45:42.071
we can only imagine
what he does in private.

917
00:45:51.458 --> 00:45:53.247
- Honestly, I didn't want to
be around him

918
00:45:53.248 --> 00:45:54.333
unless there was cameras,

919
00:45:54.494 --> 00:45:56.401
because
after that one incident,

920
00:45:56.563 --> 00:45:58.254
which was very inappropriate...

921
00:46:04.696 --> 00:46:09.263
- Well, the incident--
basically, I was by myself.

922
00:46:09.264 --> 00:46:12.543
And I was...

923
00:46:12.704 --> 00:46:14.294
[scoffs]

924
00:46:14.455 --> 00:46:18.197
This is hard to talk about,
like, about this.

925
00:46:18.198 --> 00:46:24.280
<i>♪ ♪</i>

926
00:46:30.038 --> 00:46:32.762
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

927
00:46:32.763 --> 00:46:37.017
- Well, the incident--
basically, I was by myself.

928
00:46:37.018 --> 00:46:39.820
And I was...

929
00:46:39.981 --> 00:46:43.273
Well, he touched me in a place
that he shouldn't have.

930
00:46:43.274 --> 00:46:45.551
That was inappropriate.

931
00:46:45.711 --> 00:46:48.379
And I felt...

932
00:46:48.539 --> 00:46:50.030
I felt intimidated.

933
00:46:50.031 --> 00:46:52.892
I felt like, oh, my God, what
the heck happened just now?

934
00:46:54.370 --> 00:46:55.685
[sniffles]

935
00:46:55.686 --> 00:46:58.538
[crying]
I'm trying not to cry.

936
00:46:58.539 --> 00:47:00.233
I'm definitely nervous...

937
00:47:03.946 --> 00:47:07.472
Because like I said, I haven't
said anything for so long.

938
00:47:07.634 --> 00:47:09.299
And it's built up.

939
00:47:09.300 --> 00:47:13.228
It's been 20 years of going
through my mind, like...

940
00:47:13.389 --> 00:47:16.231
this has happened, that's
happened, this was stopped--

941
00:47:16.392 --> 00:47:18.659
mentally, like...

942
00:47:18.819 --> 00:47:20.160
draining.

943
00:47:20.321 --> 00:47:27.260
<i>♪ ♪</i>

944
00:47:29.471 --> 00:47:31.171
- For a victim
of sexual assault

945
00:47:31.332 --> 00:47:33.222
by a high-profile predator,

946
00:47:33.223 --> 00:47:35.650
everything changes
when they come forward.

947
00:47:35.651 --> 00:47:37.603
They're no longer known
for their own work,

948
00:47:37.763 --> 00:47:40.606
their own accomplishments,
their own hopes and dreams.

949
00:47:40.766 --> 00:47:42.507
They're just known in the media

950
00:47:42.669 --> 00:47:44.734
as the woman
who accuses this guy.

951
00:47:44.735 --> 00:47:47.313
And particularly, I think,
in the music industry,

952
00:47:47.473 --> 00:47:49.780
there's a lot of retribution.

953
00:47:49.781 --> 00:47:52.616
<i>Who thinks
that they can fight somebody</i>

954
00:47:52.617 --> 00:47:54.326
<i>with that kind
of wealth, power?</i>

955
00:47:54.327 --> 00:47:56.671
I think each person
has to make the calculation

956
00:47:56.672 --> 00:47:59.674
in her own mind--
is it worth coming forward?

957
00:47:59.675 --> 00:48:03.379
And everybody said, heck, no,
it's not worth it.

958
00:48:03.539 --> 00:48:05.631
I'm not doing this.

959
00:48:05.791 --> 00:48:09.543
<i>[hip-hop music]</i>

960
00:48:09.637 --> 00:48:12.261
<i>- I met Puffy
on Howard's campus.</i>

961
00:48:12.262 --> 00:48:15.365
I only got back in touch
with him years after,

962
00:48:15.366 --> 00:48:17.191
<i>when he was starting this
production team</i>

963
00:48:17.192 --> 00:48:18.818
<i>called The Hitmen.</i>

964
00:48:18.819 --> 00:48:21.404
<i>It was told to the staff that
Puff was throwing a party</i>

965
00:48:21.405 --> 00:48:22.380
<i>at the Hamptons.</i>

966
00:48:22.381 --> 00:48:28.503
<i>♪ ♪</i>

967
00:48:28.504 --> 00:48:30.239
- So I moved
to a new neighborhood,

968
00:48:30.399 --> 00:48:31.574
and they were like, well,
what's this guy doing,

969
00:48:31.734 --> 00:48:32.882
moving here in East Hampton?

970
00:48:32.883 --> 00:48:34.959
<i>And I said, everybody,
come on over.</i>

971
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:36.786
<i>Come on over to the house
so y'all can get to know me.</i>

972
00:48:36.787 --> 00:48:38.313
<i>Let me invite some
of my friends from Harlem,</i>

973
00:48:38.474 --> 00:48:40.666
<i>from 145th Street.</i>

974
00:48:40.826 --> 00:48:44.177
- I had absolutely no idea
what the Hamptons was about.

975
00:48:44.178 --> 00:48:47.072
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

976
00:48:47.233 --> 00:48:48.749
<i>♪ ♪</i>

977
00:48:48.909 --> 00:48:50.301
<i>We finally get out there.</i>

978
00:48:50.461 --> 00:48:52.678
And I get to see Puffy's house
for the first time.

979
00:48:52.838 --> 00:48:56.406
He has a white mansion,
all-white glass from the back.

980
00:48:56.407 --> 00:48:59.560
<i>And I'm like, wow, this is
for rich folks, you know,</i>

981
00:48:59.720 --> 00:49:01.187
<i>rich white folks
who got money.</i>

982
00:49:01.347 --> 00:49:04.171
So that was different.

983
00:49:04.172 --> 00:49:06.465
<i>- Yeah, I'm just trying
to enjoy life.</i>

984
00:49:06.466 --> 00:49:08.844
<i>This is a celebration of life.</i>

985
00:49:09.005 --> 00:49:11.245
This is the legendary
white party.

986
00:49:11.246 --> 00:49:12.756
This is the real white party.

987
00:49:12.757 --> 00:49:14.824
Let's just start to get
our groove on in little bit.

988
00:49:14.825 --> 00:49:17.185
In an hour, we put
the kids away--it's all good.

989
00:49:17.346 --> 00:49:19.304
All right, DJ, let's hit it.
Let's do it.

990
00:49:19.305 --> 00:49:21.582
<i>[hip-hop music]</i>

991
00:49:21.742 --> 00:49:23.534
<i>- Anybody
from the music industry,</i>

992
00:49:23.694 --> 00:49:25.211
<i>film industry,
movie execs or music execs,</i>

993
00:49:25.371 --> 00:49:27.887
who lived out there,
they were invited as well.

994
00:49:27.888 --> 00:49:30.589
I remember meeting
Donald Trump in the party.

995
00:49:30.590 --> 00:49:31.792
[chuckles]
It was crazy.

996
00:49:31.952 --> 00:49:34.260
<i>♪ ♪</i>

997
00:49:34.261 --> 00:49:36.345
- I didn't see anything
inappropriate

998
00:49:36.346 --> 00:49:38.848
when I was
at these after-after parties.

999
00:49:38.849 --> 00:49:41.060
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1000
00:49:43.539 --> 00:49:45.705
- Uh, I--

1001
00:49:45.706 --> 00:49:48.484
Oof. I'm not going to say
I saw a lot of it.

1002
00:49:48.644 --> 00:49:50.635
It could have been
in another part

1003
00:49:50.797 --> 00:49:53.112
of the sections or the rooms.

1004
00:49:53.113 --> 00:49:56.641
<i>What I saw was some weed,
you know what I mean?</i>

1005
00:49:56.803 --> 00:49:58.569
- Why wouldn't it be?

1006
00:49:58.729 --> 00:50:00.496
People smoking weed,
people popping pills.

1007
00:50:00.656 --> 00:50:02.406
That's a party.

1008
00:50:02.500 --> 00:50:04.974
<i>- I went to a lot
of Puffy parties in the '90s.</i>

1009
00:50:04.975 --> 00:50:07.128
These were the parties
everybody wanted to go to.

1010
00:50:10.316 --> 00:50:11.615
- These were the parties

1011
00:50:11.776 --> 00:50:15.011
that you needed
exclusive access to get into.

1012
00:50:15.171 --> 00:50:19.915
But these weren't the parties
that people talk about now.

1013
00:50:20.076 --> 00:50:22.768
The after-after party

1014
00:50:22.928 --> 00:50:25.921
was something
that I had heard before,

1015
00:50:26.082 --> 00:50:30.575
that maybe there were orgies
happening.

1016
00:50:30.576 --> 00:50:33.529
[people cheering]

1017
00:50:35.616 --> 00:50:36.782
- After party is something--

1018
00:50:36.942 --> 00:50:38.908
That's common
in the music industry.

1019
00:50:38.909 --> 00:50:42.187
<i>People have after parties...</i>

1020
00:50:42.348 --> 00:50:43.289
<i>but here's the thing.</i>

1021
00:50:43.449 --> 00:50:46.292
<i>Everybody tend to say,</i>

1022
00:50:46.452 --> 00:50:48.342
all of a sudden,

1023
00:50:48.343 --> 00:50:51.521
because it's a white party,
it's a freak-off.

1024
00:50:51.522 --> 00:50:53.215
Like, come on, now.

1025
00:51:04.470 --> 00:51:05.561
<i>I'll be honest with you.</i>

1026
00:51:05.721 --> 00:51:07.462
I had no idea
what a freak-off was

1027
00:51:07.623 --> 00:51:08.522
until I read the allegations.

1028
00:51:15.656 --> 00:51:17.422
<i>- People, when they think
of sex trafficking,</i>

1029
00:51:17.423 --> 00:51:20.008
they think of a woman being
dragged across state lines

1030
00:51:20.009 --> 00:51:23.303
for sexual purposes
against her will.

1031
00:51:23.304 --> 00:51:24.830
<i>But in fact, the TVPA,</i>

1032
00:51:24.990 --> 00:51:26.956
the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act,

1033
00:51:26.957 --> 00:51:30.435
talks about people being
enticed...

1034
00:51:30.436 --> 00:51:32.737
<i>recruited...</i>

1035
00:51:32.899 --> 00:51:34.889
<i>or tricked...</i>

1036
00:51:34.890 --> 00:51:38.344
into sexual behavior
or attempted sexual behavior

1037
00:51:38.504 --> 00:51:40.262
for commercial purposes.

1038
00:51:42.650 --> 00:51:44.974
<i>It includes people
in a workplace</i>

1039
00:51:44.975 --> 00:51:47.603
being coerced
into sexual behavior

1040
00:51:47.763 --> 00:51:50.231
<i>in order to keep getting
their paycheck.</i>

1041
00:52:20.638 --> 00:52:23.889
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

1042
00:52:50.543 --> 00:52:53.752
[lively chatter]

1043
00:52:55.539 --> 00:52:58.257
[crowd singing indistinctly]

1044
00:53:12.923 --> 00:53:15.915
[indistinct chatter]

1045
00:53:15.916 --> 00:53:20.920
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1046
00:53:20.921 --> 00:53:23.782
[crowd singing indistinctly]

1047
00:53:58.986 --> 00:54:02.655
- I mean, if it's true,
then, you know...

1048
00:54:08.045 --> 00:54:10.246
I'd be highly disappointed.

1049
00:54:12.299 --> 00:54:15.000
- So I've always been asked
the question, why?

1050
00:54:15.160 --> 00:54:17.802
And...

1051
00:54:17.803 --> 00:54:21.498
I don't know the answer to why.

1052
00:54:21.592 --> 00:54:25.810
But I truly believe it all
goes back to childhood.

1053
00:54:25.811 --> 00:54:31.416
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1054
00:54:31.577 --> 00:54:32.917
<i>So here's the deal.</i>

1055
00:54:33.079 --> 00:54:35.419
<i>Because Sean had no dad,</i>

1056
00:54:35.420 --> 00:54:38.498
<i>all he had was his mom.</i>

1057
00:54:38.499 --> 00:54:41.150
<i>Sean's house, our house,</i>

1058
00:54:41.151 --> 00:54:44.104
there was always things
going on.

1059
00:54:44.264 --> 00:54:46.831
<i>On the weekend,
you partied in the house,</i>

1060
00:54:46.832 --> 00:54:48.784
and we did that a lot.

1061
00:54:48.944 --> 00:54:51.611
He was around all type
of alcohol.

1062
00:54:51.772 --> 00:54:53.563
He was around reefer smoke.

1063
00:54:53.724 --> 00:54:56.792
He was around drug addicts,
around lesbians,

1064
00:54:56.952 --> 00:54:58.669
around homosexuals.

1065
00:54:58.829 --> 00:55:00.170
He was around pimps
and pushers.

1066
00:55:00.331 --> 00:55:02.122
That was just
who was in our house.

1067
00:55:02.282 --> 00:55:04.098
<i>People that
attended the parties</i>

1068
00:55:04.099 --> 00:55:06.100
<i>were from Harlem
and from the streets.</i>

1069
00:55:06.101 --> 00:55:07.977
- I wasn't
at the Janice Combs parties,

1070
00:55:07.978 --> 00:55:10.055
but some things I heard.

1071
00:55:10.215 --> 00:55:12.106
<i>She had, like,
a little crew of chicks</i>

1072
00:55:12.107 --> 00:55:13.783
<i>that would come around,
and, you know,</i>

1073
00:55:13.784 --> 00:55:16.786
she made sure...

1074
00:55:16.787 --> 00:55:20.039
everybody was comfortable.
[laughs]

1075
00:55:20.040 --> 00:55:22.399
- At night, it wouldn't be
a thing

1076
00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:25.571
to mistakenly walk
into one of the bedrooms,

1077
00:55:25.731 --> 00:55:27.823
and you got a couple in there
butt-naked.

1078
00:55:29.827 --> 00:55:34.079
<i>That's what we were privy to.
This is what we were fed.</i>

1079
00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:37.056
Was it desensitizing us?
I'm sure it was.

1080
00:55:37.057 --> 00:55:38.834
Were we aware of it?
No.

1081
00:55:38.994 --> 00:55:42.037
That was just Saturday night.

1082
00:55:42.197 --> 00:55:46.315
- If you grow up in a very
sexualized environment,

1083
00:55:46.316 --> 00:55:48.919
that's going to shape
their sexual template,

1084
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:51.847
in terms of what
are appropriate boundaries,

1085
00:55:52.007 --> 00:55:54.633
<i>what's acceptable.</i>

1086
00:55:54.727 --> 00:55:57.177
[camera shutter clicking,
indistinct chatter]

1087
00:55:57.337 --> 00:56:00.779
And when you have
a lot of unresolved trauma,

1088
00:56:00.780 --> 00:56:03.657
the trauma doesn't go away

1089
00:56:03.658 --> 00:56:05.977
<i>just because you have
all that access</i>

1090
00:56:06.072 --> 00:56:08.921
<i>to wealth and power</i>

1091
00:56:08.922 --> 00:56:11.108
and no guardrails.

1092
00:56:11.202 --> 00:56:14.585
<i>The trauma is there,
and it's still unresolved.</i>

1093
00:56:14.586 --> 00:56:17.197
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1094
00:56:17.357 --> 00:56:19.724
And you just have
more resources

1095
00:56:19.725 --> 00:56:22.127
to do more damage with.

1096
00:56:22.287 --> 00:56:27.049
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1097
00:56:30.262 --> 00:56:33.362
- I would just like
to have some privacy

1098
00:56:33.363 --> 00:56:36.975
because I've become
incredibly reclusive.

1099
00:56:40.772 --> 00:56:43.649
[voice breaking] I've just been
in isolation for six years

1100
00:56:43.809 --> 00:56:47.861
because I'm afraid that they
might come get me for speaking.

1101
00:57:05.180 --> 00:57:07.881
<i>- I am a civil litigator</i>

1102
00:57:08.041 --> 00:57:10.608
who has filed several cases

1103
00:57:10.609 --> 00:57:12.109
against Sean Combs

1104
00:57:12.110 --> 00:57:13.936
for sexual assault

1105
00:57:13.937 --> 00:57:15.512
<i>in civil court.</i>

1106
00:57:15.513 --> 00:57:18.892
I have been sounding the alarm
about Mr. Combs

1107
00:57:19.052 --> 00:57:20.943
<i>for years.</i>

1108
00:57:20.944 --> 00:57:22.519
- When they think
about my album,

1109
00:57:22.520 --> 00:57:26.224
I want them to think
about dancing or making love.

1110
00:57:26.384 --> 00:57:28.701
- My most recent client
has alleged

1111
00:57:28.702 --> 00:57:31.304
<i>that she was brutally
gang-raped</i>

1112
00:57:31.465 --> 00:57:35.033
<i>by Diddy and his friends.</i>

1113
00:57:37.163 --> 00:57:39.286
What's in front of me right now
is the complaint

1114
00:57:39.287 --> 00:57:42.080
that I filed in California
federal court

1115
00:57:42.081 --> 00:57:43.966
in the Northern District.

1116
00:57:43.967 --> 00:57:45.419
We had
several defendants listed.

1117
00:57:45.579 --> 00:57:48.121
Of course, we have Diddy,
because he's the mastermind.

1118
00:57:48.281 --> 00:57:49.623
<i>He's the orchestrator.</i>

1119
00:57:49.783 --> 00:57:51.633
<i>None of this happens
without him.</i>

1120
00:57:51.793 --> 00:57:54.085
<i>Then we had
his right-hand woman.</i>

1121
00:57:54.180 --> 00:57:56.138
<i>That's Kristina Khorram.</i>

1122
00:58:04.172 --> 00:58:06.190
- And then there was
another individual.

1123
00:58:06.350 --> 00:58:09.443
<i>His name was Shane Pearce.</i>

1124
00:58:09.603 --> 00:58:13.170
We've come to find him to be
like a scouter, if you will.

1125
00:58:13.171 --> 00:58:15.699
<i>He scouts potential victims</i>

1126
00:58:15.859 --> 00:58:18.351
<i>to bring to Diddy.</i>

1127
00:58:18.512 --> 00:58:21.279
<i>This starts out
in February 2018.</i>

1128
00:58:21.439 --> 00:58:25.433
<i>Ashley is at a bar,
and they begin to hang out.</i>

1129
00:58:25.434 --> 00:58:29.937
<i>And Shane gets Diddy
on the phone.</i>

1130
00:58:29.938 --> 00:58:31.364
This is a FaceTime call.

1131
00:58:31.525 --> 00:58:34.968
So he's showing everybody
Diddy on a FaceTime.

1132
00:58:35.128 --> 00:58:38.821
<i>And as you can imagine,
everybody's pretty excited.</i>

1133
00:58:38.822 --> 00:58:41.725
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1134
00:58:41.885 --> 00:58:44.127
- Yeah.

1135
00:58:44.288 --> 00:58:48.131
He contacted me,
and we hung out a few times.

1136
00:58:48.292 --> 00:58:51.935
<i>- On March 23rd, my client
was invited by Shane Pearce</i>

1137
00:58:52.095 --> 00:58:53.711
<i>to his home.</i>

1138
00:58:53.712 --> 00:58:55.697
So she went to the home.

1139
00:58:55.857 --> 00:58:57.265
- He went into the kitchen

1140
00:58:57.426 --> 00:59:00.117
and got me a glass of water

1141
00:59:00.118 --> 00:59:02.746
because I was thirsty.

1142
00:59:02.906 --> 00:59:07.475
I had drank a couple sips
of the water,

1143
00:59:07.476 --> 00:59:11.964
and I was feeling
kind of weird.

1144
00:59:13.883 --> 00:59:16.233
I was feeling...

1145
00:59:16.234 --> 00:59:19.311
wobbly, a little confused.

1146
00:59:19.312 --> 00:59:21.840
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1147
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.390
I was kind of just questioning

1148
00:59:23.391 --> 00:59:27.319
why my brain
wasn't as sharp as normal.

1149
00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.030
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1150
00:59:30.031 --> 00:59:31.281
- Approximately
ten minutes after,

1151
00:59:31.282 --> 00:59:33.024
<i>Diddy entered the home</i>

1152
00:59:33.025 --> 00:59:35.928
<i>in a grand
'ready to party' manner.</i>

1153
00:59:36.090 --> 00:59:38.506
<i>Along with Diddy
was his bodyguard,</i>

1154
00:59:38.507 --> 00:59:42.510
a woman identified
as Kristina Khorram,

1155
00:59:42.511 --> 00:59:45.789
<i>and another person
who we believe was friends</i>

1156
00:59:45.949 --> 00:59:48.340
<i>with Shane.</i>

1157
00:59:48.341 --> 00:59:50.544
<i>Shane partially undressed
Ashley,</i>

1158
00:59:50.704 --> 00:59:55.022
<i>and then Diddy removed
the remainder of her clothing.</i>

1159
00:59:55.023 --> 00:59:57.024
Diddy retrieved
a bottle of liquid

1160
00:59:57.025 --> 00:59:59.127
from a large fanny pack.

1161
00:59:59.287 --> 01:00:01.204
<i>Ashley soon realized
that the substance</i>

1162
01:00:01.365 --> 01:00:03.265
<i>was oil/lubricant.</i>

1163
01:00:05.311 --> 01:00:08.211
- Sean Combs had a knife

1164
01:00:08.372 --> 01:00:11.288
and had it inside my mouth.

1165
01:00:11.289 --> 01:00:14.467
He said he was going
to cut my cheeks

1166
01:00:14.628 --> 01:00:17.029
and give me a Glasgow smile.

