Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - P. Diddy Inner Circle: Who is Mogul's 'Right Hand' Kristina Khorram?

Episode Date: April 20, 2024

The Chief of Staff for Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Kristina Khorram, was one of 30 people named in a lawsuit filed by a record producer, Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones. Jones called Khorram the "Ghislaine... Maxwell to Sean Combs Jeffrey Epstein." Khorram has not responded to the allegations but Combs has denied them through his lawyer. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy and former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi break down the allegations and what they could mean for Khorram in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.Host: Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Guest: Gene Rossi  https://twitter.com/rossi4vaCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoAudio Editing - Brad MaybeGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@LawandCrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law & Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Sean Diddy Combs has a tight inner circle, including his right-hand woman, Christina Corum. So who is she and why is she named in a lawsuit by a former producer for Combs? Thanks for joining me for Crime Fix. I'm Anjanette Levy. When Rodney Little Rod Jones filed that lawsuit against Sean Combs. Thanks for joining me for Crime Fix. I'm Anjanette Levy. When Rodney Little Rod Jones filed that lawsuit against Sean Combs and many others, Christina Corum was one of the people named as the defendant in the suit. And I want to be crystal clear, Sean Combs has vehemently
Starting point is 00:00:37 denied these allegations. His attorney, Sean Hawley, has been quoted as saying they've tried to present evidence to Little Rod's attorney to disprove the claims, but they've been rebuffed. So that would make anything Little Rod claimed about Christina Corum untrue as well in Combs' eyes. No attorney is listed for Christina Corum on the federal court's website. Corum's now-deleted LinkedIn account has said that she joined Bad Boy Entertainment back in 2013 and became Combs' day-to-day manager, later becoming director for the officer of the chairman. And the chairman, of course, is Diddy. She was promoted to Diddy's chief of staff back in 2020, and she's very important to him. Combs has even written about her on social media. Meet Christina Corum, chief of staff at Combs Enterprises. Christina, aka KK,
Starting point is 00:01:26 keeps everything in my life and my business running. She's been my right hand for the last eight years and has consistently proven to execute and get S-word done. Don't know how I'd function without her. In another post, Diddy wrote, happy birthday to my ace boon coon, my right hand, my day-to-day manager that keeps my world twirling and she's always got my back. She makes sure that I smile every day and I don't go into those dark places. Today is your day. It's your mother effing birthday. Go KK. It's your birthday. Love you at Christina Coram. Combs clearly values Christina Coram's work and his relationship with her. The lawsuit Little Rod filed makes some disturbing and salacious claims against Coram, and again, Combs has denied what's in that lawsuit. First, Little Rod has claimed that
Starting point is 00:02:17 Mr. Combs' chief of staff, Christina Coram, also known as KK, instructs her staff to retrieve drugs so she can provide them to Mr. Combs for his consumption. A footnote in the lawsuit that Little Rod filed says, defendant Corum instructed her staff, Brendan Paul, Frankie Santella, and Moy Bond to spike bottles of champagne with ecstasy. Upon information and belief, this occurred the day of December 31st, 2022, New Year's Eve party. Lil Rod claims he complained to Coram about sexual advances from Combs, and she responded, Sean will be Sean, and downplayed Combs groping him as horseplay, stating, he's just showing that he likes you. Jones also called Coram the Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs' Jeffrey Epstein, claiming she required employees to
Starting point is 00:03:06 walk around with fanny packs of cocaine, GHB, and ecstasy to keep Combs high and much more. Gene Rossi is a former federal prosecutor. So Gene, there's this allegation that Christina Corum, the chief of staff for Sean Combs, is ordering drugs through this guy, Brendan Paul, the so-called drug mule, and ordering employees to run around with black fanny packs that carry these drugs so that Sean Combs can be high all of the time. That seems like typical Hollywood stuff, possibly. What's the crime in that potentially as far as the feds are concerned? Well, in my view is you have a potential. They did a search warrant. The federal government did a search warrant, Southern District of New
Starting point is 00:03:49 York. That is bad in itself because Southern District of New York is one of the top three or four U.S. attorney's offices in the country. That is very bad for Mr. Combs and the other defendant in this quorum. The second thing is the federal charges that they're probably investigating are a criminal RICO, money laundering, a Mann Act violation, which involves sex trafficking, interstate transport of minors. It could involve a lot of charges. So let me focus on the allegation. It seems, according to the victims, to other customers, not just the employees and Mr. Combs. So it wasn't just drugs, in my view, for Combs alone. It was probably used by the employees and also used by the victims of this crime. There's a particularly disturbing allegation that Christina Coram,
