Diddy Accusers' Lawyer Compares Diddy to Harvey Weinstein, Both Have Abuse 'Patterns' | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Thomas Giuffra, the lawyer for three anonymous men who have accused Diddy of sodomizing them, says Diddy's a lot like another fallen Hollywood power player -- Harvey Weinstein.

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00:00To an attorney who is going after Diddy, a different attorney, not Tony Busby, but a

00:06different attorney who was recently filed on behalf of three men who say that they were

00:12sexually assaulted by Diddy.

00:14And these lawsuits were interesting in that they're not from 20, 30 years ago.

00:20They're within the last five, six years.

00:22Their attorney, Thomas Jifra, was on CNN this morning talking about the cases and made a

00:28comparison, compared Diddy to someone that I think probably wasn't shocking to the audience,

00:34though the person that he brought up is shocked by it.

00:37Here's what he had to say.

00:38Whenever you have a serial abuser, they follow a pattern.

00:41Harvey Weinstein had a pattern.

00:43Sean Combs has a pattern.

00:45And with all three of them, the stories are a little different, but the pattern's always

00:49the same.

00:50Come into my orbit, have a drink, you get woozy, take a rest, wake up to being sodomized.

00:57That was the pattern.

00:58And it was the same in every single story.

01:01Yeah, I mean, look, these are the sorts of things that you see from serial predators.

01:07You know, these are all accusations, obviously.

01:09None of it's been proven in court.

01:11But the allegations do line up with this very type of pattern.

01:15And so the comparisons between Harvey Weinstein, the patterns that he allegedly demonstrated,

01:19and those of Diddy, there's reason to draw those comparisons.

01:22Well, Harvey Weinstein begs to differ.

01:24No, Harvey Weinstein and his people were not happy with that comparison that Mr. Gifford

01:30made.

01:31In fact, this is what a spokesman for Harvey Weinstein told us.

01:36It is an outright lie to say that Harvey Weinstein had a pattern of drugging women and sexually

01:41abusing them.

01:42Not one accuser of Mr. Weinstein's ever alleged that.

01:45To make such a claim is reckless and irresponsible.

01:50Now, as they say in the law, he is defamation proof in the sense that there's nothing they're

01:58going to do about it.

01:59Nothing to be convicted of.

02:00Right.

02:01It is interesting for Harvey Weinstein to seemingly have, or at least think he has some

02:07high ground above the allegations that Diddy is facing.

02:10Weird.

02:11Hi, this is Brittany from Jersey.

02:14And I have to say, normally you are innocent until proven guilty.

02:18But at this point, Diddy and Weinstein's cultural capital is in the trash.

02:22I don't think there's anything that we would hear at this point that we wouldn't believe.

02:25It's unfortunate.

02:26I will say, you know, I stopped making those predictions after OJ Simpson.

02:32It's true.

02:33And I did.

02:34And there was also a case a long time ago when I was a young reporter, McMartin.

02:39And so, you know, I know that it certainly is leaning that way.

02:45But you never know until the jury speaks and how the trial unfolds and what kind of evidence

02:52the prosecution has and how the witnesses are cross-examined.

02:57But I think that makes a difference.

02:58I think to her point, you're talking about legally, yes, you can't decide, you don't

03:03know which way the case is going to go.

03:04I know what you're going to say.

03:05What she's saying is that regardless of what the jury says, a vast, large swath of the

03:11public believes these allegations.

03:14And to that I will say, how many autographs did OJ Simpson sign in Las Vegas over the

03:19years?

03:20How many people?

03:21You know, it's like...

03:22He did, but that doesn't mean that people thought he didn't do it.

03:26I don't think they cared so much.

03:28That may be.

03:29You know, it's weird.

03:30Which is also weird.

03:32I understand.

03:33I understand.

03:34But that's why you just, you can't make those judgments yet.

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