HUNTER: Covering up for dirt bags like Diddy, Weinstein and Epstein

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People knew, they always do. Rich people. Powerful people.

And yet, they say nothing. They never do. Instead, they leave the heavy lifting to the broken men and women who are victims, or the responsibility is passed on to the maid, janitor or limo driver.

That’s the way it was with Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and now, Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Disgraced uber producer Weinstein, for years the king of the casting couch, is back on trial in New York for an alleged 2013 rape. In 2020, the red carpet led to Attica.

At the same time, billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein’s brother is refusing to believe the twisted financier killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019. Conspiracy theories have suggested that Epstein was instead murdered in his cell to quell the sick sex secrets of the rich and powerful from leaking.

“It would be a lot easier for me if I thought it was suicide, but there’s a long list of things that point away from it,” Mark Epstein told the Daily Mail.

But it is Diddy and his sex- and dope-fuelled “Freak Off” parties and accusations of sex trafficking that have captured the public’s attention. He says he’s simply a swinger just like Fred and Thelma from Toledo.

Whispers about some of Combs’ perverse predilections date back almost 30 years. Some of his eye-popping sexual peccadillos were on the radar when I worked at the New York Post.

Combs, 55, the billionaire hip hop impresario, went on trial in Manhattan federal court last week for a laundry list of charges, including sex trafficking and racketeering. The Bad Boy Records founder also faces a mountain of civil suits.

A coterie of celebrities are expected to be named in the proceedings and the prosecution is keeping the list under lock and key.

The rapper’s reckoning has not disappointed. Lurid sums it up.

Last week, former male stripper Daniel Phillips testified that for two years he was paid thousands of dollars to have sex with Combs’ then gal pal, Cassie Ventura. The rap mogul and aspiring porn auteur watched, directing the pair. Then he’d get violent.

Ventura dated Combs for more than a decade. In 2023, she accused him of rape and abuse but a $20-million settlement torpedoed the lawsuit.

Still, Ventura painted a bleak picture of life with Diddy. He controlled every aspect of her life and she was a regular participant in the “Freak Off” orgies that typically featured porn stars. Some of the sex sessions lasted four days.

Ventura also revealed that the rapper pounded ecstasy, MDMA, opiates and GBH and once OD’d at the Playboy Mansion.

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In addition, she has a $10-million settlement on the way for the notorious beating she suffered at Diddy’s hands at an LA hotel. His brutality was captured on CCTV.

One of Diddy’s collaborators, Dawn Richard, testified she had witnessed Ventura “being attacked by Combs” in 2009. She, too, has a civil suit against Combs.

On Tuesday, Richard told the court that Diddy threatened to kill her if she snitched about the beating. Richard and another woman who witnessed the brutal attack were allegedly warned “we could go missing,” meaning, “we could die.”

The trials of Weinstein and Combs continue.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun