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Diddy is still behind bars awaiting trial on sex trafficking, kidnapping, and racketeering charges, but he did get a visit that should have lifted his spirits.
TMZ exclusively reports that Diddy’s mother, Janice Combs, and his twin daughters, D’Lila and Jessie, stopped by the MDC in Brooklyn to visit the disgraced mogul.
According to the celebrity gossip site, Diddy’s mom was so moved after seeing her son that she felt compelled to speak up for the rapper.
Per TMZ:
We’re told the four family members went to a visiting area, where they were able to hug and converse … under supervision by jail staff.
Our sources say this meeting was the first time D’Lila and Jessie were able to see their father since his arrest last month … and they were very eager to visit him, traveling all the way from their home in California.
We’re told the visit was incredibly emotional for everyone … and after seeing her son, Janice felt compelled to speak out on his behalf, because she felt like he was going through something he didn’t deserve.
Janice Combs Broke Her Silence
As we previously reported, Mrs. Combs put on her cape for her son, basically saying that her son is not the sexual predator the over 100 allegations claim he is, panting him as someone who made mistakes in his past but not guilty of everything he has been charged with.
“It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies,” she said in a statement The Hollywood Reporter shared. “To bear witness what seems to be like a public lynching of my son before he has had the opportunity to prove his innocence is a pain too unbearable to put into words. Like every human being, my son deserves to have his day in court, to finally share his side, and to prove his innocence.”
According to TMZ, Diddy has seen all his adult children and was happy they all stopped by to see him.
Local news affiliate ABC7NY reports that a date has finally been set for his trial: May 5, with another bail hearing in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has employed his legal team to file an appeal to his recent bond denial after being denied twice so far. In a new report, Diddy and his team once more introduced the restrictions and guidelines the business mogul will follow as he awaits his day in court.
TMZ reports that Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team once more reiterated that the $50,000 bail was set with several restrictions, including not allowing women to visit Combs at his Star Island home in Florida and keeping a visitor’s log among other guidelines.
As TMZ noted in its report, this is Combs’ third attempt to be released on bond. Adding to the restrictions, Combs’ lawyers are attempting to assure the court that their client will not be a flight risk and is attempting to sell off his private plane to boot.
Combs is currently housed in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a prison facility that has garnered a reputation for being unsafe and replete with issues. While Diddy himself has not made any public comments related to his stay at MDC, there have been reports that the Bad Boy Records honcho was under heavy surveillance to prevent self-harm.
While the appeal has been filed, it has not been reported when it will be officially presided over.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs is awaiting sentencing inside a holding facility in Brooklyn in connection with his ongoing case as new details surrounding the mogul continue to surface. An attorney for one of Diddy’s alleged victims says that she has heard word of sex tapes featuring the Bad Boy honcho along with at least three other top celebrities.
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Attorney Ariel Mitchell-Kidd — recently a guest on Piers Morgan Uncensored with Jaguar Wright and DJ Vlad — appeared on NewsNation’s Banfield program where she shared some new details regarding Diddy related to an alleged collection of sex tape footage that reportedly has made its rounds.
While speaking with Banfield guest host Laura Ingle, Mitchell-Kidd says she was contacted by an individual who allegedly has tapes featuring Diddy along with three other high-profile celebrities, and a fourth celebrity, said to be someone younger than Combs, was allegedly seen on tape in the throes of sexual activity.
It should be noted that Mitchell-Kidd has not seen video footage or images of the alleged tapes, only that she was informed of their existence and the potentially damning evidence within.
As we saw in a NewsNation article, Mitchell-Kidd also shared that she is no longer representing former adult film performer Adria English due to their shared vision of how the case should be handled.
“We agreed that she would stop undermining me,” Mitchell-Kidd said. “Then she went behind my back and violated it again. So fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. That’s where we are.”
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Since his arrest last month, Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hard-pressed to find anyone (credible) to defend his “good” name out in these streets. But luckily for him he does have at least one person in his corner willing to go to the ends of the earth to protect what’s left of his reputation: his mother.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Janice Small Combs has broken her silence on the wild allegations and charges that her son is currently battling in both a court of law and the court of public opinion. Needless to say she isn’t buying into the allegations that her son is a sexual deviant and through her lawyer released a statement acknowledging that though Diddy has “made mistakes in the past, as we all have,” he’s not guilty of everything he’s been accused of being.
