"Diddy on Trial: As It Happened" Verdict Watch

1 00:00:00,959 --> 00:00:03,294 [♪ Intriguing music playing] 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:05,797 [reporter 1] <i>We have breaking news right now</i> 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,841 <i>on ABC News Live. A jury has reached…</i> 4 00:00:07,924 --> 00:00:09,276 [reporter 2] <i>We have learned</i> <i>that Sean Combs</i> 5 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:11,052 <i>is now seated next to his defense attorneys</i> 6 00:00:11,136 --> 00:00:12,530 <i>inside of the courtroom, but there is still…</i> 7 00:00:12,554 --> 00:00:14,490 [reporter 3] <i>And so, the judge</i> <i>is about to hear the verdict.</i> 8 00:00:14,514 --> 00:00:17,267 <i>This is the moment where the jury foreperson</i> 9 00:00:17,350 --> 00:00:18,601 <i>will read the counts.</i> 10 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:19,745 [reporter 4] <i>This is that moment.</i> 11 00:00:19,769 --> 00:00:21,080 <i>You're at the top of the roller coaster.</i> 12 00:00:21,104 --> 00:00:23,481 <i>It's anxious. You're on pins and needles.</i> 13 00:00:23,565 --> 00:00:25,233 <i>You have no idea what's gonna happen.</i> 14 00:00:25,316 --> 00:00:27,318 [reporter 5] <i>Not guilty for count one.</i> 15 00:00:27,402 --> 00:00:29,612 [reporter 6] <i>We just learned</i> <i>count two is not guilty.</i> 16 00:00:29,696 --> 00:00:31,865 [reporter 7] <i>Not guilty.</i> <i>Count three is guilty.</i> 17 00:00:31,990 --> 00:00:33,092 [reporter 5] <i>Count three is guilty.</i> 18 00:00:33,116 --> 00:00:35,326 <i>- Count four, not guilty.</i> - [indistinct chatter] 19 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:36,828 [reporter 6] <i>Count five, guilty.</i> 20 00:00:36,911 --> 00:00:38,371 [reporter 5] Guilty. Guilty, right. 21 00:00:39,456 --> 00:00:41,041 [sirens wailing] 22 00:00:41,666 --> 00:00:44,169 [♪ Music fades] 23 00:00:45,670 --> 00:00:48,048 [presenter] <i>Give it up</i> <i>for P. Diddy!</i> 24 00:00:48,131 --> 00:00:51,176 - [♪ Tense music playing] - [crowd cheering, screaming] 25 00:00:55,346 --> 00:00:57,599 [Sean Combs] My résumé basically speaks for itself. 26 00:00:57,682 --> 00:01:00,643 I produce the greatest rap of all time. 27 00:01:00,727 --> 00:01:02,913 You know, I've just begun. I tell people this all the time. 28 00:01:02,937 --> 00:01:04,939 They look at me, how can you say you've just begun? 29 00:01:05,023 --> 00:01:06,625 - [indistinct chatter] - [♪ rap music playing on stereo] 30 00:01:06,649 --> 00:01:08,294 [Sean Combs] I just know in my heart I've just begun. 31 00:01:08,318 --> 00:01:10,612 I've just started. I've just started getting 32 00:01:10,695 --> 00:01:13,031 to the point where I'm becoming a better man. 33 00:01:13,531 --> 00:01:17,452 And I'm just starting to understand a little bit, 34 00:01:17,535 --> 00:01:19,454 just a little bit, what life is about. 35 00:01:19,537 --> 00:01:21,247 [guard] Everybody off the runway, please. 36 00:01:21,331 --> 00:01:23,833 [interviewer] If you could describe Diddy in one word, 37 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:24,918 what would it be? 38 00:01:25,001 --> 00:01:26,604 - [photographer 1] Puff! - [photographer 2] Puff Daddy! 39 00:01:26,628 --> 00:01:28,230 - [photographer 3] Hey, Diddy! - [indistinct chatter] 40 00:01:28,254 --> 00:01:30,131 - Relentless. - [♪ hip-hop music playing] 41 00:01:30,215 --> 00:01:31,966 - Powerful. - [Jamilah] Hustler. 42 00:01:32,050 --> 00:01:34,094 - Problematic. - [Justin] When I look back 43 00:01:34,177 --> 00:01:36,805 on not even just hip-hop, not even just R&B, 44 00:01:36,888 --> 00:01:39,557 but American music, American pop culture, 45 00:01:39,641 --> 00:01:41,643 it's impossible to tell that story 46 00:01:41,726 --> 00:01:43,561 without Sean "Diddy" Combs. 47 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:46,106 This is a guy who was dating J.Lo, 48 00:01:46,189 --> 00:01:49,234 fashion, alcohol, TV shows, 49 00:01:49,317 --> 00:01:51,569 political campaigns, "Vote or Die." 50 00:01:52,070 --> 00:01:55,115 This is one of the most famous people in America, 51 00:01:55,198 --> 00:01:56,741 over the last half century. 52 00:01:56,825 --> 00:02:01,121 Diddy finally has the key to the city! 53 00:02:01,204 --> 00:02:03,331 - [crowd cheering] - [camera shutter clicks, whirs] 54 00:02:03,414 --> 00:02:05,500 [Byron] Sean Combs was bigger than big. 55 00:02:05,583 --> 00:02:08,461 He was beloved in some circles, revered in others. 56 00:02:08,545 --> 00:02:10,672 One of the most powerful men in the music industry. 57 00:02:10,755 --> 00:02:13,550 And then suddenly… it was over. 58 00:02:13,633 --> 00:02:15,969 [♪ Dramatic suspenseful music playing] 59 00:02:19,389 --> 00:02:21,015 The raid by federal agents 60 00:02:21,099 --> 00:02:23,059 with Homeland Security Investigations 61 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:26,396 on Sean Combs's two homes in Los Angeles and Miami, 62 00:02:26,479 --> 00:02:30,275 spilled the criminal investigation into public view. 63 00:02:31,484 --> 00:02:32,944 [reporter] <i>Federal agents were seen</i> 64 00:02:33,027 --> 00:02:36,030 <i>raiding P. Diddy's Los Angeles and Miami homes.</i> 65 00:02:36,114 --> 00:02:38,366 When, uh, Diddy's home was raided, 66 00:02:38,449 --> 00:02:41,202 they found AR-15-style rifles, narcotics, 67 00:02:41,286 --> 00:02:43,580 and 1,000 bottles of baby oil. 68 00:02:43,663 --> 00:02:47,083 [Damian] We now know the results of that investigation. 69 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:48,251 [♪ Tense music playing] 70 00:02:48,334 --> 00:02:51,462 As alleged, Combs used force, threats of force, 71 00:02:51,546 --> 00:02:53,923 and coercion to cause victims to engage 72 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:55,675 in extended sexual performances 73 00:02:55,758 --> 00:02:58,303 with male commercial sex workers. 74 00:02:58,386 --> 00:02:59,971 Combs allegedly planned 75 00:03:00,054 --> 00:03:02,098 and controlled the sex performances, 76 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:04,726 - which he called "freak-offs." - "Freak-offs." 77 00:03:04,809 --> 00:03:05,894 [all] Freak-offs. 78 00:03:05,977 --> 00:03:07,187 Freak-off. What is that? 79 00:03:07,270 --> 00:03:11,566 Him having sex workers have sex with his partner, 80 00:03:11,649 --> 00:03:13,526 whoever it is, while he watches. 81 00:03:13,610 --> 00:03:15,862 [Aaron] They also say the agents found recordings 82 00:03:16,362 --> 00:03:22,535 of orgies that young women were forced to participate in 83 00:03:22,619 --> 00:03:24,913 at Sean Combs's direction, allegedly. 84 00:03:24,996 --> 00:03:26,056 [Kelley] According to prosecutors, 85 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,458 this has been going on for a really long time. 86 00:03:28,541 --> 00:03:31,586 They go back to at least 2008 or thereabouts. 87 00:03:31,669 --> 00:03:33,922 Sean Combs is facing a three-count indictment. 88 00:03:34,005 --> 00:03:37,091 Racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, 89 00:03:37,175 --> 00:03:39,636 and transportation for the purpose of prostitution. 90 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:41,512 [♪ Intense music playing] 91 00:03:42,805 --> 00:03:45,391 - [siren wailing] - [traffic rumbling] 92 00:03:45,475 --> 00:03:47,810 [reporter 1] <i>This is day one</i> <i>of the Diddy trial.</i> 93 00:03:49,646 --> 00:03:51,856 [reporter 2] <i>Now, to the latest</i> <i>on Sean "Diddy" Combs.</i> 94 00:03:53,816 --> 00:03:55,586 [reporter 3] <i>The sex trafficking</i> <i>and racketeering trial</i> 95 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:58,112 <i>- will begin this morning.</i> - [indistinct chatter] 96 00:03:58,196 --> 00:04:00,406 [reporter 4] <i>Federal prosecutors</i> <i>say Sean Combs</i> 97 00:04:00,490 --> 00:04:01,699 <i>and the people around him</i> 98 00:04:01,783 --> 00:04:04,202 <i>operated as a criminal enterprise.</i> 99 00:04:04,911 --> 00:04:06,412 How's Mr. Combs feeling this morning? 100 00:04:06,496 --> 00:04:07,497 You'll find out. 101 00:04:08,706 --> 00:04:11,167 [Brian] The street was buzzing. You had a long line 102 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:13,336 that almost went down half the block 103 00:04:13,419 --> 00:04:16,547 with a mix of the media and people in the public, 104 00:04:16,631 --> 00:04:17,799 waiting to get inside. 105 00:04:18,508 --> 00:04:21,177 People have literally been waiting to get in 106 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:23,263 since 2:00 p.m. the previous day. 107 00:04:23,346 --> 00:04:26,766 He believes he's innocent. I believe he's innocent. 108 00:04:26,849 --> 00:04:28,935 And we're gonna fight this case with all of our might 109 00:04:29,018 --> 00:04:30,937 until we don't have to fight any longer. 110 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:33,690 [Brian] You see some people screaming and yelling 111 00:04:33,773 --> 00:04:35,525 how an innocent man is being prosecuted. 112 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:40,613 Sean P. "Diddy" Combs is not guilty! 113 00:04:40,697 --> 00:04:42,782 - [passerby] Yeah, he is! - No the [bleep] he's not. 114 00:04:42,865 --> 00:04:45,118 [Brian] <i>You have other people</i> <i>saying he's an abuser,</i> 115 00:04:45,201 --> 00:04:47,036 <i>he's a trafficker. All of the allegations</i> 116 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,639 <i>that the government are putting forward</i> 117 00:04:48,663 --> 00:04:50,373 <i>and you see everything in between.</i> 118 00:04:50,456 --> 00:04:51,582 First day of the Diddy trial 119 00:04:51,666 --> 00:04:53,751 and they already said Sean Combs is putting on. 120 00:04:53,835 --> 00:04:56,063 All the defense has to do is wiggle a little bit of doubt 121 00:04:56,087 --> 00:04:57,880 into that jury's mind. Make the jury think, 122 00:04:57,964 --> 00:05:00,341 "Hmm, wait, something's really not adding up." 123 00:05:00,425 --> 00:05:02,302 Keep him in there for all of eternity 124 00:05:02,385 --> 00:05:04,721 and after eternity, keep him in there some more, 125 00:05:04,804 --> 00:05:06,740 'cause we don't need him coming out in the afterlife. 126 00:05:06,764 --> 00:05:09,183 To prosecutors, there's ample evidence 127 00:05:09,267 --> 00:05:11,602 of coerced sexual activity, 128 00:05:11,686 --> 00:05:16,649 and Combs's employees and those around him enabled it. 129 00:05:16,733 --> 00:05:18,401 But the way the defense frames it 130 00:05:18,484 --> 00:05:22,280 is that the individuals we're gonna see in this case 131 00:05:22,363 --> 00:05:24,449 were all willing participants, 132 00:05:24,991 --> 00:05:27,618 grown adults, who knew what they were doing. 133 00:05:27,702 --> 00:05:28,703 If I'm the defense, 134 00:05:28,786 --> 00:05:32,540 the biggest thing I am pressing over and over and over again, 135 00:05:33,166 --> 00:05:37,503 this is a highly influential, extraordinarily wealthy man 136 00:05:37,587 --> 00:05:39,630 who had certain sexual proclivities, 137 00:05:39,714 --> 00:05:40,965 maybe beyond the scope 138 00:05:41,049 --> 00:05:43,051 of the reasonable, everyday American, 139 00:05:43,134 --> 00:05:44,427 but not illegal. 140 00:05:44,719 --> 00:05:46,447 - [indistinct chatter] - [camera shutters click] 141 00:05:46,471 --> 00:05:48,806 [Brian] <i>The trial is expected</i> <i>to last for eight weeks.</i> 142 00:05:48,973 --> 00:05:51,184 <i>Probably, the biggest thing to look out for</i> 143 00:05:51,267 --> 00:05:53,227 <i>would be Cassie taking the stand.</i> 144 00:05:53,311 --> 00:05:55,688 Cassie Ventura is the former girlfriend 145 00:05:55,772 --> 00:05:57,023 of Sean Combs. 146 00:05:57,106 --> 00:05:59,984 She, essentially, is the most important 147 00:06:00,068 --> 00:06:01,069 and one could call 148 00:06:01,152 --> 00:06:02,653 "star witness" for this prosecution. 149 00:06:02,737 --> 00:06:04,489 [Byron] <i>This is the first time Cassie</i> 150 00:06:04,572 --> 00:06:06,783 <i>and Sean Combs are seeing each other</i> 151 00:06:06,866 --> 00:06:08,076 <i>in more than six years,</i> 152 00:06:08,159 --> 00:06:10,870 <i>since they broke up sometime in 2018.</i> 153 00:06:10,953 --> 00:06:13,247 [♪ Tense music playing] 154 00:06:14,707 --> 00:06:16,918 Day one, the very first essential piece 155 00:06:17,001 --> 00:06:18,628 of evidence is the tape, 156 00:06:18,711 --> 00:06:21,964 the now infamous tape that so many have already seen. 157 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:25,218 [Aaron] <i>Prosecutors say</i> <i>Cassie endured years of abuse.</i> 158 00:06:25,301 --> 00:06:27,470 <i>If she didn't go along with the sex</i> 159 00:06:27,553 --> 00:06:30,431 <i>that Sean Combs wanted, he would beat her.</i> 160 00:06:30,556 --> 00:06:32,517 <i>If she tried to escape the freak-offs,</i> 161 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,684 <i>he would beat her.</i> 162 00:06:33,768 --> 00:06:35,186 That is the level of fear. 163 00:06:35,269 --> 00:06:37,772 That is the element that led to the coercive nature 164 00:06:37,855 --> 00:06:39,857 of the longstanding, many, many years, 165 00:06:39,941 --> 00:06:43,569 11-plus-year relationship between Cassie and Sean Combs. 166 00:06:43,653 --> 00:06:46,697 Cassie is the center of the whole case. 167 00:06:46,781 --> 00:06:49,117 She is the main freak-off victim. 168 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,452 She is the center of the video. 169 00:06:52,078 --> 00:06:53,246 [Brian] And then put on top 170 00:06:53,329 --> 00:06:56,374 that she's gonna do all of this very much pregnant. 171 00:06:57,375 --> 00:06:58,793 And the way both sides, 172 00:06:58,876 --> 00:07:02,046 the government, and especially, the defense, 173 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:05,049 handles her as a witness, trying to either bolster 174 00:07:05,591 --> 00:07:07,510 or trying to negate her credibility, 175 00:07:08,010 --> 00:07:09,429 could make or break this case. 176 00:07:11,305 --> 00:07:13,474 [prosecutor, actor] Ms. Ventura, how did you feel 177 00:07:13,558 --> 00:07:15,518 about Sean around this time 178 00:07:15,601 --> 00:07:17,353 in the beginning of your relationship? 179 00:07:17,979 --> 00:07:19,981 I think I was just enamored by him. 180 00:07:20,064 --> 00:07:23,693 We were just having a good time. It was really fun at this point. 181 00:07:24,569 --> 00:07:26,612 According to the government's opening statement, 182 00:07:26,696 --> 00:07:27,864 there are a number of reasons 183 00:07:27,947 --> 00:07:30,366 as to why Cassie stayed with Sean Combs. 184 00:07:30,867 --> 00:07:33,870 At first, according to them, it was love, 185 00:07:33,953 --> 00:07:35,455 and she wanted to be with him. 186 00:07:36,164 --> 00:07:37,206 But then it changed. 187 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:38,475 [prosecutor, actor] How, if at all, 188 00:07:38,499 --> 00:07:40,042 did your relationship change over time? 189 00:07:40,751 --> 00:07:42,462 [Cassie, actor] I mean, over time, 190 00:07:42,545 --> 00:07:45,131 you get more comfortable with somebody, obviously. 191 00:07:45,214 --> 00:07:47,925 [sighs] But I began to just experience 192 00:07:48,009 --> 00:07:51,345 a different side of him, which was his abusive side, 193 00:07:51,888 --> 00:07:54,765 and a side that was just very controlling over my life 194 00:07:54,849 --> 00:07:56,476 and the things that I wanted to do. 195 00:07:56,976 --> 00:07:58,060 From the way that I looked 196 00:07:58,144 --> 00:08:00,146 to what I was working on that day, 197 00:08:00,229 --> 00:08:03,274 who I was speaking to. Control was kind of like 198 00:08:03,357 --> 00:08:06,194 all-around thing to a certain point. 199 00:08:06,277 --> 00:08:07,713 [prosecutor, actor] <i>The sexual conduct</i> 200 00:08:07,737 --> 00:08:11,032 <i>at issue in this case was coercive and criminal.</i> 201 00:08:11,115 --> 00:08:12,426 [defense attorney, actor] <i>This case is about</i> 202 00:08:12,450 --> 00:08:14,202 <i>voluntary adult choices</i> 203 00:08:14,285 --> 00:08:16,579 <i>and consensual relationships.</i> 204 00:08:16,662 --> 00:08:19,582 <i>Domestic violence is not sex trafficking.</i> 205 00:08:20,708 --> 00:08:22,168 [siren wailing in distance] 206 00:08:22,251 --> 00:08:23,711 [♪ Music fades] 207 00:08:25,004 --> 00:08:27,882 [♪ Tense music playing] 208 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,595 [prosecutor, actor] When Sean first proposed freak-offs, 209 00:08:32,678 --> 00:08:34,388 what was your reaction? 210 00:08:34,931 --> 00:08:36,682 [Cassie, actor] I just remember, like, 211 00:08:36,766 --> 00:08:38,768 my stomach falling to my butt. 212 00:08:38,851 --> 00:08:42,980 Like, just the nervousness and confusion in that moment. 213 00:08:43,606 --> 00:08:47,401 I think I was 22 at that time. I was just so young. 214 00:08:48,236 --> 00:08:51,280 Completely sexually inexperienced at that point. 215 00:08:51,364 --> 00:08:55,576 So, when Cassie signs to Bad Boy, she's this young, 216 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:57,912 fresh-faced girl from Connecticut. 217 00:08:57,995 --> 00:09:03,042 She is mixed race. She has a very marketable look. 218 00:09:03,125 --> 00:09:04,126 She's the type of girl 219 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:06,254 who would be on the cover of a magazine. 220 00:09:06,337 --> 00:09:07,338 [camera shutter clicks] 221 00:09:07,922 --> 00:09:11,133 [Tiffany Red] Cassie is sweet. She's quiet. 222 00:09:11,217 --> 00:09:13,386 She's kind. She's a good person. 223 00:09:13,469 --> 00:09:14,595 [camera shutter clicks] 224 00:09:15,304 --> 00:09:18,391 [Touré] They met in 2005 when she was 19. 225 00:09:18,474 --> 00:09:20,685 And he's like, 37, 226 00:09:20,768 --> 00:09:23,688 and he's running the record label 227 00:09:23,771 --> 00:09:25,982 that she's a part of. 228 00:09:26,065 --> 00:09:30,152 He controls whether or not her album comes out. 229 00:09:30,236 --> 00:09:33,489 Cassie came onto the scene in 2006, 230 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,866 with her self-titled debut album, 231 00:09:35,950 --> 00:09:38,536 and then her hit single, "Me & U." 232 00:09:38,619 --> 00:09:39,930 [♪ Upbeat music playing, Cassie "Me & U"] 233 00:09:39,954 --> 00:09:42,540 <i>♪ They know you're the one I wanna give it to ♪</i> 234 00:09:42,623 --> 00:09:45,835 <i>♪ I can see you want me too ♪</i> 235 00:09:45,918 --> 00:09:47,604 - [♪ music concludes] - Not too long after that, 236 00:09:47,628 --> 00:09:49,130 we find out that Diddy and Cassie 237 00:09:49,213 --> 00:09:50,923 are in a romantic relationship. 238 00:09:51,048 --> 00:09:52,466 [reporter] 239 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:54,468 - Yes. - [reporter] 240 00:09:55,928 --> 00:09:57,263 I was so nervous, 241 00:09:57,346 --> 00:09:59,890 so nervous, but we sat down for about two hours, 242 00:09:59,974 --> 00:10:02,059 talked about my career and the future, 243 00:10:02,143 --> 00:10:04,228 and… it was great. 244 00:10:04,312 --> 00:10:05,372 [♪ Intriguing music playing] 245 00:10:05,396 --> 00:10:07,398 [Megan] Nothing that she did really hit 246 00:10:07,481 --> 00:10:09,984 the same marks as they do in 2006. 247 00:10:10,484 --> 00:10:11,944 We began to see her more 248 00:10:12,028 --> 00:10:14,405 in the public as Diddy's girlfriend 249 00:10:14,488 --> 00:10:17,325 and less as the artist Cassie. 250 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,287 - [indistinct chatter] - [♪ suspenseful music playing] 251 00:10:22,538 --> 00:10:24,457 [Cassie, actor] Ultimately, at that point, 252 00:10:24,540 --> 00:10:26,167 Sean controlled a lot of my life, 253 00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:28,002 whether it was career, 254 00:10:28,085 --> 00:10:30,421 the way I dressed, like, everything. 255 00:10:31,547 --> 00:10:34,008 I just didn't feel like I had much say in it 256 00:10:34,091 --> 00:10:35,509 at that time being, like, 257 00:10:36,260 --> 00:10:41,057 really super young, naive, a total people pleaser. 