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[Combs] You know, God told me to do nothing.

But you understand, you're doing something.

Other people need to do something, 'cause this is ridiculous.

Y'all watching-- If you're us watching this shit, you feel me?

So He wants me to do nothing,

but He's not saying He doesn't want Justin to use his brain,

and everybody to use their brains,

and fucking, to figure out whatever, whatever,

you know?

[dramatic music continues]

[Khorram] And then she says,

"It was great, I loved every minute of it."

That's what we got to drop. I think you got the atomic bomb,

I think you got the atomic bomb.

I know you, Puff. I know you hide things well.

I know you bury things well. I know you lie well.

Send it to us. That's why God told me not to do nothing.

Y'all do it, y'all see it. Y'all watch this shit.

You didn't think I'd ever get to the point of telling people what you've done.

[dramatic music continues]

[Combs] I'm not really supposed to be doing nothing.

[Clark] Put us in a room with people who don't know him,

and he's the most powerful man.

But if you're in a room alone with him…

Check this out. I know y'all have heard the rumors,

that I'm looking for a new assistant.

The rumors are true.

[Clark] I started working for Puff in April 2004,

I was his assistant.

[ominous music playing]

My first day started off cool,

and it got… interesting over the course of the day.

We drove around the city, and he was giving me the run of the show.

You'll take notes, you'll go with me in meetings,

you'll make sure my food is ready in the morning.

[man] Hey, Diddy, can we ask you a question?

[Clark] Later that night, he took me to Central Park

with his head of security.

He said, "Cap, I wanna talk to you about a couple of things."

[ominous music continues]

At some point, Puff found out that I knew Suge.

My relationship was with his baby's mother,

who is still to this day my best friend.

He says, "Hey, I didn't know you had anything to do with Suge."

"Like, if something happens, I'm gonna have to kill you."

He wanted to let me know how it would happen.

"You will be in a dark park,

and there will be no one around

if this shit goes left."

"And I'm telling you, I'm telling you,

we gonna do it like this. So you really understand."

I never told anyone.

I never called the police.

Anybody else would've said,

"Puff Daddy told me he's gonna kill me in the park."

I think his trust came from that.

I had a lot of history with dealing with addicts and intense personalities.

My mother was addicted to cocaine.

If you're dealing with someone who's on coke five days a week,

as a child,

by the time you're 23, and she's dead,

it desensitized me to a lot of things.

Puff was a disorganized chaos that I understood.

I have a reputation that I may be hard to work with or hard to work for,

and that's the truth.

[ominous music continues]

He made me write a book, leather-bound, How to Assist Sean Combs.

Good morning, everyone.

[Combs] Capricorn, out of anybody,

knows what it takes to be successful around me.

[Clark] 2008, I got promoted to be global brand director.

This basically means de facto manager.

[indistinct chatter]

[Clark] I worked for him till 2012.

And so I know him more than most people.

He's very good at mental games.

I'm the king!

[Clark] He's very good at getting up under your skin.

He's very good at attacking your fears.

I'm not everybody else!

And he's very good at retaliation.

[ominous music continues]

[audience cheering]

Whether you call him Sean, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or Mr. Combs,

he's always been in a class of his own.

So tonight… [laughs]

…he is the esteemed recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Get up! All y'all stand up for Puff.

Yes!

[Lil Rod] This guy is a real professional at masking and lying,

and making himself look like the greatest of them all.

This is my favorite artist.

How do we crown our kings?

[audience cheers]

[Lil Rod] Some people looking at it, like,

they're demolishing our kings. They're taking-- Man…

What Puffy do for you?

He ain't did nothing.

[audience cheering and applauding]

[Babyface] It's an honor to present this BET Lifetime Achievement Award

to Sean "Puffy" Combs.

Puffy ain't no king for us. He's a monster.

-Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! -[audience cheering]

[man] ♪ Why don't you close your eyes And be free, baby? ♪

[Lil Rod] It didn't really register until maybe a year after working with him.

It's like, yo, all this was a plan.

[keyboard playing various melodies]

[men speaking indistinctly]

[Lil Rod] I got a call Puff was doing a writer's camp for his new album,

The Love Album: Off the Grid.

♪ So tell me you're true ♪

[Lil Rod] For the first two weeks, it was hundreds of people.

[ominous music playing]

What identified me and made me different was,

I play multiple instruments.

Out of all those people, he asked me to make the album.

Lil Rod.

Lil homie over there.

One day, we got our headphones on

and we're working…

I see this guy named G, I don't know his full name.

I see him, Justin, and Puff go in the bathroom together.

Moments later, I hear… boom, boom, two shots.

I'm like, "Yo!"

So I'm going through sounds.

I'm like, "This can't be, you know."

It's like, "Okay, maybe I hit one of those gunshots on a keypad."

Uh, I see Justin and Puff walk out.

[ominous music continues]

I open the door and G was in there just bleeding.

He was bleeding out.

You know, growing up in the hood, people get shot all the time.

So immediately, I'm like, "Yo, I need towels. Bring me towels."

And I just start patching him up and applying pressure.

[siren wailing]

Ambulance come. They pulled up three blocks down.

I'm trying to wave them. I go running down, "What y'all doing?"

He's like, "We gotta wait for the police to get here."

I'm like, "Yo, he's getting ready to die."

[indistinct radio chatter]

[Lil Rod] I got to get this guy outside

so when the ambulance come, he can be getting in.

You know, time is of the essence right now.

The police did arrive.

Puff said…

[music fades]

…"Tell them the shooting did not happen here."

And the way they were saying it,

they weren't asking. Know what I'm saying?

[ominous music resumes]

I do remember Puff's security, Faheem, was there on the scene,

just actually moving in and out as the LAPD was there.

And he's like, telling us all stay inside.

Somehow, he was able to make this all go away.

[siren wailing]

That shook me. I'm still shook.

The only time I've heard about

some type of shooting in the studio where we all creating,

was Tupac.

[woman on TV] Tupac Shakur was shot five times last night…

[Lil Rod] After the shooting,

Puff and Justin, they walked out with confidence.

[music fades]

The next day, the reporter showed up.

We told him something totally different.

And they reported that and left.

[ominous music resumes]

That video was after I had helped him get to the ambulance.

