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Unionizing, he said, is an extension of the progressive values that guide NIAD’s workplace culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just felt that it was time to take the step to show that art workers and progressive studios are essential members of communities,” said Golden, “and should be supported and feel like their workspaces are ones that have accountability, respect and also longevity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longevity is important for workers like studio facilitator and community programs assistant Ocean Escalanti, who has worked at NIAD for three years. She says that while there’s a core group of staffers who’ve been at NIAD for 10 years or longer, other employees have left because of the current pay rate and challenges of the job. In addition to assisting artists on their creative projects, many NIAD employees do care work such as helping artists with mobility issues during meal times and restroom breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be very emotionally and physically demanding,” she said. “I think a lot of folks might find that, to do [our] work at our given pay rate and benefits, it’s harder to function in this way for a long period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Banner-Making-scaled-e1728946754578-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NIAD employees work on a union banner. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NIAD Unidad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NIAD, Creative Growth and Creativity Explored were founded by artist Florence Ludins-Katz and psychologist Elias Katz in the 1970s and ’80s. Since, dozens of like-minded progressive art studios have opened around the nation. The three Bay Area studios share a mission but operate independently of one another, save for occasional collaborations like the recent SFMOMA exhibition \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/read/art-knows-no-bounds/\">\u003ci>Art Knows No Bounds\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area is where it all got started,” said Golden. “So I think it’s important [for us] to be leaders not only for our local community, but for other national and international progressive art studios.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Creativity Explored union member Brittnyana Pierro, unionizing is “an opportunity for us to build a rapport that we haven’t had before.” [aside postid='arts_13954144']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that AFSCME Council 57 will soon represent workers at all three Bay Area studios, NIAD staffers say they hope for more collaboration to address the unique challenges of their field. Workers at Oakland Museum of California also joined AFSCME Council 57 this year, joining a wave of \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/09/05/the-state-of-our-unions/?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20230227&utm_term=8035455&utm_campaign=money&utm_id=208962&orgid=92&utm_att1=\">unionization efforts nationwide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just see a really big need for this stuff right now,” said Escalanti. “And it seems like it’s kind of catching a lot of cool uptick in how artists are able to have equal pay and a livable wage.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>Updated 10:17 a.m. Oct. 14, 2024.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean “Diddy” Combs remains in a Brooklyn jail while awaiting a May 5 trial on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23363/sean-diddy-combs-faces-federal-charges-in-new-york\">federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering\u003c/a>. The hip-hop mogul has pleaded not guilty on all charges and has been denied bail twice thus far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13954740']Before and after his arrest, Combs has also been served \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13954740/diddy-allegations-sean-combs-raids-sex-trafficking-cassie-joi-rod-harve-pierre-jane-doe\">more than two dozen civil lawsuits\u003c/a> for physical assault, rape and more. The indictment and many of the lawsuits name Combs’ numerous business ventures and claim they are complicit in financing and enabling the rapper’s abuse inside and outside of the recording studio. They also detail how Combs allegedly used his position of power in the entertainment industry to lure, coerce and silence those around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an ongoing list of notable people named in lawsuits and criminal investigations against Combs so far, excluding the accusers who have chosen not to reveal their names.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch2>The Accusers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casandra Ventura, aka Cassie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-1780923026-scaled-e1711490898243.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a suit and very long couture coat stands holding hands with a Black woman wearing an elaborate black gown and purse in the shape of a skull.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Combs and Cassie at the 2017 Met Gala. \u003ccite>(Clint Spaulding/ Penske Media via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The R&B singer was in a personal and professional relationship with Combs for over a decade. In November 2023, Ventura filed a federal lawsuit against Combs alleging years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. The lawsuit also named Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Epic Records and Combs Enterprises. A day after the filing, the two parties settled the trafficking, rape and physical assault case out of court — but Ventura’s willingness to come forward opened the floodgates for nearly a dozen other lawsuits against Combs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair reportedly met in 2005, when Ventura was 19 and Combs was 37. The following year, Ventura signed a deal with Bad Boy Entertainment and released her self-titled debut album. Ventura’s lawsuit alleged this was the beginning of Combs’ coercion and abuse, which she said completely took over her life and included forcing her to take illicit substances, forcing her to participate in sex with male sex workers while Combs filmed her — encounters Combs referred to as “freakoffs” — and frequent beatings. The lawsuit stated that the beatings were often witnessed by Combs’ staff, employees of Bad Boy Entertainment and Combs’ affiliated businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, CNN published \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252221941/sean-combs-cassie-ventura-cnn-video\">footage\u003c/a> dated to 2016 that showed Combs repeatedly hitting and kicking Ventura in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel. Shortly after, Ventura took to Instagram to address the video and subsequent public response. “The outpouring of love has created a place for my younger self to settle and feel safe now, but this is only the beginning,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7T6OCKRJ-W/\">she wrote\u003c/a>. “Domestic Violence is THE issue. It broke me down to someone I never thought I would become. With a lot of hard work, I am better today, but I will always be recovering from my past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joi Dickerson-Neal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after Ventura’s lawsuit, a woman named Joi Dickerson filed a lawsuit accusing Combs of drugging, sexually harassing and abusing her and distributing “revenge porn.” The suit states that Dickerson was a psychology student at Syracuse University when she agreed to go on a date with Combs in 1991. She had appeared in one of the rapper’s music videos. After the pair had dinner, the suit alleges that Combs pressured Dickerson to keep the night going and drove them to a recording studio. There, Dickerson says she realized she had been drugged and was unable to get out of the car, since she could no longer stand or walk on her own. This is when the suit alleges that Combs took her to another location and proceeded to sexually assault her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13964507']Days later, Dickerson was told by a male friend that Combs had recorded the assault and had shown it to him and several others. The lawsuit states that the ensuing feelings of violation and humiliation derailed Dickerson’s studies and have had prolonged effects on her mental health, career and economic opportunities. Like Ventura, Dickerson filed the lawsuit under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which provided a one-year window for victims of sexual abuse who were age 18 or older at the time of the crime to file civil action regardless of the statute of limitations of the crimes themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liza Gardner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November, Liza Gardner filed a lawsuit alleging that in 1990, she was raped by Combs and R&B singer Aaron Hall. The lawsuit says that days later, Combs assaulted and choked Gardner until she lost consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an amended complaint filed Oct. 8, Gardner adds that she was 16 years old when she was invited to New Jersey from her home in North Carolina by her friends DeVante Swing and Dalvin DeGrate of the R&B group Jodeci. The lawsuit states that Jodeci’s housing, where Gardner was staying, was “subsidized” by their label, Uptown Records, a subsidiary of MCA and UMG. It goes on to allege that Gardner and her 15-year-old friend, Monica Case, met Combs and Hall at an MCA Records event in New York, where they were reportedly supplied with alcohol. Combs and Hall allegedly provided the minors with more drinks and with marijuana later that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit states that Gardner and her friends were later taken back to Hall’s apartment in New Jersey, where Combs raped Gardner. The suit states that unbeknownst to Gardner at the time, Devante Swing was in the room at the time and did nothing to stop Combs. Swing was added as a co-defendant in the new complaint for “aiding and abetting” the sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also names UMG Recordings, Universal Music Group and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones worked with Combs on his 2023 release, \u003cem>The Love Album: Off the Grid\u003c/em>. In February, Jones filed a lawsuit alleging that during the making of the album — from 2022 to 2023 — he lived with Combs, who he says repeatedly groped him, forced him to solicit sex workers, take illegal drugs, and more. The suit states that Combs would often walk around naked in front of Jones, and that the music mogul attempted to groom the producer into engaging in sex with other men in the music industry, allegedly promising Jones a Grammy if he complied. Jones also alleges that a cousin of rapper Yung Miami, who was dating Combs at the time, sexually assaulted him in Combs’ home in 2022 in front of Combs and his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962885']Jones’ lawsuit also names Combs’ son, Justin Dior Combs, Love Records, Combs Global Enterprises and Combs’ chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, as co-defendants. In addition to the allegations of abuse, the suit describes a shooting at a recording studio involving Combs, his son Justin Dior Combs and an unnamed victim. The suit also claims that Combs did not properly compensate Jones for his work on \u003cem>The Love Album.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit originally included Universal Music Group, Motown Records, former Motown CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam and UMG chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge as co-defendants. Lawyers for Grainge and UMG denied their involvement in the allegations, eventually leading Jones’ lawyer to drop Grainge and the labels from the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crystal McKinney\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc.png\" alt=\"A beautiful blond woman wearing a coat with a fur collar.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-768x509.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-1536x1018.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-1920x1273.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal McKinney. \u003ccite>(Arnaldo Magnani/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May, Crystal McKinney filed a lawsuit against Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Combs’ clothing company, Sean John Clothing. The charges against UMG Recordings were later dismissed, and Daddy’s House Recordings was added as a co-defendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit states that in 2003, McKinney was 22 years old and working as a model when an unnamed designer introduced her to Combs at a Sean John fashion show in New York City. Combs allegedly expressed interest in getting to know McKinney better and helping her modeling career grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, he invited her to a recording studio, where McKinney says Combs and several other men were smoking marijuana and drinking. She took a hit of a joint, which according to the lawsuit, she believes was laced with another substance. The lawsuit states that Combs pressured McKinney to continue drinking and smoking, and as she became more intoxicated, she was led to a bathroom by Combs, who forced her to perform oral sex on him. Afterward, McKinney lost consciousness and awoke in a taxi en route to the designer’s apartment. The lawsuit states that following the assault, McKinney became severely depressed. According to the lawsuit, she believes Combs “blackballed” her in the industry, which led to the downfall of her modeling career, and has had long-lasting effects on her mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April Lampros\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, April Lampros filed a lawsuit naming Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment and Arista Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music. Lampros met Combs in 1994 while studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She says Combs often invited her to the Bad Boy studio, promised to mentor and help her advance her career and began “love-bombing” her. They started dating and Lampros would often travel to see Combs, though he asked that their relationship be kept private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13956667']In the suit, Lampros accuses Combs of sexually assaulting her on four separate occasions and repeatedly threatening to harm her, both physically and professionally. In one such instance, Combs allegedly forced Lampros and his then-girlfriend Kim Porter to take ecstasy, forced them to engage in sex while he watched and then raped Lampros. Though she tried to distance herself from Combs as the relationship turned abusive, Lampros says Combs continually contacted her, and she feared the repercussions of rebuffing his advances. The lawsuit states that after Lampros’ relationship with Combs had ended, she was told by someone she knew that he had seen a video of her and Combs having sex, recorded without her knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, a man incarcerated in Michigan filed a lawsuit against Combs alleging that the rapper drugged and sexually assaulted him in Detroit in 1997. During a hearing in September, a default judgment was granted to Cardello-Smith for $100 million after Combs and his lawyers failed to appear in court. Shortly after, the judgment was set aside on grounds that Cardello-Smith’s lawsuit, mailed to a Combs residence in Los Angeles, was not properly served. Cardello-Smith is currently serving sentences for kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adria English\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, a woman named Adria English filed a lawsuit against Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment, Sean John Clothing, Combs Global Enterprises, Tamiko Thomas, Jacob Arabov aka “Jacob The Jeweler,” \u003cem>VIBE\u003c/em> magazine, Penske Media Corporation and several unnamed defendants. The suit alleges that in 2004, English was working as a dancer at a club in New York City when she and her then-boyfriend, aspiring model Anthony Gallo, were hired to work at one of Combs’ famous “White Parties” in the Hamptons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English alleges that while working at the party, she was forced to drink alcohol, which she believes was laced with ecstasy, and forced to consume narcotics. The suit alleges that Combs and a Bad Boy Entertainment employee continued to hire her to work at “White Parties” in New York and in Miami. According to the lawsuit, around the third event, English alleges that she was asked to swap the usual white attire for a black mini-dress and forced to begin having intercourse with guests. She believes the black dress was meant to signal to guests that she was a “sex trafficked sex worker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit names Jacob Arabov aka “Jacob The Jeweler” as one such guest she was coerced into having intercourse with, along with other unnamed defendants. English believes there are secret recordings of those defendants sexually assaulting her in Combs’ homes while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dawn Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn.png\" alt=\"A Black woman wearng a gold jacket talks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-768x509.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-1536x1018.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-1920x1272.