Was it to polish gold bars?
Is there a cross-episode issue here?
The New York Post has apparently had a chance to review some pictures and video from the “freak-offs” Combs hosted.
These were after major events like the VMAs and Super Bowl. Moreover, they were after the “after parties” which Combs hosted, which were peopled with celebrities.
So any stories about famous people at Diddy parties is probably irrelevant, since he waited until they left before he’d begin an orgy.
(Who’s the A-list star? Probably Justin Bieber, if I had to guess)
Based on my extensive study of supermarket news racks while waiting in line, Justin appears to be the prime candidate.
Bieber or Trudeau?
His trial has begun with their choosing of jurors. I think they call it voir dire but I’m not too sure about that step there. I’m not in front of a computer or would otherwise cite what’s going on.
Trial testimony has been pretty horrific.
Basically, Combs sat in a corner and watched his girlfriend have sexual encounters which he choreographed. And he was quite perverse.
The defense is that this was all consensual. The problem with that is that it is plainly contradicted by testimony. And the degrading nature of the activity.
That’s before you even get into the physical abuse; savage beatings.
Combs is going away for life.
Denzel Washington is on record in interviews as saying it’s important to leave Diddy’s parties before the Devil shows up. They all knew, probably didn’t participate, and they just wanted to be invited back so stayed silent.
That is so gross.
Doing a quick Google, it seems more likely that this was general advise that he gave to newbies to Hollywood about Hollywood parties, in general.
“It’s important to leave a party about 30 minutes before the Devil shows up.”
Diddy isn’t so much in trouble for wild abandon, it’s for non-consensual wild abandon. I’d venture to guess that there’s plenty of the other type, pretty regular, throughout Hollywood and that’s all still wise to avoid.
Well, guilty as he looks, what prison time is he looking at?
He’s facing a life sentence if convicted of sex trafficking. But even with the lesser charges, he’s looking at doing most of the rest of his life locked up. He is currently 55 years old.
Would any of the sentences for those crimes be served concurrently?
Denzel is a man who has been married to the same woman for 42 years and had no controversies attached. You’re right he was talking about general bad acts that may get you in trouble not necessarily the illegal acts Combs is accused of. Kind of like the saying “Nothing good happens after midnight.”
I used to know a guy who’s name was Sean Combs. He didn’t like when people called him Diddy then. I wonder how he feels now.
Right, but what I was saying is I believe Denzel was telling us all about The Devil and still wanted to be invited to more parties. Sex Trafficking doesn’t have to look like dirty disheveled girls in a travel container, but if these women were coerced into non-consensual acts, that isn’t fun or sexy.
I get that Diddy believe it to be so, but these gatherings required accomplices and many people we all know and like knew the whole time and were cool enough with it to not tip the cops the morning after. For decades.
Is anyone else going to see jail?
Many, many years ago I read Linda (not to be confused with Ada) Lovelace’s Ordeal.
At a certain point in the evening, all the recognizable celebrities would disappear from the Playboy Mansion, leaving only the hangers-on and desperate hopefuls. Hugh Hefner would appear among them in the pool’s grotto, squirting baby oil around like a bishop with an aspergillum. What transpired between Hefner and Lovelace was distasteful, criminal, and as brief as it took you to read this sentence
It seems we haven’t evolved much in terms of wealth and celebrity as a culture. Maybe not surprising; but shouldn’t Astroglide have eclipsed mineral oil by now?
Not if what you want is not so much point-of-contact lubrication as that general all-over glistening oily rub effect at low cost (to be fair: never saw what was so great about being covered in oil, but who am I to kinkshame). I wonder if the pattern probably goes from some sort of long-established notion of the real-player orgy vibe involving oiled-up participants. I can almost imagine someone saying “oh, no, I want to be OG, make it authentic Roman – bring me olive and nard oils!”
Food for thought, true. Although spikenard is, to me at least, horrible smelling stuff.