Discovering Dream Hampton: Jaguar Wright Amplifies Claims on Jay-Z’s Connection to Diddy and Alleged R. Kelly Campaign Funding

Award-winning filmmaker, author, and producer dream hampton recently made headlines after singer Jaguar Wright mentioned her as an associate of Jay-Z during a recent interview.

On October 3, Wright appeared on the YouTube talk show Piers Morgan Uncensored, where she accused Jay-Z of having connections with Sean “Diddy”Combs following the latter’s recent arrest and federal indictment. Additionally, the 47-year-old claimed that Jay-Z orchestrated R. Kelly‘s arrest and conviction in 2019.

“The ‘Me Too’ movement was a ruse. It was a setup. It was a scam. I’m saying that now, publicly. dream hampton spearheaded the ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ campaign, which… fueled the ‘Me Too campaign.’ And that was all funded by Shawn Carter [Jay-Z] to ensure that Robert Kelly went to jail,” Wright alleged.

Jaguar further asserted that filmmaker and producer dream hampton was “financed” and “guided” by the Roc Nation founder. She claimed R. Kelly was apprehended because Jay-Z “was there” with him, asserting it was HOV who uncovered witnesses against the now-convicted Robert Kelly, serving 31 years in federal prison for racketeering, sex trafficking, and sexual abuse of minors.

All You Need to Know About dream hampton Amid Jaguar Wright’s Claims

dream hampton, who stylizes her name in lowercase as a tribute to author bell hooks, is an award-winning American filmmaker, writer, and producer. She is renowned for creating and producing the 2019 Emmy-nominated documentary Surviving R. Kelly, which later streamed on Netflix. The documentary earned her a Peabody Award and conveyed a “deeply painful story about a predator.”

“We have brave women who came forward. The public deserved to have the full story,” the 53-year-old told People Magazine at the time.

The Detroit native has also served as the co-executive producer on the 2012 semi-animated romcom An Over Simplification of Her Beauty alongside other shows such as Burial of Kojo (Netflix, 2019), It’s a Hard Truth (HBO, 2019), and Finding Justice (BET, 2019), among others. Some of dream hampton’s directorial works include the short films It Was All a Dream (2024), Freshwater (2022), We Hold These Truths (2022), and Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop (2023), which she also executive produced.

She was listed among TIME 100’s most influential people in the world in 2019 and is credited for co-writing Jay-Z’s 2010 memoir Decoded. Born in 1972 and named after Martin Luther King’s iconic speech “I Have a Dream,” dream hampton is an alumnus of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts where she studied filmmaking. She has contributed essays, columns, and cultural critiques to prominent publications such as Vibe, Essence, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, The Source, and Detroit News.

dream hampton is an active member of the African-American activist group Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, has served as a visiting artist at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, and is a Krege Artist Fellow. Additionally, she serves as a board member of the civil rights nonprofit Color of Change.

Exploring dream hampton’s Relationship with Jay-Z and Diddy

dream hampton has collaborated with Diddy since the early 1990s. Due to this relationship, when numerous allegations against Sean Combs began to surface earlier this year amid multiple lawsuits and federal raids on his Miami and Los Angeles homes, People Magazine caught up with the music journalist at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.

“I’m kind of just mad at him that I have to talk about or be asked about it,”she expressed.

hampton further noted that she had “no idea”if the Bad Boy Records founder would face consequences for his alleged misconduct, stating it was “all unfolding.” She was in attendance at the film festival at SVA Theater in New York City for the premiere of her latest documentary It Was All a Dream.

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Dame Dash and Dream Hampton Interviews on Jay Z and Beyonce (2005) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS2cYpsrFws)

Simultaneously, dream hampton sat with Hammer & Hope, discussing her familiarity with Diddy as Puff, adding, “I’m getting way too many questions about what’s happening with him. But I know that my first response is that I don’t need celebrity to look at these questions.”

She also criticized 50 Cent, calling his stance as a “defender of women” hypocritical and uninteresting. dream hampton highlighted that what the G-Unit boss had been saying about Puff deviated from his statements regarding Russell Simmons, indicating that “one of those men is his enemy.”

“Puff is loathed. Loathed. So, people are going to have a different conversation about him than Russell Simmons,” dream hampton added.

She mentioned that the dialogue around social issues has intensified due to social media, sharing that her friendship with Jay-Z began when she called him “a hypercapitalist with cartoonish, misogynistic lyrics” years ago.

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