Sean “P. Diddy” Combs sex-trafficking trial is about for the spring and, within the lead-up, his authorized crew is engaged on his behalf. Just lately, the imprisoned 55-year-old rapper’s attorneys filed authorized paperwork by which they alleged that 9 movies captured from his “Freak Off” occasions show his innocence. The crew is now requesting digital copies of the footage from prosecutors. All of the whereas, a protection lawyer is weighing in on how the theoretical launch of the intercourse tapes might truly influence Combs’ case.
The movies reportedly present him with a companion, who’s been recognized as Diddy’s ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. Diddy’s authorized crew argues that the footage reveals “non-public sexual exercise between absolutely consenting adults in a long-term relationship” versus exploitation or coercion. (It’s been stated that Freaks Offs concerned ladies being employed or pressured into performing intercourse acts for company.) Moreover, throughout the attorneys’ submitting had been the claims that Ventura had the footage herself and that it wasn’t obtained amid raids at Diddy’s properties.
David Gelman – a protection lawyer and former prison prosecutor – just lately appeared on DailyMail.com’s The Trial of Diddy podcast to debate the matter. Primarily based on what he needed to say, Gelman is of the considering that if the movies are launched to Sean Combs’ camp, they’ll use it in one in every of two methods. One such manner can be to make use of it to wreck Cassie Ventura’s credibility in the course of the trial:
Let’s simply say that [Cassie’s] taking part in issues and appears like she’s having a very good time. That clearly will not look good for her and her claims of what he did. If I am in Diddy’s [legal] crew, that is how I will be it… ‘Look, it is disgusting. It is not for everyone, however that is what Diddy was into. And the opposite particular person, Cassie, she was into it as effectively. They’re two consenting adults.’
Cassie Ventura – none mononymously as Cassie – and P. Diddy dated from 2007 and 2018. The 38-year-old singer filed go well with towards the Grammy winner in November 2023, at which level she accused him of subjecting her to violence, sex-trafficking and extra throughout their relationship. Diddy denied the allegations, although the lawsuit was settled lower than 24 hours after it was filed. In March 2024, resort footage recorded in 2016 was launched and confirmed Diddy bodily assaulting Cassie in a hallway. The “Dangerous Boy for Life” star ultimately apologized, although his remarks had been criticized by Cassie’s lawyer.
As of this writing, the “Is It You” singer’s authorized representatives haven’t addressed the requests for the movies or the studies that she had them in her possession. As for Sean Combs, he’s incarcerated within the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn (which additionally homes Luigi Mangione). Combs is going through costs of alleged intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, racketeering and extra. Moreover, quite a few sexual assault lawsuits have been leveled at Diddy, who has denied wrongdoing.
Regardless of the scenario, David Gelman believes that one other manner Diddy’s crew might theoretically use the movies to their benefit. He opines that the tapes could possibly be used to barter a greater plea deal:
Doubtlessly that is most likely a negotiation plea as effectively. I do not know if there’s been any affords prolonged to Diddy and his authorized crew for a possible plea, and if there are, I am certain they’re extremely lengthy, most likely life in jail. So this perhaps a ploy for [Comb’s attorneys] to decrease that quantity. In the event that they get this and it present[s] Cassie is probably having fun with on the movies … they may be capable of go after her credibility. The federal government will know that they usually’ll assume, ‘You realize, perhaps if we give a greater deal, we do not have to have her go on the stand and he or she would not should then reply query that perhaps she will not look good to a jury.’
At the moment, it stays to be seen if the intercourse tapes might be launched and both of those theorized strategies would even show to be efficient. P. Diddy’s trial is about to start on Could 5, 2025.