Original subtitles

[Combs] Hey.

-[Dana Tran] Hi. -[Combs] What's up, baby?

Where you going?

I'm about to deposit $200 million, right now.

And I feel good.

They're holding the bank open for me, you feel me?

'Sup, baby?

Talk to Daddy.

[Dana laughs, screams]

-[Lew] You got her fucked-up right now. -You're in Puff Daddy's bag right now.

[Lew] She don't want to talk now.

[Combs] You wanna scream in the crowd, don't you?

-You wanna scream-- -Huh?

You want to scream in the crowd. I know you do.

[ominous music playing]

[Patterson] I've seen Puff with a lot of women.

He knew how to take a woman and change her life overnight.

-[Combs] I'm about to pull up. -I miss you.

I miss you too. Look at the flights, then hit me back.

Okay, bye.

[Patterson] Misa was his very first project.

He built Misa in Janice's likeness.

[Burrowes] In the very young relationship with Misa,

she would come to me,

"Where's the money he's supposed to be giving me for our son?"

Around this time,

Sean is developing another life with Kim Porter.

[ominous music continues]

I say, "Kim and Sean?"

"No, come on."

The next time I saw Kim, I said, "If you get with him,

make sure you marry him and have plenty of kids,

'cause he's gonna be really rich."

I said it in jest. You know, just kind of joking.

["Nature Boy" playing]

♪ There was a boy ♪

♪ A very strange, enchanted boy ♪

Bad boys are taming my hoes now.

♪ They say he wandered very far ♪

♪ Very far ♪

♪ Over land and sea ♪

[Patterson] Kim's from a good home.

But all good girls love bad boys,

and she met her bad boy.

♪ And then one day ♪

♪ A magic day he passed my way ♪

Kim was that bitch.

Kim did-- Yeah, she ran that shit.

Dada, Da-da.

[Harper] She was a real woman.

Christian, look at Daddy.

[Harper] You'd hear Kim say stuff like, "I'm not your play toy."

["Nature Boy" continues playing]

She had like, "fuck you, bitch" mentality.

[Bonds] I've never seen him actually punch or hit Kim.

But I've been in front of the room

while I knew that was going on inside the room.

Kim would come out with her hair all messed up, her face would be red.

He wanted a girl that was just going to listen to what he said.

And that'd be law.

[O'Day] Once you're his, through processes of grooming,

it makes you nice and ripe for whatever he's got planned.

-[song continues over TV] -♪ There was a boy ♪

♪ A very strange, enchanted… ♪

-[Combs] What is this called? -"Nature Boy."

[Combs] Who's nature boy?

You.

♪ The greatest thing ♪

♪ You'll ever learn ♪

♪ Is just to love ♪

♪ And be loved ♪

-♪ In return ♪ -[laughing]

[song fades]

[sirens wailing distantly]

[ominous music playing]

[audience cheering]

♪ Get your hands in the air Here we are, come on ♪

-♪ Get your hands in the air ♪ -[rapper] Somebody. Come on.

It took just a few years for Sean "Puffy" Combs

to move from record company intern

to one of the most successful producer-entrepreneurs in music history.

["It's All About the Benjamins" playing]

-[rapper] ♪ Come on, come on ♪ -[Combs] ♪ Unh, unh, uh-huh ♪

[Patterson] After Biggie's death, Bad Boy skyrocketed.

I think I remember him showing me a check for like 60 million or some crazy shit.

♪ What y'all wanna do? ♪

♪ Wanna be ballers? ♪

♪ Shot callers, brawlers? ♪

-[dramatic music playing] -[rapping indistinctly]

[Patterson] Our oxygen was not good enough for him.

[Combs] Whoo-ooh!

[Patterson] He found an altitude that was right for him.

This is one of the first homes I bought when I started doing okay for myself.

-Oh, yeah! -[guests] Oh, yeah!

-[Combs] ♪ Wanna be ballers? ♪ -[guests] ♪ Shot callers, brawlers? ♪

[Patterson] And he always remembered Andre's direction.

"It's about me."

"It has to be about me."

I decided to start my own fashion line.

I feel like I have something to offer the fashion world.

[Patterson] Whatever deal that he got into,

he was the forefront, the face of it.

♪ Brawler, brawlers ♪

He came before everything.

[dramatic music continues]

-[rapping indistinctly] -[audience cheering]

Say, yeah…

[Curry] When I first met him, he was like,

"Welcome to Bad Boy, where all your dreams come true."

[pensive music playing]

I was a recording artist.

I was a good one too.

♪ Hand on my jock Holdin' my… ♪

I was on "Bad Boy 4 Life."

♪ Bars to sit at and sip Cognac With jewels that drip ♪

Put your hands up.

[Curry] I went on the No Way Out tour with him.

-♪ Do Puff drive Mercedes? ♪ -♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

[Curry] Puff was working on the Godzilla soundtrack.

[playing riff from "Kashmir"]

He wanted me to write that song for him.

I had a difficult time writing at first because I was writing music

that I thought would make him sound good.

And it didn't work.

[Godzilla roars]

["Come With Me" playing]

He don't sound good singing this song.

Not as good as I do.