Per The Hollywood Reporter:
“It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies,” she said in the statement, which was shared with The Hollywood Reporter. “To bear witness what seems to be like a public lynching of my son before he has had the opportunity to prove his innocence is a pain too unbearable to put into words. Like every human being, my son deserves to have his day in court, to finally share his side, and to prove his innocence.”
The statement was released five days after it was revealed that Combs will face lawsuits from 120 additional accusers — he was already facing a dozen. Attorney Tony Buzbee said Tuesday that he represents several men and women who accuse Combs of sex crimes going back to 1991. Many accusers say they were raped after being drugged, Buzbee said.
While we’re not surprised that Ms. Combs has come to the defense of her son, we’re not sure it’s going to sway public opinion on Diddy at all. Still, Ms. Combs is doing what she can to help preserve her son’s reputation and even brought up the Cassie incident and explained why Diddy lied about ever putting hands on her.
“My son may not have been entirely truthful about certain things, such as denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the hotel’s surveillance showed otherwise,” she said. “Sometimes, the truth and a lie become so closely intertwined that it becomes terrifying to admit one part of the story, especially when that truth is outside the norm or is too complicated to be believed. This is why I believe my son’s civil legal team opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit instead of contesting it until the end, resulting in a ricochet effect as the federal government used this decision against my son by interpreting it as an admission of guilt.”
As for everyone else coming out the woodwork accusing Diddy of diddling them in prior years, Ms. Combs feels they’re just looking for a quick come-up at a time when her son is at his most vulnerable.
“These lies thrown at him are motivated by those seeking a financial gain, and not justice,” she said. “These individuals saw how quickly my son’s civil legal team settled his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, so they believe they can receive a quick payday by falsely accusing my son. False allegations of sexual assault thwart true victims of sexual violence from getting the justice they deserve. To make matters worse, the federal government is now using these lies to prosecute my son. This injustice has been unbearable for our family. The worst part of this ordeal is watching my beloved son be stripped of his dignity, not for what he did, but for what people choose to believe about him.”
Well, at least someone out here is fighting for Diddy at a time when even a brief association with him in the past can lead to all kinds of assumptions these days.
What do y’all think of Diddy’s mother speaking up for her son? Let us know in the comments section below.
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You can add Kevin Hart to the list of individuals who are disassociating themselves from Diddy. The comedian refused to answer questions about the time he hosted a party for the mogul.
The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native was recently on his way to dine at LAVO restaurant in West Hollywood. Paparazzi happened to be there and asked him if he ever saw any baby oil when he hosted an event for the Bad Boy Entertainment founder. Kevin Hart responded cryptically saying, “when I hosted for Diddy?” The Ride Along star then made it clear that he doesn’t want to be involved with any scandal. “You asking the wrong person the wrong question, man. It’s not a good question.” When asked if he thought if Diddy would be safe in jail he doubled down on his earlier response saying, “wrong person, wrong question.”
Back in 2010, Kevin Hart hosted a private party for Diddy at The London Hotel in New York City, and the footage from this evening has since resurfaced. The invite-only event featured scantly clad women in each room of the penthouse and bottles of Cîroc vodka everywhere. At one point, a female’s hair catches on fire while sitting in a tub. This party was also attended by Usher, Swizz Beatz, Fabolous and Diddy’s Dirty Money bandmates Dawn Richard and Kalenna Harper.
It is unclear whether Diddy is accused of any wrongdoing at this specific event. You can view the footage from the Kevin Hart-hosted Diddy party below.
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Elon Musk might want to learn to shut his mouth when discussing particular subjects.
Spotted on Page Six per The Daily Mail’s reporting, Phony Stark, aka Elon Musk, reportedly used to brag about his friendship with Sean Diddy Combs, according to a new book.
These developments come after the Tesla chief asked who knew about the disgraced music mogul allegedly sexually abusing a 9-year-old after more allegations arrived.
