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The Tupac Connection Netflix Cut From The Diddy Doc REVEALED!-WEEK IN REVIEW
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Tony Bruski (Podcast Intro/Outro)
Let's Texas this is the Big Breakdown, a long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime today. This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here Now, Tony brewski.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
50 cents as he's sitting on 140 hours of more footage. The Netflix documentary used maybe a fraction of that. Four episodes, 22 million views in the first week. And according to Fitty, that was the appetizer, the amuse bouche, if you will. He went on the Sherry show this week and said the quiet part out loud. When Sherry asked if there'd be a season two, his answer was simple or I'll just put it on YouTube. No filter, no editorial process. Just raw, uncut material dumped straight into the Internet for anyone to see. And if you think that's an empty threat from a guy who's been publicly feuding with Diddy for two decades, you haven't even been paying attention to just how Curtis Jackson operates 50 Cent. For those of you playing along at home, we're gonna get into all of this because there's a lot, it seems there's a lot more that he's sitting on, which is fascinating. If you don't mind. Before we get into it, if you're not already here, if you're not already done this, please hit subscribe. If you're watching us on YouTube, leave us your thoughts in the comment section as we work through this. And if you're listening to us on the podcast platforms, thank you. Hit subscribe, wherever that is. If you happen to be on Apple Podcasts, we'd really appreciate a review on Apple Podcast. Just search Hidden Killers with Tony Bruski if you're not already there and leaving some kind Words there greatly helps us out. When people are, you know, they're, they're looking for, for content, they're looking for good stuff to listen to. They're looking for information on these cases. So if you like us and you like the way we're delivering it, please, a kind review there would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Anyway, here's the part that's getting buried in all the noise about what's coming next. The story of how Netflix got the footage in the first place. That's what everybody's talking about. It's what you know, it's what Diddy is saying that's illegal. Because Diddy's team called it stolen. They said to cease and desist letter the day before the documentary dropped, demanding Netflix pulled the whole thing. They called it a shameful hit piece and accused the streamer of handling creative control or handing creative control to a longtime adversary with personal vendetta. And yet, since the documentary aired, Diddy hasn't actually sued Netflix, not once. Which tells you something about how confident his legal team really is in that argument. So what happened? How did footage of Diddy pacing around a hotel room telling his lawyers, we have to find somebody who's dealt with the dirtiest of the of dirty business and we're losing. How did that end up in a documentary produced by his sworn enemy? Diddy's own documentarian, a guy named Michael Oberles, came forward with an explanation. He said he'd been working on a project profiling Diddy for over two years. But the footage that ended up in Netflix hands, that wasn't released by him or anyone authorized to handle Combs materials, it came from a third party, a fill in cameraman who covered for him for three days while he was out of state. Three days. That's all it took. And here's where it gets almost poetic in its stupidity. According to the journalist Rob Shooter, who claims he was around Diddy back in the day, the man was sloppy when it came to paperwork. This is a claim. He always had photographers everywhere and video crews following him everywhere. The guy's been documenting himself since he was 19 years old. Because he was cheap. He refused to do formal contracts. He just expected loyalty. He expected silence. And when Diddy went to jail and the check stopped coming, the loyalty evaporated really fast. And suddenly all that footage became a business opportunity. That's the claim. Director Alexandria Stapleton was pretty clear about it. It came to us. We obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights. She also said they moved heaven and earth to keep the filmmaker's identity confidential. Which means someone out there knows exactly over those tapes. And Diddy's team probably does, too. They're just not naming names yet. So let's talk about what 50 Cent says got cut from the documentary entirely, not just how they got the film, because according to him, one of the details they had to leave on the floor was this. Diddy has a child with a woman who used to date Tupac. Her name, allegedly, is Sarah chapman. Back in 1995, she was photographed with Tupac in Honolulu. There's a picture of him literally resting his head on her lap. Suge Knight, of all people, surfaced that photo on his prison podcast a couple years ago, because, of course, he did. And then in 2006, Sarah Chapman had a daughter with Diddy. Allegedly. Her name was chance combs. She's 19 now. At the time Chance was born, Kim Porter, Diddy's longtime partner, was pregnant with his twins. Sarah Chapman has always maintained that she and Diddy were just friends. She told an outlet back in 2007, we have always been friends. I have known him for exactly 13 years. But cities but Fitty Sent framed it differently. He told Sherry that