What we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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An explosive lawsuit against hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, filed by his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, has prompted an avalanche of accusations and eyewitness accounts of his violent behavior. A new, deeply reported feature from Rolling Stone is one of the most extensive accounts yet of allegations against Combs — detailing decades of alleged physical and sexual abuse from his days in college to the heyday of his label, Bad Boy Records, and beyond. Guest host Sam Sanders talks with reporters Cheyenne Roundtree and Nancy Dillon about what they learned from witnesses — and how Combs’s accusers are seeking justice.

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0:00.0	Listeners, just a heads up. This chat will include some really graphic details of alleged abuse.
0:07.0	This is in conversation from Apple News.
0:14.0	I'm Sam Sanders sitting in for Schmita Basu.
0:17.8	Today, what we know about the allegations against Sean Diddy Combs.
0:36.1	Back in the 90s, Sean Diddy Combs, the rapper and record executive, he and his label Bad Boy Records helped shift the center of pop music from rock and grudge to hip-hop, with number one
0:42.1	singles like this one.
0:45.0	Then comes because I got to keep on moving.
0:54.0	Then Combs became a force in the fashion world,
0:57.0	with his line Sean John.
0:59.0	There were also extensive endorsement deals
1:01.0	with alcohol labels like Surac. Endorsement Deals with Alcohol Labels like Serraq.
1:03.0	Serrau Ultra Premium Vaca.
1:08.0	And there was an incredibly popular reality show that comes hosted,
1:12.0	making the band.
1:13.0	I need greatness.
1:14.6	I don't need good.
1:16.2	This is a business.
1:17.0	You gotta figure out how to please the consumers,
1:19.5	how to come up with something different,
1:21.2	how to fill a void in the marketplace.
1:23.2	You don't have to keep on work.
1:24.2	All of this, Combs' version of celebrity,
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