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The Diddy Discourse Has Lost the Plot
As conspiracy theories continue to spread, we have to stop pretending the story here is dark forces corrupting a few promising men each generation.
When he was 14, Usher was sent to live with Diddy, on LaFace Records exec L.A. Reid’s urging and with his mother’s permission, in a last-ditch effort to eke out a style for the singer, whose voice was changing; the raunchy Jodeci-adjacent vibe of his self-titled debut album and the orgies he claimed to have witnessed at Combs’s house in a 2004 Rolling Stone profile are inviting questions about whether those parties — and the Bieber meetup — were anything like the horrors alleged in the indictment files. The troubles with Pearlman, who spent the final years of his life doing time for a Ponzi scheme targeting elderly bank savings, weren’t strictly business related: Members of Innosense and LFO alleged sexual misconduct that the Trans Continental Records founder denied. But recent allegations of abuse under the cover of career mentorship, including a bombshell lawsuit from Danity Kane’s Dawn Richard, cast a pall over the series: She claims the hip-hop vet known for shepherding hits at Daddy’s House Recording Studio once called a room full of “lethargic” and inebriated young girls a “buffet” while he and other associates took advantage of them.
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