As must his longtime friends, associates, colleagues, employees, politicos and an
Jennifer Lopez included.
If there’s any justice, Diddy won’t be the only one held to account.
Former NYPD investigator Derrick Parker, who worked a 1999 shooting involving
Combs and J.Lo, has compared him to the Jeffrey Epstein of hip-hop.
‘He escaped a lot because of who he was,’ Parker said. ‘Now a lot of stuff is just
coming back to him.’
On Sunday, Combs released a pathetic, self-pitying video statement in which he
‘apologized’ for viciously beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
This, after decades of Diddy’s rebuttals and reverse accusations, claiming Cassie –
with her allegations of systematic r* pe and violence-was attempting blackmail,
revenge, extortion.
Everyone knew. He has long told the world exactly who and what he is. The recent
raids on his L.A. and Miami estates have been a long time coming. Time’s up for
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs – and he knows it. As must his longtime friends, associates,
colleagues, employees, politicos and an entire celebrity industrial complex that
propped up this monster for decades – Jennifer Lopez included (pictured in 2000).
On Sunday, Combs released a pathetic, self-pitying video statement in which he
‘apologized’ for viciously beating his then-girlfriend Cassie (pictured in 2016). This,
after decades of Diddy’s rebuttals and reverse accusations, claiming Cassie was
attempting blackmail, revenge, extortion.
Diddy is seen violently as:s:aulting Cassie in 2016 surveillance footage
Yet here was New York City mayor Eric Adams, giving Combs a key to the city just
last September.
‘Sean Combs is the embodiment of New York City attitude,’ Adams said at the
ceremony. ‘[He] has proven to be a singular, generational talent.’
Please. Adams is a former New York City police officer. You can’t tell me he didn’t
when nine people died and 29 were injured at an overfilled NYC basketball event
Combs promoted.
Cassie, by the way, sued just two months after Combs got the key, in November
2023./ It was filed one day before a special New York provision allowing victims of
s*xual abuse, whose allegations would otherwise have fallen outside the statute of
limitations, was to end.
His rap sheet continues through the 1990s and beyond: alleged shootings,
beatings, violent a:s:saults and death threats, the explosion of a car bomb in
rival-rapper Kid Cudi’s vehicle — and, of course, that infamous nightclub shoot-out
involving J.Lo. We’ll get into that in a bit.
More recently, Combs has denied, denied, and denied Cassie’s claims — one
particularly vicious detail has him stomping on her face, beating her to a pulp until
she bled profusely and threw up, all witnessed by at least one of Combs’s
bodyguards-but now he can deny no more.
Harrowing security cam video from an L.A. hotel, dated March 5, 2016, was leaked
to CNN on Friday.
Seventy-two hours later – did he really need time to think this through? — Adams
said he is ‘considering’ revoking the New York City key. What more proof does he
need?
He then pulls her by her shirt and drags her along the hallway, where the a:s:sault
continues until someone gets off the elevator on their floor.
That’s how emboldened Combs has been: comfortable enough to unleash grievous
bodily harm against a defenseless woman in a very public place, half-naked,
cameras everywhere.
New York City mayor Eric Adams gave Combs a key to the city just last September.
ceremony. Adams is a former New York City police officer. You can’t tell me he
didn’t know anything about Combs.
He reportedly paid the LA Intercontinental Hotel, the site of this brutal beatdown,
$50,000 for the footage.
If you haven’t already seen it, watch the video. You’ll never look at Combs the same
way again. He is vile, irredeemable, and should be put away for life.
Yet in his apology video, he paints himself as the lone victim here. ‘It’s so difficult to
reflect on the darkest times in your life,’ he says, voice all too casual.
‘But I make no excuse,’ says the man who has spent years lying and making excuses.
‘I take full responsibility for my actions in that video’.
It goes on like that: I, I, I. Me, me, me.
Not once does he mention Cassie, or the pain he caused her, or what he can do to
make amends.