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Richard. \u003ccite>(Josh Brasted/Getty Images for ESSENCE/Getty Images North America)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, singer Dawn Richard filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5110001/dawn-richard-diddy-danity-kane-lawsuit\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against Combs for sexual assault and battery. The complaint also states that Richard witnessed Combs beat and abuse Ventura on many occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard first met Combs when she auditioned for the MTV show \u003cem>Making the Band\u003c/em> in 2004 and was selected to be a member of the group Danity Kane under Combs’ mentorship. The lawsuit alleges that Richard and her bandmates were subjected to inhumane working conditions during their time on the show and in the musical group, sometimes being forced to rehearse for up to 48 hours without food or breaks and often being berated by Combs. The complaint states that the abusive behavior continued throughout Richard’s professional relationship with Combs, and that he instilled a culture of fear in the women he worked with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13918217']After Danity Kane disbanded in 2009, Richard continued to work with Combs in the trio Diddy — Dirty Money, along with singer Kalenna Harper — who allegedly also witnessed much of Combs’ abusive behavior and was subject to his numerous threats. The lawsuit alleges Combs would force Richard to take meetings while he was in his underwear, and he would barge into her dressing room unannounced and would grope her breasts and buttocks during stylist fittings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance in 2010, the lawsuit states that Combs berated Richard and Harper in the lobby of SIR Studios and attempted to punch Richard when she asked him to stop calling them “bitches” in front of people. Richard alleges the women were then ushered into a company car and that Combs and Harve Pierre falsely imprisoned them in the vehicle for over two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the allegations of abuse, Richard’s lawsuit demands unpaid salaries, royalties and wages for Richard’s work as part of Danity Kane and Diddy — Dirty Money. The complaint also names Harve Pierre, Remote Productions, Bad Boy Entertainment, Daddy’s House Recording Studio and a number of other music, publishing and finance corporations associated with Combs for enabling his violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thalia Graves\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves.png\" alt=\"A light skinned Black woman sits on a white armchair wearing a white top.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-800x542.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-1020x692.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-768x521.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-1536x1041.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-1920x1302.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thalia Graves. \u003ccite>(Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, a woman named Thalia Graves filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/g-s1-24401/sean-diddy-combs-graves-rape-lawsuit\">lawsuit\u003c/a> accusing Combs and his bodyguard Joseph Sherman of raping her, recording the assault without her knowledge and distributing the video as pornography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves alleges that the assault took place in 2001, when she was 25 years old and dating an unnamed record producer who worked with Combs. She says Combs and Sherman took advantage of her relationship with their colleague to lure her to a recording studio alone, where they gave her a drink she believes was laced with some kind of drug. The lawsuit says Graves lost consciousness and awoke to find herself bound and restrained; Combs and Sherman then proceeded to take turns raping her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves says she did not report the alleged crime out of fear of Combs’ retaliation, and that her boyfriend at the time discouraged her from doing so because it might hurt his career. In November 2023, Graves alleges she learned the rape had been recorded by Sherman and Combs, who showed it to others with the purpose of humiliating Graves and her then-boyfriend. The lawsuit details how the crime and the knowledge of its recording has had dire, long-lasting consequences on Graves’ mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ashley Parham\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 15, a woman named Ashley Parham filed a lawsuit against Combs in California involving sexual assault, battery, rape, sexual abuse, false imprisonment and kidnapping. Parham alleges that in 2018, she met a man named Shane Pearce who was associated with Combs. Parham says Pearce called Combs on FaceTime in front of her, but she made remarks about being unimpressed because “she believed Defendant Diddy had something to do with the murder of Tupac Shakur.” Combs allegedly became upset by Parham’s statements during the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint says that some time later, Pearce invited Parham over to his home. While she was there, Combs allegedly arrived with Kristina Khorram and several unnamed others. The lawsuit states that Combs was angry at Parham for how she had treated him over the video call. Combs allegedly threatened to physically harm Parham with a knife, while Khorram allegedly said they could “sell” the plaintiff for sex. The lawsuit states that Pearce and Combs then removed Parham’s clothing and Combs squirted Parham with what she believes was an oil or lubricant. According to the lawsuit, Khorram was instructed by Diddy to insert a syringe into Parham’s vagina. The lawsuit goes on to state that Combs, Pearce and two unnamed defendants violently raped Parham and that Combs forced an unknown pill down the woman’s throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Khorram, Shane Pearce and several unnamed men and women are listed as co-defendants in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bryana “Bana” Bongolan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan filed a lawsuit against Combs in California that alleges the mogul groped her breasts, dangled her over the balcony of a 17th floor apartment and frequently threatened and intimidated her throughout their working relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit states that Bongolan worked with Cassie Ventura at Diamond Supply Co. in 2014, which led the two women to develop a friendship. As they got closer, Bongolan alleges that she became aware of Combs’ violent and abusive behavior towards Ventura, eventually leading to Ventura showing Bongolan bruises and a black eye she received from Combs. According to the lawsuit, Bongolan worked closely with both Ventura and Combs, designing Bad Boy jackets for the mogul, creating costumes for the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour, starting a clothing line called “Cassie + BANA,” and designing merchandise and cover art for Ventura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the time they worked together, Bongolan alleges that Combs intimidated and threatened her, including an instance in which he forcibly drugged her and another in which he said “You have no idea what I could do to you. I could kill you.” The lawsuit states that in September of 2016, Bongolan, her then-girlfriend and Ventura were at Ventura’s apartment when Combs began violently knocking on the door. After making his way in, Bongolan alleges he found her on the balcony and began groping her breasts. When she resisted, she alleges that he picked her up and held her over the ledge of the 17th floor balcony, and then slammed her into patio furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura’s attorneys declined to comment on Bongolan’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch2>The Accused\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jay-Z\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9.jpg\" alt=\"Jay-Z, on the red carpet to promote the film The Great Gatsby in New York in 2013.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13832289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay-Z, on the red carpet to promote the film ‘The Great Gatsby’ in New York in 2013. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, an unnamed plaintiff filed a civil lawsuit against Combs alleging that he and an unnamed male celebrity assaulted her at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in 2000, when she was only 13 years old. On December 8, the lawsuit was amended and refiled to name Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, as the second assailant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that in September of 2000, the unnamed victim was attempting to gain entry to the VMAs in New York City when she approached a limousine driver who told her he worked for Combs and could take her to an after-party and did. The plaintiff alleges that later that night, when she arrived, she was asked to sign a document she now believes was a non-disclosure agreement. The complaint states that the plaintiff accepted a drink that made her woozy, leading her to retire to one of the bedrooms. She alleges that Carter, Combs and an unnamed female celebrity entered the room and that the two men raped her while the female celebrity stood by and watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to NPR, Carter denied the allegations and stated that he was the target of a blackmail attempt designed to extort settlement money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!!” he said. “Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My only heartbreak is for my family,” Carter added. “My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people. I mourn yet another loss of innocence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter is the first high-profile co-defendant to be named in over a dozen lawsuits filed by Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, all on behalf of unnamed accusers. The amended complaint accuses Carter of filing his own lawsuit against Buzbee, which the attorney called “frivolous.” NPR has reviewed a lawsuit filed on November 18 by an anonymous celebrity accusing Buzbee of extortion and intentional infliction of emotional distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Hall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall.png\" alt=\"A Black man onstage wearing sunglasses and a denim jacket.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1383\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-800x553.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-1020x705.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-768x531.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-1536x1062.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-1920x1328.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Hall. \u003ccite>(Paras Griffin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The R&B singer is named in Gardner’s lawsuit, alleging that he and Combs raped her and an unnamed friend in 1990. Hall could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harve Pierre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre.png\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a suit sits at a dinner table.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-768x508.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-1536x1015.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-1920x1269.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harve Pierre. \u003ccite>(Thaddaeus McAdams/FilmMagic/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2023, an unnamed woman filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24193192-sean-combs-jane-doe-complaint\">lawsuit\u003c/a> accusing Combs, former Bad Boy Entertainment president Harve Pierre and a third man of trafficking and gang raping her when she was 17 years old. The suit states that the victim met Pierre at a lounge in Michigan in 2003 while she was still in high school, and that the record executive sexually assaulted her by forcing her to perform oral sex on him. Pierre allegedly called Combs, who convinced the underaged woman to board a private jet to New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13934462']After the plane ride, the suit states that the unnamed victim, Pierre and two other men were driven to Combs’ recording studio in New York, where they “plied Ms. Doe with drugs and alcohol.” The lawsuit says that Combs, Pierre and another man proceeded to “gang-rape” the teenager, and that she has limited recollection of the trip back to Michigan the following day. The lawsuit also names recording studio Daddy’s House Recordings and Bad Boy Entertainment as co-defendants. Pierre denied the allegations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2023/12/08/diddy-bad-boy-president-harve-pierre-lawsuit/\">statement\u003c/a> to TMZ.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kristina Khorram\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khorram is named as Combs’ chief of staff and a co-defendant in Jones’ lawsuit. Jones alleges that Khorram frequently solicited illicit drugs and sex workers for Combs and his guests, forced Jones to carry substances for Combs and ordered Jones to hire sex workers for Combs. He also accuses Khorram of “aiding and abetting” Combs’ sexual assault and helping Combs groom Jones. Though she is not listed as a co-defendant, Khorram is also named in a September 2024 sexual abuse lawsuit filed by an unnamed woman who says the Combs employee often paid for her to travel and “perform” for Combs — the complaint alleges Combs’ staffers would “send drivers to [the victim’s] home to pick her up before she agreed to travel, to the point where she did not believe she had a choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR reached out to Khorram’s attorneys Oct. 10 and Oct. 22 for comment and is awaiting a reply.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cuba Gooding Jr.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr.png\" alt=\"A Black man sits in court wearing a suit and red scarf, looking concerned.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-1920x1282.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuba Gooding Jr. \u003ccite>(Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The actor, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092699710/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-pleads-guilty-to-forcibly-touching\">pled guilty\u003c/a> in 2022 to forcibly touching a woman and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180421961/cuba-gooding-jr-settles-civil-sex-abuse-case\">settled\u003c/a> a civil sexual abuse case in 2023, was named in an amendment to Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones’ original lawsuit against Combs. The producer alleges that Gooding Jr. fondled and groped him on Combs’ yacht. The actor has denied the allegations. “It’s the most ridiculous thing ever,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZbTB0Fh24\">he said\u003c/a> in an interview with Extra TV. “Welcome to being a celebrity. Welcome to my world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justin Dior Combs and Christian Combs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior.png\" alt=\"Two young, casually dressed Black men stand on a red carpet, smiling.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-800x706.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-1020x900.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-160x141.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-768x678.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-1536x1356.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-1920x1694.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Dior Combs (left) and Christian Combs. \u003ccite>(Aaron Davidson/WireImage | Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sean Combs’ son, Justin Dior Combs, is also named in Jones’ lawsuit against the rapper, which alleges that the producer witnessed the father and son solicit sex workers and admit underaged girls to a listening party where they laced the women’s drinks. The lawsuit also alleges that Jones witnessed Christian Combs, another son of Combs, drug and assault a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Blackburn, an attorney representing Jones, is also part of a separate lawsuit filed in April against Christian Combs on behalf of a plaintiff named Grace O’Marcaigh, alleging the younger Combs assaulted her on a yacht owned by Combs, who is named as co-defendant. Both Justin Dior Combs and Christian Combs have denied the allegations against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jacob Arabov, aka “Jacob The Jeweler” aka Jacob Arabo \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov.png\" alt=\"A middle aged white man in a blue suit holds one wrist up to show his watch.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-1536x1026.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-1920x1283.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Arabov. \u003ccite>(Matthew Eisman/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The founder and chairman of high-profile jewelry and watch company Jacob & Co. is named as a co-defendant in English’s suit, which alleges he was one of the “White Party” guests she was forced to have sex with. Jacob & Co did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph “Big Joe” Sherman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs’ former bodyguard is named as a co-defendant in Graves’ lawsuit, along with Daddy’s House Recordings, Bad Boy Entertainment and more. Graves claims that Sherman actively raped her alongside Combs in 2001. The lawsuit states that when she attempted to escape the assault, Combs slammed her head into a pool table, causing her to lose consciousness. After waking up, she says Sherman continued to assault her and slapped her until she passed out a third time. Sherman has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/former-celeb-body-guard-falsely-accused-raping-woman-with-diddy/5849264/\">denied\u003c/a> Graves’ claims, saying he no longer worked for Bad Boy in 2001 and never met the young woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DeVante Swing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an amended complaint filed on Oct. 8, Liza Gardner added Devante Swing of the R&B group Jodeci as a co-defendant to her lawsuit. Gardner alleges that Swing, who was an adult at the time, was her “assumed co-guardian” when he invited the underaged Gardner to New Jersey. The suit alleges that Swing “trafficked and or coerced the child to travel across state lines from North Carolina to New York and New Jersey with the hidden intention of providing the child with alcohol, and marijuana and prostituting the child to his A&R Combs.” Gardner’s friend, Monica Case, also filed a sworn declaration alleging Swing was in the room “watching whatever Puffy was doing to Liza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swing could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shane Pearce\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce is accused of inviting Parham to his home with the intention of allowing Combs to assault her. The lawsuit also alleges Pearce is one of the men who participated in the “gang-raping” of Parham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch2>Other Names To Know\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmy Iovine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine.png\" alt=\"A white man wearing a white baseball cap, backwards and sunglasses.