No one knows who he is, where he's at.

Uh, he just disappeared.

[rap music playing indistinctly over studio monitors]

And at the studio, everybody acting like it never happened.

Unfortunately,

if you want to make it to something in this industry,

you have to work for certain people, like Puffy. He's one of the gatekeepers.

♪ Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see? ♪

♪ The one you respect Even when you're vexed ♪

♪ Going nowhere ♪

♪ But I won't stop now ♪

[Lil Rod] I knew if I finished this job,

it would be a good accomplishment for my career.

This will pay my kids' bills, and my bills, and my grandkids'.

So I just want to get right back to work.

[ominous music continues]

[rap music playing indistinctly over studio monitors]

We're working on this Justin Bieber song, "Moments."

♪ I can see it in your eyes In your eyes ♪

♪ Na, na, na, na, na ♪

[Lil Rod] Puff wanted "Moments" to feel like Michael Jackson's "Can't help it."

He had a bunch of people taking stabs at it,

trying to crack the code and couldn't.

[Bieber on recording] ♪ I've been patient, patiently waiting ♪

♪ I've been faking for a long time ♪

[Lil Rod] I got into it.

I made five versions of it.

[Bieber on recording] ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

[Lil Rod] And I played that song.

["Moments" playing over studio monitors]

He danced for probably four hours straight.

Just to this song.

He's like, "We've cracked the code. He did it."

He said, put me in the A room in the studio tomorrow with him.

And it was at that moment…

[ominous music playing]

He flew me to Miami to work at his house.

This Lil Rod over here,

we're in Combs's Entertainment, Bad Boy's Love Records.

I just thought about it. We're making history, baby.

That's a fact.

♪ Never lie to you Life ain't perfect, we just live it ♪

♪ Fuck what they say we did We just did it ♪

God!

Miami was when the relationship really began.

The working relationship.

♪ But now, now, now, niggas That's scaldin' hot ♪

[Lil Rod] While we're working on this album,

he's recording everything all day,

all the time.

[ominous music continues]

Totally crazy.

Yeah, come on.

We're gonna do three songs tonight.

[Lil Rod] I'm on the yacht with him.

There's a song where he's talking to Cassie.

He's telling her, please come on home.

[Combs] Never lie to you.

Life ain't perfect, we just live it.

You know, take it out. Take it out.

[Lil Rod] I just remember it,

because eight bars took us probably seven months to record. [laughs]

Cry for you.

No, no, no, no.

Come on. Yeah, let's go. Come on, champ. [yells]

-[Lil Rod] Cry for you. -Come on, I got it. Don't.

-Yeah, don't do that. Ever. -Okay.

Okay.

To the earth for your touch. Ride for you, cry for you, die for you.

I'm letting all y'all niggas know, if I ain't hot, y'all niggas ain't hot.

So I'm telling y'all,

y'all better get producing some motherfuckin' "Sex in the Porsche."

I don't know. Y'all acting, like, I… Y'all…

I could be motherfuckin' lukewarm and y'all gonna be hot.

You don't wanna be lukewarm.

It's been taking me fucking ever

to get back to my exact tone.

Because I got so big, I could hear myself rapping.

You know what I'm saying?

But I'm figuring it out just now. I don't wanna be figuring out just now.

Y'all witnessing Jesus walking on water, you know what I'm saying?

Or Jesus having a breakthrough, you know what I'm saying?

Because I can only compare myself to the Son of God, you feel me?

I didn't realize it, but he was definitely grooming.

I worked hard to get those gifts, those sneakers, those shoes.

[Lil Rod] You know, he promised me $250,000.

He also promised me a house right next door.

[unsettling music playing]

We had a conversation about making me the producer of the year.

You know?

[Combs on recording] Love, love, love, love.

I love you, Lil Leroy.

My nigga.

We bringing back that signature sonic sound.

We gotta figure out how to touch on some deeper level,

than the surface shit we've been rapping about, you know?

[Lil Rod] That's when it began to get a little weird for me.

Puff would show a video with someone penetrating

a Caucasian man from the rear end.

I didn't really understand that.

But he telling me, like, "Yo, this is the way to success in music."

And I'm, like, confused. Like…

You know what I'm saying? Like…

Is-- What's going-- Is this, like, a joke?

[recording beeps]

[Combs on recording] Let's keep the frequency high, man.

Keep the highs.

Too much shit trying to bring us down.

[Lil Rod] I was told to go to Booby Trap on the River,

a strip club in Miami.

They put me on recruiting sex workers.

They gave me the Bad Boy hat.

They would tell me,

"Yo, put this hat on, get some girls to come back to the house."

Like, "How do they know?"

They're, like, "Yo, they know. Once you put that hat on, they know."

You know what I'm saying? The whole deal. This is, like, a routine.

I'm just, like, "Yo, this has nothing to do with music."

It's weird.

But he felt like this is the only way he's gonna be able to make this album.

[rap music playing indistinctly over speakers]

-They would be doing these freak-offs. -[unsettling music continues]

And it'd be Puff and Justin in the room with multiple women,

closed doors, and lots of music, and lots of drugs.

We just celebrating life, you know what I'm saying?

-It's fucking Friday. -[Combs] It's fucking Friday.

[Clark] I had prime Puff.

The man is, like, sure of himself.

Now you're 50-plus Puff.

How do you even take ketamine?

How is this fun for you at 50-something years old?

Like, are you doing it to keep up with the kids?

[all yelling]

[Bonds] It goes back to fatherhood.

You didn't groom them to take over this company.

You groomed him to do the same things that you doing.

And the sad part about it is,

you will never know if they agree or disagree with they father

because they can't say it.

[unsettling music continues]

[Combs on recording] Yo, Rod, party next door.

[Lil Rod] It would be the tusi, the cocaine, or even molly.

We were all on these products, whether we knew it or not.

-[unsettling music continues] -[Combs speaking indistinctly]

[Lil Rod] You would always hear people say,

"Yo, Puff got God eyes, or God spirit." Or, "He always knows."

Like, people-- He built this perception.

I open the door and see, like, four or five different screens

with a bunch of little pockets in there.

It's like, yo.

And that's when I realized that this whole property

has hidden cameras everywhere.

He who had no sin became sin…

[Lil Rod] There were days we would party,

I would wake up not knowing what the hell happened.

