Most of us are waking up on January 1 and getting ready to begin recent on the New 12 months. Clear slate! Let’s start anew. There are others, nonetheless, who could have lingering results of 2024 following them into the approaching yr. Rapper Jay-Z continues to deny rape allegations. Viral homicide suspect Luigi Mangione will face accusations that he shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York Metropolis. And music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs awaits his pending trial for sex-trafficking costs, even struggling psychological breakdowns because of the circumstances he’s allegedly encountering within the Metropolitan Detention Middle. Whereas Diddy awaits trial, those who knew him are talking out, and the feelings aren’t nice.
Sean “Diddy” Combs lived the majority of his life within the public highlight, creating his personal music and producing albums for Mary J. Blige, The Infamous B.I.G., Mariah Carey and extra. Working for Diddy, nonetheless, won’t have been a stroll within the park, in accordance to people who toiled below him at Uptown Data within the early days of his profession. In a profile filed to Fortune, Diddy’s former assistant Pam Lewis-Rudden spoke concerning the promoter’s time at Uptown, the place he began as a report promoter however rapidly climbed the ranks. Her recollections weren’t flattering. As Lewis-Rudden defined:
He was all the time in a rush, and also you knew when he got here in, it was like, all of the enjoyable would finish. He was all the time actually pissed off about one thing, and he’d blow in, get all people all riled up, and depart. A pair months in, he began calling all people a ‘bitch.’ ‘All bitches to the assembly room…’ I think about myself fortunate to have gotten out once I did, as a result of if I had stayed there, heaven solely is aware of.
On no account is Pam Lewis-Rudden a one-and-done intern who tried the music trade for a month and realized that it wasn’t for her. Fairly the opposite. The veteran music trade govt has greater than 30 years within the enterprise, with stints at RCA, MCA and Uptown Data, the place she labored intently with Sean “Diddy” Combs. I’m keen to imagine that she has seen so much. Usually, impolite or belligerent habits is chalked as much as “expertise” being “troublesome.” As former report govt and journalist Naima Cochrane informed Fortune:
The individuals who are typically nice artists and artistic minds additionally are typically boundary pushers. They’ve been informed their complete lives that as a result of they’re particular, the conventional guidelines don’t apply to them.
Sean “Diddy” Combs at present is dealing with a actuality of life in jail primarily based on the fees which were leveled in opposition to him. And even when he had been to be confirmed harmless in a courtroom of regulation, Diddy will endlessly be related to the small print of the “Diddy events” that allegedly occurred over time, tainting his repute within the courtroom of public opinion.
As we head into 2025, we anticipate a number of authorized back-and-forth with regard to Diddy’s imprisonment and trial, and doubtless extra tales concerning the man he was from the individuals who knew him, so put together your self for that wave of knowledge because it reaches shore.