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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:11,136 --> 00:00:12,846 The rap world has been shaken again, 2 00:00:12,929 --> 00:00:14,931 this time by the violent death of the performer 3 00:00:15,015 --> 00:00:16,766 known as Notorious B.I.G. 4 00:00:16,850 --> 00:00:19,185 He went down in a hail of gunfire 5 00:00:19,310 --> 00:00:20,687 on a public street. 6 00:00:20,770 --> 00:00:23,189 His death comes just six months after his rival, 7 00:00:23,314 --> 00:00:25,775 West Coast rapper, Tupac Shakur, was assassinated. 8 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:29,821 Last six months, hip-hop probably lost its two biggest stars. 9 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:32,115 It's just a tragedy. 10 00:00:35,326 --> 00:00:40,040 After B.I.G passed, I got this call from Puff. 11 00:00:42,876 --> 00:00:45,336 I remember he sounded so depressed. 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,215 He said that he hadn't left the house in days. 13 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:52,969 He was one of the only people besides my mother 14 00:00:53,053 --> 00:00:55,764 that really cared about me. 15 00:00:55,889 --> 00:00:57,640 And he said, "People have been knocking on my door. 16 00:00:57,724 --> 00:01:00,894 I've just been here by myself. I ain't eat nothing." 17 00:01:00,977 --> 00:01:03,146 And he was almost sounding suicidal. 18 00:01:05,398 --> 00:01:07,400 I just tried to talk some light 19 00:01:07,484 --> 00:01:10,987 into what I could hear was a time of a lot of darkness. 20 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:13,364 And just tell him that, you know, you have a lot to live for. 21 00:01:16,159 --> 00:01:19,454 Then, I remember days later, him calling me back, 22 00:01:19,579 --> 00:01:22,082 "Yo, G, come by the studio after work." 23 00:01:23,374 --> 00:01:25,710 And he played Every Breath You Take. 24 00:01:27,212 --> 00:01:30,131 And he was playing it loud. 25 00:01:30,256 --> 00:01:33,760 โ™ช Every step you take I'll be watching you โ™ช 26 00:01:33,885 --> 00:01:35,637 He was just into it and just played it, 27 00:01:35,762 --> 00:01:37,347 and kept playing and dancing to it. 28 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:38,765 And I remember him asking me, 29 00:01:38,848 --> 00:01:39,933 "What do you think? What do you think? 30 00:01:40,016 --> 00:01:41,601 Do you think people would rock to this?" 31 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:44,104 I didn't know what to say. 32 00:01:44,187 --> 00:01:48,817 Because, you know, Every Breath You Take was so white pop. 33 00:01:48,942 --> 00:01:51,820 I couldn't hear it or couldn't envision it at the time. 34 00:01:51,945 --> 00:01:55,865 But I'm glad to see that his creative juices were flowing again. 35 00:01:55,949 --> 00:01:58,701 And then I'll Be Missing You was huge. 36 00:01:58,785 --> 00:02:02,789 โ™ช Every single day Every time I pray โ™ช 37 00:02:02,914 --> 00:02:05,291 โ™ช I'll be missin' you โ™ช 38 00:02:05,416 --> 00:02:07,043 It was a runaway hit, 39 00:02:07,127 --> 00:02:09,879 it captured the emotions and the grief at the time 40 00:02:09,963 --> 00:02:13,133 that was happening to the African American community. 41 00:02:13,258 --> 00:02:16,803 We just knew this was helping us remember Biggie in some way. 42 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:20,014 On a Sunday morning... 43 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:22,767 headed to church, and I'll Be Missing You came on. 44 00:02:23,810 --> 00:02:25,395 It made it to the gospel station, 45 00:02:25,478 --> 00:02:29,357 and that's when I knew who he was. 46 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:31,317 It was like an amazing grace 47 00:02:31,442 --> 00:02:33,528 for the hip-hop generation. 48 00:02:33,653 --> 00:02:36,781 When people hear that, it still touches people. 49 00:02:37,824 --> 00:02:40,326 He could see things 50 00:02:40,410 --> 00:02:43,329 for the culture that other people just couldn't see. 51 00:02:43,454 --> 00:02:47,000 And I remember just thinking, like, "This man is a genius." 52 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:51,254 But while this genius man was developing his talent, 53 00:02:51,337 --> 00:02:55,091 what else was not developed 54 00:02:55,175 --> 00:02:56,342 that he became somebody 55 00:02:56,467 --> 00:02:57,844 who could create a lot of pain? 56 00:03:24,871 --> 00:03:26,539 One of my big motivations 57 00:03:26,664 --> 00:03:28,041 of wanting to be a part of this, 58 00:03:28,124 --> 00:03:29,250 it's one of those situations 59 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:34,464 where you just have no idea in real time 60 00:03:34,547 --> 00:03:36,299 that you're working with somebody 61 00:03:36,382 --> 00:03:39,302 that ends up changing the world. 62 00:03:39,385 --> 00:03:42,889 It is hard to overstate how important 63 00:03:43,014 --> 00:03:46,809 Bad Boy and the Puff sound was to the '90s. 64 00:03:49,395 --> 00:03:51,898 I remember a time where you could listen 65 00:03:52,023 --> 00:03:54,234 to the radio for an hour 66 00:03:54,317 --> 00:03:57,737 and hear nothing but Bad Boy artists for that entire hour. 67 00:03:57,862 --> 00:03:59,155 Diddy knew how to create 68 00:03:59,239 --> 00:04:00,907 what Black culture wanted to see, 69 00:04:01,032 --> 00:04:02,575 what mainstream culture wanted to see, 70 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:05,078 what American culture wanted to see. 71 00:04:05,203 --> 00:04:07,497 Puffy started to work with producers 72 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:10,583 that.. that were using samples lifted from records 73 00:04:10,667 --> 00:04:14,295 and then taking some of the vocals, and interpolating them. 74 00:04:14,420 --> 00:04:16,339 Puffy took that to yet another level, 75 00:04:16,422 --> 00:04:19,842 to sing hooks on top of the... the rhymes. 76 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:22,428 โ™ช Been around the world And I, I, I โ™ช 77 00:04:22,553 --> 00:04:24,430 โ™ช And we been playa hated โ™ช 78 00:04:26,057 --> 00:04:29,686 I feel like Combs and crew were just throwing things 79 00:04:29,769 --> 00:04:33,481 against the wall, and everything was sticking. 80 00:04:33,606 --> 00:04:35,858 He was having a relationship 81 00:04:35,942 --> 00:04:40,280 with product and audiences from the beginning. 82 00:04:40,405 --> 00:04:42,615 But nobody really could see that 83 00:04:42,740 --> 00:04:45,034 until the empire got so big, 84 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:48,538 they was like, "Oh, this is what he's been trying to do all this time." 85 00:04:48,621 --> 00:04:51,499 It was interesting to see Puffy 86 00:04:51,624 --> 00:04:55,044 move into other areas other than music. 87 00:04:55,128 --> 00:04:58,881 It was just inevitable for the clothing to be next. 88 00:04:58,965 --> 00:05:00,133 We call it urban high fashion. 89 00:05:00,258 --> 00:05:03,052 We combined the look of the European clothes 90 00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:04,846 to... to the urban style, 91 00:05:04,971 --> 00:05:07,223 which is a little bit loose, a little bit baggy, a little bit more, 92 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:08,308 has a better fit, too. 93 00:05:09,434 --> 00:05:13,646 Sean John was incredibly successful. 94 00:05:13,771 --> 00:05:17,817 You saw it go from it's just worn on artists, 95 00:05:17,942 --> 00:05:21,738 to it's worn by influential people 96 00:05:21,821 --> 00:05:23,823 in the cultural scene... 97 00:05:23,906 --> 00:05:27,744 to, like, a dad in Missouri 98 00:05:27,827 --> 00:05:29,996 who's got a Sean John shirt. 99 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:32,498 Could he name any Puff Daddy record? 