It's All About the Benjamins: Puffy's Bad Boy Empire

Welcome back to our new, weekly episodes of The Trial of Diddy. The show is hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. This week Kayla goes solo to host and she’s deep diving into all the latest moves of the prosecution and the defense with Jersey-based former federal prosecutor and defense attorney, David Gelman. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Jamie East   A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week’s update on The Trial of Diddy, Kayla Brantley and Marjorie Hernandez discuss the latest in the case as we approach the May 2025 trial. Diddy’s legal team has requested his release on bail, citing new evidence and "changed circumstances" as they prepare for trial. The defense is pushing for a $50 million bail package with tight restrictions and challenging the prosecution’s secrecy around victims and evidence. The hosts also dive into listener comments, responding to your thoughts on the case, media leaks, and the speculation swirling around other celebrities. From questions about Diddy’s well-being to critical feedback on the podcast itself, Kayla and Marjorie engage with your feedback while keeping the focus on the facts. Stay tuned as we gear up for the trial and continue to bring you updates when new developments arise. Thanks for listening! Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini   A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to our new, weekly episodes of The Trial of Diddy. The show is hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, bringing in expert guests and looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. This week we look at new allegations of “freak off” video evidence and Diddy’s 55th birthday spent in jail. We’re also featuring an exclusive interview with Deon Best, AKA D1. Best is a former member of the Crip set based in LA’s Mid-Wilshire area known as the Mansfield Crips. Best was one of the people Puff called in the late 1990s when he would come to LA and need “protection” due to his on-going beef with Suge and the Bloods. Best also managed a handful of hip-hop artists and signed a few to Bad Boy before he ended up going to prison. Best has now been out of the gang life for many years and leads a football league for kids in LA. He talks to Marjorie and Kayla about his friendship with Biggie and his potential lawsuit against Diddy’s mother, Janice Combs. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Jamie East   A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to our new, weekly episodes of The Trial of Diddy. The show is hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. This week we look at two new charges and other breaking news and updates since last week. We’re also featuring an exclusive interview with Rachel Kennedy, a former Playboy model who, in 2000, lived in Japan where she worked at a popular strip club frequented by A-List stars, including Diddy. Rachel talks in detail about the two shocking nights where she met Diddy and his entourage. Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, bringing in expert guests and looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to our new, weekly episodes of The Trial of Diddy. The show is hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, bringing in expert guests and looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. This week we look at the raft of new abuse claims that have been announced since our episode last week and check in on Diddy’s own family’s response. We’re also featuring an exclusive interview with Lenny Levine, a former private investigator who, in 1998 was arrested by an FBI-Secret Service led Organized Crime Task Force. He was later charged with racketeering, securities fraud, obstruction of justice, and narcotics trafficking, and received a ten-year sentence in a federal prison almost exactly like the one Diddy is currently locked up in. Sean Combs has denied any criminal wrongdoing.  Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to our new, weekly episode of The Trial of Diddy. The show is hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Bratley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, bringing in guests and looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. This week we look at the seven new lawsuits announced since our episode last week and check in on Diddy’s response. We’re also featuring an exclusive interview with Precious Muir, a London-born British TV personality, who, as a young model, lived in New York and attended parties at both the late Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion and Diddy’s White Parties in the Hamptons.  Remember, we’ll be live every Friday. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Bratley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Beginning the new, weekly episodes of The Trial of Diddy with the show’s writer and host DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, bringing in guests and looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer: Rob Fitzpatrick Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Tuesday September 17, Sean “Diddy” Combs appeared in a Manhattan federal court. The 54-year old Bad Boy mogul had a decades-long history of dodging major criminal allegations, but the time had come for him to face the music regarding some very serious felony charges. In a 14-page indictment, prosecutors alleged Combs used his music empire to transport women and male prostitutes across states and forced them to perform demeaning sexual acts while he masturbated and recorded what he called “Freak Off” parties. Prosecutors went on to say they had found 1000 bottles of baby oil - and lube - during their raid of the rapper’s home. On October 1st, Texas attorney Tony Buzbee made a bombshell announcement that he will represent 120 victims in lawsuits against Diddy. Buzbee added 25 of the alleged 120 victims are minors, the youngest 9-years old at the time of the incident.  In the fourth episode of this special series of The Trial, DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and guests look at Combs’ ever-mounting business troubles, consider the statements by Cassia Ventura and Denise Richard and ask if Diddy’s seemingly unlimited power and super elevated status have contributed to his downfall. Guests Lisa Bloom is a Los Angeles based civil rights attorney known for representing sexual assault victims against celebrity defendents like Bill Cosby. Gerrick Kennedy is an author and former Los Angeles Times reporter. Greg Kading is a retired LAPD homicide detective. In 2006 he was recruited to reinvestigate the murder Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls. Lou Shapiro is a state and federal criminal law attorney based in Los Angeles. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)   Writer and Presenter: Marjorie Hernandez Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean “Diddy” Combs managed to live a fully charmed life for many years, forever protected by his star power. However, his past alleged indiscretions – from his notorious temper directed towards employees and paparazzi to dodging criminal charges stemming from an infamous Manhattan nightclub shooting incident that wounded three people – would ultimately come back to haunt him. By 2006, Combs had rebranded three times - from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy to Diddy - but the luster of Bad Boy as a platinum record hit making machine was long gone and while the label still had bankable acts like Machine Gun Kelly, French Montana and Janelle Monet, it was no longer the money-making juggernaut it had been in the early aughts. Puff’s Icon Era was coming to a calamitous end. In the third episode of this special series of The Trial, DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez covers Combs’ ever-mounting business troubles, his multiple law-suits and the growing allegations around his alleged dark and abusive sexual encounters known as “freak offs”. Guests Gerrick Kennedy is an author and former Los Angeles Times reporter. Pam Lewis-Rudden is music licensing specialist. She worked for Diddy as his assistant at Uptown Records in the early 1990s Mark Curry is an author, rapper and artist who was signed to Bad Boy Records by Diddy in 1997. Lou Shapiro is a state and federal criminal law attorney based in Los Angeles. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)   Writer and Presenter: Marjorie Hernandez Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean “Diddy” Combs' meteoric rise to fame also brought a huge weight of controversies. As his past alleged indiscretions began to catch up with him, multiple former employees began detailing his alleged abusive behaviour. But the most explosive allegations came from his long-time partner, Cassie Ventura who, in 2023, filed a federal lawsuit alleging Diddy raped and abused her for years. The truly shocking and violent video that emerged not only rocked the world - it spelled the beginning of the end of Combs’ multi-million dollar empire.  In the second episode this special series of The Trial, DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez covers Combs’ explosive rise through the music industry, the East Coast vs West Coast tensions that led to the tragic deaths of Biggie and Tupac, Diddy’s extravagant White Parties and more, never losing focus on the individual at the heart of it all whose seemingly impenetrable protective bubble was about to be cracked, revealing the Bad Boy for who, some say, he really is. Guests Greg Kading is a retired LAPD homicide detective. In 2006 he was recruited to reinvestigate the murder Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls. Gerrick Kennedy is an author and former Los Angeles Times reporter. Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)   Writer and Presenter: Marjorie Hernandez Editor: Sam Morris Producer: Rob Fitzpatrick Executive Producer: Lucy Vallance    A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices