Oct. 6, 2025

"CASSIE'S BRAVE STAND, TYRESE'S KILLER DOGS & THE KARDASHIAN RICO WAR: Celebrity Justice After OJ Week"

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Reid Carter returns from Eight Days of OJ to find celebrity chaos everywhere. Judge Subramanian calls Cassie Ventura a "brave survivor" after Diddy's sentencing, while she reveals moving her family out of New York fearing "swift retribution." Tyrese Gibson's four Cane Corsos mauled a neighbor's spaniel to death while he wasn't home. Fifteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body found decomposing in singer David's Tesla trunk after weeks parked in Hollywood Hills. Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner sue Ray J for claiming federal RICO charges coming. Monday proves that while we covered the trial of the century, modern celebrity justice never stops.

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Callarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Monday, October sixth,

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twenty twenty five. We just spent ten days examining how

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Oj Simpson got away with murder thirty years ago. Now

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we return to find that celebrity justice in twenty twenty

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five is just as messy, just as complicated, and somehow

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involves Tyrese Gibson's dogs eating a neighbor's pet. Cassie Ventura

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is hiding from Diddy. She moved her family out of

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New York, changed her life, lives in fear of the

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man who just got sentenced to four years for what

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he did to her. The judge called her brave, she

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calls herself terrified. Tyresee's four cane corsos decided a neighbor's

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spaniel looked delicious. The fast and furious Star wasn't even home.

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His dogs traveled half a mile, murdered a pet, and

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now Tyresee is facing animal cruelty. Charges year old girl

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decomposed in David's tesla for weeks while it sat parked

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on a Hollywood street. Nobody noticed until the towyard smelled

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death and Ray j thinks Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner

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are about to face rico charges. They think Ray J

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is a delusional has been still bitter about a sex

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tape from two thousand and seven. Lawyers are involved. Welcome

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back from OJ week. This is Celebrity Trials, where apparently

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nothing changed while we were gone Friday. We covered Diddy's

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sentencing in a breaking news episode fifty months, four years

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in change for transportation to engage in prostitution. But what

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we didn't cover was what happened after the judge handed

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down that sentence, What the victim said, what the judge

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said to them, and why Cassie Ventura is more afraid

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now than she was before. Judge Aaron Subramanian looked directly

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at Cassie and the woman known as Jane after Saient

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andcing didty. What he said matters not for Ditty, He's

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going to federal prison regardless, but for every woman watching

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who's ever been afraid to come forward against a powerful man.

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To Miss Ventura and the other brave survivors that came forward,

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I want to say, first, we heard you. We heard you.

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Three words that victims of powerful men rarely get to

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hear from federal judges three words that acknowledge what it

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cost Cassie to testify, what it cost Jane to describe

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being assaulted as recently as June twenty twenty four, months

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after Ditty's arrest, months after the world knew what he was.

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Subramanian continued, Jane and Cassie Ventura have been through abuse

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and trauma. We couldn't imagine. I can only say your

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families are proud of you, and your children will be

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proud of you for coming to the court to tell

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you what really happened. You weren't just talking to the jury.

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You were talking to the women who feel powerless. That's

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what this case was really about, not Didty, not his empire,

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not his fifty month sentence. It was about the women

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who feel powerless, the women who watch men like Didty

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operate for decades, untouched, protected by money and fame and

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the knowledge that nobody will believe victims over celebrities. Cassie

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did something remarkable. She filed that civil lawsuit in November

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twenty twenty three. Opened the floodgates, made it possible for

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other women to come forward, made it possible for federal

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prosecutors to build a case, made it possible for a

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jury to convict him, but bravery has consequences. Cassie's lawyer,

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Doug Wigdoor, issued a statement after the sentencing. While nothing

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can undo the trauma caused by Combs, the sentence imposed

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today recognizes the impact of the serious offenses he committed.

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We are confident that, with the support of her family

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and friends, Miss Ventura will continue healing, knowing that her

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bravery and fortitude have been an inspiration to so many Healing.

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That's the word everyone uses when they don't want to

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say what's actually happening. Cassie isn't healing, She's hiding. Before sentencing,

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Cassie wrote a letter to Judge Subramanian. The contents are devastating.

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She moved her family out of the New York area,

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changed her entire life, lives in constant fear of retribution.

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Her words, My worries that Sean Comb's or his associates

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will come after me and my family is my reality.

