2025-07-04
29 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, guilty and not guilty.
Understanding the trial of Sean Combs.
During his noughties peak, Sean Combs was part of the superstar A-list.
He dated Jennifer Lopez.
he styled himself as the King of New York.
Welcome Sean Diddy Cole.
For years,
the man best known as Diddy built a brand around being the ultimate hip-hop mogul.
It's an R&B album.
It's tapped back into the positive parts of love.
A not very good rapper, but a really canny businessman.
He threw famously decadent parties in the Hamptons.
You know, ain't no party like a Diddy party.
He got the old money establishment mingling with culture-defining Black superstars.
At one point, he was part of the Black billionaire class that includes Oprah and Jay-Z.
There's a lot invested literally and figuratively in Sean Combs' success,
in his American arc.
After three decades in the public eye, that dream became dark.
A 2023 civil lawsuit accused him of rape,