"I have so much money now that I could hire someone to kill you, and nobody would know. No-one would miss you. No-one would know anything."
Former music executive Daniel Evans says he can still remember the threat from his old boss, Sean "Diddy" Combs - then known as Puff Daddy - to a colleague. It was 1997, he says, in the New York office of Combs's Grammy Award-winning music label Bad Boy Records.
"It was like, this is what money does to you," he says.
Combs was often "prickly", but Evans says power was transforming him. Just days before, the hip-hop mogul had received his biggest reward to date – $6m (£4.8m) to mark the label's success, which boasted platinum-selling artists like The Notorious B.I.G.
That year Combs's music career reached its peak, with his empire soon expanding into fashion, alcohol and even his own TV network.
Nearly three decades on, his legacy is in ruins as he sits in jail awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering alongside battling dozens of lawsuits accusing him of drugging and assault at lavish parties, high-end hotels and in his label's recording studio. He denies all the allegations.
Now the BBC has spoken to more than 20 people who worked with Combs at Bad Boy Records - including former executives, assistants and producers - who describe for the first time troubling incidents they say they witnessed during its 1990s rise.
Some executives say they had concerns after seeing Combs having sex with women in the studio, including one incident where the employee says the young woman did not seem to react when he walked in. Another staff member complained Combs asked her to bring him condoms.