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I have, in fact, moved my family out of the

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New York area and am keeping as private and quiet

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as I possibly can, because I am so scared that

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if he walks free, his first actions will be swift

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retribution towards me and others who spoke up about his

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abuse at trial. Swift retribution. That's what brave survivors get

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for being bre Not peace, not closure, not safety, just

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fear and relocation and the knowledge that the man who

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spent fifteen years abusing you might spend the next three

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years in prison planning revenge. She continued, as much progress

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as I have made in recovering from his abuse, I

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remain very much afraid of what he is capable of

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and the malice he undoubtedly harbors towards me for having

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the bravery to tell the truth. This is what celebrity

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justice looks like for victims. Didty gets federal prison with

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credit for time served. Cassie gets witness protection. Without the protection,

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she gets to uproot her family and live in fear,

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while Ditty serves four years then walks back into his

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money and his connections and his ability to find anyone

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he wants to find. Deonte Nash, Ditty's former stylist, wrote

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his own letter expressing the same fears. Multiple victims are

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terrified of what happens when Ditty gets out, not if when,

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because fifty months isn't forever, it's twenty twenty eight. It's

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before the next Olympics. It's soon enough that victims are

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already planning their lives around his release date. Jane, the

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woman assaulted in June twenty twenty four, described the abuse

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in her victim impact statement. The psychological torture, the physical violence,

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the knowledge that even after being raided by the FEDS,

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even after the hotel video went viral, Ditty was still

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assaulting women because he thought he could. Here's the part

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that makes me angry. Charret Hayes, the exotic male dancer

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who testified at trial and goes by the punisher, told

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TMZ he initially thought Didtty should get time served, just

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walk after thirteen months, but after hearing the judge's reasoning,

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he agreed with the sentence. The punisher participated in the

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so called freak offs. He was paid to have sex

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with Cassie while Ditty watched and recorded. He testified about

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what he saw and even he thought, maybe Didty had

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suffered enough. That's the power of celebrity, that's the power

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of image management. Did He taught business classes at MDC Brooklyn,

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got letters from fellow inmates supporting him, created this narrative

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of rehabilitation and redemption, and it almost worked. Even witnesses

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who saw what he did thought maybe four years was

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too much, but Judge Subramanian saw through it. He told

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Diddy directly, what strikes me about your claim that you

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are remorseful is that you assaulted Jane in June twenty

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twenty four, even after authorities executed search warrants, even after

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the hotel video was released, even after you gave an

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apology on Instagram. That's not remorse. That's calculation. That's a

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man who thought he could apologize his way out of

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consequences while continuing to do exactly what he'd always done

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Didty's defense attorney Brian Steele called the sentence Unamerican in

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his post sentencing statement. Unamerican, as if sending a convicted

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abuser to federal for four years is somehow a violation

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of constitutional principles. Steele argued that Ditty was sentenced for

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conduct the jury acquitted him of. That because the jury

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found him not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering, the

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judge shouldn't have considered those elements in sentencing. That's lawyer

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talk for ignore everything except the narrow technical charges. He

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was convicted of. Pretend the fifteen years of abuse don't matter.

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Pretend the pattern of violence don't matter. Pretend June twenty

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twenty four assault doesn't matter. Just focus on two counts

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of transportation for prostitution and forget the rest. Judge Subramanian

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rejected that argument completely. He made clear that while Ditty

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was being sentenced for the man Act violations, the court

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had to consider his entire history, the abuse, the violence,

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the manipulation, the June twenty twenty four assault that proved.

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Did he learned nothing from being caught? Fifty months plus

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a five hundred thousand dollars fine plus five years of

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supervised release. After that's the price of fifteen years of exploitation,

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of creating an empire built on coercion, of thinking money

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makes you untouchable. Cassie Ventura paid a different price. She

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paid with her safety, her peace of mind, her ability

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to live without looking over her shoulder. She paid by

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moving her family away from everything they knew, because testifying

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against Diddy meant becoming his target forever. The judge called

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her brave. He's right, but bravery shouldn't require witness relocation.

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Justice shouldn't mean victims spend the rest of their lives

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afraid of the men they helped. Convict Sean Combs will

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be out before he's sixty, still rich, still connected, still

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capable of finding anyone he wants to find. Meanwhile, Cassie

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Ventura will spend those same years wondering if today is

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the day he decides swift retribution is worth whatever time

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he'd serve for it. That's celebrity justice. The defendant gets

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a say with an end date. The victims get a

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life sentence of fear. We'll be right back with Tyrese

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Gibson's killer dogs and the mystery death in David's Tesla.