100 00:05:32,582 --> 00:05:35,209 No. But he knows who Puff is, 101 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:37,337 and he's rocking the Sean John. 102 00:05:37,462 --> 00:05:38,504 The clothing brand, 103 00:05:38,629 --> 00:05:40,214 now, at this point, transcends the music, 104 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:42,175 and it becomes part of this mythology... 105 00:05:43,092 --> 00:05:44,844 that Sean Combs begins to build. 106 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:48,348 I remember going with him to Macy's, 107 00:05:48,473 --> 00:05:51,351 and we were up in... in the boardroom with all the executives, 108 00:05:51,434 --> 00:05:53,227 and they treated him like he was Ralph Lauren. 109 00:05:53,353 --> 00:05:54,604 He was a king. 110 00:05:55,688 --> 00:05:57,273 There was nobody in New York City 111 00:05:57,357 --> 00:05:59,525 that Diddy could not get in touch with. 112 00:05:59,650 --> 00:06:02,904 We used to call him Puff the Magic Dragon, 113 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:04,364 and we said that with love. 114 00:06:04,447 --> 00:06:06,240 He was so much fun. 115 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:07,617 He threw the best parties. 116 00:06:09,369 --> 00:06:13,289 I remember seeing celebrities just let their hair down. 117 00:06:13,373 --> 00:06:16,042 I remember seeing Mary J. Blige, 118 00:06:16,125 --> 00:06:17,001 Ashton. 119 00:06:18,461 --> 00:06:21,381 I mean, it was Gatsbyesque. 120 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:23,674 It was like in the movies. 121 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:26,928 They were huge. 122 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:32,475 And part of Sean's move with the parties is not just a party for party's sake, 123 00:06:32,558 --> 00:06:37,063 but really to embellish who he is in the culture. 124 00:06:37,188 --> 00:06:39,607 Who can come to Sean Combs' White Party, 125 00:06:39,732 --> 00:06:41,234 in the Hamptons. 126 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,320 It speaks more to a new Black money. 127 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:46,406 It carried a different kind of cachet. 128 00:06:47,865 --> 00:06:51,953 What we heard, even at the time that they were taking place, 129 00:06:52,078 --> 00:06:54,372 was that there was a lot of debauchery. 130 00:06:58,084 --> 00:06:59,919 Puffy would have women laid out 131 00:07:00,002 --> 00:07:01,754 and have food on their bodies. 132 00:07:03,673 --> 00:07:06,008 These are things that were photographed and publicized, 133 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:08,052 and just viewed as kind of grand and opulent. 134 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:13,307 I started blogging in the early 2000s. 135 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:15,935 I started getting reports about the type of things 136 00:07:16,018 --> 00:07:18,187 that would happen at these parties. 137 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:21,441 I was hearing about illicit drugs. 138 00:07:21,524 --> 00:07:25,361 I was hearing about sexual escapades. 139 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:29,073 I always have decisions to make about stories. 140 00:07:29,740 --> 00:07:32,618 And for a long time, 141 00:07:32,743 --> 00:07:35,621 when it came to things pertaining to Diddy, 142 00:07:35,705 --> 00:07:40,710 I wouldn't run certain things because I feared retribution. 143 00:07:40,793 --> 00:07:43,880 He felt and seemed like he was invincible. 144 00:07:46,424 --> 00:07:47,967 I mean, I work, like, 20 hours a day, 145 00:07:48,050 --> 00:07:49,719 and I feel as a young Black man, 146 00:07:49,802 --> 00:07:52,680 about anything I put my mind to, I could do. 147 00:07:52,805 --> 00:07:54,974 Whatever I put into it, I'm gonna get out of it. 148 00:07:55,057 --> 00:07:59,061 And I put 150%, 200% into anything I do, always. 149 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:01,481 Diddy really personified 150 00:08:01,564 --> 00:08:04,734 Black excellence and authenticity. 151 00:08:04,817 --> 00:08:05,860 He was succeeding, 152 00:08:05,985 --> 00:08:09,655 and he was doing it in an authentically Black way. 153 00:08:11,991 --> 00:08:16,245 So, he was really someone that a lot of us looked up to. 154 00:08:18,998 --> 00:08:21,250 But with money, he got more gangster, 155 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:22,668 he got meaner. 156 00:08:22,793 --> 00:08:24,504 He got more no nonsense. 157 00:08:26,297 --> 00:08:28,591 He couldn't let the foot off nobody's neck. 158 00:08:28,674 --> 00:08:31,677 His foot got harder on necks. 159 00:08:31,761 --> 00:08:34,597 Because he knew, "Yo, if I slip one inch, 160 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:38,100 if I show one inch of weakness... 161 00:08:39,685 --> 00:08:41,020 they gonna take it from me." 162 00:08:54,951 --> 00:08:58,079 I definitely think there's a huge 163 00:08:58,162 --> 00:09:02,291 reflection of his childhood to who he is today. 164 00:09:04,293 --> 00:09:06,295 Sean started breathing rarefied air 165 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:07,838 before he even realized it. 166 00:09:07,964 --> 00:09:09,465 Janice wanted a prince, 167 00:09:09,590 --> 00:09:11,008 and the last thing she wants to do 168 00:09:11,133 --> 00:09:13,302 is to have her prince making her look bad. 169 00:09:14,470 --> 00:09:17,473 And one thing about anybody from Harlem, 170 00:09:17,598 --> 00:09:19,809 if you're soft, you're done. 171 00:09:20,643 --> 00:09:22,103 That's just the mentality. 172 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,233 'Cause, mind you, she lost her husband. 173 00:09:27,316 --> 00:09:29,527 Now, she's got this kid that looks just like him. 174 00:09:29,652 --> 00:09:30,570 That's emotions. 175 00:09:31,946 --> 00:09:34,156 Someday, she'll wake up, she might be mad when she sees him 176 00:09:34,282 --> 00:09:36,784 because she sees what used to be Melvin. 177 00:09:37,952 --> 00:09:41,581 So, Sean's mom had to fill the shoes 178 00:09:41,664 --> 00:09:43,749 of Sean's dad and mom. 179 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:48,921 And I'm sure everything from Janice's way of raising him was coming from love. 180 00:09:50,590 --> 00:09:52,508 But there were times that I would see 181 00:09:52,633 --> 00:09:56,095 Janice's personality go from hot to cold. 182 00:09:56,178 --> 00:09:58,097 And he had to be on the receiving end 183 00:09:58,180 --> 00:10:00,600 of a hot night or a cold night. 184 00:10:02,810 --> 00:10:05,438 Janice didn't take no shit. None at all. 185 00:10:05,521 --> 00:10:07,523 She ruled with her iron fist. 186 00:10:07,607 --> 00:10:08,858 Better get right. 187 00:10:08,941 --> 00:10:11,027 And, you know, a lot of times, Sean couldn't get it right. 188 00:10:11,777 --> 00:10:13,696 Couldn't get nothing right. 189 00:10:13,821 --> 00:10:15,948 And she didn't let him get away with nothing. 190 00:10:16,032 --> 00:10:16,907 Nothing. 191 00:10:17,033 --> 00:10:18,868 And that's how it was in Sean's house. 192 00:10:20,202 --> 00:10:22,371 If he did something wrong, he'd get his ass beat, 193 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:23,539 simple as that. 194 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:28,836 She knew that he wasn't hard enough. 195 00:10:31,797 --> 00:10:34,216 In those days, that was the order. 196 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:35,968 You know, you didn't spare the rod. 197 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,390 I remember that real vivid. 198 00:10:46,020 --> 00:10:48,230 Especially if you don't know if the punishment.. 199 00:10:49,190 --> 00:10:50,566 really fits the crime. 