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[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Whoa, nobody's shooting me. Nobody's shooting me.
There's three shooters to make sure somebody is shooting me.
You got me acting crazy in front of all these people.
Disney paying a lot for this motherfucking art
I'm going to give them-- fuck that.
- During those times, I had to wonder
what was going on in his head.
Like, why is he really angry?
[hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- It was shocking to me.
What's really going on out here?
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- We need to be asking the question...
not what's wrong with you...
but what happened to you?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Sean and I-- we grew up together as kids.
I know Sean.
And he's made so many mistakes.
- Fuck that. I'm going to give them their money's worth.
- I used to work with Sean Combs.
And I don't want to be here to talk about another man
unless their business crosses my business.
[voice breaking] If you only knew
the shit I fucking been through.
There was a bounty that was put on to silence me.
- I'm back, baby.
- It's a lot worse than what the public knows.
- [crying] It's been 20 years.
I haven't said anything for so long.
- Mr. Combs! [cheering]
- I've gone from Harlem to Hollywood.
[indistinct chatter]
Diddy finally has the key to the city!
[cheering]
I'm gonna show y'all how we have fun
and stay out of jail, too... - Whoa.
- And make money.
♪ ♪
[dog barks]
♪ ♪
- Like, just show me what's around here.
We'll walk with you.
- So, yeah, so...
about 1,100 square feet. - Uh-huh.
- Small, but it's kind of spacious.
It works for me.
But I've been here since around 2019.
We're somewhere in the woods, way remote,
I guess what they call these days "off-grid."
- So this is pretty similar
to what it was like growing up for you?
- Right now? - Yeah.
- No, no, this is a little different.
But I grew up weird.
I grew up in the ghetto,
and then I moved over into the suburbs, where Sean lived.
♪ ♪
My reason for having you guys here
is because I truly believe that what's going on right now
is bigger than you.
It's bigger than me. It's bigger than media.
It's bigger than this world.
I just know that where I am now,
amongst all the noise...
- We begin with breaking news.
- Mr. Combs has been accused of sexual assault.
- Amongst all the headlines...
- Rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs is out on bail this morning.
- There is a federal investigation
into sex trafficking.
- Amongst all the chaos...
- Abuse, harassment, forced drugging.
- Physically assaulting...
- Multiple homes raided by federal law enforcement.
- He is public enemy number one right now.
♪ ♪
And a lot of things that are being attached to Sean now...
♪ ♪
I can't condone any of the things
that I've heard or seen.
♪ ♪
He's "monsterized" now.
But monsters are made.
You know, that's my little bro.
You know, I know Sean, not Diddy, not Daddy Love.
I don't know those people. I don't know them.
I swear I don't know them. I've never met those people.
I have to tell people about what they don't know
about his childhood.
♪ ♪
The making of Sean Combs...
Sean is the son
of two Harlem "it" people.
Janice is Sean's mom.
Speaking of Janice, this is Janice here.
And Melvin is Sean's dad.
And Sean--he grew up in Mount Vernon.
That's where they built a house.
Now, here's the context of it all.
Mount Vernon is a 4-square-mile city,
maybe 25, 30 minutes
from Manhattan-- New York proper.
And at the north side is where you would love to live
because it's the residential side.
It's grass. It's birds.
It's everything the south side isn't.
The south side, that's your ghetto.
That's where I was born and raised
until about five years old.
This is a town you come to
to get away from the hip town,
to kind of integrate yourself into some type of normalcy.
Melvin--I've never met him, never knew him.
He passed before I met Sean.
Why he wasn't there was just a mystery to both of us.
So Sean had to learn about his dad
through other fellas that came up during that time.
- Sean Combs' father was allegedly...
a gangster, a hustler, and a player
in the streets of New York.
- Melvin was a part of a group of guys
that was led by Nicky Barnes...
big Harlem kingpin, if you want to call it.
- His father sold to an undercover cop.
[siren wailing]
This was a New York City police officer.
And he gave the cop information.
His father was killed because he was ratting them out.
♪ ♪
- I don't know how he died.
I don't know.
I just know Janet woke up one day,
and he was not there, and Sean was.
♪ ♪
Janice was left a lot of money.
There was a brand-new house, and Janet had to pivot.
And her desire was to occupy that house
with someone that had a son close to the age of her son.
- My mom knew Janet,
and somehow, someway, they hooked up,
and we were offered the bottom floor on her brand-new house
that her and Melvin had built.
And we had a chance now to move on the north side.
So, when we pulled up to this house,
I saw a whole new world,
and all I did was look at these two people,
because what I saw, I saw Black people like myself,
but they had a different color Black.
It was golden. It was shiny. It was healthy.
They had really nice clothes and jewelry.
So we get up to the house. We get out the car.
Janice says, well, wait a minute, let me go get Sean.
And she goes upstairs.
She comes back down with this little kid.
And I look at him like, oh, my God,
this guy is different.
♪ ♪
He's the one in the hat.
And you can see he has jewelry on.
He has rings on. He has bracelets on.
This is a 4-year-old in a 30-year-old's wardrobe.
- My first interaction with Sean Combs--
He wasn't Puffy yet--
We were playing baseball down at Brush Park
in Mount Vernon, New York.
He was on Little League, had braces.
And he's a shy guy.
You know, he wasn't real loud and boisterous.
I don't know if he was good good,
to where I would say he was good in baseball.
He was on the team.
Even with the football, it was like,
he played football at Mount Saint Michael.
I'm not going to say he was good.
I heard he was on the team. [laughs]
- So I first met Puff
when he came to a cousin of mine's house party.
He was part of a dancing fashion crew
called 7-Up Crew.
And those guys would go throughout New York City,
battle people in dancing, fashion.
He also was one of the first kids that I knew
that had, like, a Gucci watch.
- He always had all the best of everything.
Like, Sean didn't go to school with us.
Sean went to the Catholic school, private school.
- Private school.
They always say that-- oh, yeah, he's doing good.
Got him in private school.
- This kid is rich.
He was looked at as the rich kid.
Sean was the different kid.
Sean was the kid that people could smell was not tough.
Sean was always bullied.
You know, getting hit up your head,
on the side of your head one too many times
or getting called a bitch one too many times.
There's one kid in particular. Name was Jonathan.
He was about 6 feet tall at 12 years old--
real big, husky dude.
And for some reason, Jonathan would pick on him.
And he would pick on him and hit him and make him cry
and take his bike and just do mean stuff...
to the point where I couldn't watch that happen.
I had to intervene,
because my interaction with Sean was a protector.
It was a bigger bro.
When something's done to them, you step up.
But after I graduated high school
and I went into military,
Sean didn't have me around anymore.
- There's been quite a bit of research done
on a body of work that we really refer to a lot.
It's called Adverse Childhood Experiences,
or ACEs.
It can be everything from witnessing
domestic violence, physical abuse.
It could be having a parent who's absent.
♪ ♪
Here's a man who lost his father early in life
under some very violent, tragic circumstances.
♪ ♪
If you've lost a parent,
there's a desire
to belong to something bigger than yourself,
to not be isolated,
to belong to a group, to fit in.
- This is one of the pictures
before Puff joined the Same Gang.
I started the Same Gang in '89.
We were men that came together, and we went to parties.
