We used to have those kinds of celebrity stories here in America too to distract us from the truth. Now things are so extreme and people are waking up on a larger scale so those kinds of "soft" smokescreens no longer work. Now the media reports on the next "crisis" — war, weather events, mass shootings, general crime, viruses, etc. to make people forget and move on.

I believe Diddy was running the same kind of leverage/blackmailing operation focusing on the entertainment world. The tell tale sign will be if he just gets a slap on the wrist later this summer when he goes before the judge for sentencing.