50 Cent isn’t letting up in his trolling of his longtime rival Sean “Diddy” Combs following the music mogul’s federal indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday morning in New York City (Sept. 17).

The G-Unit boss has been on a media tour in support of his new book The Accomplice, but he still made some time to take a jab at Diddy surrounding the details of his sprawling sex trafficking indictment on Tuesday.

50 posted a photo with Drew Barrymore to promote his appearance on her show, but didn’t waste any time sneaking in a shot at Diddy, hinting at the indictment’s report that federal agents allegedly seized over 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant from his Miami and Los Angeles homes as evidence during a federal raid in March.

“Here I am keeping good company with @DrewBarrymoreTV and I don’t have 1,000 bottles of lube at the house,” he wrote alongside his photo with the actress.

One fan replied: “I was waiting on 50 to chime in and here it is.” Another added: “I know you got more coming for us today bro.”

The 1,000 bottles of lube 50 is referencing came from the Sept. 12 indictment, which was unveiled during Tuesday’s presser by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who claimed the bottles confiscated from Sean Combs’ possession were used in the alleged sexual “freak offs.”

Williams also claimed that Combs’ staff would stock hotel rooms with lubricant and baby oil for the “freak offs.” Electronic devices were seized containing evidence of the “freak offs” with multiple victims.

Diddy was reportedly arrested at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Monday night. Combs faces charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution, per the indictment obtained by Billboard. The conspiracy charge also came with allegations of forced labor, kidnapping, arson and bribery from 2008 through the present day.

“For decades, Sean Combs … abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct,” the indictment reads. “To do so, Combs relied on the employees, resources and the influence of his multi-faceted business empire that he led and controlled.”

If convicted on the charges, Combs will be facing a minimum sentence of 15 years jail time, while the charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. Diddy is expected to appear in court on Tuesday.

Grammy winner and Americana luminary Allison Russell is set to make her Broadway debut in the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown.

Beginning on Nov. 12, Russell will perform as the Greek goddess Persephone in the lauded musical. Hadestown is based on the 2010 concept album adapting the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice by folk singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, who then went on to create the show’s music, lyrics and book.

On her Instagram, Russell celebrated her upcoming debut, while recalling her first time seeing Mitchell perform the show’s song “Why We Build The Wall” in Santa Barbara, California in 2008.

“I was transfixed,” Russell wrote. “When Anaïs told me later that night that she was working on a ‘folk opera’ based on the myth of Orpheus & Eurydice all my hairs stood on end — I had a premonition that it would be become a piece that would outlive us all…”

After Mitchell released Hadestown in 2010, the project was later turned into a stage musical and made its U.S. debut in 2016. Three years later, the musical opened on Broadway and won eight Tony Awards that same year, including best musical.

“It has been a keen and continuous joy to have a front row seat to the evolution of this great opus — from the 2010 album to Off Broadway to the Edmonton Theatre to the London Theatre and finally to Broadway and the Walter Kerr Theatre,” Russell wrote. “Anaïs has been and is a lodestar artist, writer and friend to me since that night in 2008 … impossible for me to fully convey how deeply meaningful, resonant, uplifting, full circle and THRILLING it is to be making my Broadway debut, starring in the role of Persephone (a Goddess and archetype I have explored in both poetry and song myself since childhood) in this generational masterpiece and my favourite musical.”

Russell also added that she is “proud to be joining the sisterhood of artists who’ve embodied Persephone, proud to be joining this extraordinary ensemble, proud to become a part of this living, growing legacy. This is a World I’ve dreamt of and one I get to live in now. I am excited and grateful beyond measure to be joining @hadestown! See you way down under the ground.”

For Russell, early 2025 is slated to be filled with performances. The singer-songwriter, who has been supporting Hozier’s Unreal Unearth Tour this year, is also slated for a brief run of tour dates in Australia in April 2025, and will then embark on her rescheduled All Returners Tour later than month, with the tour launching April 30 in South Burlington, Vt. and including shows in New York, San Francisco and Nashville.

At this week’s Americana Music Awards — set for Wednesday, Sept. 18 in Nashville — Russell is also nominated for the evening’s artist of the year trophy, alongside Tyler Childers, Charley Crockett, Sierra Ferrell and Noah Kahan.

See Russell’s announcement post below:

Ticketing company Lyte appears to have gone out of business, shutting down its website, laying off its staff and leaving a number of concert promoters unpaid for hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of tickets sold on the platform.

Lyte founder and chief executive Ant Taylor has resigned from the company, according to multiple sources, with an emergency board/creditors effort underway to try to identify a potential buyer that could repay the fans and promoters affected by shutdown, which one source said felt akin to being “ghosted.” Currently, the company’s website is offline and has been for days, having been replaced by an image that says “Be Back Soon,” with smaller text reading, “Our website is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. We should be back shortly.”

