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Sean 'Diddy' Combs allegations: Former hip-hop dancer speaks out about the industry - 'They share women. They share secrets'

Elisabeth Ovesen, formerly known as Karrine Steffans, published a tell-all book in 2005, Confessions Of A Video Vixen, about her experiences of the hip-hop industry. Now, she is speaking out in the wake of the allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Most of her own experiences involving famous stars were consensual, she says; the book is a cautionary tale about a feted industry, her stories highlighting misogyny and power imbalances in terms of age and status, how women were used and discarded, rather than criminal behaviour. She claims she went to house parties and woke to "screaming in the middle of the night - women being beaten, slapped, pushed around", as well as men being abused, and closeted artists who feel "shame", which turns to anger, "around sexual proclivities". The hip-hop mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with the aid of a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence - including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.

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