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-768x511.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-1536x1022.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-1920x1278.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Iovine. \u003ccite>(Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her lawsuit, Richard alleges that she attended a party where Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine witnessed Combs punch Ventura in the stomach. The lawsuit blames Iovine — and Interscope — for moving forward with a deal with Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment after becoming aware of his violent and abusive behavior. Separately, in 2022, Iovine was accused of sexual abuse and harassment by an unnamed woman under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. The woman later dropped the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR reached out to Interscope and Iovine’s team but did not receive a comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid Cudi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966519\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi.png\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a white t-shirt sings passionately into a microphone on stage.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-1020x673.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-768x507.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-1536x1014.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-1920x1267.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kid Cudi. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Coachella)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kid Cudi and Ventura were romantically involved in 2011. In her lawsuit, Ventura alleged that when Combs found emails between the two on Ventura’s phone, he became enraged and attacked her. Ventura attempted to run away but returned due to pressure from Combs’ staff; the lawsuit alleged that Combs then hit and kicked her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit stated that in 2012, Combs told Ventura he wanted to “blow up” Kid Cudi’s car while the rapper was home. Kid Cudi corroborated to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> that his car exploded in his driveway around that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caresha Brownlee, aka Yung Miami\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966520\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami.png\" alt=\"A glamourous Black woman performs on stage wearing a strapless leather dress.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-1536x1026.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-1920x1283.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caresha Brownlee, aka Yung Miami. \u003ccite>(Terence Rushin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yung Miami, half of the rap duo City Girls, dated Combs in recent years. In August, she denied knowing anything about the accusations that have surfaced against her ex. “I can’t speak on these allegations because I wasn’t around at the time,” she said on her Revolt TV show, \u003cem>Caresha Please\u003c/em>. “I don’t know that person, and that wasn’t my experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, however, Brownlee was named in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-25157/sean-diddy-combs-jane-doe-pregnant-assault-lawsuit\">\u003cu>lawsuit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> filed against Combs by an unnamed woman. The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff was forced to travel and “perform” for Combs many times from 2021 to 2024. Much of this travel was reportedly paid for by Combs’ staffer Kristina Khorram. The suit states that in 2022, the plaintiff was forced to take drugs and have sex with Combs. When she learned she was pregnant and told Combs, the lawsuit states that Brownlee — who is not a co-defendant on the complaint — harassed and called the plaintiff repeatedly, pressuring her to get an abortion. The stress allegedly led the woman to suffer a miscarriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR reached out to Brownlee’s representation Thursday morning and is awaiting a reply.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Buzbee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee.png\" alt=\"A white man in a suit.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-1920x1282.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Buzbee. \u003ccite>(Eric Gay/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 1, Texas attorney Tony Buzbee held a press conference announcing that his firm will be filing at least 120 individual civil lawsuits against Combs in the coming weeks. “The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that wasn’t really a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world,” Buzbee said during the presser. “The wall of silence has been broken, and victims are coming forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Buzbee has filed more than a dozen sexual assault lawsuits against Combs, all on behalf of unnamed plaintiffs. On December 8, one such complaint was amended to name Jay-Z as a co-defendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 14, six unnamed plaintiffs filed separate lawsuits against Combs; all are being represented by Buzbee. One of the alleged victims is a man who says Combs fondled him when he was 16 years old at a “White Party” in the Hamptons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buzbee is known for representing clients in high-profile cases, including Texas attorney general Ken Paxton during his 2023 impeachment trial, the women who sued football player \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1106409107/cleveland-browns-deshaun-watson-settles-20-of-24-sexual-misconduct-lawsuits\">Deshaun Watson\u003c/a> for sexual misconduct, and the victims of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1054765905/what-went-wrong-at-astroworld-the-deadly-dynamics-of-crowd-surge\">Astroworld\u003c/a> deadly crowd surge. During Paxton’s trial, Buzbee took his own share of the spotlight for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/ken-paxton-trial-buzbee-altuve-bucees-18355320.php\">public spat\u003c/a> with the media over how they photographed his tan in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to practicing at the Buzbee Law Firm, his professional ventures include property development, a short-lived THC-infused \u003ca href=\"https://www.chron.com/food/article/houston-buzbee-thc-seltzer-discontinued-19462337.php\">seltzer company\u003c/a> and local politics. He self-funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/05/houston-mayor-race-sylvester-turner-tony-buzbee-runoff/\">a run for Houston mayor\u003c/a> against Democratic incumbent Sylvester Turner in 2019 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/07/tony-buzbee-houston-city-council-election-nan-huffman/\">ran for Houston City Council\u003c/a> in 2023, ultimately losing both races.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jones’ lawsuit also names Combs’ son, Justin Dior Combs, Love Records, Combs Global Enterprises and Combs’ chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, as co-defendants. In addition to the allegations of abuse, the suit describes a shooting at a recording studio involving Combs, his son Justin Dior Combs and an unnamed victim. The suit also claims that Combs did not properly compensate Jones for his work on \u003cem>The Love Album.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit originally included Universal Music Group, Motown Records, former Motown CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam and UMG chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge as co-defendants. Lawyers for Grainge and UMG denied their involvement in the allegations, eventually leading Jones’ lawyer to drop Grainge and the labels from the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crystal McKinney\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc.png\" alt=\"A beautiful blond woman wearing a coat with a fur collar.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-768x509.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-1536x1018.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/c-mc-1920x1273.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal McKinney. \u003ccite>(Arnaldo Magnani/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May, Crystal McKinney filed a lawsuit against Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Combs’ clothing company, Sean John Clothing. The charges against UMG Recordings were later dismissed, and Daddy’s House Recordings was added as a co-defendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit states that in 2003, McKinney was 22 years old and working as a model when an unnamed designer introduced her to Combs at a Sean John fashion show in New York City. Combs allegedly expressed interest in getting to know McKinney better and helping her modeling career grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, he invited her to a recording studio, where McKinney says Combs and several other men were smoking marijuana and drinking. She took a hit of a joint, which according to the lawsuit, she believes was laced with another substance. The lawsuit states that Combs pressured McKinney to continue drinking and smoking, and as she became more intoxicated, she was led to a bathroom by Combs, who forced her to perform oral sex on him. Afterward, McKinney lost consciousness and awoke in a taxi en route to the designer’s apartment. The lawsuit states that following the assault, McKinney became severely depressed. According to the lawsuit, she believes Combs “blackballed” her in the industry, which led to the downfall of her modeling career, and has had long-lasting effects on her mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April Lampros\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, April Lampros filed a lawsuit naming Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment and Arista Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music. Lampros met Combs in 1994 while studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She says Combs often invited her to the Bad Boy studio, promised to mentor and help her advance her career and began “love-bombing” her. They started dating and Lampros would often travel to see Combs, though he asked that their relationship be kept private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The lawsuit states that after Lampros’ relationship with Combs had ended, she was told by someone she knew that he had seen a video of her and Combs having sex, recorded without her knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, a man incarcerated in Michigan filed a lawsuit against Combs alleging that the rapper drugged and sexually assaulted him in Detroit in 1997. During a hearing in September, a default judgment was granted to Cardello-Smith for $100 million after Combs and his lawyers failed to appear in court. Shortly after, the judgment was set aside on grounds that Cardello-Smith’s lawsuit, mailed to a Combs residence in Los Angeles, was not properly served. Cardello-Smith is currently serving sentences for kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adria English\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, a woman named Adria English filed a lawsuit against Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment, Sean John Clothing, Combs Global Enterprises, Tamiko Thomas, Jacob Arabov aka “Jacob The Jeweler,” \u003cem>VIBE\u003c/em> magazine, Penske Media Corporation and several unnamed defendants. The suit alleges that in 2004, English was working as a dancer at a club in New York City when she and her then-boyfriend, aspiring model Anthony Gallo, were hired to work at one of Combs’ famous “White Parties” in the Hamptons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English alleges that while working at the party, she was forced to drink alcohol, which she believes was laced with ecstasy, and forced to consume narcotics. The suit alleges that Combs and a Bad Boy Entertainment employee continued to hire her to work at “White Parties” in New York and in Miami. According to the lawsuit, around the third event, English alleges that she was asked to swap the usual white attire for a black mini-dress and forced to begin having intercourse with guests. She believes the black dress was meant to signal to guests that she was a “sex trafficked sex worker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit names Jacob Arabov aka “Jacob The Jeweler” as one such guest she was coerced into having intercourse with, along with other unnamed defendants. English believes there are secret recordings of those defendants sexually assaulting her in Combs’ homes while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dawn Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn.png\" alt=\"A Black woman wearng a gold jacket talks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-768x509.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-1536x1018.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dawn-1920x1272.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Richard. \u003ccite>(Josh Brasted/Getty Images for ESSENCE/Getty Images North America)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, singer Dawn Richard filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5110001/dawn-richard-diddy-danity-kane-lawsuit\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against Combs for sexual assault and battery. The complaint also states that Richard witnessed Combs beat and abuse Ventura on many occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard first met Combs when she auditioned for the MTV show \u003cem>Making the Band\u003c/em> in 2004 and was selected to be a member of the group Danity Kane under Combs’ mentorship. The lawsuit alleges that Richard and her bandmates were subjected to inhumane working conditions during their time on the show and in the musical group, sometimes being forced to rehearse for up to 48 hours without food or breaks and often being berated by Combs. The complaint states that the abusive behavior continued throughout Richard’s professional relationship with Combs, and that he instilled a culture of fear in the women he worked with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After Danity Kane disbanded in 2009, Richard continued to work with Combs in the trio Diddy — Dirty Money, along with singer Kalenna Harper — who allegedly also witnessed much of Combs’ abusive behavior and was subject to his numerous threats. The lawsuit alleges Combs would force Richard to take meetings while he was in his underwear, and he would barge into her dressing room unannounced and would grope her breasts and buttocks during stylist fittings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance in 2010, the lawsuit states that Combs berated Richard and Harper in the lobby of SIR Studios and attempted to punch Richard when she asked him to stop calling them “bitches” in front of people. Richard alleges the women were then ushered into a company car and that Combs and Harve Pierre falsely imprisoned them in the vehicle for over two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the allegations of abuse, Richard’s lawsuit demands unpaid salaries, royalties and wages for Richard’s work as part of Danity Kane and Diddy — Dirty Money. The complaint also names Harve Pierre, Remote Productions, Bad Boy Entertainment, Daddy’s House Recording Studio and a number of other music, publishing and finance corporations associated with Combs for enabling his violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thalia Graves\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves.png\" alt=\"A light skinned Black woman sits on a white armchair wearing a white top.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-800x542.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-1020x692.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-768x521.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-1536x1041.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Thalia-Graves-1920x1302.