On Tuesday afternoon (Oct.1), during a 40-minute press conference, lawyer Tony Buzbee announced that he had been retained by 120 alleged victims of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The press conference was not only enlightening but worrisome.
Diddy is alleged to have possibly as many, if not more, than 2000 victims (at least that is the amount who has reached out to this law firm). During the press conference, it was revealed that one of Diddy’s victims was as young as nine, with 25 victims being minors at the time. It is also alleged that many of these people became Diddy’s victims via laced drinks or promises of a career in the recording industry. Buzbee also revealed that they were larger and even bigger names than Diddy, who would be implicated soon enough but did not at the time name names. He did, however, say that many of the other people who were complicit in the crimes were banks, pharmaceutical companies and hotels. The misconduct is also reportedly to have gone on for over 20 years.
During the press conference, it was revealed that more than half of the victims either previously filed police reports or reported the assault at the hospital. According to Buzbee, many of the individuals who sought medical treatment had drugs in their system. While there were allegedly multiple drugs, the drug Xylazine continuously showed up on tests; it is a horse tranquilizer. Buzbee made it clear that this is not a class action lawsuit, that these suits will be filed separately, and most likely in New York, even though many of the crimes were committed in Diddy’s homes in Florida, California, Georgia as well as New York.
A man who records his crimes not only thinks he won’t get caught but watches them back to salivate over the results of his own evil. He is being sued for sexual abuse, false imprisonment, violent sexual assault or race, facilitated sex with a controlled substance, sexual misconduct, dissemination of video recordings, sexual abuse of a minor and compelling prostitution. It is hard to keep track of many of Diddy’s victims, even without the many lawsuits levied by The Buzbee firm. There have been at least a half-dozen lawsuits against Diddy, and that does not include the lawsuits filed by Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and the producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones. According to Buzbee, many of the assaults that happened at his parties were done after party go-ers were forced to drink an unknowingly laced drink.
When it came to his molestation of minors, Diddy is alleged to have used the promise of entrée into the entertainment industry as a tool and is alleged to have gang raped a 15-year-old female minor and a nine-year-old male minor looking for a recording contract. Buzbee continued to give more accounts of vaginal, anal and oral rape alleged by Diddy and his counterparts.
While every victim deserves to have their stories told, it became harder and harder to listen to the increasing number of accounts of devastating sexual violence.
Where there is smoke, there is fire, and this is enough smoke to trace a massive forest fire back as the source. Diddy has left a violent wake of destruction and incinerated futures beyond repair. Some will deny the allegations and support someone whose entire brand is represented by being bad and immature. Bad Boy isn’t just some quippy response to rebelling against the status quo; it is a violent response to being the new version of it.
Diddy did not just commit these crimes for the physical release, but the power, (the more corrupt the better), turned him on. Knowing that he had the power to disintegrate spirits and violate people at their most vulnerable was what really turned him on. It is said that the devil hides in plain sight.; Diddy has used his sadism as a form of entertainment for the masses and we foolishly lapped it up throughout. There were hints of his sadism throughout the years, some louder than others. Making The Band was supposed to teach the cast to never sleep on their competition, literally. Cast members were seen having to sing for accommodations or being awakened during their sleep for sing-offs, only to later find out many were not just sleep-deprived but living a nightmare, thinly veiled as competitive tasks. Two artists from different seasons of Making The Band, Qwanell “Q” Mosley and Frederick “Freddy P.” Watson, the latter, who at one point, stated that his interaction with Diddy and Making The Band led him to be suicidal, have both expressed regret about joining their respective seasons.
In a recent interview with “The Art of Dialogue,” Da Band member Freddy P. sits down to talk about his experience with the show. Freddy’s clothing and countenance almost seem frozen in time, almost as if he is stuck in the past, haunted by what he missed and what didn’t miss him. His skin is the only indication of change, weathered by anxiety and the coping mechanisms one uses to overcome it. In part of the interview, he tells a lighthearted story about his now-infamous three-hour walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to get Junior’s Cheesecake, ends with the cheesecake actually being for Beyoncé and jokes about how he would do it again. Still, immediately after, the interview turns dark quickly. Freddy speaks of “S.A.” being rampant amongst the Bad Boy heads, and then explicitly states how he empathize with victims of “sexual assault,” at the hands of the mogul and seemed to imply members of the bands 112 and Day 26 were victims, as well as himself.
In this part of the interview, he implies that he was a victim, while in other parts of the video, he denies that he was sexually assaulted but does affirm that someone in his group was.
Either way, you can tell he has seen things that have him stuck in a place that he cannot easily remove himself from. He has seen things that he even stated made him hate his life. Many of the artists also collectively complain about having money and royalties stolen from them. Janice Combs, Diddy’s mother, also was the part owner of many of his artists’ royalties. During the pandemic—when people were struggling around the world—Diddy presented her with a giant million-dollar check, further flaunting their immense wealth.
He could have just given her a million dollars and kept that sh*t to himself, but that’s what sadism does; it parades its power while others struggle under the crushing weight.