♪ Hear my cries, hear my call Lend me your ears, see my fall… ♪

[Curry] ♪ See my errors, know my faults ♪

♪ Time halts, see my loss ♪

♪ Break the faith, fall from grace ♪

♪ Tell me lies, time flies ♪

♪ Close your eyes, come with me ♪

Right? That was my version. Right? He'd go,

♪ Hear my cries, hear my calls Lend me-ear ♪

♪ See my fall, see my errors Know my faults, time halts ♪

♪ See my loss, know I'm-- ♪

I'd be like, "Bro, that is not what I said."

♪ Now I'm disgusted, since then adjusted Certainly… ♪

[Curry] That is not how I did the song. Cut, cut, cut.

I had to actually puppeteer him, kinda,

and say, "Okay, D, say this, do this, and the world is gonna love you."

♪ Come with me ♪

[Curry] Song was a hit.

Probably one of the biggest songs Puff Daddy ever recorded.

♪ Come with me ♪

[Saturday Night Live audience cheering]

You would think life turned good for me, but life turned better for him.

[ominous music playing]

He was dating J-Lo.

[woman] Tell us about your outfit, honey.

Versace.

[Curry] At the time, I lived in Puffy's brownstone

on 32nd and 2nd and 3rd, something like that.

♪ Fuck Marla Maples, bitches… ♪

[Curry] Shyne lived in the same house with me.

He was a young rapper. He was from Brooklyn.

Signed to Bad Boy.

I remember I came home one day and Shyne had a AK-47

with a bullet jammed in it.

He was like, "I can't get this bullet out."

I was like, "Yo, if you can't get the bullet out

you shouldn't be having your hands on the gun."

-[ominous music continues] -[reporters yelling indistinctly]

I do not own a gun. I do not carry a gun.

The charges against me are 100% false.

I had nothing to do with a shooting in this club.

[man 1 on TV] Sean "Puffy" Combs

is now facing 15 years in prison for his involvement in a shootout.

[Derrick Parker] Diddy came to the club with J-Lo

and Shyne.

Some neighborhood guy from Brooklyn had some kind of beef with Diddy.

Words were exchanged, and next thing you know, guns came out.

[sobbing] I was shot in my face.

[Parker] There was a woman named Natania Reuben

who claimed that Diddy shot her.

[man 2 on TV] She saw Puffy Combs pull a black gun

about the same time as Shyne pulled his.

Then both Combs and Shyne fired.

[woman 1] A stolen gun was found in the sports utility vehicle

that Combs and Lopez were whisked away in after the shooting.

Police would allegedly hear Puffy offer his driver cash and a diamond ring

if he took the fall for the illegal gun possession.

[siren wailing]

[Parker] I transported Diddy that night to the Midtown South precinct.

[woman 2 on TV] Puff Daddy spent more than 12 hours being questioned by police.

Still, he stopped to autograph a court sketch of himself.

[Parker] In this unit, my job was to deal with the rap music industry as a whole.

Everybody called me Diddy's detective because every time

P. Diddy got into trouble I was always the guy that had to be there.

[crowd chanting] Not guilty! Not guilty!

[ominous music continues]

[man] He had nothing to do with this, and it is very, very frustrating

to keep on going through this where anything happens anywhere,

he's blamed for it.

When is it gonna be fair for Sean "Puffy" Combs?

-[ominous music continues] -[crowd cheering]

[man] Welcome back to MTV's New Year's Eve Bash.

Here, high above Times Square.

-Kind of a tough week. -[Combs] Yeah.

What can you tell us about the events of last week?

You know, it's a case of wrong place, wrong time.

Um, but I just want to tell everybody at MTV

that, you know, I will be found… You know…

People will know that I'm completely innocent.

[Curry] One of the crazy things is, before that shooting

Puff already had been in trouble for a…

I guess you can call it, a felony charge.

♪ Don't hate me Hate the money I see ♪

♪ Clothes that I buy Ice that I wear ♪

[Curry] Nas had just did that "You Can Hate Me Now" video.

♪ You can hate me now ♪

[Curry] And they had Puffy on the cross.

I came into the studio one time, and Hezekiah Walker was in there.

He's a preacher from New York.

He was telling Puff that for him to make a mockery of Jesus

wasn't something that he should be doing.

So Puff was like, "Yo, we gotta take this video down."

[tense music playing]

[man on TV] Combs had asked fellow record exec Steven Stoute

not to run the clip,

and when he refused,

Puffy and two bodyguards allegedly pummeled Stoute

with a champagne bottle, telephone, and a chair.

[reporters speaking indistinctly]

[Curry] I remember he got so mad he told his security,

"We're going to Steve Stoute's office and do this and this."

I said, "Well, I'ma sit right here in this chair."

"What's the other verse you want me to be working on while y'all doing that?"

Come back next day, all of them in the newspaper.

[man on TV] Stoute said he suffered a broken arm and a jaw in the attack,

but Combs says he never broke any part of Stoute.

[tense pensive music playing]

[Parker] Diddy and the security guards got charged with assault.

Steve Stoute was beat up pretty bad because I remember he was in the hospital.

But I tried to interview him and talk to him, and he was uncooperative.

[woman on TV] Since then, Stoute and Combs have settled out of court

for half a million dollars.

[man] Stoute has even asked the Manhattan District Attorney

to drop all criminal charges.

[music fades]

[Parker] Between the Steve Stoute incident and the shooting at Club New York,

the D.A., he had it out for Diddy. He wanted him.

The shooting, the case was probably gonna make him a bigger star

in the D.A.'s office if he prosecuted it right.

