Time’s up for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, and he knows it.

As did his longtime friends, associates, colleagues, employees, politicians, and an entire celebrity industrial complex that sustained this monster for decades, including Jennifer Lopez.

If there is justice, Diddy will not be the only one held accountable.

Former NYPD investigator Derrick Parker, who worked a 1999 shooting involving Combs and J.Lo, has compared him to the Jeffrey Epstein of hip-hop.

“He ran away from a lot of things because of who he was,” Parker said. “Now a lot of things are coming back to him.”

On Sunday, Combs posted a pathetic, self-pitying video in which he “apologized” for brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

This, after decades of rebuttals and reverse accusations from Diddy, claiming that Cassie — with her allegations of systematic rape and violence — was attempting blackmail, revenge and extortion.

Everyone knew it. He told the world a long time ago who and what he was exactly.

The recent raids on his properties in Los Angeles and Miami had been in the works for some time.

Time is up for Sean “Diddy” Combs, and he knows it. So do his longtime friends, partners, colleagues, employees, politicians, and an entire celebrity industrial complex that propped up this juggernaut for decades, including Jennifer Lopez (pictured in 2000).

On Sunday, Combs released a pathetic, self-pitying video statement “apologizing” for brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie (pictured in 2016). This, after decades of rebuttals and reverse accusations from Diddy, claiming Cassie was attempting to blackmail, exact revenge and extort money.

Yet there was New York City Mayor Eric Adams, handing Combs a key to the city last September.

“Sean Combs is the embodiment of New York City attitude,” Adams said at the ceremony. “He has proven to be a singular and generational talent.”

Please. Adams is a former New York City police officer. You can’t tell me he didn’t know anything about Combs. He’s been on the NYPD’s radar since at least 1991, when nine people were killed and 29 injured at a basketball event in New York City that Combs promoted and at which there were many spectators.

By the way, Cassie filed the lawsuit just two months after Combs obtained the key, in November 2023.

It was filed a day before a special New York provision that allowed victims of sexual abuse whose allegations would otherwise have fallen outside the statute of limitations was set to expire.

To me, that moment suggests that Cassie really struggled with the decision to apply and is probably still very afraid of Combs.

And rightly so. His violent behavior has been known to authorities for decades, but he has never been found guilty of any of it.

Her track record continues throughout the 1990s and beyond: alleged shootings, beatings, violent assaults and death threats, a car bomb explosion in rival rapper Kid Cudi’s vehicle, and of course, that infamous nightclub shooting that involved J.Lo. More on that in a bit.

More recently, Combs has denied, denied, and denied Cassie’s claims (one particularly cruel detail shows him stomping on her face, beating her to a pulp until she bled profusely and vomited, all witnessed by at least one of Combs’ bodyguards), but now he can no longer deny them.

A harrowing video from a Los Angeles hotel security camera, dated March 5, 2016, was leaked to CNN on Friday.

Seventy-two hours later — did he really need time to think this through? — Adams said he is “considering” revoking New York City’s key. What more proof does he need?

These images are beyond damning. We see Diddy, wrapped only in a bath towel, grabbing Cassie by the neck, pushing her to the ground and literally kicking her while she was on the ground, motionless.

He then pulls her by the shirt and drags her down the hallway, where the assault continues until someone gets off the elevator on her floor.

That’s how emboldened Combs has become: comfortable enough to unleash serious bodily harm on a defenseless woman in a very public place, half naked and with cameras everywhere.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams presented Combs with a key to the city last September. “Sean Combs is the embodiment of the attitude of New York City,” Adams said at the ceremony. Adams is a former New York City police officer. Don’t tell me I didn’t know about Combs.

He reportedly paid the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, the site of the brutal beating, $50,000 for the footage.

Who sold it to Combs? How many hotel employees and executives were involved in this cover-up?

If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the video. You’ll never look at Combs the same way again. He’s a vile, irredeemable guy and should be put away for life.

However, in his apology video, he describes himself as the only victim here.

“It’s very difficult to reflect on the darkest moments of your life,” he says in an overly casual voice.

Tears? None.

“Sometimes,” he says, “you have to do it. I was screwed. I mean, I hit rock bottom.”

Poor him.