200 00:10:52,735 --> 00:10:55,613 Wasn't my place to say whether it was or not, but to me, 201 00:10:55,738 --> 00:10:57,573 it didn't seem necessary at times. 202 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:03,079 So, he's learning how to be a wolf the hard way. 203 00:11:04,705 --> 00:11:06,999 For him, it wasn't as easy. 204 00:11:07,083 --> 00:11:09,043 It took a while for him to become his wolf. 205 00:11:10,586 --> 00:11:12,129 Goddamn, when he became a wolf, 206 00:11:12,254 --> 00:11:13,673 it was no turning back. 207 00:11:18,886 --> 00:11:21,597 As part of our investigation, we looked at the history 208 00:11:21,722 --> 00:11:25,142 of Diddy's behavior and relationships. 209 00:11:25,267 --> 00:11:29,605 We have found that there has been a clear pattern of abuse 210 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,524 since the beginning, since he was a teenager. 211 00:11:33,776 --> 00:11:36,779 I noticed how he interacted with his girls, 212 00:11:36,862 --> 00:11:39,115 and it was way different than I interacted with my girls. 213 00:11:39,198 --> 00:11:40,533 It was more physical. 214 00:11:42,576 --> 00:11:45,746 It was more self-esteem lowering. 215 00:11:46,622 --> 00:11:47,832 It was a lot of insecurity. 216 00:11:47,957 --> 00:11:50,292 It was a lot of "who you're dealing with. 217 00:11:50,418 --> 00:11:53,212 I heard you was here. I don't like that." 218 00:11:53,295 --> 00:11:55,131 You know, a lot of girls got thrown out of the car. 219 00:11:55,256 --> 00:11:57,133 Sometimes, I would drive his girlfriends' home 220 00:11:57,216 --> 00:11:58,384 to wherever they live 221 00:11:58,467 --> 00:12:01,220 because they... they had a fight. 222 00:12:01,303 --> 00:12:02,805 So, you know, I was the go-to. 223 00:12:02,930 --> 00:12:07,309 I was the "Timmy, what's wrong with him?" 224 00:12:07,393 --> 00:12:11,522 It just never seemed to get better 225 00:12:11,647 --> 00:12:13,441 with him and relationships. 226 00:12:17,945 --> 00:12:21,741 One of Combs' first public relationships was with Misa Hylton, 227 00:12:21,824 --> 00:12:24,326 who also grew up in the Mount Vernon area 228 00:12:24,452 --> 00:12:26,412 and was a teenager when they started dating. 229 00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:30,666 Any girl that's with Sean has to be fixed. 230 00:12:32,251 --> 00:12:34,253 To his specs. 231 00:12:34,336 --> 00:12:37,423 Sean looked at Misa as his blank canvas, 232 00:12:37,506 --> 00:12:38,340 like, "Oh, my God. 233 00:12:39,508 --> 00:12:42,011 Yo, dawg, I could fix her. Ooh!." 234 00:12:42,094 --> 00:12:43,345 It was his project. 235 00:12:44,638 --> 00:12:48,184 So, Misa became somebody in the game. 236 00:12:49,351 --> 00:12:54,565 When you think of the most classic, iconic '90s looks, 237 00:12:54,690 --> 00:12:57,109 Misa Hylton was behind them. 238 00:12:57,193 --> 00:12:59,862 She was a visionary in her own right, 239 00:12:59,987 --> 00:13:03,574 creating some of the best-known looks for Lil' Kim. 240 00:13:03,699 --> 00:13:06,243 She really created the mold 241 00:13:06,368 --> 00:13:08,454 of what an artist at that time looked like. 242 00:13:11,707 --> 00:13:15,044 My sister, Sonya, and Misa were close friends. 243 00:13:16,045 --> 00:13:19,548 I heard that Puff was putting his hands on Mis 244 00:13:19,673 --> 00:13:22,134 in '89, '88,'89. 245 00:13:23,385 --> 00:13:25,095 So, at that time, I heard a few occasions, 246 00:13:25,221 --> 00:13:27,556 he was physical with Misa. 247 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:28,891 They fight all the time. 248 00:13:28,974 --> 00:13:31,101 They argue like cats and dogs. 249 00:13:31,227 --> 00:13:34,897 And yeah, I've definitely seen them put hands on each other. 250 00:13:36,023 --> 00:13:39,151 I remember when Misa was pregnant, 251 00:13:39,235 --> 00:13:40,986 Sean was in his early 20s. 252 00:13:41,070 --> 00:13:42,655 This dude is a millionaire now, 253 00:13:42,738 --> 00:13:43,906 he's not even 25 years old, 254 00:13:43,989 --> 00:13:45,908 he's got millions of dollars. 255 00:13:45,991 --> 00:13:48,160 They might have broke up 15 times in a week. 256 00:13:48,244 --> 00:13:49,578 They'd just break up, back together, 257 00:13:49,662 --> 00:13:50,996 break up, back together. 258 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,166 And here's Sean, fear is kicking in him, 259 00:13:54,250 --> 00:13:57,962 "I'm about to be a father. I gotta hustle harder now. 260 00:13:58,087 --> 00:14:01,257 I gotta hustle so hard, I got this kid on the way." 261 00:14:07,429 --> 00:14:11,892 One night, Puffy decided that he didn't want Misa Hylton to go out. 262 00:14:13,686 --> 00:14:15,020 He got into this rage, 263 00:14:15,104 --> 00:14:19,984 and she screamed, and her parents came out. 264 00:14:20,109 --> 00:14:21,944 He just grabbed the baby. 265 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:27,032 And he said, 'You're not... you're not getting this baby. 266 00:14:27,116 --> 00:14:28,367 You're not having it." 267 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:32,788 The father tried to talk to him 268 00:14:32,913 --> 00:14:36,292 and he didn't like being talked to. 269 00:14:36,375 --> 00:14:38,544 The... the grandmother tried to talk to him and everything. 270 00:14:38,627 --> 00:14:40,379 Eventually, they had to call the police. 271 00:14:42,047 --> 00:14:43,507 Misa Hylton may have felt 272 00:14:43,632 --> 00:14:45,050 that something was really happening 273 00:14:45,134 --> 00:14:46,468 that she had no control over. 274 00:14:46,594 --> 00:14:47,970 This is her life. 275 00:14:48,095 --> 00:14:50,347 He was using the baby to control her. 276 00:14:50,472 --> 00:14:52,975 That, I think, scared her a lot. 277 00:14:53,976 --> 00:14:55,978 He was just angry and upset. 278 00:14:56,103 --> 00:14:58,188 He made threats. You know, 279 00:14:58,314 --> 00:14:59,398 he was arrested. 280 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:06,989 She endured a whole lot, 281 00:15:07,072 --> 00:15:08,908 his mercurial temper. 282 00:15:11,327 --> 00:15:13,913 She was one of the few people 283 00:15:13,996 --> 00:15:16,707 who got to understand that type of rage, 284 00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:18,000 who he was. 285 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:20,002 There was a monster that came out of him 286 00:15:20,127 --> 00:15:22,087 that nobody knew about. 287 00:15:29,970 --> 00:15:31,472 But then, after Misa, 288 00:15:31,555 --> 00:15:33,015 it was Kim. 289 00:15:34,892 --> 00:15:37,561 Kim Porter was a model, sometime actor. 290 00:15:38,062 --> 00:15:39,355 Great smile. 291 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,526 One of those girls that's just, like, so pretty. 292 00:15:44,652 --> 00:15:49,531 She was Andre Harrell's assistant at Uptown Records. 293 00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:51,533 Puff told me how they first met. 294 00:15:51,617 --> 00:15:53,369 He was working as A&R 295 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:57,206 at Uptown Records, and that she was the first face 296 00:15:57,331 --> 00:16:00,042 that he would see when he got out the elevator. 297 00:16:00,125 --> 00:16:02,544 And he had fell in love with her. 298 00:16:02,670 --> 00:16:06,048 And he said, "By all means necessary, I'm gonna get her." 299 00:16:06,131 --> 00:16:07,508 And that was his mission. 300 00:16:08,759 --> 00:16:11,303 Puff's a little older now when he met Kim. 301 00:16:11,387 --> 00:16:16,141 And Kim was starting to, slowly but surely, 302 00:16:16,225 --> 00:16:17,893 teach Sean what love looked like. 303 00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:19,895 It's not fighting all the time. It's this. 304 00:16:20,813 --> 00:16:21,981 And he started to receive it. 305 00:16:22,064 --> 00:16:25,150 He started changing his ways a little bit. 306 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:27,695 He softened up for a minute. 