Footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ drug-fueled intercourse marathons — which he dubbed “Freak-Offs” — exhibits that one in all his alleged victims “enjoyed herself” and was “completely in control,” his legal professionals claimed Thursday.
The feds’ proof of 9 movies depicting six sexual encounters “show adults having consensual sex, plain and simple,” the jailed hip-hop mogul’s legal professionals argued in a courtroom submitting prematurely of his Could trial.
Combs’ 4 attorneys didn’t clarify how they concluded the girl’s alleged pleasure within the movies, which they seen in November and December whereas being supervised by authorities brokers.
Combs plied his alleged victims with “controlled substances” to maintain them “obedient and compliant” throughout the encounters, prosecutors allege.
However Combs’ legal professionals Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Alexandra Shapiro and Anthony Ricco claimed Tuesday, with out elaborating, {that a} lady depicted within the intercourse tapes is “not only consenting: she is evidently happy, dominant, and completely in control.”
“These videos unambiguously show that the person alleged in the indictment to be ‘Victim-I’ not only consented but thoroughly enjoyed herself,” the submitting claims.
Combs, 54, is locked up at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking, racketeering and prostitution prices. Prosecutors have accused him of abusing a number of girls and main Unhealthy Boy Data as a “criminal enterprise” for greater than a decade.
The embattled rap kingpin compelled his lovers into the “Freak-Offs,” days-long sexual “performances” the place the ladies had intercourse with male escorts whereas he watched and masturbated, courtroom papers allege.
Combs usually secretly filmed the encounters to make use of as leverage towards his alleged victims, the feds say.
The allegations first got here to mild in a rapidly 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’ legal professionals additionally claimed Tuesday that “contrary to innumerable sensationalistic media reports,” the intercourse tapes which can be at present a part of the case “do not depict sex parties” — a time period they didn’t outline — and don’t present different celebrities.
Combs had rooms inside his Miami mansion “dedicated to sex” and stocked with intercourse toys, bondage gear, hidden cameras and lingerie, one of many Division of Homeland Safety brokers who raided the home informed The Publish in September 2024.
Tuesday’s submitting argues nonetheless that the feds’ footage seen to date exhibits “no secret cameras, no orgies, no other celebrities involved, no underground tunnels, no minors, and not so much as a hint of coercion or violence.”
The attorneys are barred from moving into specifics concerning the movies due to a choose’s protecting order, Combs’ lawyer Agnifilo informed The Publish.
Underneath the phrases of that order, which is geared toward defending the privateness of the girl within the movies, Combs’ legal professionals are solely allowed to view the intercourse tapes underneath supervision from federal brokers.
Tuesday’s movement asks a choose to loosen these restrictions and pressure prosecutors to show over the footage, which Combs’ legal professionals say they’ve the appropriate to indicate to “experts” or use to arrange their trial proof.
The submitting additionally echoes arguments Combs’ staff 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 reflects a paternalistic view that the government is here to protect women, who cannot be trusted to make their own decisions about sex, and are not capable of consenting to sex that the prosecutors view as outside the ‘norm,’” Tuesday’s submitting claims.
Federal prosecutors will possible reply in their very own courtroom papers.
Combs, who has pleaded not responsible, faces a most sentence of life in jail if convicted at trial.