You know, we clubbed.
You had some guys that was hustling.
Puff--man, he want to be with us.
He want to be with us.
A lot of guys didn't want him a part of the Same Gang
because he didn't live in Harlem.
The dudes didn't really like him.
All right, so one day we decided--
they said, Puff, come over here.
We're going to have the young'uns tighten him up.
[indistinct shouting]
And we gonna smash him in the head...
Rough him up, or stuff like that.
[indistinct shouting]
When Puff came, we was all out there.
And the young guys grabbed him.
♪ ♪
And they start trying to rough him up.
And he jetted, running.
They brought him back to rough him up,
smash stuff, hit him in the head with cakes
and all this other stuff like that.
After that, Puff was in the Same Gang.
This is the picture...
when he crossed over into the Same Gang.
He got the Same Gang T-shirt on.
[chain saw whirring]
- When I got home from the military--
and Sean and I hadn't seen each other in a while,
and, you know, I'm like, what's up, Sean?
He's like, yeah, they call me Puff now.
They call me Puff.
I was being looked at as a punk.
I was being looked at as a pushover.
I was being looked at as a sissy,
as a wimp, as a goofy.
I ain't even trying to know that person again.
And I'm a Puff Daddy now.
♪ ♪
- So that insecurity, the need to fit in...
- I had a great time. - Yeah?
- I'm glad they invited me back.
- The need to feel powerful.
[paparazzi shouting]
Some perpetrators
are profoundly damaged individuals...
[loud cheering]
And feel very powerless.
And a way of being powerful
is controlling and victimizing other people.
- What's up with your relationship with Jennifer?
- I am a civil litigator who has filed several cases
against Sean Combs for sexual assault
in civil court.
I have been sounding the alarm about Mr. Combs for years.
He is a man who has done awful things
to hundreds, maybe thousands of people.
- I'm wilder, I'm crazier.
- I want to speak about this now
because I witnessed everything.
- [crying] I haven't said anything for so long,
and it's built up-- it's been 20 years.
- Um...
[crying] I don't trust anyone...
♪ ♪
Because I'm afraid that they might come get me for speaking.
♪ ♪
[soft music]
- Go.
The very first girlfriend
Sean had that I met...
was named Tracy.
She was from Brooklyn.
We were older now, teenagers and stuff.
So Tracy used to come to the house.
I'm sure he had college girls, but I wasn't around.
[dramatic music]
- I know some girls that he's dated, you know,
that have called him a perfect gentleman.
But when Sean started getting more and more popular
and he had one of the hot girls on campus,
there was a lot of jealousy that went on.
Maybe his personality might not have been
the most sensitive.
I'm not sure what Puff might have been focused on,
but I just know that he had a love for music.
- Back when I was going to Howard in '87,
I was trying to get into the music industry.
Everybody was looking at me like I was crazy.
- I met Puffy on Howard's campus for the first time.
I was actually the first person on Howard's campus
to have a drum machine at that time.
And I've been in the music industry
ever since I was probably 15 years old.
So he wanted to get with me
because he knew that I had connections.
He would tell you that,
I'm going to be the biggest record producer in the world.
Like, he already knew what he wanted at Howard University.
- He hung out with a lot of friends from Mount Vernon.
One of our biggest celebs from Mount Vernon,
his name is Heavy D.
Heavy D came up to campus.
- Heavy D was part of Heavy D & the Boyz.
They were actually the first act signed to Uptown Records.
Diddy spoke to his friend Heavy D, and he said,
can you get me an internship?
Please get me an internship at Uptown Records.
- Hey, can you make this happen?
[loud cheering]
- Uptown Records
was modeled as a boutique version of Motown,
but we just had the hip-hop flavor to it.
I had a little bit of success myself,
being the first number-one artist on Uptown
and the first platinum artist on Uptown.
♪ ♪
I don't think that people ever knew
that Al B. Sure! funded Uptown.
I was working with Jodeci,
Mary J. Blige,
Heavy D & the Boyz.
We took a company like Uptown from zero
and made it into a billion-dollar corporation
or somewhere close.
[cell phone rings] - Hello?
- Sean wanted to work at Uptown.
He actually did some more, like, suffering
just to, you know, get that internship.
- So Sean would show up in the weirdest places--
at Heavy D's doorstep.
He'd show up at Uptown, he'd show up at parties--
anything to get the attention of the bigwigs.
- He was really trying to get
Andre Harrell's, the president of Uptown Records, attention.
From what I heard--
is that he even, like, slept outside of his car
because he really wanted to be in this.
- And then Sean forced his way in
with what he can do for Andre
and became an intern.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, I don't remember much.
It's not like we hung out on a daily basis
and things of that nature.
But what you do know about Sean,
one of Sean's best attributes was,
Sean let everybody know in the camp,
nobody's going to be bigger than me.
♪ ♪
- At first, he was just really just getting coffee,
getting paper, making Xerox copies.
There wasn't that much money in it yet.
So he started promoting parties.
Now he's starting to make some money with his parties.
But at the same time, there was an event.
♪ ♪
This is where he was going on through some hard times.
- That tragic event--
I think the guy wanted to kill himself...
[chuckles] Be honest with you.
- He was a party promoter.
But at the time, myself and many other people
did not know who Sean Combs, "Puff Daddy" was,
until the City College event.
- Puff and Heavy D decided to throw
a celebrity charity basketball game.
And the proceeds was supposed to go to an AIDS foundation.
When you got Mike Tyson, LL Cool J,
Heavy D himself, a big celebrity,
the urban community wanted to see that.
♪ ♪
Highly, highly publicized.
It was promoted on WBLS.
- 98.7 Kiss-- they were blasting it.
If you didn't know about that event,
something was wrong with you,
because it was all over the place.
- My sister, Sonya Williams--
she met Sean through his girlfriend at the time.
And he gave her the ticket.
- My brother was excited about it.
He called everyone up.
Yo, meet me at City College.
Had nothing...
tragic happened,
it would have been the best event ever.
[serious music]
- December 28, 1991--
wow, that was a day. [scoffs]
December 28, 1991.
I remember, you know, my phone was ringing,
and people want tickets.
Do you have tickets? Can you get me tickets?
- How y'all doing this morning?
- At 22, Sean was a genius at marketing.
- They promoted it like it was
in a 10,000-seat arena.
- No, I said, WBLS promoted it
as if it was a 10,000 seating.
City College holds 2,700.
[cheering]
- Not only was it filled inside,
there was probably just as many people outside
that couldn't get inside.
- There was this girl.
And she was packed in the glass door.
And everybody was telling her, yo, just go home.
You can go out the back.
- The crowd started to get unruly.
- The ticket crew closed the door.
- I heard, they locked me in.
She locked the door.
- Now they're crushed against the door,
like, packed, back to back.
- When the crowd rushed through...
- All the glass and everything just shattered.
[imitates glass shattering]
And people just started running in.
- And you got people piling up on one another and another
and another.
And people are screaming, just let me in, let me in.
- And there were people who--
My friends said they heard Dirk smothered, like, mm...
Like, they could hear him being completely covered
by the crowd.
[screaming]
- I ran around the gym, opened one door.
People start falling down right there.
Open up another door--people start falling down there.
