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Sean “Diddy” Combs scored a major legal victory this week as he managed to avoid the most serious of the sex trafficking and racketeering allegations in his criminal trial, leaving those in the music business questioning how an industry with a notoriously murky past in handling abusive behavior is going to move forward.
“I’m tired of living in a world where money, power, misogyny and patriarchy continues to win,” Tiffany Red, a prominent music industry advocate and a close friend of Cassie Ventura’s wrote on Instagram after the verdict went out Wednesday.
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“I do not think the court of public opinion will be forgiving,” Ann Olivarius, a prominent attorney focused on sexual harassment and women’s rights, said in a statement Wednesday. “The damage to Diddy’s reputation is real, and demonstrates that the world is watching and survivors matter even if their abusers are powerful.”
