Diddy’s ex-girlfriend’s autobiography is just the tip of the iceberg: Here’s what’s happening

Last January, late on a Saturday evening, I received an email from a person writing under the pseudonym “Investigator LA” who was eager to share a revelation. The communication contained a shocking statement that sounded familiar. “Video of Jeff Epstein raping a black woman?” the person wrote. As with many celebrity-related conspiracy theories, the information was neither easily verifiable nor completely far-fetched. “If it were true, would it be of interest?”, he concluded.

In most cases, well-worn strategies like this one from the aforementioned “investigator” go unanswered. Receiving this type of unsolicited material is quite common for reporters at large media groups with accessible email addresses. Over the past few years, this particular caller has written me much the same thing about OJ Simpson, the Mafia, and the murder of two women who had just gotten married in Utah; I only recently learned that his name is Chris Todd and who has had occasional contact with traditional media. Last year, speaking to a host on Court TV, he defined the 2017 Delphi, Indiana murders were “one of the strangest cases I’ve ever been involved in, really,” and he once appeared alongside a former FBI agent in a NewsNation story on the case.

After the email about Epstein, I hadn’t heard from Todd again. But this week, following the federal indictment of another powerful man accused of sex crimes, he has a guaranteed coup. TOAt the beginning of September he self-published Kim’s Lost Wordsa 59-page book that is presented on Amazon as an autobiography of Kim Porter, the late ex-girlfriend of Sean «Diddy» Combs, with whom he had three children (as well as a son from a previous marriage, whom Combs adopted). When prosecutors filed sex trafficking and conspiracy charges against the hip hop mogul last week, it unleashed an understandable and, given his Epstein-like tentacles of fame and fortune, predictable machinations. conspiracy nuances (Combs declared himself innocent). During the first few days of Combs’ pretrial detention in a federal prison in Brooklyn, Kim’s Lost Words has risen to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list, ranking above new works by Sally Rooney And Vivek Ramaswamy.

“I don’t do it for the money,” Todd told me this week, though he acknowledged he made a lot of it. “I am the voice of the voiceless.”

According to Todd, the autobiography is based on a thumb drive Porter left after his death in 2018, which also contained “videos of Diddy with various celebrities in sexual situations.” Todd said he had received parts of the flash drive from a “famous source” who was “very close to the Diddy/Kim and hip hop circle” and had joined forces with another source in the hip hop world to bring these materials to Todd’s manager. Todd told me he moved to Los Angeles from Connecticut about 20 years ago, and worked in film and television before turning to murder investigations. He didn’t tell me how he makes a living (other than that it’s a small business not related to this type of work) and asked me not to publish his real name, which is quite similar to Chris Todd.

Kim’s Lost Words it’s a cheesy book beyond the limits of parody, with a deliberately kitsch charm dwarfed only by the very real stakes of an ongoing criminal case. The author chronicles a slew of abuse and violence and exposes an elaborate series of partner swapping and sexual experimentation involving various celebrities. Porter’s alleged autobiography ends with what appears to be a prediction of his own murder, when he falls ill and writes to his friends: “He killed me.”

After Porter’s sudden death from pneumonia at the age of 47, several versions of this theory circulated in the gossip world. Over the past year, since Combs was first accused of sexual assault, they have taken on a renewed push online. In April, participating in the podcast of DJ Akademiksmedia celebrity and hip hop expert, Donald Trump Jr. he smoked a cigar while reporting a conversation with his ex-wife Vanessa Trump (a friend of Porter’s from their modeling days in New York) in which Vanessa said she didn’t believe Porter’s death was “natural.”

Porter’s ex-husband, Albert Joseph Brownthe new jack swing singer and protégé of Quincy Jones of the 1980s known by the pseudonym Al B. Sure!, took a similar position following the rise of Kim’s Lost Words. He and Porter allegedly “spoke until a few days before his passing,” he wrote in a statement on Instagram split into three parts calling for an investigation into what it claims was her murder (the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner determined in January 2019 that Porter died of lobar pneumonia).

«Simply put, Kimberly would have been taken away from us», continued Brown, so that she could not precipitate «the avalanche that brought [Satana] in their rooms.”

However, Brown claimed that the alleged autobiography was false (at least in part) and threatened legal action against its authors, while admitting the existence of “original book notes” from which an unauthorized “FAKE CUT VERSION” was made. (‘I’m willing to have a conversation with Al B. Sure!, absolutely,’ Todd said. ‘If he wants to escalate this, then I know how to escalate it, too.’)

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

“Someone wrote a bullshit book,” he said Lawanda Lane“and it’s all lies.”

She and Porter met in the 1980s, when Lane was working at Motown Records. Porter dated Brown, who at the time was managed by Andre Harrell, Combs’ former mentor, and Lane and some industry colleagues went to dinner with them. She and Porter were friends for over 20 years and cared for each other’s children throughout their lives. Lane was certain that Porter “didn’t even know how to use a computer like that.”

As for his claims about Porter’s death, Brown calls “bullshit” and “wasn’t a part of Quincy’s life in that way,” he said, referring to his and Porter’s son. “And I authorize you to repeat what I said.”

In particular, Lane took issue with Combs’ alleged violence against Porter. “If he had thrown a chair at her,” she said, as the book claims, “she would have killed him” (“I support this book 100%,” Todd said, “and we have new material that we will start publishing in any moment now”).

In the final days of Porter’s life, according to Lane, Lane’s daughter stood by her side as she deteriorated. Lane said he spoke to Porter 12 hours before his death. “So, I mean, this guy, whoever he is,” he said, “how do you write a book full of lies?”

Todd initially expressed some hesitation about speaking to a reporter, but ultimately seemed quite happy to go on the air. After last Wednesday the radio hosts of The Breakfast Club they dedicated a segment to his shortcomings, he sent me the link and an idea: “Now they have to let me into the scene.”