“I don’t know if you know this, but Puff is an investor in Twitter,” Musk proudly boasted to current Revolt CEO Detavio Samuels, reporters Ryan Mac and Kate Conger write in their new book, “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.” The Daily Mail reports.
“You know, he’s a good friend of mine. We text a lot,” he allegedly added.
The New York Post’s gossip section also points out photographic evidence of Musk and Diddy attending a Dave Chappelle Netflix Is A Joke comedy special in 2022.
In a repost of a Daily Mail headline reporting, “Diddy accused of abusing nine-year-old d boy and spiking drinks with horse tranquilizer with shocking claims,” Musk wrote in the caption, “How many people in music & entertainment knew about this?”
Who Else Knew?
Since Diddy’s downfall, many people wondered if any of the mogul’s famous friends knew about his shenanigans. Many of those same celebrities have quickly disassociated themselves from The Diddler after people found all the photos featuring the Bad Boy general and his celeb friends.
Then, of course, you got people like Jaguar Wright out here on a mission to link JAY-Z to Diddy’s alleged crimes.
Again, Musk needs to ensure he has all his ducks in a row before he gets on the “crazy if true” train since he’s allegedly boasting about being homies with Diddy.
Just saying.
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Jaguar Wright is back on the airwaves and much like before, she is continuing her relentless attack on key figures of the entertainment industry. The singer was a guest on Piers Morgan Uncensored and unloaded on Diddy, Jay-Z, and got into it with DJ Vlad.
Jaguar Wright appeared on a Wednesday night (October 2) broadcast of Morgan’s program alongside Ariel Mitchell-Kidd, a lawyer representing one of Sean “Diddy” Combs” alleged victims, and DJ Vlad. Wright wasted little time in sharing her three decades of experience with executives and others in the industry who wielded their power for nefarious means.
Wight was challenged by DJ Vlad, who framed Wright as a conspiracy theorist during the segment, and explicitly said to Morgan that he “doesn’t cosign anything that she says” before giving his thoughts on the legal woes faced by Combs and offering his thoughts on Wright framing Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, and Combs.
In his estimation, Vlad believes that much of what’s occurring in the Diddy case is a direct result of the lawsuit filed by Cassie Ventura which opened the floodgates to other allegations that have since surfaced.
Mitchell-Kidd also chimed in and essentially said to Wright that she should seek legal counsel as some of her statements could be viewed as defamatory without proof or official charges. She also called DJ Vlad a culture vulture and dressed down the media figure in what she believes is his role in leading to the indictment of Black artists and entertainers.
On X, formerly Twitter, the Piers Morgan Uncensored segment with Jaguar Wright, DJ Vlad, and Ariel Mitchell-Kidd garnered several replies and we’ve got them listed in our playlist slideshow. The replies shared do not echo our sentiments, we are just delivering a report.
The entire segment can be viewed below.
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An alleged victim suing Diddy for sexual assault has encountered difficulty as her lawyers requested removal from the case.
According to reports, a woman who has accused Diddy of coercing her into having sex with his guests at one of his infamous White Parties will be without her legal team. Ariel Mitchell-Kidd and Steven A. Metcalf, who were representing Adria English, filed a formal request in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday (Oct. 2) to withdraw from the case, citing “irreconcilable differences,” including receiving conflicting instructions from English on how to proceed with the case. “As a result of a fundamental disagreement between Attorneys and Plaintiff regarding almost every aspect of the litigation,” the filing stated, “including settlement demands, causes of actions in the pleadings and Plaintiff’s undermining behavior and questionable antics an irreconcilable conflict and tension has developed between Plaintiff and Attorneys.”
English, a former adult film star who performed under the name Omunique, filed a police report in Miami, Florida, accusing the embattled music mogul of sexual assault in August. Among those claims includes an allegation that she was “groomed” into sex trafficking by Diddy, aka Sean Combs, with ecstasy-laced liquor and forced to be intimate with guests at his parties in Miami and in the Hamptons. In a phone interview with the New York Times, English confirmed that she was looking for new lawyers and spoke about the conflict she and Mitchell-Kidd had. “I’m the client; you work for me,” she said.
