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

0:03 Callarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Monday, October sixth, twenty twenty five. We just spent ten days examining how Oj Simpson got away with murder thirty years ago. Now we return to find that celebrity justice in twenty twenty five is just as messy, just as complicated, and somehow involves Tyrese Gibson's dogs eating a neighbor's pet. Cassie Ventura is hiding from Diddy. She moved her family out of New York, changed her life, lives in fear of the man who just got sentenced to four years for what he did to her. The judge called her brave, she calls herself terrified. Tyresee's four cane corsos decided a neighbor's spaniel looked delicious. The fast and furious Star wasn't even home.

0:52 His dogs traveled half a mile, murdered a pet, and now Tyresee is facing animal cruelty. Charges year old girl decomposed in David's tesla for weeks while it sat parked on a Hollywood street. Nobody noticed until the towyard smelled death and Ray j thinks Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner are about to face rico charges. They think Ray J is a delusional has been still bitter about a sex tape from two thousand and seven. Lawyers are involved. Welcome back from OJ week. This is Celebrity Trials, where apparently nothing changed while we were gone Friday. We covered Diddy's sentencing in a breaking news episode fifty months, four years in change for transportation to engage in prostitution. But what we didn't cover was what happened after the judge handed down that sentence, What the victim said, what the judge said to them, and why Cassie Ventura is more afraid now than she was before. Judge Aaron Subramanian looked directly at Cassie and the woman known as Jane after Saient andcing didty. What he said matters not for Ditty, He's going to federal prison regardless, but for every woman watching who's ever been afraid to come forward against a powerful man.

2:12 To Miss Ventura and the other brave survivors that came forward, I want to say, first, we heard you. We heard you. Three words that victims of powerful men rarely get to hear from federal judges three words that acknowledge what it cost Cassie to testify, what it cost Jane to describe being assaulted as recently as June twenty twenty four, months after Ditty's arrest, months after the world knew what he was. Subramanian continued, Jane and Cassie Ventura have been through abuse and trauma. We couldn't imagine. I can only say your families are proud of you, and your children will be proud of you for coming to the court to tell you what really happened. You weren't just talking to the jury.

2:58 You were talking to the women who feel powerless. That's what this case was really about, not Didty, not his empire, not his fifty month sentence. It was about the women who feel powerless, the women who watch men like Didty operate for decades, untouched, protected by money and fame and the knowledge that nobody will believe victims over celebrities. Cassie did something remarkable. She filed that civil lawsuit in November twenty twenty three. Opened the floodgates, made it possible for other women to come forward, made it possible for federal prosecutors to build a case, made it possible for a jury to convict him, but bravery has consequences. Cassie's lawyer, Doug Wigdoor, issued a statement after the sentencing. While nothing can undo the trauma caused by Combs, the sentence imposed today recognizes the impact of the serious offenses he committed.

3:57 We are confident that, with the support of her family and friends, Miss Ventura will continue healing, knowing that her bravery and fortitude have been an inspiration to so many Healing. That's the word everyone uses when they don't want to say what's actually happening. Cassie isn't healing, She's hiding. Before sentencing, Cassie wrote a letter to Judge Subramanian. The contents are devastating. She moved her family out of the New York area, changed her entire life, lives in constant fear of retribution. Her words, My worries that Sean Comb's or his associates will come after me and my family is my reality.

4:38 I have, in fact, moved my family out of the New York area and am keeping as private and quiet as I possibly can, because I am so scared that if he walks free, his first actions will be swift retribution towards me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial. Swift retribution. That's what brave survivors get for being bre Not peace, not closure, not safety, just fear and relocation and the knowledge that the man who spent fifteen years abusing you might spend the next three years in prison planning revenge. She continued, as much progress as I have made in recovering from his abuse, I remain very much afraid of what he is capable of and the malice he undoubtedly harbors towards me for having the bravery to tell the truth. This is what celebrity justice looks like for victims. Didty gets federal prison with credit for time served. Cassie gets witness protection. Without the protection, she gets to uproot her family and live in fear, while Ditty serves four years then walks back into his money and his connections and his ability to find anyone he wants to find. Deonte Nash, Ditty's former stylist, wrote his own letter expressing the same fears. Multiple victims are terrified of what happens when Ditty gets out, not if when, because fifty months isn't forever, it's twenty twenty eight. It's before the next Olympics. It's soon enough that victims are already planning their lives around his release date. Jane, the