[indistinct shouting]
- I didn't see Diddy at all.
- What I do see is him...
Puffy, running around, trying to save people.
I saw him trying to give
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to people.
- I never saw Sean Combs
give anyone CPR.
If anybody tells you that,
they telling a flat-out lie.
- Ain't nobody wanted to give them mouth-to-mouth,
no people mouth-to-mouth or none of that.
- I can't even perform CPR
because everybody's trying to crowd around and look.
- 9 young people crushed to death,
27 others injured trying to get
into a celebrity basketball game.
- My brother was pronounced dead at 7:50.
And he got there, I think, at 7:00.
- My sister's name is Sonya Williams.
That's Sonya, the larger picture.
And this is the stairwell that she died in.
- Jabaal, Dawn, Leonard, Sonya, Dirk,
Charise, Darren, Laytesha, and Yul
from New York City.
[dramatic music]
City College 9.
- And I just pray for the families.
And I pray for the children that lost their lives.
- The news is, he oversold an event, him and Heavy D.
And you know why? Because their names were on it.
- I was a promoter of the event.
- This thing, somehow or another,
made him the most famous guy around.
- How you doing? - Come on.
- Puffy became more known.
It almost made him, in a real weird way.
Yeah.
- I just wish that everyone
would just admit their mistakes,
live up to their responsibilities.
- He wasn't criminally charged,
but there were lawsuits that he had to deal with.
- Those families are asking a judge to decide fault
and award a penalty.
- When my mother was in litigation
with the other families,
then the details start coming out.
You promoted this event.
You didn't hire enough security.
You oversold the tickets.
Someone took the money, ran down the stairs,
and shut the door.
♪ ♪
We was in litigation with this for six years.
So now his music is doing well.
[paparazzi shouting]
Sean John is getting ready to come out.
- This is Sean John, Sean John. I'm wearing Sean John.
- So he's doing very well.
He calls me to the BMG building.
You know, it's just me and him in the office,
and he seemed very nervous.
He seemed so nervous that his lips turned white.
And he says, Sonny, I'm going to offer you $50,000.
So I remember looking around the office,
and I'm seeing all these plaques now on the wall--
platinum plaques, gold plaques.
I said, brother, you got all this going on,
and you offering me $50,000?
- He says, Sonny, man, listen, man, you know,
that's real generous.
That's a generous donation.
And I lost it.
I said, is Sonya your fucking friend?
You offer me $50,000...
and you gave Sonya the ticket
to go to that event?
That was a slap in my face.
I don't want to talk money.
I want you to help me do something in their memory.
I said, but is Sonya your friend?
He wouldn't answer me.
So I go out. I go out the room.
So now I'm conflicted.
Maybe you should take it, and maybe he'll work with you
and help you with the foundation.
So I go back in the office.
I said, listen, man, I don't want you bringing up
money and Sonya in the same sentence.
I said, $50,000?
He said, Sonny, please, man, trust me, man.
It's a good donation.
I reluctantly did it.
- All families settled
and were giving a settlement amount.
We got $40,000
from Sean Combs directly.
[paparazzi shouting]
But he never owned up to it, never--
never just said, I apologize.
There's a clip of him saying that it wasn't overbooked.
- You know, we sold tickets, but we didn't outsell.
The place--it wasn't sold out.
- That's a blatant lie.
[paparazzi shouting, people screaming]
His image is important for him.
The lies go back to City College.
- Everything I do every day,
I try to be a shining example of hard work
and what you get if you work hard.
- Had someone found him accountable,
it may have just slowed down the process
of all the other things that happened to other people.
- Here with Al B. Sure!
Mr. Al B., I'm getting a lot of letters about you, man,
a lot of ladies out there watching.
And they want to see, what's behind those glasses?
[laughter]
- Before Sean was an intern,
I met a woman, Kimberly.
One day, I was backstage,
Madison Square Garden.
And the first time I laid eyes
on Kimberly Antwinette...
Porter...
we met.
[softly] That was it.
[normal voice] Yo, I swear.
[laughs] I still feel like a little kid when I remember.
That's crazy.
We had a son, Quincy.
- Al had influence in getting Kim a job at Uptown,
and Kim became the receptionist.
- At one point, I was working on K-Ci & JoJo
on one of the soundtracks.
Sean came by the studio.
I believe he may have been with...
his significant other at the time, who was Misa.
♪ ♪
And I was in the studio with...
Kimberly.
And we had the baby with us at that point, I think,
and we were-- I was at the mixing board.
He walked into the studio, and he looked over,
and he saw this really beautiful girl.
And she was holding this really beautiful baby.
And he said, hey, man...
I wish I had a beautiful girl like that.
I was like, uh, you do.
It's Misa.
- It was love at first sight
with Sean seeing Kim.
It was a "stop you in your tracks" moment,
a "oh, my God" moment,
"I got to have her" moment.
And...
he gets what he wants.
The whole staff watched it happen.
Sean had no shame in his aggression
towards Kim and his approach to her--no shame.
Just like, this is the girl. You're going to be my girl.
You might not know it yet, but...
- Listen, there's an OG rule.
If you my brother and you and your wife--
if something happens...
she's off-limits.
- Sean! Sean, this way! [person shouts]
- They dated off and on for years...
always on in his mind and never off.
Puff was sick with her.
No matter who he dealt with
or who he had over...
he always ran back to Kim.
- I have a photo of Sean and Kim Porter
in Paris Fashion Week,
Kim and I on the yacht in Saint-Tropez.
He would fly glam out to even, like, vacations,
because we had to make sure Kim Porter looked perfect.
And he had to look perfect.
Kim was from Georgia.
She wasn't this glam girl that the world perceived.
We made her glam.
She was his arm candy.
♪ ♪
- It seems that Diddy ended up adopting Quincy
and raising Quincy as his own.
- I'm here as his father to...
you know, to raise him and give him advice.
- I have to keep in mind that...
what people were fed
in this propaganda against me over the years,
about, oh, Puffy did this and adopted your kid
and adopted this--
there's no adoption, none.
There's no letter to my father and all that.
All crafted by a publicist.
And if you haven't noticed, his name is still Brown.
People thought I was absent and things of that nature.
It was basically instructed by Kimberly.
♪ ♪
I was told that Puffy wasn't too happy about anyone
who had a relationship with Kimberly.
♪ ♪
I was very much under--listen, you promise on our son's life,
you know, just stay out of the way.
Don't do this. Don't get involved.
Being told, please,
don't do that tough-guy Mount Vernon shit.
You will get killed.
♪ ♪
- Kimberly said, don't do this.
Don't get involved. You will get killed.
Even to the point where I remember...
Oof, I can't.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[grunts softly]
Yeah, man, I can't go into that.
There's legal proceedings going on right now,
so this will be...
But, yeah, I will share that at some point,
but, yeah, this-- it's part of evidence.
And...
I'm going to have to refrain from this part of this--
this segment.
♪ ♪
Let's just say, you got to listen to Kimberly
Because not only was she trying to save me...
she was putting her own life in danger.
[indistinct chatter] - Sean!
- Sean, right here, please. Sean, right here.
- One time I was called on the phone
to rush over to St. Luke's Hospital.
She looked like she was bruised and stuff like that.
But she wasn't saying much of nothing.