Some days, there was girls next to me.

Woke up some days, he was in the bed.

[unsettling music playing]

[Combs] I'm going on a love rampage.

I ain't hiding nothing. Scared of nothing.

That's the season that I'm in.

I would wake up feeling sore, still not understanding exactly

what's… know what I'm saying, transpiring.

But this is me starting to understand

that I was drugged pretty often.

[unsettling music continues]

I tried to confide in KK. Kristina, that's Puff's chief of staff.

And I thought it would be more, you know, understood,

if I took it to someone who's a woman.

But she was always, like, trying to, like, downplay it.

[Clark] I think KK was the worst gatekeeper he ever had.

Puff is the kind of person, um… You know, the story of the two wolves?

Which wolf wins? The wolf you feed?

All of us were cognizant of the bad wolf, but we're feeding the good wolf.

The good wolf, in this case scenario, it's a history breaker. It's a record ma--

Somebody that's gonna drive our culture forward.

KK, help me out, because you in this too, KK.

[Khorram] Someone who's good with the PR side of it too,

to get out there and spin it.

I believe that they fed the bad wolf.

Give me some real love!

Turn that TV off!

Just the energy just ain't right.

That's my life!

There's a lot of things that happened to me,

I just don't even want to speak on. You know what I'm saying?

[unsettling music continues]

-Day 145. -[man] One hundred and forty-eight.

[Lil Rod laughs]

[Lil Rod] At that rate, I had to ask myself, man,

how long you were willing to deal with him.

[Combs] My nigga, Lil Leon.

His name is Lil Rod, but I'm calling him Lil Leon.

You know what I'm saying?

He's one of the first draft picks of the new Hitmen. You know?

Incredible talent.

Look at that nigga.

-Lil Leroy's hat. -[men applauding]

[Lil Rod] You have to be strong and able to tough this out.

[Lil Rod and Combs] ♪ We are, we are, them niggas… ♪

I can still make sure everything that I did on this album still makes it.

And I'm just trying to fake the funk.

-[Combs] ♪ And they can't ♪ -♪ And they can't ♪

-[Combs] ♪ Fuck with us ♪ -♪ Fuck with us ♪

But then…

[Combs] I'm officially done.

I'm gonna check on the billboard. We're officially done.

[ominous music playing]

[Lil Rod] Right after I finished the album,

they kept putting my business on the back burner for months.

And it was like, "Where's my payment?"

[Combs on recording] Yeah, I'm on it, bro,

but I'm not gonna be able to get nothing done today.

One thing you know about me is I'ma always keep it 100.

-[crowd cheering] -[woman 1] Diddy is back.

[man 1] The Love Album.

[man 2] The Love Album: Off the Grid,

The R&B album you can fuck to.

[woman 2] This is the first time we're hearing music from you

in, what, 13 years?

[Combs] This is my love story.

Just me and you, and we just locked in at 48 hours of love.

[ominous music playing]

They dropped the album, and I was like, "Where's my money?"

[Combs on recording] Hey, yo, bro, it's gonna take that time that I said.

A lot of shit got backed up due to the circumstances.

Nobody's saying you're not getting paid.

[Clark] He didn't want to pay the people closest to him,

because if you have money,

you have a little bit more bravado about how you move.

He didn't want you to ever feel too comfortable.

He wanted you to feel like there's a carrot being dangled.

[Curry] He did that with me.

He enjoys to see people not having.

He enjoys to see him having,

and everybody else wanting and needing.

[Combs on recording] I don't want no, know what I'm saying, problem with you.

You feeling I'm not taking it seriously. I'm just telling you of the time it takes.

Just got nominated for a Grammy.

Let me make it clear.

I didn't just get nominated for a Grammy.

We just got nominated for a Grammy.

No, bro, I'm not letting you get out of this.

Like, you gonna have to answer to this. You know what I'm saying?

[Combs on recording] Yo, my brother, are you all right?

I'm starting to get concerned about shit.

He was calling me, like, left and right.

[Combs on recording] We trying to handle something, bro.

You actually sent me something that I could take a certain way.

Like, you trying to make a problem with somebody that don't want a problem.

In fact, I've never seen my phone ring that many times.

[Combs on recording] I don't know who's in your head

or what's going on in your head.

I hope your ass ain't bipolar, Lil Leroy.

I don't really like the way that this shit feel, you know?

But I ain't taking shit personally, you know what I'm saying?

I don't need no extra stress.

I'm prepared to pay any bills I owe anybody.

[Lil Rod] In the time that I was with him,

two Thanksgivings, two Christmases, my kid's birthday,

all they offered me,

offered… [scoffs]

…for producing this album,

was $29,000.

Twenty-nine.

Which I still ain't even got that till this day.

[music crescendos then fades]

[Combs on recording] Yeah, Lil Rod,

you know, I never see or meant nothing but love for you.

And I just would never be on the side of some bullshit with you.

You know what I'm saying?

I just would never, I don't even see you that way.

When I think about you,

I think about you and your hats, and how talented you are,

and makin' me smile and your fuckin' smile and everything

and your limp leg.

Nigga, don't fuck up the way I think about you over no shit.

Over no-- Like, The Love Album.

Come on, B.

[ominous music playing]

[Lil Rod] The album had probably been out a little over a month.

All of a sudden, CNN comes on.

In our pop culture lead just in, producer and musician Sean Combs…

…accused of doing such and such with Cassie.

She was abused.

She was a part of the cycle of violence, physical…

That was the turning point for me.

[man 1 on TV] One lawsuit updated just yesterday

by a New York artist named Rodney Jones…

[woman] Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones…

[man 2] …who worked with Combs on his latest Love Album.

Jones claims that for more than a year, Combs sexually harassed,

drugged and threatened him while working on the project.

-[Combs] Hello, ladies. -Hi. How are you?

[Combs] Good afternoon.

[Lil Rod] I understand that I may get blackballed

or I may get people attempting to take my life.

[Combs on recording] Yeah, I was trying to help out, bro.

You gotta do whatever you feel you gotta do.

I don't know what your lawyers or anybody trying to do.

Whatever they trying to do, I guess they could get out of my lawyers.

Everybody coming at a nigga now, so it ain't nothing different.

