Who is dream hampton? Jaguar Wright doubles down on Jay-Z's ties to Diddy, claims he funded campaign to get rid of R. Kelly 

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

On October 3, Wright appeared on the YouTube talk show Piers Morgan Uncensored where she accused Jay-Z of having ties with Sean "Diddy" Combs amid the latter’s recent arrest and federal indictment. Not only that but the 47-year-old claimed that Jay-Z was behind 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… fuelled the ‘Me Too campaign.’ And that was all funded by Shawn Carter [Jay-Z] to make sure that Robert Kelly went to jail,” Wright alleged.

Jaguar further claimed that filmmaker and producer dream hampton was “financed” and “run” by the Roc Nation founder. She alleged R. Kelly was caught because Jay-Z “was there” with him, adding that it was HOV who found witnesses against the now-convicted felon Robert Kelly, who is serving 31 years in federal prison for racketeering, s*x trafficking, and s*xual abuse of minors.

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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 American award-winning filmmaker, writer, and producer. She is best known 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 she described it as 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 of 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 ventures 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 one of the TIME 100’s most influential people in the world in 2019 and is also credited for co-writing Jay-Z’s 2010 memoir Decoded. dream hampton, who was born in 1972 and was named after Martin Luther King’s iconic speech “I Have a Dream,” is an alumnus of the New York University Tisch School of Arts where she studied filmmaking. She has written essays, columns, and cultural criticisms for publications like Vibe, Essence, Harper Bazaar, The Village Voice, The Source, and Detroit News among others.

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

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

dream hampton has worked alongside Diddy since the early 1990s. As a result, when allegations against Sean Combs began piling up earlier this year in the wake of 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 said.

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

Around the same time, dream also sat with Hammer&Hope and shared how she knew 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 called out 50 Cent saying that he pretending to be “some defender of women” was hypocritical and uninteresting to her. hampton also shared that what the G-Unit boss was saying “about Puff is not what he’s saying about Russell Simmons,” thus making it problematic and evident 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 how the conversation was louder because of social media and shared that her friendship with Jay-Z happened when she called him “a hypercapitalist with cartoonish, misogynistic lyrics,” years back.