♪ ♪
- I have a victim who I now represent.
She alleges that she also saw
acts of violence
with regard to Kim Porter.
She was horrified.
It was appalling.
She was threatened into not reporting it.
[paparazzi shouting]
- Every time I went somewhere with them,
it'd be, like, a presidential suite.
But see, if I'm outside
because I got to watch the door at a certain time,
Kim might come out the room.
And, like, she'll be in her robe or something like that.
And you could tell that she--
he may have been roughing-- I'd be like, yo, you all right?
He play too much.
- There were whispers maybe
of things that were happening behind the scenes.
[paparazzi shouting]
- Thanks a lot.
- There was a little blip of coverage
but nothing beyond that.
- Make some noise.
- By that time, Sean--
probably one of the hardest-working
up-and-coming executives.
- And I work, like, 20 hours a day.
And I feel as a young Black man,
anything I put my mind to, I can do.
- He worked his way from intern to the director of A&R
in the space of about a year or a year and a half.
- That was the person at the label
who was responsible for signing new artists
to the record label.
- I never knew I would be here, but, you know, I'm grateful,
and, you know, I'm definitely honored.
- You had the keys to the kingdom.
Like, you were able to say what was hot.
You were able to say,
that's going to be the next big artist.
And you had that power really to put somebody on.
And after that,
he launches his own record label, Bad Boy.
- This is it, Bad Boy Entertainment.
- Bad Boy Entertainment, no doubt.
- Totally, totally familiar, totally.
This is a brand-new start at a brand-new label,
brand-new money.
So, at Uptown, Sean left,
and the founder of Uptown gave me Sean's workload,
along with the workload I already had.
At night, I'm inheriting his workload.
And he's inheriting a new label.
It's crazy.
- Diddy looked at hip-hop in a very different way.
People felt that it had to be gritty
and very tied to the streets.
But in Diddy's mind...
[cheering, paparazzi shouting]
Why can't hip-hop be you driving around in a Bentley?
Why can't hip-hop be having Rolexes,
having mansions, and living that kind of high life?
[paparazzi shouting]
- It's this shiny-suit era, this glossy era.
It's all about spending and making money.
He had just come out
with the Notorious B.I.G., Craig Mack.
He had a heavy-hitter roster in hip-hop.
- That's the beginning of Sean's ending,
because he was given way more than your average rapper,
an average inner-city Black industry person.
- I'm from Harlem, young man from Harlem, New York.
This is crazy right here.
I'm reaching big. I'm going for the big-time.
I'm trying to have my name in lights one day, baby.
- Here's Sean and I.
That's when he was a brand-new millionaire.
Around that time, he showed me a check for $60 million,
and I couldn't believe it.
- Puffy was able to negotiate
a $55 million advance,
reportedly, from Clive Davis.
- It was a check, and it was crumbled up.
And he has that Kool-Aid look on his mouth.
He licked his lips and said,
yeah, I'm about to turn this shit on--watch.
He was rubbing elbows with Tommy Hilfiger.
He was on the top 10 of the record charts.
He's known worldwide.
He's probably one
of the most photographed Black men in history.
And he's not even 25 years old yet.
And this wasn't, like,
his first and last million-dollar check.
This was the first of many.
But now Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%
of the 1% in the Black world.
I ain't never met nobody this rich,
and this is Sean.
What does that do to a person? I can only imagine.
[line trilling]
[line beeps]
♪ ♪
- It's been taking me fucking ever
to get back to my exact tone of not giving a fuck.
- You got me acting crazy.
- I can show y'all how we have fun
and stay out of jail, too, and make money.
- ♪ It just don't stop ♪
♪ Sunup to sundown, my people get it ♪
♪ Distressed jeans, Timb boots ♪
♪ And a Yankee fitted, the way the chain hang... ♪
- The one, the only, Mr. Can't Stop, Won't Stop,
Mr. Combs!
- I was going to do whatever it took
to be successful in the industry.
- To Puff, image was his livelihood.
[indistinct chatter]
- Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.
- He felt like that, in order for him to have this image,
you have to be larger than life.
And he thought that if people fear him, they respect him.
- Nobody's shooting me. Nobody's shooting me.
There's three shooters to make sure somebody is shooting me.
You got me acting crazy in front of all these people.
JJ, you got me acting crazy.
- Disney paying a lot for this motherfucking art
I'm going to give them-- fuck that.
- Right now. Nah...
- I worked with Diddy on MTV's 'Making the Band 2."
When he got angry with one of my band members,
he said, you make me so mad, I want to eat your flesh.
And then he said to another one of my band members--
he said, you rolling your eyes and everyt--
you know, I could go get a crackhead and pay them $20
to smack the shit out of you.
Who says that? That's crazy.
[dramatic music]
- We're in the studio.
You know, he had said some stuff about the band.
And Puff said, they going to keep fucking around with me,
and I'm going to drug they ass out
and pimp them out to my niggas.
And I said, nigga, them is somebody's daughters.
What the fuck is you talking about?
♪ ♪
I seen him cuss at his mother at one time.
She gets in the car,
and she was trying to tell him something.
He said, didn't I tell you
to stay out my motherfucking business?
And I said, motherfucker, you don't talk
to your mother like that.
You apologize to her.
You ain't going to bring nothing but bad luck--
But, Gene, Gene, I told her to stay--
You wouldn't have no motherfucking business
if it wasn't for her.
And that's what our conversation was.
Now, apologize to her.
- Fast forward to actually making the band,
and he said--
- I want me a piece of cheesecake.
- When you're watching it,
you're like, yeah, go get a slice of cheesecake.
Like, you want this. You got to want it that bad.
- Puffy just told us to go to the store in Brooklyn
and bring him back a cheesecake and walk.
- Say what?
- People looked at that like, yo, this dude is crazy.
- We walked for eight hours over the Brooklyn Bridge.
We went from Manhattan to Brooklyn, walking.
And so I'm doing that stuff because I'm like,
I ain't going to go home.
This is what I've been working for.
- I was a part of a group
before, you know,
but this is a whole different
level of awesomeness right here.
But you know what? It feels good.
I always--like Puff says, it feels good to work with a team.
I'm better with a team.
And these people make me better, and I just feel like--
- Dawn Richard was selected to be in the band Danity Kane.
[indistinct shouting]
Later, she was in a second band that Sean Combs produced,
called Diddy - Dirty Money.
- It feels good and to be here and have y'all see
how great we really are and what we could be.
- What people don't know is behind the scenes,
she was denied food.
She was denied water.
She was denied sleep.
Dawn Richard is alleging that Sean Combs threatened her...
♪ ♪
That he committed acts of violence.
- Get the fuck up, B, for real.
- He would throw things across the room--
furniture, studio equipment, laptops.
He had a lot of angry outbursts.
- Damn. - Cool.
- He sexually assaulted her
by groping and grabbing parts of her body.
And she witnessed other women being groped
and grabbed in front of her.
If this is what the man does in public,
we can only imagine what he does in private.
- Honestly, I didn't want to be around him
unless there was cameras,
because after that one incident,
which was very inappropriate...
- Well, the incident-- basically, I was by myself.
And I was...
[scoffs]
This is hard to talk about, like, about this.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- Well, the incident-- basically, I was by myself.