Diddy has a pattern. He chooses to date people who he knows previously dated someone, specifically his rivals. Whether that's obsession or strategy, whether that's intentional or pathological, the documentary didn't touch it. They filmed it. They had the footage, and allegedly, they cut it. That's not the only thing that didn't make it in. Kim Porter's death also didn't make it in November of 2018. She was 47 years old, found unresponsive in her home. And the Los Angeles county coroner ruled that she died from low bar pneumonia, natural causes, no evidence of foul play. Her toxicology came back clean. And yet the conspiracy theories have never stopped. They got louder after Diddy's arrest. They got louder after the documentary dropped. There was even a fake book that surfaced on Amazon claiming to be the secret memoir. It briefly hit the bestseller list before her children came out and said publicly and painfully, that their mother never wrote any book. They've asked repeatedly for people to stop. Their exact words. The cause of her death has long been established. There was no foul play. Grief is a lifelong process, and we ask that everyone respect our request for peace. And I believe that's what the children believe. I think, you know. Yeah, you don't want to think anything else. I guess the. The answer is we just don't know. The documentary didn't go near it. Not the conspiracy Theories, not the debunking, nothing. Same goes for the 50 Cent and Diddy feud itself. Those two have been going at each other since 2006. Two decades of public shots, social media trolling, legal threats. Fitty has been calling Diddy out for long before any federal indictment, long before any of this became front page news. And yet the documentary he executive produced doesn't include a single segment about their history. It just moves past it like it's not relevant. Which is a creative choice, sure, but it's also a glaring omission when the guy narrating Diddy's downfall has been predicting it for a decade. Then there's the Kid Cudi situation. During Diddy's 2025 trial, Cuddy testified that back in January of 2012, someone firebombed his Porsche 900 when it was parked outside his home in Hollywood Hills. A Molotov cocktail. The car was destroyed. And according to Cuddy, this happened just weeks after an alleged break in at his house. A break in he says was carried out by associates of Diddy's. The timing, Cuddy has just started dating Cassie Ventura. At the time Diddy's eximony came out during the trial, it was covered by the press. It did not make the documentary. Neither did the civil lawsuits against Diddy's sons. One suit alleges that Justin Combs helped lure a woman from Louisiana to Los Angeles in 2017, where she was allegedly held and sexually assaulted by Diddy and others. Another lawsuit accuses King Combs of sexually assaulting an employee on a yacht in 2024. These are allegations. No convictions, no verdicts. But they exist. They're part of the public record, and the documentary didn't touch them.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
What you're left with is a four part series that hit like a truck. It broke streaming records and still somehow feels incomplete. Like we're waiting for part two. 22 million people watched it and 50 Cent is already saying there's more. Hilton Diddy's first public girlfriend, the mother of his son Justin, came out after the documentary dropped and pushed back. She said the harassment she and her son have been dealing with since the series aired has been heartbreaking. She said the public is being misled and she asked people to think critically before believing everything they hear. Which is fair. It's always fair. But it also doesn't change the fact that the footage exists, the lawsuits exist, the testimony exists. And the man who controls 140 hours of unreleased material is publicly threatening to dump it on the Internet whenever he feels like it this isn't over. The documentary wasn't the conclusion and the opening statement. It kind of feels like it might have been. And if any cent follows through, if that footage actually hits YouTube unfiltered and unedited, we're going to be having a very different conversation in a few weeks. Because right now, diddy, serving a 50 month sentence, he was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was acquitted on the sex trafficking and racketeering charges. His team is appealing. And the public narrative around him is still being shaped in real time by accusers, by documentaries, by ex collaborators with grudges and hard drives, full of footage. The legal system did what it did. The court of public opinion is still deliberating and 50 Cent is holding the evidence locker. Your thoughts in the comments section on YouTube. I'd love to hear them. So please do let your voice be heard. Search Hidden Killers with Tony Bruski. If you're not already there, maybe you're listening to us on the podcast platforms and if you are, if you're on Apple podcasts, I'm going to ask you, please leave us a review. Just a quick few words there. We'd really appreciate it. Hitting Killers with Tony Bruski, that's our channel. A few kind words would be greatly appreciated. If you're right there, right now, just pop on a couple words. Thank you in advance for that. We do greatly appreciate it lets other folks know we exist and if you like what we're doing, thank you. You're playing a big part in helping other folks find us. So thank you for that in advance. Seriously, thank you. Until next time, my name is Tony Brusky. We will talk again.
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Tony Bruski (Podcast Intro/Outro)
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Diddy's team has called the 50 Cent documentary a shameful hit piece before it even aired. They sent Netflix a cease and desist letter the day before the documentary dropped, claimed the footage was stolen, and accused the streamer of handing creative control to a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta. Yeah, they did it and it made for great television. They've threatened legal action, they've floated rumors of a billion dollar lawsuit, and yet since the documentary premiered on Netflix to 22 million viewers, Diddy hasn't actually filed anything against Netflix. He did, however, sue NBC Universal for 100 million over a different documentary and that case is now hanging by a thread after his own courtroom statements potentially torpedoed his defamation, his defamation claims. So what's the actual legal exposure here? Does Diddy have grounds? Does Netflix and what about 50 personally? Joining us to discuss Eric Faddis, defense attorney, former prosecutor. Thank you for joining us. Diddy's team has called the footage and the documentary stolen, but Netflix and the director say it was obtained legally. From a legal standpoint, what would. Did he actually have to prove to pursue a copyright or misappropriation claim over footage that was filmed by his own videographer?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Yeah, Tony, there are a few legal wrinkles to this one. So Denny would have to show that he had rights to that video, that he had contracted with this videographer. And it's going to be important to look at what that contract might say if there is a written one. And then on top of that, does that include rights to distribution? Does it include some sort of prohibition against the videographer not transferring it to other people? It's very kind of murky. And my understanding is there might not be a whole lot of documentation regarding that agreement. And so that's gonna cloud the waters even further.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
It's just kind of a prime example of why when you're doing something like this, if you're going to have access to yourself with people with cameras, with microphones, that you have everybody on the same page, you have everybody signing the same thing, you don't just hope for the best, which it seems like might have been going on here. Michael Oberles shot a lot of the footage, says a fill in freelancer handed it over without authorization. And there's reports too, that Diddy never had formal contracts with the people filming him. Again, does this go back to, you gotta cross those T's and dot those I's, Diddy.
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
It doesn't. It doesn't. And what I mean, Tony, is that certainly best practices is to memorialize a contract like this in writing to say, hey, Diddy has rights to these videos that are being shot. It can't be transferred to somebody else. It can't be published or distributed by anybody else without Diddy's consent. That would be ideal. I don't know if there is such a written contract to that effect. That being said, you can still have a enforceable legal contract with someone. As a general rule, if it's a verbal contract, there are some exceptions to that. But then when we have a verbal contract, what were those verbals? What did each person say? What did they actually agree to? That's going to Be a huge mess. Did he Is not well protected in that sense. If there is no written contract.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
But wouldn't it just be a he said, she said kind of a situation? I mean, wouldn't they just be basically a pissing match at this point if it were a verbal contract?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
It very well may be, Stacey. And additionally, what they'll look at is they'll look at, if they're already writing, like emails, even it's not a formal contract. Maybe they discuss the terms in an email, maybe they discuss the terms in some text messages, maybe there are voicemails. You're going to have to look to these sort of collateral sources to determine to piece together, hey, is there an actual contract here? And if so, what does it hold?
