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00:00My resume basically speaks for itself.
00:17I produce the greatest rap of all time.
00:20You know, I've just begun.
00:21I tell people this all the time, they look at me, how can you say you've just begun?
00:24And I just know in my heart, I've just begun.
00:28I've just started.
00:29I've just started getting to the point where I'm becoming a better man and I'm just starting
00:35to understand a little bit, just a little bit what life is about.
00:41If you could describe Diddy in one word, what would it be?
00:48Relentless.
00:49Powerful.
00:50Hustler.
00:51Problematic.
00:52When I look back on not even just hip-hop, not even just R&B, but American music, American
00:58pop culture, it's impossible to tell that story without Sean Diddy Combs.
01:03This is a guy who is dating J-Lo, fashion, alcohol, TV shows, political campaigns, vote
01:10or die.
01:12This is one of the most famous people in America over the last half century.
01:16Diddy finally has the key to the city!
01:23Sean Combs was bigger than big.
01:25He was beloved in some circles, revered in others, one of the most powerful men in the
01:29music industry.
01:30And then suddenly, he was over.
01:39Federal agents were seen raiding P. Diddy's Los Angeles and Miami homes.
01:45Federal investigators raiding two homes owned by hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs.
01:50Sources telling ABC News it is connected to a human trafficking investigation.
01:55When Diddy's home was raided, they found AR-15 style rifles, narcotics, and 1,000 bottles
02:01of baby oil.
02:02It seems like Diddy did lead a secret life.
02:06The guy in the limelight.
02:09Then there are all of the people being flown in to spice things up, to satisfy his sexual
02:14desires.
02:15The raid by federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations spilled the criminal investigation
02:22into public view.
02:23And we now know the results of that investigation.
02:27The indictment alleges that Combs abused and exploited women and other people for years,
02:32and in a variety of ways.
02:34As alleged, Combs used force, threats of force, and coercion to cause victims to engage in
02:40extended sexual performances with male commercial sex workers.
02:45This is different than the sex drugs and rock and roll folklore that I think a lot of us
02:49are very familiar with.
02:51This sounds like a sex crime.
02:54Combs allegedly planned and controlled the sex performances, which he called freak-offs.
02:59Freak-offs?
03:00Freak-offs.
03:01Freak-offs.
03:02Freak-offs.
03:03What is that?
03:04Him having sex workers have sex with his partner, whoever it is, while he watches or participates.
03:11Prosecutors have said that these were elaborately produced events, bringing lighting in, cameras,
03:18linens.
03:19He said he would masturbate during these freak-offs, and women had no choice.
03:25These freak-offs would last for so long that they would sometimes have to recover with
03:29IV drips, that the bedsheets needed to be swapped in, that hotel rooms were damaged,
03:35and that there was a preparation, but also a cleanup afterwards to try to hide the evidence
03:40of these allegedly illegal freak-offs.
03:44According to prosecutors, this has been going on for a really long time.
03:47But the reason why they say that he's been able to get away with doing this for so long
03:52is that he essentially has been blackmailing people into being silent.
03:57He believes he's innocent.
03:58I believe he's innocent.
04:00And we're going to fight this case with all of our might until we don't have to fight
04:03any longer.
04:04We know Sean Combs as a rapper and producer of some of the biggest artists, but now we're
04:10going to see the good, the bad, and the ugly of this Diddy sphere.
04:14Diddy, Diddy, Diddy, Diddy.
04:16Oh, yeah!
04:17It's been a gift and a curse, my success, but, you know, my musical career has probably
04:23been one of the most successful musical careers of a hip-hop artist, producer, in history.
04:29And that's something I take pride in.
04:31Sean Combs is a hustler.
04:34Puff becomes an intern at Uptown Records, right, where he starts to get mentored by
04:39Andre Harrell, one of the great record men of his time.
04:43This Andre Harrell, this is my mentor right here, put me on to everything.
04:48He moves from intern to A&R man, and the first huge star he makes is Mary J. Blige.