1167
01:00:19.383 --> 01:00:24.036
Kristina Khorram
told him that...

1168
01:00:26.456 --> 01:00:30.626
His clientele--they would
prefer it if I looked...

1169
01:00:32.570 --> 01:00:34.129
Normal.

1170
01:00:36.057 --> 01:00:38.891
<i>At one point, Sean Combs--</i>

1171
01:00:38.892 --> 01:00:41.419
<i>he picked up a TV remote</i>

1172
01:00:41.579 --> 01:00:43.821
and...

1173
01:00:43.822 --> 01:00:46.499
raped me vaginally

1174
01:00:46.660 --> 01:00:51.229
with that object, violently.

1175
01:00:58.864 --> 01:01:00.262
<i>- Then it says,</i>

1176
01:01:00.263 --> 01:01:02.539
Diddy is sitting not too far
from the bed,

1177
01:01:02.540 --> 01:01:05.417
and she said he has his phone
and his dick in his hand

1178
01:01:05.418 --> 01:01:08.846
and is recording
and jacking off

1179
01:01:08.847 --> 01:01:10.999
at the same time.

1180
01:01:11.159 --> 01:01:12.501
<i>This is his kink.</i>

1181
01:01:12.661 --> 01:01:14.920
<i>This is the thing
that gets him off.</i>

1182
01:01:15.080 --> 01:01:16.204
<i>It's like trophies.</i>

1183
01:01:16.364 --> 01:01:19.565
[paparazzi shouting]

1184
01:01:19.566 --> 01:01:22.935
- They said they could ship
me off and sell me

1185
01:01:22.936 --> 01:01:25.437
<i>to anyone in the world</i>

1186
01:01:25.438 --> 01:01:27.540
<i>and that I would never
be seen again</i>

1187
01:01:27.701 --> 01:01:30.442
<i>by my parents
or my loved ones.</i>

1188
01:01:30.443 --> 01:01:32.688
<i>And they were taking me
that night.</i>

1189
01:01:34.558 --> 01:01:39.201
I just uncontrollably
was sobbing.

1190
01:01:39.202 --> 01:01:42.028
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1191
01:01:42.029 --> 01:01:45.158
I was in a catatonic state

1192
01:01:45.318 --> 01:01:48.135
once they started raping me,

1193
01:01:48.136 --> 01:01:52.565
and I was just trying...

1194
01:01:52.726 --> 01:01:57.245
to get through it so
I could get out of there.

1195
01:01:57.405 --> 01:01:59.715
That's when they went
outside to smoke.

1196
01:02:01.585 --> 01:02:05.503
When I finally was able to get
the strength

1197
01:02:05.663 --> 01:02:08.230
to even sit up,

1198
01:02:08.231 --> 01:02:09.731
my clothes were missing.

1199
01:02:09.732 --> 01:02:13.511
My purse, my keys, my phone--
all gone.

1200
01:02:13.671 --> 01:02:17.239
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1201
01:02:17.240 --> 01:02:19.917
At that point,
I ran to the neighbor's house.

1202
01:02:19.918 --> 01:02:22.020
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1203
01:02:22.180 --> 01:02:26.072
Later, the neighbor told me
he did call the cops.

1204
01:02:26.073 --> 01:02:29.953
And that's when a sheriff
showed up at the door.

1205
01:02:30.113 --> 01:02:34.431
This sheriff didn't offer me
an ambulance.

1206
01:02:34.432 --> 01:02:39.037
He didn't offer me a ride
to the police station.

1207
01:02:39.197 --> 01:02:43.840
He just basically told me
to find my own way home.

1208
01:02:43.841 --> 01:02:47.594
There's just something very off
about his demeanor.

1209
01:02:47.595 --> 01:02:50.298
- And the Contra Costa
Sheriff's Department

1210
01:02:50.458 --> 01:02:52.625
released a statement and said,

1211
01:02:52.786 --> 01:02:55.202
yeah, she did file
a police report that night.

1212
01:02:55.203 --> 01:02:57.729
We can confirm

1213
01:02:57.730 --> 01:03:00.984
that a report
was made March 23, 2018,

1214
01:03:01.144 --> 01:03:03.711
but that "we take
these matters seriously"

1215
01:03:03.712 --> 01:03:05.947
and investigated
and that it was unfounded.

1216
01:03:13.156 --> 01:03:17.250
- When I got home, I just...

1217
01:03:17.410 --> 01:03:20.185
crawled into bed.

1218
01:03:20.186 --> 01:03:23.331
I just was catatonic
for, like, about three days

1219
01:03:23.491 --> 01:03:27.585
before I could get up
and feed myself.

1220
01:03:27.745 --> 01:03:32.389
[voice breaking] I've become
incredibly reclusive.

1221
01:03:32.390 --> 01:03:36.493
I don't trust anyone...

1222
01:03:36.494 --> 01:03:40.647
other than, like, my parents.

1223
01:03:40.648 --> 01:03:43.751
So I've just been in isolation.

1224
01:03:43.752 --> 01:03:46.587
I've barely gone
out of the house.

1225
01:03:46.588 --> 01:03:49.357
I've just been living in fear

1226
01:03:49.517 --> 01:03:54.112
because it's just
a bunch of powerful people.

1227
01:03:54.272 --> 01:03:56.039
<i>- They did this with intent.</i>

1228
01:03:56.199 --> 01:03:59.666
I truly believe they intended
on taking her

1229
01:03:59.667 --> 01:04:02.402
and her never being seen again.

1230
01:04:02.403 --> 01:04:04.989
<i>This is what you do
when your ultimate goal</i>

1231
01:04:05.150 --> 01:04:06.482
<i>is to sex-traffic them.</i>

1232
01:04:06.483 --> 01:04:08.508
They were trying
to break her in,

1233
01:04:08.509 --> 01:04:10.303
which is a term
I'm familiar with

1234
01:04:10.463 --> 01:04:12.264
from knowing pimp culture.

1235
01:04:14.359 --> 01:04:17.534
When you want to bring in
a new hooker or a prostitute,

1236
01:04:17.535 --> 01:04:20.138
you got to break her in.

1237
01:04:20.298 --> 01:04:22.315
<i>Typically, you break her in</i>

1238
01:04:22.475 --> 01:04:25.117
by having her have sex
in a gang bang,

1239
01:04:25.118 --> 01:04:27.320
with multiple men at once.

1240
01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:30.949
<i>You've taken everything
from her.</i>

1241
01:04:31.109 --> 01:04:32.275
They broke her.

1242
01:04:32.435 --> 01:04:34.619
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1243
01:04:48.718 --> 01:04:51.393
- Unchecked wealth and power
is very dangerous

1244
01:04:51.394 --> 01:04:52.894
in our culture.

1245
01:04:52.895 --> 01:04:56.389
It allows people to get away
with horrific behavior.

1246
01:04:56.390 --> 01:04:58.483
- [shouting indistinctly]

1247
01:04:58.484 --> 01:05:00.335
- All throughout his career,

1248
01:05:00.336 --> 01:05:03.556
<i>he was known to commit
acts of violence himself...</i>

1249
01:05:03.650 --> 01:05:05.683
- What's your plea today?

1250
01:05:05.843 --> 01:05:07.560
<i>- To threaten people
with violence.</i>

1251
01:05:07.720 --> 01:05:09.354
- Can you stop now?
- Huh?

1252
01:05:09.514 --> 01:05:12.073
- He was known
to be very vindictive.

1253
01:05:16.671 --> 01:05:18.595
- Fan favorite up in here,
of course.

1254
01:05:18.596 --> 01:05:20.698
It's the one and only
Biggie Smalls.

1255
01:05:20.858 --> 01:05:23.225
I understand that your album is
going to be dropping in July,

1256
01:05:23.226 --> 01:05:25.128
because I was checking
out the Bad Boy team,

1257
01:05:25.288 --> 01:05:26.928
and Puff Daddy was letting
everybody know--

1258
01:05:26.929 --> 01:05:29.806
- There have been rumors
that Diddy

1259
01:05:29.807 --> 01:05:33.485
might have had something to do
with Biggie's death.

1260
01:05:33.486 --> 01:05:35.639
- This is a picture of me

1261
01:05:35.799 --> 01:05:38.866
<i>the night BIG was murdered.</i>

1262
01:05:38.867 --> 01:05:40.718
<i>The week in which BIG
was murdered,</i>

1263
01:05:40.878 --> 01:05:42.870
<i>he was just acting
real anxious</i>

1264
01:05:42.871 --> 01:05:45.047
<i>and trying to get BIG
at this party.</i>

1265
01:05:45.208 --> 01:05:46.474
<i>And it was crazy,</i>

1266
01:05:46.634 --> 01:05:49.877
whereas BIG was telling people
he had to be in London.

1267
01:05:49.878 --> 01:05:53.130
But Puff was telling people,
he ain't going to London,

1268
01:05:53.131 --> 01:05:55.075
that whole week.

1269
01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.238
<i>I'm sitting up
at the Beverly Hills Hotel,</i>

1270
01:06:00.398 --> 01:06:02.139
<i>and I get a phone call.</i>

1271
01:06:02.140 --> 01:06:03.917
It's about 9:00.

1272
01:06:04.077 --> 01:06:07.761
And they say, Gene, get ready,
we going to the "Vibe" party.

1273
01:06:07.762 --> 01:06:10.748
<i>I was like,
we're going to this party?</i>

1274
01:06:10.908 --> 01:06:13.575
We don't even have no security.

1275
01:06:13.576 --> 01:06:16.054
<i>I say, yo, Puff,
I got some intel, bruh.</i>

1276
01:06:16.214 --> 01:06:17.479
<i>He said, what?</i>

1277
01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:19.507
I say, yo, man, if we go
to this party tonight,

1278
01:06:19.667 --> 01:06:21.259
one of us
is going to get killed.

1279
01:06:21.419 --> 01:06:22.835
Somebody going to die,

1280
01:06:22.996 --> 01:06:26.488
<i>because now we have
East Coast-West Coast beefs.</i>

1281
01:06:26.489 --> 01:06:29.741
<i>He said, yo, Gene, I don't
want to hear that shit.</i>

1282
01:06:29.742 --> 01:06:31.743
<i>I said, you don't want
to hear that shit?</i>

1283
01:06:31.744 --> 01:06:33.170
So we all jump in the car.

1284
01:06:33.171 --> 01:06:36.607
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1285
01:06:36.702 --> 01:06:38.851
<i>- When Tupac was killed,</i>

1286
01:06:39.012 --> 01:06:41.578
<i>there was a lot of rumors</i>

1287
01:06:41.579 --> 01:06:44.124
that Biggie and Puffy
were behind it.

1288
01:06:48.446 --> 01:06:51.188
- I was in a car with Puff.
BIG was in his own car.

1289
01:06:51.189 --> 01:06:54.792
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1290
01:06:54.952 --> 01:06:58.221
And next thing you know,
you heard, pow, pow, pow, pow.