Starting point is 00:05:06 according to this lawsuit, was ordering people to spike bottles of champagne for a New Year's Eve party a couple of years back and ordering them to spike it with certain drugs. And then the claim is that maybe there were minors at this party and things like that. What trouble could she be in regarding that allegation? Well, it's part of the sex trafficking. And when it involves minors, that takes it up a notch. And it's either a separate federal statute or it's a sentencing enhancement. But when you're engaging in illegal conduct involving a minor, okay, in the context of sex trafficking, I can tell you this from my experience, that is like steroids and rocket fuel for an aggressive prosecutor. And as I said at the
Starting point is 00:06:04 beginning, you have the Southern District of New York plus exploitation of minors. Little Rod, who sued Sean Combs, many other people, including Christina Corum, basically calls her the Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs' Jeffrey Epstein. So that's a very serious, serious statement to make, a serious claim to make. Sean Combs denies all of this. What are your thoughts on what kind of trouble she could potentially be in if this is true, if these allegations that they're running this RICO organized crime enterprise so Sean Combs can bring in people to have sex with and use drugs with and groom for his sexual fantasies and things
Starting point is 00:06:46 like that. What kind of trouble could she be in if she's arranging these trysts and then buying drugs to ply people with? All right. Here is the big problem for Ms. Coram by being compared to Ghislaine Maxwell. Number one, you have the same district, the Southern District of New York, investigating Mr. Combs and Mr. Corum too, Ms. Corum.
Starting point is 00:07:16 So the Southern District of New York already has a template for an indictment. Essentially, all you do is change the name. But I'm sure the same scheme, the same statutes, it's just take this template, this indictment that was used for Ms. Maxwell, and probably the same prosecutors are going to take it and insert Mr. Combs and Ms. Corum, and it's going to be Jeffrey Epstein too. So those are bad, bad facts and practices that are facing Mr. Combs and Ms. Corum. And I got to tell you, I predict it will probably take about four to six months for the agents to analyze the results of the search warrants in LA and in Florida of Mr. Combs' homes. They'll go through data, documents, and all that. It'll probably take four to six months. I predict that there will be a federal indictment, if I had to bet money, by the Southern District of New York in probably September or October of this year.
Starting point is 00:08:27 And I would be shocked if it doesn't include Mr. Combs and Ms. Corum and others on this list. I see I see Cuba Gooding Jr. This civil complaint that was amended March 25th, the same day as the search warrant. What that tells me, Anjanette, is there may be a little coordination between the federal prosecutors and the plaintiff, Mr. Rodney Jones, Little Rock. Yeah, I've been wondering about that myself since we've kind of heard that possibly this investigation, at least the federal investigation, may have been underway before these civil suits started being filed last fall. What are your thoughts on that, Gene? Okay, I can give you my experience. I investigated a very crooked pain doctor. He issued prescriptions
Starting point is 00:09:18 as high as, I'm not making this up, 1,200 oxy pills per day. I was investigating this doctor in Northern Virginia, and a private litigant read about it in the paper and heard about it on the news because it was high profile. They filed a lawsuit based on some of the information that I was gathering, and there was some exchange of witnesses and information that is not improper. Prosecutors can work with private litigants. If there's a common person or defendant, there's nothing wrong with that. You just can't share secret grand jury information with the private lawyer and the litigant. So you think it's possible?
Starting point is 00:10:09 I think it's extremely, exceedingly possible that there is coordination between the Southern District of New York prosecutors and the civil litigant. And I know it could be a coincidence, but I believe the coincidence don't happen by mistake, that they filed their amended complaint on March 25th, the same day as the executing of the search warrant. That's too much of a coincidence for me. Well, Sean Combs is denying all of this. He's saying he has evidence through
Starting point is 00:10:38 his attorney to refute Little Rod's allegations. That means that Christina Coram is basically denying it as well, but she doesn't have an attorney listed. So we just wanted to note that no charges have been filed, but wanted to look a little closer at Christina Coram and who she is and what she's accused of doing in this lawsuit. Gene Rossi, thanks so much again for coming on. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Good to see you. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being here. I'll see you back here next time.

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