04:55There were stories that he was very imperious to other people, but he was practically Andre's
05:01son and he was the big dog, and so he's not really being called on the carpet for these
05:04things.
05:05Again, his talent and power and success protect him from accountability.
05:10And Andre says to him, you know, there can only be one lion in the jungle, and he fires
05:18him.
05:19But he let him take two rappers that Andre didn't know what to do with, Craig Mack and
05:24Biggie Smoke.
05:25He gets fired, and within a few weeks, he creates Bad Boy Records.
05:29By 1994, everyone knew who Diddy was.
05:32He produced some of the biggest artists in the world, Biggie.
05:41Mary J. Blige.
05:47I mean, this is a person who's created some of the most amazing music in our culture.
06:03It was this Midas touch thing, like everything they were putting out was hot.
06:09You know, this is a big time for me.
06:12Number one album in the United States.
06:14Debuting number one.
06:15So many of their songs really exploded.
06:17I mean, More Money More Problems.
06:24Yes, I'm performing tonight.
06:26Me and Mase, we doing the Benjamins and More Money More Problems.
06:31What y'all wanna do?
06:33Wanna be ballers, shot callers, brawlers.
06:36Diddy was kind of known for producing these really big, classic, iconic songs like,
06:43Can't Nobody Hold Me Down.
06:45Can't nobody take my pride.
06:47Can't nobody hold me down.
06:50Oh no, I got to keep on moving.
06:54I remember multiple nights of being in a club.
06:59They're playing a string of Bad Boy records.
07:01You get in the cab to go to another club.
07:03The radio is playing Bad Boy records in the cab.
07:07You get in the next club and they're playing Bad Boy as soon as you walk in.
07:11It was just everywhere.
07:13He was very successful in a lot of the things that he did,
07:17which made him this larger than life American celebrity.
07:22For much of his life and much of his career.
07:25Around 2000, the music business starts to crater.
07:30Revenue is shrinking rapidly.
07:34And Puff was able to say,
07:36Okay, I have this brand that's about lifestyle,
07:40that's about partying, that's about success.
07:43How can I translate the brand into other things?
07:46I think Diddy is one of the best strategists when it comes to marketing.
07:52So you go from Bad Boy to Sean John.
07:55Sean John to the Diageo deal with Ciroc.
07:59So you're scaling and you're diversifying your portfolio.
08:02We about to do it. I love my friends and I love y'all. Let's go!
08:07And he was somebody that I think was just a celebrity magnet.
08:11Everybody wanted to be next to somebody who made everything hot.
08:16I was going to make the clothes that you would get dressed in,
08:18the fragrance you would put on,
08:20to go to the club and listen to the music that I produced.
08:24Whatever was in the realm of entertainment or lifestyle,
08:27a curator of cool, you know, that's what I do.
08:33Here's my music. Here's my drink. Here's my clothes.
08:37You can be like me.
08:39And so he's sort of selling himself and the Puff lifestyle
08:44to the audience.
08:46I love a party period, whether it's an Oscar party,
08:48whether it's my man's house party from around the way.
08:50I just like people coming together having a good time.
08:52Diddy is very into being famous.
08:57At one point he had a camera crew following him around at all times.
09:01I got some cameras and stuff coming in here, man.
09:04In an era when MTV is shifting from video, video, video to shows,
09:10he's like, okay, I can provide you with reality shows.
09:14And the first one is with him as Mogul making the band.
09:17Welcome back. It's your boy Diddy.
09:19We are back with a new season of Making the F***ing Band.
09:23He is a guy that has always loved the limelight.
09:27He's loved being famous. He's loved being a celebrity.
09:30Sean had some pretty high profile relationships,
09:33a long relationship with model Kim Porter,
09:36a huge, big paparazzi-covered relationship with Jennifer Lopez.
09:42It really helped establish him as this national figure
09:48and really sort of confirmed, like, oh, he really is that guy.
09:52He's got all the money and he's got all the business success
09:55and he's also got this amazing woman who's like, yeah, I'm rocking with him.
09:58Like, oh, well, damn, he must be really that guy.
10:02They make this music video together.