[tense music playing]

[woman on TV] The fate of Sean "Puffy" Combs

will soon be in the hands of a jury

in connection with the Club New York shootings in December of '99.

[Johnnie Cochran] He's holding up well. It's tough.

You know, he's been praying and, uh, he's concerned,

but he's optimistic and, uh, he expects to be acquitted.

He was wrongly accused from the very beginning.

[man on TV] Shyne's lawyers conceded that their client fired his gun,

but only in self-defense.

[John Norris] Your lawyers were on Puff's payroll,

on the Bad Boy payroll.

[Shyne] I went to the judge three times complaining about my lawyers

because they was just dumbing out.

Witness would be on the stand.

They would ask him two questions that didn't make sense and then sit down.

It's obvious that they was selling me, you understand, in order to appease him.

-[dramatic music playing] -[crowd cheering]

[Parker] Diddy got acquitted from the charges.

[Combs] I just want to say I give all glory to God.

Give all glory to God.

If it wasn't for God, I wouldn't be able to walk out and talk to y'all today.

[Parker] Shyne, however, he went to jail for ten years.

[dramatic music continues]

To take the responsibility for that… is deep,

and I know Shyne had to take the responsibility for it.

And in his heart, he know he didn't do it.

["Mo Money Mo Problems" playing over speakers]

[audience cheering]

What? Make some noise over here.

[Curry] What did he do to not have to go to jail like everybody else?

I don't know.

But I know that everybody who's around Puff

almost been to prison except Puff.

Even the artists.

♪ …ones I like 'Cause they don't get Nathan by… ♪

[Curry] Now it seems like the more we get into Bad Boy,

the more people got in trouble by keeping bad company.

We was better off not doing music and having a job.

At least we don't have to go to jail, and court, and die.

[ominous music playing]

So he's losing his most profitable artists.

I don't really want to do another album.

[Curry] Mase.

I want to do something else.

-[singing indistinctly] -[Curry] 112.

♪ We love you, Puff Daddy ♪

[Curry] Total.

Faith Evans.

The Lox.

So many people were tired of being around Puff.

[man on TV] On Valentine's Day, Puffy and Jennifer announced their split.

[ominous music continues]

[Patterson] I jumped ship.

Yeah. Fight or flight. I wasn't fighting with that.

You watching what could have been you.

Chaos.

Conflict.

I couldn't do it.

But if you know Sean, he's never alone.

He needed a new niche for hisself.

That's when he knew the old way of doing music was over.

[music fades]

So, I got the tapes now. I'ma watch them now,

then I'll hit y'all back, tell you what I think about it.

♪ Near, far, wherever you are ♪

♪ I believe that the heart does go-- ♪

[Combs] Thank you.

[unsettling music playing]

[O'Day] I was in school to become an attorney.

My mom e-mailed me and she was like,

"You are far too creative and talented to become a lawyer."

"I have an idea."

"This was on the cover of the Desert Sun paper

in our local Palm Springs today."

[music turns ominous]

I'm determined to prove to P. Diddy that I should be here.

I'm gonna make the band.

Making the Band was a reality TV show…

[crowd] Making the Band 4.

…that was a national search

to build a super group in front of the world.

Picture this. The talent of Alicia Keys. The sex appeal of a Britney.

A little Christina sprinkled on top. Whoo!

[O'Day] Diddy created Da Band.

A few years later, he created my group, Danity Kane.

And a few years after that, Day26.

[Taylor] Being from the hood,

it was kind of a dream to just try to get out of the hood.

When you get to a place where you're able to connect with somebody like a Diddy,

of course you're thinking, "Okay, he is my savior."

God bless y'all. Good luck. Let's get busy. Making the Band, let's go.

[music intensifies]

[Que] He was definitely a Black figure

who was powerful enough to make my dreams come true.

-That's why I was doing it. -[dramatic music playing]

They're weak. You are solid. We gonna win!

[music fades]

So of course I thought that my life would change in a good way.

You know?

This is the moment y'all been waiting for.

This is what y'all worked so hard for.

Let's see who's gonna make the band.

This group that we put together is gonna make history.

-Okay, that's right. -All right?

-Aubrey. -[crowd cheering]

-[Combs] Robert, you made the band, baby. -[crowd cheering]

Dawn.

[Richard] I just can't imagine what great things to come.

This is the best day of my life.

-Babs. -[contestants cheering]

That's what's up!

That was it. I was in.

They had me go to the back.

[dramatic music playing]

[music fades]

And they gave me a stack of papers like this,

and told me that I had 24 hours to go through it

and sign it.

[tense music playing]

Making it now just reassured me that I got it.

My lawyer actually chuckled and said, "I'ma break it down to you like this."

"They're offering you fame, and not fame and fortune."

[Combs] I'm proud to sign y'all to the Bad Boy family.

Make sure you have read the fine print,

because once you're in, it ain't no way out. [laughs]

Definitely signed it.

Definitely signed it.

It's Bad Boy!

-Reminder-- -Love you, P. Diddy!

[women screaming]

[O'Day] MTV was the mecca of television.

And we are Danity Kane! Let me hear y'all say it!

[audience] Danity Kane!

It defined the culture.

-[screams] -[pensive music playing]

[Robert Curry] MTV had a lot of good shows on at that time.

For us to be number one on a predominantly white station,

we were the only Black show on MTV. Period.

I felt like we had everything.

We were on top of the world.

