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(NewsNation) — Suge Knight, co-founder and erstwhile CEO of Death Row Records tells "CUOMO" that Sean "Diddy" Combs is "not the lone one" to enactment younger artists done humiliating intersexual acts, describing assorted manufacture practices passim the decades. The video supra contains excerpts of his live, exclusive interrogation with Chris Cuomo.
Combs, who has gone by assorted aliases including P. Diddy, Diddy, Puffy and Puff Daddy, was arrested connected Sept. 16 pursuing a expansive assemblage indictment for respective felonies, including enactment trafficking and racketeering. The apprehension came arsenic the shaper faced a mounting list of civilian lawsuits alleging maltreatment and battle spanning implicit 3 decades. He's being held successful Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, and 2 of his bids for a bail merchandise person failed. Diddy has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges.
Knight, who has been serving a 28-year situation condemnation successful California for voluntary manslaughter, tells NewsNation helium sees Diddy's existent concern arsenic a merchandise of a corrupt industry, saying Diddy "stepped successful this s--t. Even if helium wiped disconnected his shoe, it inactive stinks. But he's not the lone one. They got each the tapes."
Knight: Abuse was learned from industry
Knight claims Diddy "was taught from radical earlier him, and helium did it to the younger radical aft him."
It's an manufacture that, according to Knight, has a agelong past of sexually abusing and assaulting its newest members. He said 1 practice, called an "egg test," went arsenic follows:
"Those guys propulsion their pants down and bent over. They instrumentality (the egg) up their a--. Their eggs break. They accidental they're not acceptable yet, they ain't enactment capable enactment in. This is Hollywood," Knight said.
Without attending "those butt bare parties," it's hard to comprehend what happened — but that doesn't mean it was a secret, according to Knight.
"Because this been going connected successful the manufacture for a full clump of years, for decades and astatine the aforesaid time. You know, cipher wanted to beryllium true, and it shouldn't person to beryllium true," Knight said.
Knight besides said helium believes Diddy's allegations stem from his ain experiences.
"You know, wounded radical wounded radical ... Someone was sexually abused, they upwind up being a perpetrator. Is that what you're suggesting astir Sean Combs, that helium was sexually abused, and helium present sexually abuses?" NewsNation's Chris Cuomo asked.
"Yeah, I deliberation that's perfectly right. I deliberation it was done to him," Knight said.
Knight accuses others successful industry
In his exclusive interrogation with NewsNation, Knight accused different manufacture professionals including a antheral whose "job was to bring underage girls and girls and person enactment with employees and different artists, to the constituent wherever his person got caught up with the aforesaid thing," Knight said.
Knight went connected to notation that Interscope and Universal person a argumentation of not dealing with artists who get into occupation and are often the ones paying disconnected the alleged victims of their artists.
Knight claimed a pistillate was allegedly assaulted by Diddy and aboriginal settled with Interscope. He claimed the institution enactment her connected the payroll arsenic a means of repayment, with Knight adding helium believes "she had to wage taxes."
"I shouldn't accidental that, due to the fact that I'm trying to support her, her image, but helium bushed the s--- retired of her and Cassie. He did things to her you should ne'er bash to a woman," Knight said.
He besides mentioned artists by sanction who should person been "whistleblowers," including Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross, among others.
Knight called for alteration successful the industry, telling Cuomo, "If we don't hole it and bash thing astir it, past volition perpetually beryllium repeating itself."
