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Aubrey O’Day participated in Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning, and the four-part explosive docuseries found the former Danity Kane member addressing her removal from the Making The Band girl group, as well as claims she was sexually assaulted by Diddy.
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“Diddy made it clear that I was ‘the looker,” she said in an early episode. “I remember that phrase a lot. He was separating me and there was a different set of expectations from me, and I just naturally float into the grooming.”
O’Day also alleged that Diddy repeatedly “crossed the line” and sent explicit emails that included photos of his penis.
“I don’t wanna just f—k you. I wanna turn you out,” she reads from an alleged email from Combs. “I can see you being with some motherf—er that you tell what to do. I make my woman do what I tell her to do, and she loves it. I just want — and like — to do things different. I’ma finish watching this porn and finish masturbating. I’ll think of you, happy face. If you change your mind and get ready to do what I say, hit me. Happy face. God bless, Diddy. God is the greatest.”
O’Day was part of season three of Making the Band in 2005 and picked to be a member of Danity Kane. She was eventually removed from the group when Diddy announced she was fired in 2008.
Episode four of the 50 Cent-produced docuseries features a heartbreaking scene, which finds O’Day reading an affidavit from an alleged witness to the singer being sexually assaulted by Diddy and another individual in a studio room. O’Day says she has no recollection of the assault taking place.
The affidavit claims O’Day was naked from the waist down when a witness stumbled into a room while looking for the studio’s bathroom and recalled opening the door to a horrifying scene, where “Puff Daddy was penetrating in her vagina, and there was another stalky light-skinned man with his penis in her mouth.”
“I didn’t have a recollection of this,” O’Day said. “I didn’t drink like that at all — I don’t drink at all, it’s never been an issue with me. Does this mean I was raped? Is that what this means? I don’t even know if I was raped, and I don’t want to know. I don’t want to find out any more than that woman has to say.”
She continued: “If she made it up, I would be compelled to take her the f–k down. You realize the burden that that puts on my soul for the past year, which is if I expose one victim who’s got a civil lawsuit, that gives Diddy and his legal team credit to take down everybody else as potential liars. Says Aubrey O’Day. It goes right back on my shoulders, just like that. The weight of that man and his bulls—t, I will never get up from under it.”
A spokesperson for Diddy declined to comment on the specific allegations made in the series. “Many of the people featured have longstanding personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years,” Juda Engelmayer said in a statement to USA TODAY. “Several of these stories have already been addressed in court filings, and others were never raised in any legal forum because they’re simply not true. The project was built around a one-sided narrative led by a publicly admitted adversary, and it repeats allegations without context, evidence, or verification. Sean Combs will continue to address legitimate matters through the legal process, not through a biased Netflix production.”
If you or someone you know is struggling and in need of help in the wake of sexual assault, please contact RAINN at 800-656-4673 or at online.rainn.org.
Sabrina Carpenter is putting as much distance as possible between herself and the Donald Trump administration after the White House shared a video set to her song “Juno.”
On Tuesday (Dec. 2), the pop star slammed the government for posting a compilation of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers chasing, tackling and handcuffing people on the streets while a snippet of the Short n’ Sweet hit plays. “this video is evil and disgusting,” Carpenter wrote on X.
“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” she continued.
Billboard has reached out to the White House for comment.
Carpenter’s reply comes one day after the White House first posted the video, which puts a shocking spin on the Grammy winner’s gag of “arresting” people at her Short n’ Sweet Tour for being too attractive just before performing “Juno” each night. Before the trek wrapped in November after more than a year on the road, Carpenter had distributed fuzzy pink handcuffs to everyone from Millie Bobby Brown, to TWICE, SZA and Miss Piggy of The Muppets.
The Girl Meets World alum would then dive into the song, with fans in the crowd looking forward to the new pose Carpenter would strike at every show after the line, “Have you ever tried this one?”
That same line can now be heard over the arrest footage in the White House’s video, which was posted despite Carpenter being a vocal Trump detractor. After his election win in 2024, the vocalist told fans at a concert, “Sorry about our country, and to the women in here, I love you so so so so so much … I really hope for the rest of this night you can enjoy yourselves, because you absolutely deserve it.”
This is far from the first time the Trump administration has irked musicians and their fans by using music without authorization, nor is it the first time it’s happened in the past few weeks alone. Just last month, Olivia Rodrigo condemned the White House for pairing a video encouraging self-deportations to her song “All-American Bitch.”
“don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda,” she wrote at the time.
Shortly before that, Kenny Loggins slammed the twice-impeached POTUS for using “Danger Zone” in an AI-generated video of himself dumping feces on “No Kings” protestors, and Swifties called out the White House for making a TikTok using Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia.”
After decades of supporting the fight against AIDS, Madonna is refusing to go backwards — no matter what Donald Trump‘s administration dictates. In a passionate post on Instagram on Monday (Dec. 1), the Queen of Pop slammed the president’s administration for shirking generations of precedent and refusing to observe World Aids Day, which has traditionally […]
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Limp Bizkit is honoring their late co-founder and bassist Sam Rivers.
