A day after 4 John Does and two Jane Does filed the newest assault lawsuits towards Sean “Diddy” Combs, the ‘Dangerous Boy For Life’ performer now says “the federal government ought to be required to establish its alleged victims” in his intercourse trafficking case.
“This case is exclusive, partly due to the variety of people levying allegations towards Mr. Combs as a result of his superstar standing, wealth, and the publicity of his beforehand settled lawsuit and the grand jury leaks and false inflammatory statements by the DHS brokers, as outlined in our earlier movement,” wrote Combs’ Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos-led protection attorneys Tuesday to US District Decide Arun Subramanian “This has had a pervasive ripple impact, leading to a torrent of allegations by unidentified complainants, spanning from the false to outright absurd.”
Learn Sean Combs’ attorneys’ letter to a federal choose to have victims recognized right here
“These swirling allegations have created a hysterical media circus that, if left unchecked, will irreparably deprive Mr. Combs of a good trial, in the event that they haven’t already,” the duo added, probably poisoning the judicial nicely for later for the 54-year previous Grammy winner.
“With out readability from the federal government, Mr. Combs has no means of figuring out which allegations the federal government is counting on for functions of the Indictment,” the letter continues leaning in the direction of authorities over attain. “Apart from Sufferer-1, there is no such thing as a means for Mr. Combs to find out who the opposite unidentified alleged victims are. The variety of potential alleged victims and the size of time alleged within the Indictment each weigh in favor of a invoice of particulars.”
By “outright absurd,” the attorneys imply the six new lawsuits that had been put within the court docket docket on October 14 to hitch the now round 20 individuals, men and women, who’ve accused Sean Combs of drugging them, beating them, threatening them, forcing them to take part in his so-called “Freak Offs,” and raping them. As the September 15 arrested ‘All In regards to the Benjamins’ rapper sits in Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn going through life behind bars if discovered responsible at a trial set to start out on Could 5, 2025, Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee guarantees that he has over 100 extra Combs victims quickly to come back ahead with lawsuits of their very own.
US Lawyer Damian Williams workplace had no touch upon at present’s protection submitting. Nevertheless, within the 4 web page missive, Agnifilo and Geragos say the opposite facet “opposes disclosure of alleged victims’ names at this stage.”
Unsurprisingly, the prosecutors are following the usual protocol of protecting alleged sexual assault victims names out of the general public document for his or her security. “That is all about shaming the alleged victims, it’s a part of the protection’ offense plan of action,” a regulation enforcement supply with data of the case instructed Deadline. “They’ll attempt something.”
Moreover, what makes this newest transfer so distinctive, to place it politely, on one other degree by the Combs and his protection crew is that they already know by their very own admission who a number of of the alleged victims are.
Particularly, as they admit, the protection know who “Sufferer-1,” is. Plus they know who “Particular person-1″ is, and who’s the recipient of a November 19, 20203 telephone name from Combs concerning the rising allegations towards him and searching for her “friendship.”
As was famous at present within the letter to the choose and in paperwork filed as just lately as October 9 by the protection, it’s clear that everyone is aware of “Sufferer-1” is. “
Sufferer-1” is the Infamous B.I.G. sideman’s’ former longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
(L-R) Sean “Diddy” Combs & Cassie Ventura at LA’s Chateau Marmont in 2012
Ventura sued Combs final fall in a shortly settled motion for years of assault and abuse. Hours after Ventura’s very vivid go well with landed within the court docket docket, Combs denied all the things — as he has in each case to date. Then, he paid Ventura a reported $30 million to kill the case inside 24 hours. Ventura’s claims of the violence the ‘Me & U’ singer lived with from Combs over their greater than decade lengthy relationship got additional credence in Could when 2016 resort safety footage of a towel carrying Combs pummeling Ventura within the hall of an upmarket LA resort was made public.
The caller on the opposite finish of the road with Combs final November has come up in varied paperwork with either side arguing the validity of the feds’ witness tampering allegations over the character and intent of that individual name. Everybody clearly figuring out who this particular person is, the protection have accused the feds of concealing proof that will refute the obstruction claims.
If exploding vehicles are any trace, “Particular person-1” is rapper Child Cudi, who noticed considered one of his automobiles arsoned after a short affair with Ventura in 2011/2012 “A number of witnesses would additionally testify to the defendant bragging about his position in destroying Particular person-1’s automobile,” states a September 17 letter to the then choose on the case from US Lawyer Damian Williams.
Calls of “a number of witness” make it sort of laborious to cover somebody’s id, particularly when it has been on the market or months already.
Just like their October 9 claims that Homeland Safety brokers this spring leaked that 2016 surveillance video (which Diddy purchased eight years in the past for $50,000), the protection seems to be in battle with their very own info. Within the case of the resort video leak, the defenses buried of their submitting’s footnotes that prosecutors instructed them they by no means had the vile video and neither did DHS, one thing they select to skid previous.
Having mentioned that, coming months after federal brokers raided Combs LA and Miami houses, final month’s indictment for racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution does cowl a large swath of time and actions. “This could possibly be interpreted as treating Mr. Combs’ whole sexual historical past over the previous sixteen years as a part of the alleged felony conspiracy,” the protection attorneys mentioned in writing to the choose at present.
“Mr. Combs additionally anticipates that the invention will comprise voluminous proof of consensual sexual exercise – making it all of the harder for Mr. Combs to establish which of his prior sexual companions now declare, years later, that they felt coerced,” they add, with no sense of grim irony.
As this matter and the felony case strikes alongside, Combs’ attorneys are taking a 3rd swing at getting their incarcerated shopper out with their October 8 movement for pretrial launch to the US Court docket of Appeals for the Second District.
Oddly, Tuesday additionally noticed a posting on Combs’ Instagram account wishing his youngest daughter a Joyful Birthday. In keeping with officers, Combs ought to have entry to such social media.So both he’s posting underneath the radar or giving another person his IG password to submit for him.
