'The Rise and Fall of Diddy' tells Sean Combs' story

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January 29, 2025

Here & Now Newsroom

Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of "The Four: Battle For Stardom" at the CBS Radford Studio Center, May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault.

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs once stood atop the music world. Now he’s sitting in jail awaiting trial in New York on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges that could put him away for life.

Combs is facing an avalanche of allegations and civil lawsuits involving physical assault and rape. His legal representatives have called the accusations against him “pure fiction”

Host Peter O'Dowd catches listeners up on the details of the case with Jesse Weber, host of the podcast "The Rise and Fall of Diddy."

This segment aired on January 29, 2025.

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