1291
01:06:58.381 --> 01:06:59.596
They shooting at BIG, bruh!

1292
01:06:59.597 --> 01:07:01.725
[siren wailing]

1293
01:07:01.885 --> 01:07:04.627
<i>[indistinct chatter
over police radio]</i>

1294
01:07:04.788 --> 01:07:06.304
<i>We run up there because
they say they taking BIG</i>

1295
01:07:06.464 --> 01:07:07.604
<i>to the hospital.</i>

1296
01:07:07.605 --> 01:07:09.731
I told them, whatever y'all do,

1297
01:07:09.732 --> 01:07:12.485
do not let him go to sleep.

1298
01:07:12.645 --> 01:07:16.288
Talk to him. Keep him up.
Don't let him go to sleep.

1299
01:07:16.289 --> 01:07:18.316
Keep him talking.

1300
01:07:18.476 --> 01:07:21.618
And Kenny said, BIG, I'm going
to get you to the hospital.

1301
01:07:21.619 --> 01:07:24.871
And BIG said, just do it.

1302
01:07:24.872 --> 01:07:28.608
That's the last thing
I heard BIG say.

1303
01:07:28.609 --> 01:07:31.755
And they said the hospital
was two blocks away,

1304
01:07:31.915 --> 01:07:34.332
and that's
the longest two blocks

1305
01:07:34.492 --> 01:07:36.233
I ever seen in my life.

1306
01:07:36.234 --> 01:07:38.560
<i>[somber music]</i>

1307
01:07:38.561 --> 01:07:40.812
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1308
01:07:40.813 --> 01:07:42.739
<i>So Puff ran out
the hospital door,</i>

1309
01:07:42.740 --> 01:07:44.342
<i>and he grabbed my arm.</i>

1310
01:07:44.502 --> 01:07:46.827
He said, Gene, we got to pray!

1311
01:07:46.828 --> 01:07:49.571
We got to pray! We got to pray!

1312
01:07:49.572 --> 01:07:51.649
And I knocked his hands
off of me.

1313
01:07:51.810 --> 01:07:53.500
I said, pray for what?

1314
01:07:53.501 --> 01:07:55.603
That nigga's dead, bruh.

1315
01:07:55.763 --> 01:07:58.606
He just was stunned.

1316
01:07:58.766 --> 01:08:00.683
Like, he had this look
in his eye,

1317
01:08:00.844 --> 01:08:03.119
like he couldn't believe it,

1318
01:08:03.279 --> 01:08:05.246
<i>that he was dead.</i>

1319
01:08:06.792 --> 01:08:08.500
He couldn't believe it.

1320
01:08:16.851 --> 01:08:20.095
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

1321
01:08:31.857 --> 01:08:34.607
- Feelings can't change facts,

1322
01:08:34.608 --> 01:08:36.611
but facts can change feelings.

1323
01:08:38.539 --> 01:08:42.165
<i>I think that he placed BIG
in the atmosphere.</i>

1324
01:08:42.166 --> 01:08:46.246
So did he directly have
something to do with it?

1325
01:08:46.406 --> 01:08:48.397
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

1326
01:08:48.558 --> 01:08:49.749
He could have.

1327
01:08:56.741 --> 01:08:58.508
[cheers and applause]

1328
01:08:58.668 --> 01:09:00.835
<i>For many a-years,</i>

1329
01:09:00.995 --> 01:09:05.113
<i>I couldn't fight back
the tears...</i>

1330
01:09:05.114 --> 01:09:07.892
<i>knowing that young man
was murdered.</i>

1331
01:09:12.073 --> 01:09:14.849
<i>- I stopped working with him
early part of 2005,</i>

1332
01:09:15.009 --> 01:09:17.417
<i>because me and his mama got
into it.</i>

1333
01:09:17.418 --> 01:09:18.794
- Janice,
right over here, please.

1334
01:09:18.795 --> 01:09:21.355
- Hey, Janice.
- Janice, right here.

1335
01:09:21.515 --> 01:09:24.474
<i>- Puff mother
tried to degrade me.</i>

1336
01:09:24.475 --> 01:09:28.437
She would ask me to do things
for her, like go to her car,

1337
01:09:28.598 --> 01:09:30.413
get this, get that.

1338
01:09:30.414 --> 01:09:33.091
<i>And I wouldn't do that.</i>

1339
01:09:33.092 --> 01:09:35.119
What the hell you
asking me to stop

1340
01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:38.339
from watching your son's safety
to go do something for you?

1341
01:09:40.210 --> 01:09:42.552
<i>So one day, I was sitting
by Puff's office.</i>

1342
01:09:42.712 --> 01:09:45.428
And she said, Gene, I need
for you to go to my car

1343
01:09:45.429 --> 01:09:46.530
and get this food out.

1344
01:09:46.531 --> 01:09:48.057
I said, I'm not here for that.

1345
01:09:48.218 --> 01:09:51.109
And then she start rambling,
start, like,

1346
01:09:51.110 --> 01:09:55.363
yo, everybody does
what I ask them to do...

1347
01:09:55.364 --> 01:09:56.891
except you.

1348
01:09:57.051 --> 01:09:58.818
What makes you so special?

1349
01:09:58.978 --> 01:10:00.570
And then Puff just came
out his office.

1350
01:10:00.730 --> 01:10:02.620
Why are you always messing
with Gene?

1351
01:10:02.621 --> 01:10:05.399
Leave Gene alone.

1352
01:10:05.559 --> 01:10:08.077
She just was looking.

1353
01:10:08.238 --> 01:10:11.906
And then she said, yo, yo,
I'm tired of this, man.

1354
01:10:12.066 --> 01:10:14.659
And I said,
yo, I'm tired of it, too.

1355
01:10:14.819 --> 01:10:16.661
And I walked out
and never came back.

1356
01:10:16.821 --> 01:10:22.091
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1357
01:10:22.252 --> 01:10:24.219
- I wanted to show
you something.

1358
01:10:25.730 --> 01:10:27.680
This is a restroom-plus.

1359
01:10:30.026 --> 01:10:33.827
Can you tell me
what the plus is?

1360
01:10:33.828 --> 01:10:35.712
- No.
- The plus.

1361
01:10:35.713 --> 01:10:41.609
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1362
01:10:41.610 --> 01:10:42.687
Ah.

1363
01:10:42.847 --> 01:10:46.449
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1364
01:10:46.609 --> 01:10:48.050
That's the plus.

1365
01:10:48.051 --> 01:10:49.718
<i>In the back of my house,</i>

1366
01:10:49.719 --> 01:10:51.696
<i>that's where I keep
my trophies.</i>

1367
01:10:51.856 --> 01:10:54.198
<i>That's where I keep
my platinum and gold plaques.</i>

1368
01:10:54.358 --> 01:10:57.026
<i>I'd probably say
minimum 10, maximum 15.</i>

1369
01:10:57.187 --> 01:10:59.627
This was my first-ever
platinum plaque--

1370
01:10:59.628 --> 01:11:02.731
Notorious B.I.G.

1371
01:11:02.732 --> 01:11:05.183
I co-executive produced
on that album.

1372
01:11:05.184 --> 01:11:08.436
I got that when I was
23 years old, I think.

1373
01:11:08.437 --> 01:11:09.264
Yeah.

1374
01:11:14.637 --> 01:11:16.896
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1375
01:11:17.056 --> 01:11:20.049
<i>- After seeing
a few friends die,</i>

1376
01:11:20.210 --> 01:11:22.735
you wake up one day,
and one got shot in the head.

1377
01:11:24.388 --> 01:11:29.207
Then you go, and then you
have another raw talent,

1378
01:11:29.208 --> 01:11:31.986
<i>this fat kid
from Brooklyn, you know,</i>

1379
01:11:32.146 --> 01:11:35.639
and he gets shot dead...

1380
01:11:35.640 --> 01:11:37.966
not even 25 years old.

1381
01:11:37.967 --> 01:11:41.070
<i>And in my case,</i>

1382
01:11:41.231 --> 01:11:43.822
<i>after having
extortion attempts on me,</i>

1383
01:11:43.983 --> 01:11:46.000
<i>having guns pulled out,</i>

1384
01:11:46.160 --> 01:11:48.977
<i>having to deal
with so much death...</i>

1385
01:11:48.978 --> 01:11:50.153
[dog whimpers]

1386
01:11:50.154 --> 01:11:52.805
Yeah, it wasn't cool no more.

1387
01:11:52.806 --> 01:11:54.759
You talk about fight or flight.

1388
01:11:54.919 --> 01:11:56.585
I took flight.

1389
01:11:56.746 --> 01:12:03.484
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1390
01:12:09.433 --> 01:12:13.326
<i>- So there was this thing
we used to do as kids,</i>

1391
01:12:13.327 --> 01:12:16.329
<i>and they were called
midnight snacks, right?</i>

1392
01:12:16.330 --> 01:12:19.208
<i>And the midnight snacks
was usually Pop-Tarts,</i>

1393
01:12:19.369 --> 01:12:23.037
<i>flavored strawberry,
no frosting, extra butter,</i>

1394
01:12:23.197 --> 01:12:25.647
<i>coming right out the toaster,
flaming-hot,</i>

1395
01:12:25.648 --> 01:12:28.867
<i>with a tall glass of milk
with ice.</i>

1396
01:12:29.028 --> 01:12:32.880
<i>So I would send him Pop-Tarts
periodically over the years,</i>

1397
01:12:32.974 --> 01:12:34.914
<i>as a birthday gift,</i>

1398
01:12:34.915 --> 01:12:37.058
<i>to his office,
wherever it was.</i>

1399
01:12:37.059 --> 01:12:38.709
<i>But he would never respond.</i>

1400
01:12:38.710 --> 01:12:41.029
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1401
01:12:41.030 --> 01:12:43.132
When I decided to leave
the industry--

1402
01:12:43.293 --> 01:12:46.560
and this was about '99--

1403
01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:49.739
that's when
we communicated less,

1404
01:12:49.899 --> 01:12:53.242
we saw each other less, because
I took the fork in the road.

1405
01:12:53.403 --> 01:12:56.579
And now this is
who he turned out to be.

1406
01:12:56.739 --> 01:13:00.875
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1407
01:13:04.305 --> 01:13:07.481
<i>- My last encounter
with Kimberly--</i>

1408
01:13:07.482 --> 01:13:11.059
we were at Quincy's premiere
for his Christmas special,

1409
01:13:11.060 --> 01:13:13.162
"Holiday Calendar."

1410
01:13:13.323 --> 01:13:15.313
<i>Sean came.</i>

1411
01:13:15.314 --> 01:13:18.292
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1412
01:13:18.453 --> 01:13:21.027
<i>She said to me,
this is probably the best day</i>

1413
01:13:21.028 --> 01:13:23.106
<i>in a very long time,</i>

1414
01:13:23.266 --> 01:13:26.851
seeing all of us
in the same place.