307 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,738 He wasn't so triggered. 308 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:31,407 He wasn't so reactive. 309 00:16:31,490 --> 00:16:33,158 He was trying to become a good man. 310 00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:36,245 His relationship with Kim Porter, 311 00:16:36,370 --> 00:16:39,415 I knew that it was an on again, off again relationship. 312 00:16:39,498 --> 00:16:41,959 They would, you know, break up, get back together. 313 00:16:43,752 --> 00:16:45,754 But then, there's the infidelity. 314 00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:48,424 Kim Porter, a woman he described as the love of his life 315 00:16:48,549 --> 00:16:51,677 and the mother of four of his children, 316 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,888 witnesses his relationship with Jennifer Lopez 317 00:16:54,972 --> 00:16:57,016 just flood the media. 318 00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:01,395 I was there in the beginning of the Jennifer days. 319 00:17:02,104 --> 00:17:03,772 Just like all the other girls, 320 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:06,233 Sean goes all the way to get you. 321 00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:08,610 Sean Wanted J.Lo. 322 00:17:09,737 --> 00:17:10,571 And he got her. 323 00:17:11,822 --> 00:17:15,409 When we talk about Kim and Sean, I don't see them 324 00:17:15,492 --> 00:17:18,454 the way I saw Sean and J.Lo. 325 00:17:21,415 --> 00:17:22,708 They would be at the same function, 326 00:17:22,791 --> 00:17:24,793 but not together type thing. 327 00:17:24,918 --> 00:17:27,129 Not like him and Jennifer Lopez, 328 00:17:27,212 --> 00:17:30,382 you publicly see him at red carpet events. 329 00:17:30,466 --> 00:17:33,761 So, what we see is a man who claimed to love this woman 330 00:17:33,844 --> 00:17:35,596 more than any other woman, 331 00:17:35,679 --> 00:17:37,973 but was not necessarily treated that way. 332 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:45,689 I've seen him act around Kim in ways that were just awful and very mean. 333 00:17:50,486 --> 00:17:52,112 I knew her well enough 334 00:17:52,196 --> 00:17:54,281 to occasionally socialize with her. 335 00:17:54,364 --> 00:17:55,824 It was a last-minute girls' night, 336 00:17:55,949 --> 00:17:58,077 Kim Porter and some other girlfriends. 337 00:17:59,161 --> 00:18:02,498 And then I see Puffy come into the club. 338 00:18:04,041 --> 00:18:06,418 I really thought he was coming in to kick it. 339 00:18:07,544 --> 00:18:10,672 I thought he was about to squeeze into the booth. 340 00:18:10,798 --> 00:18:14,218 And it was about to be... really about to turn up, you know? 341 00:18:16,470 --> 00:18:18,263 But everything just turned on a dime. 342 00:18:20,766 --> 00:18:22,559 It was not a cool situation at all. 343 00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:26,355 He just started hollering at her 344 00:18:26,438 --> 00:18:29,191 that she should be at home and not out. 345 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:32,694 And then he grabbed her handbag 346 00:18:32,820 --> 00:18:35,114 and literally turned it upside down. 347 00:18:36,865 --> 00:18:38,534 He just emptied it out 348 00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:40,077 in front of everybody. 349 00:18:41,995 --> 00:18:43,372 I was so in shock. 350 00:18:47,626 --> 00:18:49,503 The reason people do things like that 351 00:18:49,586 --> 00:18:52,548 is just to shame you and make you feel small. 352 00:18:54,007 --> 00:18:54,967 To scare you. 353 00:18:56,093 --> 00:18:58,220 I never saw him put a hand on her. 354 00:18:58,303 --> 00:18:59,513 But as we all know, 355 00:18:59,596 --> 00:19:01,807 that's... that's not the only kind of abuse. 356 00:19:06,228 --> 00:19:09,022 It was a controlling situation. 357 00:19:10,607 --> 00:19:13,235 Puff felt like he could do whatever he wanted to do. 358 00:19:14,653 --> 00:19:16,822 Puff was definitely abusive toward Kim. 359 00:19:17,698 --> 00:19:20,909 I remember one time telling him... 360 00:19:21,034 --> 00:19:24,746 "I can understand you having a problem with one person. 361 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:27,583 But when you have a problem with every woman you're dealing with, 362 00:19:27,666 --> 00:19:29,501 then you've gotta look into yourself." 363 00:19:30,669 --> 00:19:32,921 So certainly, now we know that there were signs 364 00:19:33,046 --> 00:19:34,965 of some of the abuse he would be accused of later. 365 00:19:36,133 --> 00:19:38,552 It seemed that because there were never 366 00:19:38,635 --> 00:19:43,265 any real consequences for him, his behavior escalated. 367 00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:52,816 I was a producer and an engineer 368 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:55,736 for Bad Boy Records for about 12 years, 369 00:19:55,819 --> 00:19:56,987 and Puffy, over time, 370 00:19:57,070 --> 00:19:58,155 became more aggressive 371 00:19:58,238 --> 00:20:00,282 about what the company could do 372 00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:02,075 and what the vision for the company was. 373 00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:03,493 Bump somebody. 374 00:20:03,577 --> 00:20:05,162 There's a clip of him. He hangs up the phone 375 00:20:05,287 --> 00:20:08,832 and he jumps up, and he's exclaiming, 376 00:20:08,916 --> 00:20:10,459 "Whatever I want, I have to get." 377 00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:13,170 I'm a savage! 378 00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:15,088 Whatever I want, I'm going to get! 379 00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:17,507 Whatever I want, I'm have to get! 380 00:20:17,633 --> 00:20:19,509 It was a really raw moment, 381 00:20:19,593 --> 00:20:21,303 and it was just a clear window 382 00:20:21,386 --> 00:20:23,931 into how he thought and how he operated. 383 00:20:29,102 --> 00:20:30,812 The case involving Steve Stoute, 384 00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:32,856 you know, helped to expose him 385 00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:37,194 for who he was and the kind of mafia way he went about, 386 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:38,862 you know, trying to... 387 00:20:38,987 --> 00:20:40,113 to bring people in line. 388 00:20:41,156 --> 00:20:44,868 Steve Stoute is a pretty important executive, 389 00:20:44,952 --> 00:20:47,287 a marketing genius. 390 00:20:47,371 --> 00:20:48,705 In the music business, 391 00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:51,708 he was working with Nas at the time. 392 00:20:51,792 --> 00:20:57,005 And Puff had done a song with Nas called "Hate Me Now." 393 00:20:57,089 --> 00:21:00,676 And just like any other event, this thing was being built up. 394 00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:03,303 "You heard the Nas joint with Puff? It's crazy." 395 00:21:03,387 --> 00:21:04,721 โ™ช You can hate me now โ™ช 396 00:21:04,805 --> 00:21:05,806 โ™ช I hate you too โ™ช 397 00:21:05,889 --> 00:21:06,974 โ™ช But I won't stop now... โ™ช 398 00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:10,060 In retrospect, it almost sounds ridiculous 399 00:21:10,185 --> 00:21:13,355 if Nas and Diddy would be on a song together. 400 00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:18,568 But, of course, Diddy gives Nas a visibility 401 00:21:18,652 --> 00:21:20,779 that Nas doesn't have quite yet. 402 00:21:22,322 --> 00:21:28,036 In the video, they ended by being crucified like Jesus 403 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:31,373 in an obvious visual Jesus analogy, 404 00:21:32,207 --> 00:21:35,836 Nas and Puff together. 