258 00:10:41,140 --> 00:10:43,309 [camera shutter clicking] 259 00:10:43,392 --> 00:10:45,032 [Amy] There were always rumors about Diddy 260 00:10:45,061 --> 00:10:46,121 and his relationships with women. 261 00:10:46,145 --> 00:10:50,691 They ranged from inappropriate behavior, 262 00:10:50,775 --> 00:10:54,695 from flashes of rage and yelling at people. 263 00:10:57,657 --> 00:10:59,384 [prosecutor, actor] Can you describe what arguments 264 00:10:59,408 --> 00:11:00,743 with Sean were like? 265 00:11:01,243 --> 00:11:03,371 If they were violent argument… 266 00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:07,375 It would usually result in some sort of physical abuse. 267 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:11,671 Dragging, just different things of that nature. 268 00:11:12,254 --> 00:11:14,256 [prosecutor, actor] When you say physical abuse, 269 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:15,925 can you tell me what types of things 270 00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:17,885 that Sean did that hurt you physically? 271 00:11:17,968 --> 00:11:21,347 I mean, he would mash me in my head, 272 00:11:21,972 --> 00:11:25,351 knock me over, drag me, kick me. 273 00:11:25,434 --> 00:11:28,479 [hesitates] Stomp me in the head if I was down. 274 00:11:28,562 --> 00:11:29,772 [♪ Pensive music playing] 275 00:11:29,855 --> 00:11:32,024 How frequently was Sean physical with you 276 00:11:32,108 --> 00:11:33,901 during your relationship? 277 00:11:33,984 --> 00:11:35,194 Too frequently. 278 00:11:35,277 --> 00:11:37,738 What kind of injuries did you have as a result 279 00:11:37,822 --> 00:11:39,949 of Sean being physical with you? 280 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:42,010 [Cassie, actor] Usually, pretty similar. 281 00:11:42,034 --> 00:11:44,829 I would get knots in my forehead, busted lips, 282 00:11:44,912 --> 00:11:47,081 swollen lips, black eyes. 283 00:11:47,748 --> 00:11:49,583 The whites of my eyes would be red. 284 00:11:50,084 --> 00:11:51,669 Bruises all over my body. 285 00:11:52,545 --> 00:11:54,588 [Jamilah] I have heard over the years 286 00:11:54,672 --> 00:11:56,465 that Diddy was violent with Cassie. 287 00:11:56,549 --> 00:11:59,760 There would be an interview with a former bodyguard 288 00:11:59,844 --> 00:12:02,054 or someone who said that he, 289 00:12:02,138 --> 00:12:04,682 you know, had a history of violence with Cassie. 290 00:12:05,891 --> 00:12:08,894 I walk out the room, and right behind the door, 291 00:12:08,978 --> 00:12:11,063 there's... his security is around him. 292 00:12:11,147 --> 00:12:13,858 They have her in the corner, and he's in her face, 293 00:12:13,941 --> 00:12:15,502 and he's cussing her out. He was really mad. 294 00:12:15,526 --> 00:12:18,904 He was really close to her face, and she just had her head down. 295 00:12:18,988 --> 00:12:20,990 And when I was, like, standing over to the side, 296 00:12:21,073 --> 00:12:23,242 she just was kind of, like, looking up at me. 297 00:12:23,325 --> 00:12:25,953 My sense was that everybody around him was afraid of him. 298 00:12:26,036 --> 00:12:27,204 Why? 299 00:12:27,288 --> 00:12:29,498 I mean, 'cause he's explosive. 300 00:12:30,666 --> 00:12:32,293 [Byron] Why didn't her friends, 301 00:12:32,376 --> 00:12:34,754 why didn't her circle step up and say, "Yo, man?" 302 00:12:34,837 --> 00:12:37,173 What you gonna do? He got the key to the city. 303 00:12:37,256 --> 00:12:38,674 He's friends with the politicians. 304 00:12:38,758 --> 00:12:40,176 He's friends with this person. 305 00:12:40,259 --> 00:12:41,659 You know what I'm saying? It's like… 306 00:12:42,470 --> 00:12:43,846 Who's gonna challenge that? 307 00:12:43,929 --> 00:12:47,057 Who's gonna challenge that and win and be believed? 308 00:12:47,141 --> 00:12:48,142 Yeah, right. 309 00:12:48,642 --> 00:12:51,812 We know Sean Combs as a rapper and producer 310 00:12:51,896 --> 00:12:55,483 of some of the biggest artists, but now in this indictment, 311 00:12:55,566 --> 00:12:59,028 we're seeing him as a producer of freak-offs, lewd behavior, 312 00:12:59,111 --> 00:13:01,572 and some of the most horrendous of criminal activities. 313 00:13:02,948 --> 00:13:06,452 The freak-offs that prosecutors said were evidence 314 00:13:06,535 --> 00:13:09,830 of Sean Combs's sexual depravity, 315 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:12,708 the defense tried to characterize 316 00:13:12,792 --> 00:13:15,628 as something else, as consenting adults 317 00:13:16,295 --> 00:13:18,881 being intimate in a unique way. 318 00:13:20,591 --> 00:13:22,551 [♪ Music fades] 319 00:13:22,635 --> 00:13:23,677 [♪ Tense music playing] 320 00:13:23,761 --> 00:13:26,555 [Cassie, actor] Within the first year of our relationship, um, 321 00:13:27,139 --> 00:13:28,974 Sean proposed to me this idea, 322 00:13:29,058 --> 00:13:32,728 this sexual encounter that he called "voyeurism," 323 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:34,313 where he would watch me be... 324 00:13:34,396 --> 00:13:37,733 Have intercourse and sexual activity 325 00:13:37,817 --> 00:13:41,362 with a third party, specifically another man. 326 00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:44,883 [prosecutor, actor] Were there any parts 327 00:13:44,907 --> 00:13:46,325 of freak-offs that you enjoyed? 328 00:13:47,034 --> 00:13:48,118 The time spent with him. 329 00:13:50,704 --> 00:13:52,098 [prosecutor, actor] And what about the time 330 00:13:52,122 --> 00:13:54,124 spent with him did you enjoy? 331 00:13:55,334 --> 00:13:58,337 [Cassie, actor sobbing] At that time... I'm sorry. 332 00:14:00,339 --> 00:14:02,258 Just the one-on-one time I would get. 333 00:14:03,259 --> 00:14:04,903 'Cause there was always so many people around, 334 00:14:04,927 --> 00:14:07,096 and I didn't feel very close to him. 335 00:14:08,222 --> 00:14:10,516 So as sad as that was… [sobs] 336 00:14:11,058 --> 00:14:13,978 …I thought that that was the only time that I could get. 337 00:14:14,478 --> 00:14:15,604 Doing these freak-offs, 338 00:14:15,688 --> 00:14:17,523 orchestrating who would participate, 339 00:14:17,606 --> 00:14:19,233 picking out what she would wear, 340 00:14:19,775 --> 00:14:22,570 it went from trying to please him and serve him 341 00:14:22,653 --> 00:14:25,406 to being compelled and forced to do so. 342 00:14:25,489 --> 00:14:28,242 It went from, "I wanna make him happy" 343 00:14:28,325 --> 00:14:32,329 to "I am terrified of him and I need to make him happy." 344 00:14:32,413 --> 00:14:33,813 Because according to the government, 345 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:38,127 if she did not, she was faced with dangerous amounts of force. 346 00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:39,795 [♪ Ominous music playing] 347 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:42,715 And did Sean beat you during freak-offs? 348 00:14:43,257 --> 00:14:44,466 [Cassie, actor sobbing] Yes. 349 00:14:46,302 --> 00:14:48,470 Once or more than once? 350 00:14:48,554 --> 00:14:49,972 More than once. 351 00:14:50,055 --> 00:14:51,283 [prosecutor, actor] How did you feel 352 00:14:51,307 --> 00:14:53,058 during the freak-offs when Sean beat you? 353 00:14:54,268 --> 00:14:55,436 [Cassie, actor] Worthless. 354 00:14:56,562 --> 00:14:57,605 Just like dirt. 355 00:14:58,314 --> 00:14:59,648 Like I didn't matter to him. 356 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:03,110 That I was nothing, like absolutely nothing. 357 00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:07,448 [♪ Music fades] 358 00:15:08,949 --> 00:15:10,075 [♪ Tense music playing] 359 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:11,952 [Aaron] You've never seen Sean Combs 360 00:15:12,036 --> 00:15:14,371 looking the way he does in court. 361 00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:16,707 He can't dye his hair while he's incarcerated, 362 00:15:16,790 --> 00:15:18,876 so he's gone gray in his hair and his beard. 363 00:15:18,959 --> 00:15:21,211 And for a long time, he's been in beige jail garb. 364 00:15:21,295 --> 00:15:23,339 And now, for his trial, he's in khakis 365 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:25,424 and a collared shirt and a pullover. 366 00:15:25,507 --> 00:15:27,301 He looks like a suburban dad. 367 00:15:28,677 --> 00:15:30,429 Sean Combs was a fashion icon. 368 00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:33,265 How many times did he walk the steps of the Met Gala? 369 00:15:33,349 --> 00:15:35,017 He had his own fashion line. 370 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:37,603 He was everywhere in clothes that he designed 371 00:15:37,686 --> 00:15:39,480 or that designers wanted him to wear. 372 00:15:39,563 --> 00:15:40,689 [crowd cheering] 373 00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:43,525 [Touré] Puff always wanted to be driving culture, 374 00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:46,695 not just in it, but shaping it and creating it. 375 00:15:46,779 --> 00:15:48,419 Then the record comes on, that's your cue. 376 00:15:49,198 --> 00:15:51,408 And there's a point in time when the guys 377 00:15:51,492 --> 00:15:52,993 around him were like, 378 00:15:53,077 --> 00:15:54,787 "Hey, what's cool is the Hamptons." 379 00:15:56,163 --> 00:15:59,333 An all-white party where we have to wear white. 380 00:15:59,416 --> 00:16:00,626 [♪ Upbeat music playing] 381 00:16:00,709 --> 00:16:03,504 [Jamilah] Diddy's white parties were very famous. 382 00:16:04,129 --> 00:16:06,340 Anyone who you can think of 383 00:16:06,423 --> 00:16:09,051 who's a celebrity has attended a Diddy white party. 384 00:16:09,134 --> 00:16:10,844 [Sean Combs] 385 00:16:14,723 --> 00:16:15,808 [crowd laughs] 386 00:16:20,813 --> 00:16:23,565 [Amy] We knew that there was an after-after party, 387 00:16:23,649 --> 00:16:26,944 and we heard that those were much more debauched. 