1415
01:13:27.011 --> 01:13:28.277
<i>She was looking amazing.</i>

1416
01:13:28.438 --> 01:13:30.279
<i>She was healthy.
She was fantastic.</i>

1417
01:13:30.440 --> 01:13:32.990
It was two or three weeks
prior to, um...

1418
01:13:34.910 --> 01:13:36.685
Her...

1419
01:13:36.846 --> 01:13:38.788
murder.

1420
01:13:38.948 --> 01:13:41.040
Am I supposed to say
"allegedly"?

1421
01:13:43.168 --> 01:13:47.004
<i>November 15th,
a day I'll never forget...</i>

1422
01:13:48.266 --> 01:13:51.173
<i>I was on my way to film</i>

1423
01:13:51.174 --> 01:13:54.427
<i>the opening packages
for the BET Awards.</i>

1424
01:13:54.428 --> 01:13:57.930
Phone rings,
and it's a dear friend of mine.

1425
01:13:57.931 --> 01:13:59.783
And...

1426
01:13:59.784 --> 01:14:02.895
she says,
did you hear about Kimberly?

1427
01:14:04.365 --> 01:14:05.964
And I said,
what about Kimberly?

1428
01:14:06.125 --> 01:14:07.865
<i>I just saw her.</i>

1429
01:14:07.866 --> 01:14:10.895
<i>She says, I don't know,</i>

1430
01:14:11.055 --> 01:14:14.697
but I've heard
that Kimberly has died.

1431
01:14:14.698 --> 01:14:17.558
<i>[somber music]</i>

1432
01:14:17.559 --> 01:14:21.038
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1433
01:14:25.086 --> 01:14:28.987
- [voice breaking]
So you're having my baby...

1434
01:14:29.148 --> 01:14:31.990
and it means so much to me.

1435
01:14:32.151 --> 01:14:34.892
<i>There's nothing more precious</i>

1436
01:14:34.893 --> 01:14:37.671
<i>than to raise a family.</i>

1437
01:14:37.831 --> 01:14:40.657
<i>If there's any doubt
in your mind,</i>

1438
01:14:40.658 --> 01:14:42.718
<i>you can count on me.</i>

1439
01:14:42.812 --> 01:14:45.104
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1440
01:14:45.264 --> 01:14:47.488
<i>And that's just a day</i>

1441
01:14:47.489 --> 01:14:51.068
that will never,
never leave my mind...

1442
01:14:53.414 --> 01:14:56.664
And just that empty feeling
of, like...

1443
01:14:56.665 --> 01:14:58.466
<i>nah...</i>

1444
01:14:58.467 --> 01:15:02.497
<i>something is not
right with this.</i>

1445
01:15:04.918 --> 01:15:07.877
<i>- Kim Porter
had been found dead at home,</i>

1446
01:15:08.037 --> 01:15:11.956
<i>and an autopsy showed
that it was from complications</i>

1447
01:15:12.116 --> 01:15:14.182
<i>from pneumonia.</i>

1448
01:15:14.183 --> 01:15:16.719
She was young.
She was 47 years old.

1449
01:15:16.879 --> 01:15:19.437
- Who is dying from pneumonia?

1450
01:15:19.438 --> 01:15:23.015
Seriously, pneumonia,
and to die so quickly?

1451
01:15:23.016 --> 01:15:26.044
Like, people get pneumonia
every day and don't die.

1452
01:15:26.205 --> 01:15:28.272
That doesn't seem
like a natural cause.

1453
01:15:30.776 --> 01:15:32.527
<i>[object squeaks]</i>

1454
01:15:34.138 --> 01:15:36.054
[device whirring]

1455
01:15:36.215 --> 01:15:37.556
<i>- Kim dying is one</i>

1456
01:15:37.717 --> 01:15:39.382
<i>of those "stop you
in your tracks" moments,</i>

1457
01:15:39.383 --> 01:15:41.536
<i>especially if you know her.</i>

1458
01:15:44.415 --> 01:15:48.290
<i>And the part about it which
is so spaghetti to me is,</i>

1459
01:15:48.291 --> 01:15:50.169
I don't think I want to know
at this point

1460
01:15:50.329 --> 01:15:53.322
because there's
so many different images

1461
01:15:53.483 --> 01:15:55.299
that have been put in my mind.

1462
01:16:00.431 --> 01:16:03.156
- This story
has become interesting

1463
01:16:03.157 --> 01:16:06.984
in several continents.

1464
01:16:06.985 --> 01:16:10.129
<i>For the record, I've received
more than 40 inquiries</i>

1465
01:16:10.130 --> 01:16:12.415
<i>from production companies,
networks,</i>

1466
01:16:12.416 --> 01:16:16.378
<i>since brother Sean's
incarceration, to participate</i>

1467
01:16:16.379 --> 01:16:20.173
<i>in everyone's documentary
or something.</i>

1468
01:16:20.174 --> 01:16:21.600
I'm gonna keep it
a buck with you.

1469
01:16:21.761 --> 01:16:23.277
I'm even surprised that
I'm sitting here right now

1470
01:16:23.437 --> 01:16:25.002
having this conversation.

1471
01:16:25.003 --> 01:16:28.457
<i>But I do think at least
I owe it to Kimberly</i>

1472
01:16:28.618 --> 01:16:31.335
<i>to share just a small portion
of her truth.</i>

1473
01:16:35.499 --> 01:16:38.340
<i>After Sean begins
to see Kimberly,</i>

1474
01:16:38.341 --> 01:16:40.219
Kimberly and I remain friends.

1475
01:16:40.379 --> 01:16:44.122
<i>She started to confide in me.</i>

1476
01:16:44.283 --> 01:16:47.301
<i>What she did say is,
look, something's not right.</i>

1477
01:16:47.461 --> 01:16:49.395
<i>His soul has gone
completely dark,</i>

1478
01:16:49.555 --> 01:16:52.815
<i>like he's just not there.</i>

1479
01:16:52.975 --> 01:16:54.850
Yeah.

1480
01:16:55.010 --> 01:16:56.209
Yeah, yeah.

1481
01:16:56.210 --> 01:16:58.211
<i>She made me promise</i>

1482
01:16:58.212 --> 01:17:01.890
<i>on our son
Quincy Taylor Brown's life</i>

1483
01:17:02.051 --> 01:17:03.616
<i>not to ever reveal</i>

1484
01:17:03.617 --> 01:17:07.204
<i>because she was
in complete fear of my life.</i>

1485
01:17:09.058 --> 01:17:12.550
What I do know and what
I can share at this stage

1486
01:17:12.551 --> 01:17:15.153
<i>is that before her death,</i>

1487
01:17:15.314 --> 01:17:18.007
<i>she was keeping a diary
and things of that nature.</i>

1488
01:17:18.167 --> 01:17:21.910
Someone got the pass code
to her phone and her computer.

1489
01:17:22.071 --> 01:17:24.413
<i>And they found out
that she was writing</i>

1490
01:17:24.574 --> 01:17:27.091
<i>what was going on
behind closed doors.</i>

1491
01:17:27.251 --> 01:17:28.509
The public had no idea.

1492
01:17:28.669 --> 01:17:30.643
It was happening right
in front of everybody's eyes.

1493
01:17:30.644 --> 01:17:33.064
But there's a lot of people
who turned a blind eye.

1494
01:17:39.012 --> 01:17:42.180
- There was a lot of talk,
a lot of rumors

1495
01:17:42.341 --> 01:17:43.357
that Diddy might have had

1496
01:17:43.517 --> 01:17:45.434
something to do
with Kim's death.

1497
01:17:45.595 --> 01:17:47.385
<i>There are people
who have said,</i>

1498
01:17:47.386 --> 01:17:49.587
<i>well, she knew
too much about him,</i>

1499
01:17:49.588 --> 01:17:51.664
<i>and, she was about
to reveal all.</i>

1500
01:17:51.665 --> 01:17:54.225
Absolutely no proof,
no evidence,

1501
01:17:54.226 --> 01:17:56.420
nothing of the sort.

1502
01:17:56.580 --> 01:17:58.921
You know, there are a lot of
conspiracy theories out there

1503
01:17:58.922 --> 01:18:00.374
but no proof.

1504
01:18:00.534 --> 01:18:04.679
And the autopsy report showed
that it was from pneumonia.

1505
01:18:14.439 --> 01:18:19.191
- Let's just say there's a lot
that goes on in the industry,

1506
01:18:19.192 --> 01:18:21.369
which is not my job to uncover,

1507
01:18:21.370 --> 01:18:25.197
but it's something that's been
going on in the industry,

1508
01:18:25.198 --> 01:18:29.078
and those who speak about it
usually meet their demise.

1509
01:18:29.238 --> 01:18:33.407
<i>- Uptown Records started
with five people--</i>

1510
01:18:33.567 --> 01:18:37.143
<i>Andre Harrell,
Al B. Sure!, Heavy D,</i>

1511
01:18:37.144 --> 01:18:38.954
and Puffy.

1512
01:18:39.114 --> 01:18:42.717
And Kim was
the longest-working employee.

1513
01:18:45.404 --> 01:18:47.645
Heavy D was found dead,
heart attack.

1514
01:18:47.646 --> 01:18:49.974
Andre Harrell, heart attack.

1515
01:18:52.728 --> 01:18:54.603
<i>- This person
was telling the story.</i>

1516
01:18:54.764 --> 01:18:56.654
<i>This person
was writing a book.</i>

1517
01:18:56.655 --> 01:18:59.108
This person's
about to tell the truth.

1518
01:18:59.268 --> 01:19:03.195
Why is everybody dead?

1519
01:19:04.990 --> 01:19:07.239
<i>Oh, it's a coincidence.</i>

1520
01:19:07.240 --> 01:19:08.993
Get the fuck out of here.

1521
01:19:09.153 --> 01:19:12.645
- The only two left
are Puffy and Al,

1522
01:19:12.646 --> 01:19:15.723
and Al almost died.

1523
01:19:15.724 --> 01:19:18.827
- And you'll really understand
how I ended up in a coma.

1524
01:19:18.987 --> 01:19:22.256
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1525
01:19:35.872 --> 01:19:39.289
<i>- July 12th was
a very interesting day.</i>

1526
01:19:39.290 --> 01:19:41.025
That was the day
that I went down.

1527
01:19:44.781 --> 01:19:47.406
It's not the first,
second, or third time...

1528
01:19:49.451 --> 01:19:51.476
That I've been
in that position,

1529
01:19:51.637 --> 01:19:53.127
where I actually went down.

1530
01:19:53.128 --> 01:19:55.080
I can't say too much
at this moment.

1531
01:19:55.241 --> 01:19:57.333
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

1532
01:19:57.493 --> 01:19:59.409
<i>I can say this.</i>

1533
01:19:59.570 --> 01:20:02.463
<i>July 12th I was entered into
one of the hospitals here.</i>

1534
01:20:07.594 --> 01:20:09.076
<i>I was basically done.</i>

1535
01:20:09.077 --> 01:20:11.004
<i>They were sending me
to hospice.</i>

1536
01:20:11.164 --> 01:20:13.573
<i>There was nothing else
they can do.</i>

1537
01:20:13.574 --> 01:20:15.399
<i>So they're going
to send him to die.</i>

1538
01:20:15.400 --> 01:20:18.253
And what transpired
in between--whoa.

