In the wake of Sean Combs’ arrest, people on social media have been doing way too much to spread conspiracies about all of the celebrities involved in Combs’ “parties.” The eagerness with which people are trying to drag celebrities into Combs’ crimes is insulting to the victims and it minimizes the actual crimes Sean Combs has been charged with. Combs, like Harvey Weinstein, was a predator for decades and he hid in plain sight by associating with famous people and inviting those people to his legitimate parties (parties which didn’t involve rape). Posting an old photo of Weinstein/Combs with [insert celebrity] isn’t proof of anything other than they posed together in 2004. Well, Ashton Kutcher is the “insert celebrity” of the moment. Ashton went to some of those parties. But Ashton wants people to know that he had nothing to do with it and that his marriage is fine.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are not breaking up, despite online rumors, a source tells PEOPLE.
“This is absolutely ridiculous and false,” the source says in response to online chatter claiming the couple are separating amid renewed speculation over Kutcher’s past friendship with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Earlier this week, old photos of Kutcher and Combs — who was arrested on Sept. 16 and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and a transportation to engage in prostitution — partying together also resurfaced on social media. (Diddy, 54, has pleaded not guilty, but has been denied bail twice.)
Adds another source: “Ashton has no involvement in any of this. He doesn’t belong in this conversation about Diddy. Ashton has only seen Diddy in a handful of social and business events, all of which have been documented by the media.”
I’m loath to defend Ashton Kutcher whatsoever, but again, I hope people stop saying that every single person who took a photo with Sean Combs somehow knew about the extent of his depravity. There is already plenty of evidence that Ashton Kutcher is a despicable person – his vocal support of a serial rapist like Danny Masterson is evidence enough – so I do understand why people are more likely to believe that Ashton is involved. But IDK, let’s wait until Combs starts naming names?
Ashton Kutcher warned there’s a lot he can’t tell about Diddy’s parties
“Diddy party stories… man, that was like some weird memory lane.” pic.twitter.com/lELJtG0NV0
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AK seems shady, at best.
Wonder how much he $$ he paid People for this plant statement.
I think there is a lot of dirt to come yet.
He has always given me the icks. There’s something really gross about him and it’s not just his bathing habits.
Aston co-hosted one of Diddy’s white parties back in the day. I think they were far better acquainted than he admits. Also, Diddy was an open secret. When are people who knew this was happening going to be held accountable?
@Megan 100% this.
Especially considering AK has been working for years fighting human trafficking.
I think you are absolutely right about- not associating everyone who took a pic with famous person sean combs- with his crimes.
But, this guy, certainly not intimating that he was involved in rape or human trafficking- but- would anyone be *that* surprised?
After Masterson, his (rumored) treatment of his first wife, lack of respect for former girlfriends, whatever happened when he showed up to the date of a murder victim then covered up that he was there with Masterson’s help (no, not suggesting he was in any way involved in that murder- just that he wanted to make sure his image wasn’t effected more than he thought he should alert authorities).
Perhaps he just gives me the ick.
Yes when will names be named. That should be soon I would think.
if the FBI manages to get him into the witness protection program before his “friends” from the parties get to him.
its an interesting phenomenon, that as soon as a celeb gets accused of something everyone is guilty by association, last week it was theObamas, and Diddy is the reason for JLO’s marriage break up. Just imagine in real life you heard about someone getting arrested and you attended one of their party’s many moons ago. thats a lot of But clenching
It’s not just guilt by association, it’s an indicator of their evil corrupt moral compass. If this attitude had any validity then entire college campuses would be shut down and all students expelled over a frat party that went off the rails. When it was Hugh Hefner and the playboy mansion it was all fun and games.
It’s 100% people’s hyper-reactive response to assume everyone is guilty by association.
I’m 39. I live states away from where I was born and raised- and most of the people I went to high school with in the south have s#!tty lives and/or caught up in the cycle of homelessness, crime, drugs, etc.
Last time I saw (and was photographed with) them was over 20 years ago.