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
Dang.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
When it comes to two public figures, it's different to a certain extent than just a private citizen to a certain extent. As far as what one puts out in public and then what people comment on or what people make observations on. When it comes to defamation, that means he'd have to meet the actual malice standard, proving Netflix or 50 Cent knew the claims were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth. How high is that bar in practice here? And can you give us a sense of how rarely public figures win in cases like this?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Yeah, Tony. So we've seen sort of an emergence of these cases, including with President Trump. He's filed a lot of defamation claims, but it's still a very high bar because you have to get inside the head of the person who allegedly redistributed this information in a misleading way or false way. So how do you get into their head? You know, if they thought what they were doing was just depicting the truth and they're using video footage that hasn't been altered, there's no AI, you know, putting words in his mouth, that's going to be a pretty tall order there. And so to prove actual analysis is a high bar, and that's for a good reason, because people, we want the public to be able to comment about public figures without fear of reprisals in the courts. And so that's why there's that high bar.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
In our comments section, Gen Z is asking, it isn't libel or slander. What are your thoughts on that?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Yeah, so, so libel is, is generally regarded as written defamation, whereas slander is usually verbal defamation. But it all comes under defamation. So that's when someone says something false about you and it causes you damages. Here they're using video clips. And so if those video clips are authentic, it's Hard to argue that what's depicted as false. You have to instead argue that it's kind of indirect defamation, that it's. There are omissions, there are misleading cherry picking in terms of the clips. They create a false impression in the viewer's mind. So that's an added layer of this convoluted legal drama that could play out. Like Tony said, Diddy has sued before on this.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Some of the bigger revelations, accusations in the documentary come from Kirk Burroughs. That's Diddy's former business partner. The person who was at the start of Bad Boy Entertainment, is the one who originally had like 25% stake in the company. And in the docket, he talks about how that was taken from him. He says on camera, I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac and he ushered Biggie to his death. Those are some explosive statements or accusations to make. Is Netflix protected? Because those are Burroughs opinions, not Netflix's actual factual assertions. And what about Burroughs himself? Is that something that he can just say aloud on camera and not expect any sort of reprisal? It's an opinion, yes, but it's asserting something as well. What kind of legal stance is there when someone is making these sort of claims based on their opinions, based on what they've witnessed?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
It's a really important distinction in the law because in defamation you can really only sue for misstatements of fact. A person's opinion is kind of just something to which they're generally entitled. They could say, hey, I think Diddy's a monster. That's not a statement of fact, that's an opinion. And so typically they can't go after a person for stating an opinion. Now if that person is saying, hey, these facts, X, Y and Z happened and I'm aware of them, and I'm distributing that to the public, that's where Burroughs might be in some hot water, assuming that those facts are untrue. But a defense always to defamation is truth.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Is the way he said it though, is it being said in a factual way like he did this, or is it he's saying like in my being more mature, I think this. Then the other one is he ushered him to his death. I mean, that seems a little more direct. I mean, we're arguing semantics here. But that's what would be argued in court, isn't it?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Oh, 100%. And, you know, there's some gray area in terms of what is a fact and what is an opinion. And you know, I think Netflix will have a defense because they'll be able to say, hey, look, we're just putting forth the statements of another person, and they'll style it as the opinions of another person. But Burroughs would be the one, if those statements are untrue, to be more likely to risk some sort of legal action against him. But yeah, when it comes to facts or opinions, you know, it's really a gray area at times. And you have to look at the context, you have to look at the history. They'll look at prior statements by Burroughs. They'll look at, you know, really how direct his assertion was and whether he couched it in, hey, this is just kind of my feeling at the time or this happened. And if we get into the realm of this happen, that's where you're in. Potential defamation grounds. Again, if what he was saying was.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Untrue, the fact that some of these areas that are being discussed in this case revolve around murder, and if Diddy has nothing to hide here, obviously you wouldn't be very fearful of things coming out in discovery that wouldn't be there. But if you do, if you are, again, I'm just saying, if playing the if game, if he is somehow involved in this and he sues, doesn't that open up the grounds for discovery and a whole lot of shit that maybe he doesn't want a lot of people paying attention to or looking at of legal mind.