During their first concert since Rivers’ passing in mid-October, the Fred Durst–fronted rap-rock band paid tribute to the musician with an emotional video at Mexico City’s Estadio Fray Nano on Saturday (Nov. 29).
The brief clip featured an image of Rivers accompanied by the messages “Sam Rivers, our brother forever” and “Sam Rivers, we love you forever.” As the video ended, the members of Limp Bizkit embraced one another while the crowd chanted the late bassist’s name.
Earlier in the day, drummer John Otto reflected on the loss of his close friend and bandmate in a heartfelt Instagram post.
“Today is going to be tough,” Otto wrote. “A first I never wanted to experience. Especially not now. You’ve been there for so many major firsts in my life. Some of my earliest memories were made with you. We grew up together. Laughed together. Realized our dreams together. And traveled the world together.”
He continued, “You’ve always been there. The godfather to my girls, my best friend – my brother. There will never be another you. We’re going to honor the life you lived and the love you spread with every show we play. You’ll always be with us.”
The drummer closed his message with gratitude for the band’s supporters. “Thank you to our fans for all the messages of support and tributes to Sam. It means the world to us. This one’s for you Sammy,” he wrote.
The Mexico City show featured bassist Richie Buxton (aka Kid Not), who also performs with Ecca Vandal, the group supporting Limp Bizkit on their upcoming South American dates.
Rivers passed away on Oct. 18 at age 48. An official cause of death had not been revealed at press time. The musician had been diagnosed with liver disease in 2011 after years of heavy drinking and underwent a liver transplant in 2017, following a temporary departure from the band in 2015. He rejoined Limp Bizkit in 2018.
After Rivers’ death, Durst shared an emotional tribute, calling it “so tragic he’s not here now” and writing that he’d shed “gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday,” adding, “My God, Sam’s a legend. He did it. He lived it.”
The band — also featuring guitarist Wes Borland, DJ Lethal and Otto — issued a joint statement honoring their beloved bandmate as well.
“Sam Rivers wasn’t just our bass player — he was pure magic,” they wrote. “The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound. From the first note we ever played together, Sam brought a light and a rhythm that could never be replaced. His talent was effortless, his presence unforgettable, his heart enormous.”
Ray J was arrested after allegedly pointing a gun at his ex-wife, Princess Love, during a livestreamed argument on Thanksgiving.
The 44-year-old singer, whose real name is William Ray Norwood Jr., was taken into custody by Los Angeles police on Thursday (Nov. 27) and charged with making a criminal threat. Officers had responded to a report of assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence, according to NBC News.
Ray J, the younger brother of singer Brandy, was booked at the LAPD’s Van Nuys Station and released on $50,000 bond later that night, jail records reportedly indicate.
Video footage of the heated incident, published by TMZ, appears to show Ray J livestreaming a confrontation with Princess Love, 41, over the custody of their children. The former couple share daughter Melody Love, 7, and son Epik Ray, 5.
In the edited clip, Ray J appears to pull a gun while Love — holding one of their children — says, “You just pointed a gun at me.” The “One Wish” singer then denies pointing a firearm.
The livestream begins with Ray J claiming he was having “the worst Thanksgiving in the f—king world,” TMZ reports. The video also reportedly shows him holding a gun and saying, “If these n—s step foot close to this door I’m going to blow this f—king s—t away, bro.”
Ray J and Princess Love starred together on the VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood from 2014 to 2019. They married in 2016, and Love filed for divorce — her fourth filing — in 2024, according to People.
The singer has also recently been in the news for filing a countersuit against Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner, claiming they intentionally released the sex tape with him that helped launch Kim’s career and then “peddled the false story” that it was leaked.
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Prosecutors charged three men Wednesday (Nov. 26) with murder in the death of 22-year-old Maria De La Rosa, who was shot over the weekend while sitting in a parked car in Los Angeles.
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De La Rosa, a Latin artist who performs under the name DELAROSA, was with two other people Saturday morning in the neighborhood of Northridge when three men came up to the car and demanded money, prosecutors said. Then, prosecutors said, they fired multiple rounds, hitting all three occupants.
De La Rosa later died at a hospital. The two other victims suffered critical injuries, prosecutors said.
“This was a ruthless and targeted attack that stole the life of a young woman and artist and inflicted profound lifelong trauma on her family and the two survivors,” LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a news release Wednesday.
A 27-year-old man was arrested the same day, and another 27-year-old man was arrested the next day. An arrest warrant has been issued for the third man, a 21-year-old. Attorneys for the first two could not be reached for comment.
All are from Northridge and were charged with one felony count of murder and two felony counts of attempted second-degree robbery.
DELAROSA has more than 40,000 followers on Instagram and released a single in August called, “No Me Llames,” which in English translates to “Don’t Call Me.” Under her most recent post on Instagram, many people acknowledged and commented on her death, including Jimmy Humilde, a founder of record label Rancho Humilde.
Her final Instagram post also teased new music. “Ocupada cocinando en el Stu 🎶👩🏻🍳no me llames 🪄🪞🐩 Ya es tiempo… GAME TIME BABY,” she wrote in Spanish, which translates to “Busy cookin in the Stu. don’t call me. It’s about that time.”