My life now has nothing to do with any of that- and no I don’t have an evil/corrupt moral compass either.
AK is different. There are years of his quotes in interviews talking about how he became friends with Diddy and how he can’t talk about all the crazy stuff that happens at Diddy’s parties. None of that is mentioned in the People denial, and it’s a lot more than just having pictures taken together. It doesn’t mean Ashton was around for any of the crimes, but there’s a completely legit reason he’s being asked about these old interviews when he’s talking about Diddy’s parties and hanging out at his house.
Diddy threw a lot of parties and a lot of celebrities went. But like Denzel
Washington said, it’s OK to go to these parties as long as you leave before the Devil comes.
It was the AFTER parties where all the freak offs went down. So, you can’t necessarily say going to a Diddy party automatically makes you guilty.
Yeah – he was well known for his parties that all the celebs wanted to be at. Wasn’t the freak off parties an invite only kinda thing??
There have been a lot of names thrown out there. Has anyone else done an on the record denial like Ashton? But yeah pics and going to parties are not evidence. They said, I will never forget that Ashton and Mila apology video where they looked mad as hell that they were having to apologize. It was weird.
Why does it appear that so many celebs knew what Diddy was doing but they kept their mouths shut?
Can we get some swift jail time for Diddy and the others involved?
The corruption in politics, and sex scandals of celebs, abuse of power, etc.
Just sickening and no end in sight.
I want the tide to turn, jail for these crimes. And bring all the crimes out in public.
Took years to get Cosby, R.Kelly in jail finally.
Diddy and Trump both = Prison, no bail, no parole.
At one point Diddy was the most famous social guy in the industry especially the 90s and naughts,I am sure he has pictures with literally anyone you can think of. I am just surprised he still had the energy to keep going.
Evidently he didn’t have the energy, if the allegations are true that he paid sex workers to interact with his girlfriends while he watched…
Yes, of course not everyone who went to those parties knew about, was involved with or complicit in the sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and other criminal acts. However, Diddy was notorious about the parties being very wild and freaky. Someone was interviewed this week who supplied drugs to one or more of the parties, and said there were ‘levels’ simultaneously happening at the parties, meaning certain rooms or spaces where illegality was known to be happening, but also that things overall got progressively got more wild, freaky, and presumably more illegal as the night wore on. But if you google pics from the parties, there was wildness and freakiness in plain view of loads of guests in the public spaces (voyeuristic sex, orgies, drug use, etc., although I’m not saying this all rose to the level of sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and other criminal acts). But let’s not pretend that a significant number of folks — celebrities or not — who attended these parties didn’t know there was freaky stuff happening, although yes some or many may not have clocked or been truly aware of the extent of the illegality.
But sorry, Ashton partied hard with Diddy for years and given his association with Masterson and his notorious cheating ways, am not buying he wasn’t getting his freak on at those parties (although again, not saying it rose to the level of sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and other criminal acts).
Where’s Ronan Farrow when you need him?
But seriously where is Ronan Farrow these days?
Per his twitter account, he’s still with the New Yorker; as to ‘where’ he is, twitter says ‘Genovia’. Love this guy.
Oh, and he executive produced a new documentary on HBO, ‘Endangered, Journalism in Jeopardy’.
Eyes Wide Shut. That film was dead on about how alot of the rich and famous live their lives.
So was showgirls, the scene with the rockstar and hangers on was so disturbing, at the time I thought that was impossible to happen, oh how wrong, in the movie people saw and did nothing, did that happen at the parties, people who were not involved, but saw afterwards did nothing
I’m going to reserve judgment as to whether Ashton was involved. I intensely dislike him, so I bring that baggage to the table. And he now has 2 friends on the record who are rapists, and one known to have dated a young 17 year old actress (Lindsay Lohan) when he was like frigging 27.
You know how many friends I have that are rapists? Zero. I get that not everyone who was at these parties raped people – people left at different times etc. But there’s a saying: show me your friends and I’ll show you your future. Kendrick Lamar says predators move in flocks – he is correct on that. I don’t know who was in Diddy’s flock yet. But he didn’t work alone.
