P Diddy on trial
The Story
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The trial of Sean Combs - the hip-hop producer and rapper otherwise known as P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Love, and a plethora of other aliases - will begin next week, with the jury selected on Monday. As he pleads not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, how did he get to this point? And how did he build his celebrity empire?
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Guest: Megan Agnew, Senior Features Writer at The Times and Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Rosie Stopher.
Further reading: The downfall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs — by those who knew him
Further listening: The P Diddy lawsuits: The downfall of a rap legend
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| 0:43.3 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:49.3 | He was like a shorthand for celebrity. |
| 1:04.1 | Sean Combs is currently a defendant awaiting trial, but once as P. Diddy, he ruled the entertainment world. |
| 1:09.0 | An international rapping superstar, Diddy! Ladies Silver! |
| 1:10.1 | He's on the show! Only one man could deliver a ride like this, the one, the only, |
| 1:15.6 | me diddy. |
| 1:16.6 | How you doing, man? |
| 1:18.6 | Since I came in New York, Miami, and LA, I come with greetings from the other empire. |
| 1:26.6 | That's nice. I come with greetings from the other empire. |
| 1:29.5 | Bad boys! |
| 1:32.7 | Bad boys! |
| 1:39.3 | You're legendary for the parties that you throw. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm a legend, baby, for a whole bunch of things. |
| 1:48.0 | Bad boy of entertainment is getting the key to the city from the bad boy of politics. I want to thank you for this honor and just recognizing me being from New York giving me the key to the city. |
| 1:55.0 | Diddy finally has the key to the city. |
| 2:04.6 | Long fur coats and sunglasses cruising through Manhattan in really expensive cars. |
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