As the costs mount in opposition to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Invoice Maher needs to know the way he received 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 dangerous. They received 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 someway, the angel of demise has simply flown over them. Why do you suppose that’s?” requested Maher.
Lebowitz supplied, “I believe as a result of it is a capitalist nation, and the music trade is far more profitable than NPR. That will be my guess.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs attends 2023 Make investments Fest at Georgia World Congress Heart on Aug. 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin/Getty Pictures)
Getty Pictures
“A whole lot of the tales about all people 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. But it surely was a state secret apparently to them.”
After Combs’ ex Cassie Ventura beforehand filed a rape and abuse lawsuit in opposition to 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 houses in March.
On Friday, one other Jane Doe filed a lawsuit in opposition to Combs, claiming he intimidated her, drugged her, raped her and impregnated her over a number of years beginning in 2021.
