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What's up, world?

It's October 2nd.

I'm currently in Manhattan, New York.

Tomorrow, I'm going to be speaking to a grand jury

about my former employment

with Combs Enterprises.

Hey, yo, Phil, can you give me 20 Xanax, please?

I need my Gucci bag up here.

Hey, yo, Phil, can y'all come straighten it up over here?

Not looking luxurious.

The mushroom.

- Phil, I'mma need 10 Adderall. - Phil, I need some Cialis.

Hey, Phil, I need a Plan B.

Hey, Phil, do we have any more chocolates?

'Cause she's going to need a chocolate in a minute.

This has all been

a very psychological, emotional

roller coaster for me.

I all of them up. I ain't gonna lie.

Kind of nerve-wracking. It can be very scary.

You cannot escape this.

We know what this person is

capable of doing.

I'm not about to be transparent for y'all

or anybody.

Anything I want them people to know,

I'mma let them know.

You in the process of what I'm allowing you to see.

There's some dark places y'all don't wanna go.

Stay where you're at.

It kind of does follow you.

It follows you everywhere.

And I'm still dealing

with the aftermath of all this.

All right. Mic?

However, you know,

all I can do is speak my truth.

Here I am.

Stay tuned for more.

My name is Phil Pines.

I was a senior executive assistant

for Mr. Combs,

and I started in December of 2019,

and I ended in December 2021.

For me, the reason I wanted to tell my story was,

you know, to make sure that...

Sean Combs and people like him

can't do these kind of things to anybody else.

You've filed a complaint against Sean Combs

and Kristina Khorram,

so we would just like to discuss with you

some of those personal allegations.

It's hard to come here and sit down with you

and talk about these situations,

because he was somebody that I looked up to.

He said, "What are you doing here?"

the first time he spoke to me.

I said, "Mr. Combs, like,

working for you is

a dream of mine.

I want to be here. What are you talking about?"

That was the truth.

I wanted to work for him.

And they always say, like...

...sometimes when you meet your heroes,

they let you down.

When I started to work for Mr. Combs,

it felt amazing.

It felt like I was around one of the most powerful people

in the world, really.

When it comes to culture,

you know, he was so influential

on everybody.

So it was just exciting initially.

Miami was like a playground for Mr. Combs.

He liked warm weather.

The house was right there on the bay in Star Island.

I was a personal assistant,

someone to staff the principal

on a day-to-day basis,

packing his bags, rolling his calls,

getting him prepped for a meeting.

And then there was one particular night

that he came up to me

and gave me a long list of items that he wanted

and requested for his bedroom.

And that was the night that I understood

kind of the excitement

and what was going to potentially be

my responsibility moving forward.

Wild King Night was something that got text messaged to me.

I kind of started to...

understand the context of what that is,

so then you could kind of put it together

and understand, "Oh, I get it."

Is the Wild King Night

the same thing as the Freak Off?

Are these the same event with different names?

I didn't hear of Freak-Offs until...

you know, it came up

in one of the first claims

that was presented to the public.

I didn't hear of that term.

So as far as you knew,

those were always referred to as Wild King Nights.

Yeah, Wild King Nights.

Now, Diddy is also known

for these extravagant, star-studded bashes.

Were the Wild King Nights happening

at these big star-studded events?

I think there's a...

a difference and a disparity

between what people think they were,

meaning that there was hundreds of people

engaging in these activities.

That wasn't my experience.

How many people would typically be there?

It's a small batch of people.

It's a very intimate group of people.

What would he require for a Wild King Night?

I mean, we usually had a laundry list of items

that included lights, alcohol,

marijuana,

ketamine, molly.

We have mushrooms on the top there.

Was the code to the safe "1234"?

Yeah.

Baby oil and Astroglide were

very important. Candles, incense,

Apple TVs, electronics, computers, iPads.

Obviously, there was male libido supplements,

stuff like that.

Those requests started to become more frequent.

It started to occur on a daily basis.

There was a requirement.

We had to keep those things stocked.

I would get a lot of voice notes from Diddy.

How often?

Daily, hourly,

every five minutes, every five seconds.

Would you ever be asked to bring things to Diddy

during a Wild King Night while it was ongoing?

Yeah, for sure.

What would you see

when you would go into the room?

There wouldn't be anything happening

while you were walking into the room.

But there would be people there?

Yeah.

What can you tell us about who the guests were?

A lot of times it was girls

who were a little bit under the radar

that didn't have a lot of influence.

I think that speaks to the type of...

situations people were put in, you know.

A lot of times you have him

with a younger female,

and there's a power dynamic there.

A more impressionable girl is easier to reel in,

as opposed to somebody who might be a celebrity,

who not going to really do too much of that

or kind of give some pushback.

How old when you say young?

Twenties.

So in terms of the criminal charges

that Diddy is facing,

his team has said

he didn't break any laws.

These were all consenting adults.

The fact that he is facing criminal charges for this

shows that the government is

sexist and puritanical and uptight,

and he was just partying.

These were all consenting adults.

What do you make of that argument?

Was he just partying like a rap star,

or do you believe

that there were laws that were broken?

Look, there's partying, and then there's...

partying.

And in my experience,

I wasn't in these rooms

while these things were happening.

Consent is between the people that are engaging,

and I wasn't there in these situations

to understand that consent.

There was guests that would frequently come over

and participate in these intimate situations.

Sometimes you would see new faces.

Sometimes you'd see new faces come in

and you wouldn't see them again.

I remember a time when Diddy told me to come up

and grab one of his guests' bags,

take her down to the car and drive her to her hotel.

I don't know what took place.

All I can say is that when I brought her down

to the car,

she was shaky.

Visibly shaken.

Didn't look like how she looked

the night before.

She said something to the effect of,

"I've never done anything like this before."

Did you ever see Diddy get violent?

Did you ever witness violence?

I absolutely witnessed violence, yes.

I remember a time when I saw him assault

one of his guests

at his home in Florida.

Things were getting a little heated.

They were being very argumentative.

He cursed at her.

"I told you I was crazy!"

Kicked her. She fell to the ground.

Kicked her again.

He said,

"Take off my hoodie."

She took off the hoodie, threw it at him.

She was topless.

And my quick thinking was

like, I had a little jacket on.

Took it and covered her.

Got her into the Uber, and she went home.

Did you ever see her again?

I did.

She was showered with gifts.

My direct supervisor, Kristina, was aware of what happened.

And Kristina told me to never speak about it again.

Kristina was his day-to-day manager.

Eventually, she became the chief of staff.

Everybody at that level, you know,

kinda has a right-hand man or a right-hand woman.

Someone who could be trusted with everything.

From personal to business, to good, to bad.

Felt like a marriage.

This is my soul sister right here.

- You know what I'm saying? - You know, it was me, ma.

So, we're gonna...

we're gonna toast to you, soul sister.

A lot of times, delegation would come from her.

These are messages you've provided

where, according to you, Kristina Khorram has said,

"He's gonna need emergency cleanup at the hotel."

Why "emergency cleanup"? What does that mean?

That means that he destroyed the hotel room.

The longer he's there,

the more intense the cleanup is gonna be.

That was, for me, probably one of the hardest things to do.

When you get there and you see the wreckage,

you see the stains, you see the bodily fluids,

you see the used condoms,

you see the... the baby oil, half-used Astroglide

oozing down the sides of the bottle,

and you have to pick it up.

Broken glass, urine, blood.

It wasn't uncommon for there to be stains...

...on furniture, stains on sheets

that we need to remove.

One can only imagine what was actually happening.

It's disgusting.

You know, it's a little triggering for me

because the smell of baby oil is something that, like...

I don't ever wanna have to smell again.

I mean, kid you not,

you could slip.

'Cause there was baby oil over the floor.

There would be baby oil surrounding the bathtub,

and there would be a bathtub full of water.

And you would reach down there to unplug...

and you would feel the baby oil was on the tub.

You know, one of the things that the feds have said in their case

is that these events were recorded.

Did you ever see evidence of video recordings?

Yeah, it was on his devices.

That were his iPod, his laptop,

even his personal phone.

I had access to all those things.

I would see people engaging in sexual activity.

Did you ever see

Diddy engaging in sexual activity?

