As the costs mount in opposition to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Bill Maher needs to understand how he received away with it for thus lengthy.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comic caught up with author Fran Lebowitz about numerous present occasions, together with Combs’ latest arrest by FBI agents in New York Metropolis and the way it displays on the music business.
“I’ve been asking this query for seven years, since 2017 when the #MeToo factor occurred,” he mentioned. “Why… why not the music business? I imply, they went after NPR fairly unhealthy. 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 business is that this open cesspool of misogyny, and admittedly, rape and sexual harassment, and in some way, the angel of loss of life has simply flown over them. Why do you assume that’s?” requested Maher.
Lebowitz supplied, “I feel as a result of this can be a capitalist nation, and the music business is rather 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)
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“Quite a lot of the tales about everyone beginning with #MeToo, I’d heard lots of these tales for a few years,” she continued. “So, Puffy, this was not precisely a state secret. However it 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 more allegations. Combs was arrested final week in connection to an FBI raid on his LA and Miami homes 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.
