As Sean “Diddy” Combs awaits trial on intercourse trafficking fees, Ray J claimed that he is aware of of a number of celebrities who’re doing all the things they’ll to cover their connections to the music mogul.
“I’m listening to about artists paying victims to maintain their names out of it,” Ray J, 43, alleged in TMZ’s new documentary, The Downfall of Diddy: Contained in the Freak-Offs. “Someone has a fact, any individual pays you to maintain it quiet, and hopefully that cash you bought paid secures your happiness whilst you watch the lie proceed to succeed.”
When requested whether or not alleged victims are approaching celebrities linked to Diddy’s alleged crimes and asking for hush cash, Ray J mentioned, “[It’s] the opposite manner round. … [It’s], ‘I’ll provide you with cash, please don’t speak.’”
As a longtime good friend of Diddy’s himself, Ray J has maintained that he and lots of others have been blindsided by the stunning allegations that got here out after Diddy’s September arrest.
“We’ve by no means seen the stuff that’s being mentioned and the stuff that individuals are discovering out,” he mentioned throughout a September look on Andrew Cuomo’s NewsNation present, CUOMO. “I’ve by no means been in rooms that individuals are speaking about, and I by no means knew they existed.”
The “Let It Go” singer additionally speculated about why different associates of Diddy, 55, had but to talk out in regards to the allegations.
“I feel lots of people are in shock. Lots of people are coping with it in their very own manner,” he mentioned. “I hear folks aren’t popping out as a result of they both suspected this about him, or they don’t need to have any connection to him. After which I assume there’s one other group who’s anxious that they’re gonna get pulled in.”
A number of stars’ previous feedback about Diddy’s notorious events have been reexamined within the wake of a 14-page indictment, which was unsealed in September and alleged that the rapper hosted “elaborate and produced intercourse performances” known as “Freak Offs.”
Diddy and his enterprise associates would allegedly use “power, threats of power and coercion to trigger victims to have interaction in prolonged intercourse acts with male business intercourse employees” in the course of the Freak Offs. Diddy pleaded not responsible to intercourse trafficking in September and has vehemently denied the allegations in opposition to him.
Whereas some celebrities have spoken about selecting to not celebration with Diddy — 50 Cent instructed The Hollywood Reporter in July that he’s been “very vocal about not going to Puffy events and doing s— like that” — others have alluded to realizing greater than they’ll say.
“I’ve obtained rather a lot I can’t inform,” Ashton Kutcher mentioned when requested about Diddy’s get-togethers throughout a 2019 look on Sizzling Ones. “Can’t inform that one both. … I’m really biking by them. Diddy celebration tales, man.”
Ray J mentioned in The Downfall of Diddy: Contained in the Freak-Offs that he thinks some stars would possibly view him as a possible “vessel” for leaks about their participation in Diddy’s alleged crimes.
“Now they’re gonna be mad,” he mentioned, with out naming which celebrities he was referring to. “I’ve mentioned an excessive amount of.”
The Downfall of Diddy: Contained in the Freak-Offs is now streaming on Tubi.