10:04Been around the world. Sexy, successful.
10:11There's a great moment when Puff is dancing in a video with J-Lo.
10:15Here he's doing the tango, but he looks really good doing the tango with J-Lo.
10:20He knew how to do these things.
10:23I'm hanging with J-Lo or I'm making a movie with Russell Brand
10:27or I'm going to the Met Gala or I'm in Vogue in Paris
10:32with Naomi Campbell wearing some opulent thing.
10:36And it was always like, this guy is about success.
10:41He's about wealth. He's about opulence.
10:43He says he represents taste.
10:48You know, he's about the art of celebration and partying.
10:51They couldn't stop the kid. They know best.
10:54But he's also about himself and about promoting himself.
10:59You know, I mean, he's the biggest star bad boy ever had.
11:03He thrives off adulation. He thrives off love.
11:07He thrives off the public seeing him as like this flashy playboy type of character.
11:13That's gone. That's gone forever.
11:16And for Sean Combs, for Diddy, I think that's the worst thing for him
11:20because he can never be who he once was ever again.
11:25A lot of you have grown to know me as the king of celebration.
11:28A master in the art of celebration.
11:30Through the many luxurious parties I've thrown all around the world.
11:34Simply put, I enjoy seeing people have a good time.
11:44Another woman has come forward accusing Sean P. Diddy Combs of sexual assault.
11:48This is the fifth lawsuit against Diddy.
11:50120 alleged victims, men and women, whose allegations span more than 30 years.
11:56The more the stories come out, it doesn't sound like he was changed by the music industry.
12:00It sounds like he was empowered by it.
12:02He decided, bad boy for life. He decided. That's a choice.
12:07We sat down with Tiffany Redd, a Grammy Award winning producer.
12:11She was one of the first people who had access to that world, who spoke publicly.
12:16And for a period of time, she was out there by herself.
12:19She's played the game at the highest level.
12:21She worked with Zendaya on her hit, Replay.
12:25I wanna put this song on replay. I can listen to it all day.
12:32In this cutthroat music industry, she was good friends with Cassie Ventura.
12:37Cassie is sweet. She's quiet. She's kind. She's a good person.
12:42Cassie came onto the scene in 2006 with her self-titled debut album and then her hit single, Me & You.
12:51They know you're the one. I wanna get it too. I can see you want me too.
13:00So Cassie is a singer who was introduced to the world by Diddy.
13:05And Cassie had one of the most disastrous performances we've seen on live television.
13:15On 106 & Park.
13:17You've been waiting so long. I'm here to answer your call.
13:24It didn't go well. People had a lot to say about the performance.
13:28And Diddy spoke up about it. He defended her.
13:31Granted, she had a whack show.
13:33But she also got the hottest song in the clubs.
13:37And she ain't never gonna give up.
13:39Cause she down with bad boy.
13:41Not too long after that, we find out that Diddy and Cassie are in a romantic relationship.
13:47They met in 2005 when she was 19.
13:50He's like 37 and he's running the record label that she's a part of.
13:58He controls whether or not her album comes out.
14:02You signed to Diddy's label. What was it like the first time you met him? Were you starstruck?
14:06I was so nervous. So nervous. But we sat down for about two hours.
14:10Talked about my career and the future and it was great.
14:15It turned out amazing and he's a great guy. Great guy.
14:18I started working with Cassie in 2015.
14:20We started working together. I started writing for her.
14:23And we started hanging out.
14:25They worked together on a number of projects.
14:27One of their biggest hits, Don't Let Go.
14:35My first interaction with Puff, he walked up to me.
14:39And he was like, you're the one writing all these songs about me.
14:43And I was like, yeah.
14:45He was like, so she's talking to you, huh?
14:47And he just looked at me and then he walked away.
14:50What was the message he was sending to you?
14:52I mean, I felt intimidated.
14:54You know, I definitely felt like it was like it felt like he didn't want her to be talking to me.
15:03You look at her debut in 2006 and then, you know, her music career after that,
15:09you know, nothing that she did really hit the same marks as they do in 2006.
