Footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ drug-fueled intercourse marathons — which he dubbed “Freak-Offs” — exhibits that one in every of his alleged victims “loved herself” and was “fully in management,” his legal professionals 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 legal professionals argued in a courtroom submitting upfront of his Could trial.
Combs’ 4 attorneys didn’t clarify how they concluded the girl’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” 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} girl depicted within the intercourse tapes is “not solely consenting: she is evidently pleased, 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 girls and main Unhealthy Boy Data 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, 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 go well with 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 “opposite to innumerable sensationalistic media studies,” 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 advised The Publish in September 2024.
Tuesday’s submitting argues nonetheless that the feds’ footage considered thus far exhibits “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 decide’s protecting order, Combs’ lawyer Agnifilo advised 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 decide to loosen these restrictions and power prosecutors to show over the footage, which Combs’ legal professionals say they’ve the fitting to indicate to “specialists” or use to arrange 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 girls, who can’t be trusted to make their very own choices about intercourse, and should not able to consenting to intercourse that the prosecutors view as exterior 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.
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