Diddy is working hard to get out of spending any more time in jail than necessary, and he is seemingly willing to try anything, even if it is ill-advised. The 55-year-old entrepreneur hopes to counsel abusers, which has prompted his accusers to speak out against such an act.
Alexandra Shapiro, one of the controversial mogul’s trial lawyers, spoke to Business Insider about his plans of becoming an anti-domestic violence counselor. “That’s something that he actively wants to pursue in the future,” she said. “The idea is that he would work with programs and be able to go in and talk to people, talk to youth, talk to others about the issue in a proactive way and be an advocate for this. And sometimes, people like him can be the best spokesperson to try to help.”
Again, this doesn’t appear to be entirely selfless or noble, as these plans are part of his attempt to get time served for his two convictions of transportation to engage in prostitution. His alleged victims and their teams held nothing back in sharing their thoughts on his plans. “This is utterly preposterous,” Douglas Wigdor, Cassie’s attorney, told Rolling Stone.
“How are you going to counsel someone else when you haven’t done the work on yourself?” another source, who was allegedly physically assaulted by the controversial mogul in 2010, said. “This is manipulation at its best.”
His need for rehabilitation seemed to be a common theme, as another one of Puff’s alleged victims said “It’s [making] a mockery of the system. It’s a mockery of everyone he’s harmed. He needs intensive therapy.”
The “I Need A Girl” artist was acquitted of his racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges last month. It closed an almost two-year saga that included him being sued, his homes being raided by Homeland Security, footage of him abusing Cassie coming out, and him spending 8 months in jail.
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