405 00:21:35,919 --> 00:21:40,590 But then Diddy doesn't like the way that he's depicted in the music video 406 00:21:40,716 --> 00:21:42,926 and wanted to be changed. 407 00:21:43,051 --> 00:21:46,930 But the version of the video with Puff and Nas 408 00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:51,101 being crucified in the desert, was serviced to MTV 409 00:21:51,226 --> 00:21:55,605 and the puff was extraordinarily upset. 410 00:21:55,689 --> 00:21:58,984 And he went to Steve's office. 411 00:22:00,068 --> 00:22:01,486 Puffy went in with his people 412 00:22:01,987 --> 00:22:02,988 and assaulted him. 413 00:22:05,449 --> 00:22:06,575 When he did that to Steve Stoute, 414 00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:08,702 it became one of the biggest stories. 415 00:22:15,125 --> 00:22:19,296 The Steve Stoute incident is incredibly telling. 416 00:22:19,379 --> 00:22:21,548 I mean, this was over a music video. 417 00:22:22,632 --> 00:22:24,134 So what we're learning is that 418 00:22:24,259 --> 00:22:27,929 there are almost no lengths that Puffy won't go to 419 00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:31,224 if he feels that his ego has been hurt, 420 00:22:31,308 --> 00:22:32,476 if his pride has been hurt, 421 00:22:32,601 --> 00:22:35,479 if his demands haven't been complied with. 422 00:22:38,523 --> 00:22:41,318 He goes into court and the prosecution to him said, 423 00:22:41,401 --> 00:22:43,278 "Judge, we reached an agreement 424 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:45,697 that Mr. Combs would plead to a misdemeanor." 425 00:22:46,531 --> 00:22:47,949 Puff walks out of the courtroom. 426 00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:51,912 One day of Anger Management. 427 00:22:51,995 --> 00:22:53,580 In the courtroom, the judge actually said, 428 00:22:53,663 --> 00:22:55,040 "Mr. Combs, do you remember me?" 429 00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:58,835 And, um, Puff says, "I can't say that I do." 430 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,004 So the judge said, "You have quite a history." 431 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:03,423 Because he's always getting away. 432 00:23:03,507 --> 00:23:06,843 There are so many cases that the public doesn't know about. 433 00:23:09,971 --> 00:23:11,848 A source actually pulled these records. 434 00:23:13,225 --> 00:23:19,064 He had this knack for actually getting the system 435 00:23:19,981 --> 00:23:22,692 to like him and to go easy on him, 436 00:23:22,776 --> 00:23:26,196 where he kept avoiding going to jail. 437 00:23:26,321 --> 00:23:29,866 A lot of this really worked to Puffy's advantage in the hip-hop world. 438 00:23:29,991 --> 00:23:31,284 You don't want to be seen as someone 439 00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:33,286 that the streets can't respect, 440 00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:35,330 where everybody can run all over you. 441 00:23:37,707 --> 00:23:39,334 There ended up being a lot of violence. 442 00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:40,877 I think it's just... 443 00:23:40,961 --> 00:23:46,383 was something that was always a part of his emotional... 444 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:48,468 DNA, in a way. 445 00:23:49,469 --> 00:23:52,681 Diddy, as a child, believed his father, Melvin, 446 00:23:52,764 --> 00:23:53,890 died in a car accident. 447 00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:56,435 But as he grew older, 448 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,438 he came to find out that that wasn't really the case. 449 00:24:01,022 --> 00:24:03,525 So Diddy learned that his dad was part 450 00:24:03,608 --> 00:24:07,696 of a drug organization up in Harlem. 451 00:24:07,779 --> 00:24:11,741 Puff's father, Melvin, was connected to Frank Lucas, 452 00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:14,661 one of the biggest drug dealers in Harlem. 453 00:24:14,744 --> 00:24:16,413 And he was connected to the Mafia. 454 00:24:17,914 --> 00:24:20,417 There is a video Diddy posted on Father's Day, 455 00:24:20,542 --> 00:24:22,252 where he talks about his dad, 456 00:24:22,335 --> 00:24:24,004 and there's a real sense of loss 457 00:24:24,087 --> 00:24:26,256 and kind of an admiration as well for him. 458 00:24:26,381 --> 00:24:29,092 And the things that people have long said 459 00:24:29,176 --> 00:24:32,012 about Combs, that he is really determined, 460 00:24:32,095 --> 00:24:33,930 that he's like a world conqueror, 461 00:24:34,055 --> 00:24:36,558 he credits those traits to his dad. 462 00:24:36,641 --> 00:24:38,059 Even if we don't know our parents, 463 00:24:38,143 --> 00:24:41,354 we still have their DNA in us. 464 00:24:42,522 --> 00:24:44,566 I have his hustler's mentality, 465 00:24:44,649 --> 00:24:47,319 his hustler's spirit, his drive, his determination. 466 00:24:52,115 --> 00:24:53,700 So I think it's just-- 467 00:24:53,783 --> 00:24:57,037 was something that he's had to grapple with 468 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:59,289 that his father had been a drug dealer 469 00:24:59,414 --> 00:25:01,041 had been killed in the game. 470 00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:05,420 Sometimes I wonder if that was something he was proud of 471 00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:06,755 or something that he was ashamed of 472 00:25:06,838 --> 00:25:08,715 or something that he may have... 473 00:25:08,798 --> 00:25:10,050 you know, I mean, emulated. 474 00:25:10,133 --> 00:25:12,677 I mean, the record company was called Bad Boy Records. 475 00:25:13,678 --> 00:25:15,096 It wasn't called Good Man. 476 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:16,515 It was called Bad Boy. 477 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:18,517 You know? 478 00:25:21,937 --> 00:25:25,440 I worked with Puffy in 2023. 479 00:25:26,399 --> 00:25:31,154 Puffy mentioned once that he shot a person... 480 00:25:32,447 --> 00:25:33,615 um... 481 00:25:34,908 --> 00:25:38,286 in the club when J.Lo was with him. 482 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:41,164 He said he's done a lot of things before 483 00:25:41,289 --> 00:25:43,833 and sometimes he could be a person to overexaggerate. 484 00:25:45,043 --> 00:25:47,170 It's like, "Okay, he's talking that stuff. 485 00:25:47,254 --> 00:25:49,923 He's got-- he's been sipping juice or whatever it is" 486 00:25:50,924 --> 00:25:55,345 But when I told somebody that, 487 00:25:55,470 --> 00:25:57,097 they said, "No, he-- 488 00:25:57,180 --> 00:26:02,519 There was a situation happen in the club with J.Lo 489 00:26:02,602 --> 00:26:07,190 where Sean went to jail for the shooting." 490 00:26:07,315 --> 00:26:09,359 I'm spelling. I'm trying to google 491 00:26:09,484 --> 00:26:11,194 S-H-I-N-E, 492 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:14,155 only to realize, no, it's S-H-Y-N-E. 493 00:26:19,035 --> 00:26:23,081 Shyne was known around the Flatbush area 494 00:26:23,707 --> 00:26:25,875 as a young guy who could spit. 495 00:26:25,959 --> 00:26:28,712 And Puffy played on young people's desire 496 00:26:28,837 --> 00:26:30,088 to want to be in the spotlight. 497 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:33,925 Sean "Puffy" Combs says, "Look, hang with me." 498 00:26:35,302 --> 00:26:38,138 He's now being considered the next big thing in hip-hop. 499 00:26:38,221 --> 00:26:40,140 He was growing, he was going to be big. 500 00:26:40,223 --> 00:26:44,060 No one pictured it to turn out the way it turned out. 501 00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:48,231 I will never forget the first time I heard about the 1999 club shooting. 