As the fees mount towards Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Invoice Maher needs to know the way he obtained away with it for therefore lengthy.
On Friday’s episode of Actual Time with Invoice Maher, the comic caught up with author Fran Lebowitz about varied present occasions, together with Combs’ current arrest by FBI brokers in New York Metropolis and the way it displays on the music trade.
“I’ve been asking this query for seven years, since 2017 when the #MeToo factor occurred,” he mentioned. “Why… why not the music trade? I imply, they went after NPR fairly unhealthy. They obtained like, 4, 5 guys from NPR, like previous guys who posted, like, an outrageous limerick on the doorway of the bookshop.
“The music trade is that this open cesspool of misogyny, and albeit, rape and sexual harassment, and one way or the other, the angel of loss of life has simply flown over them. Why do you suppose that’s?” requested Maher.
Lebowitz supplied, “I believe as a result of this can be a capitalist nation, and the music trade is far more profitable than NPR. That might be my guess.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs attends 2023 Make investments Fest at Georgia World Congress Middle on Aug. 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin/Getty Pictures)
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“Lots of the tales about everyone beginning with #MeToo, I’d heard quite a lot of these tales for a few years,” she continued. “So, Puffy, this was not precisely a state secret. Nevertheless it was a state secret apparently to them.”
After Combs’ ex Cassie Ventura beforehand filed a rape and abuse lawsuit towards him final November, a number of different women and men have come ahead with extra allegations. Combs was arrested final week in connection to an FBI raid on his LA and Miami properties in March.
On Friday, one other Jane Doe filed a lawsuit towards Combs, claiming he intimidated her, drugged her, raped her and impregnated her over a number of years beginning in 2021.
