The rapper and former Sean “Diddy” Combs protege Shyne has stated his ex-mentor “destroyed” his life within the wake of a 1999 New York Metropolis nightclub taking pictures through which they had been each implicated – but he denied gaining any sense of schadenfreude from the Dangerous Boy Data founder’s latest arrest on fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and different associated crimes.
“One of many issues that I’d by no means want on my worst enemy is to be incarcerated,” stated the artist born Moses Barrow, a local of Belize who spent about eight years in jail whereas Combs was acquitted of fees in reference to the identical taking pictures. “So I take no pleasure in anybody’s challenges whether or not with the prison justice system or in any other case.
“However I’d similar to to make clear – it’s important to be truthful within the description of the connection. That is somebody who in essence testified towards me after I was on trial, after I was an 18-year-old child simply eager to do nothing aside from make my mom proud and make Belize proud and do what all of us need to do: be acknowledged for our expertise and take over the world … That is somebody who destroyed my life.”
Barrow’s pointed remarks got here at a information convention Thursday whereas he carried out his duties because the chief of opposition in Belize’s Home of Representatives.
A day earlier, a federal choose in New York Metropolis for a second time denied Combs’ request to be placed on house detention after authorities jailed him Tuesday on a three-count, 14-page indictment charging him with intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion; racketeering conspiracy; and transportation to interact in prostitution.
A reporter requested Barrow, 45, on Thursday whether or not he had been conscious of – and even participated in – a few of the most salacious allegations made towards Combs: that the three-time Grammy winner would pressure sex-trafficking victims to interact in group intercourse acts referred to with associates of his whereas he recorded video and masturbated to the encounters. These so-called “freak offs” had been allegedly so bodily exhausting for Combs and his victims – who had been purportedly pressured to ingest medicine – that each one “usually obtained IV fluids to get well”, the indictment alleged.
Barrow laughed off the query. “Oh my goodness – sir, I’ve nothing to do with Sean Combs’ private life,” he stated. “The whole lot was strictly on an expert degree.”
Handed up secretly by a grand jury on 12 September after which unsealed 5 days later, Combs’ prison fees prompted many to look out for Barrow’s response.
They had been each arrested in what on the time was one of many largest prison trials to ensnare famend hip-hop trade figures after a taking pictures at a Manhattan nightclub wounded three individuals.
Combs, 54, in the end testified that he didn’t have a gun that night time. He obtained a not-guilty verdict on fees of taking an unlawful gun into the membership and in search of to bribe his driver to take the authorized fall for the weapon. In the meantime, Barrow was convicted of assault together with different fees, went to jail and was deported to Belize, blunting a few of the success he had earned by means of an acclaimed debut album.
On the time of the taking pictures, Combs was courting the singer Jennifer Lopez, and he or she was arrested within the case, too. However the fees towards her had been dropped. And Lopez has up to now made no public feedback in regards to the sex-trafficking fees towards Combs, who has pleaded not responsible, might serve as much as life in jail if convicted and has been positioned on suicide watch on the jail the place he’s being detained pending the result of the costs towards him.
Barrow on Thursday stated he “forgave” Combs and “moved on”. He acknowledged later attempting to see if Combs would make investments some cash in Belize and the Caribbean nation’s training system.
“However … allow us to not neglect what the chilly, exhausting info are,” Barrow stated. “That is somebody who destroyed my life.”
Nevertheless, he made positive so as to add: “Do I take any satisfaction in what he’s going by means of? Completely not. I’m completely different [from] different individuals. Nobody must fail for me to succeed. Nobody must undergo.”