Diddy has at least one celebrity showing him some support ... Bow Wow says the music industry has been missing out on the rap mogul's famous parties due to his mountain of legal issues that have put a stop to them.
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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.
00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.
00:05He is very eager to tell his story.
00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over
00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.
00:15His reputation is over.
00:17The United States government, they start making this case
00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.
00:24TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, now streaming on Tubi.
00:30We have been talking for months about the fact that,
00:32with very, very few exceptions,
00:35everyone in Hollywood, in show business,
00:37has been pretty quiet about what's going on with Diddy.
00:40About the allegations, about the indictment.
00:43Really, since the raids.
00:45Actually, you can even go back to the Cassie lawsuit.
00:48He has been radioactive.
00:50People have, like, literally run away.
00:52Not literally.
00:52Figuratively run away from Diddy.
00:54That's how mad, right?
00:55Well, they run away.
00:56Sometimes literally run away from the questions.
00:58Right.
00:58Ray J is one person who did talk a little bit about it,
01:01but Bow Wow now is offering a different perspective.
01:04One, it's pretty controversial.
01:06That has actually already gotten him a lot of blowback.
01:09He was on a podcast called More to the Story with Roxy Diaz
01:14and talked about where Diddy's story has gone now
01:18and the fact that he is sitting in a detention center in Brooklyn
01:23where he will remain, at the very least,
01:25until his trial begins next May.
01:28So, this was not what I expected to hear.
01:33I'm shocked.
01:33From someone who, clearly, this has been going on for months.
01:36There's no way that Bow Wow doesn't know
01:38the nature of the allegations against Diddy.
01:41Yet, this is what he said he is longing for.
01:45I would have never thought it would,
01:48if it is the end, it would be,
01:49this would be the story of how it would end.
01:51It ain't gonna end like this.
01:52I would never thought that it would,
01:54we would see him in this position, ever.
01:57Even with all the rumors that I've always circulated.
02:00Never.
02:01Just never thought I'd see it like this.
02:03He's like the gatekeeper to the game.
02:05To the point to where, what weekends has he had?
02:08Like, BET Awards weekend, it didn't,
02:10like the past two, they just didn't feel right.
02:12Because there was no motion.
02:13There was no parties.
02:15There was nowhere to go.
02:16Like...
02:17Let's be very specific between parties and freak outs.
02:19No, the industry, like the parties that we attend.
02:22Like, there's me, the you, the terraces, the...
02:26I left before, before one.
02:29He was just such a gatekeeper for them.
02:30The liquor in the clubs, the mo...
02:34He was everything, hip hop.
02:36Wow.
02:37He misses Diddy parties.
02:38Obviously the thing that everyone's calling him out for
02:40is just saying it's tone deaf, right?
02:41That it's not understanding what the tone is now
02:45and what people are remembering about parties
02:48and what they...
02:49Right.
02:50To like, remember longingly about these parties
02:53where awful things allegedly happened, Charles.
02:56Yeah, it's very close.
02:57It's tone deaf, but we don't want to go too far, right?
03:00I mean, he's not suggesting that the abuse of women
03:02that's been alleged is happening.
03:04Right, he's not saying that.
03:04What he's saying is that there was a...
03:06He waxes a little nostalgic
03:08about sort of fun parties with Diddy,
03:10but at the same time sort of seems to recognize
03:13that this isn't something he wants to lean in too hard on.
03:16Kind of tiptoes into it, trying to parse the difference.
03:19It's almost like he's trying to say,
03:20like he feels sorry for Diddy and what he's going through.
03:24And I think we're all shocked.
03:25This is a guy who was just as big
03:28and as powerful in the music industry
03:30as you could possibly be.
03:31So yeah, we're all shocked.
03:32I want to give Roxy Diaz some credit there
03:34because she did push back a little bit.
03:36She did.
03:36And say, but you know, you're remembering this
03:42like it was a really wonderful thing.
03:44It's a bit strange.
03:44But there are still these allegations.
03:46I know, think of some terrible day, Charles,
03:48and to remember longingly about that time.
03:50It's something strange.
03:52Look, I think what you're actually hearing
03:54from Bow Wow there is exactly the reason
03:56why we haven't heard anybody talking about Diddy.
04:00Because if you do talk about it, you don't want to,
04:03because he's not been convicted.
04:05These are allegations.
04:06He'll have his day in court.
04:07Right, he denies it all.
04:08And at this point, he's denying it.
04:10But of course, we have all seen the Cassie video.
04:13So there's judgment that has been passed there.
04:15You think that's why?
04:16Do you think a lot of people would remember it like this?
04:17They don't want to talk about it.
04:18Because you don't want to slam him
04:21because he hasn't been convicted.
04:22But if you, as Bow Wow did, sort of remember the good old days,
04:26then people will say that you're not being
04:29sensitive to the alleged victim.
04:30Kind of a lose-lose.
04:31There's obviously also the added component
04:34of what if he is ultimately acquitted
04:37and comes back and wants to be part of the music scene?
04:40You think there might be a little fear of some people
04:42that they don't want to run afoul of him during this time?
04:44That's something we've heard.
04:45That there could be retribution in a business sense.
04:48We've heard that about witnesses coming forward
04:50and they're worried about what could happen
04:51on the other side of things.
04:52So I think that's a legit concern.
04:53Yeah.
04:54So him saying it like this, again, this is why you just,
04:58I think that's why we have not heard a lot of celebrities
05:02wanting to weigh in at all on it.
05:03But that was Bow Wow's take.
05:05By the way, we should tell you about the,
05:08we told you yesterday about the Tony Busby, the attorney,
05:11and his clients who had filed lawsuits yesterday.
05:13There were six that were filed yesterday.
05:16And who knows what's to come today.
05:18But late yesterday, we got a response from Diddy's team
05:22to the first wave of lawsuits.
05:24This is what they said in reference
05:27to Tony Busby specifically.
05:29The press conference and 1-800 number
05:31that preceded today's barrage of filings
05:34were clear attempts to garner publicity.
05:37In court, the truth will prevail that Mr. Combs
05:40has never sexually assaulted anyone,
05:42adult or minor, man or woman.
05:46A reference to one of the plaintiffs yesterday
05:48was said that they were 16 at the time.
05:50So that's their response, which you would expect.
05:54And maybe that response is true.
05:56It's just getting to the point, Charles.
05:58There's so many of these things mounting now.
06:00The problem that Diddy has when he responds to these things
06:03and says it's all untrue, everyone immediately
06:06in their head, they go, that's what he said
06:08when Cassie filed her lawsuit.
06:09And he looks like a liar.
06:10And then we saw that video.
06:12And that video is going to keep coming up like that.
06:15And it'll certainly come up during the federal trial.
06:18It makes him look like he's an untruthful person.
06:21And remember, he's not being prosecuted for that,
06:24what happened in that video.
06:25But it is certainly going to come into play
06:28with almost every allegation against him.
06:30Hi, I'm Keisha Miles from Houston, Texas.
06:33And I wanted to weigh in on the Bow Wow comments.
06:37You know, it may be time for little Bow Wow
06:39to grow up into a big dog
06:41and take these Diddy allegations a bit more seriously.
06:44You know, the audacity for him to just be concerned
06:47about parties when we have so many serious
06:52and violent allegations out here for Diddy right now.
06:55It just was an insensitive comment to me.
06:57Yeah, I think that's really the,
07:01that's the key word, insensitive.
07:03And that's how it landed.