1539
01:20:18.414 --> 01:20:20.430
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1540
01:20:20.591 --> 01:20:24.059
From what I found out later,
I was in a coma,

1541
01:20:24.153 --> 01:20:26.445
<i>having multisystem
organ failure.</i>

1542
01:20:34.430 --> 01:20:37.373
Every organ is working off
a machine except for the liver.

1543
01:20:37.533 --> 01:20:39.700
Even in the middle of me
going through

1544
01:20:39.860 --> 01:20:42.101
this tsunami
of a medical crisis,

1545
01:20:42.102 --> 01:20:44.088
every single person...

1546
01:20:46.634 --> 01:20:48.709
I was mindful
enough to remember.

1547
01:20:48.869 --> 01:20:53.262
I kept a record
of every single one of you

1548
01:20:53.263 --> 01:20:57.191
who were sent to set me up...

1549
01:20:57.192 --> 01:21:01.270
to assist in the attempted
murder of Al B. Sure!

1550
01:21:01.271 --> 01:21:08.153
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1551
01:21:08.314 --> 01:21:09.879
You're in the file.

1552
01:21:09.880 --> 01:21:13.708
<i>- There are people
who speculate,</i>

1553
01:21:13.709 --> 01:21:15.736
and there have been
so many conspiracy theories

1554
01:21:15.896 --> 01:21:18.539
about Diddy
potentially being involved.

1555
01:21:22.420 --> 01:21:24.712
- Three.
Oh, yeah.

1556
01:21:24.872 --> 01:21:26.695
<i>- I can't say too much
at this moment</i>

1557
01:21:26.696 --> 01:21:29.133
<i>related to legal situations,</i>

1558
01:21:29.293 --> 01:21:33.403
but I'll tell you this--
surviving death is not a game.

1559
01:21:33.404 --> 01:21:35.431
Being in a coma,

1560
01:21:35.591 --> 01:21:37.407
being on a ventilator
for 38 days,

1561
01:21:37.408 --> 01:21:39.541
being septic,

1562
01:21:39.542 --> 01:21:41.485
<i>60 to 70 blood transfusions,</i>

1563
01:21:41.486 --> 01:21:43.362
it's a lot.

1564
01:21:43.363 --> 01:21:45.024
It's a lot.

1565
01:21:45.184 --> 01:21:46.741
<i>But you know what?</i>

1566
01:21:46.742 --> 01:21:49.019
<i>In hindsight, I'm glad
that things transpired</i>

1567
01:21:49.179 --> 01:21:50.446
<i>the way they did</i>

1568
01:21:50.606 --> 01:21:52.907
because this journey has
prepared me for another level.

1569
01:21:56.762 --> 01:21:58.678
<i>I've made a decision
to go hard,</i>

1570
01:21:58.679 --> 01:22:01.180
<i>as it relates
to opening the case</i>

1571
01:22:01.181 --> 01:22:05.377
on the miraculous death
of Kim Porter...

1572
01:22:06.772 --> 01:22:10.290
<i>Because Kimberly is gone</i>

1573
01:22:10.450 --> 01:22:14.268
because she was going to be
Cassie Ventura...

1574
01:22:14.269 --> 01:22:16.345
[paparazzi shouting]

1575
01:22:16.346 --> 01:22:19.725
<i>Which is blowing the lid
off of this entire situation.</i>

1576
01:22:19.885 --> 01:22:22.610
- This is Cassie and Rihanna

1577
01:22:22.611 --> 01:22:26.581
in one of the music awards
in Europe.

1578
01:22:26.582 --> 01:22:30.334
<i>I met Casandra Ventura
in 2004,</i>

1579
01:22:30.335 --> 01:22:32.529
<i>as a model, actually.</i>

1580
01:22:32.690 --> 01:22:34.822
Cass was always a friend to me.

1581
01:22:34.823 --> 01:22:37.967
You know, she wasn't really
a <i>client</i> client.

1582
01:22:37.968 --> 01:22:42.397
<i>- Sean Combs met Cassie
in 2005.</i>

1583
01:22:42.558 --> 01:22:46.651
She was actually signed to
a very, very talented producer

1584
01:22:46.812 --> 01:22:49.830
who had a joint venture
with Bad Boy.

1585
01:22:49.990 --> 01:22:52.698
- ♪ So busy, but I've been
thinking about... ♪

1586
01:22:52.699 --> 01:22:55.660
- So this is
Cassie's "Me & U" video.

1587
01:22:55.821 --> 01:22:57.838
The song came out in 2006.

1588
01:22:57.998 --> 01:22:59.640
She ended up getting
to number three

1589
01:22:59.800 --> 01:23:01.640
on the "Billboard" charts
with this song.

1590
01:23:01.641 --> 01:23:03.451
- Oh, here, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.

1591
01:23:03.452 --> 01:23:06.996
<i>- 2007 is when Kim Porter</i>

1592
01:23:06.997 --> 01:23:11.226
broke things off
with Diddy completely.

1593
01:23:11.386 --> 01:23:12.943
<i>People suspected</i>

1594
01:23:12.944 --> 01:23:15.188
<i>that maybe there's more than
a business relationship</i>

1595
01:23:15.282 --> 01:23:17.408
<i>going on
between Cassie and Diddy,</i>

1596
01:23:17.568 --> 01:23:21.836
<i>because they were spotted out
a lot at different events.</i>

1597
01:23:21.837 --> 01:23:23.539
- She didn't tell me
for, like, six months.

1598
01:23:23.699 --> 01:23:25.414
I saw pictures
of them two together,

1599
01:23:25.415 --> 01:23:27.942
and I was like, what the fuck
is going on right now?

1600
01:23:28.104 --> 01:23:31.270
Like, why are you dating
this man?

1601
01:23:31.271 --> 01:23:33.448
- What was it like
the first time you met him?

1602
01:23:33.609 --> 01:23:36.058
Were you starstruck?
- I was so nervous, so nervous.

1603
01:23:36.059 --> 01:23:38.269
But we sat down
for about two hours,

1604
01:23:38.270 --> 01:23:40.446
talked about my career
and the future.

1605
01:23:40.447 --> 01:23:42.347
And it was great.

1606
01:23:42.348 --> 01:23:43.917
You know,
it turned out amazing,

1607
01:23:44.078 --> 01:23:47.370
and he's a great guy,
great guy.

1608
01:23:47.371 --> 01:23:49.688
- People were happy for them.
They were a cute couple.

1609
01:23:49.689 --> 01:23:51.892
<i>But when I was at "Revolt,"
he was dating Cassie,</i>

1610
01:23:51.986 --> 01:23:53.694
and I did get the impression

1611
01:23:53.854 --> 01:23:56.471
that he's very controlling
as a boyfriend.

1612
01:23:56.632 --> 01:24:00.725
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1613
01:24:00.886 --> 01:24:04.003
- In 2010, it was
the night of the Grammys.

1614
01:24:04.004 --> 01:24:08.558
And he put her up
at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

1615
01:24:08.559 --> 01:24:10.735
<i>I fall asleep in the suite.</i>

1616
01:24:10.896 --> 01:24:14.388
<i>I had no idea she left
to go to a party.</i>

1617
01:24:14.389 --> 01:24:17.417
It was midnight or something,
1:00 a.m. in the morning.

1618
01:24:17.577 --> 01:24:20.570
<i>And all I wake up to
is this motherfucker,</i>

1619
01:24:20.571 --> 01:24:21.970
<i>like, bursting in the room.</i>

1620
01:24:21.971 --> 01:24:24.850
And I'm like, what is going on?

1621
01:24:25.010 --> 01:24:27.752
<i>And he was mad at the fact</i>

1622
01:24:27.913 --> 01:24:30.830
<i>that she went to a party.</i>

1623
01:24:30.831 --> 01:24:33.833
<i>They go into the next room,
close the door.</i>

1624
01:24:33.834 --> 01:24:35.685
<i>So I pack her bags</i>

1625
01:24:35.846 --> 01:24:39.615
and get her to safety.

1626
01:24:39.775 --> 01:24:42.576
That was panic mode.

1627
01:24:42.736 --> 01:24:45.845
That's when she came out...

1628
01:24:45.846 --> 01:24:49.748
knots on her head, busted lip.

1629
01:24:49.749 --> 01:24:52.527
Like, she was just beat up.

1630
01:24:52.688 --> 01:24:55.504
So what was I to do?

1631
01:24:55.505 --> 01:24:57.407
We can't stay
in this hotel room anymore.

1632
01:24:57.568 --> 01:24:59.784
We have to go.

1633
01:24:59.945 --> 01:25:01.611
I had to take her
into my house.

1634
01:25:01.612 --> 01:25:03.512
And she stayed with me.

1635
01:25:03.513 --> 01:25:05.849
We were trying to figure out
what we're going to do.

1636
01:25:07.803 --> 01:25:10.712
<i>I just wanted to help
my friend out that night,</i>

1637
01:25:10.873 --> 01:25:12.773
but she wanted me
to keep it quiet.

1638
01:25:17.779 --> 01:25:20.704
We can't play with Sean Combs.

1639
01:25:20.705 --> 01:25:22.732
These are things
that we have to keep,

1640
01:25:22.893 --> 01:25:24.884
like our dirty little secrets.

1641
01:25:24.885 --> 01:25:27.061
Even when we know
it isn't right,

1642
01:25:27.223 --> 01:25:31.566
it's still something that we
can't talk about to the media.

1643
01:25:31.727 --> 01:25:32.668
- When you look

1644
01:25:32.828 --> 01:25:34.169
at the music industry,

1645
01:25:34.329 --> 01:25:35.420
it's really--

1646
01:25:35.581 --> 01:25:36.746
what we're talking about is

1647
01:25:36.907 --> 01:25:38.931
institutional grooming.

1648
01:25:38.932 --> 01:25:42.652
It normalizes it,
promotes it, accepts it,

1649
01:25:42.653 --> 01:25:45.005
turns a blind eye

1650
01:25:45.165 --> 01:25:49.685
<i>when perpetrators do this.</i>

1651
01:25:49.845 --> 01:25:54.613
<i>- Cassie Ventura came out
with this bombshell lawsuit</i>

1652
01:25:54.614 --> 01:25:57.741
<i>in November of 2023.</i>

1653
01:25:57.742 --> 01:26:01.471
She accused him of having
complete control over her life,

1654
01:26:01.632 --> 01:26:03.949
<i>physically abusing her,</i>

1655
01:26:04.109 --> 01:26:08.704
<i>forcing her to have sex
with male sex workers,</i>

1656
01:26:08.864 --> 01:26:11.079
<i>plying her with drugs.</i>

1657
01:26:11.080 --> 01:26:14.668
- I remember reading every page

1658
01:26:14.828 --> 01:26:16.736
because I think I still was

1659
01:26:16.897 --> 01:26:19.689
in disbelief--like, really?

