Every kid wonders what it’s like to be famous and in the spotlight, but the older you get, maybe a private humble life doesn’t sound too bad.
By: Rossani Garmendia
By the end of 2024, Sean “Diddy” Combs had over 100 lawsuits on his belt. In October 2025, he was given 50 months in prison. He was accused of racketeering, sex trafficking, and intentions of taking part in prostitution, leaving behind the question of “how did he get away with it?”.
The power of money is a horror movie to society. No one wants to believe the conspiracies behind A-list celebrities being able to walk away from their criminal offenses.
As much as Combs’ trial was revealed to the public throughout the past year, it was controversial in how much information was actually kept. The trial itself was already a private case with sketch artists delivering drawings for publications to report. With as big of a tragedy the revelations were, how much was there to hide?
An “A-List” celebrity is a public figure with much attention and a lot to profit from. The downfalls when given such high positions is the pressure to maintain that image. Combs is one of the most successful and influential music artists to come from Hip-Hop. The brutal revelations behind his name are not far off from the conspiracies of other A-List celebrities with criminal accusations.
There was the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the producer with power in Hollywood that was convicted of sexual assault and harrassment. The producer caused the viral “#metoo” movement to go global as more actresses came out with their truths. As it’s been heard about Mr. Combs, conspiracies say that Weinstein was only a pawn in an even bigger criminal organization that runs amongst powerful public figures that are hypothetically untouchable.
Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein files did not go unheard from the public but was not entirely aggressively looked into as he’s on his second presidential term of the US. Jeffrey Epstein was an extremely wealthy financier with accusations of involvement in a sex-trafficking ring of underage girls that goes back for decades. There were many accomplices whose names were found in his files, which was where President Trump was found. Epstein died in jail before trial and his death was declared as a suicide.
The biggest conspiracies that follow Epstein’s death was the question of suicide. Epstein’s criminal case involved higher up accomplices, such as President Trump. With the inconvenient and coincidental timing of Epstein’s death, theories came up that it was no suicide at all, but manslaughter. The president of the United States could not be tied to such accusations but no matter how many denials and rejections the President made, his name could not be erased from the files.
In the case of Combs, no matter how short some may say his sentence was declared, his reputation will never be the same.