[O'Day] What Making the Band had that he hadn't got yet

was pop credibility.

[music turns ominous]

And that will make you a billionaire.

[music fades]

Hold up one second. Let me take off my Sean John shades.

In stores now.

[MTV fanfare swells]

There you go, ladies.

[ominous music resumes]

[Bonds] He had just launched Sean John a couple of years ago.

-[Combs] Sean John is fashion Viagra. -[woman] How's that?

I've had 40-year-old men tell me that once they started wearing Sean John,

everything's changed for them. Their sex life, everything.

[Bonds] And it was making them $300-400 million dollars a year.

He would always tell me, "I'm on the road to make a billion dollars."

But on that road, he didn't care who got in his way.

He was getting what I call a God Syndrome.

Do not f*** up my man's words.

This is poetry. You don't want nobody chopping up your s***.

If my cheesecake is in the least bit soft,

or brittle, or not on point, you will go back.

[Babs] He made us go walk to Brooklyn, from Manhattan, for cheesecake.

Get your f****** swag on. Walk that way!

[Babs] It was like, how bad do you want it?

What are you willing to do?

Hell, walking to Brooklyn,

I ain't never do this and I'm from New York.

[ominous music continues]

And no matter what you go through, you gotta be willing to take it.

Because this is what it's gonna be, being an artist.

A large strawberry cheesecake with extra strawberries and an apple pie.

This is for Diddy.

[Curry] This absolute power and control.

I know he gonna like this.

[Curry] You belittle someone to make them live in fear of you.

You can control a person once you break them down like that.

Come on. Finish up strong. Come on, man. The f***.

[Bonds] These kids were young.

They were naive.

They were fans.

♪ Love you… ♪

[Bonds] Instead of being someone that they look up to…

♪ I love you forever ♪

Boo! Boo! Boo!

He was just running them in the ground.

Life could be worse.

Think about it. It could be worse.

[woman] Do you think anyone got it the worst out of that era?

Oh, I think, uh…

Aubrey got it worse than anybody.

[unsettling music playing]

[O'Day] Diddy made it clear

that I was the looker.

I remember that phrase a lot.

He was separating me, and there was a different set of expectations for me.

-Some of your actions affect the group. -Like what?

Whether you decide to turn your eyes green, or decide to get a weave

or you decide… You gotta get that approved

on how it's gonna affect the rest of the group.

What's up, yo? It's your boy Diddy.

We'll turn the cameras off and have a real private moment.

[O'Day] And I just naturally float into the grooming.

Are you taking it to the bathroom tonight, or what's going on?

No, no, no. I'm gonna do the shower in the morning.

-Oh, yeah. -Just for you.

[laughing]

[woman] At what point do you feel that it crossed the line of becoming sexual?

[unsettling music continues]

There are e-mails…

[music fades]

…with pictures of his penis.

Here's one e-mail.

Um…

"I don't want to just fuck you. I want to turn you out."

"I can see you being with some motherfucker

that you tell what to do."

"I make my woman do what I tell her to do

and she loves it."

"I just want and like to do things different."

"I'ma finish watching this porn

and finish masturbating."

"I'll think of you." Happy face.

"If you change your mind and get ready to do what I say,

hit me." Happy face.

"God bless, Diddy. God is the greatest."

[unsettling music resumes]

This is your boss at your work sending you that e-mail.

What happens in real life to anyone else,

uh, your boss gets fired.

Six months later, I was fired.

The vision that I had for the group, this ain't the vision that I'm on.

I don't want you in the group no more.

I don't like her energy.

I don't like what she does to the brand when she's wilding out there,

being overly raunchy, promiscuous.

[O'Day] I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually.

But I also found out later Dawn and Puff were recording a different project.

I can't imagine not singing again. I can't, um, imagine not being on stage.

[O'Day] I was the star of the show

and Puff needed to move that entire audience

over to a new project.

-[audience screaming and cheering] -Can you feel it?

[Bonds] In dealing with Sean,

you gotta realize that he never wants nobody to be bigger than him.

[Combs] Welcome to the Dollhouse

is the number one album in the country right now.

[Bonds] He always has to be the reason that people is showing up.

So he made his own group…

and it was called Dirty Money.

[Combs] We just listening to our demos right now.

We got Dirty Money.

[all exclaim]

Y'all seen it from the beginning. We going to the top, baby.

[hip-hop music playing indistinctly]

[Harper] I get a call from my manager

and he's like,

"Puff's working on a project. I think you'd be great for it."

[ominous music playing]

I go out to L.A.

I get to this house that's hanging off the cliff.

Infinity pool.

We walk down these stairs and he's playing "Strobe Lights."

♪ Love is the party My heart is such a disco ball ♪

Puff slides out in his drawers and a T-shirt. [imitates slide]

He's like, "Kalenna, you're here! What you gonna do to it?"

And I just off the top of my head,

♪ When you know, like I know ♪

♪ When the sunlight falls down ♪

♪ There she goes ♪

♪ Strobe lights dance with the stars ♪

He was like, "I need your energy. I can't do this without you."

Please give it up for Diddy - Dirty Money!

Ladies and gentlemen, Diddy - Dirty Money.

Please welcome Diddy - Dirty Money.

♪ I'm coming home ♪

-♪ Tell the world that I'm coming… ♪ -♪ Coming home ♪

♪ Ain't no shook hands in Brook-land Army fatigues bring fatigue, to enemies ♪

♪ Good morning, hello ♪

[Harper] So when we started this group, me and Dawn were like 27 years old.

