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Sources familiar with the Diddy investigation tell TMZ ... more alleged victims and witnesses are stepping up because they feel less intimidated now that Diddy is behind bars.

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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.

00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.

00:05He is very eager to tell his story.

00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over

00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.

00:15His reputation is over.

00:17The United States government, they start making this case

00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.

00:24TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, now streaming on Tubi.

00:30Diddy and what the authorities say is now become a pattern that since the indictment

00:37and since there have been a few more lawsuits filed,

00:41they are getting a wave of accusers coming forward.

00:44There is, as they put it, an uptick in the number of people calling and saying

00:48that they have had encounters with Diddy,

00:53encounters that they want to talk to the authorities about

00:56because they think it may be a crime.

00:58Now, this comes on the heels of a press conference yesterday

01:02with the Busbee law firm saying,

01:04initially, when they put a press release out that they were going to do this,

01:07they talked about 50 victims.

01:09Now they're saying, what, 100?

01:10Yeah, when he showed up yesterday, he said 120.

01:12So just in the week since Tony Busbee, the attorney,

01:16made that announcement that he was going to be filing these lawsuits,

01:20that means that many more people suddenly got in touch with him.

01:25By the way, just one thing,

01:26we're not suggesting that all of them are valid or not valid

01:30because I don't think a lot have been vetted.

01:32You would have to imagine that a lot of people see all these people coming forward

01:36and might be just kind of trying to jump on the bandwagon

01:38or think maybe this is a payday.

01:40But the other side of it is that we're being told

01:43that a lot of these people who are coming forward,

01:45now that Diddy's actually in prison,

01:47they don't feel scared to come forward

01:49or basically get any type of repercussions from Diddy

01:54for coming forward with these stories.

01:55And that's why they're getting the influx.

01:58And the reality is some of these people might just become witnesses.

02:01Maybe they just have information that will help the authorities

02:03and not necessarily that they're victims.

02:06But I would imagine there may also be alleged victims there as well.

02:10I just thought of this.

02:11There is a rub here that if there are various allegations,

02:17that doesn't mean it becomes part of a federal case.

02:20Correct.

02:20Because typically these are state cases.

02:23So everybody thinks this all gets folded.

02:27Except for the fact that one of the counts is a RICO,

02:29which is so broad that if the feds...

02:34My point is that all these people coming forward,

02:37the feds could find a way,

02:39depending on what information they have,

02:40to include them in this case.

02:43Yes, but when you read this 14-page indictment,

02:46and again, I say 14 pages because it's shockingly short for a RICO case.

02:52But they only list one alleged victim in the sex trafficking case,

02:58and that's clearly Cassie.

03:00So if they had this big number...

03:04You could have a large number of victims in the RICO part of the...

03:09But they didn't list it that way.

03:11I mean, I don't know.

03:12Correct. You're right. They didn't.

03:13And that's why I'm saying that maybe some of these people

03:15who are coming forward now,

03:17that's how they could be included in the federal...

03:20I don't know.

03:21There's something else that came out today.

03:23Wendy Williams, who had real beef with Diddy.

03:26She's spoken out now.

03:27Yes. We'll get into their history in a moment.

03:29But everyone was waiting to hear

03:32what Wendy Williams would have to say about this.

03:34This is what she told the Daily Mail.

03:36She said,

03:36What is really weird is that I have been told by so many people,

03:40Wendy, you called it,

03:42including some people from my family who have said the same.

03:46You know how I feel about that?

03:47It is about time to see this video on TV of Cassie getting pummeled.

03:52It was just horrific.

03:54But now you have to think how many more times?

03:57How many more people?

03:58How many more women?

03:59It's just so horrible.

04:01Now, they have a lot of bad blood between them.

04:03Goes back to...

04:05Hot 97.

04:06Wendy was a DJ there.

04:09And the story is that Diddy got her fired

04:13because he was upset that she kept repeating on the air

04:17rumors about him being gay.

04:19And her attempts to out him...

04:22Got him fired.

04:23...enough that he made a call and she ended up getting fired.

04:26Because this was back in the day when bad boy was really

04:30blowing up in the 90s.

04:31So, late 90s.

04:33So there are decades of...

04:34He would have had the power if that's what happened.

04:37But he certainly would have had the power at that point.

04:38Right.

04:39I am Andy from Berry Hills.

04:41And look, first of all, it's so good to know that Wendy is alive and breathing

04:45because we have been missing her so much.

04:47So it is kind of sad that it took so long and so many victims to come forward.

04:52But you know what?

04:53Justice for Wendy.

04:56And I think Diddy is going down.

04:58And he's going to be taking a lot of people down with him.

05:02I will say, slow the roll on projecting where this is heading.

05:07Because we don't know where the feds are going to go with this

05:09as far as whether there'll be more counts.

05:12We don't know what the defense is going to mount.

05:14What the defense is going to be.

05:14You just don't know yet.

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