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Diddy prosecutor Maureen Comey has been fired! + Brit Eady does not return to Real Housewives
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This is an iHeart podcast. Let's get to it. Time to do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody exclusive. You know, if she don't lie about that, right?
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Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'.
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All, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. Now this is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and the conversations that shake the room. Now. Now we're checking in behind the scenes of the grind. Back on the grind. I feel like we haven't really checked in, checked in in like the last, like couple episodes because we just been getting to the latest. Cause there has been so much to talk about. But if we're checking in behind the scenes of the grind today, I am feeling, hmm. I'm excited. I'm excited today. I'm actually in a celebratory mood today. I just reached a major milestone career wise. You know how, like, you set out to something, you have a goal at the top of your notebook, and then when you can finally check it off and say, okay, we finally got to the finish line on this. It feels good. So I can't tell you guys exactly what it is yet, but I'm celebrating something. So I am. I'm in a. I'm in a really, really good mood. I'm excited. Nothing's going to change. Too crazy. That hasn't already been moving and changing, but it just feels really good to complete something and to get something across the finish line that you have been pushing for. So that's how I'm feeling. It is, you know, midweek today. You know, the midweek feeling is always like a weird, like, okay, it's not Friday, but it's not Monday either. So that's. That's a weird feeling. But I'm excited nonetheless. Got some celebrating to do. I started last night and I'm going to continue the celebrations. I was so tired last night trying to do it. Y' all should have saw me. These three, 4am Wake ups be kicking my behind. Now let's get on in to the latest because there is a lot going on, as always. Now, there are reports out on anonymous sources right now that have been confirmed by several outlets that the doj, the Department of Justice, have fired Maureen Comey, lead prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. That is the district. And this is the prosecutor that prosecuted Diddy and is still going through the, you know, the things with Sean Diddy Combs, who you guys know will be sentenced on October 3rd. She's also the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey. So y' all know, you know, her dad does not have the best relationship with Donald Trump whatsoever. She was also a part of the, the prosecutors, the prosecution team that worked on the Jazzine Maxwell Maxwell case in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. And y' all know there's been a lot of heat and conversation around that because of the Epstein files that have not been released. But when we just talking about Diddy here, one of the things that I've been thinking in conversation about this is what will sentencing look like for him? And I talked about this a bit on the Breakf Club, but I did want to, you know, mention a bit more in depth here on the podcast. Now, y' all know I'm not an attorney. I'm just someone who is able to, like, watch things, be able to interpret, tell stories around those things that I interpret and to be able to answer questions when there's a story. The biggest question that I have right now is will this impact Diddy's sentencing? And I've already tried to begin to figure that out and will bring back to you guys whatever I can. I don't even know if that's a thing, though, because to be honest with you, at this point, sentencing is at the point where, you know, the prosecution and defense can weigh in on a pre sentencing report, which is a report that breaks down, you know, what the sentencing guidelines will like, what they, what they'll look like, like what guidelines that will be used, the time suggested or the conditions suggested and all those things. And that comes from a probation office. However, the defense and the prosecution are able to weigh in on it. It was very obvious in the bond hearing that Maureen Comey does not care for Sean Diddy Combs. And I don't think that, you know, like people would say, well, duh, she's prosecuting him. But just because you're prosecuting somebody doesn't mean that, you know, you have any deep moral feeling. I wouldn't say moral because that's not true. That you have a deep feeling about them. I was listen hearing Maureen Comey talk about why Diddy should stay behind bars and not be let out on bond until the sentencing. You felt with every bone in your body, oh, she do not like this man, can't stand his guts. She feels like he deserves to be put under the jail. But, you guys, you know, as we reported here, he was found not guilty on that RICO charge and the sex trafficking charges, which, you know, he could have been looking at up to life for that. And that is what Maureen Comey was asking for. That is what she wanted. And it didn't happen. And I've been saying this for a while. Like, you know, when you're a defense attorney, even if you're a prosecutor, well, whatever side you're on, you win some, you lose some, right? You just do the best you can, and you win some, you lose some, you throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and hopefully it sticks to get to the verdict that you want. But I've been saying, man, it gotta be embarrassing for the prosecution. Y' all wasted so much resources. You took a lot of people's time, a lot of resources. You guys made such big claims, such big, huge, broad claims. And then when