And I was...
Well, he touched me in a place that he shouldn't have.
That was inappropriate.
And I felt...
I felt intimidated.
I felt like, oh, my God, what the heck happened just now?
[sniffles]
[crying] I'm trying not to cry.
I'm definitely nervous...
Because like I said, I haven't said anything for so long.
And it's built up.
It's been 20 years of going through my mind, like...
this has happened, that's happened, this was stopped--
mentally, like...
draining.
♪ ♪
- For a victim of sexual assault
by a high-profile predator,
everything changes when they come forward.
They're no longer known for their own work,
their own accomplishments, their own hopes and dreams.
They're just known in the media
as the woman who accuses this guy.
And particularly, I think, in the music industry,
there's a lot of retribution.
Who thinks that they can fight somebody
with that kind of wealth, power?
I think each person has to make the calculation
in her own mind-- is it worth coming forward?
And everybody said, heck, no, it's not worth it.
I'm not doing this.
[hip-hop music]
- I met Puffy on Howard's campus.
I only got back in touch with him years after,
when he was starting this production team
called The Hitmen.
It was told to the staff that Puff was throwing a party
at the Hamptons.
♪ ♪
- So I moved to a new neighborhood,
and they were like, well, what's this guy doing,
moving here in East Hampton?
And I said, everybody, come on over.
Come on over to the house so y'all can get to know me.
Let me invite some of my friends from Harlem,
from 145th Street.
- I had absolutely no idea what the Hamptons was about.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
We finally get out there.
And I get to see Puffy's house for the first time.
He has a white mansion, all-white glass from the back.
And I'm like, wow, this is for rich folks, you know,
rich white folks who got money.
So that was different.
- Yeah, I'm just trying to enjoy life.
This is a celebration of life.
This is the legendary white party.
This is the real white party.
Let's just start to get our groove on in little bit.
In an hour, we put the kids away--it's all good.
All right, DJ, let's hit it. Let's do it.
[hip-hop music]
- Anybody from the music industry,
film industry, movie execs or music execs,
who lived out there, they were invited as well.
I remember meeting Donald Trump in the party.
[chuckles] It was crazy.
♪ ♪
- I didn't see anything inappropriate
when I was at these after-after parties.
♪ ♪
- Uh, I--
Oof. I'm not going to say I saw a lot of it.
It could have been in another part
of the sections or the rooms.
What I saw was some weed, you know what I mean?
- Why wouldn't it be?
People smoking weed, people popping pills.
That's a party.
- I went to a lot of Puffy parties in the '90s.
These were the parties everybody wanted to go to.
- These were the parties
that you needed exclusive access to get into.
But these weren't the parties that people talk about now.
The after-after party
was something that I had heard before,
that maybe there were orgies happening.
[people cheering]
- After party is something--
That's common in the music industry.
People have after parties...
but here's the thing.
Everybody tend to say,
all of a sudden,
because it's a white party, it's a freak-off.
Like, come on, now.
I'll be honest with you.
I had no idea what a freak-off was
until I read the allegations.
- People, when they think of sex trafficking,
they think of a woman being dragged across state lines
for sexual purposes against her will.
But in fact, the TVPA,
the Trafficking Victims Protection Act,
talks about people being enticed...
recruited...
or tricked...
into sexual behavior or attempted sexual behavior
for commercial purposes.
It includes people in a workplace
being coerced into sexual behavior
in order to keep getting their paycheck.
[dramatic music]
[lively chatter]
[crowd singing indistinctly]
[indistinct chatter]
♪ ♪
[crowd singing indistinctly]
- I mean, if it's true, then, you know...
I'd be highly disappointed.
- So I've always been asked the question, why?
And...
I don't know the answer to why.
But I truly believe it all goes back to childhood.
♪ ♪
So here's the deal.
Because Sean had no dad,
all he had was his mom.
Sean's house, our house,
there was always things going on.
On the weekend, you partied in the house,
and we did that a lot.
He was around all type of alcohol.
He was around reefer smoke.
He was around drug addicts, around lesbians,
around homosexuals.
He was around pimps and pushers.
That was just who was in our house.
People that attended the parties
were from Harlem and from the streets.
- I wasn't at the Janice Combs parties,
but some things I heard.
She had, like, a little crew of chicks
that would come around, and, you know,
she made sure...
everybody was comfortable. [laughs]
- At night, it wouldn't be a thing
to mistakenly walk into one of the bedrooms,
and you got a couple in there butt-naked.
That's what we were privy to. This is what we were fed.
Was it desensitizing us? I'm sure it was.
Were we aware of it? No.
That was just Saturday night.
- If you grow up in a very sexualized environment,
that's going to shape their sexual template,
in terms of what are appropriate boundaries,
what's acceptable.
[camera shutter clicking, indistinct chatter]
And when you have a lot of unresolved trauma,
the trauma doesn't go away
just because you have all that access
to wealth and power
and no guardrails.
The trauma is there, and it's still unresolved.
♪ ♪
And you just have more resources
to do more damage with.
♪ ♪
- I would just like to have some privacy
because I've become incredibly reclusive.
[voice breaking] I've just been in isolation for six years
because I'm afraid that they might come get me for speaking.
- I am a civil litigator
who has filed several cases
against Sean Combs
for sexual assault
in civil court.
I have been sounding the alarm about Mr. Combs
for years.
- When they think about my album,
I want them to think about dancing or making love.
- My most recent client has alleged
that she was brutally gang-raped
by Diddy and his friends.
What's in front of me right now is the complaint
that I filed in California federal court
in the Northern District.
We had several defendants listed.
Of course, we have Diddy, because he's the mastermind.
He's the orchestrator.
None of this happens without him.
Then we had his right-hand woman.
That's Kristina Khorram.
- And then there was another individual.
His name was Shane Pearce.
We've come to find him to be like a scouter, if you will.
He scouts potential victims
to bring to Diddy.
This starts out in February 2018.
Ashley is at a bar, and they begin to hang out.
And Shane gets Diddy on the phone.
This is a FaceTime call.
So he's showing everybody Diddy on a FaceTime.
And as you can imagine, everybody's pretty excited.
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
He contacted me, and we hung out a few times.
- On March 23rd, my client was invited by Shane Pearce
to his home.
So she went to the home.
- He went into the kitchen
and got me a glass of water
because I was thirsty.
I had drank a couple sips of the water,
and I was feeling kind of weird.
I was feeling...
wobbly, a little confused.
♪ ♪
I was kind of just questioning
why my brain wasn't as sharp as normal.
♪ ♪
- Approximately ten minutes after,
Diddy entered the home
in a grand 'ready to party' manner.
Along with Diddy was his bodyguard,
a woman identified as Kristina Khorram,
and another person who we believe was friends
with Shane.
Shane partially undressed Ashley,
and then Diddy removed the remainder of her clothing.
Diddy retrieved a bottle of liquid
from a large fanny pack.
Ashley soon realized that the substance
was oil/lubricant.
- Sean Combs had a knife
and had it inside my mouth.
He said he was going to cut my cheeks
and give me a Glasgow smile.
Kristina Khorram told him that...
His clientele--they would prefer it if I looked...
Normal.
