Kim Porter’s ‘Memoir’ Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg of the Diddy Conspiracy – DNyuz

Last January, late on a Saturday evening, I received an email from someone writing under the name “Investigator LA” who was eager to pass on a revelation. The outreach included a shocking claim with a familiar sound.

“Jeff Epstein Seen on Tape Abusing Black Women?” the person wrote.

As with many celebrity-related conspiracies, the information was neither easily verifiable nor strictly implausible.

“Would you care if this was true??” he signed off.

For the most part, as in this case, the researcher’s confused approaches go unanswered. Receiving this type of unsolicited material is common for reporters at major media organizations with accessible email addresses. Over the past few years, this particular interlocutor has written to me in much the same way about OJ Simpson, the mob, and the murder of two newlyweds in Utah; Only in the last few days I heard that he is also calling himself Chris Todd, and that he has occasionally clashed with mainstream legitimacy. Last year, he described the 2017 Delphi murders to a Court TV host as “one of the strangest cases I’ve ever been involved in,” and he once appeared alongside a former FBI agent in a NewsNation segment about the case.

I hadn’t heard from Todd since Epstein’s email. But this week, following the federal indictment of another powerful man accused of sex crimes, he has a full-fledged hit. He self-published at the beginning of September Kim’s lost words, a 59-page book billed on Amazon as a memoir by Kim Porter, the late ex-girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, with whom she shared three children, as well as a son from a previous marriage whom Combs adopted. When prosecutors announced sex trafficking and racketeering charges against the hip-hop mogul last week, it set off an understandable wave of intrigue and, given his Epstein-like tentacles around fame and fortune, predictable shades of conspiracy. (He has pleaded not guilty.) Kim’s lost words rose to the top of the Amazon bestseller list during the first days of Combs’ detention in a federal prison in Brooklyn, above new works by Sally Rooney And Vivek Ramaswamy.

“I’m not in it for the money,” Todd told me this week, though he admitted he’s made quite a bit. “I am the voice of the voiceless.”

According to Todd, the memoir is based on a flash drive left behind by Porter after her death in 2018, which also contained “tapes of Diddy with celebrities in sexual situations.” He said he received some of the drive from a “celebrity source” who was “very close to the Diddy-and-Kim and hip-hop circles,” and who had joined forces with another hip-hop source to bring these materials to Todd’s. manager. Todd moved to Los Angeles from Connecticut about 20 years ago, he told me, where he worked in film and television before shifting his efforts to investigating murders. He refused to say how he makes a living – other than to say it was from a small company that had nothing to do with this type of work – and demanded that I not use his real name, which is quite similar to Chris Todd’s would publish.

Kim’s lost words is pulpy beyond the point of parody, with its camp appeal diminished by the real stakes of an unfolding criminal case. The author recounts a litany of abuse and violence, detailing an extensive series of partner swapping and sexual experimentation involving a host of celebrities. Porter’s supposed memoir ends with her appearing to predict her own murder as she falls ill and texts friends, “He got me.”

Versions of this theory have circulated in gossip circles since Porter’s sudden death from pneumonia at the age of 47. Since Combs was first accused of sexual assault last year, they have taken on a renewed urgency online. In a performance as a hip-hop media personality DJ Akademiks‘s podcast in April, Donald Trump Jr. puffed on a cigar while talking about a conversation with his ex-wife Vanessa Trump– a friend of Porter’s from their New York modeling days – in which Vanessa said she didn’t believe Porter’s death was “just natural.”

Porter’s ex-husband Albert Joseph Brown, the new Jack Swing singer and the 80s era Quincy Jones protégé, known as Al B. Sure!, has taken a similar approach since emerging Kim’s lost words. He and Porter “spoke until a few days before her death,” he wrote in a three-part Instagram statement calling for an investigation into what he said was her murder. (The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner determined in January 2019 that Porter died of lobar pneumonia.)

“In a nutshell, Kimberly would have been taken from us,” Brown continued, so she couldn’t hasten “the avalanche that brought (Satan) into their rooms.”

Still, he insisted the alleged memoir was fake — at least in part — and threatened legal action against its creators. Brown admitted that there was such a thing as “original book notes” from which a “FAKE Unauthorized EDIT” was derived. (“I’m willing to have a conversation with Al B. Sure!, absolutely,” said Todd. “If he wants to escalate it, then I have ways I can escalate it too.”)

Porter’s friends and family, including Combs through his attorney, have dismissed the book as a massive fabrication. A friend I spoke with disagreed with both Todd and Brown.

‘Someone wrote a book full of nonsense’ Lawanda Avenue said, “and it’s all lies.”

She and Porter met in the 1980s when Lane was working at Motown Records. Porter was dating Brown, who was then managing Andre Harrell, Combs’ former mentor, and Lane and some industry colleagues had dinner with them. She and Porter lived together for more than twenty years and cared for each other’s children their entire lives. Lane was certain that Porter “couldn’t even operate a computer like that.”

Brown is “full of bullshit” regarding his claims about Porter’s death and “wasn’t in Quincy’s life that way,” she said, referring to his and Porter’s son. “And you can repeat what I said.”

Lane particularly took issue with the images of Combs abusing Porter. “If he had thrown a chair at her,” she said, as the book claims, “she would have killed him.” (“I stand behind this book 100%,” said Todd, “and we have new stuff to drop here any minute.”)

According to Lane, Lane’s daughter was by her side in Porter’s final days as she became sicker. Lane said she spoke with Porter 12 hours before her death. “So I mean, this man, whoever he is,” she said, “how do you write a book full of lies?”

Todd initially expressed some hesitation about talking to a reporter, but ultimately seemed quite pleased with the airtime. After The Breakfast Club radio hosts devoted a segment to his shortcomings on Wednesday. He texted me the link and an idea: “They need to let me through now.”

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