502 00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:50,734 It was shocking. 503 00:26:59,242 --> 00:27:01,536 I've spent a quarter of a century 504 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:07,459 with my integrity and my name 505 00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:09,586 in doubt. 506 00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:12,589 In light of the current atmosphere, 507 00:27:12,672 --> 00:27:13,715 with the lawsuits 508 00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:15,717 and all of the stories that have come out, 509 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,510 I knew it was time for me to speak up. 510 00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:24,934 This is something that was in my past, 511 00:27:25,018 --> 00:27:26,936 and it belongs in the past. 512 00:27:27,062 --> 00:27:31,608 But I can no longer just remain silent. 513 00:27:31,691 --> 00:27:34,986 This is the first time I've shared my story on camera. 514 00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:43,662 I started driving for Mr. Combs in 1999. 515 00:27:44,913 --> 00:27:48,792 On December 26th, I was informed 516 00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:52,087 that Mr. Combs would be requiring my services. 517 00:27:53,254 --> 00:27:59,552 I drove down to his studio to pick up Mr. Combs 518 00:27:59,636 --> 00:28:01,388 and Jennifer. 519 00:28:02,889 --> 00:28:05,475 Mr. Combs got in the vehicle 520 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,937 and I happened at one point to glance over my shoulder, 521 00:28:09,896 --> 00:28:12,273 and I noticed him holding a black handgun. 522 00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:16,486 No words were exchanged. We made eye contact. 523 00:28:16,569 --> 00:28:18,822 He said nothing. I said nothing. 524 00:28:18,905 --> 00:28:22,492 And I proceeded en route to Club New York. 525 00:28:26,955 --> 00:28:29,624 I hadn't been in the club scene or anything 526 00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:32,001 for the better part of a month. 527 00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:33,837 Honestly, I really wasn't going out, 528 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,840 but one of my good friends was a party promoter. 529 00:28:36,923 --> 00:28:38,299 She wanted me to come out 530 00:28:38,383 --> 00:28:39,801 and I wanted to support her endeavors. 531 00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:45,181 Puff arrives with his entourage 532 00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:48,476 and they go to the VIP section. 533 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,687 There started to be a crowd walking through 534 00:28:50,770 --> 00:28:52,313 coming from the dance floor. 535 00:28:52,397 --> 00:28:55,108 People are gravitating towards the VIP section. 536 00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:58,027 And there were some people who just... 537 00:28:58,111 --> 00:29:00,071 say, "This guy is showing off." 538 00:29:01,489 --> 00:29:04,117 People were telling Puffy, you know, "You ain't shit. 539 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,035 You ain't this. You ain't that." 540 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:09,622 The next thing you know, we see pushing and shoving. 541 00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:11,499 The crowd is swaying. You hear... 542 00:29:12,375 --> 00:29:14,002 like, angered voices. 543 00:29:15,044 --> 00:29:16,838 And he bumped into Puffy 544 00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:19,883 and Shyne just uttered, 545 00:29:19,966 --> 00:29:21,843 "I'm tired of this shit." 546 00:29:21,926 --> 00:29:25,388 I start to see Puffy and Shyne backing up, 547 00:29:25,513 --> 00:29:30,560 backing away from the area of the melee towards the door. 548 00:29:30,643 --> 00:29:33,354 And I see them reach in their waists. 549 00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:35,899 I turned to tell my friends, "Oh, my God, Let's go! 550 00:29:36,024 --> 00:29:37,066 Let's go! 551 00:29:37,150 --> 00:29:39,903 Watch out! Something's getting ready to go down." 552 00:29:39,986 --> 00:29:43,072 And just as I turn back and I look at them, 553 00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:46,242 I see them both holding guns, and God said to me, 554 00:29:46,326 --> 00:29:49,078 "Be still. You're about to get hit." 555 00:29:49,162 --> 00:29:50,914 And I just see the muzzle flash. 556 00:29:50,997 --> 00:29:51,873 Pow, pow. 557 00:29:56,878 --> 00:29:59,881 I grabbed my face because I instantly feel this hot... 558 00:30:00,882 --> 00:30:03,551 torching flame on my face. 559 00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:06,221 And I turned my head and I'm like, "Oh, my God... 560 00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:09,140 I got shot in my face." 561 00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:13,269 I felt myself separated 562 00:30:13,353 --> 00:30:16,856 and the cold air rushed towards my chest 563 00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:17,941 and passed through me. 564 00:30:18,024 --> 00:30:19,234 I could feel it pass through me. 565 00:30:20,276 --> 00:30:22,445 I was certain that I was going to be dead 566 00:30:22,570 --> 00:30:23,738 at that moment, 567 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:27,033 because I didn't think a human could lose that much blood 568 00:30:27,116 --> 00:30:28,368 and still be alive. 569 00:30:29,285 --> 00:30:30,203 And I just... 570 00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:40,380 I knew my life was never going to be the same again. 571 00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:49,514 At that moment, 572 00:30:49,639 --> 00:30:51,975 Puffy is trying to make the great escape. 573 00:30:52,058 --> 00:30:53,768 It's just chaos. 574 00:30:53,852 --> 00:30:58,398 Shyne was in custody of the police. 575 00:30:58,481 --> 00:31:02,151 Mr. Combs, his security guy, Wolf, 576 00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:04,654 and Jennifer Lopez comes out. 577 00:31:06,489 --> 00:31:09,993 I'm instructed to, "Let's go. Let's get out of here." 578 00:31:11,786 --> 00:31:14,664 I was driving through the red light, 579 00:31:14,747 --> 00:31:16,958 evading the police. 580 00:31:17,041 --> 00:31:20,128 I'd noticed the rear passenger window 581 00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:22,297 over my right shoulder had been opened. 582 00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:26,843 I later found out that was when Mr. Combs 583 00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:30,013 apparently tossed his weapon out of the vehicle. 584 00:31:32,015 --> 00:31:35,268 Mr. Combs and Wolf were screaming, 585 00:31:35,351 --> 00:31:37,312 "Don't stop! Don't stop! Don't stop!" 586 00:31:37,937 --> 00:31:39,522 Seated next to me, 587 00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:45,236 I noticed another gun in Wolf's waistband. 588 00:31:46,446 --> 00:31:49,032 And then a cruiser had come out, 589 00:31:49,157 --> 00:31:51,117 blocking Eighth Avenue. 590 00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,955 And I said, "Chase is over." 591 00:31:59,292 --> 00:32:03,171 We are all escorted into the police precinct. 592 00:32:05,131 --> 00:32:08,927 That's when out of the side of his mouth, 593 00:32:09,510 --> 00:32:11,888 Mr. Combs says, 594 00:32:11,971 --> 00:32:15,975 "Yo, I'll give you $50,000 to take the gun." 595 00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:20,063 And he was saying this under his breath, of course, 596 00:32:20,188 --> 00:32:22,815 because we were right in front of the desk sergeant. 