At one point, Sean Combs--
he picked up a TV remote
and...
raped me vaginally
with that object, violently.
- Then it says,
Diddy is sitting not too far from the bed,
and she said he has his phone and his dick in his hand
and is recording and jacking off
at the same time.
This is his kink.
This is the thing that gets him off.
It's like trophies.
[paparazzi shouting]
- They said they could ship me off and sell me
to anyone in the world
and that I would never be seen again
by my parents or my loved ones.
And they were taking me that night.
I just uncontrollably was sobbing.
♪ ♪
I was in a catatonic state
once they started raping me,
and I was just trying...
to get through it so I could get out of there.
That's when they went outside to smoke.
When I finally was able to get the strength
to even sit up,
my clothes were missing.
My purse, my keys, my phone-- all gone.
♪ ♪
At that point, I ran to the neighbor's house.
♪ ♪
Later, the neighbor told me he did call the cops.
And that's when a sheriff showed up at the door.
This sheriff didn't offer me an ambulance.
He didn't offer me a ride to the police station.
He just basically told me to find my own way home.
There's just something very off about his demeanor.
- And the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department
released a statement and said,
yeah, she did file a police report that night.
We can confirm
that a report was made March 23, 2018,
but that "we take these matters seriously"
and investigated and that it was unfounded.
- When I got home, I just...
crawled into bed.
I just was catatonic for, like, about three days
before I could get up and feed myself.
[voice breaking] I've become incredibly reclusive.
I don't trust anyone...
other than, like, my parents.
So I've just been in isolation.
I've barely gone out of the house.
I've just been living in fear
because it's just a bunch of powerful people.
- They did this with intent.
I truly believe they intended on taking her
and her never being seen again.
This is what you do when your ultimate goal
is to sex-traffic them.
They were trying to break her in,
which is a term I'm familiar with
from knowing pimp culture.
When you want to bring in a new hooker or a prostitute,
you got to break her in.
Typically, you break her in
by having her have sex in a gang bang,
with multiple men at once.
You've taken everything from her.
They broke her.
♪ ♪
- Unchecked wealth and power is very dangerous
in our culture.
It allows people to get away with horrific behavior.
- [shouting indistinctly]
- All throughout his career,
he was known to commit acts of violence himself...
- What's your plea today?
- To threaten people with violence.
- Can you stop now? - Huh?
- He was known to be very vindictive.
- Fan favorite up in here, of course.
It's the one and only Biggie Smalls.
I understand that your album is going to be dropping in July,
because I was checking out the Bad Boy team,
and Puff Daddy was letting everybody know--
- There have been rumors that Diddy
might have had something to do with Biggie's death.
- This is a picture of me
the night BIG was murdered.
The week in which BIG was murdered,
he was just acting real anxious
and trying to get BIG at this party.
And it was crazy,
whereas BIG was telling people he had to be in London.
But Puff was telling people, he ain't going to London,
that whole week.
I'm sitting up at the Beverly Hills Hotel,
and I get a phone call.
It's about 9:00.
And they say, Gene, get ready, we going to the "Vibe" party.
I was like, we're going to this party?
We don't even have no security.
I say, yo, Puff, I got some intel, bruh.
He said, what?
I say, yo, man, if we go to this party tonight,
one of us is going to get killed.
Somebody going to die,
because now we have East Coast-West Coast beefs.
He said, yo, Gene, I don't want to hear that shit.
I said, you don't want to hear that shit?
So we all jump in the car.
♪ ♪
- When Tupac was killed,
there was a lot of rumors
that Biggie and Puffy were behind it.
- I was in a car with Puff. BIG was in his own car.
♪ ♪
And next thing you know, you heard, pow, pow, pow, pow.
They shooting at BIG, bruh!
[siren wailing]
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
We run up there because they say they taking BIG
to the hospital.
I told them, whatever y'all do,
do not let him go to sleep.
Talk to him. Keep him up. Don't let him go to sleep.
Keep him talking.
And Kenny said, BIG, I'm going to get you to the hospital.
And BIG said, just do it.
That's the last thing I heard BIG say.
And they said the hospital was two blocks away,
and that's the longest two blocks
I ever seen in my life.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
So Puff ran out the hospital door,
and he grabbed my arm.
He said, Gene, we got to pray!
We got to pray! We got to pray!
And I knocked his hands off of me.
I said, pray for what?
That nigga's dead, bruh.
He just was stunned.
Like, he had this look in his eye,
like he couldn't believe it,
that he was dead.
He couldn't believe it.
[dramatic music]
- Feelings can't change facts,
but facts can change feelings.
I think that he placed BIG in the atmosphere.
So did he directly have something to do with it?
[dramatic music]
He could have.
[cheers and applause]
For many a-years,
I couldn't fight back the tears...
knowing that young man was murdered.
- I stopped working with him early part of 2005,
because me and his mama got into it.
- Janice, right over here, please.
- Hey, Janice. - Janice, right here.
- Puff mother tried to degrade me.
She would ask me to do things for her, like go to her car,
get this, get that.
And I wouldn't do that.
What the hell you asking me to stop
from watching your son's safety to go do something for you?
So one day, I was sitting by Puff's office.
And she said, Gene, I need for you to go to my car
and get this food out.
I said, I'm not here for that.
And then she start rambling, start, like,
yo, everybody does what I ask them to do...
except you.
What makes you so special?
And then Puff just came out his office.
Why are you always messing with Gene?
Leave Gene alone.
She just was looking.
And then she said, yo, yo, I'm tired of this, man.
And I said, yo, I'm tired of it, too.
And I walked out and never came back.
♪ ♪
- I wanted to show you something.
This is a restroom-plus.
Can you tell me what the plus is?
- No. - The plus.
♪ ♪
Ah.
♪ ♪
That's the plus.
In the back of my house,
that's where I keep my trophies.
That's where I keep my platinum and gold plaques.
I'd probably say minimum 10, maximum 15.
This was my first-ever platinum plaque--
Notorious B.I.G.
I co-executive produced on that album.
I got that when I was 23 years old, I think.
Yeah.
♪ ♪
- After seeing a few friends die,
you wake up one day, and one got shot in the head.
Then you go, and then you have another raw talent,
this fat kid from Brooklyn, you know,
and he gets shot dead...
not even 25 years old.
And in my case,
after having extortion attempts on me,
having guns pulled out,
having to deal with so much death...
[dog whimpers]
Yeah, it wasn't cool no more.
You talk about fight or flight.
I took flight.
♪ ♪
- So there was this thing we used to do as kids,
and they were called midnight snacks, right?
And the midnight snacks was usually Pop-Tarts,
flavored strawberry, no frosting, extra butter,
coming right out the toaster, flaming-hot,
with a tall glass of milk with ice.
So I would send him Pop-Tarts periodically over the years,
as a birthday gift,
to his office, wherever it was.
But he would never respond.
♪ ♪
When I decided to leave the industry--
and this was about '99--
that's when we communicated less,
we saw each other less, because I took the fork in the road.
And now this is who he turned out to be.
♪ ♪
- My last encounter with Kimberly--
we were at Quincy's premiere for his Christmas special,
"Holiday Calendar."
Sean came.
♪ ♪
She said to me, this is probably the best day
in a very long time,
seeing all of us in the same place.