Having launched the company in 2014, Taylor raised about $53 million in four major funding rounds, with his biggest investors believed to be Chamath Palihapitiya from Silicon Valley VC Social Capital and New York hedge fund manager Joseph Edelman. Neither Taylor nor representatives for Lyte responded to requests for comment.

Lyte billed itself as a fan-to-fan ticket exchange where fans could list tickets to events they couldn’t attend and ethically resell those tickets to other fans wanting to attend a concert. But Lyte’s own clients say the company’s business model had changed and that the company helped promoters scalp their high-end tickets and VIP festival tickets — quietly splitting the profits with event organizers.

It wasn’t uncommon for a major indie festival promoter to have several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of ticketing inventory listed on the Lyte system, explained one attorney representing potentially more than a $1 million in cumulative claims against Lyte. High profile clients for Lyte included Baja Beach festival, the Lost Lands festival in Ohio, Pitchfork Music Festival and Newport Folk Festival, although it’s unclear which events are owed money by Lyte.

A worse fate potentially awaits clients who signed up for Lyte’s primary ticketing platform. As recently as Sept. 9 the Lyte blog was announcing new clients for that initiative, including Digilogue Days, an October event in Brooklyn that billed itself as a meeting point for “music executives, artists, creatives, students and aspiring professionals with the tools and knowledge to shape the future of the music industry.” Today, Digilogue Days’ ticketing page has the same “be back soon” message that has come to replace nearly all of Lyte’s known web footprint.

The worst-case scenario for any primary ticketing clients would be if Lyte went out of business without paying its clients any of the revenue from tickets it had sold on their behalf. For small event organizers, that could equal nearly all of an event’s revenue.

If Lyte has to file for insolvency protection, it would fall into the hands of a bankruptcy trustee to sort through the details. But attorneys for several festival clients are hoping to pull their clients’ money out of the venture before it goes into administration.

“It would be totally unacceptable if any of my clients’ money was co-mingled with Lyte’s operational funds,” said one attorney who did not wish to speak on the record. “If that happened, the board of directors will be forced to account for those funds, even if that means piercing the corporate veil and going after their ability to raise money.”

Aubrey O’Day is hopeful for the future following Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest.

“The purpose of Justice is to provide an ending and allow us the space to create a new chapter. Women never get this. I feel validated. Today is a win for women all over the world, not just me. Things are finally changing,” the former Danity Kane member tweeted.

O’Day has a longtime history of speaking out against Diddy. Danity Kane was formed back in 2005 on Diddy’s Making the Band and the group was also later signed to his Bad Boy Records label. O’Day was kicked out of the group in 2008, and she alleged on Call Her Daddy in 2022 that her departure was related to her refusal to fulfill non-music requests for the rapper.

Diddy was arrested Monday (Sept. 16) in New York City, and Manhattan federal prosecutors have since unveiled the substance of their case against Combs — accusing him of operating a criminal enterprise centered on his “pervasive pattern of abuse toward women.”

The indictment, obtained by Billboard, includes allegations of sexual abuse, accusing rapper and music executive of running a racketeering conspiracy that included sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson and bribery. If convicted of the charges, Combs is facing a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life behind bars. Combs is expected to be arraigned later on Tuesday at a Manhattan federal courthouse.

In a video obtained by CNN earlier this year and dated March 5, 2016, Combs appears to shove his longtime former partner, Cassie Ventura, to the ground near an elevator bank, kick her several times while she lies on the ground and drag her down a hallway. The contents of the video mirror an assault allegation Ventura made in a now-settled lawsuit she filed against Diddy in November.

Ventura was the first to accuse Diddy of sexual assault, filing a lawsuit in November in which attorneys for Cassie claimed she “endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands,” including repeated physical attacks and forcing her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers” while he masturbated. According to the complaint, after she attempted to separate from him in 2018 after an on-and-off public relationship for 11 years, Combs allegedly “forced her into her home and raped her while she repeatedly said ‘no’ and tried to push him away.” The case was soon settled, but Combs was then sued by multiple other women who claimed they were sexually abused by the hip-hop mogul. 

O’Day has previously spoken out in defense of Ventura. “I am in full support of Cassie,” O’Day shared in a statement to ET in November. “It isn’t easy to take on one of the most powerful people in this industry and be honest about your experience with them. I know what her heart is feeling right now, because I have done so as well. May her voice bring all the others to the table, so we can start having more transparent conversations about what is actually happening behind the scenes. There is a lot more to all of our stories!”

If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, please call the confidential National Domestic Violence Hotline toll-free at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org.