1660
01:26:19.690 --> 01:26:21.440
This had been going on?

1661
01:26:21.441 --> 01:26:23.117
He had been doing that?

1662
01:26:23.279 --> 01:26:27.622
- What was pretty astounding
was that around 24 hours

1663
01:26:27.783 --> 01:26:29.598
after Cassie filed
this lawsuit,

1664
01:26:29.599 --> 01:26:31.450
Sean Combs settled the lawsuit

1665
01:26:31.451 --> 01:26:34.078
<i>for an undisclosed amount
of money.</i>

1666
01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:36.104
<i>- The fact that
it settled so fast</i>

1667
01:26:36.105 --> 01:26:37.557
is something we can draw

1668
01:26:37.717 --> 01:26:38.734
conclusions from,

1669
01:26:38.894 --> 01:26:40.235
that he was terrified.

1670
01:26:40.395 --> 01:26:42.786
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1671
01:26:42.787 --> 01:26:44.740
- A few months later,
I remember Diddy

1672
01:26:44.900 --> 01:26:46.865
did an interview
on "The Breakfast Club."

1673
01:26:46.866 --> 01:26:48.843
- Recently, you said that
you were giving the artists

1674
01:26:48.844 --> 01:26:50.153
back their publishing.

1675
01:26:50.313 --> 01:26:53.872
- It was more
of me just evolving

1676
01:26:53.873 --> 01:26:55.575
as a businessman.

1677
01:26:55.735 --> 01:26:57.760
- It gave me pause.

1678
01:26:57.761 --> 01:27:01.706
<i>Everyone just knew there was
this reputation that he had</i>

1679
01:27:01.800 --> 01:27:04.025
<i>for being
this shrewd businessman.</i>

1680
01:27:04.026 --> 01:27:06.386
There's numerous artists
who have fallen out with him

1681
01:27:06.546 --> 01:27:09.514
and/or have left the label
over money disputes.

1682
01:27:09.675 --> 01:27:12.992
- From my last conversation
with BIG,

1683
01:27:12.993 --> 01:27:15.894
he just wanted to be
out of Bad Boy

1684
01:27:15.895 --> 01:27:17.896
and out with Puff

1685
01:27:17.897 --> 01:27:20.400
because Puff owned
his publishing.

1686
01:27:23.781 --> 01:27:26.756
<i>That's a whole lot of money.</i>

1687
01:27:26.757 --> 01:27:29.759
<i>- 112, The Lox,</i>

1688
01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:32.729
<i>Total, Faith Evans,
even Mase--</i>

1689
01:27:32.890 --> 01:27:36.757
everybody who went
to Bad Boy left...

1690
01:27:36.758 --> 01:27:38.693
left without their royalties.

1691
01:27:38.854 --> 01:27:40.045
<i>And then he tried to come back</i>

1692
01:27:40.205 --> 01:27:43.773
and give people back
their publishing.

1693
01:27:43.774 --> 01:27:46.025
- And a few months later,

1694
01:27:46.026 --> 01:27:48.778
we figured out
why it was strange.

1695
01:27:48.779 --> 01:27:51.614
<i>- So, in order for you
to get your publishing,</i>

1696
01:27:51.615 --> 01:27:54.808
<i>you couldn't speak on anything
that has happened to you.</i>

1697
01:27:54.809 --> 01:27:56.610
And I heard--

1698
01:27:56.611 --> 01:27:58.937
honestly, somebody told me--
one of the artists was like,

1699
01:27:58.938 --> 01:28:01.690
they only offering you,
like, $300,

1700
01:28:01.691 --> 01:28:04.543
<i>and you got to sign the NDA.</i>

1701
01:28:04.544 --> 01:28:06.220
<i>- I don't think
he was oblivious</i>

1702
01:28:06.382 --> 01:28:08.699
during his interview
on "The Breakfast Club"

1703
01:28:08.859 --> 01:28:11.368
that his whole world
was getting ready to collapse.

1704
01:28:13.130 --> 01:28:17.807
- Then CNN released
surveillance footage...

1705
01:28:17.808 --> 01:28:21.051
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

1706
01:28:21.052 --> 01:28:24.622
<i>Of Diddy beating up Cassie</i>

1707
01:28:24.717 --> 01:28:26.857
<i>in the hotel.</i>

1708
01:28:26.858 --> 01:28:28.717
- Couldn't unsee it.

1709
01:28:28.718 --> 01:28:30.244
You couldn't unsee it.

1710
01:28:30.406 --> 01:28:32.747
<i>I can't give you
any explanation</i>

1711
01:28:32.908 --> 01:28:35.274
on why that was okay.

1712
01:28:35.275 --> 01:28:37.978
- I've never seen
Puffy fight anybody.

1713
01:28:38.138 --> 01:28:40.105
I've never seen him
hit a woman.

1714
01:28:40.265 --> 01:28:43.257
So just--the video was
very disturbing when I saw it.

1715
01:28:43.419 --> 01:28:47.062
- I never seen him put his
hands on, you know, no females

1716
01:28:47.222 --> 01:28:49.114
that I was around him with.

1717
01:28:49.274 --> 01:28:52.916
- And I had to, you know,
just kind of look to see,

1718
01:28:52.917 --> 01:28:54.736
you know,
is that really Puff or not?

1719
01:28:54.896 --> 01:28:56.804
<i>- You know, it broke
my heart, you know?</i>

1720
01:28:56.805 --> 01:28:59.098
And then I have to wonder also,

1721
01:28:59.099 --> 01:29:01.275
like, what was going on
in his head?

1722
01:29:01.437 --> 01:29:03.844
<i>Like, why is he really angry?</i>

1723
01:29:03.845 --> 01:29:06.915
- And maybe he pissed her off
or she pissed him off.

1724
01:29:07.075 --> 01:29:09.593
The question is,
what caused that?

1725
01:29:13.139 --> 01:29:14.888
- No, it doesn't.

1726
01:29:14.889 --> 01:29:17.100
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1727
01:29:17.260 --> 01:29:18.968
<i>- Everyone was shocked.</i>

1728
01:29:19.129 --> 01:29:22.872
But his statement after

1729
01:29:22.873 --> 01:29:25.299
made it worse...

1730
01:29:25.461 --> 01:29:29.170
- My behavior on that video
is inexcusable.

1731
01:29:29.171 --> 01:29:31.705
I take full responsibility.

1732
01:29:31.706 --> 01:29:33.907
- Because...

1733
01:29:33.908 --> 01:29:38.061
I don't think we heard him
apologize to her.

1734
01:29:38.062 --> 01:29:40.448
- I'm not asking
for forgiveness.

1735
01:29:40.608 --> 01:29:45.069
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1736
01:29:45.230 --> 01:29:48.322
<i>- By the end of 2024,</i>

1737
01:29:48.484 --> 01:29:52.752
there's been an absolute flood
of lawsuits.

1738
01:29:52.912 --> 01:29:56.256
<i>There have been women
who have stepped forward</i>

1739
01:29:56.416 --> 01:29:58.908
and accused him
of sexual assault...

1740
01:29:58.909 --> 01:30:00.602
- We need to talk
about this woman

1741
01:30:00.762 --> 01:30:03.021
and what she said about
her experience with Diddy.

1742
01:30:03.181 --> 01:30:05.014
- Men who have stepped forward
and accused him

1743
01:30:05.175 --> 01:30:06.215
of sexual assault.

1744
01:30:06.376 --> 01:30:08.268
- The third person has come out

1745
01:30:08.428 --> 01:30:10.845
with a lawsuit against Diddy
in the last month.

1746
01:30:11.006 --> 01:30:13.446
- She had allegedly discovered
some of the tapes

1747
01:30:13.447 --> 01:30:15.158
that he had made
with male pop stars.

1748
01:30:15.460 --> 01:30:17.450
- Y'all ready to see hip-hop?

1749
01:30:17.451 --> 01:30:21.030
- We're over, I believe,
30 now individuals

1750
01:30:21.191 --> 01:30:22.681
who have filed lawsuits.

1751
01:30:22.682 --> 01:30:24.332
[people clamoring]

1752
01:30:24.333 --> 01:30:26.084
- I wish y'all
the best of luck.

1753
01:30:26.085 --> 01:30:28.336
[laughter]

1754
01:30:28.337 --> 01:30:32.824
<i>- I have a client.
His name is Courtney Burgess.</i>

1755
01:30:32.825 --> 01:30:34.252
<i>Courtney came to me</i>

1756
01:30:34.346 --> 01:30:36.847
<i>because he had received
a subpoena</i>

1757
01:30:37.007 --> 01:30:38.405
<i>from the federal government</i>

1758
01:30:38.406 --> 01:30:41.301
to testify in relation
to the grand jury

1759
01:30:41.461 --> 01:30:44.278
that has convened about Diddy.

1760
01:30:44.279 --> 01:30:47.406
<i>Courtney has done interviews
where he purported</i>

1761
01:30:47.407 --> 01:30:49.959
<i>to own several flash drives</i>

1762
01:30:49.960 --> 01:30:51.987
that included sex tapes

1763
01:30:52.147 --> 01:30:53.888
with eight
distinct individuals,

1764
01:30:54.049 --> 01:30:56.715
<i>including A-list celebrities
and Diddy,</i>

1765
01:30:56.716 --> 01:30:58.702
<i>all engaged in sex.</i>

1766
01:31:00.480 --> 01:31:04.098
He believes that these people
were intoxicated

1767
01:31:04.099 --> 01:31:05.900
and that they
may not have known

1768
01:31:06.061 --> 01:31:07.401
that they were being recorded.

1769
01:31:07.563 --> 01:31:11.548
And Courtney ultimately
handed over the video.

1770
01:31:14.761 --> 01:31:17.369
<i>It's not necessarily
a quid pro quo,</i>

1771
01:31:17.370 --> 01:31:20.489
where, oh, I'm going
to blackmail you.

1772
01:31:20.490 --> 01:31:23.742
I feel like it was more
to advance his influence

1773
01:31:23.743 --> 01:31:25.169
and his power,

1774
01:31:25.330 --> 01:31:27.496
<i>because now I have them
on video,</i>

1775
01:31:27.497 --> 01:31:29.898
where I can say, I'm going
to take this to your wife.

1776
01:31:29.899 --> 01:31:32.352
I'll take this to your husband.
I'll take this to the public.

1777
01:31:32.512 --> 01:31:35.238
And I'll ruin you
if you don't do this for me.

1778
01:31:43.898 --> 01:31:47.916
<i>- I represented 11 victims
of Jeffrey Epstein.</i>

1779
01:31:47.917 --> 01:31:50.119
Jeffrey Epstein was one
of the most prolific predators

1780
01:31:50.280 --> 01:31:51.845
that we've ever seen.