15:15We began to see her more in the public as Diddy's girlfriend and less as the artist Cassie.
15:22So I'm wondering about the boyfriend, Diddy.
15:25Whether he came to the set to make sure everything was copacetic with you.
15:29No, he actually really trusted the situation.
15:32Him and Terrence spoke beforehand.
15:34Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
15:37You date P. Diddy?
15:39Oh, wow.
15:40I did not know this. Yeah.
15:45There were always rumors about Diddy and his relationships with women.
15:48They ranged from inappropriate behavior, from flashes of rage and yelling at people and physical abuse.
15:58There was this one night, 2015, I believe, we went out, took the car, went to McDonald's to go get some food.
16:05And I remember her being like, you want to see something crazy?
16:08And I was like, what? And she answered the phone.
16:11And as soon as he answered, like he was so upset that she was out.
16:16He was just like, I remember him screaming and saying, is somebody in the car with you?
16:20I know someone's in the car with you.
16:22So that was like my first time being like, something is wrong.
16:25You know, I have heard over the years that Diddy was violent with Cassie.
16:29There would be an interview with a former bodyguard or someone who said that he had a history of violence with Cassie
16:37and also with Kim Porter, the late mother of four of his children.
16:41Tiffany talked in great detail about one particular night in 2015, Cassie's 29th birthday.
16:48I walk out the room and right behind the door, there's his security is around him.
16:54They have her in the corner and he's in her face and he's cussing her out.
16:58He was really mad. He was really close to her face and she just had her head down.
17:02And when I was like standing over to the side, she just was kind of like looking up at me.
17:06My sense was that everybody around him was afraid of him.
17:09Why?
17:10I mean, because he's explosive.
17:12Why didn't her friends, why didn't her circle step up and say, yo, man, what are you going to do?
17:17He got the key to the city. He's friends with the politicians.
17:20He's friends with this person. You know what I'm saying?
17:22It's like, who's going to challenge that?
17:25Who's going to challenge that and win and be believed? You're right.
17:30She was working on an album for 10 years.
17:34It never had a release date and it never had a title.
17:37This was never intended to come out.
17:39This was a pacifier just to keep her happy in between what we do at night.
17:46Why didn't the album come out?
17:49Because he was using the music to control Cassie.
17:52Because it was never, at least from what it seems like, it was never going to come out.
17:57It was never supposed to come out.
17:58He was kind of playing her.
17:59I'm going to put the record out. I'm going to put the record out.
18:01I got you.
18:02And the only, she told me the only time he was willing to like really talk about the plans for her music was during the freak-offs.
18:08We heard about their relationship.
18:10We heard the rumors, issues in regards to infidelity.
18:14Every time we would question it, they would pop back up together at some event until 2018 when they called it quits.
18:23Five years after Cassie and Diddy broke up, Cassie files this bombshell lawsuit and it was a huge deal.
18:33You know, nobody stood up to Diddy.
18:36You would hear things about him.
18:38People would say things about him.
18:41But seeing, you know, a woman who was so close to him relive these terrible and traumatizing, you know, moments and file this lawsuit, it was shocking.
18:54Some of the things that Sean made Cassie do, according to her lawsuit, is have sex with male sex workers when she didn't want to do.
19:03That he would direct her how to touch the sex worker, how to pour like oil over her body.
19:11And he would watch these things happen while he was masturbating.
19:17In Cassie's lawsuit, it said that Diddy supplied her and sex workers with drugs before and during these freak-offs.
19:24You ever personally witnessed Cassie under any influence?
19:28The night of the party was a freak-off.
19:31He was saying, tell your girl she wants some birthday. That was a freak-off.
19:35That's where he was taking her. When he was cussing her out and she didn't want to go.
19:41Cassie's lawsuit was settled within 24 hours.
19:43We know that she was asking for $30 million, but the actual amount was undisclosed.
19:48At the time, Combs denied all wrongdoing and made clear he said settling was not an admission of guilt.
19:56And because of the misogyny that exists in hip-hop culture, I do not feel like at that time people were going to completely write Diddy off.