[ominous music playing]

[Lil Rod] I had to tell myself, man,

it was time for me to now stand up for justice.

Standing up for justice for myself,

actually stands up for justice for everybody.

They actually go to the prosecutors. This guy committed another crime.

And I would do the same thing with Lil Rod.

Go to the prosecutors, put a package together…

-Here's what he said. -Hey, you shouldn't be recording.

[ominous music continues]

[O'Day] As all of the civil lawsuits started to come down,

I had a lawyer reach out to me

in regards to

an affidavit that they had received from a person that was allegedly a victim,

and that wanted me to be aware of something that she had seen.

I was told it was an assault.

[unsettling music playing]

The affidavit says, "On a very cold night at the end of 2005,

I am not sure of the exact date because it was over 20 years,

I walked in on Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy,

and another individual, a tall, heavy-set, light-skinned male,

I believe he may have been a bodyguard,

sexually assaulting Aubrey O'Day."

"Around this time,

I had just finalized my divorce paperwork,

and a close friend

decided to drive from Allentown, Pennsylvania,

to New York City to celebrate,

and had met up with my ex-boyfriend and Bad Boy executive, Conrad."

Everybody wants to get a piece of this man right now.

Conrad was one of my bosses at Bad Boy.

He was on Making the Band.

You gotta understand where our interest lies.

The goal is to have an incredible album.

[O'Day] "We met Conrad at Bad Boy Studios in Manhattan,

otherwise known as Daddy's House."

♪ Whatcha thinking about… ♪

[unsettling music continues]

[O'Day] "While waiting for Conrad to arrive,

I went upstairs to use the bathroom."

"I had forgotten which door the restroom was in,

so I went down the hallway and I kept opening doors."

"I opened a door that was not the restroom

because of what I witnessed happening in there."

[music fades]

"What I saw as soon as I opened the door,

was Aubrey sprawled out on a leather couch,

looking very inebriated."

I didn't drink like that at all at this time.

I don't drink at all. It's never been an issue with me.

"She was naked from the bottom half,

and she had something over her top."

"Puff Daddy was penetrating in her vagina,

and there was another stocky, light-skinned man

with his penis in her mouth."

I haven't read the…

I only heard it when it was read over the phone.

I've not read it myself. I don't…

Uh… I just… I don't…

I've put this out of my memory. Um…

[inhales deeply then sighs]

"…stocky, light-skinned man with his penis in her mouth."

"Aubrey looked out of it and was just lying there."

"I am 100% certain that the woman I saw was Aubrey O'Day."

100% certain, this person is.

Danity Kane is more of a pop-rock feeling joined with soulful vocals.

[O'Day] "I told Conrad that night what I had seen,

and his response was for me to mind my business

because I don't know the dynamic of the situation."

Well, fuck, I don't know the dynamic of that situation either.

Not to my memory.

[somber music playing]

"I did what I was told,

minded my business,

and went about enjoying my night with my friends."

Even after I told her I didn't have a recollection of this,

I said, could she be making a mistake?

I asked in every way I possibly could think of.

She was certain.

She said, "You can come public with this."

"I'm gonna stand by you. I know what I saw."

Does this mean I was raped?

Is that what this means?

I don't even know if I was raped, and I don't want to know.

My name is Aubrey.

I'm from Irvine, and I'm 20 years old.

I don't want to find out any more that that woman has to say.

If she made it up, I would be compelled to take her the fuck down.

And you realize the burden that that puts on my soul for the past year,

which is,

if I expose one person who's got a civil lawsuit,

that gives Diddy and his legal team credit to take down everybody else

as potential liars.

Says Aubrey O'Day.

Goes right back on my shoulders, just like that.

The weight of that man and his bullshit.

I will never get up from under it.

[music fades]

[woman 1 on TV] The legal troubles for longtime entertainment mogul

Sean "Diddy" Combs have been building for months.

[woman 2] Diddy is facing another lawsuit.

Dawn Richard from Dirty Money…

[woman 3] …suing Sean "Diddy" Combs for alleged assault.

[woman 4] Combs's lawyer said,

"These complaints are full of lies. We will prove them false,

and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer.

-[speaking indistinctly] -[ominous music playing]

[Combs] Media is the most powerful industry in the world.

In this day and age, I do have to address

all types of things that need to be cleared up.

Game time.

Hey, yo. You think we can hire an editor

to go and find all the Dawn clips?

You're an editor, right?

If you don't control your narrative, somebody else will control it.

[man] It's a media war.

[Combs] You should say positive comments.

See, any Dawn Richard interview where she speaks positively

about her relationship with Diddy.

She did a lot of interviews.

On the interviews, they want to talk about me.

You know what I'm saying?

In the interviews, so we know if we can track down the interviews,

-we know-- What's up, baby. -[man] 'Sup, boy?

-You mind if I get a picture with you? -Sure, come on.

-[man] All right. Let's do it. -A video with P. Diddy.

-See, man? -In the city.

-Looking pretty. -[laughs]

[Combs] We live in a real-time world.

This case is gonna be played in real time.

It's gonna be played in front of the public.

Billions of people in real time.

[man 1 on TV] Talking to fans, taking selfies with them.

-Over the weekend was in Central Park. -[man 2] Central Park.

[man 1] So he seemed like he didn't have a care in the world.

Diddy was staying in Midtown Manhattan.

He apparently knew this was coming.

[music intensifies]

-[dramatic music playing] -[woman on TV] Breaking news tonight.

Sean "Diddy" Combs has been arrested in a Manhattan hotel this evening

after a grand jury indicted the music mogul.

[Williams] The indictment alleges Sean Combs led and participated

in a racketeering conspiracy,

that used the business empire he controlled

to carry out criminal activity,

including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping,

arson, bribery, and the obstruction of justice.

[man 1 on TV] After Combs was arrested at the Park Hyde Hotel in Midtown Manhattan,

Homeland Security searched his hotel room.

[Combs] But what about when it gets cold for two hours?

I wish I had sweatpants on.

[hip-hop music playing indistinctly over stereo]

[man 1 on TV] Among the items catalogued were

a prescription bottle in the name of Frank Black.

And that contained clonazepam,

which is used to treat everything from anxiety and panic disorders to psychosis.

A black fanny pack containing $9,000 in cash.

