News Nation Now had a very interesting piece of gossip over the weekend about Sean Combs, aka Puffy aka Diddy. Puffy has been quiet in recent weeks after everything came crashing down this spring. Federal agents raided his Flordia and LA homes, and a federal grand jury has been impaneled to hear the case against him. Somewhere along the way, CNN aired a video from 2016 of Combs brutally assaulting Cassie in a hotel hallway. It absolutely feels like Combs will be facing a host of federal charges ranging from his multi-state sex crimes, trafficking and probably a lot more. He’s going to need so many lawyers in the coming months and years. But now he can’t count on his longtime New York lawyers at Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks. According to News Nation Now, Lady Gaga is also a client of the law firm and she issued an ultimatum: it’s me or Puffy. The firm chose her.
Literally nobody in Hollywood wants to be near Diddy, not even his lawyers… who just fired him as a client. The powerful firm of Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks, which represents most major names in the music industry, dropped Diddy recently. but not because they wanted to: Because a more powerful client refused to leave if they did not sever ties.
My insider said, “Lady Gaga said she was leaving (the firm) if they didn’t drop Diddy. And she’s too big to lose.”
Meanwhile, Combs’ IMDB site, the ever-important listing for everyone in the industry which lists the names of celebrities, agents, lawyers, press representatives, and more, has been scrubbed and had just Combs Global on it, with just one employee: Combs. The Combs Global site itself appears to be a holding page with just a logo. Just last week he scrubbed his Instagram account as well.
Combs has been with GSM&S for over two decades and would often stop by his lawyer/friend Allen Grubman’s house when in the Hamptons. But no matter how close the two once were, the firm represents some of the biggest names in the music business, and can’t afford for Gaga or any of their other artists to bolt.
There’s already been a denial about this. The spokesperson for the law firm told Page Six: “The decision to part ways with Mr. Combs was proactively made by the partners in the firm a number of months ago as they felt it was the right thing to do. The report that the decision was the result of client pressure just isn’t true.” Which is interesting, I guess. I was going to give Gaga a lot of credit for doing this and doing it quietly, and it’s honestly a good story for her and her image. I kind of believe that Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks wanted to dump him… but I also believe they were probably getting pressure from their other clients, like Gaga.
Now, I did some very minor research into Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks and they’re mostly dealing with entertainment law, contracts, copyrights, the protection of art and artists. Combs was always going to need a different law firm. He was always going to need lawyers who specialize in federal crimes like human trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. Where he’s going, he’s not going to need entertainment lawyers.
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- LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA – MAY 15: American rapper Diddy (Sean Combs) arrives at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.,Image: 691793961, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Diddy, Sean Combs, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
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If GSM&S dropped Diddy months ago, which given the March – end of May timeline of house searches, video, and grand jury, wouldn’t this have made the news more prominently?
It’s believable (if potentially untrue) that Gaga, with her history of sexual assault, would have given them an ultimatum. It’s odd that they aren’t saying the date they dropped Diddy and showing receipts.
I don’t recall ever reading a bad story about Lady Gaga. She seems to be very ethical. That being said, I don’t think it’s within her boundaries to tell a company how to run their business. She can make suggestions but not give ultimatums. In the end she got her way and Sean Combs can rot in hell.
Diddy is radioactive. I highly doubt that Gaga had to convince them to cut Diddy loose.
As far as big celebs go, Gaga seems like one of the less corrupt ones, but I still have to side eye TF out of all her talk about accepting yourself, and female empowerment, althewhile she has gotten so much plastic surgery that she barely resembles her pre-fame self, and the whole fake boyfriend thing she has done regularly, because God forbid she be single because single = undesirable, is hardly the height of female empowerment
They were probably going to dump him without Gaga’s intervention because he’s a toxic client and everybody was dropping him anyway.
Could a law firm even acknowledge he is or was a client?
I don’t love the idea of this, but I guess I’m less concerned if they’re not criminal attorneys. No matter how gross Combs is, messing with someone’s legal representation alarms me.
I’m also uncomfortable with this story, it’s not up to Gaga or any other artist to dictate what direction a law firm takes with their other clients. The more ethical stand people usually take is one that shows a personal sacrifice, like saying “I can’t be represented by the same company that represents X,Y,Z, so I will leave” not “Drop him or I’m out.” And the law firm, regardless of what kind of practice they have is entitled to keep him as a client or stop doing business with him, but for them to make a public statement about it at this time is less than ethical to me. Everybody who has been accused of wrongdoing is entitled to representation (and I’ve seen and was appalled by the video) but other people unconnected with his issue shouldn’t mess with that.
“ Everybody who has been accused of wrongdoing is entitled to representation (and I’ve seen and was appalled by the video) but other people unconnected with his issue shouldn’t mess with that.”
She’s not messing with that. He can get/will need a criminal attorney to handle his legal issues resulting from his crimes. These lawyers work in a different area of law.
“…refused to leave…”?
You mean, “threatened to leave”?