6:11 woman assaulted in June twenty twenty four, described the abuse in her victim impact statement. The psychological torture, the physical violence, the knowledge that even after being raided by the FEDS, even after the hotel video went viral, Ditty was still assaulting women because he thought he could. Here's the part that makes me angry. Charret Hayes, the exotic male dancer who testified at trial and goes by the punisher, told TMZ he initially thought Didtty should get time served, just walk after thirteen months, but after hearing the judge's reasoning, he agreed with the sentence. The punisher participated in the so called freak offs. He was paid to have sex with Cassie while Ditty watched and recorded. He testified about what he saw and even he thought, maybe Didty had suffered enough. That's the power of celebrity, that's the power of image management. Did He taught business classes at MDC Brooklyn, got letters from fellow inmates supporting him, created this narrative of rehabilitation and redemption, and it almost worked. Even witnesses who saw what he did thought maybe four years was too much, but Judge Subramanian saw through it. He told Diddy directly, what strikes me about your claim that you are remorseful is that you assaulted Jane in June twenty twenty four, even after authorities executed search warrants, even after the hotel video was released, even after you gave an apology on Instagram. That's not remorse. That's calculation. That's a

7:42 man who thought he could apologize his way out of consequences while continuing to do exactly what he'd always done Didty's defense attorney Brian Steele called the sentence Unamerican in his post sentencing statement. Unamerican, as if sending a convicted abuser to federal for four years is somehow a violation of constitutional principles. Steele argued that Ditty was sentenced for conduct the jury acquitted him of. That because the jury found him not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering, the judge shouldn't have considered those elements in sentencing. That's lawyer talk for ignore everything except the narrow technical charges. He was convicted of. Pretend the fifteen years of abuse don't matter.

8:23 Pretend the pattern of violence don't matter. Pretend June twenty twenty four assault doesn't matter. Just focus on two counts of transportation for prostitution and forget the rest. Judge Subramanian rejected that argument completely. He made clear that while Ditty was being sentenced for the man Act violations, the court had to consider his entire history, the abuse, the violence, the manipulation, the June twenty twenty four assault that proved. Did he learned nothing from being caught? Fifty months plus a five hundred thousand dollars fine plus five years of supervised release. After that's the price of fifteen years of exploitation, of creating an empire built on coercion, of thinking money makes you untouchable. Cassie Ventura paid a different price. She paid with her safety, her peace of mind, her ability to live without looking over her shoulder. She paid by moving her family away from everything they knew, because testifying against Diddy meant becoming his target forever. The judge called her brave. He's right, but bravery shouldn't require witness relocation.

9:31 Justice shouldn't mean victims spend the rest of their lives afraid of the men they helped. Convict Sean Combs will be out before he's sixty, still rich, still connected, still capable of finding anyone he wants to find. Meanwhile, Cassie Ventura will spend those same years wondering if today is the day he decides swift retribution is worth whatever time he'd serve for it. That's celebrity justice. The defendant gets a say with an end date. The victims get a life sentence of fear. We'll be right back with Tyrese Gibson's killer dogs and the mystery death in David's Tesla.

10:26 From celebrity abuse to celebrity negligence. Tyrese Gibson, star of the Fast and Furious franchise, is now facing criminal charges because his four Cane Corso dogs, decided to go hunting in his Atlanta neighborhood. September eighteenth, just after ten pm, a neighbor living half a mile from Gibson's house lets their small spaniel out in their own yard. Five minutes later, they find their dog being mauled. Rushed to the veterinary hospital, the dog doesn't survive. Four cane corsos. For those unfamiliar, these are massive Italian mastiffs bred originally as war dogs and for hunting wild boar. Each one can weigh over one hundred pounds. Four of them against a small spaniel isn't a fight, it's a massacre. The dogs were then spotted at another neighbor's house. That neighbor called police, terrified to leave her home. Think about that. You're trapped in your own house because four dogs that aren't yours are outside your door and you just saw what they did to the spaniel. Animal control officers responded and managed to keep the dogs back while the neighbor got to her vehicle.

11:34 But here's the problem. These weren't Gibson's dog's first offense. They weren't even the first warning. Captain Nicole Dwyer of the Fulton County Police made this point explicitly. Our priority is the safety of the community, and when there's so many incidents of dogs, especially large dogs like this, getting out and then killing an animal, you know what's next a child? What's next a child? That's not hypothetical, that's the logical progression. When you have four massive dogs repeatedly escaping their property with a demonstrated willingness to attack. Gibson had received multiple warnings before the September eighteenth attack. Police had attempted to cite him before, but Gibson wasn't at his Atlanta home. This is the pattern of someone who knows they have a problem and chooses to ignore it until it becomes someone else's problem. After the attack, police issued a search warrant for Gibson's property. On September twenty second, Gibson and the dogs were not at the residence. He'd already disappeared them. His attorney, Gave Banks, claims Gibson immediately made the difficult decision to rehome his dogs to a safe and loving environment. Difficult decision. It's only difficult when you wait until after your dogs kill a neighbor's pet.

12:54 It's only difficult when police are issuing search warrants instead of receiving voluntary compliance. Banks also said Gibson extends his deepest condolences to the family who lost their beloved dog to this tragic incident. Tragic incident, as if this was some unavoidable accident, As if four large dogs don't escape their property by accident, As if Gibson didn't have multiple warnings that his dogs were dangerous. An arrest warrant was issued for Gibson on charges of cruelty to animals. He was told to turn himself in by Friday. Friday morning, five fifty nine am, Gibson was booked into Fulton County Jail, released the same day on a twenty thousand dollars bond.

13:37 The Fulton County Sheriff's office confirmed they do not have custody of the dogs. Gibson re homed them before police could seize them. This is what bothers me about celebrity cases like this. Gibson had the resources to properly secure four massive dogs, professional fencing, professional training, professional handlers if needed. Instead, his dogs were apparently able to travel half a mile from his property to murder a neighbor's pet. Captain Dwyer's question haunts this case. What's next a child, because that's the progression. Dogs that kill other dogs often escalate to attacking humans, especially children who might trigger prey drive or appear threatening when they run or scream. Gibson posted a video to Instagram after the warrant was issued. Didn't speak in the video, just showed clips of his dogs with audio from the Breakfast Club podcast where hosts discussed his case.

14:35 That's peak celebrity crisis management. Don't address it directly, Let your dogs look cute on camera, let other people defend you. Never take actual responsibility. His attorney claims, Gibson is cooperating fully with authorities to address and resolve this matter. Responsibly. Cooperating fully would have been preventing his dogs from escaping in the first place. Cooperating fully would have been responding to the multiple warnings before a dog died. This case is still ongoing. Gibson faces cruelty to animals charges. The neighbor who lost their spaniel is living with the trauma of finding their pet torn apart. The other neighbors are living with the knowledge that Gibson's negligence could have killed their children, and Gibson he's out on bond. His dogs safely re home to an undisclosed location, probably getting ready to film Fast and Furious forty seven or whatever number they're on now. Tyrese Gibson's dogs killed an innocent animal because Tyrese Gibson failed to properly contain them despite multiple warnings.

15:35 That's not tragic, that's criminal. The charges reflect that. We'll see if the sentence does too. Now to Los Angeles, where the mystery deepens around fifteen year old Celeste Revas Hernandez, whose decomposing body was found in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to twenty year old recording artist David Anthony Burke, known professionally as David. We covered this case briefly before the OJ Special, but new details have emerged that make this situation even more disturbing and more confusing. September eighth, Hollywood towyard workers notice a foul smell coming from a twenty twenty three Tesla. They open the front trunk what Tesla calls the front and find Celeste's remains, decomposed.

16:23 She'd been there for weeks, but the timeline reveals systematic failure. That tesla had been parked on Bluebird Avenue in the Hollywood Hills, right where David had been living for several weeks before being impounded. On August twenty seventh. The parking enforcement officer marked the vehicle, noting the position of its tires. This is standard procedure for cars that might be violating parking ordinances. September third, the same officer returned the tires hadn't moved. The car had been sitting in the exact same spot for at least a week. The officer issued a citation for violating this seventy two hour parking ordinance September fifth. Two days after the citation, the tesla was towed to the Hollywood impound lot. Three days later, September eighth, workers discovered Celeste's body when the smell became overwhelming. Think about that timeline. A fifteen year old girl was dead in the front trunk of a car parked on a residential street. For weeks, people walked past that car. Parking enforcement marked that car, nobody noticed until it was towed to a lot where the smell couldn't be ignored anymore.

17:31 Celeste Revas Hernandez was from Lake Elsinore. She was in the seventh grade, fifteen years old, and according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, she'd been reported missing multiple times in twenty twenty four, multiple times. This wasn't a girl who disappeared once. This was a girl whose family kept losing her, and getting her back and losing her again. ABC News obtained call logs for Celeste's home, showing numerous calls from twenty twenty two through this year. Deputies visited multiple times over several years. Many of the visits are marked FU for follow up, meaning they weren't response to emergency calls, but part of ongoing monitoring. This is a system failure deputies knew about Celeste visited her home repeatedly.

18:18 She was reported missing multiple times just this year, and still she ended up dead in a trunk on a Hollywood street while the car sat ticketed and towed, with nobody noticing what was inside. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner still hasn't determined cause or manner of death. The death certificate lists it as deferred. They're waiting on lab tests and toxicology reports until then. This remains officially a death investigation, not a homicide investigation. The death certificate also notes something significant Celeste was not and had not been pregnant in the last year. This matters because speculation had swirled about whether pregnancy might have been a factor in whatever happened. The LAPD released a statement acknowledging the complexity.

19:06 The vehicle had been parked at the location from which it was towed for several weeks, so Miss Revas Hernandez may have been deceased for several weeks before the discovery of her body. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has not yet determined the cause or manner of Miss Revas Hernandez's death. As such, it remains unclear whether there is any criminal culpability beyond the concealment of her body. Beyond the concealment of her body, that phrase matters at minimums. Someone concealed a fifteen year old's body in a car trunk. That's a crime, regardless of how she died. But was it murder, overdose, something else? Nobody knows yet. David hasn't been named as a suspect. Police emphasized that no arrests have been made and no charges have been filed, but detectives did execute a search of a Hollywood Hills home where David had recently been staying. They removed evidence, including a computer. The lease on that home had been broken early, and David had already moved out by the time police arrived.

20:04 This is where the case gets darker. Fans started examining David's music videos after news of Celeste's death broke. One video shows what appears to be a blindfolded David in a bloodied shirt standing by as two people put a body into the trunk of a car. Another video depicts a girl's arm being cut off. Are these videos evidence or just dark artistic expression. That's for investigators to determine. Plenty of musicians make violent, graphic videos that have nothing to do with their real lives, But when a real fifteen year old ends up dead in your real car trunk, those artistic choices get scrutinized differently. The family held a memorial service for Celeste this past Saturday. A fifteen year old girl who should be in eighth grade, now preparing for high school, thinking about normal teenager things. Instead, her family is burying what's left of her after weeks decomposing in a Tesla trunk. Here's what we know for certain.

21:00 Celeste was a runaway multiple times, the system knew about her. Deputies visited her home repeatedly. She was reported missing multiple times in twenty twenty four alone, and somehow, despite all that attention, she ended up dead in a car that sat parked for weeks in a residential neighborhood where David lived. What we don't know how she died, when exactly she died, how she ended up in that trunk, whether David had anything to do with it, whether anyone had anything to do with it, or if this was somehow a tragic accident or overdose followed by panic and concealment. The LAPD promises they're examining every aspect of this case. They're waiting on the medical examiner to determine cause and manner of death.

21:46 They're analyzing whatever evidence they took from that Hollywood Hills house. But Celeste's family isn't waiting for answers to grieve. They're living with the knowledge that their fifteen year old daughter was reported missing multiple times, that deputies knew about her situation, that she was on the system's radar, and still ended up dead in a trunk while the car got ticketed for overstaying its parking welcome. Celeste Reevas Hernandez deserved better. She deserved a system that protected her instead of just documenting her disappearances. She deserved to be more than a foul smell that finally got noticed at a tow yard. She was fifteen years old. Remember that when the toxicology comes back, when the cause of death is determined, when charges are filed or not filed. Remember she was fifteen in the seventh grade, with a whole life ahead of her that ended decomposing in a Tesla Fronk while people walked past. For weeks more in a moment, and finally, because apparently we haven't had enough celebrity chaos for one episode, Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner are suing ray J for claiming they're about to face federal Riico charges. Yes, the same Rico charges we just watched Ditty beat at trial, the charges that carried decades in prison and require proving

23:18 a pattern of racketeering activity. Ray J thinks Kim and Chris are running a criminal enterprise. They think ray J is delusional. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's aggressive, fast, and designed to shut down ray J before his claims gain any more traction. Kim and Chris are represented by Alex Spiro, the lawyer who got Alec Baldwin's charges dismissed mid trial. They're not playing around. Here's ray Ja's claim he's working with federal investigators on a racketeering case against the Kardashians that will soon lead to their indictment. He says the Feds are coming. He says it's going to be bigger than Diddy. Here's what Kim and Chris say Ja is lying. No federal investigation exists, No law enforcement agency has initiated any criminal proceedings. Ray J is a bitter ex boyfriend who can't accept that his relationship with Kim ended over twenty years ago. The lawsuit describes ray J's behavior as a sustained campaign of harassment and defamation that's gone on for years. They argue he's repeatedly tried to attach himself to their names and exploit their prominence for personal gain, but two recent statements crossed a line. In May, during a TMZ special, ray J said racketeering charges against the Kardashians would be appropriate, and if you told me that the Kardashians were being charged for racketeering, I might believe it. That's speculative, that's opinion,

24:48 that's probably protected speech under the First Amendment. But then came the September thirtieth live stream. Millions of viewers watched as ray J declared, the federal rico I'm about to draw up on Chris and Kim is about to be crazy, and the Feds is coming. He said the case would be worse than Diddy. That's not speculation anymore, that's a factual claim. Ray J is asserting that he has knowledge of a federal rico case, that he's working with investigators, that charges are imminent, and according to Kim and Chris's lawsuit, all of that is completely false. No such federal investigation exists, no law enforcement agency has initiated any criminal proceedings or investigations related to racketeering charges against Mis Kardashian or Mis Jenner, and no credible evidence whatsoever supports these inflammatory allegations. The lawsuit states, ray J probably remains best known for his relationship with Kim Kardashian and the sex tape that leaked in two thousand and seven. That tape arguably launched the Kardashian empire. Kim turned personal humiliation into a billion dollar brand.

25:57 Ray J turned his connection to Kim into a career talking about his connection to Kim. The lawsuit addresses this directly. Ray Jay's acknowledged animosity toward the Kardashian family, coupled with his demonstrated willingness to lie for attention, leaves no room for doubt that his recent reco statements were neither careless nor impulsive. They were the latest salvo in a deliberate and malicious campaign of harassment and defamation intended to defame plaintiffs while reviving his own fading notoriety. Fading notoriety, that's the key phrase. Ray J is a singer and actor brother to pop star Brandy, but his career has largely coasted on his connection to the Kardashians. He's been dining out on that sex tape for nearly twenty years now.

