A former member of The Pussycat Dolls said ‘no one listened’ when she said she felt pressurised to ‘sleep with’ people in the music industry.
Kaya Jones, now 40, was a member of the band from 2003 to 2004 during its early formation when it transitioned from a burlesque troupe to a pop music group.
She left before The Pussycat Dolls achieved commercial success with their debut album PCD in 2005.
Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thornton, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt, Carmit Bachar, and Jessica Sutta were all members at the time.
Elon Musk recently took to X to comment on the charges put against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
The music mogul is currently behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, awaiting trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
On 17 September, he pleaded not guilty to charges of using his ‘power and prestige’ to drug sex workers during his ‘Freak Off’ parties.
Earlier this week, 120 accusers came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Diddy, 54.
Commenting on an article on X, Musk said: “How many people in music and entertainment knew about this?”
Ex Pussycat Doll Kaya Jones has commented on the Diddy situation (Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images)
To which, Jones replied: “Here you go @elonmusk I’ve been speaking since 2017. No one listened.”
She was referring to her tweets in 2017, which read: “In 2004 I told Hollywood executives, 2005–2006 I told press. In 2011 I spoke up again.
“Hope you can hear me now Media in 2017! Way to go.”
This comes after The Pussycat Dolls sued the Daily Mail in 2018 for covering Jones’ allegations that the girl group was a ‘prostitution ring’.
Lead singer Scherzinger and her fellow bandmates released a statement at the time, which read: “To liken our professional roles in The Pussycat Dolls to a prostitution ring not only undermines everything we worked hard to achieve for all those years but also takes the spotlight off the millions of victims who are speaking up and being heard loud and clear around the world.”
Diddy has plead not guilty to all charges (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, a lawyer for Diddy has denied all allegations in a statement issued to LADbible Group, which reads: “As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasised, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus.
“That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.
“He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
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A clip featuring Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs explaining the ‘types of parties’ he has during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres has resurfaced.
Last month, the rapper and music mogul, 54, was arrested in New York City on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Combs has since denied all criminal wrongdoing and pled not guilty to the charges brought against him.
Following the arrest, clips from Combs’ previous interviews have since resurfaced online as people look for the rapper talking about his ‘freak off’ parties, which have been linked to the allegations against him.
The interview took place in 2009 (YouTube/TheEllenShow)
The latest video to recirculate again is an interview with Combs on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which sees the rapper talking about the ‘types of parties’ which he holds.
In the interview, which aired back in 2009, DeGeneres starts by asking Combs if she’s invited to his birthday party, to which he responds by saying: “I invite you to all my parties, you just don’t seem to show up.”
The pair then discuss what goes on at his parties, with DeGeneres enquiring about what time his parties start at.
“Let’s say 9:30,” Combs replies, before going on to add: “It’ll go from 9:30 to like 3 c’clock.”
The early start time is a surprise to DeGeneres, who admits that she thought Combs would start a party around ‘midnight’.
“That’s a different type of party,” Combs replies.
The rapper then explained how this would be followed by an ‘after-party’, which takes place on ‘the top two floors’ of a hotel.
“No, I know about them,” DeGeneres responds, joking she’d heard the song ‘After Party’ and then the conversation moves on.
This isn’t the first time Combs’ parties have been brought up in interviews, with comedian and content creator Jeff Wittek revealing in a recent interview what it was like to attend a ‘Diddy party’.
Speaking about his experience at the party and visiting Combs’ house, he said: “The higher you went, the weirder s–t was going on.”
Wittek went on to reveal that he’d seen ‘live sex’ happen at the party, adding: “That’s the first time I saw that happen ever in my life. And did I partake? No, but I got f–king drunk there. It’s just crazy. I was literally there. I lived through it.”
The rapper is currently facing charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution, which he has denied (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the most recent update in the case against Combs has seen the rapper accused of sexual abuse dating as far back as 1991 in a lawsuit involving over 100 people.
A lawyer for Combs has since denied the further allegations via a statement issued to LADbible Group which reads: “As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasised, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus.
“That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.
“He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
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The music executive was arrested last month and has been held behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, New York, since pleading not guilty after being charged with racketeering, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs recently issued a statement from jail after news broke that attorney Tony Buzbee would be representing 120 alleged victims who have come forward with accusations of sexual assault against the producer.
The crimes are said to span over 25 years, with men and women – some of whom were underage at the time of the alleged incidents – coming forward against Diddy.
Diddy has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)
Following this news, an attorney for Combs told LADbible Group on Tuesday (1 October): “As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasised, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus. That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.
“He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
After consistent denial of all charges against him and being denied bail twice, the case against the 54-year-old is continuing to build as Buzbee spoke to Law&Crime on Wednesday (2 October), the day after the press conference, where he announced that he will be representing the alleged victims in court.
