Sexual violence
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The rapper and businessman has been incarcerated since September 16 after around ten complaints revealing a vast system of sex crimes and trafficking. A scandal on par with the Weinstein earthquake, which could mark a turning point in the liberation of women’s voices in this environment.
Why did Sean Combs choose “Puff Daddy” as his rapper name? Because he was renowned, in his youth, for his Big Bad Wolf-style outbursts: «Huff and puff» is the threat carried out by the predator, in the Three Little Pigs, to blow on the houses of swine to tear them to pieces. The anecdote, told by the artist in an interview in 1998, is purposely reported in the complaint filed against him on September 10, in a federal court in New York, by Dawn Richard. The singer, author and composer has become emblematic of the alternative r’n’b movement, and frequented and collaborated for several years with the “mogul” from 2004, notably within the groups Danity Kane and Diddy-Dirty Money.
The complaint reports years of mistreatment, sexual assault and confinement of which she was allegedly the victim, but also of the unleashed violence of Combs, of which she was a direct witness, against his employees, artists and relatives, including his ex-partner Casandra Ventura, aka Cassie. This complaint was added to a dozen others – the last of which on September 24 – revealing a vast system of violence and oppression entirely dedicated to the pleasure and protection of “P. Diddy”, artist
