While rap world star Sean "Diddy" Combs has long preferred to be viewed by fans as a busy music and fashion mogul known for his glitzy parties and entourage, many victims have remained silent for fear of reprisal. Writers say they have long viewed him as a bully, a dangerous and irresponsible king of hip-hop since the 1990s.

That is, until Combs was arrested in September 2024 on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.

New Investigation Discovery documentary series Didi's fall Combs' inner circle and apparent survivors have leveled a series of accusations of assault, abuse and violence against the billionaire music and fashion mogul. The charges of violence and illegal activity were filed as Coombs sat behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, awaiting trial.

"There are a lot of people like Puffy in the music industry." Former Bad Boy Records producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones said in an interview for the ID series, which will air on January 27 and January 28, and then on Aired on Max.

Jones claims Combs was in production love albumsexually harassed him.

The four-part docu-series focuses on Combs' life, far removed from the fluent media coverage he has enjoyed for years, as he allegedly played by his own rules and went to the lengths of even the smallest of things to get what he wanted. of individuals who take action for violence. Want it.

Combs' childhood friend Tim Patterson appears on Didi's fall Combs' early ambition was to become richer as he rose through the ranks of hip-hop (in part by founding Bad Boy Entertainment), and in part because he was tortured by neighborhood kids when he was 10 years old.

"Now he's the product of bullying. He's a guy you can turn around. That's what people try to do," Patterson insisted, something his mother, Janice Coombs, wasn't happy about at the time.

"He has to make a choice. He has to snap out of it. 'I'm going to make more money than you are, I'm going to do more than you are.' "I'm going to be more successful than you, so I can call the shots. He's set up for success," Patterson added.

But ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura's 2023 lawsuit (and subsequent video) alleging years of rape and abuse at the hands of her boyfriend Comb pulled back the curtain on the media image and cast a shadow on the music and fashion mogul Imprint has long planned for itself.

The ID series presents a picture of a legacy of abuse, or threats of abuse, that dates back to Combs' years at Howard University, long before he became a billionaire entrepreneur.

The ID series follows a woman in disguise who recounts how, while at Howard University in 1988, she witnessed Combs screaming from a dormitory window at a nearby young woman to get out while whipping the wall with a belt. "When she came downstairs, timid, scared and really didn't know what to do, he started beating her, whipping her with that belt and she accepted it," the young woman said.

Eventually Coombs left, followed by the young woman. Over the course of the ID series, Combs seemed to escape responsibility time and time again as his wealth and success grew, ensnaring law enforcement. "It's just like in the movies," ex atmosphere Daniel Smith, the magazine's editor-in-chief, alleges in the documentary series that Combs hosted notorious white parties in the Hamptons, while also accusing the music mogul of violence against her.

Journalist Mara S. Campo recounted rumors of illegal partying at Combs' party in a docuseries. "What we heard, even as they were happening, was a lot of debauchery," she insisted.

Many of Combs' glitzy parties attended by A-list celebrities were publicly filmed and documented at the time. But behind the scenes, the ID series accused Combs of committing a series of rapes and sexual assaults on women.

Thalia Graves was one of the first to speak out, alleging in a lengthy interview for the documentary series that Combs allegedly raped her at his Bad Boy Records studio in the summer of 2001. The drink was spiked with drugs and she was violently raped, then threatened into silence. She remembers finally being able to escape the studio. "I was scared. I didn't want to die," she told the ID Series.

Rather than go to a hospital for treatment or report the incident to police, Graves decided to remain silent, in part because of Coombs' call. "He said, 'Ugh, shut your damn mouth!' and he hung up," she said.

Graves first filed the lawsuit against Combs in September 2024, and as echoed in the ID series, Graves claimed a year earlier that her ex-boyfriend told her that the alleged 2001 rape had been caught on video for dissemination. "Why would someone record raping someone and then you show it to other people? I'm angry," Graves asked.

The ID series also helped shine a light on Ventura, who Combs split from in 2018 after a decade of abuse and violence allegations. Combs' former personal driver, Wardel Fenderson, recalled on camera a 2009 incident in which Ventura was allegedly assaulted after a party on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip.

"I was waiting outside and I saw Cassie come out first and then I saw Puff come out and he was walking very fast. Then all of a sudden I saw him punch her out of the blue. Then they started fighting. I said, yo, get in the car. Are you crazy? Are you crazy? And he said, 'No, no, no,' and he started kicking her," Fenderson recalled.

The ID series also includes other testimony from Combs' inner circle about Ventura's early involvement in "weird" parties where drug use, nonconsensual sexual assault and sex trafficking allegedly occurred.

"I'd seen some fishy things, but I never knew exactly what was going on. Sometimes Cassie and Diddy would go to a hotel for the weekend and I'd see other people getting off the elevator." 2003-2012 Roger Bonds, who served as Combs' bodyguard, told the ID Series.

Didi's fall They include a harrowing clip from March 5, 2016, released by CNN, in which Combs can be seen attacking Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway, kicking and pushing her before dragging her sweatshirt and then threw an object at her.

At the time, Combs apologized in a CNN video for his attack on Ventura, while his critics claimed he was trying to make excuses for the incident. But Canadian model and actress Kat Pasion's work includes Mutated Carbon, The Flash and Nancy Drew, appeared on the ID series to help substantiate the vicious abuse and assault Ventura allegedly suffered and documented in her landmark civil lawsuit.

In November 2018, Pasion on the show recalled the first time he agreed to have a drink with Combs. "It started out very positive," she said of her relationship with Combs that transitioned from friendship to romance.

But in 2021, Parson told how an apparently drug-addicted Combs emerged from a bedroom bathroom and allegedly tried to force himself on her. "I just don't want to talk about the details. It wasn't consensual, he, he, he - I didn't know the person who came out of the bathroom and woke me up," she recalled.

Passin alleges that Coombs called her two weeks after she left home and threatened her, including warning that he could deport her to Canada. "This man is sick. He uses his resources and what he thinks he can do for you and thinks that's going to be a Band-Aid for the horrible things he's done to people because he thinks he's God," she declared on camera.

"Karma is an asshole, where is he sitting today? I'm telling you, not on a yacht on the Amalfi Coast," Passion added as the final episode of the ID series turns to the federal investigation into Coombs' sex trafficking and racketeering investigation. Three charges. The charges, filed in September 2024, included charges of kidnapping, arson, forced labor and obstruction of justice, and Combs was placed in solitary confinement at the Brooklyn Detention Center without bail.

"For me, it's all about power. The industry as a whole can't turn a blind eye to these situations. There are a lot of people like Puffy in the music industry, and exposing Puffy means exposing them," former bodyguard Roger Bond said in the series said in the program.

Jourdan Cha'Taun, Combs' personal chef from 2007 to 2010, who detailed incidents of workplace harassment and abuse during her employment, also spoke publicly for the first time, urging others to follow her example. Role models, putting aside their fears and stepping up to share their own stories.

"We are taught: No snitching. We are taught to suppress violence and abuse so that gives the abuser room to thrive. I am not afraid anymore. Scream from the mountaintops: These people are not who you think they are Strength,” Chataun said.

Also featured in the documentary is Natania Griffin, a victim of the infamous 1999 New York City nightclub shooting in which Combs was also involved. "I still have nine bullet fragments in my face and head. He (Combs) gave me peace of mind. He took away my sense of safety," Griffin said.

Combs has denied all the allegations against him.

His legal team responded to questions posed to them Didi's fall "Mr. Combs has every confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process," the producers said in the documentary series. "In court, the truth will prevail: The allegations against Mr. Combs are pure fiction."

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