Now that Diddy is not so patiently awaiting trial for his dozens of criminal charges, you would think that any power or autonomy he had left would be stopped in its tracks. The thing is that money talks, and Diddy has had no lack of funds since he built his successful hip-hop career in the 90s.

The latest news is that a group of private investigators have been making their rounds to social media influencers who have posted material regarding the case in order to determine more telling information and perhaps even persuade them to make a favorable argument for the superstar rather than a negative one for an agreed upon sum.

One such YouTuber who has been accosted by the P.I goes by the name of Amala Ekpunobi, who has an outreach of over 2 million followers on the platform. According to allhiphop.com, she said of the event that “they were coming to ask whether or not I’ve been paid to talk about P Diddy and his connection to other celebrities on my show.” She also mentioned that they told her “They would pay me more than what I was getting to share the opposite story.”

These investigators remained elusive as to who they were hired by and only cared to find out who was paying the influencers to make their Diddy content. With this kind of secrecy and adamance into personal information, we can only assume that these men were hired by Diddy himself.

The former rapper may likely be trying to utilize the last shreds of his celebrity fortune to influence those with a large global audience to speak on his behalf in a positive manner so that he does not spend the rest of his life incriminated or, at the very least, get these people to shut up with some hush money so that further details to his criminal acts do not get leaked to the world.

It is important to note that Tik Tok user ‘Samsoncrouppen1’ shared a video of these same investigators paying him a visit, as was confirmed by Amala who spoke with the same interrogative men.

Some people are under the impression that even if it was not Diddy himself paying for the investigators, it may be another celebrity who was an active participant in the infamous Diddy parties who is desperate to not get their name thrown under the bus in the same breath of legal allegations. According to Sportskeeda an X user said, “if true…some so called famous people do not want this to get out.”

Diddy undeniably has some motives to send out a squad to question people who dare to utter his name at a time in his life where it could make or break him. Of those motives, Sportskeeda mentions that he has been making attempts to “corruptly influence witness testimony” and “influence a potential jury pool” by pushing his own infiltrating influence on what social media has to say about him right now.

Whether it is the doing of the guilty party himself or an equally famous mystery accomplice, it sounds as if there are attempts at coercion at play here. All of this may also be an attempt to confuse the legal system with muddled storylines and half truths spoken in better lighting as “evidence” for the case.

This is a good lesson to not always believe what you hear or see on social media. For now, who sent the private investigators will likely remain a mystery until Diddy’s trial is underway.