Ray J Says Celebrities Have Told Him They're Paying Off Diddy's Alleged Victims | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Ray J says he's been contacted by multiple celebs who are so scared about their affiliation with Diddy ... they're going to some of the alleged victims and paying them to keep quiet.

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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.

00:03Freak-offs.

00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.

00:07It was a rapper that we all know.

00:10Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.

00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.

00:15So, we told you that we have a new documentary on Diddy,

00:19The Downfall of Diddy.

00:21This one is Inside the Freak-Offs,

00:24and we have told you about what at least one person says

00:28happened at the freak-offs.

00:30Now we want to talk about fallout.

00:33Celebrities who may have been at some of these events,

00:38some of these freak-offs,

00:40which is now the subject not just of a criminal investigation,

00:44but more than 120 civil cases as well.

00:48Right, and we told you that there are celebrities

00:51who are running scared,

00:53worried that their name is going to come out in public

00:56attached to any of these freak-offs.

00:58And they are actually settling some of these cases, if you will.

01:04They're not really cases yet,

01:06but the civil lawyers have been sending demand letters

01:09to some of the people who are at these parties

01:11saying, pay up or we're going to name you,

01:13and they don't want to be named.

01:14And this is going on apparently a lot in Hollywood,

01:18and there's someone who may be kind of at the center of all of this.

01:22And that person is Ray J,

01:24who is telling us what he has heard directly from celebrities

01:29about how they are handling this crisis.

01:32And believe me, to them, it is absolutely a crisis.

01:36And he gave us a lot of information

01:39about what celebs are doing behind the scenes.

01:41I'm hearing about artists paying victims

01:45to keep their name out of it.

01:47You know people who have been approached by women, men, whatever,

01:56who have said, give me money and I won't talk?

01:59Here's the other way around that, Harvey.

02:03I'll give you money, please don't talk.

02:06You are a well-connected guy.

02:09Do you know that what you've just described,

02:12is that going on now?

02:15Yes.

02:16They want to talk to me.

02:18They want to talk to me about what happened to them.

02:21They call me.

02:22They feel like they can trust me.

02:24Wait a minute, calling you for what?

02:27Calling you for what?

02:28Because they want to tell me about certain things

02:30that happened with them and Diddy.

02:33Ray, I want to make sure I understand this.

02:36Are these high-profile people calling you

02:39because they've had some affiliation with Diddy

02:43that they don't want to come out

02:45and they think you might be the vessel for it coming out?

02:49Is that what you're saying?

02:50Yes.

02:51That's exactly what I'm saying.

02:54And I don't even know why I just said it,

02:56but I said it, so what?

02:58Now they got to be mad.

03:00Come get me.

03:02Were they specific about what they did with Diddy?

03:09I don't want to say.

03:11I think I said too much.

03:12Well, he said a lot.

03:14He said a lot.

03:15It is possible he said too much.

03:17So we should also tell you that in this documentary,

03:21we also spoke with Tony Busby, who is the Houston lawyer,

03:25who has more than 120 of these civil cases,

03:28and he said to us some really important things.

03:32Number one, he said there are celebrities,

03:35there are politicians and business people,

03:38all of whom they are reaching out to,

03:42and from the way it sounds,

03:44they have already sent some of them demand letters saying,

03:47pay up or we're going to file a lawsuit against you.

03:50And then he said in this documentary,

03:53which I think is really ominous,

03:56even if you didn't do anything untoward at a freak-off,

04:01if you're a celebrity who was there,

04:03or anybody who was there,

04:05and you saw something going on where somebody was passed out

04:09and somebody was having sex with that person

04:11and you didn't do anything,

04:13Tony Busby believes that those people are civilly liable

04:18and he's going to go after them as well.

04:20Right, and clearly the approach here is

04:22he knows exactly what Ray J just said,

04:25that these celebrities are desperate to not be attached to it publicly in any way,

04:29so you send them a demand letter

04:31and probably get an answer that you like.

04:34I think that's the key to the whole thing, right?

04:36It's not necessarily that he did anything wrong,

04:38it's the fact that as soon as you are associated with Diddy in these parties,

04:42you're going to be tarred with that forever, right?

04:47People are going to associate you with the kind of person

04:49who attended these parties,

04:51and at least as it stands now, that's a really negative thing.

04:53Now what's interesting is that Ray J has been very public

04:56about saying he did not attend a freak-off.

04:58Oh, he's very clear in this documentary,

05:00he said never has he attended a freak-off.

05:02This is Sheila Zolnar from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

05:04This is the least surprising news I've ever heard.

05:06Essentially Ray J is saying that people are paying up

05:09because they don't want to be canceled,

05:11and that's the least surprising news ever.

05:13But I'll say this,

05:15it could work out in the favor of these victims.

05:19Notoriously, victims of sexual crimes are humiliated

05:24and they continue to be humiliated through the court process,

05:27and I can understand them taking the money

05:30because they can save themselves the further humiliation.

05:33On the flip side, thanks for the offer,

05:35thanks for identifying that I have a claim,

05:38and they could use that in their favor for negotiating purposes.

05:41So not surprising at all that they pay.

05:43The only thing I would disagree with you on is

05:45thanks for acknowledging I have a claim.

05:48A lot of these people are paying

05:50not because they think they've done something wrong,

05:53it's that it is radioactive right now to be associated

05:57and they don't want, like you said earlier,

05:59they just don't want that association.

06:02And I even asked Tony Busby about that,

06:04and I said, look, I mean, this feels like a game.

06:07Pay me or else I'm going to name you.

06:09And he said, hey, you know...

06:10That is the game.

06:11He said, that's a fair point,

06:13and it is the way the system works.

06:16Please tell me he didn't say,

06:18hate the game, not the player.

06:20He kind of did.

06:21No, he kind of, I mean, in so many words,

06:24that's exactly what he said.

06:25Yeah, well, we should remind you that

06:27the documentary is streaming right now

06:29on Tubi for free,

06:31so you can check that out,

06:32The Downfall of Diddy,

06:33inside the Freak Ops.

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