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. On this episode dig into the twists and turns of the Jay Z allegations, hear about the three new cases filed against Diddy and have an interview with friend-of-the-show Larry Levine who, having spent 10 years inside federal prisons, has some great insights into what Christmas is really like in The Big House. Don’t miss it! Also - if you’re interested in what’s actually on the list of foodstuffs inmates at the MDC can buy, as Larry mentions in the show, it’s here: https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/bro/bro_commlist.pdf?v=1.0.0 Larry’s book - Lies My Lawyer Told Me - is available thru his website wallstreetprisonconsultants.com 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 Executive Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What allegations are being discussed regarding 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 the Daily Mail in Manhattan. And I'm Marjorie Hernandez, DailyMail.com's West Coast news editor. And welcome to episode 16 of The Trial of Diddy. So Marjorie, episode 16, I can't believe we've been here for 16 weeks.
What's up? How are you doing? Been quite busy as always. There's something new every day with this case. Always. And cases now that there's even more civil suits to have been filed against Sean Combs. And we'll get into that.
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Chapter 2: What new lawsuits have been filed against Diddy?
He's alleged to have orchestrated a long-running scheme involving sexual abuse and exploitation.
And it's always important to say that Sean Combs has pleaded not guilty to all of the accusations. Both he and his legal team have repeatedly and strongly asserted his innocence. Diddy's trial is currently scheduled for May 2025.
That's right. Now, there's also been a couple of updates to the Jay-Z allegations that came up last week. Claire Harder at the LA Times wrote a piece this week entitled, Jay-Z Accuser Admits Inconsistencies But Stands By Her Rape Allegation.
And the headline goes on to quote Jay-Z himself, who has said, quote, true justice is coming.
This all follows on from an interview on NBC News with the Alabama-based woman who accused Jay-Z and Diddy of raping her when she was 13 years old. You'll remember that this lawsuit was initially filed against Diddy back in October. which accused him of assault at an after-party following the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2000.
Then on Sunday, December 8th, the original complaint was amended in the U.S. District Court in New York and added Jay-Z as a defendant. This filing alleges that both he and Combs, quote, took turns assaulting the minor.
And I do want to add that at this point, Jay-Z, Sean Carter and Diddy have both strongly denied the allegations. Now, the woman and her lawyers have acknowledged that there were some inconsistencies in her account when responding to questions from NBC News. She told NBC, I have made some mistakes, but she stands by her allegations overall.
And these inconsistencies related to an alleged attack 24 years ago do not necessarily mean the allegations are false. And Marjorie, can you break these elements down for us?
Sure, Kayla. So the woman claimed she spoke with Benji Madden from Good Charlotte at the after party, but a representative said neither he nor his brother Joel actually attended that year's VMAs. Indeed, they were touring the Midwest at the time. She also said that her father picked her up after the alleged rape, but he has since told NBC News he has no recollection of doing so.
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Chapter 3: What are the details of the Jay-Z allegations?
In a statement, Diddy's legal team called the allegations, quote, shameless publicity stunts designed to extract payments from celebrities who fear having lies spread about them. Just as lies have been spread about Mr. Combs, while Jay-Z called the claims idiotic.
But just before we recorded this on Wednesday, Busby announced on Instagram that he was suing Roc Nation and lawyers Marcy Croft. and law firm Quinn Emanuel for, quote, violation of various state laws, including barratry.
And just so you know, barratry is a criminal offense that involves instigating or encouraging groundless litigation for profit or harassment. It can also refer to repeated or persistent litigation for the same purposes. Barratry is illegal in all 50 states.
Right. And Busby's also suing for impersonation of a public official. He says his case has been brought on behalf of a former client of the firm who he alleges was illegally solicited by agents working on behalf of the defendants. These agents, Busby claimed, pretended to work for the state of Texas and offered his former client money to sue the Busby law firm.
The conduct, he says, was caught on tape and was targeted at his firm specifically, so they would not pursue cases related to the Diddy litigation.
Busby writes, let me be clear, we will not be bullied or intimidated and intend to cooperate with authorities to ensure all involved are prosecuted to the full extent allowed under Texas law. So we will absolutely be tracking this one closely.
And just last Friday, Diddy announced via a new court filing that he had abandoned his attempt to get released on bail. His attorney sent word to the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals withdrawing Combs' appeal of several decisions denying him bail.
And to get Diddy's exact quote, his lawyers wrote, Mr. Combs does not seek to appeal the district court's denial of his renewed motion and hereby moves to voluntarily dismiss the appeal. A signed statement from Diddy himself clarifies that he did this voluntarily and he understands the ramifications of dismissing the appeal. So for now, that's it.
Diddy will stay at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn ahead of his trial next year. It's been 94 days since his arrest back in September, and one week today will be Christmas Day. So what will that be like if you're locked up? Well, if there's one person who really knows, it'll be someone who spent 10 years inside. And today, that's guest Larry Levine.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Larry Levine share about Christmas in prison?
