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Chances are we will never know a small fraction of the story behind P. Diddy’s arrest.

While the allegations sound awful, and I hope his victims get a measure of justice for the crimes alleged, I am not a celebrity culture guy, and Diddy interests me not at all. It may be impossible to avoid news when a celebrity is involved, but my life would be improved if I never heard another word about him.

“For two decades Diddy was the Democrats’ biggest black celebrity influencer.”

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— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) September 18, 2024

Terabytes of video. The stuff nightmares are made of.

h/t patthedog

… My question is not about his guilt or innocence. The U.S. attorney will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt his charges to a jury in New York. That the case will before a federal judge and not some NYC hack whose daughter collects his bribes gives me hope that Diddy will receive a fair trial.

My question is who approved prosecuting Diddy? Selective prosecution may as well be DOJ’s motto.

New video has surfaced of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs telling guests at one of his legendary White Parties in the Hamptons that it was time for the kids to go home and the real partying to begin.

In footage obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, Diddy, 54, stands, champagne glass in hand, like a dictator on his balcony as he calls in the quid pro quo for the hospitality so far extended.

‘We fed you all, we gave you drinks, now it’s time to enjoy life,’ he says. ‘This is a celebration of life. This is the real White Party.

I wonder if we’ll ever know who’s on the “terabytes” of film the DOJ is said to have seized?

Speculation says the DOJ has secured cooperative witnesses in exchange for immunity and Diddy is looking at R. Kelly time.

There will be a (large) percentage of readers whose eyes will roll at this headline: You don’t listen to Sean Combs… or P. Diddy… or Diddy… or Puff Daddy… or whatever he’s calling himself today. Not your jam, not your bag: “So, okay, Combs was busted this week for sex trafficking and racketeering and is currently sitting inside a jail cell on suicide watch. But why should I care?”

Brooklyn’s grim Metropolitan detention center (MDC) is now for the foreseeable future home to Diddy, AKA Sean Combs, one of the most well-known voices in American entertainment whose business empire once seemed to know no bounds.

The MDC is 5 miles (8km) from the public housing projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant where Combs’s biggest Bad Boy Records star, Biggie Smalls, grew up, but more than 20 miles from the middle-class suburb of Mount Vernon, where Combs himself was raised.

Smalls was murdered in Los Angeles in 1997, but Combs went on to amass a fortune and global fame by marrying street attitude to luxury consumer capitalism. But that all crashed and burned last week. On Wednesday a New York judge rejected a $50m bail package for Combs, in part because of witness intimidation allegations, ahead of his trial on three criminal counts, including racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution.

I wonder if names will be named?

After Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ arrest in New York City Tuesday, some of Hollywood’s biggest stars have weighed in. Others, including former and current friends of Combs, have remained silent out of “fear,” according to an expert.

The music mogul was charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. He faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars and a maximum sentence of life in prison if found guilty.

Sordid new details have emerged of the so-called sex rooms that Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly kept in his Miami mansion — filled with sex toys, bondage gear, hidden cameras and lingerie, according to a federal source, who said the disgraced rapper is “as bad as Epstein.”

One of the Department of Homeland Security agents who helped raid Diddy’s Florida abode claimed that the music mogul had rooms that were clearly “dedicated to sex” with cameras all around.

A new book accuses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of assaulting his late girlfriend, taping himself having sex with a male teenage popstar, and sex parties with an Oscar winner and his wife.

The 60-page book, Kim’s Lost Words, claims to be a collection of the diaries of Kim Porter, the mother of three of his children who died of pneumonia in 2018, leaked by her friends.

It describes Combs’s colorful love life from the 1990s through Porter’s final year, including alleged philandering with both male and female top musicians and rappers, and debauched orgies at his home, in which Porter took part.

Sean “Diddy” Combs vowed he won’t have women visit his Florida mansion Wednesday as his defense attorneys beg a judge to release him to home detention until he faces trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges.

The 54-year-old rapper was set to appear for a second day in a row in Manhattan federal court at 3:30 p.m. — for a hearing where he’ll request to be sprung from the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center on a $50 million bond.

His attorneys argue that electronic monitoring and a slew of other conditions should assure the trial judge and prosecutors that Combs won’t go on the lam or harm others while he awaits trial.

What We’re Learning About Diddy Could ‘Bring the Whole Music Industry Down

BREAKING: An inside look into Diddy’s charges. What we learned could bring the whole music industry down. pic.twitter.com/00xhKUhBtL

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 18, 2024

You can see why people believe Pizza-Gate.

h/t patthedog

No — that is not a mug shot. I expect we’ll be seeing some pictures of Puff Diddy not wearing a tuxedo fairly soon.

Unsealed in the Southern District of New York this morning was a three count indictment charging Sean Combs with leading a RICO Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and interstate transportation of females to facility prostitution. Combs was arrested on Monday evening in Manhattan, spent the night in the federal detention center, and made an appearance on Tuesday morning in federal court to be arraigned on the indictment.

h/t MZ for this

Amazon’s woke Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has experienced a dramatic fall-off in viewership following the recent debut of the second season, according to a new report.

An estimated 902,000 U.S. households tuned in for the first episode of the second season within four days of its debut on August 29 — down by half from the 1.8 million households that watched the first episode of the first season, within three days.

Racialized Gay Dwarves and Elves? Trump supporters clumsily concealed as Racist White Men? What’s not to love?

The summer box office season ended up being down 11 percent over 2023’s summer, and let’s not forget that 2023’s summer box office wasn’t all that hot.

The 2024 summer season (defined as May’s first weekend through Labor Day) saw a domestic box office gross of $3.6 billion. That is down 11 percent from 2023 and only a smidge higher (six percent) than 2022’s $3.39 billion summer box office gross.

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My father told me that those who work in Hollywood are America’s aristocrats. Everyone else is a civilian. It was a concept that said less about how the world perceived my father than about how he perceived himself. After all, he had been nominated twice for Academy Awards. He knew Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra. Did such things not qualify him to be, in the words of the great Romantic poet Percy Shelley, an unacknowledged legislator of the world?