She was looking amazing.
She was healthy. She was fantastic.
It was two or three weeks prior to, um...
Her...
murder.
Am I supposed to say "allegedly"?
November 15th, a day I'll never forget...
I was on my way to film
the opening packages for the BET Awards.
Phone rings, and it's a dear friend of mine.
And...
she says, did you hear about Kimberly?
And I said, what about Kimberly?
I just saw her.
She says, I don't know,
but I've heard that Kimberly has died.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- [voice breaking] So you're having my baby...
and it means so much to me.
There's nothing more precious
than to raise a family.
If there's any doubt in your mind,
you can count on me.
♪ ♪
And that's just a day
that will never, never leave my mind...
And just that empty feeling of, like...
nah...
something is not right with this.
- Kim Porter had been found dead at home,
and an autopsy showed that it was from complications
from pneumonia.
She was young. She was 47 years old.
- Who is dying from pneumonia?
Seriously, pneumonia, and to die so quickly?
Like, people get pneumonia every day and don't die.
That doesn't seem like a natural cause.
[object squeaks]
[device whirring]
- Kim dying is one
of those "stop you in your tracks" moments,
especially if you know her.
And the part about it which is so spaghetti to me is,
I don't think I want to know at this point
because there's so many different images
that have been put in my mind.
- This story has become interesting
in several continents.
For the record, I've received more than 40 inquiries
from production companies, networks,
since brother Sean's incarceration, to participate
in everyone's documentary or something.
I'm gonna keep it a buck with you.
I'm even surprised that I'm sitting here right now
having this conversation.
But I do think at least I owe it to Kimberly
to share just a small portion of her truth.
After Sean begins to see Kimberly,
Kimberly and I remain friends.
She started to confide in me.
What she did say is, look, something's not right.
His soul has gone completely dark,
like he's just not there.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
She made me promise
on our son Quincy Taylor Brown's life
not to ever reveal
because she was in complete fear of my life.
What I do know and what I can share at this stage
is that before her death,
she was keeping a diary and things of that nature.
Someone got the pass code to her phone and her computer.
And they found out that she was writing
what was going on behind closed doors.
The public had no idea.
It was happening right in front of everybody's eyes.
But there's a lot of people who turned a blind eye.
- There was a lot of talk, a lot of rumors
that Diddy might have had
something to do with Kim's death.
There are people who have said,
well, she knew too much about him,
and, she was about to reveal all.
Absolutely no proof, no evidence,
nothing of the sort.
You know, there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there
but no proof.
And the autopsy report showed that it was from pneumonia.
- Let's just say there's a lot that goes on in the industry,
which is not my job to uncover,
but it's something that's been going on in the industry,
and those who speak about it usually meet their demise.
- Uptown Records started with five people--
Andre Harrell, Al B. Sure!, Heavy D,
and Puffy.
And Kim was the longest-working employee.
Heavy D was found dead, heart attack.
Andre Harrell, heart attack.
- This person was telling the story.
This person was writing a book.
This person's about to tell the truth.
Why is everybody dead?
Oh, it's a coincidence.
Get the fuck out of here.
- The only two left are Puffy and Al,
and Al almost died.
- And you'll really understand how I ended up in a coma.
♪ ♪
- July 12th was a very interesting day.
That was the day that I went down.
It's not the first, second, or third time...
That I've been in that position,
where I actually went down.
I can't say too much at this moment.
[dramatic music]
I can say this.
July 12th I was entered into one of the hospitals here.
I was basically done.
They were sending me to hospice.
There was nothing else they can do.
So they're going to send him to die.
And what transpired in between--whoa.
♪ ♪
From what I found out later, I was in a coma,
having multisystem organ failure.
Every organ is working off a machine except for the liver.
Even in the middle of me going through
this tsunami of a medical crisis,
every single person...
I was mindful enough to remember.
I kept a record of every single one of you
who were sent to set me up...
to assist in the attempted murder of Al B. Sure!
♪ ♪
You're in the file.
- There are people who speculate,
and there have been so many conspiracy theories
about Diddy potentially being involved.
- Three. Oh, yeah.
- I can't say too much at this moment
related to legal situations,
but I'll tell you this-- surviving death is not a game.
Being in a coma,
being on a ventilator for 38 days,
being septic,
60 to 70 blood transfusions,
it's a lot.
It's a lot.
But you know what?
In hindsight, I'm glad that things transpired
the way they did
because this journey has prepared me for another level.
I've made a decision to go hard,
as it relates to opening the case
on the miraculous death of Kim Porter...
Because Kimberly is gone
because she was going to be Cassie Ventura...
[paparazzi shouting]
Which is blowing the lid off of this entire situation.
- This is Cassie and Rihanna
in one of the music awards in Europe.
I met Casandra Ventura in 2004,
as a model, actually.
Cass was always a friend to me.
You know, she wasn't really a client client.
- Sean Combs met Cassie in 2005.
She was actually signed to a very, very talented producer
who had a joint venture with Bad Boy.
- ♪ So busy, but I've been thinking about... ♪
- So this is Cassie's "Me & U" video.
The song came out in 2006.
She ended up getting to number three
on the "Billboard" charts with this song.
- Oh, here, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- 2007 is when Kim Porter
broke things off with Diddy completely.
People suspected
that maybe there's more than a business relationship
going on between Cassie and Diddy,
because they were spotted out a lot at different events.
- She didn't tell me for, like, six months.
I saw pictures of them two together,
and I was like, what the fuck is going on right now?
Like, why are you dating this man?
- What was it like the first time you met him?
Were you starstruck? - I was so nervous, so nervous.
But we sat down for about two hours,
talked about my career and the future.
And it was great.
You know, it turned out amazing,
and he's a great guy, great guy.
- People were happy for them. They were a cute couple.
But when I was at "Revolt," he was dating Cassie,
and I did get the impression
that he's very controlling as a boyfriend.
♪ ♪
- In 2010, it was the night of the Grammys.
And he put her up at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
I fall asleep in the suite.
I had no idea she left to go to a party.
It was midnight or something, 1:00 a.m. in the morning.
And all I wake up to is this motherfucker,
like, bursting in the room.
And I'm like, what is going on?
And he was mad at the fact
that she went to a party.
They go into the next room, close the door.
So I pack her bags
and get her to safety.
That was panic mode.
That's when she came out...
knots on her head, busted lip.
Like, she was just beat up.
So what was I to do?
We can't stay in this hotel room anymore.
We have to go.
I had to take her into my house.
And she stayed with me.
We were trying to figure out what we're going to do.
I just wanted to help my friend out that night,
but she wanted me to keep it quiet.
We can't play with Sean Combs.
These are things that we have to keep,
like our dirty little secrets.
Even when we know it isn't right,
it's still something that we can't talk about to the media.
- When you look
at the music industry,
it's really--
what we're talking about is
institutional grooming.
It normalizes it, promotes it, accepts it,
turns a blind eye
when perpetrators do this.
- Cassie Ventura came out with this bombshell lawsuit
in November of 2023.
She accused him of having complete control over her life,
physically abusing her,
forcing her to have sex with male sex workers,
plying her with drugs.
- I remember reading every page
because I think I still was
in disbelief--like, really?
This had been going on?
He had been doing that?
