ABC7 – Legal documents allege that after Diddy freak offs Diddy would give IV fluids to victims for recovery.
Here he is with his mother and an IV talking about how beautiful she is, talking about how she comes with him to strip clubs.
The rapper’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, told reporters Tuesday that Combs “knew this was coming” ever since the raids on his homes in Miami and Los Angeles in March.
In a previous statement, Agnifilo called the charges against Combs “unjust” and said his client was “an innocent man with nothing to hide” who “looks forward to clearing his name in court.” Diddy pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon.
Here’s what to know about the indictment against Combs.
Combs, along with his staff and associates who made up his alleged enterprise, “wielded the power and prestige” of Combs’ name in order “to intimidate, threaten, and lure female victims into Combs’ orbit, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship,” according to the indictment.
Some of the alleged sexual abuse by Combs occurred in the form of so-called “Freak Offs,” which prosecutors described as “elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded.”
The indictment says “Freak Offs” “occurred regularly, sometimes lasted multiple days, and often involved multiple commercial sex workers,” who were at times allegedly transported across state lines or internationally.
Combs allegedly distributed drugs during these sexual performances in part to keep them “obedient and compliant,” according to the indictment.
The indictment also alleges Diddy would have his hotel rooms stocked with supplies, including drugs, baby oil, lubricant, linens and lighting. According to the indictment, searches of Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles turned up narcotics and “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.”
If the alleged victims resisted participating in a “Freak Off,” Combs would allegedly threaten their careers and livelihoods, at times using “sensitive, embarrassing, and incriminating recordings” of them taken during “Freak Offs” “as collateral to ensure the continued obedience and silence of the victims,” prosecutors said.
“Victims believed they could not refuse Combs’ demands without risking their financial or job security or without repercussions in the form of physical and emotional abuse,” the indictment states.
Agnifilo, Diddy’s lawyer, said rather than evidence of sex trafficking, the defense said the “Freak Offs” were evidence of consenting adults experiencing intimacy “in a way that two adults want to be intimate.”
Combs physically abused his victims on numerous occasions, the indictment alleges, at times “striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them.”
The physical abuse was allegedly “recurrent and widely known” among the staff and associates who made up his alleged enterprise, prosecutors said.
At times, Combs’ alleged victims were “required to remain in hiding” for days at a time in order to recover from their physical injuries without being seen, according to the indictment.
In addition to the alleged physical violence, the indictment alleges Combs allegedly maintained control over his alleged victims with “promises of career opportunities, granting and threatening to withhold financial support, and by other coercive means, including tracking their whereabouts, dictating the victims’ appearance, monitoring their medical records, controlling their housing, and supplying them with controlled substances.”