597 00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:32,867 Puffy reaches onto his pinky and says, 598 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,704 "I will give you this diamond ring, 599 00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:40,875 which is worth $300,000, to hold as collateral 600 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,961 if you don't think I'm good for the money." 601 00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:48,758 I did not want to take the bribe, 602 00:32:48,841 --> 00:32:52,011 but the phrase on the street is... 603 00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:54,389 snitches get stitches. 604 00:32:58,309 --> 00:32:59,602 Go, go, go, go, go! 605 00:33:01,020 --> 00:33:02,522 - There go Puff. - Puff! 606 00:33:03,272 --> 00:33:04,774 Before it even began, 607 00:33:04,857 --> 00:33:06,484 the trial of Sean "Puffy" Combs 608 00:33:06,567 --> 00:33:08,778 had turned into a tabloid torrent. 609 00:33:08,861 --> 00:33:10,029 A high-profile case 610 00:33:10,113 --> 00:33:12,365 that's attracted overwhelming support 611 00:33:12,448 --> 00:33:14,492 from Combs' diehard fans. 612 00:33:15,451 --> 00:33:16,661 Not guilty! 613 00:33:16,744 --> 00:33:19,288 Puffy's future is in the hands of 12 jurors 614 00:33:19,372 --> 00:33:21,541 and faces up to 15 years in prison 615 00:33:21,624 --> 00:33:24,502 on charges of weapons possession and bribery. 616 00:33:24,585 --> 00:33:28,047 Sean Combs, in the early 2000s 617 00:33:28,131 --> 00:33:31,050 is about selling a lifestyle, selling a brand. 618 00:33:31,134 --> 00:33:33,636 So he really had to protect his reputation 619 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,141 and his freedom at all costs in this moment. 620 00:33:38,224 --> 00:33:39,517 His high-powered defense team, 621 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,935 including Johnnie Cochran... 622 00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:43,563 Johnnie Cochran, he's known as the O.J. Simpson lawyer. 623 00:33:43,688 --> 00:33:46,399 If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. 624 00:33:46,482 --> 00:33:48,901 There was another attorney by the name of Benjamin Brafman, 625 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:51,154 one of the top criminal defense attorneys in the city, 626 00:33:51,237 --> 00:33:52,363 defending Puffy. 627 00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:54,574 Shyne, Wolf and Puffy, 628 00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:56,534 they all have separate lawyers. 629 00:33:56,617 --> 00:33:58,077 It was really two trials. 630 00:33:58,202 --> 00:34:01,914 It was this great celebrity, "Puffy" Combs 631 00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:03,332 and his bodyguard, 632 00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:08,755 and Shyne, really just a New York City teenager 633 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,592 that had just signed the deal of his life. 634 00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:15,053 From the notoriety of the people on trial 635 00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:16,804 to the notoriety of the attorneys, 636 00:34:18,097 --> 00:34:19,307 it was a circus. 637 00:34:22,351 --> 00:34:24,687 While he's not accused of gunning anyone down, 638 00:34:24,771 --> 00:34:27,440 prosecutors say someone at the club taunted Combs 639 00:34:27,565 --> 00:34:30,193 and he and fellow rapper Jamaal "Shyne" Barrow 640 00:34:30,276 --> 00:34:32,445 pulled out guns and fired. 641 00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:35,198 Barrow's shots allegedly injured three people. 642 00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:37,617 Puffy denied from the beginning 643 00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:40,286 that he ever fired a gun, 644 00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:43,581 that he ever had any guns in his possession. 645 00:34:43,664 --> 00:34:46,417 I want to make this 100% clear. 646 00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:51,130 I had nothing to do with a shooting in this club. 647 00:34:51,255 --> 00:34:53,299 During the trial, Puffy is looking around, 648 00:34:53,382 --> 00:34:54,717 he's very confident. 649 00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:56,803 "Hey, I allegedly paid off people, 650 00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:58,471 so I have nothing to worry about." 651 00:34:58,554 --> 00:34:59,806 But then... 652 00:34:59,889 --> 00:35:02,475 Liar, liar, pants on fire. 653 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,644 I decided to testify. 654 00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:07,814 I was the prosecution's main witness. 655 00:35:07,897 --> 00:35:12,443 The most damaging testimony so far from his former driver. 656 00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:15,071 Yes, I was nervous about cooperating, 657 00:35:15,571 --> 00:35:17,448 but I had to. 658 00:35:17,532 --> 00:35:19,492 You have to stand up for what's right in this world. 659 00:35:19,617 --> 00:35:22,495 Fenderson testified Combs had a gun. 660 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:28,126 I was recanting my statement and no longer going along 661 00:35:28,209 --> 00:35:31,963 with their scheme to take ownership of the gun. 662 00:35:33,172 --> 00:35:34,799 But Fenderson wasn't the only witness 663 00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:37,260 to put a gun in Combs' hand. 664 00:35:37,343 --> 00:35:39,137 When I had to testify, 665 00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:41,430 I said, "I saw without a doubt who shot me. 666 00:35:41,514 --> 00:35:43,349 I was shot by Sean 'Puffy' Combs." 667 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:46,519 I've said that ever since that day. 668 00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:50,690 I never once ever changed that, 669 00:35:50,773 --> 00:35:53,192 modified it, modulated it in any way. 670 00:35:54,277 --> 00:35:56,362 And I never expected to be a part... 671 00:35:57,446 --> 00:35:59,866 of such a reckless act of violence. 672 00:35:59,949 --> 00:36:02,451 Natania, she had the kind of resilience 673 00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:03,786 and defiance... 674 00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:05,371 My heart was with her. 675 00:36:05,496 --> 00:36:07,665 The defense described a two-prong approach. 676 00:36:07,748 --> 00:36:09,125 First, calling their own witnesses, 677 00:36:09,208 --> 00:36:11,794 who say he didn't have a gun at the nightclub. 678 00:36:11,878 --> 00:36:13,880 Most of the witnesses who came up 679 00:36:13,963 --> 00:36:15,715 said, "Shyne had a gun 680 00:36:15,798 --> 00:36:18,885 and we did not see a gun in Puffy's hand." 681 00:36:18,968 --> 00:36:20,887 And, second, discrediting the prosecution witnesses 682 00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:22,388 who put a gun in Puffy's hand. 683 00:36:22,471 --> 00:36:24,223 The lead defense attorney, 684 00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:29,562 his cross-examination was getting a bit aggressive. 685 00:36:29,645 --> 00:36:33,774 I says, "I'm not the one on trial here today, Your Honor. 686 00:36:34,233 --> 00:36:35,568 He is." 687 00:36:35,693 --> 00:36:38,529 And I pointed and glared right over at Diddy. 688 00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:42,700 Some people said this was a conspiracy. 689 00:36:42,783 --> 00:36:44,076 People cursed me out, 690 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,996 accusing me of trying to take down a good Black man 691 00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:48,831 and destroy hip-hop. 692 00:36:48,915 --> 00:36:52,501 My heart really, truly breaks for Natania 693 00:36:52,585 --> 00:36:54,712 and what she has been through. 