There’s footage of Justin Bieber at these parties – he must have been 15 or 16. So people came in saw a TEENAGER clearly out of it with THIRTY YEAR AND FORTY YEAR OLDS and went about their day. I get this was before Me Too but I cannot imagine. And instead of taking action they took out their phones and recorded. Wtf. There’s no way this would happen on my watch – but then again, I can’t stand Diddy and wouldn’t have been anywhere near his house.
I’m waiting on that list. I believe the rumor about the demise of JLO and Ben’s marriage being connected to this came from either Diddy’s former bodyguard or maybe Suge Knight I can’t remember. All these people are talking so we will soon find out. I find it hard to believe that he recorded everyone and their cousin but NOT Jennifer. I’m also inclined to believe the women were coerced, drugged, bullied or worse by Diddy so I am not judging any of them – and if that’s the reason Ben left he sucks – because look how Cassie’s husband has been her rock standing with her by contrast.
I don’t trust Ashton. I’ll leave it at that.
I imagine when Ben saw the photos of Diddy and JLo in a huge bed cuddling up with a dozen or more others freaked. Those photos on top of the 1999 shootings where they fled the scene and were later arrested for injuring 3 people must have triggered him. However I still think Ben is a total passive-aggressive dickhead and punishing her for a past mistake isn’t a good look. His past is just as messy, if not more so. Remember nannygate?
And I don’t trust Ashton either, he laid down with a few dogs and picked up fleas.
You are spot on Jaded! I was sure I’d be ripped apart for my comment. You are so right Ben has such a shady past. There’s an interview where he is drunk and grabbing some young woman. There’s the nanny which is so gross that this happened in he and his wife’s home with someone hired in a trusted position with their children. Like the nerve of him to judge her.
Diddy’s former bodyguard said the drugs were in the orange or cranberry juice, not the alcohol, and the men a these parties were warned not to drink the juice – so if you went to one of these parties as a woman intending to stay sober and just drank orange juice it was game over. There were also drugs in snacks hors d’oeuvres being passed around. It’s truly vile. So if there’s video of Jennifer there’s a strong likelihood she was drugged before the footage got taken.
I find all of this so disturbing. I really hope everyone who participated in these rapes and trafficking is brought to justice.
With you 1000 per cent. Listen to Usher. And something happened to Justin Bieber and god only knows who else. If they were messing with famous 14 year old kids, what do you think they did to others.
Correct K! It’s so heartbreaking to think of what happened to these children – they were just kids. I am no fan of Usher for a lot of reasons, but I see some of his actions in a completely different context now (not that they are excused at all – I just have a context for those actions that I found so problematic).
How many sex scandals can one guy be associated with before he loses credibility: adultery, letching after an underage Mila, Danny Masterson?
Don’t forget Ashton defense of. Penn State’s coach Joe Paterno who sexually assaulted all those kids .
Thank god I’m not the only one who remembers AK’s Hot Ones interview just a few years ago where he said he has all these P Diddy party stories he’s not allowed to share. He also talked about how close they were and that they were friends who hung out and watched football together at each other’s houses pretty frequently.
I also side eye a lot of men who associate themselves with anti sex trafficking causes. The legitimate ones are run and led by women who have expertise and experience working with victims. A lot of politicians and cops who put themselves as public experts on this stuff eventually get revealed to be predators themselves.
When I was in college, everyone knew which frats were the party houses, and we definitely knew which frat you never went to alone. Everyone in these social circles knew about Diddy’s parties. And I’m sure there were people who tried to stop this. Kutcher was definitely not one of them. Instead he kept going to the parties. That’s tells me everything I need to know.
I’m frustrated by how little reporting is actually happening. I know no news outlet wants to sued but let’s not pretend AK is a stand up guy.
Anyone who attended their 1st party and went back year after year is complicit.
Wonder what AK’s team had to threaten/promise/pay Kneepads to write this cr*p???
I will be shocked if AK had *no* involvement in the Sean Combs crimes.