we got in court and there was the evidence, there wasn't enough to prove a lot of things, a lot of the bigger things. And I think a lot of. I know I was always in court, you know, and every day would be different for me. Hey, today the prosecution did a great job. Today they didn't. At a high level, I could understand what they were trying to lean on to. To convict of that rico. Like, at a very high level. Like, okay, if we're talking broad theories, these testimonies, you know, fall under that rico, that sex trafficking, this alleged evidence falls under that. But then when we got down to the hardcore, like, here's, you know, what we have exact evidence of. I just. A lot of us didn't see that racketeering and sex trafficking, those, the racketeering and the sex trafficking charges sticking. And that's what happened. And I've always wondered since. Since that not guilty verdict was read in the courtroom, I've always wondered in my mind, how does the prosecution feel? That's a big embarrassment. Because this is such a high profile case with really huge things being thrown out there and really huge things being thrown back their way. In response, Denny's team is saying the government targeted this man because he is black and wealthy. There are some bad decisions that that man made. And let's not, you know what I mean? Let's not ignore that. And I think, you know, he'll. He'll have to, you know, he'll have to deal with that. And we. We've talked about here that he's, you know, trying to begin to deal with it now through, like, rehabilitation, and he will be, you know, and consequences for what he was convicted of. But I was like, yo, if I'm the prosecutor's office, I feel stupid now. I don't know if this alleged overreach when it came comes to Diddy's trial has anything to do with the reason why she was fired, but reports and speculation is that it has. Either it has something to do with that, or, you know, people are alleging that it could have been something to do with, you know, her involvement in the Epstein and Jazzayn Maxwell. I always say that name. Wrong case, or the fact that Donald Trump loudly does not care for her father. So I don't know. I don't know what the answer to that is. I just wanted to give you guys this bit of a background and have a bit more conversation on it in addition to what we talked about in the Breakfast Club today, because it is 8:47am Eastern Standard Time. I've reached out probably about three times now to different sources trying to figure out what the conversation is on. Does this impact the sentencing? Does this impact the conversation that the defense is gonna have with the court around sentencing? And, you know, they're pushed back to the probation sentencing report. Like what that looks like? Cause I think that that's important to know. It's very obvious that Comey led the charge in this whole thing. Right. So now that she's gone, we, number one, need to find out why exactly she's gone. I think once you dig deep on that and you get more info on that, then you can determine whether the defense will use this in their favor or not. So trying to figure that out for you guys. We'll bring it back here right here when I have it. But up next in the latest, we gotta get into the Housewives, y', all, because so, like, last week sometime, Brittany Edie. It was actually Monday. It was earlier this week. Brittany Edie from the Real Housewives of Atlanta. That is the. The new cast member who. My teammates are celebrating a birthday in here. I'm still in the Breakfast Club studio if y' all guys hear that. But that is a new team member who got into it with Kenya Moore. And that getting into it with Kenya Moore resulted in Kenya Moore being suspended from the season and being able to return the following season. But Kenya Moore was suspended from season 16 of the Real Housewives of Atlanta after filming and premiering in a few episodes because she'd allegedly practiced revenge porn during one episode where she showed Brittany Edie allegedly naked in photos and, you know, performing different sexual acts and photos during an event where Kenya Moore was opening up her beauty spa, right? Later came out that Britney said, hey, these photos weren't even me. And Bravo led me to. You know, allegedly, Bravo led her to believe that they were, and she thought they were. She filed a lawsuit against the network, you know, talking about things that she went through stress wise, because of that. And now fast forward. Here we are, the first part of the reunion. Because the reunion will be broken up in different parts on Peacock. The first part of the reunion has recently happened. And after that, Brittany, Edie, she wasn't at the reunion. So people were trying to figure out why was she not at the reunion. She came out with a statement that let us know that she is not gonna be returning to Real Housewives of Atlanta. And it's crazy to me because I think, of course, the show is a huge opportunity if you have businesses, if you have things going on like she does, right? But it was kind of giving, like, not that she can't handle the smoke, but she got in, got out. I mean, yeah, I guess I would say she couldn't handle the smoke. I would say that because, I mean, it's up to her. She is the one who had to go through thinking that these photos were her and then finding out they weren't and, you know, all the things. So if she wants to file her suit, go ahead and do you. But I think if we go back to OG Housewives days, Anini Leakes would have used this to her advantage, baby. She would have been main peach next season back on a vengeance against everybody. You know what I mean? Like, it just. It's just a different time, and it makes reality TV so different because I'm like, what, she's leaving the show already? We just started getting into her and her storyline, the fact that the photos were not her and all