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It's All About The Benjamins

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P Diddy Combs caught on a 2016 hotel surveillance video beating up his then girlfriend Cassie Ventura. This should end his career...Harvey Weinstein also had a favorite haunt to corner wannabe starlets...Ben Affleck and J. Lo headed for splitsville?...Dylan Mulvaney wants to play the lead in a trans Legally Blonde.

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Fame. Uh, he'd liked to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky sex games. Is uh. The guy put the cock in the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi here with fame is a bitch. This is your free show. It's for anybody in the universe who wants to hear the goods brought to you by me. I'm taping this on May seventeenth, twenty twenty four. The Knicks just lost Game six on in a pissy mood. I have to expand energy in some kind

of positive way. Otherwise I'd sit in the room and and just you know, I can't watch them lose. But he got Game seven against Indiana at home on Sunday. Of course, one of the guys on our team, the very heart, soul and inspiration Josh Hart. Not the best player, that's Jalen Brunson. But this guy has done more for the next than I ever see someone do. Come in after a trade, he pulls up lamee with some stomach muscle pull in the first quarter. I know I did that

once when I sneezed. Believe it or not, my son laughs at me. I said, no, no, No. As you get older, things happen. You sneeze wrong, you pull a stomach muscle. It goes away in a few days, but it's a pain in the ass at the end of day. I was in the shower trying to wash a certain part of my upper back and I hurt myself. Came out of the shower all wounded. He goes, what happened? I said, shower injury. He says, what do you mean? I said, I reached too far with

the soap trying to go my left classical. Can't do it anymore. You need the girlfriend to scrub me down the back. Christ You know, when I was a kid, we used to go to the mall, smith Haven Mall on the Island. My father had the carpet store there inside the mall, which is kind of weird, but boy, it was a big, beautiful My father was the mayor of them all, and he would let us. He would bring us stat and go Christmas shopping, Me, my sister,

Lorraine, my mother, and we'd go our separate ways. I had probably forty bucks to spend I was a kid, and I always go to Spencer Gifts, you know, the novelty store. I don't know how many of you know Spencer Gifts, but that kind of like stuff there that was a little bit indecent and kind of sexual and naughty cards. And I remember going to the card section for someone's birthday or whatever, and all the cards

for people who are older were naughty. You know, you open it up and a guy's ball sack falls out of the out of the car like just it was a very naughty gift shop. But I kept reading You're over the hill, You're over the hill. Hey, you're sixty now you're over the hill. And I'm like, okay, I'm sixty one. I'm on the hill. And I can see things from this vantage point. Could see clearly natural causes down there on the right, not that far away. I could

see extreme accident in the distance. Hospice care is way down the mountain. But suddenly I can see these things. It's not good. I'm not over the hill. I'm on the hill. And that's how you get shower injuries. Anyway, listen a lot to talk about. First, I want to see something really weird. It's just strange. I was reading the paper today and a woman, a designer, got killed. Well, a designer was found dead a fifty year old woman who does a lot with purses, or

did a lot with purses and scarves. She loves scarves and pashmina shawls. She was found dead with a scarf around her neck inside her home this week, in her in her house in Brooklyn BNS in Eurst, Brooklyn. Whenever I see that word bents on Earth, I perk up because that's where I was born and lived as a very young child. My sister and father went to high school, and the ray went to junior High and has a special

place in my heart. And I still remember. The address was sixteenth twenty sixth eightieth Street, And I'm reading this woman's story and she was killed in her Bentennurth home on eightieth Street and sixteenth Avenue. So what the fuck I mean? We weren't neighbors. This is many years ago I lived there, But it's so weird. And I'm looking at pictures of the houses here. Yeah, this looks to be a little closer to fifteenth because the brown Thones

have steps that lead up. We didn't have a big, big stoop. We have like a five step stoop. But just strange to see that your old address and somebody dead there. A couple of days ago on the Patreon show, I talked about a woman who used to sing with the Roots and tour with them and also sang with Jay Z. Her name is Jaguar Wright. Lot of people called her crazy because for the last five years or so she has been talking about how many bad things are going on in the hip

hop and rap world. And she did this long before Kat Williams opened the floodgates on P Diddy and all this kind of stuff, and a lot of people kind of wrote her off. Oh, Jaguar Right's nuts. Her son was shot in twenty eighteen. People thought she went off the deep end. But I'll tell you, she'd always said things in a very measured tone. Never was crazy, You'd never never appeared cuckoo. I always kept her in

my head. I just go to her YouTube. Go to YouTube and type in Jaguar Right with a W, Right with W, and you'll see her divulging crazy ass secrets about that world, especially a lot about P Diddy Combes Boom. That was the story a few days ago on my Patreon Go to patreon dot com slash fame as a bitch because today's story, Oh my god, if you woke up this morning, did you see the video of P Diddy running down his girlfriend Cassie Ventura in the hallway of the Intercontinental Hotel in

Los Angeles. He caught up to her. She was trying to escape. She had a couple of bags. She was by the elevator and next thing you see is P did he come running out down the hallway holding a white towel around his waist and wearing slipper sandals And he reaches her and he throws her to the ground by the back of her neck. Then he gives her a shot across the chin and tries to stomp on her with his sandal. But still the footstomp is awful. You've seen the footstomp in a lot of

videos. It's the ever popular move, made famous in ghettos all across America. He tried to give it the African American footstop, which typically comes at the end of a scuffle. And I'm sure sure if you've seen this act perfected in high schools and shopping centers and grocery stores and subway stations, or maybe a crowded a crowded street or a Starbucks, what have you people would rather film these beatdowns than step into help. That's why we know so much

about the footstomp. Anyhow, he just missed her, but the camera caught everything. This was obtained by CNN, this surveillance footage of what happened back in twenty sixteen March of twenty sixteen. But that's not the half of it. Did He then grabs her purse and whatever else she was carrying from the floor near the elevator bank, before turning around and kicking her again, and he drags her all the way down the hall by the back of her sweatshirt,

hoodie, whatever you want to call it. He drags her body down the hallway and around a corner. A few seconds later, he sits down in a chair. He grabs an object from a table people and throws it at her. Would like to be a ceramic vase. There's footage of that as well. Then he was seen getting up and walking toward Cassie again, but then she tries to get there, but somebody exits the elevator. This happened at the end of the hallway. Sometime they have those pause points where

you can sit down and gather your whatever the hell thoughts. Look for your room key. I don't know, so when someone was coming out of the elevator, he kind of snapped out of it. It's an awful, indefensible video to watch. Pete Ditty's career is over, and I'm gonna tell you before I get to the end of the show just how bad he's gonna have it. Cassie Ventura's lawyer said, the gut wrenching video is only further confirmed

the disturbing and predatory behavior of mister Combs certainly does. Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Miss Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring to light. You know, she was off and on with Pete Didty between two thousand and seven and twenty eighteen, eleven years. She sued him back in last November, saying he was physically violent and sexually abusive, made her have sex with male escorts while he watched, got her all messed up on drugs.

She blew the West Lawn's freak out parties where everybody got stone coll fed up and had sex all night. And these escapades were recorded, and according to John guar Wright, you can find them on the dark web where people pay tens of millions of dollars for them, or at least that's what she alleges, sounds like a whole blackmail sort of situation like Jeffrey Epstein was running. In that filing, Cassie Ventura said that Puffy paid. Now, this is

the worst part of the story. In that filing, she said that Shortcombs paid the Intercontinental Hotel fifty thousand dollars for the security footage to quote unquote disappear, meaning they gave it to him. They took the money and gave it to him. I don't know who it was, obviously a fan of his, I'm sure was a man, and the guy, you know, fell for Dedi's charm or what have you. But he took the fifty grand and