20:08I do not feel like until the CNN video was leaked, that was when everything changed for Diddy.
20:17Diddy's flying through the hallway of this hotel and he's so brutal.
20:22And Cassie is so small and just appears to be so broken.
20:27Like there's a point where she just stays on the ground.
20:30When I saw the video and I saw her trying to pick up her little bag.
20:41And then be dragged. And I just felt like I knew what she was feeling.
20:45Just wanted to get out of there. And I just broke my heart.
20:51That hotel footage showed us that there's a monster within.
20:55Because that video happened and everyone watched that video, it changed everything for a lot of people, I think.
21:02There's this massive public outcry once that videotape is released.
21:06Two days later, Sean Combs makes a statement.
21:21I take full responsibility for my actions in that video.
21:25Apology video, what did you think of that?
21:29I thought it was for him. I think that all of it was he was talking about himself.
21:35And how he felt, this is the hardest time going through, these are the darkest times in my life.
21:40And it's all about him, him, him, him, him, him, him.
21:45When you read or heard about Cassie's lawsuit, it was horrendous and horrific and disgusting and grotesque.
21:54But it's words. And it's horrifying, but it's words.
22:01When you see a video of him assaulting her, he kicked her when she's on the ground posing no threat to him.
22:12It was heartbreaking. And it was the immediate destruction of any smidge of image, legacy, reputation that you might have.
22:25His credibility is out the window, especially after that apology where we now know he's capable of lying.
22:31And now the question becomes, what else is Sean Combs lying about?
22:42Huff always wanted to be driving culture, not just in it, but shaping it and creating it.
22:52And there's a point in time when the guys around him were like, hey, what's cool is the Hampton.
22:58An all-white party where we have to wear white definitely fits the beachy vibe of the Hampton.
23:06He was one of the people who invented hip-hop party culture.
23:10I take pride on being a leader. You get out of life what you put into it. So I just try to give my all.
23:16Diddy's white parties were very famous. Anyone who you can think of who's a celebrity has attended a Diddy white party.
23:25And there's this Victoria's Secret models wearing like halo and angel wings and handing you champagne.
23:32And they're like, welcome to heaven.
23:34They were said to be wild, right? And everyone wants to be at your party. That confers a certain amount of power upon you.
23:45This is the legendary white party. This is the real white party. The kids have like an hour left.
23:51But this thing turns into something that when y'all get older, y'all don't want to come to.
23:56Now Diddy After Dark is a different party.
23:59We knew that there was an after-after party and we heard that, you know, those were much more debauched.
24:06I think the more wild, racy stuff now is like a very rarefied sort of thing.
24:12It wasn't just for everybody come, we're doing Eyes Wide Shut tonight.
24:16You need some water?
24:20Diddy even went on Conan O'Brien. Knowing what we know now and watching that clip, it's, he let us know but people weren't listening.
24:28No, no, I don't know if guys have noticed this, like a lot of ladies drink water at parties.
24:33They just, you know, so you have, if you don't have what they need, they're going to leave.
24:36Right. Got to keep them there. Right.
24:38You need locks on the doors.
24:42This is sounding kind of dangerous now. It's a little kinky, but yeah.
24:46I think one of the noteworthy things about this pending trial is that maybe for the first time we'll discover who Sean Combs really is.
24:53This man was a pillar of society for a really long time. He had this really great up from his bootstraps story.
25:05My Scorpio brother here, my daddy.
25:09Diddy's life now was a lot different than how he grew up.
25:15Being from Harlem, you know, was raised by his mom, Janice, with his sister.
25:21He's created multiple narratives. His father was a drug dealer. He grew up rough and tumble life.
25:26My father was killed when I was three. I just remember my mother, you know, working four jobs.
25:31On the other hand, he says, oh, I was a paper boy in Westchester County.
25:35He somehow was able to consolidate several paper routes. So he had these kids delivering the papers on his routes for him.
25:45He's already being entrepreneurial and capitalist within that system.
25:49He was always the boss from a very young age. So everybody around him has to do what he says.