388 00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:29,780 I don't know if guys have noticed this, like 389 00:16:29,863 --> 00:16:32,116 a lot of ladies drink water at parties. 390 00:16:32,199 --> 00:16:34,493 [Megan] Diddy even went on Conan O'Brien 391 00:16:34,576 --> 00:16:38,664 and was openly talking about these after parties. 392 00:16:38,747 --> 00:16:40,874 It was almost like he was telling on himself 393 00:16:40,958 --> 00:16:42,835 in plain sight. 394 00:16:42,918 --> 00:16:43,979 If you don't have what they need, 395 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:45,105 - they're gonna leave. - [Conan] Right. 396 00:16:45,129 --> 00:16:46,314 - Got to keep them there. - [Conan] Right. 397 00:16:46,338 --> 00:16:48,298 You need locks on the doors. 398 00:16:48,382 --> 00:16:49,967 [audience laughs] 399 00:16:50,050 --> 00:16:52,344 Okay, this is sounding kind of dangerous now. 400 00:16:52,428 --> 00:16:53,530 It's a little kinky, but you know. 401 00:16:53,554 --> 00:16:54,722 Yeah, yeah. 402 00:16:54,805 --> 00:16:56,306 [♪ Suspenseful music playing] 403 00:16:56,390 --> 00:16:58,368 [reporter 1] Sean Diddy Combs, the rapper and music mogul, 404 00:16:58,392 --> 00:17:00,394 is accused of sexual assault and years of abuse 405 00:17:00,477 --> 00:17:02,980 in a new lawsuit filed by R&B singer, Cassie. 406 00:17:03,063 --> 00:17:05,543 [reporter 2] She's now suing him for what she's calling a cycle 407 00:17:05,607 --> 00:17:07,651 of abuse over the course of their relationship. 408 00:17:07,735 --> 00:17:09,778 In November of 2023, 409 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:11,780 Cassie Ventura filed a civil lawsuit. 410 00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:13,824 [Kelley] According to her lawsuit, 411 00:17:13,907 --> 00:17:17,077 Sean made Cassie have sex with male sex workers. 412 00:17:17,161 --> 00:17:18,829 [Brian] Cassie's lawsuit was filed one day 413 00:17:18,912 --> 00:17:20,539 and settled the next. 414 00:17:21,165 --> 00:17:23,500 [Byron] At the time, Combs denied all wrongdoing 415 00:17:23,584 --> 00:17:27,546 and made clear he said settling was not an admission of guilt. 416 00:17:29,089 --> 00:17:31,508 [Aaron] That lawsuit really was the catalyst 417 00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:34,720 for federal prosecutors to start laying the groundwork 418 00:17:34,803 --> 00:17:36,805 for the criminal case that's now here. 419 00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:38,616 - [♪ Tense music playing] - [reporter] <i>The music mogul</i> 420 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,226 <i>is accused of forcing men and women to partake</i> 421 00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:43,562 <i>in these drug-fueled sexual encounters</i> 422 00:17:43,645 --> 00:17:45,439 <i>- called "freak-offs."</i> - [Brian] Up until now, 423 00:17:45,522 --> 00:17:47,066 what happened in these freak-offs 424 00:17:47,149 --> 00:17:48,400 could only be gleamed 425 00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:51,820 from the few pages in Cassie's civil lawsuit. 426 00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:54,114 [reporter] <i>Cassie is expected</i> <i>to take the stand.</i> 427 00:17:54,198 --> 00:17:56,784 <i>Prosecutors say that we can expect her</i> 428 00:17:56,867 --> 00:18:00,496 <i>to describe these freak-offs in painstaking detail.</i> 429 00:18:01,622 --> 00:18:03,224 [prosecutor, actor] How frequently did you have 430 00:18:03,248 --> 00:18:04,958 freak-offs with Sean after they started? 431 00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:08,796 After they started, they became almost weekly, 432 00:18:08,879 --> 00:18:10,005 I would say. 433 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,799 Who arranged for the first escort 434 00:18:11,882 --> 00:18:13,842 to be present at the first freak-off? 435 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:15,719 Sean did. 436 00:18:15,803 --> 00:18:17,971 [prosecutor, actor] What, if any, drugs did you take 437 00:18:18,055 --> 00:18:20,099 - at the first freak-off? - [camera shutter clicks] 438 00:18:20,182 --> 00:18:22,893 [Cassie, actor] We took ecstasy and drank alcohol. 439 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:25,813 [prosecutor, actor] After this first freak-off, 440 00:18:25,896 --> 00:18:27,481 how did you feel? 441 00:18:27,564 --> 00:18:28,899 Well, I was high, 442 00:18:28,982 --> 00:18:31,401 so there wasn't too much feeling. 443 00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:34,488 I think it was a mixture of dirty 444 00:18:34,571 --> 00:18:36,907 and confusion with, like, 445 00:18:36,990 --> 00:18:38,826 "Okay, he's really happy with me, 446 00:18:38,909 --> 00:18:40,410 and I did something right." 447 00:18:40,494 --> 00:18:42,704 So, just really confusing. 448 00:18:43,622 --> 00:18:45,249 [♪ Tense music continues] 449 00:18:45,332 --> 00:18:46,917 [Aaron] The whole thing is shocking. 450 00:18:47,501 --> 00:18:51,213 She talked about Sean Combs directing male escorts 451 00:18:51,713 --> 00:18:53,966 where to ejaculate on her body. 452 00:18:54,591 --> 00:18:58,428 She talked about Combs and escorts urinating on her. 453 00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:00,281 [prosecutor, actor] After a freak-off, 454 00:19:00,305 --> 00:19:02,474 can you describe the condition of the room? 455 00:19:03,016 --> 00:19:05,018 The room was usually pretty bad off. 456 00:19:05,102 --> 00:19:07,312 There was oil all over the walls, 457 00:19:07,396 --> 00:19:08,897 the door handles, 458 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:10,399 the bed, the sheets. 459 00:19:11,066 --> 00:19:13,986 The defense insists Cassie made her own choices 460 00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:17,072 and may have been in it for the money or the life, 461 00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:19,366 but was not a victim of sex trafficking. 462 00:19:19,449 --> 00:19:21,451 [♪ Pensive music playing] 463 00:19:22,077 --> 00:19:24,204 [Aaron] At one point, she's given a binder 464 00:19:24,288 --> 00:19:27,749 and she has to thumb through pages and pages 465 00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:32,087 of photographs of these escorts that she slept with. 466 00:19:32,588 --> 00:19:34,673 [Touré] He's like so far beyond the line. 467 00:19:35,215 --> 00:19:39,011 You're talking about a bored billionaire sex addict. 468 00:19:39,094 --> 00:19:42,598 Who's like, "What weirdo sex thing can we do?" 469 00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:45,726 "Oh, I don't know. Get Anton to come here 470 00:19:45,809 --> 00:19:48,312 to Turks and Caicos or Paul to go." 471 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:49,897 You can't do that. 472 00:19:49,980 --> 00:19:53,025 You can't fly sex workers around the country. 473 00:19:53,650 --> 00:19:56,612 And they're doing it over and over and over. 474 00:19:57,529 --> 00:19:59,156 The second witness, Daniel Phillip, 475 00:19:59,239 --> 00:20:00,324 is a male escort. 476 00:20:00,407 --> 00:20:03,952 He believed he would be showing up for a party, 477 00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:07,289 and only Cassie and Sean Combs were in a hotel room. 478 00:20:07,372 --> 00:20:08,540 According to the government, 479 00:20:08,624 --> 00:20:11,251 he was then made to have sex with Cassie. 480 00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:12,854 [prosecutor, actor] What are some of the directions 481 00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:15,839 you remember Mr. Combs giving to you and Miss Ventura? 482 00:20:16,673 --> 00:20:18,425 He would tell us things like, 483 00:20:18,508 --> 00:20:19,885 "Slow down," you know? 484 00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:23,055 "Y'all, stop now. Separate from each other." 485 00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:26,350 "It's getting too much, it's getting too hot." 486 00:20:27,267 --> 00:20:30,562 It's the sex with Cassie that, according to the government, 487 00:20:30,646 --> 00:20:32,272 is that sex trafficking, 488 00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:34,399 forcing her to have sex with an individual 489 00:20:34,483 --> 00:20:35,943 that she doesn't want to. 490 00:20:36,026 --> 00:20:38,528 And it's what Philip says he saw 491 00:20:38,612 --> 00:20:40,447 in terms of the absolute violence 492 00:20:41,114 --> 00:20:42,199 towards Cassie, 493 00:20:42,282 --> 00:20:44,368 grabbing her by the hair, and beating her, 494 00:20:44,451 --> 00:20:47,746 because, according to Philip, when he, Sean Combs, said, 495 00:20:47,829 --> 00:20:49,081 "Come here," she didn't. 496 00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:53,752 The prosecution has put up witness after witness 497 00:20:53,835 --> 00:20:57,756 that show just how violent and horrible Sean Combs was. 498 00:20:57,839 --> 00:21:00,842 And then we have this hotel domestic violence 499 00:21:00,926 --> 00:21:03,136 with Cassie in the hallway. 500 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:04,346 [♪ Pensive music playing] 501 00:21:04,429 --> 00:21:06,014 [Cassie, actor] I knew I had to get out. 502 00:21:06,556 --> 00:21:09,810 I made it to the elevators, I got my sneakers on. 503 00:21:09,893 --> 00:21:12,980 And then the next thing I knew, he grabbed me 504 00:21:13,063 --> 00:21:14,815 by the back of my neck and my hoodie, 505 00:21:14,898 --> 00:21:16,525 and just threw me to the ground. 506 00:21:17,192 --> 00:21:18,592 [prosecutor, actor] What did you do? 507 00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:20,362 [Cassie, actor] I, at that moment, 508 00:21:20,445 --> 00:21:22,614 covered my face, and just stayed there. 509 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,120 [prosecutor, actor] Why did you cover your face? 510 00:21:25,158 --> 00:21:26,958 'Cause I didn't want him to do any more damage 511 00:21:27,035 --> 00:21:28,078 than he'd already done. 512 00:21:28,578 --> 00:21:30,998 [prosecutor, actor] Why did you just stay on the ground? 