got rid of that footage. What happened next is well, the Intercontinental Hotel sold to new owners a couple of years ago, and I guess in the shuffle, the people who worked for the Intercontinental, particularly in security, have all gone separate ways. So good luck trying to catch the guy who took

that fifty grant. That's all it takes. That's all it takes to watch a girl and the fucking thing is these people in security were able to get a hold of Cassie and tell her, listen, we've seen the video. You need to leave. We'll get you a cab. Go back to your apartment. Do not stay here tonight. This looks bad, but she elected or was forced to stay whatever you want to however you want to call it. But they took the money, but then said, look, we'll get

your cab. You should you should not be here. What does that say about the person taking the money or maybe two people split the fifty kke who knows. But as hard as it was to watch, did he just manhandle this beautiful girl? What's even harder for me to fathom anyhow, is that he was able to talk to these hotel people and get that footage. That

doesn't happen. Unbelievable. But somebody at the end of Continental Hotel was smart enough to make sure that tape survived, or somehow they made a copy of it, gave him the copy, he kept the erect whatever they did, Thank god, it's surface. Then CNN got a tip, a phone call, and they went down there and got that tape or tape was sent to them. However the hell it happened, CNN got it. I'm not gonna say the reporters went there because they heard, they got a phone call,

they got a tip. The fact that he was able to open his wallet and make sure that the security footage would disappear just goes to show you the power that fame gives some of its most celebrated people. But as we've seen together these last seven years, fame can be taken away from people in a hot second, and I believe that's what's happening to p Didy and it's just gonna get worse, Tay. What concerns me now is how many hotels has

he done this in? And then was he successful at burying the footage by handing some security guard half a brick. It's obviously not the only time he's beat a girl. Now. I know Cassie Ventura sold her soul for fame as well, But when she agreed to date Didny and signs something like a ten album contract, which is ludicrous, it goes to show you what kind of mental state her mind was in. She bought his bullshit and then signed the contract to do ten albums with him. Who signs for a ten album

deal without any kind of coercion. Any manager worth his assault would look at the client and say, what if what if you blow up after your first album? What if the first album goes platinum, You're still gonna sit on this shitty deal for the next nine years. Of course not, you gonna want to renegotiate. Listen, for all I know Diddy manager as well. I don't know, maybe he did tell you right now it is a rap for Sean P. Diddy Combs. It is a rap. It's over.

He's He's never gonna perform again. This is R Kelly point two point zero shows over. Hip Hop just took a major hit a few weeks ago after we saw what was coming out. It was being alleged. I guess we can all agree he was gently stepping on thin ice. But after that video he may as well be driving a monster truck on thin ice because he's going down. I remember back in the day when Puffy's music videos really burst on the scene. As I've always told you, guys, we all came up

at the same time early nineties. Everybody was in New York, and you know it was a great time because hip hop and rap just blew up. I was there for it. I was at all the parties, all the award shows. I know these guys half a life ago not always known did he had met him here and there enough not to trust a single word he ever said. I always said the guy's responsible for deaths, and now you

know why I feel that way. But I remember I was staying at Robert Evans's house in Beverly Hills back in nineteen ninety seven when I put on MTV in the guest room and suddenly there was a break out Puffy columb introducing his latest video. It was a premiere video. So I sat in the bed and I, Uh, even though I never trusted the guy, I liked some of his songs. I'm not gonna lie to you, and I called Evans on the intercom and I said, you got to come in the room.