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thalia Graves. \u003ccite>(Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, a woman named Thalia Graves filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/g-s1-24401/sean-diddy-combs-graves-rape-lawsuit\">lawsuit\u003c/a> accusing Combs and his bodyguard Joseph Sherman of raping her, recording the assault without her knowledge and distributing the video as pornography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves alleges that the assault took place in 2001, when she was 25 years old and dating an unnamed record producer who worked with Combs. She says Combs and Sherman took advantage of her relationship with their colleague to lure her to a recording studio alone, where they gave her a drink she believes was laced with some kind of drug. The lawsuit says Graves lost consciousness and awoke to find herself bound and restrained; Combs and Sherman then proceeded to take turns raping her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves says she did not report the alleged crime out of fear of Combs’ retaliation, and that her boyfriend at the time discouraged her from doing so because it might hurt his career. In November 2023, Graves alleges she learned the rape had been recorded by Sherman and Combs, who showed it to others with the purpose of humiliating Graves and her then-boyfriend. The lawsuit details how the crime and the knowledge of its recording has had dire, long-lasting consequences on Graves’ mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ashley Parham\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 15, a woman named Ashley Parham filed a lawsuit against Combs in California involving sexual assault, battery, rape, sexual abuse, false imprisonment and kidnapping. Parham alleges that in 2018, she met a man named Shane Pearce who was associated with Combs. Parham says Pearce called Combs on FaceTime in front of her, but she made remarks about being unimpressed because “she believed Defendant Diddy had something to do with the murder of Tupac Shakur.” Combs allegedly became upset by Parham’s statements during the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint says that some time later, Pearce invited Parham over to his home. While she was there, Combs allegedly arrived with Kristina Khorram and several unnamed others. The lawsuit states that Combs was angry at Parham for how she had treated him over the video call. Combs allegedly threatened to physically harm Parham with a knife, while Khorram allegedly said they could “sell” the plaintiff for sex. The lawsuit states that Pearce and Combs then removed Parham’s clothing and Combs squirted Parham with what she believes was an oil or lubricant. According to the lawsuit, Khorram was instructed by Diddy to insert a syringe into Parham’s vagina. The lawsuit goes on to state that Combs, Pearce and two unnamed defendants violently raped Parham and that Combs forced an unknown pill down the woman’s throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Khorram, Shane Pearce and several unnamed men and women are listed as co-defendants in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bryana “Bana” Bongolan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan filed a lawsuit against Combs in California that alleges the mogul groped her breasts, dangled her over the balcony of a 17th floor apartment and frequently threatened and intimidated her throughout their working relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit states that Bongolan worked with Cassie Ventura at Diamond Supply Co. in 2014, which led the two women to develop a friendship. As they got closer, Bongolan alleges that she became aware of Combs’ violent and abusive behavior towards Ventura, eventually leading to Ventura showing Bongolan bruises and a black eye she received from Combs. According to the lawsuit, Bongolan worked closely with both Ventura and Combs, designing Bad Boy jackets for the mogul, creating costumes for the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour, starting a clothing line called “Cassie + BANA,” and designing merchandise and cover art for Ventura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the time they worked together, Bongolan alleges that Combs intimidated and threatened her, including an instance in which he forcibly drugged her and another in which he said “You have no idea what I could do to you. I could kill you.” The lawsuit states that in September of 2016, Bongolan, her then-girlfriend and Ventura were at Ventura’s apartment when Combs began violently knocking on the door. After making his way in, Bongolan alleges he found her on the balcony and began groping her breasts. When she resisted, she alleges that he picked her up and held her over the ledge of the 17th floor balcony, and then slammed her into patio furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura’s attorneys declined to comment on Bongolan’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch2>The Accused\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jay-Z\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9.jpg\" alt=\"Jay-Z, on the red carpet to promote the film The Great Gatsby in New York in 2013.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13832289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/gettyimages-167861280_wide-4d1f06bf6c32c94d5b6c0fb9c6bd351a100f11e9-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay-Z, on the red carpet to promote the film ‘The Great Gatsby’ in New York in 2013. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, an unnamed plaintiff filed a civil lawsuit against Combs alleging that he and an unnamed male celebrity assaulted her at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in 2000, when she was only 13 years old. On December 8, the lawsuit was amended and refiled to name Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, as the second assailant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that in September of 2000, the unnamed victim was attempting to gain entry to the VMAs in New York City when she approached a limousine driver who told her he worked for Combs and could take her to an after-party and did. The plaintiff alleges that later that night, when she arrived, she was asked to sign a document she now believes was a non-disclosure agreement. The complaint states that the plaintiff accepted a drink that made her woozy, leading her to retire to one of the bedrooms. She alleges that Carter, Combs and an unnamed female celebrity entered the room and that the two men raped her while the female celebrity stood by and watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to NPR, Carter denied the allegations and stated that he was the target of a blackmail attempt designed to extort settlement money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!!” he said. “Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My only heartbreak is for my family,” Carter added. “My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people. I mourn yet another loss of innocence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter is the first high-profile co-defendant to be named in over a dozen lawsuits filed by Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, all on behalf of unnamed accusers. The amended complaint accuses Carter of filing his own lawsuit against Buzbee, which the attorney called “frivolous.” NPR has reviewed a lawsuit filed on November 18 by an anonymous celebrity accusing Buzbee of extortion and intentional infliction of emotional distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Hall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall.png\" alt=\"A Black man onstage wearing sunglasses and a denim jacket.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1383\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-800x553.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-1020x705.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-768x531.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-1536x1062.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Aaron-Hall-1920x1328.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Hall. \u003ccite>(Paras Griffin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The R&B singer is named in Gardner’s lawsuit, alleging that he and Combs raped her and an unnamed friend in 1990. Hall could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harve Pierre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre.png\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a suit sits at a dinner table.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-768x508.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-1536x1015.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Harve-Pierre-1920x1269.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harve Pierre. \u003ccite>(Thaddaeus McAdams/FilmMagic/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2023, an unnamed woman filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24193192-sean-combs-jane-doe-complaint\">lawsuit\u003c/a> accusing Combs, former Bad Boy Entertainment president Harve Pierre and a third man of trafficking and gang raping her when she was 17 years old. The suit states that the victim met Pierre at a lounge in Michigan in 2003 while she was still in high school, and that the record executive sexually assaulted her by forcing her to perform oral sex on him. Pierre allegedly called Combs, who convinced the underaged woman to board a private jet to New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After the plane ride, the suit states that the unnamed victim, Pierre and two other men were driven to Combs’ recording studio in New York, where they “plied Ms. Doe with drugs and alcohol.” The lawsuit says that Combs, Pierre and another man proceeded to “gang-rape” the teenager, and that she has limited recollection of the trip back to Michigan the following day. The lawsuit also names recording studio Daddy’s House Recordings and Bad Boy Entertainment as co-defendants. Pierre denied the allegations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2023/12/08/diddy-bad-boy-president-harve-pierre-lawsuit/\">statement\u003c/a> to TMZ.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kristina Khorram\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khorram is named as Combs’ chief of staff and a co-defendant in Jones’ lawsuit. Jones alleges that Khorram frequently solicited illicit drugs and sex workers for Combs and his guests, forced Jones to carry substances for Combs and ordered Jones to hire sex workers for Combs. He also accuses Khorram of “aiding and abetting” Combs’ sexual assault and helping Combs groom Jones. Though she is not listed as a co-defendant, Khorram is also named in a September 2024 sexual abuse lawsuit filed by an unnamed woman who says the Combs employee often paid for her to travel and “perform” for Combs — the complaint alleges Combs’ staffers would “send drivers to [the victim’s] home to pick her up before she agreed to travel, to the point where she did not believe she had a choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR reached out to Khorram’s attorneys Oct. 10 and Oct. 22 for comment and is awaiting a reply.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cuba Gooding Jr.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr.png\" alt=\"A Black man sits in court wearing a suit and red scarf, looking concerned.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Cuba-Gooding-Jr-1920x1282.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuba Gooding Jr. \u003ccite>(Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The actor, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092699710/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-pleads-guilty-to-forcibly-touching\">pled guilty\u003c/a> in 2022 to forcibly touching a woman and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180421961/cuba-gooding-jr-settles-civil-sex-abuse-case\">settled\u003c/a> a civil sexual abuse case in 2023, was named in an amendment to Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones’ original lawsuit against Combs. The producer alleges that Gooding Jr. fondled and groped him on Combs’ yacht. The actor has denied the allegations. “It’s the most ridiculous thing ever,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZbTB0Fh24\">he said\u003c/a> in an interview with Extra TV. “Welcome to being a celebrity. Welcome to my world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justin Dior Combs and Christian Combs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior.png\" alt=\"Two young, casually dressed Black men stand on a red carpet, smiling.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-800x706.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-1020x900.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-160x141.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-768x678.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-1536x1356.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/dior-1920x1694.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Dior Combs (left) and Christian Combs. \u003ccite>(Aaron Davidson/WireImage | Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sean Combs’ son, Justin Dior Combs, is also named in Jones’ lawsuit against the rapper, which alleges that the producer witnessed the father and son solicit sex workers and admit underaged girls to a listening party where they laced the women’s drinks. The lawsuit also alleges that Jones witnessed Christian Combs, another son of Combs, drug and assault a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Blackburn, an attorney representing Jones, is also part of a separate lawsuit filed in April against Christian Combs on behalf of a plaintiff named Grace O’Marcaigh, alleging the younger Combs assaulted her on a yacht owned by Combs, who is named as co-defendant. Both Justin Dior Combs and Christian Combs have denied the allegations against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jacob Arabov, aka “Jacob The Jeweler” aka Jacob Arabo \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov.png\" alt=\"A middle aged white man in a blue suit holds one wrist up to show his watch.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-1536x1026.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jacob-Arabov-1920x1283.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Arabov. \u003ccite>(Matthew Eisman/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The founder and chairman of high-profile jewelry and watch company Jacob & Co. is named as a co-defendant in English’s suit, which alleges he was one of the “White Party” guests she was forced to have sex with. Jacob & Co did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph “Big Joe” Sherman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs’ former bodyguard is named as a co-defendant in Graves’ lawsuit, along with Daddy’s House Recordings, Bad Boy Entertainment and more. Graves claims that Sherman actively raped her alongside Combs in 2001. The lawsuit states that when she attempted to escape the assault, Combs slammed her head into a pool table, causing her to lose consciousness. After waking up, she says Sherman continued to assault her and slapped her until she passed out a third time. Sherman has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/former-celeb-body-guard-falsely-accused-raping-woman-with-diddy/5849264/\">denied\u003c/a> Graves’ claims, saying he no longer worked for Bad Boy in 2001 and never met the young woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DeVante Swing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an amended complaint filed on Oct. 8, Liza Gardner added Devante Swing of the R&B group Jodeci as a co-defendant to her lawsuit. Gardner alleges that Swing, who was an adult at the time, was her “assumed co-guardian” when he invited the underaged Gardner to New Jersey. The suit alleges that Swing “trafficked and or coerced the child to travel across state lines from North Carolina to New York and New Jersey with the hidden intention of providing the child with alcohol, and marijuana and prostituting the child to his A&R Combs.” Gardner’s friend, Monica Case, also filed a sworn declaration alleging Swing was in the room “watching whatever Puffy was doing to Liza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swing could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shane Pearce\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce is accused of inviting Parham to his home with the intention of allowing Combs to assault her. The lawsuit also alleges Pearce is one of the men who participated in the “gang-raping” of Parham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch2>Other Names To Know\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmy Iovine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine.png\" alt=\"A white man wearing a white baseball cap, backwards and sunglasses.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-768x511.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-1536x1022.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Jimmy-Iovine-1920x1278.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Iovine. \u003ccite>(Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her lawsuit, Richard alleges that she attended a party where Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine witnessed Combs punch Ventura in the stomach. The lawsuit blames Iovine — and Interscope — for moving forward with a deal with Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment after becoming aware of his violent and abusive behavior. Separately, in 2022, Iovine was accused of sexual abuse and harassment by an unnamed woman under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. The woman later dropped the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR reached out to Interscope and Iovine’s team but did not receive a comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid Cudi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966519\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi.png\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a white t-shirt sings passionately into a microphone on stage.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-1020x673.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-768x507.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-1536x1014.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/cudi-1920x1267.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kid Cudi. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Coachella)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kid Cudi and Ventura were romantically involved in 2011. In her lawsuit, Ventura alleged that when Combs found emails between the two on Ventura’s phone, he became enraged and attacked her. Ventura attempted to run away but returned due to pressure from Combs’ staff; the lawsuit alleged that Combs then hit and kicked her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit stated that in 2012, Combs told Ventura he wanted to “blow up” Kid Cudi’s car while the rapper was home. Kid Cudi corroborated to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> that his car exploded in his driveway around that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caresha Brownlee, aka Yung Miami\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966520\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami.png\" alt=\"A glamourous Black woman performs on stage wearing a strapless leather dress.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-1536x1026.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Caresha-Brownlee-aka-Yung-Miami-1920x1283.