As Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs awaits trial on charges of kidnapping, drugging and sex trafficking women, industry insiders who knew him during his meteoric rise in the 1990s speak exclusively to the BBC about their experiences.Daniel Evans, who worked at Bad Boy Records between 1994 and 1997, has told the BBC’s Investigations team that women were flown in for sex.He and other employees also recall a culture of big money, threats of violence and sex in the studios of Diddy’s Bad Boy record label. Diddy denies all the allegations.Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty hears about the findings from BBC Investigations Correspondent Rianna Croxford.The Diddy on Trial podcast is here to investigate the rumours, confront the theories, and give you the answers that you need.We also want YOU to be part of the conversation. Have you any burning questions about the cases or the upcoming trial? Heard a theory that doesn’t sit right with you? Get in touch now via WhatsApp: 0330 123 555 1.Presenter: Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty Investigations Producer: Larissa Kennelly Series Producer: Laura Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Production Coordinator: Hattie Valentine Editor: Clare FordhamCommissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts Assistant Commissioner: Will Drysdale Commissioning Producer: Adam Eland Commissioning Assistant Producer: Rechmial Miller
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Sean Diddy Combs, aka Diddy, aka Puffy, or Brother Love, take your pick, is in a New York jail awaiting trial in May on charges of sex trafficking, transportation for prostitution, and racketeering with conspiracy. He denies all the allegations against him. In this episode, we're bringing you an exclusive from the BBC's investigations team.
They've been speaking to industry insiders who knew him during his meteoric rise in the 1990s. They say they recall a culture of big money, threats of violence, and sex in the studios of his Bad Boy record label.
If you're in the studio and you're recording, this is going to sound horrible, but, you know, you pay for a flight for a woman to come into the studio is the same as, like... ordering food to the studio.
Sean Combs' legal team has denied the accusation. Rhianna Croxford, the BBC's investigations correspondent, is with me today to tell me what she found. Hi, Rhianna. Hi. Well, first of all, when did you start investigating Diddy?
So I've been following the story since November 2023, when we all saw those headlines about Cassie Ventura. And then it wasn't really until he was arrested in September when my colleague and I started saying, should we do something about this? And one of the questions we had was, were there potential signs about his alleged conduct all the way back in the 90s when he first started his career?
So that's really one of the threads that we pulled out over the last few months. And why specifically focusing on the 90s? So there have been so many allegations against Sean Combs. And more than a dozen of those claims do date back to the 90s. In that era, we really see the creation and invention of Sean Combs, who back then was known as Puff Daddy.
We see him at the start of the decade go from this up and coming rising star at Uptown Records. And by the end of it, he's running his own Grammy award-winning music label, bringing in millions and millions of dollars. We also start to see the development of many of his personas.
So there's been the Puff Daddy era. The P Diddy era. Then I dropped the P, then it was the Diddy era.
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