We were grown grown at that time.

[poignant music playing]

It was just a different vibe

because it was like the camaraderie you have with your church choir.

The camaraderie you have with the band that you had in high school.

[rapping indistinctly]

[Harper] That's the camaraderie we were building.

♪ Stay with me, baby… ♪

[Harper] All three of us.

-What's up? This is your boy, Diddy. -I'm Dawn.

-And we are… -The Dirty Money Crew.

-Two-thirds of the Dirty Money Crew. -Mm-hm.

[woman] What was her relationship with Sean?

Um…

It was weird.

Because…

Dawn

and Sean…

had this unspoken thing they do.

And I would look at it kind of sideways.

[unsettling music playing]

I saw Dawn participating in things and talking about things

that she thought he was interested in.

How many women or men have you talked to ever

and asked them if they met a billionaire,

what would they do to try to be his significant other?

[Combs] Come on. Take a little tour with me real quick.

This is Daddy's house.

We working. We just some young Black men and women working,

doing legal work.

You're lucky we ain't out on the streets.

[Harper] But you can't say it's a relationship

because fucking Cassie's here.

-Who's this? Say what's up to the people. -Help!

-Hi, people. -Say what's up to the people.

-That shit is bright. -Say what's up.

-Hey, people. -That's Cass there.

She's in the vocal booth doing what she gotta do.

[Bonds] Cassie came into play in 2006.

[ominous music playing]

She was so young. Nineteen years old.

Hi, my name is Cassie and I grew up in New London, Connecticut.

I moved to New York when I was 18

to pursue a dream of being in the entertainment industry.

[Ryan Leslie] It was actually Diddy's makeup artist

who had told me about this young woman

who had a beautiful voice that just needed to be developed.

[Bonds] Cassie was Ryan Leslie's girl and his artist.

Ryan is a producer that I've been working with, um,

for the last two years.

I started hearing this record that was haunting me in the clubs

and it was Cassie's record "Me & U."

["Me & U" playing]

♪ You've been waiting so long ♪

♪ I'm here to answer your call ♪

[Combs] I saw something that the whole world could fall in love with.

[ominous music playing]

About two weeks later, she was doing the record.

["Long Way 2 Go" playing over studio monitors]

You could tell that Puff was uneasy because Ryan was there.

♪ See, I buy my own bags My boots, my jeans ♪

♪ Wear LaRok With my Rebel Yell underneath… ♪

[Leslie] I like it.

I need to love it, though.

I think you'd be more comfortable with a rapper doing the rap.

[ominous music playing]

Next thing I knew, Cassie was there and Ryan wasn't.

[Cassie] ♪ Think about you all the time Can't get you off my mind ♪

[Bonds] All of a sudden, yo, Cassie had a ten-album deal.

Who does that?

[Combs] ♪ A bad boy turned good How could it be true? ♪

♪ And all through my pain How could it be you? ♪

[Bonds] One thing about Puff is, he's like a cat.

You know how a cat sneaks up, but a cat knows what it's gonna do?

[Cassie] ♪ Can't get you off my mind ♪

[Bonds] He took his time.

[Cassie] ♪ But, baby, it must be love ♪

♪ What am I feelin'? It's gettin' stronger ♪

[Bonds] And this was right before the Cîroc deal.

[pensive music playing]

My alliance with Cîroc will revolutionize the spirits industry forever.

[Bonds] Cîroc is doing like 40,000 cases a year.

And they say, "Yo, if you can move a million cases of this…"

They offer him a crazy number, like,

a $100 million bonus or something like that.

And Puff looked at me and he said, "Watch this, yo."

The smoothest, the greatest… …know about Cîroc…

I found something that I believe in… Who has more flavor than me?

I only make it with Cîroc vodka. Other vodkas don't work.

He just went to work and that just put him in a whole different type of category.

-How much are you worth? -I'm priceless.

I represent the first wave of Black economic power.

I set the market value for my people.

[Bonds] It was crazy to me because I seen a young Black man

coming up and enjoying life.

And the saga continues.

[Bonds] I was more of a street dude, back and forth in jail.

And I didn't think that that was open to us.

And I wasn't alone.

Just shooting this Cassie video. See if we can find Cassie.

Puff was introducing Cassie to a life that she had never thought she could have.

-[Combs] Cassie, say hi to the people. -Hey, people.

-[Combs] Say hello. -Hello.

Why you talking like Mickey Mouse.

And this just was blowing her mind.

[woman] And Kim was around too.

[Bonds] Yeah, Kim was definitely around.

But Kim ain't know about Cassie at that time.

[crowd clamoring]

[Bonds] To us, Kim was the wife.

She got them kids, that's Kim.

We looked at Cassie as wifey.

Even in the streets, you get to have a wife

and you get to have one girl.

[ominous music playing]

At first, Kim would catch a attitude.

"Go to your bitch." Or, "Have your bitch do that."

But he wasn't changing.

Yeah. Kim, we need you by yourself.

[Bonds] I ain't gonna say she ever understood.

But she dealt with it.

[Harper] Kim Porter had just had the twins.

She's like, "I got my kid, I'm here, I'm vested."

Cassie was like, out in the crowd.

She's his trophy, right?

Just looked like everybody was playing their part.

