Footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ drug-fueled intercourse marathons — which he dubbed “Freak-Offs” — reveals that one among his alleged victims “loved herself” and was “fully in management,” his attorneys claimed Thursday.
The feds’ proof of 9 movies depicting six sexual encounters “present adults having consensual intercourse, plain and easy,” the jailed hip-hop mogul’s attorneys argued in a court docket submitting prematurely of his Could trial.
Combs’ 4 attorneys didn’t clarify how they reached the conclusion in regards to the lady’s alleged pleasure within the movies, which they considered in November and December whereas being supervised by authorities brokers.
Combs plied his alleged victims with “managed substances” to maintain them “obedient and compliant” through the encounters, prosecutors allege.
However Combs’ attorneys Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Alexandra Shapiro and Anthony Ricco claimed Tuesday, with out elaborating, {that a} lady depicted within the intercourse tapes is “not solely consenting: she is evidently joyful, dominant, and fully in management.”
“These movies unambiguously present that the particular person alleged within the indictment to be ‘Sufferer-I’ not solely consented however completely loved herself,” the submitting claims.
Combs, 54, is locked up at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking, racketeering and prostitution fees. Prosecutors have accused him of abusing a number of ladies and main Unhealthy Boy Information as a “felony enterprise” for greater than a decade.
The embattled rap kingpin pressured his lovers into the “Freak-Offs,” days-long sexual “performances” the place the ladies had intercourse with male escorts whereas he watched and masturbated, court docket papers allege.
Combs typically secretly filmed the encounters to make use of as leverage in opposition to his alleged victims, the feds say.
The allegations first got here to gentle in a shortly settled civil swimsuit filed by Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura — who Combs was caught on digicam punching and kicking in disturbing footage unearthed final Could.
Combs’ attorneys additionally claimed Tuesday that “opposite to innumerable sensationalistic media stories,” the intercourse tapes which might be at the moment a part of the case “don’t depict intercourse events” — a time period they didn’t outline — and don’t present different celebrities.
Combs had rooms inside his Miami mansion “devoted to intercourse” and stocked with intercourse toys, bondage gear, hidden cameras and lingerie, one of many Division of Homeland Safety brokers who raided the home instructed The Publish in September 2024.
Tuesday’s submitting argues nonetheless that the feds’ footage considered thus far reveals “no secret cameras, no orgies, no different celebrities concerned, no underground tunnels, no minors, and never a lot as a touch of coercion or violence.”
The attorneys are barred from stepping into specifics in regards to the movies due to a choose’s protecting order, Combs’ lawyer Agnifilo instructed The Publish.
Underneath the phrases of that order, which is aimed toward defending the privateness of the girl within the movies, Combs’ attorneys are solely allowed to view the intercourse tapes underneath supervision from federal brokers.
Tuesday’s movement asks a choose to loosen these restrictions and power prosecutors to show over the footage, which Combs’ attorneys say they’ve the best to indicate to “consultants” or use to organize their trial proof.
The submitting additionally echoes arguments Combs’ group made of their a number of failed bids to get him launched from jail pre-trial, together with the declare that the federal government is “criminalizing” the sexual habits of allegedly “consenting” adults.
“The prosecution displays a paternalistic view that the federal government is right here to guard ladies, who can’t be trusted to make their very own choices about intercourse, and are usually not able to consenting to intercourse that the prosecutors view as outdoors the ‘norm,’” Tuesday’s submitting claims.
Federal prosecutors will possible reply in their very own court docket papers.
Combs, who has pleaded not responsible, faces a most sentence of life in jail if convicted at trial.