P. Diddy: Everything In Sex Trafficking Investigation So Far and What’s Next

I have no question in my mind that this

is going to be the end of Diddy as we

know him I can't see how he gets out of

this I just can't for the past 2 weeks

it's been all P Diddy all the time in

the wake of some pretty shocking

allegations this is a bombshell and this

is something where the impact is going

to be reverberating around the globe for

a variety of reasons and in case you

somehow missed it we've got a complete

recap of everything we know so far and

what could be coming down the pipeline

it'll be the per walk that'll be covered

by every single outlet around the globe

we've talked to experts attorneys

investigators and those closest with

Diddy we're putting it all together here

for you to make sense of everything as

we know it right now if you had any

semblance of respect left for Diddy

after the Cassie filing it's definitely

gone after little Rod no question for

the past three decades we've come to

know Shan Colmes as multiple different

names P Diddy puffy Puff Daddy Puff the

54-year-old is a rapper entrepreneur and

label exec things changed for him on

March 25th when Homeland Security raid

two of his homes one in California and

the other in Florida there's no word yet

whether Diddy himself was the target of

those raids and he's not been charged

criminally that being said some

allegations of his criminal past became

a major topic of conversation when news

of the raids broke that's what was so

stunning when Cassie Ventura filed her

lawsuit earlier this year it kind of

broke the dam and it was just the

floodgates opened and all of these other

allegations started to come to the

surface that's Melba Pearson a former

prosecutor who's followed the Diddy case

meticulously since it broke her interest

actually dates back farther than just

last month when Diddy's bad boy for Life

Mantra was just a song and we know about

the allegations now that have happened

in the past couple months via these

civil suits but if we go back I know

that you have kind of followed Diddy for

a while and you're pretty knowledgeable

about that era from the 90s until now

prior to these civil lawsuits being

filed was there talk of wrongdoing on

Diddy's behalf there really wasn't you

know to to compare him to R Kelly for

instance there were rumors swirling

around R Kelly from the beginning and

that started off with his marriage to a

very underage Aaliyah and that's when

folks were like hm okay something

doesn't seem right here but like kind of

put it to the side just kind of put a

pin in it for a few decades until all

the bombshell allegations and well ended

up being proved in in a court of law

came for you know came forth I I feel

like with Diddy we didn't hear that much

we knew that he partied hard we knew

that he was always going to high-profile

events and all of that but I I

personally have never heard any rumors

surrounding uh any wrongdoing or

anything having to do with him this is

an artist who really came to prominence

in the 90s we remember all of the videos

he was very close with uh Biggie Smalls

who ALS tragically lost his life um you

back in the early late 1990s early 2000s

um and so he was somebody who had this

whole orbit around him and so many

different artists like Mae and you know

all these different folks that sprung

out from this record label and orbit

that they were in so he had a huge

impact on what R&B and Hip Hop looked

like in the 90s and the 2000s and

continue to be influential today in

terms of other artists that have you

know gained prominence and gained Fame

as well as him as a producer having this

really huge presence in the industry so

absolutely absolutely this is a

bombshell and this is something where

the impact is going to be reverberating

around the globe for a variety of

reasons but during this era Diddy did

have some trouble with the law back in

1999 he was arrested and charged in a

shooting at a New York nightclub his

then girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and

rapper Shine were also arrested JLo's

charges were dropped but it was shine

who faced the most serious charges three

counts of attempted murder and criminal

possession of a weapon ultimately both

Diddy and shine went to trial Diddy was

acquitted but shine was convicted and

sentenced to 10 years in prison he was

released in 2009 and deported back to

his home country of believes if we're

looking at it in the 1999 lens or the

early 2000s when they went to trial what

was everyone making of it then so I

think people were not like horrified per

se I think they looked at it as well

this is part and parcel of the hip hop

industry I don't think it was very

shocking because you know there's

definitely a

perception somewhat reality as well that

there is violence in the hip hop

community and sort of that beef between

different groups or different labels we

all know about the East Coast West Coast

beef that was going on during the 90s

with Tupac on on one side biggie on the

other so this was something that was uh

an outgrowth of that time frame so I

don't think folks were super shocked at

that juncture um I think what was more

shocking was sort of Jennifer Lopez's

involvement in all of this because I

don't think even though she was like

yeah I'm Jenny From the Block I don't

think anybody really saw her as really

gonna be that quote unquote that chick

who is you know coming with the firearm

and is gonna you know hold it down and

ride or die for her man like I don't

think people really saw that of her so I

think that was the most shocking part of

the case back in 1999 but the fact that

Diddy and uh shine who was the AR artist

who was involved in that incident the

fact that they were charged I don't

think anybody was super stunned the

reason that we're talking about this

decades old shooting now is because it

was brought up in a recent civil suit

against Diddy we'll take a closer look

at the lawsuits against him soon but for

now let's focus on this specific part of

Rodney Jones or Lil Rod's civil suit

here's what Lil Rod's lawsuit says quote

Mr com shared that he was responsible

for the shooting in the nightclub in New

York City with rapper Shine Mr comes'