Pete. Did he's do? Uh? He said, Pete who? I said, No, Puffy calms. You'll just come see this guy sing this song on the video. You're gonna like it. He comes in a room. It's a great video and you listen to the lyrics. You got Puffy leaning into the microphone and belding that lyrics that tell his whole entire story. If you ask me, it begins what you want to do. Want to be bowlers, shot callers, brawlers who'll be dipping in the bends with

the spoilers on the low from the Jake and the taurrests. Trying to get my hands on some grants like Horrace. Obviously Horace Grant was the big basketball player back then. Grant spent fifty dollars bills. Yeah, living the raw deal, three course meal, spaghetti for Jeff Finicini and veal. But still everything's real in the field and what you can't have now leaving you will here's

the ply like. But don't knock me for trying to bury seven zeros over in Rio de JANEII ain't nobody's hero, but I want to be heard swimming with women with their own kind of miniums five plus fives. Who drives millenniums. It's all about the Benjamin's what And Evans asked me, what's the Benjamin? I said, it's a one hundred dollars bell Benjamin Franklin. And even Evans said the kid's got something. He's got He's got an appeal. I said, yeah, he does. It's a bad guy, though, that's

all we've been seeing right now? Man, what was the what was the Jeff Epstein case about? If not for blackmailing, blackmailing his wealthy and powerful friends so he could have himself more money and more power. Of course, it was about sex trafficking as well. But at its court, Epstein, like Pete Diddy, like Harvey Weinstein, got away with a lot over the years because of how many benjamins they had and how little they'd have to give

away to make something or anything go away. How long did people sit on stories about Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse until finally the world had enough, you know, eventually the damn bursts. And twenty twenty four, this being the Year of the truth, it's bursting everywhere. But this story is not going away

anytime soon, if at all. And I'll tell you when the shit first happened some weeks ago, Suge Knight, who's a bad mammajama who's in jail for finally killing someone, had the wherewithal to say, you know, Puffy gotta be careful now because he knows all the secrets, and everybody knows he knows the secrets, and he be not He better not want to come here, meaning prison, because it's not gonna be an easy run for him in

prison, not with the ship. People in prison, you they don't like you're seeing fuck him with younger people, and they don't like you've seen beaten women, even though probably half of them have done it. They act like they're all fucking knights and shining armor in prison. But that doesn't really work. He's in trouble. This story was the second shot across Ditty's bow, but this one took out some of his important instruments that have helped him steer

this vessel of vanity for him for years. We all, I mean, listen, Oh Diddy's gonna be on Broadway. Oh Diddy he's running the marathon. Oh Diddy's in a movie. Get him to the Greek He's so funny. Didny's got Sharrak vodka? Why know Diddy's white party? There was always a big Didty story. Diddy's got a fucking three hundred million dollar yacht, He's got a jet stream whatever. We all talked about it. Maybe not a bunch of you guys, but in my business we did. And I

bought the music. I took Joey to see them. Did they I'll be Missing You tour when Biggie was killed. They came out, all them together in bad Boy Records and the whole tour on well, they sang their songs, but they used to end with the I'll be missing you about Biggie being dead, when if he asked me, Puffy had his hand in Biggie's death as well. Everything with this guy was so planned for a long time.

He didn't make any mistakes. I'll give him that. But so many of these hotels surveillance videos, whether it's rappers, athletes, celebrities, they got something in common. I'm not sure what, but I think you can figure it out. And all I can say is certain animals cannot be domesticated.

You got me and and to be honest, when I was chasing down some components to Harvey Weinstein's story as his rape tally climbed, I remember finding out there was another hotel where Harvey would be able to treat some women as prey, and the hotel had his back. As sickening as that hotel is for burying that footage for fifty K, this hotel in Beverly Hills had Harvey's back. Now normally Harvey would always hold court at his favorite place, the Fourth

Seasons Hotel on Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills. That's I've met him there many times. That's where the women said he went after them. He came out of the shower with his bathroom blah blah blah. That's the spot. But then I heard from a good source that Harvey sometimes was staying for short spells, some talking to night or two at a smaller joint in Beverly Hills called

mister C's, the spot that's owned by the Chipriani family. You know the Chipriani restaurant, Chipriani's, the very fancy, very beautiful, but overpriced restaurants that made the peach Bellini famous. Harvey did this because he had a relationship with the Chipriani family, so whenever he'd stay there, they would hand him a special pass to go to the roof where the pool is located. But at night, the pool is closed, so therefore was the roof as well,