694 00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:58,049 Natania deserved nothing but compassion 695 00:36:58,132 --> 00:36:59,425 and protection, 696 00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:00,885 and the culture failed her. 697 00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:04,722 They were ridiculing me on the air, 698 00:37:04,805 --> 00:37:07,683 saying, "Does anybody know this one-eyed ho? 699 00:37:08,851 --> 00:37:11,520 Call us up and give us some dirt on her," 700 00:37:11,604 --> 00:37:14,398 playing rapid succession gunfire soundtrack 701 00:37:14,482 --> 00:37:15,942 in the background. 702 00:37:16,776 --> 00:37:18,736 I was devastated. 703 00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:21,948 Why were they doing this to me? 704 00:37:22,073 --> 00:37:24,867 After the shooting, Natania, she was appearing on the radio 705 00:37:24,951 --> 00:37:26,285 and trying to tell her story. 706 00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:27,745 She was actually getting death threats. 707 00:37:29,872 --> 00:37:31,040 I would look out the windows 708 00:37:31,123 --> 00:37:32,792 and there'd be blacked-out SUVs 709 00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:34,669 parked on the corners by my house. 710 00:37:35,836 --> 00:37:39,090 Those SUVs were watching me. 711 00:37:39,173 --> 00:37:42,051 And for my own safety, I had to be moved. 712 00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:50,935 I will never forget that day when the verdicts were read. 713 00:37:52,395 --> 00:37:54,730 A gasp went up in the courtroom. 714 00:38:04,323 --> 00:38:06,909 I'm just really right now-- I'm just very emotional. 715 00:38:06,993 --> 00:38:08,953 Um, I'm at really a loss. 716 00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:10,955 I'm very emotional. 717 00:38:11,038 --> 00:38:12,832 I'm just-- I feel blessed. 718 00:38:12,915 --> 00:38:14,333 It was like Mardi Gras. 719 00:38:14,458 --> 00:38:16,752 They all went out to celebrate. 720 00:38:18,504 --> 00:38:22,133 And not only was it Sean Combs acquitted, 721 00:38:22,216 --> 00:38:26,137 but Anthony "Wolf" Jones was also acquitted. 722 00:38:26,220 --> 00:38:28,931 And, of course, "Shyne" Barrow was convicted. 723 00:38:30,766 --> 00:38:32,518 Yeah, I spoke to Shyne. 724 00:38:32,601 --> 00:38:36,522 Shyne says, "Look, he lied on the stand. 725 00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:38,024 He got people to lie for him. 726 00:38:39,567 --> 00:38:41,277 Puffy betrayed me." 727 00:38:42,069 --> 00:38:43,154 Those were his words. 728 00:38:43,946 --> 00:38:45,114 He went in there 729 00:38:45,197 --> 00:38:47,033 and he lied about the fact that he didn't have a gun. 730 00:38:47,116 --> 00:38:50,745 Everybody knew pretty much that Combs had a gun. 731 00:38:52,371 --> 00:38:54,373 When I found out the verdict, 732 00:38:54,457 --> 00:38:56,834 I was shocked and disappointed 733 00:38:57,626 --> 00:38:59,837 at our legal system. 734 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:01,714 But I was relieved 735 00:39:01,797 --> 00:39:06,719 because I did not want to be the guy that sent him to jail. 736 00:39:06,802 --> 00:39:10,222 I didn't want that for my own safety. 737 00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:11,390 I was a child of hip-hop. 738 00:39:11,474 --> 00:39:13,809 I didn't deserve this. I was a victim. 739 00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:15,061 I wanted justice. 740 00:39:16,937 --> 00:39:19,023 You know, went to try and console 741 00:39:19,106 --> 00:39:20,566 Shyne's mother, grandmother. 742 00:39:20,691 --> 00:39:22,068 And... 743 00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:23,402 as we left that day, 744 00:39:23,486 --> 00:39:25,863 there were still supporters outside. 745 00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:29,700 But no one really cared about him at that point. 746 00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:31,327 He was yesterday's news. 747 00:39:33,871 --> 00:39:36,415 When he was convicted, I got angry 748 00:39:36,499 --> 00:39:37,750 because there are families 749 00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:40,586 that are giving young people to you, Puffy, 750 00:39:40,711 --> 00:39:44,006 and you have a responsibility to these young people 751 00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:45,424 on your record label. 752 00:39:47,301 --> 00:39:50,429 I think it was an attempt to take down another rap star. 753 00:39:50,513 --> 00:39:52,932 And I think that, clearly, we proved his innocence. 754 00:39:53,015 --> 00:39:55,601 He was, in fact, a victim that night. 755 00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:57,686 And I think you're going to see great things from him 756 00:39:57,770 --> 00:39:59,063 for the future. 757 00:40:00,523 --> 00:40:01,941 I think it was pretty clear to most people 758 00:40:02,066 --> 00:40:04,777 that at the very least, he hung him out to dry. 759 00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:07,363 And at the very worst, Shyne took the fall. 760 00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:14,453 There was the City College incident, 761 00:40:15,830 --> 00:40:17,540 Steve Stoute incident, 762 00:40:18,707 --> 00:40:20,918 and the nightclub shooting. 763 00:40:21,001 --> 00:40:24,880 He's getting this reputation of being a Teflon Don. 764 00:40:24,964 --> 00:40:27,550 And that is a pattern that we continue to see, 765 00:40:27,633 --> 00:40:30,136 is that even when things are really, really bad 766 00:40:30,219 --> 00:40:31,137 for other people, 767 00:40:31,262 --> 00:40:33,222 for puffy, just a blip. 768 00:40:35,474 --> 00:40:38,310 He was getting away with things for so long. 769 00:40:38,894 --> 00:40:40,855 But I believe... 770 00:40:42,148 --> 00:40:43,607 the truth will always find its way, 771 00:40:43,691 --> 00:40:44,650 even in the dark. 772 00:41:08,382 --> 00:41:11,177 Thanksgiving break in November 2023, 773 00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:12,178 I got a call. 774 00:41:17,933 --> 00:41:19,810 "Your rape was caught on tape." 775 00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:25,399 I said, "What do you mean my rape was caught on tape?" 776 00:42:15,407 --> 00:42:16,450 Combs: Who said we had to have one name? 777 00:42:16,575 --> 00:42:19,578 Combs found a way to rise again. 778 00:42:19,703 --> 00:42:21,747 He was seen to many people 779 00:42:21,872 --> 00:42:24,625 in the media as a safe person of color. 780 00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:26,043 I am the American dream. 781 00:42:26,126 --> 00:42:29,505 Who wouldn't want to be associated with him? 782 00:42:29,588 --> 00:42:31,465 Puff was the top. 783 00:42:32,841 --> 00:42:34,468 But then, everything changed. 784 00:42:34,593 --> 00:42:37,346 Who would have thought that Cassy was going to be the one? 785 00:42:37,429 --> 00:42:39,765 It's almost like a Greek tragedy. 786 00:42:40,766 --> 00:42:43,102 I always believed that I was the only victim. 787 00:42:43,227 --> 00:42:47,106 He said, "Now you're hot enough that I can you." 788 00:42:47,189 --> 00:42:49,275 "I can you now." 789 00:42:49,358 --> 00:42:52,570 He said, "Sometimes you just gotta let these hoes know who the boss is." 790 00:42:54,321 --> 00:42:55,614 I feel like the drinks were spiked. 791 00:42:55,698 --> 00:42:58,450 Puff said, "Keep your effing mouth shut." 792 00:42:59,368 --> 00:43:00,953 People knew, and people kept quiet. 793 00:43:02,288 --> 00:43:04,456 He looked at me and he said 794 00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:07,960 "You don't want to end up like my ex, Cassy." 65280

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