513 00:21:31,081 --> 00:21:33,667 [Cassie, actor] Because it felt like the safest place to be. 514 00:21:34,835 --> 00:21:38,005 Prosecutors say this is powerful evidence, 515 00:21:38,088 --> 00:21:41,383 of someone who is being trafficked for sex, 516 00:21:41,466 --> 00:21:44,970 and being held against her will. Cassie was trying to get out, 517 00:21:45,053 --> 00:21:47,764 and Sean Combs was trying to drag her back in. 518 00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:50,434 [Brian] For the defense, this was about 519 00:21:50,517 --> 00:21:52,894 Cassie seeing something on Sean Combs's cell phone, 520 00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:55,856 and a violent, jealous rage 521 00:21:55,939 --> 00:21:58,483 that Sean Combs flew himself into 522 00:21:58,567 --> 00:22:00,235 after Cassie had taken that phone, 523 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,237 and accused him of things that he did not do. 524 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:04,031 [♪ Tense music playing] 525 00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:07,117 Sean Combs is very aware of just how dangerous 526 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,286 this hotel tape could be. 527 00:22:09,828 --> 00:22:10,829 Eddy Garcia, 528 00:22:10,912 --> 00:22:13,332 one of the lead security guards at the hotel, 529 00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:15,709 testifies that he is essentially bribed 530 00:22:15,792 --> 00:22:19,671 by Sean Combs and his team to get what they believe 531 00:22:19,755 --> 00:22:21,840 is the only existing copy of this tape. 532 00:22:21,923 --> 00:22:25,260 [Touré] Diddy shows up with a cash counter, 533 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,054 and money in a bag, 534 00:22:27,137 --> 00:22:30,057 and he gives them 100,000 dollars, 535 00:22:30,140 --> 00:22:32,225 because he's bribing other people 536 00:22:32,309 --> 00:22:36,063 who are also security guards, so everybody will be quiet. 537 00:22:36,146 --> 00:22:38,607 This is one of the clearest examples 538 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,818 that they have of him committing bribery. 539 00:22:41,902 --> 00:22:43,542 [Brian] His credibility is out the window, 540 00:22:43,570 --> 00:22:45,072 and now the question becomes, 541 00:22:45,155 --> 00:22:46,948 "What else is Sean Combs lying about?" 542 00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:48,492 [♪ Music concludes] 543 00:22:49,993 --> 00:22:51,033 [Sean Comb's son chuckles] 544 00:22:51,078 --> 00:22:54,373 [Sean Comb's daughter and son] <i>♪ Happy birthday to… ♪</i> 545 00:22:54,498 --> 00:22:55,725 [Sean Combs's daughter] <i>♪ Daddy ♪</i> 546 00:22:55,749 --> 00:22:56,875 Go. 547 00:22:56,958 --> 00:23:01,004 - And… <i>- ♪ Happy birthday to Daddy ♪</i> 548 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:03,924 [reporter] <i>Diddy marking</i> <i>his 55th birthday behind bars,</i> 549 00:23:04,007 --> 00:23:06,551 <i>his children singing to him over speakerphone</i> 550 00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:09,554 <i>in a video released by his son on social media.</i> 551 00:23:09,638 --> 00:23:10,740 [photographer 1] Sean, to your right. 552 00:23:10,764 --> 00:23:12,158 [photographer 2] To your right, Sean, please! 553 00:23:12,182 --> 00:23:13,183 [crowd clamoring] 554 00:23:13,266 --> 00:23:16,186 Diddy's life now was a lot different 555 00:23:16,269 --> 00:23:17,521 than how he grew up. 556 00:23:17,604 --> 00:23:18,724 [♪ Intriguing music playing] 557 00:23:18,772 --> 00:23:20,315 Being from Harlem, 558 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:23,193 you know, was raised by his mom, Janice, 559 00:23:23,276 --> 00:23:24,653 with his sister. 560 00:23:24,736 --> 00:23:26,655 He's created multiple narratives. 561 00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:28,073 His father was a drug dealer. 562 00:23:28,156 --> 00:23:30,075 He grew up... Rough and tumble life. 563 00:23:30,158 --> 00:23:32,136 [Sean Combs] My father was killed when I was three. 564 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,705 I just remember my mother, you know, working four jobs. 565 00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:36,873 On the other hand, he says, 566 00:23:36,957 --> 00:23:39,251 "Oh, I was a paperboy in Westchester County." 567 00:23:39,334 --> 00:23:43,171 He somehow was able to consolidate 568 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:44,714 several paper routes. 569 00:23:44,798 --> 00:23:47,801 So, he had these kids delivering the papers 570 00:23:47,884 --> 00:23:49,010 on his routes for him. 571 00:23:49,094 --> 00:23:52,264 And he's already being entrepreneurial and capitalist 572 00:23:52,347 --> 00:23:53,515 within that system. 573 00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:57,394 He was always the boss from a very young age. 574 00:23:58,019 --> 00:24:01,022 So, everybody around him has to do what he says. 575 00:24:01,106 --> 00:24:04,401 I just wanna get paid for it. That's what I'm saying too. 576 00:24:04,484 --> 00:24:05,986 I don't wanna be wasting my time. 577 00:24:07,028 --> 00:24:08,822 Yo, how y'all getting this data out there? 578 00:24:08,905 --> 00:24:09,966 [Touré] You know, there was a time 579 00:24:09,990 --> 00:24:12,190 everybody in the music business wanted to work for Puff, 580 00:24:12,242 --> 00:24:14,387 and it was so much fun. It was so cool when you got it. 581 00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:17,622 So, like, if he screamed at you sometimes, 582 00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:19,976 well, that's part of the price of admission. 583 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,501 If so, bump somebody. 584 00:24:21,585 --> 00:24:24,754 There's a clip that was in his 2017 documentary, 585 00:24:24,838 --> 00:24:25,881 <i>Can't Stop, Won't Stop,</i> 586 00:24:25,964 --> 00:24:27,632 where, you know, he's in his office, 587 00:24:27,716 --> 00:24:29,426 and is, like, destroying stuff. 588 00:24:29,509 --> 00:24:31,845 I got my MTV. I'm a savage! 589 00:24:31,928 --> 00:24:35,640 I'm a savage! [screams] I'm a savage! 590 00:24:35,724 --> 00:24:37,476 Whatever I want, I'm going to get it! 591 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:39,895 Whatever I want, I have to get! 592 00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:41,813 [Ray J] You know what was inspiring for me 593 00:24:41,897 --> 00:24:43,023 about that video? 594 00:24:43,106 --> 00:24:45,442 Was when Puffy said, "What's next?" 595 00:24:46,234 --> 00:24:48,820 What's next? What's next? I gotta get it. 596 00:24:48,904 --> 00:24:50,447 I'm not gonna stay [inaudible] down. 597 00:24:50,530 --> 00:24:54,618 For him to say, "What's next?" means I'm ready for everything. 598 00:24:55,243 --> 00:24:57,412 A savage in business… 599 00:24:57,496 --> 00:25:01,208 - [♪ Tense music playing] - …can be a profitable energy. 600 00:25:01,958 --> 00:25:04,669 I think that there's a relentlessness 601 00:25:04,753 --> 00:25:07,380 in this person who is saying, 602 00:25:07,964 --> 00:25:12,552 "I will do whatever I have to do to accomplish the goal." 603 00:25:12,636 --> 00:25:14,054 You couldn't tell him, "No." 604 00:25:14,137 --> 00:25:15,680 [Sara] During the course of this trial, 605 00:25:15,764 --> 00:25:17,015 we heard from a number 606 00:25:17,307 --> 00:25:19,559 of personal assistants of Sean Combs. 607 00:25:20,101 --> 00:25:21,941 [personal assistant, actor] I was 23 years old. 608 00:25:22,437 --> 00:25:24,689 All I wanted to do was have a great job 609 00:25:24,773 --> 00:25:26,149 in the entertainment industry. 610 00:25:26,816 --> 00:25:28,735 I could not believe my good fortune 611 00:25:28,818 --> 00:25:30,403 would be working for such an icon. 612 00:25:32,155 --> 00:25:33,841 And the last way that I thought I would be successful 613 00:25:33,865 --> 00:25:35,325 in that career would be to compromise 614 00:25:35,408 --> 00:25:36,910 his well-being in any way. 615 00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:39,246 If you worked for him, 616 00:25:39,329 --> 00:25:43,792 part of your job was to facilitate these freak-offs. 617 00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:45,544 At the center of the government's case 618 00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:46,836 are these freak-offs. 619 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,422 Getting male escorts, getting the hotels, 620 00:25:49,506 --> 00:25:51,925 cleaning up the hotels, getting the drugs, 621 00:25:52,008 --> 00:25:53,093 getting the IVs. 622 00:25:53,176 --> 00:25:55,095 So, they were pieces 623 00:25:55,178 --> 00:25:58,265 of this alleged criminal enterprise 624 00:25:58,348 --> 00:25:59,808 that goes to the racketeering charge. 625 00:25:59,891 --> 00:26:03,019 The reason why they say that he's been able to get away 626 00:26:03,103 --> 00:26:04,688 with doing this for so long 627 00:26:04,771 --> 00:26:07,649 is that he essentially has been blackmailing people 628 00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:08,942 into being silent. 629 00:26:09,025 --> 00:26:12,237 We see Cassie take the stand, and essentially say 630 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,073 one of the main reasons she didn't leave this situation 631 00:26:15,156 --> 00:26:16,366 was she was really afraid 632 00:26:16,449 --> 00:26:18,076 of being blackmailed by Sean Combs. 633 00:26:20,161 --> 00:26:21,681 [prosecutor, actor] What were you referring to 634 00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:23,999 when you said "blackmail materials"? 635 00:26:25,208 --> 00:26:27,752 Blackmail materials would be actual, like, 636 00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:30,213 sex videos, freak-off videos. 637 00:26:31,339 --> 00:26:33,758 Even just other embarrassing videos. 