Combs claims to have gone to therapy and rehab — no dates, no details, no
insights offered and then, of course, to have asked God for ‘grace’.
The LA County District Attorney’s Office quickly announced that Combs cannot be
prosecuted, because at eight years old, this video falls outside the statute of
limitations.
Unconscionable. But this is how violence against women is still viewed – too bad,
really, but there’s a time limit on holding so-called men who r * pe and brutalize to
account.
Investigators are no longer hamstrung by the ‘he-said-she-said’ claims of 20 or 30
years ago. We live in a world with security cameras everywhere. We all carry
personal recording devices and GPS systems in our phones. Evidence is often
multiple.
Years after an as:s:ault, as we see with the Cassie video, incontrovertible proof can
emerge that a claimant is telling the truth, and that a dangerous predator needs to
be taken off the streets.
In the 1999 nightclub incident, three people were shot, one young woman in the
face, Combs the prime suspect and J.Lo his alleged ‘gun mule’. Lopez was arrested,
as was Combs. She spent 14 hours in custody before being released without
charges. (Pictured in 2000).
Lopez has so far remained silent about what happened that night and what really
went on in their two-year relationship. She’s not the only one. His great pal Ashton
Kutcher (pictured in 2003), who defended convicted rapist Danny Masterson, has
also remained silent./ Combs should be in handcuffs immediately. Shame on every
politician, prosecutor and lawmaker who fails to correct that.
Despite his NYC rap sheet, Combs wasn’t known as a violent criminal nationally
until 1998, after his arrest for brutally beating Interscope record exec Steve Stout in
1999.
Why? Combs didn’t like the edit for one of his music videos.
‘If somebody can get away with walking into the headquarters of the world’s
biggest record company and beating up a senior executive over a disagreement,’
Stoute said, ‘I guarantee you this is going to be a great business for criminals to
thrive in.’
Truer words.
Combs was sentenced to one day of anger management. Did he have police or
prosecutors on his payroll – then and now?
Next up: The Times Square nightclub incident the same year, in which three people
were shot, one young woman in the face, Combs the prime suspect and J.Lo his
alleged ‘gun mule’./ Lopez was arrested, as was Combs. She spent 14 hours in
custody before being released without charges – but not before allegedly
demanding someone fetch her some cuticle cream. Priorities.
Victim Natania Reuben, to this day, contends that it was Combs who shot her, not
Shyne.
‘I literally watched them pull out the guns,’ she said in March. ‘I had a clear point of
view. I mean, for God’s sake – I got shot in my nose.’
As for J.Lo: A recent lawsuit filed by Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones alleges that on the night
of the 1999 club shooting, it was Lopez who ‘carried the gun into the club for
[Combs] and passed him the gun after he got into an altercation with another
individual.’
Lopez has so far remained silent about what happened that night and what really
went on in their two-year relationship.
She’s not the only one. His great pal Ashton Kutcher, who defended convicted
rapist Danny Masterson, has also remained silent.
And what of the nearly 30 artists such as John Legend, H.E.R, Mary J. Blige, and The
Weeknd who collaborated on Combs’s laughably-tiled ‘Love’ album last year?
Diddy partied with princes, with Trump and the world’s top CEOs and stars. If
allegations of a sprawling s*x trafficking ring are true, well — how many people
knew?/ Diddy partied with princes, with Trump and the world’s top CEOs and stars.
(Pictured in 2005).
As the allegations and accusations against Combs mount – everything from
Usher’s inference that he was exposed to dark events under Combs’s mentorship, to
s.3.x trafficking and r * pe allegations involving minors, to Lil Rod’s claims Combs
and actor Cuba Gooding Jr. s.3.xually as:s:aulted him—well, clearly a federal
indictment is in the offing.
Justice, it seems, will finally now prevail. But at what cost? How much human
carnage could have been spared?
As Combs undoubtedly knows, he’s in for as much hurt, if not more, as he’s
allegedly inflicted over the years.