25:57I just want to get paid for it. That's what I'm saying, too. I don't want to be wasting my time.
26:03How y'all getting this date out there?
26:05There was a time everybody in the music business wanted to work for Puff and it was so much fun. It was so cool.
26:10So, like, if he screamed at you sometimes, well, that's part of the price of admission.
26:16If so, bump somebody.
26:17There's a clip that was in his 2017 documentary, Can't Stop, Won't Stop, where, you know, he's in his office.
26:24There it's like destroying stuff.
26:25I got my MTV album. Savage! I'm a savage! Oh! I'm a savage! Whatever I want, I'm going to get!
26:33Whatever I want, I have to get!
26:36You know what was inspiring for me about that video was when Puffy said, what's next?
26:42What's next? What's next? I got to get it. I'm not going to stay down.
26:47For him to say what's next means I'm ready for everything.
26:51A savage in business can be a profitable energy.
26:58I think that there's a relentlessness in this person who is saying, I will do whatever I have to do to accomplish the goal.
27:08You couldn't tell him no. This person was emotionally volatile.
27:14The rapper and music mogul arrested for assault after a fight with a football coach at his son's school.
27:19All charges were later dropped.
27:21Combs was arrested on assault charges for allegedly beating a music industry executive.
27:26He manages to escape any significant legal accountability.
27:30This man was celebrated for so long in the hip hop culture.
27:34But I think when powerful people are not checked, bad things can happen.
27:40In 1999, Puffy was dating J-Lo.
27:43And there was an incident in a New York nightclub in which Diddy and some of his entourage get into it with some people and shots are fired.
27:57He went to Club New York to celebrate a new album from Shine.
28:02Shine is a rapper from Belize that was signed to Bad Boyz.
28:06In Club New York, something happened.
28:09Somebody got bumped into.
28:11Several witnesses say that they saw Puff with the gun.
28:19Three people got shot in that incident.
28:23Police say Shine had a gun.
28:25He was convicted and spent nine years in prison.
28:28Sean Combs acquitted.
28:31It was one of those moments that shows, like, wow.
28:34He may find himself in, like, bad situations, but eventually he always gets out.
28:39It probably made Diddy believe to an extent that, like, I'm pretty much invincible.
28:47People were very afraid to come forward with their stories.
28:51He's always been admired.
28:52He's always been loved.
28:55People were very afraid to come forward with their stories.
28:59He's always been admired by allegations and suspicions of domestic violence and abuse.
29:05They've always kind of fallen apart as whispers.
29:09It took a watershed moment, which was the Cassie lawsuit, to really open that Pandora's box.
29:16Cassie describing the music mogul as a vicious, cruel and controlling man.
29:21After Cassie filed her lawsuit, it kind of opened up the floodgates.
29:24Sean Diddy Combs faces new sex trafficking allegations.
29:27Former model is now suing Diddy.
29:29One became three, became five.
29:31A former member of Combs' girl group, Danity Kane, is accusing him of sexually abusing her for years.
29:36Rashard is the eighth person to accuse Combs of abuse.
29:39Combs' attorney calls Rashard's claims false and said he looks forward to proving that in court.
29:45He began to see lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit being filed.
29:49His former producer, Rodney Jones, claims Diddy repeatedly sexually assaulted him.
29:53His attorney also responded to Jones' lawsuit, saying in part,
29:57he's looking for an undeserved payday and that they have indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies.
30:07The Texas attorney tonight says he now represents 120 alleged victims, men and women,
30:12whose allegations span more than 30 years.
30:14The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all
30:20has finally been revealed to the world.
30:23We've had over 14,000 people contact our office in three weeks,
30:27and now we represent 293 claims against Sean Combs or his associates.
30:32Our youngest victim at the time of the occurrence was nine years old.
30:36We have an individual who was 14 years old.
30:39Though this attorney has yet to file a lawsuit, he's made these allegations.
30:43Based on the people that we've talked to, based on what they've told us,
30:47it seemed before 2005, it was men and women equally that were kind of sucked into this orbit.
