Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is on trial facing a number of charges, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution
The jurors in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial were shown images from the ‘freak off’ sex parties the rapper and producer organised. The trial is underway with the disgraced rapper facing a number of charges, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The 55-year-old was arrested in September and strongly denies all allegations made against him. He has been in prison since his arrest, with a number of bail requests rejected. On Wednesday, the courtroom for the sex trafficking trial of Diddy at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse fell silent as the jury members were shown five still images of the ‘freak offs’ on their screens.
Their screens were blocked from public view. An escort is shown in two of the images, including one of Diddy’s ex-girlfriend and singer, Cassie Ventura, which is a still from longer video footage. She’s also pictured with other men at the ‘freak offs’.
Ventura said of one image, which showed her with three male escorts: “There is baby oil on me and I am standing there during a freak off with a candle and lubricant on the table.”
While being shown the images, one male jury member’s eyebrows shot up while a female juror swallowed hard and appeared to move her head from side to side. One female juror let out an audible gasp and placed her hand on her chest as an image was shown.
Another man took notes on a notepad while a woman nodded affirmatively. Only the singer, Diddy and his lawyers, the jurors and the prosecution were allowed to see the images.
During the third day, Ventura recalled a moment they got into an argument while staying on a boat belonging to one of his friends.
Diddy accused Ventura of stealing drugs from him. “[He] kicked me off the boat with no shoes early one morning,” she told the court, adding: “I walked over to his staff’s hotel and I stayed in somebody’s room.” While attending an event at Cannes Film Festival, Ventura says Diddy gave her “evil glares.”
She added: “He would grab my leg and like squeeze my thighs tight as he could, and I was wearing a beaded dress, so it was really painful.” On the flight home, Ventura swapped seats so she wouldn’t be sitting near Diddy. However, he moved seats to sit beside her.
During the flight, she claims he showed her footage of a freak off, despite her initially believing he’d deleted them. Diddy allegedly told Ventura that “he was going to embarrass me and release them,” she told the court. Upon landing in New York, they headed to dinner, and he allegedly wanted another freak off.
She testified: “Whatever was going to make him not be angry at me and threatening me, I was willing to do. I just didn’t want to feel scared anymore. And it was the one thing he made me feel like I was good at.”
She also told the court how she and Diddy would take IV fluids, have massages and take opiates to recover from the freak offs.
“Opiates made me feel numb, which is why I relied on them so heavily,” she told the court before explaining Diddy would often provide them. She said she had regular gastrointestinal problems from the drugs and often suffered from urinary tract infections.
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Source: Mirror
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