The sordid “Diddy” affair embarrasses the stars

Since the arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York last week, his escapades have violently come to the surface. And it’s enough to lose one’s Latin, as the murky stories, the archives and the deafening unsaid things are dizzying. While he risks life in prison, the rapper seems to embarrass many celebrities. Decryption.

The “Weinstein of rap”. “The Epstein of the music business.” A “monster”. Since the feds came to pick him up in the lobby of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan on September 17, the man we called Puff Daddy, Puffy, Diddy and even P. Diddy has picked up less glamorous nicknames than in the old days. of its (gigantic) success.

The most powerful rapper and producer of his generation now faces life in prison for “racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for the purposes of prostitution.” While he languishes behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being denied bail, Sean “Diddy” Combs is making a good part of America sweat, as his existence seems to be nothing more than a bottomless pit of escapades, each more filthy than the last.

Of course, there are the official accusations. Rape, sexual violence and coercion of all kinds, in what the public prosecutor describes as a real “criminal enterprise” which operates like a mafia, with its capos, its codes, its settling of scores and its law of silence. At the top, Sean Combs, as a godfather sometimes more willingly feared than respected.

At least that is what the crazy stories that are now tumbling out in a tight flow reveal. Because it’s a whole era that’s coming to the surface. A world that we naively imagined was full of lust, money and eccentricities, like Miami, Los Angeles, bling-bling rappers in general and Diddy in particular, have been able to sell it to us since the nineties.

Today, the temple of dazzling success has transformed into a den of hell, in which many crimes may have been committed. It is up to justice to clarify this matter, which could well be the biggest scandal in a music industry which has always been very opaque.

Since the rapper’s arrest, many celebrities have now found themselves in the spotlight. Which ones? Well, all of them. Or almost. Because it would be quicker to list the stars who have not followed in his wake or participated in one of his famous orgiastic evenings over the last thirty years. At the time, you had to be there, as they say. Refusing an invitation from Diddy could slow down (break?) careers, as the man firmly reigned over the pop empire, like a Julius Caesar of debauchery.

It must be said that the rapper’s network was wide-ranging. Music, cinema, finance, politics, Sean Combs could be as comfortable with Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, for whom he had organized gigantic fundraisers, his hip-hop friends, even models and Hollywood stars. There A listthe real one, as the Americans say.

The hip-hop mogul’s parties have always sparked many fantasies. If photos and videos, sometimes taken by press agencies invited by the boss, greedily revealed the splendor, the stars, the bubbles and the laughter, what was going on there in reality seemed to move away from the gentle garden- party reserved for the elite.

The numerous stories and testimonies paint a sordid picture of the enterprise of the man who is now awaiting his trial. The main person concerned, in a premonitory video dating from 1999, already felt that his evenings were not to everyone’s taste, particularly the authorities.

Today, thanks in particular to social networks, we realize to what extent the antics of “Diddy” have, at best, marked many celebrities. When they didn’t come away simply traumatized. Because the indictment refers to “Freak Offs”, in other words “sexual performances elaborated and produced” by Sean Combs, during which “baby oil” and drugs were clearly flowing freely.

Orgies by “coercion”, where women were allegedly forced to engage in “sexual acts with male workers”. Diddy was “filming and masturbating”. Hello atmosphere.

The questions now on everyone’s lips are enough to embarrass the community. happy fews: who knows what? Who participated in what? When? With whom? To do what? How far? To understand the uneasiness, you just have to witness the strange ballet composed of both old and new confessions and quite a bit of closed mouths. To name just one, Ashton Kutcher, who met Diddy on MTV, by co-presenting the show with him Punk’dfor example, seems to have enough to empty his bag, but…

The Justin Bieber case

Among the many celebrities who were treated to the Diddy tsunami, we especially find Justin Bieber. This precocious talent, catapulted into the business when he was still a teenager, made producers salivate, sniffing out the cash machine. Then aged 15, Bieber very quickly found himself under the wing of Sean Combs. In an amateur video which has also resurfaced since the rapper’s arrest, we discover the kid about to live a strange experience.

In light of the multiple accusations weighing on Sean Combs’ shoulders, these few confessions seem even more sinister. What is a kid doing in an evening of debauchery, no matter how talented he is? At the start of his career, Bieber was supervised by the rapper Usher, who also found himself in Diddy’s anteroom, whom he would one day say he had seen “very curious things.”

Justin and Sean hung out together for a long time, in the studio, in the evenings, in front of the cameras. Enough to give rise to numerous theories, sometimes vague. If in a real song by the star, called LonelyJustin is heard singing that “everybody saw me sick/And I felt like no one cared/They criticized the things I did when I was a stupid kid”, another piece shook social networks even though it was made with the help of artificial intelligence.

Justin Bieber, who has not yet spoken out on the arrest of his mentor, would be “so disturbed by the news concerning Diddy that he does not want to discuss it and that he has cut himself off from everything,” says the Daily Mailquoting people close to the young father. On the other hand, we remember that he called for Billie Eilish to be protected from the fangs of business, with tears in his eyes:

Many personalities have also decided to remain silent. Even Diddy’s former companions, from Jennifer Lopes to Naomi Campbell. Apart from the numerous complainants or the rapper 50 cent, mouths are closed.

And for public opinion, sorting truth from fiction will become more and more difficult. Sean Combs has been around so many celebrities that it becomes difficult to ensure that the records and statements are correct. If Khloé Kardashian attended a White Party “until 5:30 in the morning with a group that included Bieber and Diddy”, confessing in passing that “half the people were naked”, Lebron James never appeared as a maid at Sean Combs.

It is certain that the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will reveal very new information, knowing that the public prosecutor promises “numerous evidence, photos and videos”, in addition to the SMS exchanges and the witnesses that he already has under his belt.

One thing is certain, since Harvey Weinstein, never has a criminal case so tense the small community of American celebrities. And because power is not as centralized in music as it is in cinema, this scandal promises to be sprawling.

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