the things. And then Kenya's gonna return, and they'll probably have to be on the show together. I'm like, that is a crazy storyline that puts homegirl in the. In the. In the starting five of the girls with the peaches, and she's choosing to not come back. I don't know, y'. All. Y' all. Let me know what y' all think. Get out there in the streets and in the tweets. You for the tweets. We outside. We outside. We outside, outside in the tweets. Every other page. Y' all go aurenlarosa and let me know what y' all think. I feel like Brittany should have stayed on the season. I think this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta was good compared to the last, like, what, two seasons? Portia coming back was such a big deal. Shamia really Stole the scene, though, for if I'm being honest, Shamia stole the storyline for the season. Even though Portia was such a big deal on the show. Of course she held it down for the OGs, but it was still not as good as it used to be. And I think they're always going to, like, the new girls are always going to be compared to the old girls, and the new seasons will always be compared to the OG seasons. But it's really reasons like this that make fans be like, yo, what Anini leaks. Shoot, even a Porsche. Kenya Moore gonna come back on that show with such a storyline. We gonna learn about what she was doing while she wasn't here, whether she contemplated a lawsuit. Is she sorry to Britney? For real? For real. Have they talk like we're gonna learn so much about that time period where they took her off the show and we know nothing. I know she's created her YouTube channel, but she know what she doing. She created her own platform. She saw how things went down when, you know, the statements and the conversations were released around those photos, and then she moved on. But talking about the drama on this season as well. Drew and Portia semi made up. Let's take a listen.
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Chadwick from Ohio said, portia, now that you've seen the season, do you think you owe Drew an apology for the way you treated her? From what we saw on the show, the relationship between her and Dennis was all business.
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All right. Oh, my God. I genuinely wanted to come today. One of the main things I wanted to do was to, number one, apologize for meeting with Ralph.
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Did you do it to be petty?
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Of course.
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Yeah.
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But watching this season back, even though at the time I felt justified.
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You still didn't feel good about it?
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I still did not feel good about it. Drew and I cared about you. I really did. And so today I definitely knew I wanted to apologize for that because no matter how upset we are with this situation, it still could have been talked through. I just want to tell you, woman to woman, who's also going through a divorce, it wasn't right, and I apologize for that.
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Now I say semi made up because it's still obvious that Portia felt a way about just Drew and Dennis being brought into conversation so much in general for a storyline. But I thought that it was very mature of her to say, look, I was hurt. Hurt people hurt people. I was hurt. I apologize. That was not right. Cause the conversation she sat down and had with Ralph and Shamia was ruthless. Let's take a listen to that.
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Of all of the producers in Atlanta. Why choose Dennis? I guess you said damn good music. We didn't realize.
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Well, I said damn good music because of her album. Her album is really.
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I received that.
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I appreciate it.
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All right.
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I would never come down on your brand or who you are or your talents the way you did just now at Breakfast Club. Girl, don't play victim. You talked about my hair company. You talked about you didn't like the hair just because of this issue. It's interesting that you want to poke the bear, and then you get mad when I have a reaction.
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And I'mma tell you right now, y', all, if I was Drew, and I love Portia, I love Portia so much on the show. Love her to death, I wouldn't have forgave Portia for that. Cause you do that once you get upset, that's like a friend that knows all your business, gets mad at you, goes online and just tells everybody your business. You do something like that. Once you sit with somebody who is, you know, trying to, you know, destroy my world, allegedly, right. In all these different ways, and it's putting me through all this hell that Drew is a legend she's been through because of the divorce, and, you know, them trying to figure out their circumstances. You sit down with a person like that and you feed their motive and their narrative. I can't trust you again. You can keep your sorry. And that could have been a bomb storyline for Drew, but we do have more parts of the reunion coming up, so there's more to come. Because at the end of the day, there's always a lot to talk about, and there's always more to come, but y' all are always right here with the need to talk about it. It's the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I appreciate you guys every single time you are here, my lowriders. I will see you in my next episode. This is an I Heart podcast.