Accused intercourse trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs sacrificed a hen for good luck whereas on his method to be taught the end result of his trial over a 1999 New York Metropolis nightclub taking pictures, his former bodyguard instructed a brand new documentary.
The music mogul was being pushed to the courthouse in Manhattan when he stopped in Central Park to satisfy a mysterious man with a caged hen, his ex-muscle, Gene Deal, instructed the brand new Hulu documentary in regards to the case, “The Honorable Shyne.”
“When Puff got close to the guy, he just dropped down to his knees,” Deal stated, utilizing the nickname Combs used on the time,
“Next thing I see, is this smoke just going back and forth around Puff. I guess it was sage or something like that.”
The person held a Bible as he put a hand on Combs and instructed him to take the hen out of the cage, Deal claimed within the documentary, which began streaming Monday.
“Puff took this white bird and threw it up in the air … The bird just fell to the ground, boom, like it was a brick,” Deal stated. “I used to be like, ‘Oh, s–t!’
“The bird died, man … the bird didn’t even move. [Combs] just walked away from him real quick.”
After the seemingly ominous signal, Combs continued to courtroom — the place he was acquitted of all costs, together with weapons possession and tried bribery, after a seven-week trial.
His sidekick, rapper Shyne — the topic of the Hulu doc — was discovered responsible of assault, reckless endangerment and prison possession of a pistol and spent 10 years in jail. He was then deported to his native Belize, the place he’s a politician now often called Moses Michael Levi Barrow.
Barrow has lengthy accused Combs of creating him take the autumn for the taking pictures, accusing the long-powerful mogul of getting “destroyed my life.”
“I was defending him, and he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me,” he not too long ago instructed Channel 5 Information of when he was simply an “18-year-old kid.”
“He pretty much sent me to prison … This is someone who destroyed my life,” Barrow stated.
Two legislation enforcement sources instructed The Publish earlier this 12 months that the taking pictures may very well be reinvestigated as a part of a sweeping federal probe into Combs, now 54.
Combs stays locked up in federal jail in Manhattan on costs of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
Federal brokers raided his Los Angeles and Miami houses in March, seizing tons of of intercourse movies and a mountain of intercourse paraphernalia — together with 1,000 bottles of child oil and lube. The US Lawyer’s Workplace alleged that the intercourse events he hosted weren’t at all times consensual.
He further faces a slew of civil fits from quite a few alleged victims — together with two from males who stated that they had been minors, simply 10 and 17, once they had been horrifically raped by the R&B star.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to the prison costs and repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