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From celebrity abuse to celebrity negligence. Tyrese Gibson, star of

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the Fast and Furious franchise, is now facing criminal charges

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because his four Cane Corso dogs, decided to go hunting

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in his Atlanta neighborhood. September eighteenth, just after ten pm,

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a neighbor living half a mile from Gibson's house lets

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their small spaniel out in their own yard. Five minutes later,

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they find their dog being mauled. Rushed to the veterinary hospital,

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the dog doesn't survive. Four cane corsos. For those unfamiliar,

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these are massive Italian mastiffs bred originally as war dogs

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and for hunting wild boar. Each one can weigh over

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one hundred pounds. Four of them against a small spaniel

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isn't a fight, it's a massacre. The dogs were then

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spotted at another neighbor's house. That neighbor called police, terrified

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to leave her home. Think about that. You're trapped in

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your own house because four dogs that aren't yours are

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outside your door and you just saw what they did

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to the spaniel. Animal control officers responded and managed to

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keep the dogs back while the neighbor got to her vehicle.

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But here's the problem. These weren't Gibson's dog's first offense.

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They weren't even the first warning. Captain Nicole Dwyer of

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the Fulton County Police made this point explicitly. Our priority

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is the safety of the community, and when there's so

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many incidents of dogs, especially large dogs like this, getting

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out and then killing an animal, you know what's next

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a child? What's next a child? That's not hypothetical, that's

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the logical progression. When you have four massive dogs repeatedly

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escaping their property with a demonstrated willingness to attack. Gibson

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had received multiple warnings before the September eighteenth attack. Police

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had attempted to cite him before, but Gibson wasn't at

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his Atlanta home. This is the pattern of someone who

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knows they have a problem and chooses to ignore it

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until it becomes someone else's problem. After the attack, police

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issued a search warrant for Gibson's property. On September twenty second,

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Gibson and the dogs were not at the residence. He'd

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already disappeared them. His attorney, Gave Banks, claims Gibson immediately

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made the difficult decision to rehome his dogs to a

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safe and loving environment. Difficult decision. It's only difficult when

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you wait until after your dogs kill a neighbor's pet.

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It's only difficult when police are issuing search warrants instead

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of receiving voluntary compliance. Banks also said Gibson extends his

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deepest condolences to the family who lost their beloved dog

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to this tragic incident. Tragic incident, as if this was

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some unavoidable accident, As if four large dogs don't escape

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their property by accident, As if Gibson didn't have multiple

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warnings that his dogs were dangerous. An arrest warrant was

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issued for Gibson on charges of cruelty to animals. He

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was told to turn himself in by Friday. Friday morning,

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five fifty nine am, Gibson was booked into Fulton County Jail,

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released the same day on a twenty thousand dollars bond.

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The Fulton County Sheriff's office confirmed they do not have

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custody of the dogs. Gibson re homed them before police

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could seize them. This is what bothers me about celebrity

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cases like this. Gibson had the resources to properly secure

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four massive dogs, professional fencing, professional training, professional handlers if needed. Instead,

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his dogs were apparently able to travel half a mile

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from his property to murder a neighbor's pet. Captain Dwyer's

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question haunts this case. What's next a child, because that's

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the progression. Dogs that kill other dogs often escalate to

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attacking humans, especially children who might trigger prey drive or

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appear threatening when they run or scream. Gibson posted a

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video to Instagram after the warrant was issued. Didn't speak

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in the video, just showed clips of his dogs with

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audio from the Breakfast Club podcast where hosts discussed his case.

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That's peak celebrity crisis management. Don't address it directly, Let

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your dogs look cute on camera, let other people defend you.

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Never take actual responsibility. His attorney claims, Gibson is cooperating

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fully with authorities to address and resolve this matter. Responsibly.

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Cooperating fully would have been preventing his dogs from escaping

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in the first place. Cooperating fully would have been responding

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to the multiple warnings before a dog died. This case

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is still ongoing. Gibson faces cruelty to animals charges. The

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neighbor who lost their spaniel is living with the trauma

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of finding their pet torn apart. The other neighbors are

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living with the knowledge that Gibson's negligence could have killed

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their children, and Gibson he's out on bond. His dogs

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safely re home to an undisclosed location, probably getting ready

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to film Fast and Furious forty seven or whatever number

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they're on now. Tyrese Gibson's dogs killed an innocent animal

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because Tyrese Gibson failed to properly contain them despite multiple warnings.