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caresha Brownlee, aka Yung Miami. \u003ccite>(Terence Rushin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yung Miami, half of the rap duo City Girls, dated Combs in recent years. In August, she denied knowing anything about the accusations that have surfaced against her ex. “I can’t speak on these allegations because I wasn’t around at the time,” she said on her Revolt TV show, \u003cem>Caresha Please\u003c/em>. “I don’t know that person, and that wasn’t my experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, however, Brownlee was named in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-25157/sean-diddy-combs-jane-doe-pregnant-assault-lawsuit\">\u003cu>lawsuit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> filed against Combs by an unnamed woman. The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff was forced to travel and “perform” for Combs many times from 2021 to 2024. Much of this travel was reportedly paid for by Combs’ staffer Kristina Khorram. The suit states that in 2022, the plaintiff was forced to take drugs and have sex with Combs. When she learned she was pregnant and told Combs, the lawsuit states that Brownlee — who is not a co-defendant on the complaint — harassed and called the plaintiff repeatedly, pressuring her to get an abortion. The stress allegedly led the woman to suffer a miscarriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR reached out to Brownlee’s representation Thursday morning and is awaiting a reply.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Buzbee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee.png\" alt=\"A white man in a suit.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/Tony-Buzbee-1920x1282.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Buzbee. \u003ccite>(Eric Gay/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 1, Texas attorney Tony Buzbee held a press conference announcing that his firm will be filing at least 120 individual civil lawsuits against Combs in the coming weeks. “The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that wasn’t really a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world,” Buzbee said during the presser. “The wall of silence has been broken, and victims are coming forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Buzbee has filed more than a dozen sexual assault lawsuits against Combs, all on behalf of unnamed plaintiffs. On December 8, one such complaint was amended to name Jay-Z as a co-defendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 14, six unnamed plaintiffs filed separate lawsuits against Combs; all are being represented by Buzbee. One of the alleged victims is a man who says Combs fondled him when he was 16 years old at a “White Party” in the Hamptons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buzbee is known for representing clients in high-profile cases, including Texas attorney general Ken Paxton during his 2023 impeachment trial, the women who sued football player \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1106409107/cleveland-browns-deshaun-watson-settles-20-of-24-sexual-misconduct-lawsuits\">Deshaun Watson\u003c/a> for sexual misconduct, and the victims of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1054765905/what-went-wrong-at-astroworld-the-deadly-dynamics-of-crowd-surge\">Astroworld\u003c/a> deadly crowd surge. During Paxton’s trial, Buzbee took his own share of the spotlight for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/ken-paxton-trial-buzbee-altuve-bucees-18355320.php\">public spat\u003c/a> with the media over how they photographed his tan in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She is also the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.refugeeeye.org/\">Refugee Eye\u003c/a>, an art studio on Valencia Street in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she picked up a camera 10 years ago, those beaches and daily life in Gaza City became some of her first subjects. “I wanted to show the beauty of Gaza,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a woman in a hijab at a beach with her back turned, staring out onto the sea. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_5906-Hi-RES-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Timeless Hope’ by Lara Aburamadan, taken at Deir al-Balah Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip, in 2013. \u003ccite>(Lara Aburamadan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet life in a war-torn region made capturing beauty a privilege. The killings of her people back home motivated her to use her art and journalism skills for social change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aburamadan’s photos have been published in \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>, \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, Al Jazeera and more. She has also written for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her 2012 piece for \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/trapped-in-gaza.html\">Trapped in Gaza\u003c/a>,” she recounts her visit to a film festival. Suddenly, an organizer interrupted the program to warn the audience of impending Israeli strikes, urging everyone to go home for safety. Aburamadan, her mother and young siblings listened to the sounds of bombs from inside their home for the next 48 hours. [aside postid='news_12007959,arts_13966184']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all the while, we hear bombs. Bombs that bear autumn’s scent and winter’s chill. Bombs that batter. Bombs that kill. I still have waking nightmares of the bombs that tore through our sky nearly four years ago, when a classmate, Maha, lost her mother in an Israeli strike,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2014 marked another deadly year in Gaza, when the Israeli military killed 2,200 Palestinians, over half of whom were civilians \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/content/key-figures-2014-hostilities\">according to a United Nations report\u003c/a>. Aburamadan and her then-husband live-streamed the shelling from their 11th-floor apartment, sharing with the world what mainstream media wouldn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of our work, which we posted on Twitter and Facebook, was to make it more difficult for people around the world to say, ‘I didn’t know,’” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/gaza-war-israel-anniversary/402364/\">wrote in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> in 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Love Has Wings’ by Lara Aburamadan, taken at Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza City, in 2015. \u003ccite>(Lara Aburamadan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The sound of Israeli drones incessantly hovering overhead is terrifying, but the bombs — and their promise to bring either an explosion or death — are worse,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aburamadan and her then-husband moved to the U.S. as asylum seekers when they were both 24 years old. When she first arrived in the Bay Area in 2017, she struggled to connect and feel at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know people, I didn’t have friends or community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In time, she eventually accepted this new phase in her life. “I’m a refugee in this new place. It’s okay not to find the familiarity now,” she told herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2.jpg\" alt=\"Freshly harvested grapes spilling out of crates.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Sheikh Ejleen Grapes’ by Lara Aburamadan, taken in Gaza City in 2016. \u003ccite>(Lara Aburamadan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her current work explores the social and political narratives of refugees and marginalized communities. Through Refugee Eye, she creates a space for refugee artists and photographers from all around the world to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to embrace my perspective as a refugee,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, she curated an exhibition at Refugee Eye called \u003ca href=\"https://www.refugeeeye.org/sfgallery\">\u003cem>Gaza: Between Life and Loss\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, featuring photographs and illustrations by Palestinian artists, including work by popular Gaza street photographer Suhail Nassar and illustrator Bayan Abu Nahla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a beautiful journey to learn more about the art scene here in the Bay Area and connect with different refugee artists around the world,” Aburamadan reflects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having lived through multiple bombardments of Gaza, the war that began in October last year didn’t surprise Aburamadan. But it felt different this time. “In the first few months, my mind was constantly on Gaza,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was super stressful,” she adds. “My people are being killed everyday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966253\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lara Aburamadan in Berkeley on Oct. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Seeing protests and Palestinian flags in the streets of the Bay Area has made her feel less alone. But despite these efforts, she is disappointed that, after a year, nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protests have called for a ceasefire, but the bombing continues every day,” she says. “It’s even getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through her work, Aburamadan hopes to continue showing the world a different side of Gaza. “I want people to see Gaza as a beautiful place with genuinely kind people who don’t want wars and just want peace,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my art to reflect who we are as a collective, proving that we exist and that we’re amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all the while, we hear bombs. Bombs that bear autumn’s scent and winter’s chill. Bombs that batter. Bombs that kill. I still have waking nightmares of the bombs that tore through our sky nearly four years ago, when a classmate, Maha, lost her mother in an Israeli strike,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2014 marked another deadly year in Gaza, when the Israeli military killed 2,200 Palestinians, over half of whom were civilians \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/content/key-figures-2014-hostilities\">according to a United Nations report\u003c/a>. Aburamadan and her then-husband live-streamed the shelling from their 11th-floor apartment, sharing with the world what mainstream media wouldn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of our work, which we posted on Twitter and Facebook, was to make it more difficult for people around the world to say, ‘I didn’t know,’” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/gaza-war-israel-anniversary/402364/\">wrote in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> in 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A1358-1-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Love Has Wings’ by Lara Aburamadan, taken at Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza City, in 2015. \u003ccite>(Lara Aburamadan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The sound of Israeli drones incessantly hovering overhead is terrifying, but the bombs — and their promise to bring either an explosion or death — are worse,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aburamadan and her then-husband moved to the U.S. as asylum seekers when they were both 24 years old. When she first arrived in the Bay Area in 2017, she struggled to connect and feel at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know people, I didn’t have friends or community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In time, she eventually accepted this new phase in her life. “I’m a refugee in this new place. It’s okay not to find the familiarity now,” she told herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2.jpg\" alt=\"Freshly harvested grapes spilling out of crates.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/4V1A6440-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Sheikh Ejleen Grapes’ by Lara Aburamadan, taken in Gaza City in 2016. \u003ccite>(Lara Aburamadan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her current work explores the social and political narratives of refugees and marginalized communities. Through Refugee Eye, she creates a space for refugee artists and photographers from all around the world to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to embrace my perspective as a refugee,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, she curated an exhibition at Refugee Eye called \u003ca href=\"https://www.refugeeeye.org/sfgallery\">\u003cem>Gaza: Between Life and Loss\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, featuring photographs and illustrations by Palestinian artists, including work by popular Gaza street photographer Suhail Nassar and illustrator Bayan Abu Nahla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a beautiful journey to learn more about the art scene here in the Bay Area and connect with different refugee artists around the world,” Aburamadan reflects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having lived through multiple bombardments of Gaza, the war that began in October last year didn’t surprise Aburamadan. But it felt different this time. “In the first few months, my mind was constantly on Gaza,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was super stressful,” she adds. “My people are being killed everyday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966253\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20241004-PhotographerfromGaza-JY-010_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lara Aburamadan in Berkeley on Oct. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Seeing protests and Palestinian flags in the streets of the Bay Area has made her feel less alone. But despite these efforts, she is disappointed that, after a year, nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protests have called for a ceasefire, but the bombing continues every day,” she says. “It’s even getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through her work, Aburamadan hopes to continue showing the world a different side of Gaza. “I want people to see Gaza as a beautiful place with genuinely kind people who don’t want wars and just want peace,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my art to reflect who we are as a collective, proving that we exist and that we’re amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Kris Kristofferson, who wrote indelible songs about lovers, loners, boozers and a footloose pair of hitchhikers — and who later became a screen star, appearing in dozens of films — has died at age 88.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his representative, the singer, songwriter and actor died peacefully in his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, Sept. 28, surrounded by family. No cause of death was shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson made his name as a songwriter in Nashville starting in the late 1960s, penning songs including “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” which other singers (Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash and Sammi Smith, respectively) took to the top of the charts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His fame and sex symbol status grew through his movie roles, most notably when he co-starred with Barbra Streisand in the 1976 remake of \u003cem>A Star is Born\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I imagined myself into a pretty full life,” Kristofferson \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5506402\">told NPR’s \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 1999. “I was certainly not equipped, by God, to be a football player, but I got to be one. And I got to be a Ranger, and a paratrooper, and a helicopter pilot, you know, and a boxer, and a lot of things that I don’t think I was built to do. I just imagined ’em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson won three Grammy awards, two of them for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq4wgvZ1vv4\">duets\u003c/a> with his then-wife \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgoPagLKJtI\">Rita Coolidge\u003c/a>, to whom he was married from 1973-80. His performance in \u003cem>A Star Is Born\u003c/em> earned him a Golden Globe in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in 2014, he was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1862px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1862\" height=\"2483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965727\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897.jpeg 1862w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1862px) 100vw, 1862px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Kristofferson attends the film premiere of “Chelsea Walls” on April 15, 2002 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Early on, he found his calling as a writer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas to a military family; his father was a major general in the U.S. Air Force. It was there, at age 11, that he wrote his first song, titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WKI_vlSro\">I Hate Your Ugly Face\u003c/a>.” (He included that number as a bonus track on one of his last albums, \u003cem>Closer to the Bone\u003c/em>, in 2009.) As a military kid, he moved often, landing in the Bay Area at one point and graduating from San Mateo High School in 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2012/03/06/photo-memory-kris-kristofferson-58-and-johnny-cash-visit-campus-in-the-1970s/\">Pomona College\u003c/a> in southern California, Kristofferson majored in creative literature. His many diverse talents drew the attention of \u003cem>Sports Illustrated\u003c/em>, which \u003ca href=\"https://vault.si.com/vault/1958/03/31/kristoffer-kristofferson\">highlighted him\u003c/a> as one of its “Faces in the Crowd” in 1954. “This dashing young man,” the magazine trumpeted, not only played rugby and varsity football and was a Golden Gloves boxer; he was also sports editor of the college paper, a folk singer, an award-winning writer and an “outstanding” ROTC cadet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Pomona, Kristofferson won a prestigious \u003ca href=\"https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-volunteers/rhodes-scholar-database/\">Rhodes Scholarship\u003c/a> to study at Oxford University, where he dove into the works of Shakespeare and William Blake. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1999/09/17/1064155/kris-kristofferson\">1999 interview\u003c/a> with NPR’s \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>, he explained that Blake “was a wonderful example for somebody who wanted to be an artist, because he believed if you were cut out to be one, it was your moral responsibility to be one, or you’d be haunted throughout your life and after death — ’til eternity!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps inspired by Blake’s admonition, Kristofferson harbored dreams of writing the Great American Novel. Instead, after Oxford he followed his father into the military, joining the U.S. Army, where he became a helicopter pilot and attained the rank of Captain. Assigned to teach literature at West Point, Kristofferson decided to ditch the Army, and he moved to Nashville to pursue his dream of songwriting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that choice, he was disowned by his parents. “They thought that somewhere between Oxford and the Army I had gone crazy,” Kristofferson \u003ca href=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/pdf/2021/10/pomona.pdf\">told Pomona College Magazine\u003c/a> in 2004. “My mother said nobody over 14 listens to that kind of stuff anyway…. But I was more and more determined to go that way. And being virtually disowned was kind of liberating for me, because I had nothing left to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10642751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/KristoffersonSFJAZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10642751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/KristoffersonSFJAZZ.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/KristoffersonSFJAZZ-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Kristofferson performs as part of a tribute to Joni Mitchell at the SFJAZZ Center on May 8, 2015 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(File Photo/Drew Altizer Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>From janitor to hit songwriter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Arriving in Nashville in 1965, Kristofferson got a job as a janitor at Columbia Studios, sweeping floors and emptying ashtrays, while writing songs on the side. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often compared the creative ferment of Nashville in the ’60s to that of Paris in the ’20s. “When I got there,” he said in the 1999 \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em> interview, “it was so different from any life that I’d been in before; just hanging out with these people who stayed up for three or four days at a time, and nights, and were writing songs all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I wrote four songs during the first week I was there,” he continued. “And it was just so exciting to me. 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In the version Cash used to tell, Kristofferson emerged with a tape in one hand and a beer in the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great story, and a story that good needs to be believed, even if it’s not true,” quips musician Rodney Crowell, who became Cash’s son-in-law when he married Rosanne Cash. “But, you know, according to John, that literally happened.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Cash would turn out to be instrumental in launching Kristofferson’s career, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/newportfolkfest/photos/tbt-in-1969-kris-kristofferson-made-his-national-debut-at-the-newport-folk-festi/10153784481136288/\">introducing him \u003c/a>at the 1969 Newport Folk Festival and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/FkKNQel41pI\">inviting him\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUlmBO5fr0\">perform\u003c/a> on his television variety show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13878306']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>His songs were like short stories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rodney Crowell was one of many young songwriters who were drawn to Nashville by the beacon of Kristofferson’s success. “Because of Kris Kristofferson, a lot of songwriters came into Nashville, came in droves. And I was part of that wave,” he tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What set Kristofferson’s music apart, Crowell says, was the way he wove a story and sustained a narrative through his songs. Take “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” for example — a vivid portrait of bleak, hungover loneliness. Crowell calls the song “a beautifully-written short story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cem>And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one more for dessert\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And I shaved my face and combed my hair and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Musician Steve Earle recalls that when he first heard “Sunday Morning Coming Down” as a teenager in Texas, it made such an impact that he rushed out to buy Kristofferson’s first two records. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The imagery and the use of language is just being cranked up to a level higher than really anything that came before in country music, for sure,” Earle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson, he says, “raised the bar single-handedly in country music lyrically to a place that writers are still aspiring to, and I still aspire to, to this day\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>“\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1699\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965732\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-800x680.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-1020x866.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-768x652.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-1536x1305.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MV5BZmE2MzdlNjItMzk5My00MDRmLWJmNjMtOTg1NTUxYTczNzNiXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-1920x1631.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Kristofferson with co-star Ellen Burstyn on the set of the 1974 film ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.’ \u003ccite>(Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>He was a master of seduction, in song and on screen\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Nashville, Kristofferson’s 1970 song of naked, unapologetic desire, “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” was nothing short of revolutionary. “It was earth-shaking, and a paradigm shift,” Crowell says. “It is literally a form of seduction. It’s silver-tongue seduction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Take the ribbon from your hair\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cem>Shake it loose and let it fall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Layin’ soft upon my skin \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Like the shadows on the wall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Come and lay down by my side\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Til the early morning light\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All I’m takin’ is your time\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Help me make it through the night\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In person and on the screen, Kristofferson was magnetic: movie-star gorgeous, with a roguish grin and electric blue eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women loved him, you know? I mean, absolutely fell over,” Crowell says. “He was a sex symbol and a rock star.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a young, eager musician like Crowell, Kristofferson offered an intoxicating role model. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘Hmm, I want to be like that,'” Crowell says. “I was like, ‘How do you do that? How do you have that kind of swagger?'” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson brought that same sensual swagger to his movie roles over his decades-long career. He starred in films including \u003cem>Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore\u003c/em>, \u003cem>A Star Is Born, Semi-Tough\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Heaven’s Gate\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Lone Star\u003c/em>, working with directors Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Alan Rudolph and John Sayles, among others. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a stretch in the 1980s and ’90s, Kristofferson was part of an occasional country outlaw supergroup, joining with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson to form the Highwaymen. Recalling that time in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.loudersound.com/features/q-a-kris-kristofferson\">interview\u003c/a> with the British magazine \u003cem>Classic Rock\u003c/em> years later, he said, “I just wish I was more aware of how lucky I was to share a stage with those people. I had no idea that two of them [Cash and Jennings] would be done so soon. Hell, I was up there and I had all my heroes with me – these are guys whose ashtrays I used to clean. I’m kinda amazed I wasn’t more amazed.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s and ’90s, Kristofferson also embraced a number of leftist political causes. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/06/us/438-protesters-are-arrested-at-nevada-nuclear-test-site.html\">protested\u003c/a> nuclear testing in Nevada, and \u003ca href=\"https://freshairarchive.org/segments/kris-kristofferson-his-trip-nicaragua-and-his-support-sandinistas\">vocally opposed \u003c/a>U.S. policy in Central America, making several trips to Nicaragua in support of the Sandinista government, and excoriating the U.S. backing of El Salvador’s military-led junta in that country’s brutal civil war. “I’m a songwriter,” he said in a 1988 \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em> interview, “but I’m also concerned with my fellow human beings. And I’m real concerned with the soul of my country.” His 1990 album, \u003cem>Third World Warrior\u003c/em>, is filled with songs expressing his political views:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Broken rules and dirty warriors spreading lies and secret funds\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cem>Can’t defeat the Campesino with their money and their guns\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cause he’s fighting for his future and his freedom and his sons\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the third world war \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Kristofferson in 2005 during the Iraq War, which he vehemently opposed. \u003ccite>(Mary Ellen Clark/New West Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Music connected him to memory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his later years, Kristofferson suffered from profound memory loss, but he kept performing up \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIa0aFLjAjw\">until 2020\u003c/a>. Among those he shared the stage with was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwgwamUhoI\">Margo Price\u003c/a>. “Without a doubt,” she says, “he still had all the same charisma and all the sex appeal, every time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Price says, Kristofferson could connect with his musical memories and “feel like he was himself…. There’s been times where I’ve got off stage with Kris and I’m like, ‘Great show, Kris!’ He’s like, ‘Oh, thanks. You know, I wish I could have been there!’ I mean, that was the powerful thing about seeing him perform his songs, was that he could remember songs he’d written so long ago, but yet not remember something from five minutes ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/02/03/170872651/kris-kristofferson-on-writing-for-and-outliving-his-idols\">interview\u003c/a> with NPR in 2013, Kristofferson reflected on his life and career. At 76, he had just released an album titled \u003cem>Feeling Mortal\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To my surprise,” he told Rachel Martin, “I feel nothing but gratitude for being this old, and still above ground, living with the people I love. I’ve had a life of all kinds of experiences, most of ’em good. I got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do, and keeps me out of trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson lived for many years on the island of Maui, in a home built high on the slope of the Haleakala volcano, with a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean. He \u003ca href=\"https://lasvegasmagazine.com/interviews/qa/2015/oct/23/q-a-kris-kristofferson-pearl-palms/\">told an interviewer\u003c/a> in 2016, “I’ve had so much blessing, so much reward for my life that I want to stay right where I am, which is on an island with no neighbors and 180 degrees of empty horizon. It’s a beautiful view.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Kris Kristofferson, who wrote indelible songs about lovers, loners, boozers and a footloose pair of hitchhikers — and who later became a screen star, appearing in dozens of films — has died at age 88.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his representative, the singer, songwriter and actor died peacefully in his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, Sept. 28, surrounded by family. No cause of death was shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson made his name as a songwriter in Nashville starting in the late 1960s, penning songs including “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” which other singers (Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash and Sammi Smith, respectively) took to the top of the charts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His fame and sex symbol status grew through his movie roles, most notably when he co-starred with Barbra Streisand in the 1976 remake of \u003cem>A Star is Born\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I imagined myself into a pretty full life,” Kristofferson \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5506402\">told NPR’s \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 1999. “I was certainly not equipped, by God, to be a football player, but I got to be one. And I got to be a Ranger, and a paratrooper, and a helicopter pilot, you know, and a boxer, and a lot of things that I don’t think I was built to do. I just imagined ’em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson won three Grammy awards, two of them for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq4wgvZ1vv4\">duets\u003c/a> with his then-wife \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgoPagLKJtI\">Rita Coolidge\u003c/a>, to whom he was married from 1973-80. His performance in \u003cem>A Star Is Born\u003c/em> earned him a Golden Globe in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in 2014, he was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1862px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1862\" height=\"2483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965727\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897.jpeg 1862w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-811897-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1862px) 100vw, 1862px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Kristofferson attends the film premiere of “Chelsea Walls” on April 15, 2002 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Early on, he found his calling as a writer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas to a military family; his father was a major general in the U.S. Air Force. It was there, at age 11, that he wrote his first song, titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WKI_vlSro\">I Hate Your Ugly Face\u003c/a>.” (He included that number as a bonus track on one of his last albums, \u003cem>Closer to the Bone\u003c/em>, in 2009.) As a military kid, he moved often, landing in the Bay Area at one point and graduating from San Mateo High School in 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2012/03/06/photo-memory-kris-kristofferson-58-and-johnny-cash-visit-campus-in-the-1970s/\">Pomona College\u003c/a> in southern California, Kristofferson majored in creative literature. His many diverse talents drew the attention of \u003cem>Sports Illustrated\u003c/em>, which \u003ca href=\"https://vault.si.com/vault/1958/03/31/kristoffer-kristofferson\">highlighted him\u003c/a> as one of its “Faces in the Crowd” in 1954. “This dashing young man,” the magazine trumpeted, not only played rugby and varsity football and was a Golden Gloves boxer; he was also sports editor of the college paper, a folk singer, an award-winning writer and an “outstanding” ROTC cadet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Pomona, Kristofferson won a prestigious \u003ca href=\"https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-volunteers/rhodes-scholar-database/\">Rhodes Scholarship\u003c/a> to study at Oxford University, where he dove into the works of Shakespeare and William Blake. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1999/09/17/1064155/kris-kristofferson\">1999 interview\u003c/a> with NPR’s \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>, he explained that Blake “was a wonderful example for somebody who wanted to be an artist, because he believed if you were cut out to be one, it was your moral responsibility to be one, or you’d be haunted throughout your life and after death — ’til eternity!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps inspired by Blake’s admonition, Kristofferson harbored dreams of writing the Great American Novel. Instead, after Oxford he followed his father into the military, joining the U.S. Army, where he became a helicopter pilot and attained the rank of Captain. Assigned to teach literature at West Point, Kristofferson decided to ditch the Army, and he moved to Nashville to pursue his dream of songwriting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that choice, he was disowned by his parents. “They thought that somewhere between Oxford and the Army I had gone crazy,” Kristofferson \u003ca href=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/pdf/2021/10/pomona.pdf\">told Pomona College Magazine\u003c/a> in 2004. “My mother said nobody over 14 listens to that kind of stuff anyway…. But I was more and more determined to go that way. And being virtually disowned was kind of liberating for me, because I had nothing left to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10642751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/KristoffersonSFJAZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10642751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/KristoffersonSFJAZZ.