You want to put stuff in my fanny pack, King?

[man 1 on TV] There was also evidence photos of another prescription bottle,

which agents say contained two bags of a pink powdery substance,

which tested positive for MDMA and ketamine.

[dramatic music continues]

But there was also an evidence photo of five bottles of baby oil and lubricant,

sitting in the bathtub by the drain,

as well as two more bottles of lubricant in the drawer of the nightstand.

There was also a Ziploc bag full of Johnson's baby oil bottles.

[woman 1 on TV] Combs denies all the charges against him,

and if convicted, faces possible life in prison.

[dramatic music continues]

[man 2 on TV] Sean "Diddy" Combs will not get out of jail on bail.

In the decision, the judge said prosecutors provided

clear and convincing evidence to support a risk of witness tampering.

[woman 2 on TV] They say just last week he contacted a witness over 50 times.

[woman 3] Ms. Kalenna Harper was the most recent person we know of

that he contacted.

That was after September 10th, after Dawn Richard filed.

This is, um… I'll give you a breakdown.

[Combs] It's a Dirty Money crew.

-This is Dawn, as you know. Boom. -Heya.

-This is Kalenna. -Heya.

[Combs] And you know, this is a special project.

[Harper] When Dawn drops her lawsuit,

I get this call at eleven o'clock and he's panicking.

Dawn is dropping something, saying all types of crazy psycho shit.

[Harper] No the fuck she's not.

-With your name all in it? -Motherfucking God.

This broke-ness done got niggas motherfucking acting like motherfucking…

you know when zombies get bit?

I'm gonna send you this shit right this fucking second.

-What's she talking about? -I'm gonna send it to you right now.

I'm gonna definitely need you to go on the record.

I'm asking for a big favor.

I can't even, like, stay-- I'm in an investigation.

She's putting this shit in, like, she's bugging. Bugging.

I never had a problem with this girl.

Nah, we know you ain't. I understand.

-Can you send something so I can see it? -I'ma send it right now. Aight, look.

[music fades]

I read the 55-page lawsuit that Dawn had just filed.

And I just… My heart literally dropped on the floor.

[unsettling music playing]

[woman 1 on TV] Dawn Richard is suing Sean "Diddy" Combs for alleged assault,

[man on TV] …sexual battery, forced labor, and gender-motivated violence.

[woman 2] She and bandmate, Kalenna Harper, waited in the kitchen

where many of them appeared to be lethargic or passed out,

while Diddy and his guests performed sexual acts on them.

The album is loco!

I'm asking for a brother's favor of life.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, but like, a statement. Something.

Yeah, I mean, whatever statement any musician you may want to interview.

[Harper] Granted, I'm dealing with my own situation.

I am caught up in a contentious child custody battle,

and now this?

[poignant pensive music playing]

The only person I could call in the beginning was Puff.

Just trying to get help.

Like, I need you to help me get more powerful lawyers.

I was like, I need 5K.

I can pay you back.

At the time, he was like, "I can't help because I'm doing something else."

Whatever.

[woman] Prior to those phone calls, you asked him to help you?

Yeah.

[woman] And he said no.

He said he couldn't help me.

[woman] Then he called you to ask you to make a statement.

Yup.

And I was like, I said, "You know that's fucked up."

"'Cause I needed you, my nigga."

[Justin] Kalenna, she's a big key.

Especially if she's with her every time.

You know what I'm saying? Like…

She gives the Black man's story.

They just trying to tear everybody down. Like, just watch that happen.

And she was there.

It's not right.

You gotta figure out what you gotta do.

God told me to do nothing.

[poignant pensive music continues]

[Harper] So for me, it was like, this is a prime opportunity to tell him,

I know you got that going on, but I got this going on.

I want my kids.

I don't know why Dawn is doing this,

but I have to talk to my husband, because anything I say…

[music fades]

…can fuck around and not,

you know, I could not get my kids back.

[sobbing softly]

So I was like, look, y'all can't call me because you're scared to go to jail now.

Rush me to say anything. I need time to think about it.

What am I going to say?

I didn't see that. I didn't.

But I don't want people to think,

I'm trying to wear a bulletproof vest for Puff because I'm not.

It's just I'm not a bad person.

And I wasn't around that shit.

I don't fucking know what they was doing. I don't know.

[woman] He'd been reaching out to witnesses who had been subpoenaed.

They're able to track it, according to the prosecutors, allegedly,

on a timeline where there were some people that were subpoenaed

that Diddy hadn't spoken to in years.

But after they were subpoenaed, he directly reached out to them.

He was actually telling people, "I'm not to talk to you. Don't text me."

He knew what he was doing was not right.

[ominous music playing]

[Harper] I got some recordings that I could let you hear as well.

[Combs] Baby girl, for real, for real, no pressure.

You know, I just felt like me and you was close enough like that.

I ain't never asked nobody to make a statement, you know what I'm saying?

I felt comfortable, and I feel comfortable asking you.

Because I know, real deal,

real, real, real, real dog shit,

if it's a nigga's funeral, that you'd be jumping in my casket.

[laughs]

'Cause I love you, bitch.

'Cause you really love me.

I really do.

And you know how I feel about you.

But it's all good.

Sometimes, you gotta put yourself and your family first.

And I respect that. You know what I'm saying?

If you have any apprehensions, if God don't tell you 100% to do it,

if your man T-Vick don't tell you, anybody advise you…

[woman 1 on TV] Kalenna Harper from the group Diddy - Dirty Money

is speaking out in support of the music mogul.

"Many of the allegations and incidents described in this suit

are not representative of my experiences,

and some do not align with my own truth."

[unsettling music playing]

[man on TV] Who's willing to cooperate with the government in this case?

[woman on TV] Given who the defendant is,

what do you expect that witness list to look like?

[music fades]

Hey, yo, Cap! Cap! Cap!

[Clark] I got a text from the lead investigator.

You've been formally subpoenaed.

They'd like to begin the pretrial process.

They had talked to well over 200 people before they got to me.

They were like, you kept coming up, you kept coming up.

But I never wanted to tell you anyway.

I wanted you to think it was all

♪ Bad Boy for life ♪

I answered their questions.

Then they say, "Is there anything missing?"

And I blew their minds.

