Investigating the system that protected Sean “Diddy” Combs
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Investigating the system that protected Sean “Diddy” Combs

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202645 min
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Sean Combs founded Bad Boy Records and spent three decades as one of the most powerful men in hip hop. Now he's serving a federal prison sentence. Rolling Stone reporter Cheyenne Roundtree spent years talking to the people who worked for him, many of them trying to break into the music business. In her new book, Bad Boy for Life: The Rise and Fall of Sean Combs, she lays out what those jobs actually required. "This was supposed to be their jobs and careers... keeping their boss' domestic violence of his girlfriends a secret,” she tells Tonya Mosley. ...

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This is Ira Glass. On This American Life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, his entire life took a sharp, unexpected and very unpleasant turn.

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And it did take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button. That's right. Because the monkey pressed the button.

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Surprising stories every week wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Moseley. For 30 years, Sean Combs was one of America's most visible men.

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