30:54And then after 2005, it almost went 90% to men.
30:59An attorney for Sean Combs said he can't address every, quote,
31:03meritless allegation, but that he denies any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.
31:11We have not heard the last of someone filing a lawsuit against Sean Combs.
31:16There's no way he acted alone.
31:18The culture of silence was colossal.
31:21There will be more people looking for defense attorneys very soon.
31:25What other names are we going to start seeing?
31:41Tonight, breaking news in New York City.
31:43Sean Diddy Combs, arrested in a New York City hotel by federal agents with Homeland Security investigations
31:50after being indicted by a grand jury.
31:52He's been under criminal investigation since his former girlfriend accused him of sexual and physical abuse in a civil case.
32:00According to his lawyer, Sean Combs knew that the raids on his home in New York City
32:06scared his kids, and he said he didn't want anything else to be so scary.
32:12And that's why his lawyer says he decided to relocate to New York,
32:15so that everybody would know where he was to make the arrest easy.
32:19Did you witness anything?
32:20How do you support him moving forward?
32:22Diddy is the father of seven children.
32:25He has three adult sons, and he has four daughters.
32:29His adult sons have been a very public figure.
32:33His adult sons have been very publicly supportive, and they showed up to support him at his arraignment.
32:40He's confident. He is dealing with this head-on, the way he's dealt with every challenge in his life.
32:47Diddy pleaded not guilty, and he was denied bail twice.
32:51There's no amount of money, no amount of security measures that could be put in place
32:56that these judges believe would not make him a flight risk and not make him a danger to those around him.
33:02The first time Sean Combs came into court, I thought he looked kind of stunned, almost.
33:07This is a whole new reality that he's facing, and in that moment,
33:11he may well have understood the gravity of the charges.
33:15Sean Combs is facing a three-count indictment.
33:18Racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation for the purpose of prostitution.
33:25It puts Combs as the leader of what prosecutors called this criminal enterprise
33:32to subject women to a pattern of physical and sexual abuse.
33:41When it comes to the three counts that Sean Combs is facing,
33:44the racketeering conspiracy charge is the top charge, and within it are a number of crimes.
33:49There is kidnapping, forced labor, bribing of witnesses.
33:54Prosecutors became concerned that Sean Combs was going to obstruct the federal investigation,
34:00which is ongoing, and tamper with witnesses.
34:03In Sean Combs' appeal for his bail, Judge Carter said that obstruction of justice is a real concern for him,
34:09and in saying that, he's looking at the evidence or the alleged evidence that the prosecution is providing
34:16that after Cassie's civil lawsuit, after even the raid,
34:21Sean Combs began communicating and reaching out to people within his circle,
34:25women that are alleged victims, trying to ensure that they're not going to come forward with any allegations against him.
34:33Okay, thank you guys. Thank you very much.
34:43If Combs is convicted as charged, he could be facing decades in prison.
34:49The closest analogy would be the sex charges against R. Kelly.
34:55Late today, a federal jury found R. Kelly guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking.
35:00Prosecutors accusing him of leading a criminal enterprise of managers, bodyguards, and other employees
35:05to recruit and abuse women, underage girls, and a teenage boy.
35:12When I first heard about the Sean Combs allegations, I wasn't surprised.
35:19Nothing really surprises me these days.
35:24Lizette Martinez told us that she met Sean Combs in the 90s in Miami.
35:31He's like, hey, you have really pretty eyes, like started to compliment me.
35:36I just looked at my friend, like, I've been down this road before.
35:40I didn't have a good feeling about it.
35:43I really wanted nothing to do with men in the industry.
35:48Lizette was Jane Doe number nine in this case involving R. Kelly,
35:52a man who was convicted of being the leader of a criminal enterprise and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
35:58And she says she sees similarities in the allegations against R. Kelly that were proven to be accurate
36:05and the allegations now against Sean Combs.
36:10I've spoken to the other girls that are involved in my case,
36:14and we all were deeply saddened and triggered.
36:19I can't unsee that Cassie video.