The attorney revealed that he had opened a ‘Diddy hotline’ that was run by ‘almost 100 people’ working on receiving calls, for people to report any crimes or abuse they may have experienced.
Buzbee said that they received ‘12,000 calls in about 24 hours’ on the hotline, adding: “Our Herculean task is to try to sift through every one of these calls and make sure that we’re identifying those who are victims and those who are witnesses and collect evidence.”
The executive will be taken to court by Buzbee (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)
Having revealed that the cases they built with the 120 accusers have been filed against Diddy, they are still ‘trying to make sure that when we file the cases’ and ‘that we include every potentially liable party’.
It is said that this alleged abuse took place over a 25-year period, as Buzbee explained: “This is an important matter that we intend to aggressively pursue.
“We will leave no stone unturned to find all potentially liable parties, to include any individual or entity who participated in or benefited from this egregious behaviour.”
In addition to all of this, the attorney claimed that the assaults will involve ‘many powerful people’ and reveal ‘many dirty secrets’, as previous attendees of Diddy parties have recently spoken about what they witnessed.
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The musician, real name Sean Combs, is currently in jail with a plethora of accusations made against him.
Lawsuits have been filed which allege a number of incidents over a 25 year period, including some involving people who were underage at the time they are claimed to have occurred.
Combs is currently jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn after pleading not guilty to charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Sean Combs has denied the allegations made against him and pleaded ‘not guilty’ to multiple charges. (Mark Mainz/Getty Images)
“That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.
“He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
Since claims were made against him a number of people have spoken out about his parties, with a comedian claiming to have attended one in 2010 where he said he saw people openly having sex in a Miami mansion.
Someone else who has made allegations about what the parties were like is celebrity photographer Selma Fonseca, who says she went to ’20 or 30 Diddy parties’ in total.
She said she didn’t witness the alleged ‘freak offs’ which are claimed to have occurred at the parties, but did say that some people who attended brought their kids and alleged that Diddy told them to ‘put the kids away’ so people could ‘groove on’.
Speaking to Fox, the photographer said there was a ‘scary’ moment where her camera was confiscated from her.
A photographer who claims she attended numerous Diddy parties said she once had her camera confiscated. (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)
Fonseca said she never felt ‘unsafe’, at one of Diddy’s parties but in 2006 she claimed he told one of his bodyguards to confiscate her camera, but stated that no photos were deleted.
She said: “Diddy was in a VIP area, and I saw there was a girl next to him that I had never seen before.
“I took pictures of him with the girl, and he told his bodyguard ‘go get her camera.’ The bodyguard came and said ‘let me see the pictures’.
“Diddy looked at the pictures, and I’m waiting, and he’s pouring shots, having fun. He did eventually give me my camera back.
“He never asked me for my camera, I had been photographing the man for 20 years. It was scary, but he knew better.”
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The man himself has said that you ought to listen to the whole thing in order from start to finish rather than shuffling up the tracks.
“Enjoy.”
Keeping that in mind, tracks number eight and nine would appear to have some rather choice words for Diddy, real name Sean Combs.
The eighth track on The Death of Slim Shady is titled ‘Antichrist’, and Diddy gets called out by name in it.
Really went in on the guy there, Eminem. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)
In the song, Eminem is spitting the follow bars: “Next idiot ask me is gettin’ his ass beat worse than Diddy did. But on the real, though (Why?)
“She prolly ran out the room with his f**kin’ dildo (Come here)
“He try to field goal punt her, she said to chill (No).”
It probably should be noted that after the words ‘Diddy did’ there’s a second or two of dead silence as though the audio cuts out completely.
The lyrics would appear to be a reference to the released footage of Diddy assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a hotel in 2016.
Diddy apologised for the incident, saying he was ‘disgusted then when I did it, I am disgusted now’, while Ventura had filed a lawsuit alleging that he ‘frequently beat’ her which was later settled.
Diddy has found himself in the lyrical crosshairs. (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images for Sean “Diddy” Combs)
Eminem gave Diddy both barrels, as in the album’s next song ‘Fuel’ it sounded like he went back in for another go.
A particular chunk of the lyrics to ‘Fuel’ go: “I’m like a R-A-P-E-R (Yeah)
“Got so many S-As (S-As), S-As (Huh)
“Wait, he didn’t just spell the word, ‘Rapper’ and leave out a P, did he? (Yep)”
‘P, did he’ sounds a lot like P Diddy, and the animosity between the pair seems evident.
Needless to say, Eminem’s fans are calling it the ‘hardest Diddy diss bar we’ve possibly ever heard’ and said he ‘went in on Diddy’.
Someone else said you’d be ‘dying of alcohol poisoning if you took a shot every time Eminem disses Diddy in the new album’.
Everyone expected that an album titled The Death of Slim Shady might involve Eminem putting his abrasive character to rest, however, they might not have expected how hard Slim Shady would go down swinging.
