Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs submitted a letter to the judge overseeing his federal court case Tuesday demanding prosecutors produce videos mentioned in the indictment against him of his so-called “freak off” parties, claiming they show his sexual activity with one of his alleged victims was consensual and that they’ll prove the government is trying to “police non-confirming sexual activity.”
(Here is a complete list of the allegations against Combs.)
In a letter sent to federal judge Arun Subramanian, Combs’ lawyers claim the nine videos possessed by prosecutors will show “adults having consensual sex, plain and simple” and contain no evidence of violence, coercion, threats, sex trafficking or other claims made against Combs, additionally claiming that “any fair-minded viewer of the videos will quickly conclude that the prosecution of Mr. Combs is both sexist and puritanical.”
December 18Combs appeared in court for a brief hearing in his federal case at which federal prosecutors said they plan to disclose all available evidence to his defense team by the end of the year in preparation for a May trial date.
One court reporter described Combs as appearing “thinner” and “grayer” than when he was last seen in public, and the music mogul wished spectators a “Happy Holidays” as he left.
In a letter sent to federal judge Arun Subramanian, Combs’ lawyers claim the nine videos possessed by prosecutors will show “adults having consensual sex, plain and simple” and contain no evidence of violence, coercion, threats, sex trafficking or other claims made against Combs, additionally claiming that “any fair-minded viewer of the videos will quickly conclude that the prosecution of Mr. Combs is both sexist and puritanical.”
December 18Combs appeared in court for a brief hearing in his federal case at which federal prosecutors said they plan to disclose all available evidence to his defense team by the end of the year in preparation for a May trial date.
One court reporter described Combs as appearing “thinner” and “grayer” than when he was last seen in public, and the music mogul wished spectators a “Happy Holidays” as he left.
Subramanian denied Combs’ request to be released on bail citing “compelling evidence of Combs’s propensity for violence.” Subramanian’s ruling also stated that there was evidence supporting “a serious risk of witness tampering,” along with evidence that he “violated Bureau of Prisons regulations during his pretrial detention to obscure his communications with third parties.”
The judge also wrote the government prosecutors have shown “by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community.”
