P. Diddy shakes hands with guests as former Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell looks on at the NFL Fashion gala held at the Aquarium restaurant in Houston Friday Jan. 30, 2004.

A club dancer on top of a raised platform during a 2004 event sponsored by P Diddy in Houston.

Sean P. "Diddy" Combs greets the crowd during his Super Bowl party at a Houston night club in the early hours of Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004.

I used to tell the story of covering Sean "Diddy" Combs' celebrity weekend in Houston in 2003 like an observer who witnessed something strange and was trying to make sense of it.

Nothing sexual occurred. I wasn't lured into one of Combs' alleged "freak offs" and did not know of alleged sexual improprieties, assaults or trafficking. But it was the one time in my career as a journalist, who then covered fashion and celebrities, that I didn't feel safe.

I didn't understand why. I was only there to cover a party.

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