1781
01:31:51.846 --> 01:31:55.490
<i>He had, I believe,
thousands of victims.</i>

1782
01:31:55.491 --> 01:31:59.453
He had an operation where up
to three girls a day for years

1783
01:31:59.615 --> 01:32:02.057
<i>were being brought to him
by recruiters</i>

1784
01:32:02.217 --> 01:32:04.033
who found
attractive young women,

1785
01:32:04.034 --> 01:32:05.936
many of them underage,

1786
01:32:06.096 --> 01:32:08.838
<i>brought them to him
for a couple hundred dollars.</i>

1787
01:32:08.999 --> 01:32:11.307
They were sexually assaulted.

1788
01:32:11.467 --> 01:32:13.367
There are a lot of similarities

1789
01:32:13.368 --> 01:32:16.295
between the Jeffrey Epstein
case and Sean Combs.

1790
01:32:16.296 --> 01:32:19.956
They're both
very, very wealthy men.

1791
01:32:19.957 --> 01:32:22.777
<i>And each one of them is
at the top of the pyramid.</i>

1792
01:32:22.871 --> 01:32:26.805
And if there comes a time
where he is actually convicted,

1793
01:32:26.806 --> 01:32:28.333
we'll see whether it happens
to Combs.

1794
01:32:28.493 --> 01:32:31.193
- Back for me one time,
up top, up top.

1795
01:32:31.355 --> 01:32:33.797
<i>- If you come
from a background,</i>

1796
01:32:33.957 --> 01:32:36.464
<i>say, Dad engaged
in criminal activity,</i>

1797
01:32:36.465 --> 01:32:39.493
<i>and was born
with a lot of life challenges,</i>

1798
01:32:39.655 --> 01:32:41.820
and then you're
in an environment

1799
01:32:41.821 --> 01:32:46.250
around gang members,
sure, that can shape you.

1800
01:32:46.411 --> 01:32:47.752
But then on the other hand,

1801
01:32:47.913 --> 01:32:50.179
you have people who come
from very difficult backgrounds

1802
01:32:50.340 --> 01:32:53.231
who get themselves
into positive environments,

1803
01:32:53.232 --> 01:32:55.292
and they're fine.

1804
01:32:55.293 --> 01:32:58.512
<i>Regardless of what trauma you have,</i>

1805
01:32:58.674 --> 01:33:01.164
we still have to hold
people accountable.

1806
01:33:01.165 --> 01:33:03.493
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1807
01:33:03.653 --> 01:33:06.020
- The story
of Lucifer in the Bible

1808
01:33:06.181 --> 01:33:09.247
is that Lucifer was
God's most beautiful angel.

1809
01:33:09.248 --> 01:33:11.308
<i>And he was the music angel.</i>

1810
01:33:11.309 --> 01:33:13.143
- I'm letting
all y'all niggas know,

1811
01:33:13.144 --> 01:33:14.961
if I ain't hot,
y'all niggas ain't hot.

1812
01:33:14.962 --> 01:33:16.748
<i>- But Lucifer got
too full of himself.</i>

1813
01:33:16.842 --> 01:33:18.932
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1814
01:33:18.933 --> 01:33:22.361
<i>And God casted him
from heaven.</i>

1815
01:33:22.362 --> 01:33:26.264
And then he became
the evil Satan

1816
01:33:26.265 --> 01:33:29.811
that we know here
on this Earth.

1817
01:33:29.971 --> 01:33:33.064
<i>Like, when we talk
about the serpent...</i>

1818
01:33:33.224 --> 01:33:34.948
<i>and when the devil comes
and says,</i>

1819
01:33:34.949 --> 01:33:36.776
<i>I'll give you all this
if you just denounce God,</i>

1820
01:33:36.936 --> 01:33:39.962
they're all just embodiments
of Lucifer.

1821
01:33:39.963 --> 01:33:43.114
And I think where we are now
is we're seeing an embodiment

1822
01:33:43.115 --> 01:33:45.693
of Lucifer in Sean Combs.

1823
01:33:45.787 --> 01:33:48.371
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1824
01:33:53.170 --> 01:33:55.543
- Ha!

1825
01:33:55.544 --> 01:33:58.131
[chuckles]

1826
01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:02.502
- Listen...

1827
01:34:02.662 --> 01:34:05.680
I been talking
about this since '97.

1828
01:34:05.840 --> 01:34:08.582
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1829
01:34:08.744 --> 01:34:12.235
<i>So it's not something
I'm just now doing it.</i>

1830
01:34:12.236 --> 01:34:14.288
I've been having a target
on my back.

1831
01:34:14.289 --> 01:34:17.842
It don't mean anything to me.
This life ain't mine's.

1832
01:34:18.003 --> 01:34:19.918
This life is God's.

1833
01:34:19.919 --> 01:34:23.097
And I'm going to do
as He say please.

1834
01:34:23.258 --> 01:34:29.261
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1835
01:34:29.262 --> 01:34:32.832
- These are my kids, right?

1836
01:34:32.992 --> 01:34:35.034
That's Timmy, Jr.

1837
01:34:35.194 --> 01:34:37.260
Timmy was my hero.

1838
01:34:37.261 --> 01:34:42.090
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1839
01:34:42.091 --> 01:34:44.219
Oh, man.

1840
01:34:44.379 --> 01:34:47.621
You know, this is us
burying my dad.

1841
01:34:47.783 --> 01:34:51.300
And then, you know, like,
maybe three, four years later,

1842
01:34:51.461 --> 01:34:53.269
we had to bury Timmy.

1843
01:34:55.214 --> 01:34:57.774
Yeah, Timmy, Jr.

1844
01:35:02.539 --> 01:35:04.948
<i>He overdosed on fentanyl.</i>

1845
01:35:07.368 --> 01:35:11.395
When you have a child
named after you...

1846
01:35:11.556 --> 01:35:13.998
[voice breaking] Looks
like you, acts like you...

1847
01:35:14.159 --> 01:35:16.251
<i>I lost so much.</i>

1848
01:35:16.411 --> 01:35:18.977
<i>[somber music]</i>

1849
01:35:18.978 --> 01:35:21.304
<i>[normal voice]
I lost my dad.</i>

1850
01:35:21.305 --> 01:35:24.759
And then we buried Timmy.

1851
01:35:24.919 --> 01:35:29.088
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1852
01:35:29.248 --> 01:35:31.340
<i>So now we're here...</i>

1853
01:35:31.501 --> 01:35:33.567
<i>talking about Sean.</i>

1854
01:35:33.568 --> 01:35:35.994
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1855
01:35:35.995 --> 01:35:38.997
I lost three...

1856
01:35:38.998 --> 01:35:42.150
I lost three of my...

1857
01:35:42.151 --> 01:35:44.578
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1858
01:35:44.579 --> 01:35:48.006
Yeah, gone.

1859
01:35:48.007 --> 01:35:50.034
Hoping for one to return.

1860
01:35:50.195 --> 01:35:53.037
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

1861
01:35:53.198 --> 01:35:55.413
<i>That's my little bro.</i>

1862
01:35:55.414 --> 01:35:58.291
Sean's done some bad things.

1863
01:35:58.292 --> 01:36:00.295
Sean knows it.

1864
01:36:00.455 --> 01:36:02.345
<i>I'm scared for him.</i>

1865
01:36:02.346 --> 01:36:04.758
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1866
01:36:13.718 --> 01:36:15.960
- I wouldn't know what to say,
to be honest with you.

1867
01:36:16.121 --> 01:36:17.395
I really wouldn't.

1868
01:36:19.974 --> 01:36:22.791
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1869
01:36:22.792 --> 01:36:25.693
I really wouldn't know
what to say.

1870
01:36:25.694 --> 01:36:27.946
[sighs]

1871
01:36:27.947 --> 01:36:30.224
- Diddy...

1872
01:36:30.385 --> 01:36:33.552
did anybody bring you
any cheesecake in there?

1873
01:36:33.553 --> 01:36:37.205
- If you're going to be
who you are,

1874
01:36:37.206 --> 01:36:39.233
be that person.

1875
01:36:39.394 --> 01:36:41.560
Don't turn around
and try to play

1876
01:36:41.561 --> 01:36:44.339
Mr. Good Guy and Mr. Nice Guy

1877
01:36:44.499 --> 01:36:46.565
when you a piece of shit
all along.

1878
01:36:46.566 --> 01:36:50.345
- Whether you innocent
or guilty...

1879
01:36:50.505 --> 01:36:53.205
karma has resurfaced.

1880
01:36:53.366 --> 01:36:56.641
[indistinct shouting]

1881
01:36:56.642 --> 01:37:00.480
<i>- This is a man who's been
on top of the world.</i>

1882
01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:03.832
<i>This is someone
who has lived the life</i>

1883
01:37:03.833 --> 01:37:07.360
<i>ever since
he's been 20 years old.</i>

1884
01:37:07.361 --> 01:37:09.364
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1885
01:37:09.524 --> 01:37:11.616
<i>And all of a sudden,</i>

1886
01:37:11.776 --> 01:37:14.684
<i>all of it
is taken away from him.</i>

1887
01:37:14.685 --> 01:37:17.604
<i>He's just stuck
in this one square box.</i>

1888
01:37:17.605 --> 01:37:20.674
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1889
01:37:20.675 --> 01:37:22.676
What do you say to him?

1890
01:37:22.677 --> 01:37:25.779
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1891
01:37:25.941 --> 01:37:28.708
<i>- This is probably
the most powerful person</i>

1892
01:37:28.868 --> 01:37:31.285
in the music industry and one

1893
01:37:31.446 --> 01:37:33.353
of the most powerful people

1894
01:37:33.354 --> 01:37:35.471
in American culture, period.

1895
01:37:35.472 --> 01:37:38.718
<i>And so this case is enormous.</i>

1896
01:37:38.878 --> 01:37:41.119
- And this could mean
a lot of jail time

1897
01:37:41.120 --> 01:37:42.897
if he is found guilty.

1898
01:37:43.057 --> 01:37:45.233
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1899
01:37:45.393 --> 01:37:48.126
<i>- Deep down,
I knew this day would come.</i>

1900
01:37:48.127 --> 01:37:50.504
Ain't that crazy?

1901
01:37:50.505 --> 01:37:53.700
That I'd be sitting
here with you.

1902
01:37:53.860 --> 01:37:55.785
You just say to yourself, wow.

1903
01:37:55.945 --> 01:37:57.486
You're going to have
to tell people

1904
01:37:57.647 --> 01:38:00.331
<i>this was a good kid
at one time.</i>

1905
01:38:02.160 --> 01:38:04.193
<i>He's monsterized now.</i>

1906
01:38:04.354 --> 01:38:06.495
<i>♪ ♪</i>

1907
01:38:06.656 --> 01:38:10.133
But the monster
wasn't born a monster.

1908
01:38:11.802 --> 01:38:14.429
Come, come.
[clicks tongue] Come.

1909
01:38:14.589 --> 01:38:16.973
<i>Monsters are created
over time.</i>