You are now rocking with the best. It's your boy, Diddy.

It's my homegirl, Cassie.

[Harper] Eventually, when Kim would come around,

Cassie had to go and get a massage or something.

'Cause Kim's like, "I'm not doing this shit."

[poignant pensive music playing]

[woman on TV] Kim Porter says she decided to end

what she calls her on-again, off-again relationship

with Sean "Diddy" Combs.

She says it was in the best interest of both them and their family.

We want to drop Cassie's first single. Tell them about it, girl.

My single is called "Official Girl."

Everybody wants to be somebody's official girl.

[Harper] Cassie had things she wanted to do in her career.

But now he's in a new group.

[singing indistinctly]

[Harper] Puff would be like,

"I got a session with Kanye. You're gonna come two hours afterwards."

"You're gonna smell like this, you'll look like that,

they'll do your hair, style you, you'll come through

'cause I got the 'baddest' bitch."

[Combs] Happy birthday, Cassie!

[Bonds] He paid all her bills.

He was taking her places,

putting her on his arm wherever he went.

And his promise was, "Your album is next."

That's what Puff is good at.

Realizing what he gotta do to please people.

If you're gonna take somebody that young and make them wifey,

then I feel like you're supposed to protect them.

But, uh, it didn't turn out like that.

[music fades]

[Clayton Howard] I had a friend who thought I would make a good gigolo.

[pensive music playing]

She put me together

with, like, a whole package on different places online.

Within like a couple of weeks, I just got a random phone call

from someone who sounded like she looked amazing.

Great voice, I remember that. She had a really good voice.

She asked me to come to a Manhattan hotel,

I believe it was The London hotel in Midtown.

Woman opens the door, and she's absolutely beautiful.

[music turns ominous]

She has a bathrobe, a red wig on.

In the room, there was, like, maybe 12 bottles of Cîroc on the table.

She tells me that I'm there to please her for her husband,

you know, they're married, they like to spice things up.

This guy comes down the stairs, he had like a shirt tied around his face.

He kind of threw on a fake voice

to make himself sound like he was from the South.

He went by the name of Frank Black.

♪ Them niggas ride dicks Frank White push the six… ♪

♪ Tits and bras, ménage à trois Sex in… ♪

[Howard] He would sit in the corner. She would have me put the baby oil on.

I remember putting it on like a normal person.

She took the bottle and said, "No, that's not enough."

[imitates oil spraying] All over me.

Then she would kind of step back and he would direct her

to pleasure herself while she watched me.

She would ask him if she was allowed to give me fellatio

and he would always agree.

That might last an hour or so until she and I could have sex

and he would either consent or tell her she wasn't ready.

The process was always heavily regulated by him.

"Turn. Turn 10 degrees more, 10 more. Slow down."

"Step towards the candle. Grab that dick. Back a bit. Ain't it pretty?"

"Step forward a little bit."

Very detail-oriented.

I remember the first night.

♪ Well, if I couldn't have it Why you sweatin' me? ♪

[Howard] Tupac's song would come on. He said, "Babe, change that."

And she would change it. Um…

[woman] Did he react that way to any other music?

No, just Tupac.

[ominous music continues]

As the relationship progressed, Puff started to record us.

He would literally pick the laptop up,

put it on the bed next to us with some candles around it

to make sure it was at an angle so it could be recorded.

The intercourse would usually last

maybe four or five rounds depending on how many times she climaxed.

It was a little under two days, maybe 18 to 20 hours.

They gave me about $6,000.

[music fades]

-[DeGeneres] Oh, you do have money on you. -[laughing]

It's all 20s. Where are you going after this?

What are you doing?

You know what we're doing, what we plan to do, girl.

[audience laughing]

[Howard] I went to see them every two, three weeks.

I was involved in this for a little over eight years.

The weirdest thing was they used to physically collect my semen in a cup.

-They collected my semen for like a year. -[unsettling music playing]

It was creepy from the beginning, but after a while I said,

"What are you doing with my semen?"

He told me, "I like to see her play with it and drink it."

He's like, "What's wrong with that?" I was, "To each his own."

When me and my girl are out Friday night and we wanna have a good time,

we drink Blue Dot Cîroc. Cheers.

But after that, they never asked me about it again, they never collected it.

[Combs] This is me every first week of the month

on a Friday night.

-[audience laughing] -[DeGeneres] What are you holding there?

[audience laughing]

I'm holding my package.

-[audience laughing] -[laughing]

-Yes, you are. -Yeah. [laughs]

Somebody's got to do it. So, um…

[unsettling music playing]

[Howard] He may not have directly arranged my transportation,

but he was responsible

for the reason I would go from New York to California,

New York to Miami.

-[rap music playing over speakers] -Come on, the party has begun.

Yeah.

Happy Biggie Day. Let's go.

[Howard] For instance, every March 9th, the day Biggie got murdered,

they would fly me to wherever they were.

I would hang out, drink and party with them for three, four days

while I had sex with Cassandra.

Happy Biggie Day! Happy Biggie Day!

[Howard] I don't know if that was his release for that day or whatever.

[Combs] New York. Play that Biggie all day.

But they always called me on March 9th.

Yeah.

[music crescendos then fades]

-[man] Thank you. -[reporters clamoring]

[Howard] In the beginning, he never had sex with her when she and I did.

He never touched her.

As the relationship progressed,

he began to join the encounters

where, like, I would go, he would go. I would go, he would go.