girlfriend at the time Jennifer Lopez

AKA JLo carried the gun into the club

for him and passed him the gun after he

got into an altercation with another

individual now with these renewed

allegations that Diddy was the one

responsible for the shooting it's

possible that investigators take another

look at the case and reopen it we spoke

to Bobby Chone former FBI agent about

this if there's a civil lawsuit that

lays out this major allegation what

would it take to reopen an investigation

into something that happened 25 years

ago it would take a different look at it

so so you know in other words he was

acquitted on State murder charges now

federal charges can be different you can

have Reco you can have a continuing

criminal Enterprise you could have so

the underlying acts the predicate acts

if we used to call when we when I worked

Rico cases a RICO predicate act could be

something like that 1999 case and you

can use it as a predicate act you can

you can bring it up you can you know

when I worked cold cases of this type

sometimes with time with the passage of

time people aren't as intimidated and

they're not as threatened and they get

away from the person who is the threat

um and they feel more forthcoming to

testify or to give statements uh in in

in in Le of testimony but certainly I

think that um that case is going to be

part of it you know in the aftermath of

that they have witnesses that say he

bragged about um intimidating Witnesses

uh paying off jurors certainly when you

have that kind of stuff if you go back

and you find that juror that was paid

off or jurors multiple that may have

been paid off um certainly that gives

you the impetus to kind of come forward

and refresh those charges on a federal

case so the federal cases will be a

little different the charges are a

little different so it's not Double

Jeopardy um and so I think that I think

that that case that you mentioned that

you cite I think is certainly one of the

ones they're looking to build into a

much bigger to me maybe a RICO type case

three people were injured in the

shooting including natana Rubin She's

Come forward over the past two weeks

saying Diddy was the one who shot her in

the face not shine we talked to Bobby

about this too so could her allegations

change things increase the likelihood of

an investigation ahead oh absolutely

when you have a witness like that and I

I've seen those videos of her I mean she

said look I was shot in the face so I

was staring at the person who shot me I

know it was him I mean that's pretty

strong evidence um you know you'd you

know the defense obviously tried to

discredit her um but but that's pretty

strong evidence from a victim of a crime

like that you know she wasn't shot in

the back where she couldn't see she was

literally shot in the face and said I

was star I was looking right at the

person who shot me um so yeah that

that's very very strong evidence you

know uh and certainly you know I'm sure

they've talked to her already and um she

would be a strong witness if we believe

what's written in Lil Rod's lawsuit

Diddy straight up told lilrod he Diddy

was the one responsible for the shooting

not shine that's also what we're hearing

from Mark Curry a rapper who worked with

Diddy and appears on the song Bad Boy

for life in multiple interviews Mark has

alleged that he paid off shine in order

to take the fall for him we actually

spoke to Mark right here on lawn crime

where I asked him about these

allegations I know that the incident

that happened at Club New York with

between it was with puff and shine and

JLo was there and and wolf was there it

was a very unfortunate situation because

um it was a female I believe that may

have got shot or something like that

during the um situation but it was not a

good situation and um I don't say um it

was a payoff but you say Sean went and

did a long time in prison and then when

he came home from prison they extradited

him and made him go back to bise and he

couldn't come back and put his foot on

on the United States soil again and to

me I was like why only thing he didn't

really do anything to really get to

where he can't come back and then when

you when you broke down everything it

was his voice would have been too

powerful um to say the truth so in order

to hide the truth let's hide the person

that has the voice so to me it was like

yo you're hiding the person with the

voice because you don't want him to tell

his truth and that's that so it's like

okay for you to go over here and live we

it was a time where I think they had

gave him a record deal and he was

supposed to do an album and we never

heard an album from him but to me the

money that they gave him to do the