638 00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:38,179 Me drunk. Like, anything that would make me look not great. 639 00:26:38,805 --> 00:26:40,974 [prosecutor, actor] When, if ever, would Sean mention 640 00:26:41,057 --> 00:26:42,767 the freak-off videos to you? 641 00:26:43,893 --> 00:26:45,121 [Cassie, actor] He would mention them 642 00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:47,147 when he was upset about something. 643 00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:49,274 It was just a pretty common thing. 644 00:26:49,357 --> 00:26:51,776 Cassie agreed to do it, 645 00:26:51,860 --> 00:26:54,988 and she came to find out what it was, 646 00:26:55,071 --> 00:26:57,991 and then she's like, "I don't wanna do that anymore." 647 00:26:58,074 --> 00:27:00,619 Cassie also testifies to a time in which she was flying 648 00:27:00,702 --> 00:27:04,039 from France to New York City. And they're on the flight, 649 00:27:04,122 --> 00:27:07,208 and Sean Combs takes the opportunity to show her 650 00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:10,170 videotape of Cassie in a freak-off. 651 00:27:10,253 --> 00:27:12,064 [prosecutor, actor] What'd he say about the videos 652 00:27:12,088 --> 00:27:14,257 while he was playing them for you on the plane? 653 00:27:14,341 --> 00:27:15,735 [Cassie, actor] That he was gonna embarrass me 654 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:16,760 and release them. 655 00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:18,887 And Sean Combs makes it clear to her 656 00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:20,013 that at the end, 657 00:27:20,096 --> 00:27:21,282 when they get to where they're going, 658 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:23,642 the expectation is for her to participate in a freak-off. 659 00:27:23,725 --> 00:27:26,186 He's using the tapes to coerce Cassie. 660 00:27:26,269 --> 00:27:27,312 This is really important, 661 00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:28,664 because one of the main arguments 662 00:27:28,688 --> 00:27:31,066 that the defense is constantly making 663 00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:34,069 is that whatever the jury might think of these activities, 664 00:27:34,152 --> 00:27:36,571 these were consenting adults. 665 00:27:38,281 --> 00:27:40,075 When Sean was playing freak-off videos 666 00:27:40,158 --> 00:27:42,285 for you on the plane, how did you feel? 667 00:27:43,703 --> 00:27:45,163 I just felt trapped. 668 00:27:45,246 --> 00:27:46,915 Like, how do you get out of this situation 669 00:27:46,998 --> 00:27:47,999 when somebody's… 670 00:27:49,584 --> 00:27:51,753 I don't know. I... I felt trapped. 671 00:27:52,879 --> 00:27:54,422 [Brian] The defense makes the argument 672 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,716 that there will be no videos 673 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,218 recovered from Sean Combs's homes 674 00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:01,012 that show a freak-off involving Cassie. 675 00:28:01,513 --> 00:28:03,515 That the only videos involving Cassie 676 00:28:03,598 --> 00:28:04,974 will be on Cassie's phone. 677 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:07,227 If Sean Combs was using these freak-offs 678 00:28:07,310 --> 00:28:08,770 to control Cassie, 679 00:28:08,853 --> 00:28:10,814 then why does he not have any in his possession? 680 00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:14,401 Who had the power? Who had the videos? 681 00:28:14,484 --> 00:28:16,486 And who ultimately left on their own accord? 682 00:28:17,362 --> 00:28:18,839 [prosecutor, actor] When you landed in New York, 683 00:28:18,863 --> 00:28:19,864 what did you do? 684 00:28:20,198 --> 00:28:22,033 [Cassie, actor] We landed in New York, 685 00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:23,368 ended up going to a dinner, 686 00:28:23,451 --> 00:28:25,620 and he wanted to have a freak-off, 687 00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,914 so we had a freak-off. 688 00:28:27,997 --> 00:28:29,958 [prosecutor, actor] Why did you do the freak-off? 689 00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:31,960 [Cassie, actor] Honestly, at that point, 690 00:28:32,043 --> 00:28:34,462 whatever was going to make him not be angry at me, 691 00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:37,424 and threatening me, I was willing to do. 692 00:28:37,924 --> 00:28:40,176 [Eboni] Regina Ventura is Cassie's mother, 693 00:28:40,260 --> 00:28:42,137 and she's called to the witness stand, 694 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:45,056 and she talks about how her daughter came to her 695 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,642 very, very upset and confesses 696 00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:50,270 that she indeed participated in these freak-offs 697 00:28:50,353 --> 00:28:52,439 that show Cassie in this horrific light 698 00:28:52,522 --> 00:28:55,316 that would be damning for her, her career, and her entire life. 699 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,569 [♪ Pensive music playing] 700 00:28:58,111 --> 00:28:59,338 [prosecutor, actor] <i>Miss Ventura,</i> 701 00:28:59,362 --> 00:29:00,405 <i>could you please read</i> 702 00:29:00,488 --> 00:29:02,657 <i>the communication that Cassandra sent to you?</i> 703 00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:04,510 [Regina, actor]<i> "The threats</i> <i>that have been made</i>" 704 00:29:04,534 --> 00:29:07,704 <i>towards me by Sean 'Puffy' Combs are…</i> 705 00:29:08,329 --> 00:29:12,417 <i>"That he is going to release two explicit sex tapes of me."</i> 706 00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:16,421 <i>"One on Christmas Day, maybe before…"</i> 707 00:29:16,504 --> 00:29:17,648 [prosecutor, actor] <i>How did you react</i> 708 00:29:17,672 --> 00:29:19,340 <i>when you received this email?</i> 709 00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:22,343 [Regina, actor] <i>I was physically sick.</i> 710 00:29:22,969 --> 00:29:25,555 <i>I didn't understand a lot of it.</i> 711 00:29:26,264 --> 00:29:27,807 <i>The sex tapes threw me.</i> 712 00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:31,936 <i>I did not know the other person in it,</i> 713 00:29:32,020 --> 00:29:34,773 <i>but I knew that he was gonna try to hurt my daughter.</i> 714 00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:36,792 [prosecutor, actor] <i>And when</i> <i>you say that you knew</i> 715 00:29:36,816 --> 00:29:39,444 <i>that he was going to try to hurt your daughter,</i> 716 00:29:39,527 --> 00:29:42,447 <i>who is that "he" that you're talking about?</i> 717 00:29:43,323 --> 00:29:44,616 [Regina, actor] <i>Sean Combs.</i> 718 00:29:45,492 --> 00:29:46,886 [prosecutor, actor] <i>And what else, if anything,</i> 719 00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:50,246 <i>happened related to Sean Combs and Cassandra's relationship</i> 720 00:29:50,330 --> 00:29:53,082 <i>at or around the same time you received this email?</i> 721 00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:54,977 [Regina, actor] <i>It was understood</i> 722 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,670 <i>that he was going to need 20,000 dollars</i> 723 00:29:57,754 --> 00:30:00,715 <i>to recoup the money that he had spent on her,</i> 724 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:04,135 <i>because he was angry that she had a relationship</i> 725 00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:05,303 <i>with Scott Mescudi.</i> 726 00:30:05,970 --> 00:30:08,056 Scott Mescudi, Kid Cudi, 727 00:30:08,139 --> 00:30:11,893 one of the great rappers and musicians of our time, 728 00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:14,771 started dating Cassie. 729 00:30:14,854 --> 00:30:17,982 And at some point, Sean Combs becomes aware 730 00:30:18,066 --> 00:30:20,568 that Cassie and Kid Cudi are dating in some capacity. 731 00:30:20,652 --> 00:30:23,613 - He becomes absolutely unhinged. - [indistinct chatter] 732 00:30:23,696 --> 00:30:28,535 Diddy is accused of blowing up the rapper Kid Cudi's car. 733 00:30:29,118 --> 00:30:32,247 Right? So, just imagine what you might be able to do 734 00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:34,749 to somebody who doesn't have the protection 735 00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:36,584 of celebrity or influence. 736 00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:38,002 [Sara] Well, for that accusation, 737 00:30:38,086 --> 00:30:40,713 Diddy has denied the charge. 738 00:30:40,797 --> 00:30:42,632 Puff is constantly saying, 739 00:30:42,715 --> 00:30:46,469 "I will release this tape, and destroy your image," 740 00:30:46,553 --> 00:30:49,848 to the point that Cassie has to go to her mother, 741 00:30:49,931 --> 00:30:52,642 and say, "He is blackmailing me, 742 00:30:52,725 --> 00:30:57,355 and I need to get 20,000 dollars to pay him." 743 00:30:57,438 --> 00:30:59,899 [prosecutor, actor]<i> How did you</i> <i>obtain 20,000 dollars</i> 744 00:30:59,983 --> 00:31:02,235 <i>at the end of December, 2011?</i> 745 00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:05,697 [Regina, actor] <i>We had taken</i> <i>a home equity loan,</i> 746 00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:06,781 <i>and decided to…</i> 747 00:31:07,657 --> 00:31:09,576 <i>That's the only way we could get the money.</i> 748 00:31:09,659 --> 00:31:11,870 <i>So, we took it out of there,</i> 749 00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:13,830 <i>and transferred it to our checking.</i> 750 00:31:13,913 --> 00:31:17,000 She gets the money, sends it to Sean Combs. 751 00:31:17,083 --> 00:31:19,544 He actually then wires this 20,000 dollars 752 00:31:19,627 --> 00:31:20,628 right back to her. 753 00:31:20,712 --> 00:31:22,922 Twenty thousand dollars in the world of Sean Combs 754 00:31:23,006 --> 00:31:24,007 is nominal. 