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
You know, Diddy sent his cease into Sizzler to Netflix on December 1st. It's now the 12th, and we haven't seen a lawsuit. Is that the reason? Maybe because if he did file such a lawsuit, like I said, a defense to defamation is truth. And so they could engage in discovery whereby he could be deported, pose on these issues. Now, he could claim a Fifth Amendment privilege against testifying because there's probably no statute of limitations on murder in those jurisdictions. But gosh, yeah, getting into prior emails, prior texts, even contemporaneous with what happened, interviewing people who might know things, a lot can be revealed during that discovery process. So it's a risky endeavor to even file the suit because you open your cell phone up to those potential revelations.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
So why even bring it up at this point? Is this just a scare tactic to shut your mouth?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
I think there's a few things. I think it's possibly a scare tactic to try to get Netflix to relent. They haven't. The documentary is wildly successful, but on top of that, perhaps it's an optics thing to sort of get this statement out to the public. That, hey, we think this stuff is false. We are considering legal action on it. And even if they don't take the action, perhaps it lodges in the minds of viewers that, hey, this is their. Diddy has come out refuting what was said during these documentaries. And so even if no legal action is pursued, there's sort of a narrative and a PR piece to it that might benefit.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
And that's how people are going to remember any of these things, where it's like, isn't Diddy suing about. Like, even if he doesn't, people are going to have that in their mind. So it's the rebuttal, and it's a stronger rebut to say, we're gonna sue you for a billion dollars versus just. No, they're lying. They're a bunch of liars. You know, that. That sounds like it's a little more serious, a little more grounds to it. Whether it ever happens or not doesn't really make a goddamn bit of difference. Because in the public's mind, that stone has been put into place.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
It's happening.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Yeah.
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
The other lawsuit that Diddy had filed against NBCUniversal for $100 million over a different documentary that's now hanging by a thread. NBC is using his own words against him. His words of, I lost my career, I totally destroyed my reputation, to argue that the documentary didn't cause his reputational harm. How damaging is that admission to any future defamation claims that he might have against Netflix?
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
It's a problem, Tony. It's a problem for Diddy because to prove defamation and to prevail on it, you've got to say, hey, I have damages meaning this impaired my reputation. Well, if your reputation is in the dirt already, how much lower can it get, bro? Like, if you were this largely considered a villain by everybody and now you're considered a villain by everybody still, has it really impaired your legal situation much? It's gonna be hard to prove that reputational damage with those admissions from Diddy's own mouth.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Is this something where it would. I mean, if you are. If you're looking at this big picture, you're looking at this long term. And if Diddy's, you know, Diddy, I'm sure he wants to stage some sort of a comeback of some shape or size. God knows what I keep saying. I think he's gonna be a preacher when he comes out. But if you're gonna try and play your long game and come back at some point in time, right now, wouldn't it make sense just to shut the fuck up, Just do your time, don't make waves. Just do your thing and then emerge several years later as whatever you're gonna.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
Emerge as a reformed man of the plot.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Because right now, when you're constantly hitting back on all everybody's gonna look at, all anyone has to do is like, he shoots his mouth off. That's not fair. Here's the Cassie video.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
It was like, oh, okay. Even if it's nothing to do with the argument, it's just like, look what you did. It's like, that's how it ends. I mean, it's just. You're a horrible person. Look what you did. Would it make more sense just to shut up right now for Diddy and just kind of let people do what they're gonna do? People are gonna say things. The more you fight back, the more he stirs this pot, the more attention goes back on Did Diddy. And it's that whole adage of, you know, any attention is good attention. Any publicity is good publicity. It's not always.