36:21You could tell me whatever you want to tell me about him.
36:23I cannot unsee the video.
36:29She helped others to feel that they could come forward.
36:33And that's huge.
36:36You put yourself on the line.
36:44There have been several reckoning moments in the world of Hollywood and music over the last few years.
36:50Myself and other women have always shared stories of the various ways in which we were approached inappropriately.
36:56We've talked about the misogyny within the industry.
37:00The way women are talked about in hip-hop music is so vile and so hateful, you know,
37:06as though women are things to be used and consumed.
37:10And that's not to say that there isn't predatory behavior going on in rock and country and any other genre of music,
37:17but, like, hip-hop is just open about its hatred for women in ways that other genres of music are not.
37:24Every time, which is sad that there isn't every time,
37:29but when something like this happens, you hope that there is some kind of reckoning.
37:36But there is so much ingrained in this culture that it's really hard to tell.
37:47So the hope is that that changes.
37:51But will it?
37:56Simply put, the bigger they rise, the harder they fall.
38:00From the fancy jets, the fancy jewelry, the luxurious lifestyle,
38:04Sean Combs is tonight in one of the most notorious jails in all of New York.
38:17Take some money, man.
38:19Take some money, man.
38:28Sean Combs led the life that many of us would only dream of.
38:32This is a celebration of life. This is a legendary white party. It's the real white party.
38:37The way he dressed, the way he traveled, the way he partied.
38:41His presence on social media, few could compare.
38:45The multi-million dollar homes, the private jets flying from here to there.
38:50But now, he'll be housed in the Metropolitan Detention Center.
38:56It has had a rather notable roster of inmates.
39:00R. Kelly was there for a time before he stood trial in Brooklyn.
39:04Glenn Maxwell, El Chapo spent time there.
39:07When people talk about MDC, they use words like infamous, corrupt, violent.
39:14It's dangerous. There are constant fights and lockdowns.
39:21It's going to be a very, very different lifestyle change for him.
39:26In this industry where people love to talk, no one talked about this part of Sean Combs' life.
39:31But now, everyone has an opinion. People are talking.
39:34Charlamagne Tha God on radio has had plenty to say.
39:37Being in that cell, it's going to be the first time in probably forever that he's forced to sit still.
39:41Reality is going to hit him hard. Whatever he's been running from, he cannot run no more.
39:45He was known to have the Midas touch, and now his touch is anything but golden.
39:49It's allegedly criminal.
39:57I'm going to scream from the rooftops, it's not just him.
40:00It's a systemic problem. I'm going to continue to advocate and do something to really change this.
40:04Sean Combs was not made in a vacuum.
40:08People are really overly impressed by men.
40:14We do not hold men to rigorous standards of behavior, particularly famous men, right?
40:21We don't take into consideration their relationship to women when we're judging their character.
40:28Nobody really knows where this is going to lead.
40:32Celebrities were at these parties. People could be caught in that net.
40:36And I think that also plays into the fact of why you haven't heard people speak on Diddy and speak on a lot of these allegations.
40:46We've received accusations against very well-known celebrities that allegedly participated in these after-parties.
40:54That were either in the room, maybe witnessing these sexual assaults taking place, or even participating in them.
41:02How does this story end for him?
41:04How it turns out, like, once all things are said and done.
41:08I can't imagine somebody that's lived a life that lavish, like, facing the music and, like, going to jail.
41:17But I think that's where it's going to end, though.
41:19Too much has happened. Too much has happened.
41:23I'm extremely proud of the women and men.
41:28So I'm not going to sit here and say that, you know, the trial's going to be easy. It's not.
41:32However, we did it, and you have a whole survivor army behind you.
41:40No matter how powerful these people portray themselves to be, so are you.
41:46I think one can make the argument that hip-hop is on trial.
41:50I think we've seen, with the fall of other high-profile celebrities, that entertainment is on trial.
41:58Power is on trial.
42:02Somehow, when power is in the hands of too few people, too often, they abuse it.
42:09You can't look away anymore.
42:11I hope that powerful men understand that time's up.