I wouldn't see him engaging,

but I would see him directing.

He's usually the one filming, from my experience.

You were instructed to "scrub" these things.

Search history from the Safari.

You know, delete that.

Delete any photos and videos that might be on these devices.

If any of his family members see this,

if any of his partners or executives come over

and wanna use the iPad to present him a deck,

they can't see any of that stuff.

And you can easily stumble upon those kind of things

when you're using those devices.

That was my job,

is to shield his private life...

from the public.

Did you ever feel that you were enabling Diddy?

Or did you ever feel complicit or responsible in any way?

When you're working for someone like that,

you are trusting their authority to be sound

and capable of making decisions.

You know, moral compass was obviously

something I was questioning

when I started to experience him.

It takes me back to that time, and how I felt

and how I looked was very apparent

that I was physically not there.

Very skinny.

Uh, a lot of people were asking me if I was sick.

I was just pushing myself to the limit

'cause that was the expectation.

I couldn't think for myself

because everything was about him and the job.

How important was loyalty to Diddy?

Everything.

I mean, you don't get that close to him

without earning his trust.

Did he ever test you?

Did he ever try to make you prove yourself?

Yeah.

It's something that I'll never forget, actually.

I think my life changed...

a lot from that day.

And I've never really recovered from it.

This particular incident, he had been drinking all day.

The party and the group of people got smaller

and smaller and smaller.

It got condensed down to just a few people.

And yeah, he...

"Hey, set up the vibe upstairs."

The vibe is the lights, the alcohol, the drugs,

the things that he likes to use

when he's gonna party.

That wasn't uncommon.

I felt like this was just a normal thing.

But that turned very quickly.

I took a shot with him, with the... with the group.

Which, again, wasn't uncommon. It was rare,

but it wasn't uncommon for you to, you know,

have a drink with him every now and then.

That was his way of kind of, like,

making sure you felt comfortable.

And then go back to the office, sit there,

get someone to get into the room.

"Come take a shot," take a shot.

He's out of his mind at this point.

I mean, you could tell, and this, again,

he's in a rare form, as we would call that, a rare form.

It's okay. Take your time.

I remember hearing the words...

"prove your loyalty to me, king."

He's grabbing me by the shoulders.

Kinda gave me a quick massage,

like a coach would give a player

that's about to enter the game, and...

handed me a condom.

Pushed me to a girl that was on the couch,

a guest.

I froze before it took place.

Didn't know what was really happening.

So in the moment, it just felt like...

"What? What... like, this is... is this, uh...

is this fun for him? Is this a... a test?

Is this for entertainment?

Does he know that he's actually doing this?

Is he that gone?"

I didn't know what to do.

She gave me the consent, you know, like, "Yeah."

Nodded in her head.

And I performed for a little bit.

And then I ran out of there

as soon as I didn't see him in my sight anymore.

Why didn't you just say no?

No one knows what it feels like to be in that situation

until you're in that situation.

I heard about previous employees getting physically assaulted.

I saw how angry and upset he could get

from the most simplest thing.

And I just thought to myself...

"If I don't do this, I don't know what's gonna happen."

Phil, was that the only time

that he forced you to cross the line?

Yeah, when it came to engaging in that type of activity, yeah.

I had a great sense of remorse following that situation

right from the jump.

I wanted to tell somebody,

but there was so much at stake.

I knew if I had said anything,

that a kind of bomb would just explode.

I hid that from everybody.

Including my significant other and my family...

other employees.

I come from a Christian background.

I lean on those morals heavily.

Sorry.

He got me. He got me.

It was a circus.

He did whatever he wanted.

And we were just at his disposal.

- Power to the people. - Uh-huh.

Say it, "Power to the people."

Power the people.

He's a predator.

And I mean that in a sexually charged way.

I mean that a manipulation way.

Let's give it up for ourselves.

He has an innate ability

to make you feel comfortable

and to make you do things for him

that you would never do.

When the lights go off and the red lights go on...

he seemed different.

His dark presence, heavy.

And that was my experience.

That was everybody's experience

who... who knew him...

beyond the lights and cameras.

I'm hoping my story and my truth

can help others get to the light.

'Cause it's dark around him.

It's very dark.