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Diddy - Weekly Update: "We were their Entertainment"
Season 1, Ep. 6
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Welcome back to our new, weekly episode of The Trial of Diddy. The show is hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Bratley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail.
Each week Kayla and Marjorie will be exploring each and every new development in this story, bringing in guests and looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy.
This week we look at the seven new lawsuits announced since our episode last week and check in on Diddy’s response.
We’re also featuring an exclusive interview with Precious Muir, a London-born British TV personality, who, as a young model, lived in New York and attended parties at both the late Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion and Diddy’s White Parties in the Hamptons.
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