The pictures maintain firing at Sean “Diddy” Combs as extra particulars come up about his status. Fortune Journal reached out to 100 former workers for extra particulars about their expertise working with the disgraced media mogul.
Most of the folks declined to interview or to be named in worry of retaliation, however we’ve allotted probably the most surprising particulars so that you don’t should.
The now notorious all-white events have been on the docket, after all. Amongst a few of the disturbing revelations, Joi Dickerson-Neal, is one other one so as to add to the record.
Neal, a university scholar on the time, alleges that Diddy drugged, sexually assaulted and subjected her to “revenge porn.” Diddy and his staff have since denied the claims as “a cash seize,” however these allegations proceed to color a muddy image of his legacy.
Diddy’s former first assistant at Uptown Data, Pam Lewis-Rudden, defined the work setting to be poisonous within the 90s. She informed Fortune that she had no data of the allegations towards him, however that the office — each Combs’ ship, and the Nineties generally — didn’t work in ladies’s favor.
“There’s no one even doing HR,” Rudden revealed. “So, I’m going to go to HR and inform him that Puffy drugged me and raped me? Proper.”
Fortune additionally detailed Diddy’s accused exploitation of artists. Grammy-winning poet Malik Yusef remembers a publishing cope with Diddy: Combs acquired Yusef’s rights for $15,000, leaving him with out correct credit score.
“He’s like, ‘I received you on stage with me all around the world with me. Make a enterprise for your self.’ Principally that’s what he was saying.” Yusef stated in an interview with Fortune.
It was reported that Diddy led his corporations with an iron fist and oversaw each facet of the artistic course of. However afterward, he was extra distant within the day-to-day work and would pile on duties to his staffers and administration.
Even exterior the music trade, the controversy blended into his philanthropic affairs. In 2016, Diddy based a constitution college referred to as Capital Prep, situated in Harlem, New York. The mother and father of scholars reported dissatisfaction with the curriculum and violence endured by college students. Capital Prep didn’t reply to the journal’s request for remark.
Diddy’s staff declined to answer every particular occasion within the article. However, they did launch a normal assertion to the journal.
“Mr. Combs can not reply to each new publicity stunt, even in response to claims which can be facially ridiculous or demonstrably false. Mr. Combs and his authorized staff have full confidence within the info and the integrity of the judicial course of. In court docket, the reality will prevail: that Mr. Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody—man or lady, grownup or minor.” a consultant of Combs World stated.
General, the previous workers emphasised a harsh, poisonous work setting. Because the allegations proceed to floor the longer term continues to look bleak for Diddy.