John Legend’s manager was in ‘terrifying situation’ at a Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs party — how she escaped

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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest for sex trafficking. The 49-year-old CEO of the management company Friends At Work wrote an op-ed for The New York Times published Thursday where she shared her hopes that the industry gets a fresh start amid the controversy involving Combs, 54.Stiklorius also recalled being in a “terrifying situation” when she attended one of Combs’ New York Eve parties on a yacht in St.

Barts 27 years ago.Stiklorius, who was a recent college graduate at the time, claimed that “a man who seemed to be an associate of the party’s host” brought her to a bedroom and then locked the door behind them.“To this day, I can’t remember how I managed to talk my way out of that terrifying situation,” she wrote. “Perhaps my nervous babbling — ‘My brother’s on this boat, and he’s probably looking for me!’ — convinced him to unlock the bedroom door and let me go.”The music industry exec said she didn’t know who the man was “or if he had any connection” to Combs, and assumed at the time her “experience was an anomaly” and that it was “just one guy behaving badly at a drunken party.”But after working in the industry for 20 years, Stiklorius said she’s realized that the incident “was no aberration.”“It was an indicator of a pervasive culture in the music industry that actively fostered sexual misconduct and exploited the lives and bodies of those hoping to make it in the business,” she wrote.Stiklorius went on, “This toxic situation has been allowed to fester because power has been concentrated in the hands of kingmakers: wealthy, entitled, nearly always male gatekeepers who control nearly every door that leads to success and who can, without consequence, use their power to abuse young women and young men.