Oct. 11 2024, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
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The actor’s reputation was already reeling after he and his 41-year-old wife Mila Kunis expressed support for their That ’70s Show co-star Danny Masterson, who was convicted of viciously raping multiple women.
Now, we can reveal he’s facing backlash for hanging out with accused serial abuser Sean “Diddy” Combs.
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Said a showbiz insider: “Ashton needs to pick his friends better.
“The spotlight has turned on him for reveling in his relationships with a couple of Hollywood’s most notorious stars.
“He’s going to have a tough time salvaging his career after this Diddy mess.”
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Kutcher, 46, is catching hell for a 2019 interview in which he not so coyly laughed about the depravity that went on behind closed doors at Diddy’s parties he attended on multiple occasions.
“I’ve got a lot I can’t tell,” Kutcher cracked.
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In another damning interview, he confessed to fellow Hollywood outcast James Corden how close he and Combs had grown.
“We became fast friends,” Ashton told the Late Late Show host in 2018.
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As RadarOnline.com has reported, Combs, 54, was caged after a federal indictment charged him with a laundry list of depraved offenses, including abusing, threatening and coercing women and others around him to fulfill “his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct.”
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Diddy called his debauched parties Freak Offs, and they were described in the indictment as marathon sex orgies the disgraced hip-hop mogul “arranged, directed, masturbating during, and often electronically recorded.”
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Diddy pleaded not guilty and was placed on suicide watch inside a Brooklyn jail where he awaits trial for the alleged crimes.
A judge turned down his offer of $50 million for bail.
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Revealed a source: “If Ashton saw – or worse-participated in any of this stuff, it would sound the death knell of his career, which has already hit a lull after his defense of Danny.”
Sources close to Kutcher have denied he has done anything wrong and simply blame “guilt by association.”
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But the insider said the pair’s friendship alone might be enough to have a serious impact on his Hollywood future.
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