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Nick Cannon Admits Going to Diddy Parties arsenic a Teenager
After Diddy was arrested connected charges of racketeering conspiracy and enactment trafficking successful September, Bow Wow made immoderate eyebrow-raising comments astir the euphony mogul and rapper’s infamous parties and his presumption connected however Diddy’s apprehension has impacted the industry.
“He’s similar the gatekeeper to the game,” Bow Wow said of Diddy connected a caller occurrence of the More to the Story podcast with Rocsi Diaz. “Like BET Award weekend, the past 2 they conscionable didn’t consciousness close due to the fact that determination was nary emotion. There was nary parties. There was obscurity to go.”
He added that Diddy’s lack felt similar a “hole” to the hep hop community, calling it “a very, precise messed up situation.”
“For me, reasoning connected it, bro’s expected to beryllium connected a 250-ft yacht with his wife, limb up, chilling that’s however you thrust it out,” helium said. “And I deliberation a batch of america astir apt thought we’d ne'er spot this. But for maine it’s conscionable unreal. It seems unreal astatine times. I would ne'er person thought that we’d seen him successful this position.”
Bow Wow, whose commencement sanction is Shad Gregory Moss, got his commencement successful the precocious ‘90s nether the rap sanction Lil Bow Wow, rapping with Snoop Dogg. He noted that Diddy “was the feline that each young hustler looked up to and either wanted to beryllium similar oregon wanted to pass.”
He continued, “He was everything hip-hop. So for that to dice out, you conscionable truly ne'er thought. Especially erstwhile you look astatine idiosyncratic arsenic idiosyncratic you studied, idiosyncratic you idolized.”
The “Broken Heart” rapper—who shares 13-year-old daughter Shai Moss with his ex Joie Chavis and a 4-year-old lad with ex Olivia Sky—also clarified that helium was separating Diddy’s publication to the hep hop assemblage from the allegations against him.
“Once again, I’m separating, right?” helium explained. “I’m talking astir him arsenic the artist, arsenic the person. It shows however monumental, however important helium was to the culture.”
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Diddy is presently successful situation awaiting proceedings connected charges of enactment trafficking and racketeering. He has pleaded not blameworthy connected each counts arsenic caller allegations proceed to determination in.
Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, elaborate Diddy’s alleged “freak-offs” during a Sept. 17 property conference, accusing Diddy of of utilizing a immense web of employees wrong his concern empire and different associates to screen up crimes including enactment trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and the obstruction of justice.
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"The indictment alleges that Combs abused and exploited women and different radical for years and successful a assortment of ways," the authoritative continued, utilizing "force, threats of unit and coercion to origin victims to prosecute successful extended intersexual performances with antheral commercialized enactment workers."
The freak-offs would sometimes past for days, Williams said, and often progressive Diddy doling retired drugs including ketamine, ecstasy and GHB to support the victims "obedient and compliant."
Diddy’s proceedings is acceptable to instrumentality spot May 5, 2025, with his attorney Marc Agnifilo continuing to support his innocence.
"Please reserve your judgement until you person each the facts," the lawyer antecedently stated. "These are the acts of an guiltless antheral with thing to hide, and helium looks guardant to clearing his sanction successful court."
For much connected the case, work on.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs Remanded
After Sean "Diddy" Combs pleaded not guilty to enactment trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges connected Sept. 17, his ineligible squad projected a $50 cardinal enslaved bundle that included equity successful his Miami location and his mother's house, arsenic good arsenic constricted his question to wrong definite parts of Florida, New York and New Jersey.
The defence besides offered, per a missive obtained by E! News, to "walk the Court done a bid of actions taken by Mr. Combs implicit the past six months that beryllium that helium is not a hazard of formation oregon a information to anyone successful the community."
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky rejected the bundle and ordered that Combs beryllium remanded without bail. He remains successful custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn.
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Combs' Lawyer Says Rapper Is Getting Treatment and Therapy
"He is not a cleanable person," Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo told the court, per NBC New York. "There has been cause use. He has been successful toxic relationships."
Therefore, helium added, his lawsuit was getting "treatment and therapy for things that helium needs attraction and therapy for."
Overall, though, Combs' "spirits are good," the lawyer told reporters aft tribunal Sept. 17. "He's confident."
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Combs Creates a Slippery Situation
More than 1,000 bottles of babe lipid and idiosyncratic lubricant were seized during the March 2024 raids connected Combs' L.A. and Miami homes, according to the 14-page indictment unsealed Sept. 17.
Per the indictment, the lipid and lube were stockpiled for usage successful alleged "freak-offs," the word Combs utilized for gatherings successful which helium allegedly orchestrated intersexual encounters betwixt women helium coerced and threatened into doing his bidding and antheral enactment workers.
"I don't cognize wherever the fig 1,000 came," his lawyer Agnifilo said successful the TMZ documentary The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment, which premiered Sept. 27. Pondering retired loud wherefore anyone would request truthful much, the lawyer added, "He has a large house, helium buys successful bulk. I deliberation they person Costcos successful each spot wherever helium has a home."
Costco, meanwhile, wanted nary portion of it, telling TMZ successful a statement that "none" of its U.S. stores transportation babe oil.
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Alleged Combs Texts Read successful Court
In May 2024, CNN published a clip of edifice surveillance video from 2016 that appeared to amusement Combs attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie, calved Cassandra Ventura. (The battle matched up with an alleged incidental elaborate successful the suit she filed against Combs connected Nov. 16, 2023; some parties announced a colony the adjacent day.)
"I was f--ked up. I deed stone bottom," Combs said successful a video posted to Instagram successful effect to the footage. "But I marque nary excuses. My behaviour connected that video is inexcusable. I instrumentality afloat work for my actions successful that video." He had gone to therapy and rehab since, helium added, and was "committed to beryllium a amended antheral each and each day."
During a Sept. 18 proceeding connected Combs' 2nd petition for bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson said, per NBC News, that Combs allegedly sent a substance successful the days pursuing the assault that read, "Call me, the cops are here." Another read, "I person six kids. Call, I’m surrounded."
Johnson did not accidental Cassie's sanction successful court. She said that Combs' unfortunate replied via text, "Sick you deliberation it’s OK to bash what you've done."
Bail was erstwhile again denied, this clip by U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr.
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The Combs Case Is Set for Trial
On Oct. 3, the Combs lawsuit was reassigned to Judge Arun Subramanian because Carter was incapable to accommodate a proceedings date.
During an Oct. 10 presumption hearing, Subramanian acceptable a proceedings day of May 5, 2025.
Prosecutor Johnson told the justice she expected the proceedings to past astir 3 weeks, but said determination was inactive the anticipation that a superseding indictment could pb to much charges against Combs.
Agnifilo said successful tribunal they'd request astir a week to enactment connected their case.
Meanwhile, the lawyer said successful the TMZ doc that Combs was looking guardant to testifying successful his ain defense.
“I don’t cognize that I could support him disconnected the stand," Agnifilo said. "I deliberation helium is precise anxious to archer his story."