26:45 He's claiming federal rico charges to stay relevant. The Kardashians are seeking reputational and financial damages to be established at trial. They want money, They want ray J to stop. They want to send a message that you can't just claim federal and vents instigations exist when they don't. Here's what makes this case interesting from a legal standpoint. Defamation law requires proving that the statement is false and made with knowledge of its falsity or reckless disregard for the truth. Ray J claiming a federal rico case exists when no federal rico case exists, seems pretty straightforward. But ray J could argue he genuinely believes something fishy is happening with the Kardashians. He could claim he's working with private investigators, not federal investigators. He could walk back the feds's coming statement as hyperbole. He could argue that his statements were opinion, not fact. The problem is he was specific federal rico the FEDS about to drop. Those aren't vague allegations. Those are concrete, factual claims that are either true or false.

27:52 And if they're false, and ray J knew they were false, that's textbook defamation. Kim and Chris have Alex Zero as their lawyer. Spiro just got Alec Baldwin acquitted mid trial by getting charges dismissed over prosecutorial misconduct. He knows how to win. He knows how to make defendants wish they'd never filed the case in the first place. Ray J hasn't responded yet. His representatives didn't immediately answer emails seeking comment. He's probably talking to lawyers right now trying to figure out how he proves federal rico charges exist. When no federal rico charges exist. This is celebrity litigation at its most petty and most necessary. Petty because it stems from a relationship that ended in the early two thousands and a sex tape from two thousand and seven. Necessary because you can't let people claim federal indictments are coming when no federal indictments are coming. The Kardashians built their empire on careful image management. Every scandal gets spun, every controversy gets controlled. They're not going to let ray Ja, of all people, damage that image by claiming they're about to face rico charges. Ray J thought he could gain attention by connecting himself to the Ditty case. Look what happened to Ditty Now imagine it happening to the Kardashians, except nothing is happening to the Kardashians except a defamation lawsuit against ray J. This case will probably settle. Ray J will issue some statement about how he was speaking generally or was misinformed, or whatever excuse his lawyer's craft. The Kardashians will get money and an agreement that RAYJ stops

29:25 talking about federal investigations that don't exist. But for now, it's one more celebrity lawsuit in a Monday morning already packed with celebrity chaos. From Ditty's victims living in fear, to Tyresee's killer dogs, to a fifteen year old decomposing in a Tesla to Rayj's rico fantasies. Celebrity justice never stops. Welcome back from OJ week. We didn't miss anything except everything that's Celebrity trials from Monday, October sixth, twenty twenty five. Cassie ventur Ura is living in hiding, afraid of Ditty's swift retribution after being brave enough to testify. Her reward for stopping a predator is a life sentence of fear while he serves four years. Tyrese Gibson's dogs killed a neighbor's pet after multiple warnings he's out on bond. The dogs are rehomed to an undisclosed location. The dead spaniel can't be rehomed anywhere. Celeste Reevas Hernandez was fifteen when she ended up dead in a Tesla trunk. The system knew about her, deputies visited her home repeatedly, she was reported missing multiple times, and still she decomposed on a Hollywood street for weeks while the car got a parking ticket.

30:38 Ray J thinks Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner are facing federal rico charges. Kim and Chris think ray J is a delusional ex who can't move on. Lawyers will determine which version of reality is accurate. I'm read Carter. After ten days examining how celebrity justice failed thirty years ago, we returned to find that celebrity justice is still failing in new and creative ways. Victims still live in fear, negligence still gets excused, dead, teenagers still get ignored, and bitter exes still make wild accusations for attention. Some things never change, The names change, the cases change, but celebrity justice remains exactly what it was when OJ walked free in nineteen ninety five. A system where fame matters more than facts, money matters more than evidence, and ordinary people pay the price for extraordinary privilege. See you tomorrow with whatever fresh chaos America's celebrities produce overnight. Lock your doors, watch your dogs, and maybe don't end up in anyone's Tesla trunk