A bone of contention was Mitchell-Kidd’s instructions to English to not talk to the media. When contacted, Mitchell-Kidd responded via text, saying: “I never lost faith in her case, just in her. Her case is great,” she continued. “My issue was with her undermining my work and going behind my back doing things incongruent to advancing her case.”
Diddy is currently being held in a Brooklyn jail after a judge ordered him to be detained until trial. Representatives released a statement on his behalf. “As we’ve said from the start, anyone can file a lawsuit without proof — and this case is a clear example of that,” the statement said. “Adria English escalated things by filing false police reports and making baseless claims, using high-profile events as a backdrop to harm innocent people.” The news comes as lawyers in Texas have reported that they’ve been contacted by other victims alleging sexual abuse by Diddy.
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One of Diddy’s accusers is going to need some new legal representation.
Spotted on TMZ, former boom boom flick star Adria English, who accused Diddy of sex trafficking her for one of his legendary white parties, is down an attorney.
According to documents obtained by the celebrity gossip site, Ariel Mitchell-Kidd, English’s attorney, wants off the case because she says her client is making it difficult for her to do her job.
Per TMZ:
Mitchell-Kidd also says there’s been a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship. She claims there are irreconcilable differences between them, and says Adria’s “tone and lack of respect and [her] continued behavior and self-destructive activities” have made it impossible for Mitchell-Kidd to continue representing her.
TMZ initially broke the story of English filing her lawsuit against the disgraced mogul in July, accusing him of sex trafficking and sexual assault.
A week after filing the suit, Mitchell-Kidd joined TMZ Live, revealing an indictment was coming with the Feds arresting Diddy in September, throwing him behind bars where he is currently awaiting trial after he was denied bail twice.
Diddy Is Using This Moment To Make His Case
A spokesperson for the rapper did reach out to TMZ to comment on the recent developments:
“Less than three months after filing her lawsuit against Sean Combs, Adria English has been dropped by both of her attorneys after making completely fabricated statements. In papers filed with the court today, her former attorneys cited Ms. English’s ‘questionable antics’ and ‘undermining behavior.’ As we’ve said from the start, anyone can file a lawsuit without proof — and this case is a clear example of that. English escalated things by filing false police reports and making baseless claims, using high-profile events as a backdrop to harm innocent people. No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone.”
Even though Mitchell-Kidd is done With English, she said she is leaving early enough that her former client still has enough time to hire a new lawyer, so The Diddler is not out of hot water yet.
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Last week, the children of Kim Porter and Diddy took to social media to shoot down conspiracy theories suggesting that Diddy had anything to do with their mother’s death and stated her latest memoir wasn’t official.
It seems like Amazon might’ve got the message as the Associated Press is reporting that they’ve decided to pull Kim Porter’s book off their digital shelves. According to the report, Amazon pulled the memoir, Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice, from the other side… after her children said the book was riddled with lies about their father, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. Given the nature of Diddy’s recent arrest, people were curious about what his late ex-wife had to say about her relationship with the man, but ultimately the kids said it was all BS.
The AP reports:
“We were made aware of a dispute regarding this title and have notified the publisher,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. “The book is not currently available for sale in our store.”
The independent publisher is Todd Christopher Guzze, who goes by the name Chris Todd and defines his occupation as an “investigative producer, author and journalist.” Todd told The Associated Press in a phone interview in September that sources “very close to Kim and Sean Combs” provided him with a “flash drive, documents and tapes” from Porter that he eventually pieced together to create the memoir. Todd used the pseudonym Jamal T. Millwood when publishing the title.
Todd did not comment on the removal Tuesday when contacted by the AP.
With the book alleging Diddy was not only physically abusive but also a sexual deviant, the kids felt they had no choice but to speak out on their parents’ behalf and refuted the books claims as social media pounced on Diddy, following his arrest earlier this month. Naturally, news of Diddy’s arrest and the allegations made against him helped Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice, from the other side… shoot to the top of Amazon’s Bestseller chart before cooling off not too long after.
What do y’all think of Amazon’s decision to pull Kim Porter’s book from their website? Let us know in the comments section below.