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(NewsNation) — Sean “Diddy” Combs is sitting in a jail cell in Brooklyn — but he’s not the only person who should be jailed… plenty of people helped orchestrate his infamous White Parties, intimidated male and female victims, helped Combs drug them, and violated the victims while they were incapacitated.
And Combs’ knows the Feds want the dirt on everybody… especially the big names.
Derek Parker, also known as the Hip Hop Cop — who investigated the rap and hip hop scene for the NYPD in the 1990s and early 2000s — told me during an interview on my YouTube show, The Scoop: “I don’t see (Combs) getting out. I think with so much of the outcry of the victims in this case, he may either make a deal where he becomes King for a Day, where he tells everything he knows about someone else that might be bigger than what he’s doing for a deal.”
Asked if that means Combs will rate on his famous friends and associates, Parker said: “I think anybody will rat if they’re getting put into a certain position where you’re looking at R. Kelly time. R. Kelly’s doing 20 to 30 years on two separate cases in jail. That was two cases, right? (Combs) has got 100. And the problem he also has is the outcry of all these witnesses, it’s hard for a jury, I think, to listen to all these people come forward.”
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‘Jay-Z and Diddy were pretty close’
As for who might be named? Parker notes: “Jay-Z and Diddy were pretty close.” When asked if he thought Jay-Z was aware of what went on at the Freak Offs, Parker said: “I would say that. It’s alleged that he knows. But… a lot of people went to these parties. It’s not just Jay Z. There are other more important people that are at these Freak Off parties that are very, everybody’s very scared right now.”
Other names Parker mentioned: LeBron James, Chris Brown, Kevin Hart, and more.
As for why Diddy did it, Parker said: “He and Jay Z, if you notice, they’ve elevated themselves to be very, very big music moguls and in this industry. So I think what happened was that on his way up, (Combs) probably thought maybe he was invincible with some of the things that he did. Because if you saw some of the things that he talked about and how he somehow say he treated people,he had no care about what he said to you or what he did to you…. So I think what happened was that it took a turn where he thought he could get away with certain things, and nobody would say anything, because they either can be paid off and then forget about it and move on.”
One thing’s for sure – the only winners in this seedy case are the lawyers.
“I think Jay Z right now is probably building up his attorneys just in case something comes his way,” Parker said, adding: “I’m pretty sure that Beyonce is having some trouble with this as well.”
Diddy lawyers up
As for Diddy — he has hired yet another team of $1500 an hour lawyers to try for a third shot at bail… and despite being worth hundreds of millions (at the moment), Parker foresees him going broke.
“I think that in this case, you have all these people that are coming forward, there’s going to be so much mounds of paperwork that these attorneys gonna have to go through with not only the criminal defense, but the lawsuits, the civil lawsuits that he’s got – they’re going to have to have a team of lawyers,” Parker said. “(Combs) will go bankrupt.”
A rep for Jay-Z didn’t return emails.