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You're about to take a deep dive into one of the biggest true crime cases in the universe,

or at least on our part of the planet.

From the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

It was a friendship that seemed unlikely at first, a teenage pop sensation and a music mogul,

decades apart in age, but drawn together by fame and influence.

For years, Sean Diddy Combs and Justin Bieber appeared side by side in public.

Their bonds seemingly one of mentor and mentee of shared success and celebrity.

Diddy the music titan who had shaped careers and ruled the industry.

And Bieber, the young boy wonder, skyrocketing to fame at an age when most are still figuring out who they are.

But now, in the shadow of allegations against Diddy, serious, disturbing allegations of sexual assault,

abuse, and sex trafficking, those once innocuous days of their friendship are being revisited with a new lens.

And Justin Bieber is reportedly struggling to come to terms with it all.

The charges against it, including accusations of running a sprawling operation that exploited

women and engaged in acts of violence and coercion have left shockwaves,

not just through the music industry, but through the lives of those who once called him a friend.

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