Diddy Was Indicted. Conspiracies Ran Wild.
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The accusations against Sean “Diddy” Combs have grown in both number and grimness. Is this the music industry’s moment of reckoning?
Guest: Nadira Goffe, associate culture writer at Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Slates Nadera Gough, she's got this spreadsheet. She calls it Diddy case updates, as in Sean Diddy Combs, the hip-hop |
| 0:15.2 | mogul who's indicted last month. |
| 0:18.6 | I found myself getting so bogged down by details that were both real and not real, whether |
| 0:27.2 | they were from tabloids or actual vetted news sources. |
| 0:30.8 | And so I decided to make a massive spreadsheet that was basically just all of |
| 0:36.7 | the main events of the case and the civil suits before the indictment. |
| 0:42.1 | Okay, so I just want to explain this spreadsheet. |
| 0:44.0 | Like this is basically a record of everything that has happened publicly |
| 0:51.0 | in Sean Combsbs life for the last year or so. |
| 0:57.0 | Fair? |
| 0:58.0 | Yes, yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | It's not good. |
| 1:00.0 | No, no, there's a lot of bad here. It was not a good spreadsheet to make. I didn't feel happy making it. I'll say that much. |
| 1:07.0 | The first entry is November 16th, 2023. That's when Cassie Ventura, an ex-girlfriend of Combs, alleged horrific abuse in a civil lawsuit. |
| 1:18.0 | Combs settled with her a day later. |
| 1:21.0 | But within a week, there were two more lawsuits than another and another. |
| 1:28.4 | March 25th, federal agents raided Combs Miami Home. |
| 1:37.0 | April 4th, Combs' son got accused of sexual assault. May 17th, a video of Combs beating Cassie Ventura in Hotel Lobby emerged. |
| 1:44.8 | Last month, all of this came to a head. |
| 1:49.1 | So I actually pinpoint the start of it to I would say September 10th which is when Don Richard |
| 1:58.0 | becomes the ninth person to file a suit against Sean Combs. Don Richard worked with Combs for years. |
| 2:05.0 | She claims he had business meetings with her in his underwear. |
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