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Or is it, you know, in my appraisal, he doesn't need more attention on these alleged incidents right now. You know, we have like 100 some civil cases. We have this massive nationally covered federal criminal trial. We have these documentaries now. You know, the more he fights, like you said, the more attention it brings to these allegations. It might make sense to just kind of keep your head down, do your time, wait for things to die down a little bit. Public will get consumed with some other saga and then reemerge as. As. As. Like Stacy said, this reformed man of the cloth, Gen Z, in the comments says, Reverend Diddy, that might be the better play at this point with just how saturated the public consciousness is with these allegations.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
Can we go back to the amount of money that they're assigning to these lawsuits? How do they sit back and say, well, we're going for a billion dollars or we're going for 100 million? How do these dollar figures get assigned to these lawsuits? I'm just curious as a layperson.
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Yeah, sometimes, you know, it's what dollar figure sounds the coolest? Which one is going to make the biggest blast? Which one is going to get headlines saying, oh, Diddy's gonna sue for a billion dollars? You know, that's not. I doubt that they've had time to really calculate the damages in any scientific fashion. I think they're just kind of eyeballing it and hoping for some public traction with throwing out these huge numbers. That's What I often see in cases like this.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Billion dollars. Well, I mean, and. Well, here's the thing, too. I mean, sometimes these cases work. I mean, Gawker was taken down by Hulk Hogan.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
Good point.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
And everybody, look at that. Going, nah.
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Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
And that was one of my favorite sites. I used to go to that all the time.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
It was powerful. I mean, and it was a video of. You know, it was dark, but it. They don't always fall apart. That's the thing. I mean, and if you're suing Netflix for a billion dollars, crazier things have happened.
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Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Totally. I mean, you look too, Tony, at the Trump lawsuits. A lot of people, these were based on interviews, like the 60 Minutes interview and stuff like that. This is video content. This is not some AI fabricating his words. But yet he was still able to successfully maneuver himself and deal significant blows to these media platforms through this litigation. So it can be a powerful vehicle, even when all we're talking about is video content and whether it creates a misleading impression.
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Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
And who knows what his financial situation is these days. I would imagine trying to gather up some way of making money would be important to pay for these legal fees that he has. Who knows? I don't know. Maybe he's got enough and it's all good. But if you don't, and you're not gonna be making money off music anytime ever again, making some money on a settlement might be a good way to fund whatever the hell you need to fund. And sometimes it is just cheaper, which is the case with a lot of the Trump ones was, just make this go away. It's gonna cost more to litigate this even if we win than it's going to be if I just pay this and just say we're done. And so I wonder if that's part of the game too. You don't know at this point?
- [34:02]
Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Yeah, it certainly could be. And one thing too, Tony, is that in these types of cases, an attorney might want monetary compensation, but they might be eyeing some other type of compensation, like gaining public exposure, gaining notoriety, that kind of thing. And sometimes they'll even do it on a contingency or partial contingency basis, meaning they'll render legal services, and if they win, they get a cut of that. If they don't win, well, they're still a super famous attorney now. They might get 100 new clients, and that itself might pay in part for the services rendered.
- [34:36]
Stacy Cole (Co-host/Commentator)
Yeah, I'm not sure Diddy is a client that you really want to have, though. He seems like he throws you under the bus at just a drop of a hat.
- [34:44]
Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Hey, he had some Mark Agnifolo and all that. He's had some pretty good attorneys.
- [34:50]
Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
And.
- [34:52]
Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
It just shows. I mean, no matter how sometimes it feels like the darker someone is, if you're the attorney and you can shed light and make light stick on some of the darkest shit, it shows you're a pretty damn good attorney. Attorney, you know.
- [35:07]
Eric Faddis (Defense Attorney)
Oh yeah, 100. And you know me personally, I don't shy away from controversial clients. I've represented some influencers and this gentleman, David Lesh, who's kind of this environmental provocateur, influencer, hated by many, loved by many. I represented him. It's all public, so I can talk about it. But. But yeah, those, those sorts of things can be opportunities for attorneys, especially those who are trying to make a name for themselves.
- [35:32]
Tony Bruski (Host/Narrator)
Yeah, and it shows skill. I mean, without a doubt. I mean it shows the ability of what a good attorney is able to do.
- [35:39]
Tony Bruski (Podcast Intro/Outro)
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