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Diddy’s Reckoning

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Allegations about Sean “Diddy” Combs had been circulating, but it wasn’t until surveillance footage of the mogul assaulting his then-partner Cassie began circulating on social media, that his response changed from defensive to apologetic. 


Guest: Sidney Madden, reporter for NPR Music and co-host of Louder Than a Riot.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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violence and sexual assault.

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When I asked NPR's Sydney Madden, for one detail, one story to explain hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs' cultural dominance.

0:47.0

She knew exactly where to start with Diddy's infamous white parties. These parties were major affairs, held in the moguls home in the Hamptons each summer.

1:00.0

There's lots of music, lots of booze. They were over the top. One year, when the party was on July 4th,

1:07.0

Diddy arrived with an original copy of the Declaration of Independence.

1:13.0

Along with a couple of bodyguards to keep it safe.

1:16.0

Yeah, he did.

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Yeah, there's photos of it with models and football team owners and

1:23.0

and rappers all schmoozing in the same place in his white parties in the

1:29.0

early 2000s which were legendary but like this is the level of money, connections, power, and impact that

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he's had for a really long time.

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Until recently, this image of a guy so powerful he could use our country's founding documents

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