But not for Harvey. He got to go there with his special pass. Now God only knows what may have happened up on that roof with some women who had dreams of making it big in Hollywood. But the point is he was able to go up there. You can't hear anybody yell or scream from the top of that roof. Money talks and bullshit walks people, and most of the time it walks too fast for most of us to catch up

to. But when one or a few of us do, and by us, i'm talking about independent journalists, you finally get to hear the real story. And even then you still have to do what I always tell you to do in order to see you around some corners in life. You gotta hear with your eyes and see with your ears. Try it sometime and you won't be so shocked by what is actually taking place. I feel settled knowing I told you a long time ago, Pete Ditty's a bad guy who's responsible for

people dying. I'm holding on to that more than I ever did. And it's also wild that this story comes up almost on the same day. There are reports that Diddy's x J Low is living alone now and shopping for a home in Beverly Hills. Ever since, sources say ben Affleck walked out in her seven weeks ago, which was the last time it were photographed together.

This story began an in Style, which typically lies the most believing or not out of glossy magazines that in touch lies just about is often a little bit less than in Style. Then the Daily Mail picked it up and now everywhere Not heard rumblings about this split a few days ago, but elected not to

be the first one on this, but just to get it right. As it turns out, after the media is saying these two hadn't been together for the last seven weeks, what happens Late Thursday night comes word that Ben and jy Low were spotted together watching a play that his daughter now's son Finn, was taking part in, and they were seen outside the school and Ben can be seen leaning over this center console of his car to open the door for

j Lo. Then, after she's settled into the front seat and her daughter Emmy, the non binary daughter, sat in the rear, Ben drove off, looking pissed off like he always does. So does this mean everything's right in Bennifer Land? No, of course not. We all know j Lo who was just loaded with narcissism, So is Ben has got to be difficult called to stay with as beautiful and talented as she is, Not that she's my type, as if she cares, I can just see that she'd be

a nightmare. At times, I couldn't get along with actresses who barely were making it, or actresses who hadn't passed or they did well, You're still talking about a fifty four year old woman who's on top of the world. It must be you want to pull your hair out. And I say the same thing about Ben. These are two stars on that level of fame, that's the tippy top level. Who wants to take out the fucking garbage when

you're both are that big? Now, Apparently this latest split or cool period is based on Ben not having an easy time with his life being on social media so often. He hates that, and he says he demanded that when they got back together, but then he quickly realized how dumb an idea that sounded like because of how much Jaylow utilizes social media to sell her fame and

stay in contact with her fans. And for those who loved the minutia of things, you should know that Ben, while he was married to Jennifer Garner, who I think is a doll and a really good sweet person and a great mom and a great wife and a great ex wife drove him to rehab. I mean, this woman could have went like this with him and said I'm done with this creep loser. She stuck herself in there and stuck there

for the fight. It means a lot. But you should know this that while he was with her, because Jal had to announce this on her fucking documentary, that stupid vanity project. I'm sure Ben didn't like this, but she went ahead and did it. Ben apparently kept love letters he wrote to her and emails they both sent to each other over the years, and then he put them all and had them bound in a book with a beautiful cover, as only a Hollywood person could do with the right people involved. The

amount of money you got to spend. But he had an all bound up, the love letters, the emails, and he presented that to j Loo when they got back together. I understand they have true love and it once stood to test the time. Blah blah blah. But you've got a whole life of Jennifer Garner. You made children together, and you're still writing love letters to j Loo and sending emails to j Lo fans. Paparazzi also said that night after the play. You know, Ben Warre's wedding ring made sure

people could see it, But they didn't kiss in the hold hands. They just drove off, not talking to each other. Now, whether you want to believe it or not, the popular line of thought is that they're headed for a divorce. Ben apparently has been staying in a different house for the past week or so in Brentwood, California, near his ex wife Jim Garner. People close to them say that they're definitely having issues with their marriage.

