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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tayo Bero

The Diddy raid reminds us that it’s never too late for alleged victims to be heard

‘To put it simply, it looks like both Combs and Simmons are in big trouble.’
‘To put it simply, it looks like both Combs and Simmons are in big trouble.’ Photograph: Carlin Stiehl/Reuters

Last week, the world watched as agents of the US Department of Homeland Security dramatically raided two properties – one in Miami and one in Los Angeles – belonging to the music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, as part of an ongoing investigation into sex-trafficking allegations.

What fewer people probably knew was that just a couple of weeks earlier, the former hip-hop executive Drew Dixon had tracked down another industry legend, Russell Simmons, to serve him with a defamation lawsuit relating to her own alleged history of abuse at Simmons’s hands.

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