755 00:31:24,090 --> 00:31:26,301 It's five dollars to any ordinary person 756 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:28,636 on the street. This is about power. 757 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,097 - [siren wailing] - [♪ tense music playing] 758 00:31:31,180 --> 00:31:35,351 [Touré] So many other people were afraid to stand up to him, 759 00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:39,772 and he doesn't see it coming. He's like, "You won't do it." 760 00:31:40,481 --> 00:31:43,568 "You won't make it public. I am invincible." 761 00:31:44,402 --> 00:31:46,404 "I can get away with anything." 762 00:31:48,615 --> 00:31:50,033 [♪ Music fades] 763 00:31:50,950 --> 00:31:54,495 [♪ Pensive music playing] 764 00:31:56,205 --> 00:32:01,961 Cassie testified that in 2018, she escaped from Puff 765 00:32:02,045 --> 00:32:05,256 after years of trying to get away from him. 766 00:32:06,591 --> 00:32:09,469 And she, like, gives him, like, one last dinner, 767 00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:12,263 and the dinner is fine, 768 00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:14,974 and then they go back to her place… 769 00:32:16,517 --> 00:32:17,769 And he rapes her. 770 00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:20,438 [prosecutor, actor] When you arrived at your home, 771 00:32:20,521 --> 00:32:21,940 what happened? 772 00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:25,109 [Cassie, actor] I went inside… went inside the living room. 773 00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:28,154 He came in, pretty usual, nothing weird. 774 00:32:29,405 --> 00:32:30,406 And then… 775 00:32:32,408 --> 00:32:34,619 And then he raped me in my living room. 776 00:32:35,912 --> 00:32:37,264 [prosecutor, actor] Where in your living room 777 00:32:37,288 --> 00:32:38,456 did the rape happen? 778 00:32:40,083 --> 00:32:41,125 On the floor. 779 00:32:42,502 --> 00:32:44,146 [prosecutor, actor] How did you physically react 780 00:32:44,170 --> 00:32:45,380 when Sean raped you? 781 00:32:47,048 --> 00:32:49,550 I just remember crying, and saying, "No." 782 00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:53,346 Now, the defense denies the allegations of the rape, 783 00:32:53,429 --> 00:32:55,264 and they actually point out to the fact 784 00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:59,227 that after that alleged rape, she had consensual sex with him. 785 00:32:59,310 --> 00:33:00,955 [prosecutor, actor] Can you explain to the jury 786 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,773 why you agreed to see Sean again after the rape? 787 00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:06,609 We'd been together for over ten years. 788 00:33:06,693 --> 00:33:09,654 Like, you don't just turn off feelings that way. 789 00:33:10,571 --> 00:33:12,740 We were very connected at that point still. 790 00:33:12,824 --> 00:33:15,660 I still had good vision of who he was as a person. 791 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,204 Like, I didn't hate him. 792 00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:22,917 I think the defense did a phenomenal job overall 793 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:24,711 with all the witnesses in this trial. 794 00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:27,714 Their job is to dismantle the prosecution's case, 795 00:33:27,797 --> 00:33:29,090 and discredit each witness, 796 00:33:29,173 --> 00:33:31,592 and I think they did that very skillfully. 797 00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:33,511 When you talk about these cases 798 00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:36,264 that involve trafficking, sexual assault, 799 00:33:36,347 --> 00:33:37,640 rape, harassment, 800 00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:39,267 there might not be concrete evidence, 801 00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:43,146 but you have to believe the word of one person or the other. 802 00:33:43,229 --> 00:33:46,190 [Sara] A woman who goes by the pseudonym, "Mia," 803 00:33:46,274 --> 00:33:48,693 is a former assistant of Sean Combs. 804 00:33:48,776 --> 00:33:50,653 So, she was a different 805 00:33:50,737 --> 00:33:52,739 category of accuser, because she didn't have 806 00:33:52,822 --> 00:33:54,008 a personal relationship with him. 807 00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,575 But she claims that during the course 808 00:33:55,658 --> 00:33:57,952 of her employment with Combs 809 00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:01,664 that she was assaulted by him sexually a few times. 810 00:34:02,206 --> 00:34:03,541 What were you afraid would happen 811 00:34:03,624 --> 00:34:06,836 if you told Mr. Combs "no" with regard to sex? 812 00:34:06,919 --> 00:34:09,630 [Mia] That he would fire me, and ruin my future, 813 00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:11,591 and somehow twist the story into making me 814 00:34:11,674 --> 00:34:12,717 look like a threat. 815 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,385 Why were you afraid of those things? 816 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:17,513 [Mia] Because I knew his power, and I knew his control over me. 817 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:19,348 And I didn't wanna lose everything 818 00:34:19,432 --> 00:34:22,810 that I worked so hard for. This, like, world that I… 819 00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:25,688 That was the only thing that I had anymore. 820 00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:29,609 Mia, when Mr. Combs was sexually assaulting you, 821 00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:31,569 did you tell anyone about it? 822 00:34:31,652 --> 00:34:33,071 - [Mia] No. - Why not? 823 00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:34,781 [Mia] I was going to die with this. 824 00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:37,825 Combs's lawyers have asserted that Sean Combs has never had 825 00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:40,536 any unwanted or non consensual sex with Mia. 826 00:34:40,620 --> 00:34:45,208 Mia was one of the few prosecution witnesses 827 00:34:45,291 --> 00:34:48,211 the defense really eviscerated in this trial. 828 00:34:48,294 --> 00:34:52,048 And her testimony was very problematic to me 829 00:34:52,548 --> 00:34:57,303 because she met with the prosecution 28 times 830 00:34:57,386 --> 00:35:01,933 before she mentioned the most coercive act 831 00:35:02,016 --> 00:35:03,601 that goes to the heart of this case, 832 00:35:03,684 --> 00:35:05,436 which is that she was sexually assaulted. 833 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,730 It's just as bad if the jury believes 834 00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:09,148 the testimony of Cassie, 835 00:35:09,232 --> 00:35:11,442 but doesn't believe the testimony of Jane or Mia. 836 00:35:12,026 --> 00:35:14,529 Jane is a former girlfriend of Sean Combs, 837 00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:15,798 and according to the government, 838 00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:18,407 much like Cassie, was trafficked, 839 00:35:18,491 --> 00:35:19,534 so was Jane. 840 00:35:20,326 --> 00:35:22,620 Overall, I actually don't think she helped 841 00:35:22,703 --> 00:35:23,788 the government's case. 842 00:35:24,497 --> 00:35:27,125 [Sara] Jane was Sean Combs's most recent girlfriend, 843 00:35:27,208 --> 00:35:31,796 and Jane was very much an adult woman 844 00:35:31,879 --> 00:35:34,006 who looked for providers in men. 845 00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:36,717 [Jane] I do find men who are successful attractive. 846 00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:40,346 As a woman, my ideal partner is a protector and a provider. 847 00:35:40,429 --> 00:35:42,598 And you found that attractive in Mr. Combs? 848 00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:43,808 [Jane] I did. 849 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,895 [Touré] The Jane story is complicated. 850 00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:51,399 I… It is an emotional roller coaster. 851 00:35:52,066 --> 00:35:55,319 Because she starts testifying, and I'm like, 852 00:35:55,403 --> 00:35:57,989 "Oh my God. She's telling the same story as Cassie." 853 00:35:58,072 --> 00:35:59,907 "Oh my God. It's a pattern." 854 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:04,996 But then Jane clearly still is in love with him, 855 00:36:05,496 --> 00:36:08,416 and he's paying her rent to this day, 856 00:36:08,499 --> 00:36:11,169 and he's paying for her attorney, 857 00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:13,504 and she said, "It was a lifestyle." 858 00:36:14,297 --> 00:36:17,842 So… [sighs] …is it or is it not? 859 00:36:20,344 --> 00:36:23,264 [prosecutor, actor] <i>If we could play, 31-03A.</i> 860 00:36:23,890 --> 00:36:26,809 [Sean Combs over recording] 861 00:36:34,775 --> 00:36:36,611 <i>That's my new name for you, "Crack Pipe."</i> 862 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,821 <i>Or should I call you, "CP"?</i> 863 00:36:38,905 --> 00:36:41,199 What he is saying to these women, 864 00:36:41,282 --> 00:36:43,367 I can hear an air of manipulation. 865 00:36:44,452 --> 00:36:46,579 For me, the only question is, 866 00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:49,165 "What are you doing in this manipulation?" 867 00:36:49,707 --> 00:36:51,292 Are you manipulating a woman 868 00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:53,586 into believing that she is so special 869 00:36:53,669 --> 00:36:55,880 so that you can share your time with her? 870 00:36:55,963 --> 00:36:59,091 Or are you manipulating a woman into being trafficked, 871 00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:00,509 into being abused? 