[ominous music playing]

It was 2011.

Puff and myself had moved to Los Angeles.

And that's the original thing, right?

-Everything's original. -Exactly. Yup.

[Clark] He had a trip.

And Cassie came out and stayed with me.

That gave her a little bit of freedom.

-Is that 8mm? -[Clark] Mm-hmm.

So when Cassie's stepping out, she's like, "I'm gonna go hang out with my friend."

[woman] And who was he?

Kid Cudi.

Scott Mescudi.

Wake up the next morning.

She texts me. She says, "Hey, can Scott go hiking with us?"

[music fades]

And I was like… "Ooh."

And then the hairs raised on my arm.

And I said,

this is going to be monumentally problematic.

"He can cheat on you."

"You can't cheat on him, Cassie."

"I work for him at the end of the day."

"Now you've involved me by texting me, 'Can he hike with us?'"

[ominous music playing]

Kid Cudi goes hiking with us.

Totally normal day.

About a week after we went hiking,

about 6:00, 6:30 in the morning, I hear a banging at my door.

[Combs] Let's go. Chop chop.

[Clark] It's Puff.

His pants are split open.

Like a maniac, froth on the side of his mouth.

He has a gun,

and he's mad as hell.

He's like, "Why didn't you tell me?"

And I'm like, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Kid Cudi."

I was like, "Oh, that's Cassie's friend."

He's like, "Yeah, fuck all this. Go get dressed. We're gonna go kill him."

[ominous music continues]

And I'm like, "I don't want to do that."

He's like, "I don't give a fuck what you wanna do."

He kidnapped me and we drove 15 minutes up to Cudi's house.

He went in with his gun.

[indistinct police radio chatter]

I was praying that Cudi wasn't home.

And I called Cassie.

What the fuck? He came and got me with a gun.

We came up to Cudi's house to kill him. He's inside the house.

I don't know what's going on, Cassie. What the fuck is going on? What happened?

[ominous music continues]

She said, "Cudi's with me."

Then I see Puff coming back down the walkway.

He was like, "Tell her I have you, and I'm not gonna let you go."

Cassie, he has me.

He won't let me go until I'm coming to get you.

She says, "Come get me."

He immediately begins kicking the shit out of her.

She was just crouching

and…

he was just kicking her. He never balled up his fist.

It reminded me of, like, pimp '70s shit.

Like, oh, you're not gonna,

you're not gonna touch her face 'cause that's where the money is.

Puff was like, "What y'all gotta do is tell Cudi

to not tell the police it's me."

"If I get in trouble today for this bitch,

I'm killing everybody."

First of all, I wanna start by saying I'm very proud of y'all.

You know, when I started out on my professional career,

it's this fire, this passion that you have inside of you

that makes you want a better life for yourself,

where you put your ego to the side

and you're ready to serve whoever your boss is.

You're ready to be there, be loyal, and help take them to the top.

[Clark] He was so mad for not telling him that Cassie was fucking Cudi.

I was fired. I went from being in charge of the company,

to you'll never be a president of any company.

[poignant music playing]

The kidnapping is, for me, that's, like, the most detrimental thing.

I worked so hard to be able to take care of myself.

And I worked so hard for Puff.

His life would've been over then.

He would have gone to jail for kidnapping in Los Angeles.

But I protected you because I had more love for the culture

than to embarrass him and take it all away from him like that.

But you and Cassie put me back in it after I was out.

[music turns dramatic]

The trauma that this case has caused me,

has been more traumatizing than the first go around with it.

Because now I have to tell you what he did.

Before I could pretend it was fine.

[dramatic poignant music playing]

And I think I did a good job of it.

If you look at my Instagram, you'll see good stories about the past.

I didn't call him the devil

until Cassie finally came out and said something.

[music fades]

[woman on TV] The most anticipated trial of the year

officially underway in New York City.

[female reporter] Mom, how are you…

[woman on TV] Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, facing life in prison

on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering,

and transportation to engage in prostitution.

[dramatic music playing]

[crowd clamoring on street]

[man 1] They're saying the verdict is in, y'all.

[man 2] Verdict is in.

-[man 3] Verdict is in! Verdict is in! -[man 2] Verdict is in!

[man 4] We wanna know what happened.

In the matter of U.S. v. Combs, count one, not guilty.

Sex trafficking of Cassandra Ventura, not guilty.

-[woman] That is Black excellence! -[pensive music playing]

Are you hearing it?

[woman whoops]

[crowd clamoring]

[male reporter] Janice! Janice! Janice!

Janice!

[pensive music continues]

[woman 1on TV] It is a mixed verdict, if you will.

[woman 2] It's a mixed verdict,

but it is a stunning victory for the defense.

-[scattered chanting] Freedom! Freedom! -[man yelling] ♪ Bad Boys, Bad Boys! ♪

[female juror] When we were in the deliberation room

and we've come to an agreement,

and we're only saying that he's guilty for these two counts,

my words exactly were, "Oh, S-H-I-T."

[woman] Do you think that justice was served?

[Juror 75] 100 percent.

We saw both sides of it, and we came with our conclusions.

Today's a great victory.

It's a great victory for Sean Combs.

[man] ♪ Bad Boys… ♪

[Agnifilo] Today is a win.

[Burrowes] I wasn't shocked by the verdict.

He knows how to control the narrative

or change the narrative by throwing money at it.

[dramatic music playing]

Sean threw good money towards a bad situation that he was in.

And he threw a lot of it at that situation.

Eight lawyers.

[woman on TV] Combs's legal team, which has been dubbed "The Dream Team,"

it's a multimillion-dollar group of lawyers…

We had a wonderful jury.

They listened to every word, and they got the situation right.

I'm not a rapper, music lover, or anything,

so I need zero knowledge about him.

I am of that generation who basically grew up

listening to, um, the music that he was involved in.

From Biggie to 112.

I even like Day26.

I wasn't a personal fan of his, but in general, the music.

[Burrowes] Twelve jurors

looking at a celebrity for the first time…

[crowd chattering excitedly]

…up close and personal,

in a unique situation where they have the power over that celebrity.

[pensive music playing]

It's easy for him to play on people's consciousness,

on their opinion of him,

on their thoughts of him, on their view of him,

by just turning a PR switch on.