It was just constant sex.

Maybe a day and a half into this, I asked her,

"Yo, how the hell do you guys stay up like this?"

"You guys are up two or three days, like nothing's happening."

[ominous music playing]

She brings me an ecstasy pill.

"We take this. It's good."

She literally talks me into taking E for the first time.

After I took the E with her,

we would easily have sex for two or three days, no problem.

[Burrowes] In our early days, Sean was clean as a whistle.

He didn't drink alcohol, and he did not like drugs.

He didn't want any of that around him.

But there was a time with Kim Porter

where they had gotten into some argument.

And either she broke a bottle and sliced his wrist,

or he, in desperation, sliced his wrist.

[dramatic music playing]

I had to find a private doctor to get treatment for him.

After the stitching and the wrapping,

more, more, more Percocet.

That incident may have started

his addiction to drugs.

My mind is going. I'm just wilding out.

I'm just seeing shit. Shit is coming in my head.

[man] What time is it? Look at that clock! 2:43 a.m.!

We don't sleep!

[yells]

[Harper] Puff had, like, this 14-day cycle.

[Combs] What the fuck?

[Harper] He would go hard for, like, 14 days.

He was like a baby, he didn't want to go to sleep.

Diddy blog, Diddy blog.

[Harper] It was like, "Let's get in our motherfuckin' zone."

I got all the studios on lock in this motherfucker.

I'm doing my motherfuckin' thing in there.

The motherfuckin' zone was cocaine, strawberry cocaine, purple cocaine,

pink cocaine, designer drugs.

♪ We still balling ♪

[Harper] Remember, I'm there because I'm working.

♪ Bitch ♪

That's the Bad Boy… way.

[dramatic music continues]

-[panting] I like to have a good time. -[man laughs]

So I attract the ladies, you know. Ladies want to have fun.

Ladies want to celebrate. I like celebrating life, you know.

-[man] Uh-huh. -Yeah, man! Yeah, man!

He was always high. I don't think I ever encountered Puff

at a time where he wasn't high out of his face.

[ominous music playing]

They used to lace the baby oil with GHB

He told me there was a little G in the baby oil.

On a good session that lasted three or four days,

we'd go through ten bottles of baby oil.

[ominous music continues]

One time in particular, I remember he was like,

"Y'all should keep going. This was kind of short."

[man] Who's the most famous between you and her?

-Oh, she is. -[man laughs]

[Howard] And she says, "No, you know, I have a career. I have things to do."

And he was like,

"Bitch, this is your only job. This is what you do."

One time I met them at The London.

Cassandra makes me a drink.

He tells her, "Don't give him no drink."

She gives me the drink anyway.

He gets violent. He says, "What, bitch?" Grabs her.

I heard the glass shatter all over the floor,

and then I just heard the door open and slam shut.

He comes to me,

"Oh shit, she just ran out the room. We gotta go find her."

[tense music playing]

Every time she got assaulted she would run out.

She would always come back,

and they went right into the master suite.

Um, they might have been in there 30 minutes, 45 minutes, whatever.

When they came out,

she came out like absolutely nothing happened.

[intense music playing]

Another time, they started arguing, and he punched her dead in the chest.

She flew across the room. I said, "Holy shit."

One time in Miami, I was having sex with her.

[intense music continues]

He gets jealous.

He just runs and jumps on top of her and starts going.

♪ We are here To awaken the world ♪

He sees her smirking at me and he says, "Bitch, what the fuck you laughing at?"

♪ Hear what we say ♪

[Howard] "His dick bigger than mine?"

And he kicked the shit out of her.

I stood up off instinct, like, "Yo, what the fuck you do that for?"

He just steps back and says, "You're not gonna do nothing."

[intense music continues]

♪ We thank you for your love ♪

♪ We know your love Was intended for good ♪

[Andy Cohen] Let me tell you. If you pause this thing,

you can really see your girlfriend is gorgeous.

Oh, wow!

-And she is all natural. Yeah. -Yeah.

[Combs] Really with the spot,

you're trying to do something besides just, um… sell a commercial.

You're really selling a lifestyle.

I think the best way to do that is to be authentic.

-Yeah. -This is what I authentically do.

I just wanted to roll the cameras and show

just what an exciting time that we have.

-I think you do have an exciting time. -Show a fantasy.

-That's actually a fantasy in my head. -Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. All right.

Uh, well, tonight at 3:00 a.m., you know what I'm gonna be thinking about?

This one and Cassie.

[man] That was fun.

[ominous music playing]

[Combs] Take this on the way. We're going uptown to Harlem.

[Bonds] When I first got with Sean,

I liked him as a person 'cause I didn't know him.

-[Combs] What's up, bro? -All right.

[woman] Oh my God!

Wassup? How are you? Yeah?

[Bonds] But everything that I believed you were,

you weren't.

-I love you. -Thank you.

-You're looking fly. -I smell good.

[man 1] …order a drink for you, bro.

-Mmm! [laughs] -[Combs] Mmm!

[woman] Yeah! [laughing]

Forever love.

[Bonds] And that came from me seeing what mattered the most to him.

And the way that you treat other people.

I began to see him use the culture that he came from

only when he needed it.

[woman 2] That's fucking Diddy! Yeah!

[Bonds] Now you walking around Harlem

because you know that the world turned their back on you.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

[Bonds] So now you're gonna come back home

hoping that Harlem got your back.