872 00:37:01,052 --> 00:37:03,221 I haven't figured out which one it is yet, 873 00:37:03,304 --> 00:37:05,723 but I can hear an air of manipulation, 874 00:37:05,806 --> 00:37:06,807 one way or another, 875 00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:08,893 in some of the audio tapes from Sean Combs. 876 00:37:08,976 --> 00:37:10,621 [Sean Combs]<i> Look, I want you</i> <i>to stay in the light.</i> 877 00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:11,646 <i>You know what I'm saying?</i> 878 00:37:11,729 --> 00:37:13,648 <i>We had a very, very good time together.</i> 879 00:37:14,148 --> 00:37:16,400 <i>Like, so much, so much, so much, so much,</i> 880 00:37:16,484 --> 00:37:19,862 <i>so much </i>[bleep]<i> fun.</i> <i>So much </i>[bleep] <i>fun.</i> 881 00:37:20,363 --> 00:37:24,075 <i>Now, go rest up. Get in your bag.</i> 882 00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:26,285 [smacking lips, blowing kisses] 883 00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:29,247 - [indistinct chatter] - [♪ tense music playing] 884 00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:31,832 [Reena] We just got word from our teams inside court 885 00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:33,334 that we now have a verdict, 886 00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:35,753 and this comes more than 14 hours 887 00:37:35,836 --> 00:37:37,421 into the deliberation. 888 00:37:37,505 --> 00:37:39,799 [indistinct chatter] 889 00:37:41,175 --> 00:37:42,301 [♪ Music fades] 890 00:37:43,094 --> 00:37:46,555 [♪ Tense music playing] 891 00:37:51,477 --> 00:37:54,230 [indistinct chatter] 892 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:56,500 [reporter 1] <i>We have breaking news now.</i> 893 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:59,485 <i>The jury has reached a verdict in the Sean Diddy Combs trial.</i> 894 00:37:59,568 --> 00:38:01,046 [reporter 2] <i>Verdict is being read right now.</i> 895 00:38:01,070 --> 00:38:02,071 <i>We're being told from…</i> 896 00:38:02,154 --> 00:38:05,574 [reporter 3] <i>Not guilty</i> <i>of racketeering conspiracy.</i> 897 00:38:05,658 --> 00:38:09,328 <i>Not guilty on sex trafficking of Cassie Ventura.</i> 898 00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:13,916 I'm so happy that Pop's coming home. 899 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,085 God bless. God bless the whole world. 900 00:38:16,168 --> 00:38:19,171 [reporter 3] <i>He has been</i> <i>found guilty on count three,</i> 901 00:38:19,255 --> 00:38:21,841 <i>transportation for the purposes of prostitution.</i> 902 00:38:21,924 --> 00:38:24,593 <i>He has also been found guilty on count five,</i> 903 00:38:24,677 --> 00:38:28,139 <i>transportation for the purposes of prostitution.</i> 904 00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:30,808 The government had him dead to rights on transportation 905 00:38:30,891 --> 00:38:34,228 to engage in prostitution. But that was like… 906 00:38:35,062 --> 00:38:37,523 "Let's make sure we get him on something." 907 00:38:37,606 --> 00:38:39,984 Like, that's the easy... Like, we didn't do all this 908 00:38:40,067 --> 00:38:42,111 just to get him on transportation. 909 00:38:42,194 --> 00:38:45,573 This was about getting justice for Cassie. 910 00:38:45,656 --> 00:38:48,743 This was a win for Sean Combs. This is a massive win. 911 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:52,371 He's not found guilty of being the head 912 00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:56,709 of a racketeering conspiracy. So, no life in prison. 913 00:38:56,792 --> 00:38:59,462 Life is off the table in terms of a jail sentence. 914 00:38:59,545 --> 00:39:02,757 He is only facing up to ten years on two counts. 915 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,800 When I heard the verdicts, I thought, 916 00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:08,554 "Puff always gets away." There was a lot of fist pumping. 917 00:39:08,637 --> 00:39:12,183 There was a lot of prayer hands toward the jury, 918 00:39:12,266 --> 00:39:15,061 toward the judge, toward the sky. 919 00:39:15,978 --> 00:39:19,357 [reporter] Combs dropped to his knees as if in prayer, 920 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:20,709 and then he looked at his family, 921 00:39:20,733 --> 00:39:22,693 and said, "I'm coming home, baby." 922 00:39:22,777 --> 00:39:23,819 "I'm coming home." 923 00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:28,282 The whole ball game was sex trafficking Cassie. 924 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:32,161 We all knew that transportation, those two counts, 925 00:39:32,244 --> 00:39:34,413 was a slam dunk. The government had proven that. 926 00:39:34,497 --> 00:39:37,625 We all knew that racketeering would be very, very hard, 927 00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:39,293 probably beyond the government's reach. 928 00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:42,463 The whole ballgame was sex trafficking Cassie. 929 00:39:42,546 --> 00:39:44,507 That's the 15-year charge. 930 00:39:45,174 --> 00:39:48,552 She told the most horrific stories of her life, 931 00:39:49,136 --> 00:39:53,307 they showed the videos of what they did, 932 00:39:53,849 --> 00:39:57,061 and even still, they said, "Not enough." 933 00:39:58,604 --> 00:40:01,649 Either the government could not sufficiently answer 934 00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:05,444 the question, "Why didn't she just leave?" 935 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:06,695 Or… 936 00:40:09,156 --> 00:40:10,991 People don't believe women. 937 00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:12,410 [♪ Pensive music playing] 938 00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:16,455 [Megan] Every time, which is sad that there is an "every time," 939 00:40:17,373 --> 00:40:21,502 but when something like this happens, 940 00:40:21,585 --> 00:40:24,964 you hope that there is some kind of reckoning, but… 941 00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:31,429 There is so much ingrained in this culture 942 00:40:31,512 --> 00:40:33,556 that it's really hard to tell. 943 00:40:34,306 --> 00:40:37,101 So, the hope is that that changes. 944 00:40:38,644 --> 00:40:40,229 But will it? [Chuckles softly] 945 00:40:40,312 --> 00:40:41,897 [♪ Somber music playing] 946 00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:43,821 [Eboni] We can't forget that he is still facing 947 00:40:43,899 --> 00:40:46,819 active civil cases, including 14 948 00:40:46,902 --> 00:40:48,863 that apparently involve minor children. 949 00:40:48,946 --> 00:40:51,240 It's important to note that he has denied all wrongdoing 950 00:40:51,323 --> 00:40:52,658 that has been alleged so far. 951 00:40:52,741 --> 00:40:54,785 Now, a lot of those lawsuits are frivolous, 952 00:40:55,369 --> 00:40:57,496 but many of them have meat on the bone, 953 00:40:57,580 --> 00:41:01,917 and he has to pay legal teams to fight the cases, 954 00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:05,754 and probably pay for settlements as well. 955 00:41:05,838 --> 00:41:10,676 He will never be what he once was ever again. 956 00:41:10,759 --> 00:41:14,847 He can blame a lot of things for that downfall, 957 00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:18,142 but first and foremost, he's gotta look at himself. 958 00:41:18,225 --> 00:41:19,226 We are here, 959 00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:21,061 and this is what we've been waiting for. 960 00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:24,398 In the court of public opinion, Sean Combs is convicted 961 00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:28,819 a million times over, because what the world saw 962 00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:32,948 is an extremely violent man on tape. 963 00:41:33,032 --> 00:41:35,367 That is not something to make a comeback from. 964 00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:38,829 Sean Combs is notorious for rebranding, 965 00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:39,914 and reinventing himself. 966 00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:41,290 It's one of the reasons 967 00:41:41,373 --> 00:41:42,693 why we have so many names for him. 968 00:41:43,167 --> 00:41:47,046 Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, Puffy, Diddy, Love. 969 00:41:47,671 --> 00:41:50,216 [Justin] It's impossible to cancel Diddy. 970 00:41:50,299 --> 00:41:51,568 You may not listen to his music, 971 00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:53,344 but what does that mean for Biggie Smalls? 972 00:41:53,427 --> 00:41:55,071 Are you never gonna listen to Biggie again? 973 00:41:55,095 --> 00:41:56,972 Are you never gonna listen to Jodeci again? 974 00:41:57,056 --> 00:41:58,474 Are you never gonna listen to Faith? 975 00:41:58,557 --> 00:42:01,185 He wants to come out with a redemption album? 976 00:42:01,268 --> 00:42:02,353 There's no space for that. 977 00:42:02,436 --> 00:42:04,813 He's going to be seen as a pariah 978 00:42:04,897 --> 00:42:06,732 for the rest of his life. 979 00:42:06,815 --> 00:42:09,568 This will not be the end for quite some time. 980 00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:12,863 Sean Combs will likely continue to fight. 981 00:42:12,947 --> 00:42:15,032 Separating the artist from the art 982 00:42:15,115 --> 00:42:16,617 is a difficult concept, 983 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:18,661 but what the whispers in the background 984 00:42:18,744 --> 00:42:20,704 when we talk about Sean Combs will be, 985 00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:22,748 I think that's gonna be the most interesting part 986 00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:23,874 of his legacy.