- What was pretty astounding was that around 24 hours
after Cassie filed this lawsuit,
Sean Combs settled the lawsuit
for an undisclosed amount of money.
- The fact that it settled so fast
is something we can draw
conclusions from,
that he was terrified.
♪ ♪
- A few months later, I remember Diddy
did an interview on "The Breakfast Club."
- Recently, you said that you were giving the artists
back their publishing.
- It was more of me just evolving
as a businessman.
- It gave me pause.
Everyone just knew there was this reputation that he had
for being this shrewd businessman.
There's numerous artists who have fallen out with him
and/or have left the label over money disputes.
- From my last conversation with BIG,
he just wanted to be out of Bad Boy
and out with Puff
because Puff owned his publishing.
That's a whole lot of money.
- 112, The Lox,
Total, Faith Evans, even Mase--
everybody who went to Bad Boy left...
left without their royalties.
And then he tried to come back
and give people back their publishing.
- And a few months later,
we figured out why it was strange.
- So, in order for you to get your publishing,
you couldn't speak on anything that has happened to you.
And I heard--
honestly, somebody told me-- one of the artists was like,
they only offering you, like, $300,
and you got to sign the NDA.
- I don't think he was oblivious
during his interview on "The Breakfast Club"
that his whole world was getting ready to collapse.
- Then CNN released surveillance footage...
[dramatic music]
Of Diddy beating up Cassie
in the hotel.
- Couldn't unsee it.
You couldn't unsee it.
I can't give you any explanation
on why that was okay.
- I've never seen Puffy fight anybody.
I've never seen him hit a woman.
So just--the video was very disturbing when I saw it.
- I never seen him put his hands on, you know, no females
that I was around him with.
- And I had to, you know, just kind of look to see,
you know, is that really Puff or not?
- You know, it broke my heart, you know?
And then I have to wonder also,
like, what was going on in his head?
Like, why is he really angry?
- And maybe he pissed her off or she pissed him off.
The question is, what caused that?
- No, it doesn't.
♪ ♪
- Everyone was shocked.
But his statement after
made it worse...
- My behavior on that video is inexcusable.
I take full responsibility.
- Because...
I don't think we heard him apologize to her.
- I'm not asking for forgiveness.
♪ ♪
- By the end of 2024,
there's been an absolute flood of lawsuits.
There have been women who have stepped forward
and accused him of sexual assault...
- We need to talk about this woman
and what she said about her experience with Diddy.
- Men who have stepped forward and accused him
of sexual assault.
- The third person has come out
with a lawsuit against Diddy in the last month.
- She had allegedly discovered some of the tapes
that he had made with male pop stars.
- Y'all ready to see hip-hop?
- We're over, I believe, 30 now individuals
who have filed lawsuits.
[people clamoring]
- I wish y'all the best of luck.
[laughter]
- I have a client. His name is Courtney Burgess.
Courtney came to me
because he had received a subpoena
from the federal government
to testify in relation to the grand jury
that has convened about Diddy.
Courtney has done interviews where he purported
to own several flash drives
that included sex tapes
with eight distinct individuals,
including A-list celebrities and Diddy,
all engaged in sex.
He believes that these people were intoxicated
and that they may not have known
that they were being recorded.
And Courtney ultimately handed over the video.
It's not necessarily a quid pro quo,
where, oh, I'm going to blackmail you.
I feel like it was more to advance his influence
and his power,
because now I have them on video,
where I can say, I'm going to take this to your wife.
I'll take this to your husband. I'll take this to the public.
And I'll ruin you if you don't do this for me.
- I represented 11 victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein was one of the most prolific predators
that we've ever seen.
He had, I believe, thousands of victims.
He had an operation where up to three girls a day for years
were being brought to him by recruiters
who found attractive young women,
many of them underage,
brought them to him for a couple hundred dollars.
They were sexually assaulted.
There are a lot of similarities
between the Jeffrey Epstein case and Sean Combs.
They're both very, very wealthy men.
And each one of them is at the top of the pyramid.
And if there comes a time where he is actually convicted,
we'll see whether it happens to Combs.
- Back for me one time, up top, up top.
- If you come from a background,
say, Dad engaged in criminal activity,
and was born with a lot of life challenges,
and then you're in an environment
around gang members, sure, that can shape you.
But then on the other hand,
you have people who come from very difficult backgrounds
who get themselves into positive environments,
and they're fine.
Regardless of what trauma you have,
we still have to hold people accountable.
♪ ♪
- The story of Lucifer in the Bible
is that Lucifer was God's most beautiful angel.
And he was the music angel.
- I'm letting all y'all niggas know,
if I ain't hot, y'all niggas ain't hot.
- But Lucifer got too full of himself.
♪ ♪
And God casted him from heaven.
And then he became the evil Satan
that we know here on this Earth.
Like, when we talk about the serpent...
and when the devil comes and says,
I'll give you all this if you just denounce God,
they're all just embodiments of Lucifer.
And I think where we are now is we're seeing an embodiment
of Lucifer in Sean Combs.
♪ ♪
- Ha!
[chuckles]
- Listen...
I been talking about this since '97.
♪ ♪
So it's not something I'm just now doing it.
I've been having a target on my back.
It don't mean anything to me. This life ain't mine's.
This life is God's.
And I'm going to do as He say please.
♪ ♪
- These are my kids, right?
That's Timmy, Jr.
Timmy was my hero.
♪ ♪
Oh, man.
You know, this is us burying my dad.
And then, you know, like, maybe three, four years later,
we had to bury Timmy.
Yeah, Timmy, Jr.
He overdosed on fentanyl.
When you have a child named after you...
[voice breaking] Looks like you, acts like you...
I lost so much.
[somber music]
[normal voice] I lost my dad.
And then we buried Timmy.
♪ ♪
So now we're here...
talking about Sean.
♪ ♪
I lost three...
I lost three of my...
♪ ♪
Yeah, gone.
Hoping for one to return.
[dramatic music]
That's my little bro.
Sean's done some bad things.
Sean knows it.
I'm scared for him.
♪ ♪
- I wouldn't know what to say, to be honest with you.
I really wouldn't.
♪ ♪
I really wouldn't know what to say.
[sighs]
- Diddy...
did anybody bring you any cheesecake in there?
- If you're going to be who you are,
be that person.
Don't turn around and try to play
Mr. Good Guy and Mr. Nice Guy
when you a piece of shit all along.
- Whether you innocent or guilty...
karma has resurfaced.
[indistinct shouting]
- This is a man who's been on top of the world.
This is someone who has lived the life
ever since he's been 20 years old.
♪ ♪
And all of a sudden,
all of it is taken away from him.
He's just stuck in this one square box.
♪ ♪
What do you say to him?
♪ ♪
- This is probably the most powerful person
in the music industry and one
of the most powerful people
in American culture, period.
And so this case is enormous.
- And this could mean a lot of jail time
if he is found guilty.
♪ ♪
- Deep down, I knew this day would come.
Ain't that crazy?
That I'd be sitting here with you.
You just say to yourself, wow.
You're going to have to tell people
this was a good kid at one time.
He's monsterized now.
♪ ♪
But the monster wasn't born a monster.
Come, come. [clicks tongue] Come.
Monsters are created over time.