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/KristoffersonSFJAZZ-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Kristofferson performs as part of a tribute to Joni Mitchell at the SFJAZZ Center on May 8, 2015 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(File Photo/Drew Altizer Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>From janitor to hit songwriter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Arriving in Nashville in 1965, Kristofferson got a job as a janitor at Columbia Studios, sweeping floors and emptying ashtrays, while writing songs on the side. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often compared the creative ferment of Nashville in the ’60s to that of Paris in the ’20s. “When I got there,” he said in the 1999 \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em> interview, “it was so different from any life that I’d been in before; just hanging out with these people who stayed up for three or four days at a time, and nights, and were writing songs all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I wrote four songs during the first week I was there,” he continued. “And it was just so exciting to me. It was like a lifeboat, you know? It was like my salvation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Kristofferson was so desperate to get his songs into the hands of Johnny Cash that he landed a helicopter on Cash’s lawn. 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It’s silver-tongue seduction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Take the ribbon from your hair\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cem>Shake it loose and let it fall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Layin’ soft upon my skin \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Like the shadows on the wall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Come and lay down by my side\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Til the early morning light\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All I’m takin’ is your time\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Help me make it through the night\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In person and on the screen, Kristofferson was magnetic: movie-star gorgeous, with a roguish grin and electric blue eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women loved him, you know? I mean, absolutely fell over,” Crowell says. “He was a sex symbol and a rock star.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a young, eager musician like Crowell, Kristofferson offered an intoxicating role model. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘Hmm, I want to be like that,'” Crowell says. “I was like, ‘How do you do that? How do you have that kind of swagger?'” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson brought that same sensual swagger to his movie roles over his decades-long career. He starred in films including \u003cem>Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore\u003c/em>, \u003cem>A Star Is Born, Semi-Tough\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Heaven’s Gate\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Lone Star\u003c/em>, working with directors Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Alan Rudolph and John Sayles, among others. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a stretch in the 1980s and ’90s, Kristofferson was part of an occasional country outlaw supergroup, joining with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson to form the Highwaymen. Recalling that time in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.loudersound.com/features/q-a-kris-kristofferson\">interview\u003c/a> with the British magazine \u003cem>Classic Rock\u003c/em> years later, he said, “I just wish I was more aware of how lucky I was to share a stage with those people. I had no idea that two of them [Cash and Jennings] would be done so soon. Hell, I was up there and I had all my heroes with me – these are guys whose ashtrays I used to clean. I’m kinda amazed I wasn’t more amazed.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s and ’90s, Kristofferson also embraced a number of leftist political causes. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/06/us/438-protesters-are-arrested-at-nevada-nuclear-test-site.html\">protested\u003c/a> nuclear testing in Nevada, and \u003ca href=\"https://freshairarchive.org/segments/kris-kristofferson-his-trip-nicaragua-and-his-support-sandinistas\">vocally opposed \u003c/a>U.S. policy in Central America, making several trips to Nicaragua in support of the Sandinista government, and excoriating the U.S. backing of El Salvador’s military-led junta in that country’s brutal civil war. “I’m a songwriter,” he said in a 1988 \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em> interview, “but I’m also concerned with my fellow human beings. And I’m real concerned with the soul of my country.” His 1990 album, \u003cem>Third World Warrior\u003c/em>, is filled with songs expressing his political views:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Broken rules and dirty warriors spreading lies and secret funds\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cem>Can’t defeat the Campesino with their money and their guns\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cause he’s fighting for his future and his freedom and his sons\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the third world war \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Kris-Kristofferson-Ocean-2-Mary-Ellen-Mark-e1727649844111-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Kristofferson in 2005 during the Iraq War, which he vehemently opposed. \u003ccite>(Mary Ellen Clark/New West Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Music connected him to memory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his later years, Kristofferson suffered from profound memory loss, but he kept performing up \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIa0aFLjAjw\">until 2020\u003c/a>. Among those he shared the stage with was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwgwamUhoI\">Margo Price\u003c/a>. “Without a doubt,” she says, “he still had all the same charisma and all the sex appeal, every time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Price says, Kristofferson could connect with his musical memories and “feel like he was himself…. There’s been times where I’ve got off stage with Kris and I’m like, ‘Great show, Kris!’ He’s like, ‘Oh, thanks. You know, I wish I could have been there!’ I mean, that was the powerful thing about seeing him perform his songs, was that he could remember songs he’d written so long ago, but yet not remember something from five minutes ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/02/03/170872651/kris-kristofferson-on-writing-for-and-outliving-his-idols\">interview\u003c/a> with NPR in 2013, Kristofferson reflected on his life and career. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Wednesday, four San Francisco mayoral candidates appeared at an Arts Town Hall Mayoral Forum to present their proposals for supporting the city’s arts ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Produced by Arts for a Better Bay Area, the forum’s panel included Mayor London Breed, Levi’s heir and nonprofit leader Daniel Lurie, President of the Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Supervisor Ahsha Safaí. (Mark Farrell was noticeably absent from the forum, citing previous commitments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the auditorium of the SFJAZZ Center, candidates took the stage one at a time, each with 15 minutes to answer the same four questions about arts priorities, funding, guaranteed income and two propositions on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where the candidates stand on each of the four arts-related issues. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black woman in red suit gestures with both hands at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965127\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What are some of the ways you would work to help energize that total arts and culture ecosystem? What are your priorities for a thriving arts ecosystem?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed, the first to take to the stage, cited her previous experience as the former executive director of the African American Art & Culture Complex and highlighted the work she’s done so far as mayor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I created the first ever universal basic income program for artists because of the need and to uplift our artist community,” she said, “My goal is not just to recognize and build upon the work that I’ve already done, but take it to the next level.” That includes ensuring that artists are able to actually access city-built artist housing, she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Peskin warmed up the crowd a bit before answering. (“Let me start by saying the obvious. I’m not from here. I come from the East … Bay,” he said, earning a few chuckles.) Getting ahead of the question related to propositions, Peskin said he wants to ensure artists can afford to live in San Francisco by passing the “sensible alternative” to Proposition D — Proposition E. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city,” he warned, “is being pushed in the wrong direction by some very conservative forces. And it is manifesting in many ways, including but not limited to a proposition that one particular billionaire put on the ballot that would actually eliminate the Arts Commission, Proposition D, and I’m not having it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000.jpg\" alt=\"older white man with beard holds mic with one hand, smiling\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of the Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel Lurie touted his experience with the Civic Joy Fund and its Paint the City program. But what seemed to resonate more with voters in the audience was his call for more public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know our performing arts are struggling down on Market Street because of public safety issues and people not wanting to come downtown,” Lurie said. “Our symphony, our opera, the big ones are struggling financially, and that’s going to hurt our small business arts organizations.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahsha Safaí’s vision includes supporting middle and high school art programming. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way to energize that is to do more cultural celebrations, to have an artist laureate for the city,” Safaí said. “Doing everything we can to infuse that into our youth programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>As mayor, how will you ensure that direct funding for organizations that provide stability and access continues to grow as the hotel tax recovers? How would you address the issue of equity in the arts? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed spoke again to her previous track record as mayor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have made it a point to at least maintain our arts funding at the same levels, even in the midst of a global pandemic,” said Breed. “We’ve also opened up opportunities for the Office of Economic and Workforce Development because the arts bring in $1.5 billion to our city’s economy,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg\" alt=\"white man in suit gestures with one hand at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965110\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie laid out a plan for adding more police and mental health workers to “get people off the streets” and make the city more attractive to tourists, thus increasing the hotel tax, which funds the arts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a perfect example with Dreamforce, that’s going to fill our bars, our restaurants,” Lurie said. “We’ve made public safety a priority this week … we need to make public safety a priority 365 days a year.” Lurie then sidelined slightly to talk about World Cup matches and NBA All-Star Games, as well as 2025’s Super Bowl LX, which will be held in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin also highlighted public safety, calling it a priority. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So is the arts,” he added. “I am willing to stand up and say that we need to find new sources of revenue in order to sustain what I think is one of the basic services of San Francisco, and that is the arts.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safaí emphasized preserving the hotel tax. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to see what a city’s priorities are, you look at the budget, you see where the funding is allocated,” Safaí said. “And as mayor, that would be a top, top priority for me with the power that’s invested in that office. And protecting the hotel tax, and ensuring that it’s not reallocated in any other way.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Given the demand, would you support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915178/ybca-sf-gipa-guaranteed-income-artists-phase-two\">another UBI\u003c/a> (universal basic income) program for individual artists? Would you support below-market-rate studios and work spaces for artists? What other steps would you, as mayor, take to ensure these culture bearers can not only survive, but thrive? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13915178,arts_13913890']Breed touted her administration’s guaranteed income program for artists. “Providing a stable source of income can help allow for financial stability for our artists in order to do what they do best: be creatives, not administrators,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pushed for a yes or no answer on supporting another guaranteed income program, Breed responded, “I’m always open to the possibility.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie called for more live-work space, and said affordability is key. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we’re getting artists a living wage through the grants that we give out as a city,” said Lurie. “We need to invite our creative class back to San Francisco. They need to be able to afford to live here and work here, so more live-work spaces will be a focus of mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moderators pushed Lurie for a yes or no answer on supporting guaranteed income, causing a moment of tension as Lurie claimed that the guaranteed income program “got politicized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know we tried it,” Lurie said. “We don’t know how it turned out. It seems to be another issue of lack of accountability and oversight. So I’m happy to talk to experts on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is that a no?” asked moderator Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. of the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it was not a ‘no,’” responded Lurie. “It was, ‘happy to talk to the experts about it.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black woman and Black man stand at podium with mics\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOMArts Executive Director Maria Jenson and San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company Artistic Director Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. moderated the Arts Town Hall.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he was the only major candidate in the race to support expanding rent control. He did not clarify exactly where he stands on guaranteed income. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safaí spoke about his experience with other forms of guaranteed income as Supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During COVID, there was a lot of conversation in our city about guaranteed income,” Safaí said. “I took the initiative with my staff and others to do a food security program, to do guaranteed income. You call it something a little different,” he said, differentiating between guaranteed income and universal basic income. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got prepaid cards that can help people when they’re purchasing food,” Safaí said. “So if we need to expand, and can expand, programs like that for artists? Absolutely.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>On the November ballot there are two ballot initiatives, D and E, focused on city commissions reforms. What are your positions on the measures? \u003c/b>\u003ci>(An overview of Propositions D and E can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004606/commission-reform-clash-heres-how-mayoral-candidates-want-to-rewrite-san-franciscos-charter\">here\u003c/a>.) \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, to be very clear,” Breed said, “I’m not supporting either measure.” Speaking about Proposition D, which would reduce the number of commissions and does not ensure that the Arts Commission would still exist, the mayor said, “See, you don’t just throw it out and say okay, we can bring it back if we want to. You work with people. You just don’t do it behind closed doors.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important that people in the city understand the impact of these various boards and commissions,” Breed added. “And I’ll be honest, yeah, some of them need to go.” But ultimately, she said, “this is not the right way, and I do not support either one.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Man in suit without tie gestures with arm at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Ahsha Safaí at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie, during his turn, made it clear he’s a proponent of Proposition D. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have a broken system,” Lurie said. “I do support Prop. D, and it is something that I’m happy to work with the Arts Commission — sorry, the art and creative community on.