Welcome back to our new, weekly episodes of The Trial of Diddy. The show is hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. This week Marjorie joins Kayla live in New York and they dive into all of the new claims and cases brought against Diddy - and there’s a lot. They also welcome back New Jersey Criminal Defense Attorney and friend-of-the-show, David Gelman who breaks down all the new legal questions, including just how much does he think this whole thing is costing Diddy? The answer may just blow your mind. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the latest allegations against Diddy?
The following episode explores a number of allegations regarding the artist Diddy. He denies all charges and has pled not guilty to sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world.
At the height of his career, Sean Diddy Combs had it all. It seemed like everything Diddy touched turned to gold. Now the once untouchable hip-hop mogul is fighting for his life as he faces multiple federal charges in New York, including sex trafficking and allegedly running a criminal enterprise.
Music mogul and rapper Sean Diddy Combs has faced four different lawsuits in recent weeks alleging sexual assault. I'm DailyMail.com journalist Marjorie Hernandez.
And over the last six months, I've been investigating this incredible story and speaking to the people in the eye of the storm. Welcome to the Trial of Diddy.
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Hey, I'm Kayla Brantley, reporter at large for Daily Mail in Manhattan.
And I'm Marjorie Hernandez, DailyMail.com's West Coast news editor.
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Chapter 2: How has Diddy's past affected these current lawsuits?
I did want snow, but when I came here, it was sunny.
Well, good. You brought the sun. We need that. I'm over it. I'm over the cold. Well, we're deep into month five of this story and this podcast, and the news just keeps on coming. And just as we were preparing to record today, a story by Will Potter for DailyMail.com has revealed that Diddy has been accused of sexually assaulting two women at a Trump Hotel penthouse in New York City.
The claims were separately filed by anonymous Jane Doe's this week in New York Supreme Court.
Yes, these new claims allege that he, quote, trapped them in the limelight nightclub before moving them onto the Trump Hotel. The women claim that these incidents took place in the 1990s, but it's as yet unclear if they occurred on the same day. Will's story says that the hotel in question is believed to be the Trump International, which opened in 1997.
Now, in the first lawsuit, the woman said she was assaulted by Diddy several times, including in California, with one specific allegation claiming that she was coerced into group sex after attending an event at the Limelight. The lawsuit says Combs organized the event at the club and the top two floors were dedicated to, quote,
exclusive sex parties involving group sexual activities directed by and involving Combs. The woman claimed that when she tried to leave, she was ordered to stay before being taken with her friends to the Trump Hotel penthouse, where she claimed she was drugged and forced to participate in group sex activities during which she was sexually assaulted over a number of hours.
Yeah, Marjorie, these are accusations that it feels like we've already heard before. Like it's really the same type of M.O. as, you know, a lot of the other accusers. And there was actually a second lawsuit that's equally as shocking, this time saying the plaintiff claimed she tried to get away from the group sex party and even fought with Diddy's security guard.
Now, that lawsuit claims that Diddy slapped and detained her, leaving her, quote, fearing for her life. Diddy's own security guard then allegedly took the woman to a penthouse at the Trump Hotel in Midtown.
The Jane Doe claims she was then taken to a room with the security guard who, quote, assaulted her physically and sexually while Combs watched, as well as being forced to take what she believes to have been ecstasy or a similar party drug.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the new lawsuits filed?
As we all know by now, the start date for Diddy's trial is set for three months today. We record this May 5th.
Yeah, it's February 5th.
So we'll see in three months if we're there. But, you know, someone who's always loudly cast out on the date being realistic is our guest this week. New Jersey criminal defense attorney and longtime friend of the show, David Gelman.
We absolutely love having you on. You give such great insights. And Marjorie actually has the update from last week. We did do a mini episode, but we didn't have your legal expertise to talk about it. The superseding indictment.
Yes, David, can you talk a little bit about that? From our understanding, there's two additional female victims included in the superseding indictment. And I was just wondering, obviously, from a legal standpoint, what that means for Diddy. Will he have to reappear in court on these new allegations?
So, Marjorie, yeah, he'll probably have to be rearranged again. It doesn't stop the clock, per se. So it doesn't mean like, all right, well, now they're going to have to reset everything and that they're going to have more motions and the trial date will be pushed back, although it will be pushed back. So don't go with that one. And this superseding indictment, it doesn't really have any teeth.
It just has other individuals. There's no more charges that they're charging him with. It's just more allegations. And it's very interesting because normally when you do have a superseding indictment, there's additional charges. Here, it's just two more individuals coming forward that they have that they are going to potentially testify. But just like the other ones, we don't know who they are.
They just say Jane Doe. So we don't know who they are, where this happened, what the actual specificity of the allegations. So it's just more firepower, if you will, for the U.S. Attorney's Office against Diddy.
David, I was going to ask that. Why do you think they didn't file any extra charges since you said that that's pretty typical?
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Diddy face with the legal system?
So I think that could be one of the reasons, if not the main reason, that they did that at that time. But is it common to do these types of things in the middle of the night? No, it's not. From what I'm reading, it's not like it was a life saver. It wasn't like an emergency. Right.
Yeah, there was some speculation out there that there was that he might have been involved in a fight or something. But my sources said, no, it was a knee injury. He was a marathoner. So he just needed an MRI for his knee.
Yeah, I mean, I don't, I think this is something that was planned. Yeah, I really do. And I just think it was just convenient at night to kind of not let anybody really know about it. Because think about it. If people knew that, oh, Diddy's going to the hospital, go get an MRI. Forget it. Yeah. We would have been all over it.
Everyone wants the picture of Diddy. Like the first picture, you know, there've been reports that he's kind of like emaciated has gotten a lot of weight. Yeah. Lost a lot of weight. Hasn't been eating. And of course these hearings are, you know, non-televised. You can't take pictures. All we get is those court sketches. So photos of Diddy for the first time would go wild. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. That's big money. Big money.
In terms of even transporting an inmate, obviously of such notoriety, do they lock down the hospital or the area where he goes to? How does that all pan out?
Well, they're going to have a ton of security around him. I mean, Diddy isn't even going to be allowed to go to the bathroom without somebody there with him. So the security for some of that is going to be tremendous. Are they going to lock down the hospital? I highly doubt that.
But he's not going to go in the main entrance, I want to tell you that, like through the emergency room like anybody normally would. They're going to have a back entrance. They're going to go – through the back ways of the hospital, through potentially the service elevators and whatnot. I would be very shocked that people even knew he was there besides the individuals who were taking the MRI.
Other than that, I think it's like, you know, like pretty covert.
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