record deal the way that it was given to

him and how that process went was just

kind of a way to give him some money to

say hey you know what um take care of

yourself live life hear something from

someone and that's how that one went so

we've got these allegations that Diddy

was responsible as the shooter but also

allegations

that JLo carried the weapon that Diddy

used in the shooting what's interesting

here is that Cassandra Ventura known

publicly as the singer Cassie says Diddy

made her do the same thing she filed a

lawsuit in November of last year laying

out some pretty severe allegations about

Diddy to start there's that gun

allegation that on at least two

occasions Diddy demanded Cassie hold his

gun in her purse the lawsuit goes on to

State quote there was no clear reason

why Mr Colmes required her to hold his

gun except to reinforce to his young

girlfriend that he was violent powerful

and dangerous not only did Jennifer

Lopez allegedly bring the gun to the

club now we're also looking at years

later Cassie coming forward and saying

that Diddy forced her to carry a gun

with her when they went out to different

events so again I think that this is

more along the lines of when you look at

this from a domestic violence lens from

the point of the abuser being very

controlling and demanding certain

activities to prove loyalty to uh you

know basically put yourself in a bad

situation where only he can be the one

to save you basically um so in seeing

that the parallels between JLo's

experience and Cassie's experience

number one it brings more credibility to

what Cassie said in her pleadings but

also again it causes us to look at

Jennifer Lopez and be like some of the

comments she made about the end of her

relationship to Diddy in terms of well

you know there was infidelity and you

know she kind of skirted the issue a bit

but when you start to look back at your

com her comments you start to think oh

were you in a domestic violence

relationship with Diddy much like how

Cassie ended up in a domestic violence

relationship with him what would have

made her want to come forward and what

did you take away from that civil suit

so the reason why she came forward this

juncture is because New York and

California both passed laws around uh

which was called the adult Survivor act

so that basically extends the statute of

limitations so when it comes to any

criminal charge in this country there is

a statute of limitations which is a set

amount of time in which charges can be

brought right and then after that

expires that's it end of end of the

story right the only charge that does

not have statute limitations on it is

homicide murder so if there was a murder

then clearly you could be prosecuted 20

years later 30 years later but like you

know a gun possession charge or

something like that if it happened 101

15 years ago that's the end of it so

Cassie under the adult survivors Act was

able to file charges because the adult

survivors act extended the statute of

limitations for you know sexual assault

and sort of sexual related crimes the

reason why this happened was because

again we saw with Weinstein and Jeffrey

abstein and so many others the women or

the people were victimized when they

were younger maybe just starting their

careers and they were afraid at that

time to come forward because they

figured well it'll be my word against

his he's this big powerful person who

would believe me I'm just getting

started or I don't have the financial

ability to file this suit and you know

be able to take care of myself and move

forward so now with that distance with

that time elapsed and you know Cassie

was able to move on with her life start

a new relationship I believe she started

family um she let go of some of her

musical ambition sadly because of the

fact that Diddy was controlling her

career and would not allow her to

release another album unless she did

some horrible horrible things and even

though she did those things she still

was not able to ascend in her musical

career despite her having that Talent so

now that she's more mature she's older

and more secure she feels comfortable in

coming forward and in doing so open the

floodgates in terms of first of all

Breaking that image that we had of Diddy

and now we're seeing a whole other

person and then emboldening other

survivors to come forward which resulted

in I believe three or four other women

coming forward and then of course now

you have the bombshell lawsuit from

Little Rod that just I mean if if you

had any semblance of respect left for

Diddy after the Cassie filing it's

definitely gone after little Rod no

question beyond the gun allegations