I honestly would be stunned if they stayed together, but less stunned if they broke up. Let's face it, these two are the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of our time. And if La Liz still has twice as many marriages under her belt, that then j Loo has. It's eight to four at this point and Liz is gone, so that lead cannot increase. I can see j Lo maybe making a run at that record amount of marriages. I mean, what else can I say? The saddest news about this whole story

is that nobody is surprised by all of it. And that's a statement all in itself. And finally, a patron of mine John Montaforte. They sent me something I was gonna report on a couple of probably like four or five weeks ago, but it slipped through the cracks. Plus I was mentioning this

guy's name so much, I figured we all needed a break. But some queer magazine was interviewing the Tiny Tooth transactivist Dylan mulvaney and the bud Light Destroyer mentioned the one big dream of his is to play Elle Woods from Legally Blonde in a trans remake of the film. Can you handle this? Because I cannot? I can't. You gotta see how this magazine treats this guy. They call him a singer and actress, singer and act He's a singer, he's an actress. Does he have an album or a movie coming out?

Who's his representation? Am I a singer too? Because I sometimes sing to you guys on this show or sing in the shower. What a bunch of horseshit? Singer and actress, Get some fucking credits under your belt. In a recent interview, Tiny Teeth said that his dream theory role was to play Glinda in Wick, but his dream dream is to portray the Harvard Law school student that Reese Witherspoon famously played in the two thousand and one film My dream

is to do a trans legally blonde. I'm only imitating him because he's so exaggerated in the way he talks, so all gloves are off. I want to play el Woods and have maybe a trans emmitt and a trans Paulette. And I think what's so cool about plugging trans people into existing stories is inherently inherently changes what the topic is, but in a way that you don't actually have to do much to the script because it becomes something different. But actually

I think it makes it even more powerful. Not thinking about trans anything makes anything more powerful. You're all a pain in the ass. Take three steps back and calm down for three years. Look, a lot of people are thrilled you found your identity. Me I could give a shit because I know who you really are. You're a man, And like I said, I don't buy one thing about it, and I never will. But what about

the whole acting thing? You know, Reese Winsmen found success at a very young age, Yes, but you're also trained to be an actress and legally blonde. While it's not there will be blood, it is a very layered story, and Reese Witherspoon, like a lot of other things, she does, knocked it out of the park With a woman. Society expected to be one thing, but she had tomension and a solid blend of nuanced and broad

humor that she brings to her roles. Just because you're a trans person who found notoriety because you killed a beer label, why do you automatically assume you can just suddenly be an actress? Because why it's so easy and expect people to put up millions to pay for a production with you starring in it. This is that insane some people are. Anyhow big day Pee Diddy's done. If you're on Patreon, you would have known that we've we've been clocking this

guy for a long time. And the Jaguar Right YouTube videos really tell a tale that I can't even tell. It's that deep because she's in the business. So if you want to know the reals, the deep stories about p Diddy before you saw this video which is gonna end his career, and I hope arrest him Saturday morning, have him arrested Saturday morning. I mean, the guy can't be walking the streets after you see that video. He can't.

When it happened to the football player Ray Rice, he never played a single down of football again when he punched that girl on the elevator, never played it down again, and he was a goddamn good football player. Same thing needs to happen to Puffy and it will No more music, no more movies, no more nothing. Get the cuffs on him, that's all. I'm aj Benzon. That was your free show. It's May eighteen, twenty twenty four. You'll get it this weekend, Saturday or Sunday. Keep your

eyes peeled. This Humhen Diddy does the Purp Walk. We'll all send it to his music. Talk to you soon, Thank you for listening. Fame as a Bitch is an aj Benza Workhouse Connect production featuring the endless wisdom, insightful commentary, and sometimes fucked up perspective of aj Benza executive producer Mike Agavino

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