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That's not tragic, that's criminal. The charges reflect that. We'll

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see if the sentence does too. Now to Los Angeles,

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where the mystery deepens around fifteen year old Celeste Revas Hernandez,

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whose decomposing body was found in the front trunk of

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a Tesla registered to twenty year old recording artist David

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Anthony Burke, known professionally as David. We covered this case

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briefly before the OJ Special, but new details have emerged

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that make this situation even more disturbing and more confusing.

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September eighth, Hollywood towyard workers notice a foul smell coming

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from a twenty twenty three Tesla. They open the front

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trunk what Tesla calls the front and find Celeste's remains, decomposed.

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She'd been there for weeks, but the timeline reveals systematic failure.

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That tesla had been parked on Bluebird Avenue in the

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Hollywood Hills, right where David had been living for several

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weeks before being impounded. On August twenty seventh. The parking

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enforcement officer marked the vehicle, noting the position of its tires.

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This is standard procedure for cars that might be violating

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parking ordinances. September third, the same officer returned the tires

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hadn't moved. The car had been sitting in the exact

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same spot for at least a week. The officer issued

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a citation for violating this seventy two hour parking ordinance

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September fifth. Two days after the citation, the tesla was

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towed to the Hollywood impound lot. Three days later, September eighth,

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workers discovered Celeste's body when the smell became overwhelming. Think

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about that timeline. A fifteen year old girl was dead

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in the front trunk of a car parked on a

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residential street. For weeks, people walked past that car. Parking

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enforcement marked that car, nobody noticed until it was towed

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to a lot where the smell couldn't be ignored anymore.

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Celeste Revas Hernandez was from Lake Elsinore. She was in

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the seventh grade, fifteen years old, and according to the

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Riverside County Sheriff's Office, she'd been reported missing multiple times

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in twenty twenty four, multiple times. This wasn't a girl

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who disappeared once. This was a girl whose family kept

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losing her, and getting her back and losing her again.

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ABC News obtained call logs for Celeste's home, showing numerous

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calls from twenty twenty two through this year. Deputies visited

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multiple times over several years. Many of the visits are

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marked FU for follow up, meaning they weren't response to

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emergency calls, but part of ongoing monitoring. This is a

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system failure deputies knew about Celeste visited her home repeatedly.

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She was reported missing multiple times just this year, and

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still she ended up dead in a trunk on a

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Hollywood street while the car sat ticketed and towed, with

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nobody noticing what was inside. The Los Angeles County Medical

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Examiner still hasn't determined cause or manner of death. The

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death certificate lists it as deferred. They're waiting on lab

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tests and toxicology reports until then. This remains officially a

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death investigation, not a homicide investigation. The death certificate also

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notes something significant Celeste was not and had not been

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pregnant in the last year. This matters because speculation had

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swirled about whether pregnancy might have been a factor in

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whatever happened. The LAPD released a statement acknowledging the complexity.

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The vehicle had been parked at the location from which

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it was towed for several weeks, so Miss Revas Hernandez

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may have been deceased for several weeks before the discovery

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of her body. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has

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not yet determined the cause or manner of Miss Revas

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Hernandez's death. As such, it remains unclear whether there is

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any criminal culpability beyond the concealment of her body. Beyond

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the concealment of her body, that phrase matters at minimums.

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Someone concealed a fifteen year old's body in a car trunk.

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That's a crime, regardless of how she died. But was

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it murder, overdose, something else? Nobody knows yet. David hasn't

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been named as a suspect. Police emphasized that no arrests

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have been made and no charges have been filed, but

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detectives did execute a search of a Hollywood Hills home

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where David had recently been staying. They removed evidence, including

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a computer. The lease on that home had been broken early,

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and David had already moved out by the time police arrived.

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This is where the case gets darker. Fans started examining

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David's music videos after news of Celeste's death broke. One

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video shows what appears to be a blindfolded David in

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a bloodied shirt standing by as two people put a

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body into the trunk of a car. Another video depicts

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a girl's arm being cut off. Are these videos evidence

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or just dark artistic expression. That's for investigators to determine.