And when you do that, the call just goes out. So it's almost like it's speed dialing as far as where you're calling. So if you try to call a number that's not in the system, it's not going through. If you don't have the PAC code, the personal access code, call's not going out. So again, the only real way he could get all this in the system is if he had access to other people.
This isn't something that could be done and shouted over the vents because the cops would hear it. You know, I don't see it. Either he used the phone and he had access to other people or he doesn't. The U.S. attorney put in, remember, in that motion to deny bail, The U.S. attorney said that he had people's PAC codes, that he had other phone numbers in there.
But keep in mind, they never said how he did that, did they?
We have so much more coming up, but for now, let's pause for a break.
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Welcome back to The Trial of Diddy. And we are still here with Larry Levine.
And you know, last Friday, his lawyers just announced that they're going to abandon their attempts to get him out of jail, according to... documents. And I believe that they actually told the second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that they were drawing his appeal. So I guess for now, they're going to stop trying to get him out of prison.
That's a wise idea. They need to concentrate on getting his issues resolved. Apparently, they're giving him the best defense that they can.
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Chapter 5: How does prison life impact holiday celebrations?
It's like a plastic bag. It's a square plastic clear bag. It's almost like a big pillow. And over the years, it has shrunk. I know this because I was locked up for 10 years myself. I got several of these. So they've got like some off-brand cookies in there. off brand potato chips in there, some candy in there.
Maybe they have a pair of gloves in there or they'll have a coffee mug, a beanie to wear, but he's not going to need any of that because you know where he is and it's all knockoffs. And I got a client in Lompoc just called me yesterday that just got the bag and he told me it was the worst holiday bag that he's ever gotten. And this guy's been locked up for several years.
It's a bunch of crap that probably was purchased because it was out of date, because the prison system sells you out of date stuff. And they're trying to act like they're doing the inmates a favor. It's like, oh, here's your Christmas gift. You know, one year a place I was at, they gave everybody an individual little Cornish game hen.
They gave you a Ben and Jerry's ice cream and they gave you like a little carton of eggnog. He's not going to get that sitting in MDC. I mean, I'm sure they'll give him something special, something. But other than this mediocre holiday bag, there's not much more he's going to get. If he was in a regular housing unit, then he would be exposed to all that other food.
Are families allowed to add more money to his commissary?
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Chapter 6: What does Larry Levine say about the prison gift bag?
Yeah, but in the SHU, you have a different commissary list. In other words, you could go to BOP.gov, BOP.gov, click on MDCLA. You can actually pull a copy of the commissary list and you can see all the stuff the inmates can buy. The only thing is that's for inmates in general population. Inmates that are in the special housing unit, they don't get all that stuff.
Maybe there's a dozen items they can buy. Maybe they can buy some sweats and some candy bars, again, potato chips, some cookies. They try to limit what you can have in your cell.
Who determines the limitations? The warden. I want to ask you, going back to the facility where Diddy is right now, do you have any clients there right now and have they heard anything about Diddy?
I have some clients. I have actually one client there because the other clients got transferred to real prisons. They got sentenced. They don't hear anything. They're on a regular housing unit. They know what you and I know. Maybe some of the staff are talking about particular things, but you're isolated. Nobody knows what's really going on in the chute.
Sometimes there's inmates that get into trouble. They send them up to the SHU to do a couple weeks or a month up there. They may pick up some information and then come back down to their regular housing unit. But really, the inmates on a regular housing unit, they're not aware of what's happening in the SHU.
But that particular facility is infamous. As you mentioned, Jeffrey Epstein, that's where he was. You know, he was in the shoe.
It's God was two years ago in the winter. The heat went out. The hot water went out. These buildings are old. All right. At least how I was there 26 years ago and it was 10 years old. OK, so these these buildings are like 45 years old. And there were two of them in New York. There was MCC New York and MDC Brooklyn.
And they closed the one, okay, they closed the one Epstein was at for obvious reasons. But the buildings are falling apart. The whole purpose, I mean, look at the name. MDC, Metropolitan Detention Center. These people that are there are going through the court process. They're being detained. MDC was not designed to hold people for several years. It's designed to move people through.
And they just don't have the staff and they don't have the funding to do the repairs on the facilities that are out there. That's one of the reasons they closed all these places. They're in such disarray and they need to be repaired and they just don't have the people and the financial resources to do it.
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Chapter 7: What can we expect for Diddy’s upcoming trial?
Thanks again for the ever insightful Larry Levine, our friend of the pod. Always good to hear from him. We love having him on, right Marge? He's great. He's great.
All right, so we'll now be off duty for a couple of weeks enjoying the holidays and we'll return on Friday, January 10th with our long promised second Q&A episode. So we will both spend some quality holiday time diving into all of your comments, thoughts and suggestions for the show. In the meantime, what would you like us to cover? What other trials are you interested in?
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