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ended with a light jab at the mayor. “You have my commitment that arts funding will be much stronger in my watch than the current mayor’s watch,” Lurie said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he’s not a fan of Proposition D. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could we reform our commission system of government and make it better and achieve efficiencies? Absolutely,” said Peskin. “But this is not the way to go about it. Proposition D is really about cutting out participation in government, both from experts like artists, who get appointed to the Arts Commission, as well as by members of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin went on to call Proposition D “really abhorrent,” adding that the proposition goes “against democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democracy is messy,” Peskin said. “[The] arts is messy, but it’s the best, most beautiful thing that we have. So vote no on Proposition D and vote yes on Proposition E, which is reform done right.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000.jpg\" alt=\"wide view of darkened stage with man at podium, two moderators at separate table and projected question above\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin on stage at SFJAZZ during the Arts Town Hall on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Breed, Safaí said he supports neither proposition. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have an arts commission in this city no matter what,” Supervisor Safaí said. “So regardless of what the outcome is on D or E, I am not taking a position on either one because I’m not going to step into that trap,” he said. “I’m just being honest. D and E, I think, are designed to be part of the political traps in this city.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BONUS QUESTION: Anything else you’d like to add?\u003c/b> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed concluded by addressing the current state of the Dream Keeper Initiative, launched in 2020 to redirect funds to San Francisco’s Black communities. The program is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004687/mayor-breed-taps-new-sf-human-rights-director-as-misspending-scrutiny-intensifies\">currently being investigated\u003c/a> following reports of potential misspending of public money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling the initiative important to the arts community, Breed said that “this program is valuable and it has helped make a difference in home ownership, nonprofit organizations, [and] new businesses for African Americans.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing the crowd directly, Mayor Breed asked for time and patience. “We have to at least investigate this, make sure that we do a full and transparent investigation, and make that available to the public.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000.jpg\" alt=\"crowd in spacious lobby area with windows on one side\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-84_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the Arts Town Hall mingle at SFJAZZ Center following the Sept. 18, 2024 event. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his closing statements, Lurie seemed to feel the need to play defense. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just telling you, they’re going to say a lot of things about me over the next six weeks,” Lurie said. “They’re coming after me. And it’s because I’m exposing this broken, corrupt city hall bureaucracy.” Lurie pledged to be the “truest version” of a public servant who would serve the people, taxpayers, artists and creators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pledged this to a priest, I pledged to a rabbi: I am not seeking any other office after this,” Lurie said. “I’m gonna be able to make the tough decisions because I’m not looking to go to Sacramento. I’m not looking to get to D.C. I’m looking to turn around the city that we all love.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safaí used his remaining time to paint himself as a candidate with the right experience for the job who will “get away from divisive politics.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to be ready for this job, day one,” Safaí said. “There are people that are literally trying to buy Room 200. They’re trying to write a check to make up for their lack of experience and ensure that they can come into this job.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With less than a minute of time remaining, Peskin thanked everyone for coming out and reiterated his desire to reassert San Francisco as a “refuge of otherness.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And don’t forget to vote for my kindergarten pal,” he said, referencing Kamala Harris. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.betterbayarea.org/\">Arts for a Better Bay Area\u003c/a> noted that in the coming days, the candidates’ full responses will be posted on their website, along with other questions for candidates not asked at the forum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Wednesday, four San Francisco mayoral candidates appeared at an Arts Town Hall Mayoral Forum to present their proposals for supporting the city’s arts ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Produced by Arts for a Better Bay Area, the forum’s panel included Mayor London Breed, Levi’s heir and nonprofit leader Daniel Lurie, President of the Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Supervisor Ahsha Safaí. (Mark Farrell was noticeably absent from the forum, citing previous commitments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the auditorium of the SFJAZZ Center, candidates took the stage one at a time, each with 15 minutes to answer the same four questions about arts priorities, funding, guaranteed income and two propositions on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where the candidates stand on each of the four arts-related issues. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black woman in red suit gestures with both hands at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965127\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-40_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What are some of the ways you would work to help energize that total arts and culture ecosystem? What are your priorities for a thriving arts ecosystem?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed, the first to take to the stage, cited her previous experience as the former executive director of the African American Art & Culture Complex and highlighted the work she’s done so far as mayor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I created the first ever universal basic income program for artists because of the need and to uplift our artist community,” she said, “My goal is not just to recognize and build upon the work that I’ve already done, but take it to the next level.” That includes ensuring that artists are able to actually access city-built artist housing, she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Peskin warmed up the crowd a bit before answering. (“Let me start by saying the obvious. I’m not from here. I come from the East … Bay,” he said, earning a few chuckles.) Getting ahead of the question related to propositions, Peskin said he wants to ensure artists can afford to live in San Francisco by passing the “sensible alternative” to Proposition D — Proposition E. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city,” he warned, “is being pushed in the wrong direction by some very conservative forces. And it is manifesting in many ways, including but not limited to a proposition that one particular billionaire put on the ballot that would actually eliminate the Arts Commission, Proposition D, and I’m not having it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000.jpg\" alt=\"older white man with beard holds mic with one hand, smiling\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-58_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of the Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel Lurie touted his experience with the Civic Joy Fund and its Paint the City program. But what seemed to resonate more with voters in the audience was his call for more public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know our performing arts are struggling down on Market Street because of public safety issues and people not wanting to come downtown,” Lurie said. “Our symphony, our opera, the big ones are struggling financially, and that’s going to hurt our small business arts organizations.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahsha Safaí’s vision includes supporting middle and high school art programming. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way to energize that is to do more cultural celebrations, to have an artist laureate for the city,” Safaí said. “Doing everything we can to infuse that into our youth programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>As mayor, how will you ensure that direct funding for organizations that provide stability and access continues to grow as the hotel tax recovers? How would you address the issue of equity in the arts? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed spoke again to her previous track record as mayor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have made it a point to at least maintain our arts funding at the same levels, even in the midst of a global pandemic,” said Breed. “We’ve also opened up opportunities for the Office of Economic and Workforce Development because the arts bring in $1.5 billion to our city’s economy,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg\" alt=\"white man in suit gestures with one hand at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965110\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-54_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie laid out a plan for adding more police and mental health workers to “get people off the streets” and make the city more attractive to tourists, thus increasing the hotel tax, which funds the arts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a perfect example with Dreamforce, that’s going to fill our bars, our restaurants,” Lurie said. “We’ve made public safety a priority this week … we need to make public safety a priority 365 days a year.” Lurie then sidelined slightly to talk about World Cup matches and NBA All-Star Games, as well as 2025’s Super Bowl LX, which will be held in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin also highlighted public safety, calling it a priority. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So is the arts,” he added. “I am willing to stand up and say that we need to find new sources of revenue in order to sustain what I think is one of the basic services of San Francisco, and that is the arts.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safaí emphasized preserving the hotel tax. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to see what a city’s priorities are, you look at the budget, you see where the funding is allocated,” Safaí said. “And as mayor, that would be a top, top priority for me with the power that’s invested in that office. And protecting the hotel tax, and ensuring that it’s not reallocated in any other way.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breed touted her administration’s guaranteed income program for artists. “Providing a stable source of income can help allow for financial stability for our artists in order to do what they do best: be creatives, not administrators,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pushed for a yes or no answer on supporting another guaranteed income program, Breed responded, “I’m always open to the possibility.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie called for more live-work space, and said affordability is key. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we’re getting artists a living wage through the grants that we give out as a city,” said Lurie. “We need to invite our creative class back to San Francisco. They need to be able to afford to live here and work here, so more live-work spaces will be a focus of mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moderators pushed Lurie for a yes or no answer on supporting guaranteed income, causing a moment of tension as Lurie claimed that the guaranteed income program “got politicized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know we tried it,” Lurie said. “We don’t know how it turned out. It seems to be another issue of lack of accountability and oversight. So I’m happy to talk to experts on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is that a no?” asked moderator Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. of the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it was not a ‘no,’” responded Lurie. “It was, ‘happy to talk to the experts about it.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black woman and Black man stand at podium with mics\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-10_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOMArts Executive Director Maria Jenson and San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company Artistic Director Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. moderated the Arts Town Hall.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he was the only major candidate in the race to support expanding rent control. He did not clarify exactly where he stands on guaranteed income. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safaí spoke about his experience with other forms of guaranteed income as Supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During COVID, there was a lot of conversation in our city about guaranteed income,” Safaí said. “I took the initiative with my staff and others to do a food security program, to do guaranteed income. You call it something a little different,” he said, differentiating between guaranteed income and universal basic income. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got prepaid cards that can help people when they’re purchasing food,” Safaí said. “So if we need to expand, and can expand, programs like that for artists? Absolutely.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>On the November ballot there are two ballot initiatives, D and E, focused on city commissions reforms. What are your positions on the measures? \u003c/b>\u003ci>(An overview of Propositions D and E can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004606/commission-reform-clash-heres-how-mayoral-candidates-want-to-rewrite-san-franciscos-charter\">here\u003c/a>.) \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, to be very clear,” Breed said, “I’m not supporting either measure.” Speaking about Proposition D, which would reduce the number of commissions and does not ensure that the Arts Commission would still exist, the mayor said, “See, you don’t just throw it out and say okay, we can bring it back if we want to. You work with people. You just don’t do it behind closed doors.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important that people in the city understand the impact of these various boards and commissions,” Breed added. “And I’ll be honest, yeah, some of them need to go.” But ultimately, she said, “this is not the right way, and I do not support either one.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Man in suit without tie gestures with arm at podium\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-76_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Ahsha Safaí at SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie, during his turn, made it clear he’s a proponent of Proposition D. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have a broken system,” Lurie said. “I do support Prop. D, and it is something that I’m happy to work with the Arts Commission — sorry, the art and creative community on.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ended with a light jab at the mayor. “You have my commitment that arts funding will be much stronger in my watch than the current mayor’s watch,” Lurie said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he’s not a fan of Proposition D. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could we reform our commission system of government and make it better and achieve efficiencies? Absolutely,” said Peskin. “But this is not the way to go about it. Proposition D is really about cutting out participation in government, both from experts like artists, who get appointed to the Arts Commission, as well as by members of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin went on to call Proposition D “really abhorrent,” adding that the proposition goes “against democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democracy is messy,” Peskin said. “[The] arts is messy, but it’s the best, most beautiful thing that we have. So vote no on Proposition D and vote yes on Proposition E, which is reform done right.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000.jpg\" alt=\"wide view of darkened stage with man at podium, two moderators at separate table and projected question above\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/sf_arts_town_hall_2024_amycarrphotography-64_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin on stage at SFJAZZ during the Arts Town Hall on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Amy Carr Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Breed, Safaí said he supports neither proposition. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have an arts commission in this city no matter what,” Supervisor Safaí said. “So regardless of what the outcome is on D or E, I am not taking a position on either one because I’m not going to step into that trap,” he said. “I’m just being honest. D and E, I think, are designed to be part of the political traps in this city.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>BONUS QUESTION: Anything else you’d like to add?\u003c/b> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed concluded by addressing the current state of the Dream Keeper Initiative, launched in 2020 to redirect funds to San Francisco’s Black communities. 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