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🗓️ 11 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Sean Diddy Combs seemed to have it all. |
0:04.0 | More than a rapper, producer, reality star, and entrepreneur, he was a kingmaker, a true mogul. |
0:10.0 | He flaunted his fame and fortune, hosting lavish parties with A-Lis celebrities in Beverly Hills, the French Riviera, and the Hamptons. |
0:19.0 | The Diddy parties were parties that everybody went to. |
0:21.6 | Every celebrity, every influencer, everybody that wanted to be at the most lit party, wanted to go to Diddy's party. |
0:28.6 | Diddy is definitely the most powerful and influential person in hip-hop music, or one of them. |
0:35.6 | And I would actually even argue to say not just hip-hop, but in the music business in general. |
0:41.0 | And like for 30 years, he was on top of his game. |
0:44.0 | Born in Harlem and raised in a suburb outside the Bronx, |
0:47.9 | Diddy was even awarded the key to New York City in 2023. |
0:52.3 | But just one year later, Sean Combs had no keys. |
0:58.0 | He was locked up in a notoriously dangerous and decrepit federal detention center in Brooklyn. |
1:04.0 | I'm Brian Buckmeyer, an attorney and ABC News legal contributor. |
1:09.0 | Diddy's downfall has captivated this country. |
1:12.5 | For decades, there were whispers of violence and abuse. |
1:16.2 | Then, a lawsuit followed by his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, with shocking allegations. |
1:21.3 | He used illegal substances and threats of violence to force Ms. Ventura into repeated |
1:26.6 | unwanted sexual encounters with male sex workers. |
1:30.3 | Diddy settled a day later with no admission of guilt. |
1:33.3 | A few months later, the feds made their move. |
1:36.3 | In a dramatic turn of events, federal investigators raiding two homes owned by hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs. |
1:43.3 | And newly surfaced security footage showed the public a sight of Combs that most people had never seen before. |
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