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Plenty of musicians make violent, graphic videos that have nothing

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to do with their real lives, But when a real

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fifteen year old ends up dead in your real car trunk,

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those artistic choices get scrutinized differently. The family held a

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memorial service for Celeste this past Saturday. A fifteen year

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old girl who should be in eighth grade, now preparing

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for high school, thinking about normal teenager things. Instead, her

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family is burying what's left of her after weeks decomposing

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in a Tesla trunk. Here's what we know for certain.

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Celeste was a runaway multiple times, the system knew about her.

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Deputies visited her home repeatedly. She was reported missing multiple

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times in twenty twenty four alone, and somehow, despite all

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that attention, she ended up dead in a car that

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sat parked for weeks in a residential neighborhood where David lived.

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What we don't know how she died, when exactly she died,

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how she ended up in that trunk, whether David had

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anything to do with it, whether anyone had anything to

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do with it, or if this was somehow a tragic

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accident or overdose followed by panic and concealment. The LAPD

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promises they're examining every aspect of this case. They're waiting

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on the medical examiner to determine cause and manner of death.

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They're analyzing whatever evidence they took from that Hollywood Hills house.

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But Celeste's family isn't waiting for answers to grieve. They're

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living with the knowledge that their fifteen year old daughter

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was reported missing multiple times, that deputies knew about her situation,

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that she was on the system's radar, and still ended

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up dead in a trunk while the car got ticketed

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for overstaying its parking welcome. Celeste Reevas Hernandez deserved better.

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She deserved a system that protected her instead of just

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documenting her disappearances. She deserved to be more than a

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foul smell that finally got noticed at a tow yard.

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She was fifteen years old. Remember that when the toxicology

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comes back, when the cause of death is determined, when

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charges are filed or not filed. Remember she was fifteen

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in the seventh grade, with a whole life ahead of

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her that ended decomposing in a Tesla Fronk while people

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walked past. For weeks more in a moment, and finally,

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because apparently we haven't had enough celebrity chaos for one episode,

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Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner are suing ray J for

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claiming they're about to face federal Riico charges. Yes, the

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same Rico charges we just watched Ditty beat at trial,

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the charges that carried decades in prison and require proving

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a pattern of racketeering activity. Ray J thinks Kim and

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Chris are running a criminal enterprise. They think ray J

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is delusional. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles

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Superior Court. It's aggressive, fast, and designed to shut down

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ray J before his claims gain any more traction. Kim

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and Chris are represented by Alex Spiro, the lawyer who

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got Alec Baldwin's charges dismissed mid trial. They're not playing around.

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Here's ray Ja's claim he's working with federal investigators on

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a racketeering case against the Kardashians that will soon lead

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to their indictment. He says the Feds are coming. He

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says it's going to be bigger than Diddy. Here's what

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Kim and Chris say Ja is lying. No federal investigation exists,

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No law enforcement agency has initiated any criminal proceedings. Ray

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J is a bitter ex boyfriend who can't accept that

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his relationship with Kim ended over twenty years ago. The

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lawsuit describes ray J's behavior as a sustained campaign of

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harassment and defamation that's gone on for years. They argue

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he's repeatedly tried to attach himself to their names and

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exploit their prominence for personal gain, but two recent statements

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crossed a line. In May, during a TMZ special, ray

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J said racketeering charges against the Kardashians would be appropriate,

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and if you told me that the Kardashians were being

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charged for racketeering, I might believe it. That's speculative, that's opinion,

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that's probably protected speech under the First Amendment. But then

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came the September thirtieth live stream. Millions of viewers watched

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as ray J declared, the federal rico I'm about to

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draw up on Chris and Kim is about to be crazy,

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and the Feds is coming. He said the case would

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be worse than Diddy. That's not speculation anymore, that's a

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factual claim. Ray J is asserting that he has knowledge

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of a federal rico case, that he's working with investigators,

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that charges are imminent, and according to Kim and Chris's lawsuit,

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all of that is completely false. No such federal investigation exists,

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no law enforcement agency has initiated any criminal proceedings or

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investigations related to racketeering charges against Mis Kardashian or Mis Jenner,

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and no credible evidence whatsoever supports these inflammatory allegations. The

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lawsuit states, ray J probably remains best known for his

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relationship with Kim Kardashian and the sex tape that leaked

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in two thousand and seven. That tape arguably launched the

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Kardashian empire. Kim turned personal humiliation into a billion dollar brand.

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Ray J turned his connection to Kim into a career

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talking about his connection to Kim. The lawsuit addresses this directly.

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