I'm ready to give this to you right now, bro.

[Combs] Why don't you give it to me, then?

-Off my back, bro. I want you to wear it. -I'ma wear it.

-As long as you wear it, we winning. -I'll accept it.

[Bonds] To be honest with you,

Sean was uncomfortable around so many Black people.

It was only when he needed them that he felt comfortable enough.

[ominous music continues]

[Combs] Oh my God.

-I need some hand sanitizer. Hold on. -[man] I got it.

[Combs] I've been out in the streets amongst the people.

Yeah, I gotta take a bath.

Like, the amount of people that actually I'm coming in contact with,

like, that's the… That's what I have to do. [laughs]

You know what I'm saying? It's like 150 hugs, you feel me?

We gotta be realistic about what's going on out here. It's time to cleanse.

I gotta go under the water.

Water gotta be boiling hot.

Put some peroxide in that.

[Bonds] I began to see the ugliness in the nature of him as a human being.

That came from me seeing the only thing he cared about was hisself.

And for me, seeing the way he treats Cassie.

[unsettling music playing]

[Harper] Cassie has, like, the most beautiful energy.

[whispers] If I could only tell you the tea right now.

[Harper] Then there was this, like, sad part about Cassie.

Now I know.

You know, she was fucking fighting him

and getting fucking kicked and punched and trying to get away.

♪ Bad Boy ♪

[crowd] ♪ Bad Boy ♪

[Harper] The last time I saw Cassie was at the Bad Boy Reunion Tour.

I was pregnant with my daughter.

She was like, "See, that's what I want. That's that shit right there."

She had gotten to that level of womanhood.

She wanted to be the only one.

Is there anything that you may want to confess tonight before you go in?

-I keep everything right here. -[woman] There you go!

Or right here.

[Harper] Cassie had realized…

"He's never gonna have a baby with me."

"He's probably never gonna marry me."

[man] Say hi, Cassie, right here next to him.

[Harper] She was tired of the act.

[man 2] What is he really like?

-Puffy? [laughs] -[man 2] P. Diddy.

Uh, he's a cool guy. He's a character.

[unsettling music continues]

[Combs] I've never been a good boyfriend.

I just wanted to have a girlfriend,

and just have maybe some girls on the side.

You know what I'm saying?

He's very passionate about his work and, um…

just excited about music.

[unsettling music continues]

[Combs] I like to have my cake and eat it too. I'm sorry.

But I'm not sorry.

Um, he's just a really great guy. He's a good guy.

[unsettling music continues]

[music intensifies]

[man on TV] R&B singer Cassie has accused hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs of rape.

[woman on TV] In a bombshell lawsuit,

Cassie alleges the Bad Boy Records music mogul,

throughout their ten-year relationship, physically and sexually abused her.

[unsettling music continues]

[woman] Can you describe what happened the day Cassie's lawsuit became public?

[Dickerson-Neal] I felt very sad for her…

[music fades]

…but it was also validation to know…

I'm not the only one.

I am not the only one.

[ominous music playing]

[man 2 on TV] Sean "Diddy" Combs has been hit with another lawsuit.

Joi Dickerson-Neal claims she was a victim of sexual assault

by the musician in 1991.

I was no longer going to be embarrassed.

I'm going to stand up.

Another woman is accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs…

[woman on TV] Combs is being accused of sexual misconduct…

Breaking news. Another woman is accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs of sexual assault.

[man 1] The fourth lawsuit in the last few weeks.

-[woman 1] …fifth lawsuit… -[woman 2] …seventh lawsuit…

[woman 3] Shocking new allegations against rapper Sean Combs.

[woman 4] …Dawn Richard is suing Sean "Diddy" Combs for alleged assault.

[man 2] Richard also claims

she witnessed him abusing his former girlfriend Cassie

on numerous occasions.

Hey, yo.

Dawn Richard just dropped a lawsuit on me.

From Dirty Money.

[ominous music continues]

-Who? Dawn. -Dawn.

[woman 5 on TV] Sean "Diddy" Combs faces another new lawsuit,

the second this week.

-[man] Can I grab a picture with you? -[Combs] Come on.

[Bonds] It's like David and Goliath.

You're just waiting for one person to show that this person can be tooken down.

[woman 6 on TV] Combs is already facing at least ten lawsuits.

[woman 7] There are now more than a dozen civil cases

that have been filed against Combs.

The pages they sent me were so fictitious, it was crazy.

I'm like, what the fuck?

Then once that person gets a wound, now everybody is gonna speak out.

[man 3 on TV] Some of these civil claims involve trafficking,

and that's something the SDNY could investigate, it appears…

[woman 8] Now to a developing story involving music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Federal investigators raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami today,

as part of a human trafficking investigation.

I don't know what the fuck is--

What level of broke-ness disease is going on.

[music intensifies]

God told me to do nothing, so I gotta do what God told me to do.

And what I'm gonna do to pursue it.

[music fades]

[rap music playing indistinctly over speakers]

[Combs] Once they steady the storm, we ain't about to be trippin'.

Look at this shit. It's fucking dozens of liars.

It's just like they're crashing out they selves.

They're motherfuckers from in jail, that I've never seen before.

This girl that's in my group that was on my last album.

You're on my last album, now all of a sudden,

I'm this person, I'm this monster.

Fuck that, man.

[dramatic music playing]

Gloves coming off.