[Tells] In the trial, one of the things that blew my mind

is I actually saw a huge PR machine at play.

I'm gonna be at this trial every single day.

I'm gonna be in the morning, so turn…

I was one of 14 members of the public that were allowed in the courtroom.

It was a lot.

Other people from social media, they were right there with me.

And I saw Diddy's PR team working out, literally talking to bloggers,

talking to everybody.

[music turns dramatic]

[Combs] It's like we have a movie, and you're speaking this language,

and, you know what I'm saying, we need subtitles.

[Tells] Diddy's team actually approached me and said,

"Hey, we wanna give you the transcripts."

"Every day we send out

a highlight of the parts that you should actually pay attention to,

and that you might want to share with your people."

Now, when that happened, I was, "Okay, but no, thank you." Right?

You have to have some sort of comms to constantly be pushing that, Marc.

You have to.

This is a ten-year relationship, and it was adults and consensual,

and everybody who was there wanted to be there.

'Cause you may just be a person that just does-- You just may watch CNN.

You know? And there's, like, nine billion people in the world.

And seven billion of them is on Instagram

and TikTok.

And so you have…

Y'all at the wrong place looking to see what the possible jurors are thinking.

[dramatic music continues]

[Tells] In the lunchroom, Diddy's PR team was holding court.

I saw them with a lot of bloggers, Instagram, TikTokers.

Every day they would convene. They would be whispering back and forth.

[music fades]

And I literally saw how something would happen in court,

and the same group of people

that were like "this" with Diddy's PR,

they were reporting their version of events.

[tense pensive music playing]

And it spread everywhere.

[man on TV] You got a jury that's not sequestered.

They're gonna be going home every night, and this will be all over social media.

[Burrowes] When they did not sequester the jurors,

I was like, this can turn upside down by the end of the trial.

Because I knew there would be a way in for him.

-They got it out for him, so… -[man] Am I tripping?

Cassie takes absolutely zero accountability.

Cassie was pretty much the ringleader.

That bitch was going back to the freak off.

Baby, you went back.

Being freaky is not a crime.

Diddy will have that motherfucking jury questioning

everything they fucking see with they damn eyes.

[music fades]

For me, staying out of social media and things wasn't difficult.

But, um, some people I know

were, like, feening to get back on to Instagram,

or like, "Oh, my gosh, I have to check my X, Y, Z."

[pensive music playing]

It's funny because you would hear rumors that something happened in court.

And we're like, "What? That didn't happen. What do you mean?"

[crowd chattering indistinctly]

[man] The jurors definitely started to feel

that there was a major shift in tone and energy towards…

[woman on TV] Closing arguments, they were saying things like,

this was a modern-day love story.

[woman] You didn't see any force, fraud, or coercion between Cassie and Sean?

That was a very, very interesting relationship.

Two people in love, you know, they are like overly in love.

You cannot explain.

She wanted to be with him.

He took her for granted.

He never thought that she'd leave.

So it's like both hands clapping together. You cannot clap with one hand.

Both hands, like this, then you get the noise.

[woman] Do you believe that Sean Combs is a violent person?

Based on that Intercontinental video,

he can be.

[unsettling music playing]

Unforgivable, honestly.

You can't beat that small girl like that, the way he did.

[woman on TV] The defense was smart to say,

"Hey, it's not against the law to be a bad person…

[Juror 160] You can say he's terrible.

…My client is not being charged with domestic violence."

[Juror 160] But…

[man on TV] He said he's not charged with domestic violence.

Domestic violence wasn't one of the charges.

[dramatic music playing]

[Juror 75] The very next day, the following day,

if you see how they're getting back together

and exchanging text messages and like nothing ever happened.

So, now we are confused. What's going on here?

He's beating her.

Next minute, they're going on dinners and trips.

It's like going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

[Agnifilo] Allegations of, "I was forced. I had to stay," are nonsense.

She could have done whatever she wanted to do.

That's my answer. I mean…

if you don't like something, you completely get out.

You cannot have both ways.

Have the luxury and then complain about it?

I don't think so.

[music turns pensive]

[Burrowes] He's turning a PR switch on

and turning it off, turning another one on over here,

lighting a match for diversion over here,

and then you get people confused about whether any of this is real,

or people are just coming after him to attack him.

[man on TV] Combs has really been eyeing jurors,

looking for their reaction to all of the testimony.

[woman on TV] The judge threatened to remove Combs from the courtroom.

[woman] At one point, the judge did reprimand him for nodding at the jury.

-Did you ever make eye contact with Sean? -[scoffs]

No, no, no.

No, we are not supposed to.

If they catch you doing eye contacts

or any other gestures, you'll be removed.

You'll be kicked out.

[Juror 160] There were times where he would feel strongly, I guess,

for something and would nod.

But that's pretty much all it was.

It wasn't anything crazy or, like… it wasn't like he was trying to sway us.

It was-- I think it was more of just him as a person,

just reacting to whatever was being said

and forgetting where he was… [laughs] …at the time.

It's funny because I remember that nod watching Making of the Band.

Like, he would do that often.

I think that's just his go-to.

-Brooklyn! -[unsettling pensive music playing]

If he felt it was something that he wanted, I guess, approval on,

he would look towards us and be like…

you heard that?

Sometimes look over to us, like, can you believe they said that?

In his facial expressions.

What the fuck you just say?

It was funny to see 'cause I had the same facial expressions

that he did at times

when it was something that, um, someone said,

and it was, like, "That didn't make much sense."

[woman] Like what?

[clicks tongue] Um…

I think the biggest one I remember

was when Capricorn Clark, um,

said something about being kidnapped.

[man on TV] Jurors heard the emotional testimony from Capricorn Clark.

She alleges the music mogul kidnapped…

[woman] Clark described her relationship with Combs as "complicated."

[Clark] Everything that I said in court is mad real.

I said, I've been kidnapped with a gun. My life has been threatened.

I've watched him beat up his girlfriend.

-We went to murder somebody. -[unsettling pensive music continues]

But that jury, in there that day, I knew they didn't believe anything.

I mean, uh, it's hard to believe. It's hard to believe.

I think we kinda…

I think the whole juror-- The room felt that question mark pop up.

[Clark] I'm watching them as they relate to him.

