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Diddy is facing yet another lawsuit from a new accuser, a former bandmate who claims the music mogul belittled, terrorized and sexually abused her while she also witnessed him savagely beat his ex, Cassie.

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00:00There is another lawsuit filed against Diddy.

00:04This one is as salacious as it gets.

00:07Yes, and this one comes from someone he worked very closely

00:11with for years.

00:11In fact, Dawn Richard was on his last The Love album.

00:16She performed on that.

00:18But she became famous to the public

00:21as a member of Danity Kane.

00:22And then later in Diddy's trio, it was himself.

00:27The group was called Diddy Dirty Money.

00:29She was one of the three people, including

00:31Diddy, in that group.

00:33But now she is coming forward with some, as Harvey said,

00:37salacious tales about her time with him.

00:40Not only what happened to her, but what happened to Cassie

00:44and what happened to Kim Porter.

00:46Yes.

00:47So allegedly.

00:48Allegedly, according to Dawn Richard.

00:50Now she, in this lawsuit, says that there were times

00:55that she and the other member of Diddy Dirty Money,

00:58a woman named Kalanna Harper, that they witnessed Diddy

01:03abusing Cassie and that they encouraged

01:06Cassie to get away from him, which did not

01:09go over well with Diddy.

01:10And they say that he lashed out at them.

01:13They also say they saw Kim Porter.

01:15And we have not heard anything like this before,

01:20at least in the lawsuits.

01:22And she is saying she observed her, as you said, banged up

01:26and was alarmed for her.

01:29Yes, very alarmed about that.

01:31And that's, she said, Dawn says that's

01:32when she realized that he could be dangerous,

01:36not just to other people, but to her.

01:39And she was always on edge after that, she says in the lawsuit.

01:43As for Diddy's reaction to them speaking to Cassie

01:46and encouraging Cassie to leave him,

01:49this is what she says Diddy's reaction was.

01:52He said, y'all bitches don't get in my relationship.

01:55Don't tell my bitch what she need to be doing.

01:58Just make money and shut the bleep up.

02:02I end artists.

02:03I shelve careers.

02:05You could be missing.

02:06You bitches want to die today?

02:08Wow.

02:09Wow.

02:10The language is incredibly menacing.

02:11It's unbelievable.

02:12And there are countless other examples.

02:15This is a 100-page lawsuit.

02:16Right.

02:17And there's a lot of examples laid out that she's,

02:20these, again, are her allegations.

02:23But some of it lines up with the things

02:26that Cassie had said in her lawsuit.

02:28I think that's the point.

02:29I mean, obviously, we can't independently

02:31assess the allegations that are here in the lawsuit.

02:33But they do line up with what we have heard

02:36from other alleged victims, what we've seen, obviously,

02:39in the Cassie video, the abuse that happened there,

02:42the real exploitation of his power, his willingness

02:46to say and treat people in a very demeaning way

02:50when he exercises control and power,

02:52financial power over them, power

02:55within the industry over them.

02:57So sure, we can't assess this.

02:58But it does seem consistent with what you've heard

03:00and what we've seen from lots of other people.

03:02Now, there is somebody who came forward and disputed

03:06the claims that you made.

03:08In the past, Kalena Harper, who is, as I said,

03:11the third member of Diddy Dirty Money,

03:13she has said not specifically about Dawn in this case.

03:17She hasn't spoken out about this suit yet.

03:20But has said that all the people who are coming forward

03:23are, for the most part, she said, disgruntled

03:26former employees, people who are unhappy with how

03:29their careers turned out.

03:30And they're now turning on Diddy.

03:33Of Cassie, she said, I never witnessed

03:36any abuse against Cassie, which is interesting,

03:39because that's not what Dawn Richard is saying in her lawsuit.

03:42She's saying that Kalena and herself did see that abuse.

03:48What's going to be interesting, which I've always wanted

03:51to know as these lawsuits come out,

03:53have the feds talked to her?

03:55Have the feds interviewed her?

03:57Has she gone before the grand jury?

04:00How have the feds evaluated her credibility

04:04in deciding what to do?

04:05I completely agree.

04:07The civil cases, Diddy's got all the money in the world.

04:09He can pay out any judgment that he gets against him,

04:11he can pay out.

04:12The real issue is, does this translate

04:14to a criminal prosecution?

04:16Is this evidence usable in that prosecution?

04:19Because I think it's inevitable he's going to end up

04:21having to stand trial, I think.

04:23And can these allegations stand up against him?

04:27It seems, Kalena's point is interesting.

04:29If there is a voice out there that says,

04:30I never saw this, I was around him all the time

04:32and I never saw it, that's a really powerful thing

04:34that Diddy has in his quiver, because undoubtedly,

04:36some people out there would seek to file false claims

04:41against people in order to get money.

04:43That's what Diddy's saying.

04:44And so he maybe now has somebody in his corner on that.

04:48Hi, my name is Jordan Simone.

04:50I'm from North Carolina and I'm honestly glad

04:53that she's speaking out.

04:54No matter how much time passes,

04:56it's important that people stand up against this.

04:58He cannot get away with this,

04:59no matter what other people say.

05:00Well, we will see.

05:02I agree with Jason.

05:03I think charges are almost inevitable at this point.

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