Denzel Curry, My Bloody Valentine, Shygirl, Paris Paloma, Vacations, Innvervisions and YHWN Nailgun have joined the more than 1,000 other artists and labels taking part in the No Music For Genocide movement comprised of acts committed to removing their catalogs from streaming services in Israel amid the shaky truce between the Jewish state and Hamas-led militant groups.
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The cultural boycott is asking artists and music rights-holders to support the Palestinian people by geo-blocking their music and pulling it from streaming platforms in Israel. They join a growing roster of acts on the list, including: Clairo, Lucy Dacus, Wolf Alice, Of Monsters and Men, Lorde, Hayley Williams, Paramore, Björk, MUNA and Paloma Faith.
The effort was originally launched in September with more than 400 signatories, with organizers saying in a statement that the urgency of the project has been ratcheted up by reports of nearly 500 alleged ceasefire violations by Israel since October’s U.S.-led ceasefire deal ending two years of devastating bombing of Gaza by Israel.
“Drawing from the successful music boycotts of apartheid South Africa, No Music For Genocide stands firm in refusing to reward the music industry’s on-the-ground presence in apartheid Israel with access to the art it requires, rejecting the use of cultural work and influence to normalize Israel’s criminal occupation, genocide, forced displacement, torture, and imprisonment without charge,” read a statement from the group. “Music is both a universal language and inherently politicized; the only question is whether we define its politicization to advance true justice.”
At press time the fragile ceasefire appeared to be holding, though Israel has continued to strike inside Gaza in response to what the country alleged was a violation of the terms by a Hamas gunman who reportedly opened fire on Israeli troops in Southern Gaza.
Israeli forces waged a relentless bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip following the Oct. 7, 2023 surprise attack by Hamas militants on Israel that killed nearly 2,000 and resulted in the kidnapping of 251 hostages. Following two years of fighting in which Palestinian authorities said more than 69,000 Palestinians were killed and 170,000 injured by Israeli attacks that leveled a massive amount of structures in the territory and caused what experts said was a severe hunger crisis, a shaky ceasefire was signed on Oct. 10 as the first step towards a hoped-for peace deal.
No Music For Genocide held it’s first fundraiser last month in New York, raising $7,000, with all proceeds going directly to mutual aid programs and family lifeline funds in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Northern Ireland rap trio Kneecap dropped a surprise drum & bass single, “No Comment,” on Tuesday (Nov. 18), a track the Belfast group said in an Instagram post is “all about the police witch-hunt against Mo Chara.”
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The latter reference is to the terrorism charge against MC Chara (born Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh), with the song taking on the legal action launched by British authorities against Chara that was thrown out of court in September on a technicality.
The provocative group added the messages, “Free Palestine. Free the 6 counties. F–k the peelers,” references, respectively, to the group’s support of the Palestinian people and advocacy for a Palestinian homeland, the slogan used by Irish nationalists in reference to six counties in Northern Ireland as part of a push to end British rule in the territory and a slang phrase denigrating the police.
The two-minute-long collaboration with DJ/producer Sub Focus was accompanied by cover art by enigmatic British street artist Banksy in the form of one of his signature murals in which a protestor is seen in shadow lying on the ground trying to protect himself from a judge threatening to hit him with a gavel.
The song’s mostly Irish-language lyrics hit on Chara’s legal entanglements with bars including, “It’s certain that we’re in the way/ In the West Bank and in Gaza/ We’ve made an example of you now, so silence Mo Chara/ That won’t ever happen,” as well as, “I’m misbehaving in badness/ Mo Chara’s wanted/ The air bubble bandit.” The song later takes on the paranoia that comes with sudden, controversial fame. “Have you ever been plastered on the news when you’ve got the heebie-jeebies?,” it continues, “Far from ideal/ Got death threats on my screen.”
In a statement to Pitchfork, the group said: “‘No Comment’ is all about getting harassed by the British state. Simple as. Us Irish are well used to it, been happening for centuries. Was a pleasure to work with Sub Focus on this, the man is a legend.”
Chara was charged in May with a terror offense for reportedly displaying the flag of the Lebanese Islamist political party and paramilitary group Hezbollah during a Nov. 2024 concert in London’s Kentish Town Forum, a group designated with terrorist status by the U.K. government. The charge was tossed out by a British judge in September, due to a technical error in the timing of when the charges were brought by London’s Metropolitan Police; Chara had steadfastly denied any wrongdoing in the case, though video footage from the show appeared to show him displaying a flag associated with Hezbollah.
The band continued to court controversy over the past year, including during their Coachella sets in April, which ended with a message that read: “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is being enabled by the U.S. government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes. F–k Israel; free Palestine.” The statement led to a number of prominent music industry figures, including Ozzy Osbourne manager Sharon Osborne, calling for them to be removed from the bill and for their work visas to be revoked.
The group has since been banned from several countries, including Hungary and Canada, over claims, respectively, that they pose a “national security threat” and that they made statements “that are contrary to Canadian values and laws.” They were also forced to cancel a run of shows in the U.S. and U.K. in the midst of the court case.Listen to “No Comment” below.