I think they all kinda had a like for Puff.

Whenever they looked over at Puff, it was like buddy-buddy.

They were star-struck.

I never looked at him once.

But every time I caught the glance of him in the corner of my eye,

he would make me cry.

I cried a lot in there because I was like, "This is a nightmare."

You look like a fucking walking corpse, Puff.

I'm hearing some disgusting stuff,

and I have to re-traumatize myself about what you took from me.

But what happened to you?

[unsettling pensive music continues]

[Juror 160] Capricorn Clark had a lot of information that was very emotional.

She's remembering these events more than a decade ago,

and with the emotion attached to it,

maybe the details are skewed.

But the problem is that that just leaves room for doubt.

That's where her credibility became an issue, I think.

[crowd chattering indistinctly]

They missed the nuances.

[music fades]

They get these highlights,

like,

he beat her for 15 minutes and kicked her in the face.

Well, he had been beating women since 1992.

And he was kicking them when they were down.

-It's just not on film. -[unsettling music playing]

It seems to be "all of a sudden" with Sean.

And it isn't.

This has been a slow build.

Some of it happened before our eyes.

[woman on TV] The death toll from last week's stampede

at a New York charity basketball game has risen to nine.

[Combs] Whatever must be done,

must be done to ensure that this never, ever, ever happens again.

And we blinked twice.

[man on TV] Puffy, as well as the head of his security team,

are both charged with second-degree assault

in connection with a beating attack on music industry executive Steve Stoute.

[woman] Stoute and Combs have settled out of court for a half a million dollars.

And we blinked again, and then we're like, "Okay, I guess this is what's cool now."

[man 1 on TV] Sean "Puffy" Combs was arrested here in New York today

on a gun possession charge after leaving a nightclub

in which three people were shot.

[man 2] The D.A. failed to prove that Combs was in any way responsible.

[Combs] I'm at, really, a loss.

I'm very emotional.

I'm just-- I feel blessed.

But you still have a victim road that leads to Sean Combs.0

Some pretty explosive allegations tonight against P. Diddy.

Fox 5's Julie Banderas is at the courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

-Julie. -Hey, Rosanna.

Well, all of us know celebrities like P. Diddy

get dragged through the mud all the time.

But this latest allegation's so shocking.

Would you believe they're accusing P. Diddy of murder?

[continues on TV] P. Diddy's been sued a bunch of times before,

but by his best friend, make that former friend, Kirk Burrowes?

He's even the godfather of one of Combs's sons.

Yep, that's show business.

[poignant pensive music playing]

[Burrowes] I also am a victim on multiple levels with Sean Combs.

I think out of everybody that has a gripe with Sean,

Kirk is probably the most legitimate.

Kirk was the foundation of Bad Boy.

He wasn't the face.

But in the early days, he was the foundation of it,

and Bad Boy would not run unless Kirk was involved.

He really caught a bad deal.

[Burrowes] Not only was he abusive to me

from an employer-employee standpoint,

he was also abusive to me in other ways.

[woman] In what ways?

[inhales slowly] Um…

Sexually deviant ways.

[unsettling music playing]

I did not want to do it.

I didn't want to be around him and take care of him

as he's SA-ing me and others.

I had 25% ownership of Bad Boy.

I worked day and night.

After I was fired, I wanted to get my 25% paid out.

And I started to get things together to build a lawsuit

to sue him for the stocks that he had taken from me.

[woman on TV] Burrowes claimed P. Diddy cheated him out of 25 million.

Today, his lawyers made shocking allegations.

They even accuse him of ordering the hit that killed rapper Tupac Shakur.

This is a terrorist organization

that uses fear, violence, and the threat of violence

to take money from people and put it in their pocket.

It was eventually labeled RICO and racketeering.

[music turns dramatic]

I was the first to call it.

But I was looked on as, that has to be a lie.

Right now, the judge did say, this looks like it will be dismissed.

[Burrowes] After the filing of the lawsuit, I did not succeed.

And then I was banished from the business.

For 25 years, I was basically blacklisted and banned.

Next thing you know, shelters, homelessness.

With Sean, sometimes you're humiliated.

[music fades]

Sometimes you're made an example of.

-Sometimes violent things happen to you. -[poignant music playing]

Through the years, a lot of bad things happened to good friends.

[rapping indistinctly]

[Harrell] As bottomless as the hole is you think he's in,

he comes up out like a whirlwind, like a shooting star into the sky.

I made the big mistake in my life

to think that when you are championing someone

and taking care of them,

and you have their back,

and you are the holder of their secrets,

the betrayal came at a great cost.

And the way he handled me

was to erase me.

[dramatic poignant music playing]

[woman on TV] Cassie Ventura released a statement saying,

"I am so scared that his first actions will be swift retribution

towards me and others who spoke about him at this trial."

People have asked, was I afraid? I was afraid.

I've been afraid.

I am afraid.

[music fades]

[woman] What are you afraid of?

Powerful people do scary things.

-♪ Bad Boys ♪ -[ominous music playing]

[Burrowes] He remembers all of the people that said no,

and that might have slighted him.

And there's a price to pay for that.

[minister on TV] He who never mistreated anyone,

and never stole anything,

and never abused anybody…

[Burrowes] He's devious, he's calculating.

Master manipulator.

[unsettling music playing]

I think in ways, he's soulless.

This shit is motherfucking history.

Last night, we was human.

But tonight, we're going to superhuman.

[Burrowes] And I think it's hate crimes that Sean has perpetrated

against countless people that have crossed his path.

[unsettling music continues]

[Curry] It hurts.

It hurts.

It hurts.

I hope he's getting everything he got coming to him.

Plus some more.

He gonna get it all. He gonna get it.

The same way he gave it, he gonna get it.

Everybody had to go through something with this dude.

Sucker-ass nigga.

[speaking indistinctly]

[Combs] When I was first starting out, I didn't have no mercy.

If you live life like that too much,

I think your intentions could get misinterpreted.

My intentions was just to make everybody the best.

[unsettling music continues]

For everybody to eat, to make history,

and to inspire the world.

And I think I did that.

I don't want to wake up, you know, old and have any regrets

that I didn't develop as a man.

I'm still in this movie.

And I just plan on… I just know the ending.

And that it's gonna end happily ever after.