“But I don’t apologize,” says the man who has been lying and making excuses for years. “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video.”

Keep going:   me, me, me. Me, me, me.

Not once does he mention Cassie, the pain she caused him, or what he can do to make amends.

Combs claims to have gone to therapy and rehab (no dates, no details, no information offered) and then, of course, to have asked God for “grace.”

Even God would like Sean Combs to lose his number.

Cassie’s video is a bomb, for better and for worse.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office quickly announced that Combs cannot be prosecuted because, at eight years old, the video is no longer subject to the statute of limitations.

It is unacceptable, but this is how violence against women is still viewed. It is a shame, really, but there is a time limit for holding so-called men who rape and abuse accountable.

Investigators are no longer limited by the “he said, she said” statements of 20 or 30 years ago. We live in a world with security cameras everywhere. We all carry personal recording devices and GPS systems on our phones. The evidence is often multiple.

Years after an assault, as we see in Cassie’s video, compelling evidence can emerge that the complainant is telling the truth and that a dangerous predator should be taken off the streets.

In the 1999 nightclub incident, three people were shot, a young woman in the face, Combs, the prime suspect, and J.Lo, his alleged “gun mule.” Lopez was arrested, as was Combs. She spent 14 hours in custody before being released without charge. (Photograph from 2000.)

So far, Lopez has remained silent about what happened that night and what really transpired in their two-year relationship. She is not alone. Her close friend Ashton Kutcher (pictured in 2003), who defended convicted rapist Danny Masterson, has also remained silent.

Combs should be put in handcuffs immediately. Shame on every politician, prosecutor and legislator who fails to correct this problem.

Despite his criminal record in New York, Combs did not become known as a violent criminal nationally until 1998, after his arrest for brutally beating Interscope Records executive Steve Stout in 1999.

Why? Combs didn’t like the editing of one of his music videos.

“He punched me in the face and then grabbed the phone and hit me in the head with it,” Stoute told the LA Times.

“If someone can walk into the headquarters of the world’s largest record company and beat up a top executive over a disagreement,” Stoute said, “I guarantee you this is going to be a huge business for criminals to thrive in.”

Truer words.

Combs was sentenced to one day of anger management treatment. Did he have police officers or prosecutors on his payroll, then and now?

Next up: the Times Square nightclub incident of the same year, in which three people were shot, a young woman in the face, Combs the prime suspect and J.Lo, his alleged “gun mule.”

Lopez was arrested, as was Combs. She spent 14 hours in custody before being released without charge, but not before allegedly demanding that someone bring her cuticle cream. Priorities.

Combs was found not guilty, but his protégé ‘Shyne’ Barrow – long suspected of being the scapegoat – served ten years in prison.

Victim Natania Reuben, to this day, maintains that it was Combs who shot her, not Shyne.

“I literally saw them pulling out the guns,” he said in March. “I had a clear point of view. I mean, for God’s sake, they shot me in the nose.”

As for J.Lo: A recent lawsuit filed by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleges that on the night of the 1999 club shooting, it was Lopez who “brought the gun to the club for [Combs] and passed the gun to her after she got into an altercation with another individual.”

Lopez has so far remained silent about what happened that night and what really transpired in their two-year relationship.

But she is not alone. Her close friend Ashton Kutcher, who defended convicted rapist Danny Masterson, has also remained silent.

And what about the nearly 30 artists like John Legend, H.E.R., Mary J. Blige and The Weeknd who collaborated on Combs’ ridiculously tile-filled ‘Love’ album last year?

Diddy partied with princes, Trump, and the world’s top CEOs and stars.

If the allegations of a sprawling sex trafficking ring are true, well, how many people knew about it?

Diddy hangs out with princes, Trump, and the world’s top CEOs and stars. (Photo: 2005)

As accusations and allegations against Combs mount (from Usher’s inference that he was exposed to shady events under Combs’ mentorship, to allegations of sex trafficking and rape involving minors, to Lil Rod’s claims that Combs and actor Cuba Gooding Jr. sexually assaulted him), well, clearly a federal indictment is in the offing.

It seems that justice will finally be done, but at what cost? How much human slaughter could have been avoided?

As Combs no doubt knows, he is in for as much damage, if not more, than has allegedly been inflicted on him over the years.