Diddy Cannot be Protected By Non-Disclosure Agreements From Accusers: ‘They Can Sing Like a Canary’
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The host of “Takedown with Chris Hansen” talks about whether Sean “Diddy” Combs will be charged federally when he appears on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
In particular, they were discussing whether the Non-Disclosure Agreements that the accusers, once very close to the rapper, signed, can protect the star.
The short answer is no.
Can NDAs Protect Diddy?
Legal experts assert that any possible nondisclosure agreements between Sean “Diddy” Combs and his accusers existing will be of no help.
The agreements between the rapper and anyone in his circle who might have seen alleged wrongdoing, would not bar the latter from talking to federal agents.
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They can certainly drop details to the officers who are interested in the hip-hop mogul in a sex-trafficking probe.
“They aren’t bound by anything, so they can sing like a canary,” said David Gelman, a New Jersey-based defense attorney and former prosecutor.
“They can speak because NDAs don’t cover illegal activities,” the attorney added.
Diddy’s Trafficking Probe 2024
Federal investigators have acknowledged that search warrants executed on Combs’s mansions in Los Angeles and Miami were part of a sex-trafficking investigation.
Combs, the multimillionaire creator of the Sean John fashion brand and Bad Boy Records, is the subject of multiple court cases alleging sex assault, trafficking, and physical abuse.
Derrick Parker, New York City’s “hip-hop cop,” stated that allegations from the settled lawsuit against Combs filed by his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, may be the subject of the investigation.
After a 1999 nightclub shooting left three people injured, Parker, who published the book “Notorious C.O.P.” on his experiences in the NYPD’s rap-related intelligence unit, played a significant part in the Combs probe.
Combs, formerly known as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and a host of other names, has undergone a myriad of reinventions since the start of his career – but has since entered a new and unwelcome “era.”
Federal agents with US Homeland Security raided two of the rapper’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami on 25 March as he faces a string of varying accusations.
Combs, 54, has strongly denied all of the allegations against him.
His attorneys have branded the lawsuits and their accusations as money grabs, “baseless” or “sickening.”
The entertainer has not been formally charged or accused by federal prosecutors of any crime.
But since then, sometimes new and sometimes resurfaced allegations will arise, which puts his name further down the rabbit hole.
It remains to be seen where and when this probe will eventually end.
