'What Sean Combs is being accused of is not rare. He's not an anomaly.' For a year in the early noughties, Elisabeth Ovesen was a hip-hop video star dancing alongside some of the biggest names in the business. It was an era of big-budget music videos filled with, in rap especially, money, cars, and women. She kept diaries.
Women were being used as props and to make the men look good, and we were disposable and not treated with respect, for the most part. But coming from my particular background - having been an exotic dancer - that didn't deter me or bother me at the time.' CCTV cameras and NDAs This is no longer Ovesen's world, she points out. She has published several books since her first, and has also given lectures about her experiences.