Diddy’s legal team says the “Freak Off” video doesn’t show anything illegal

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team has requested copies of the “desperation” tapes to use as evidence in Combs’ sex-trafficking case, arguing in a statement that the tapes only show consensual sex.

“Contrary to what the government has led the court and the public to believe, the so-called ‘desperate’ were private sexual acts between consenting adults in a long-term relationship,” it said. in requestwhich was filed Tuesday and obtained by HuffPost.

Combs’ ex, Cassandra Ventura, a model and singer commonly known as Cassie, demanded quick payback lawsuit in November 2023 that Combs would force her to have sex with sex workers because he would watch and control her. He called the meetings “desperate,” her lawsuit alleged. A few months after Cassie’s lawsuit, numerous other lawsuits followed.

“Miracles” sometimes lasted several days. Ventura accused him of forcing participants to take ketamine, MDMA and the GBH date-rape drug to keep them “docile and compliant,” then-U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said. previously said.

The prosecutor’s office reportedly has nine videos of “tricks” involving “Victim 1,” who asked not to release the videos “to protect her privacy,” according to the document.

According to the document, Combs’ attorneys reviewed the video on Nov. 20 and Dec. 13 in the presence of law enforcement, as both sides previously agreed. Combs’ lawyers are now demanding the footage because they say the footage makes it “absolutely clear” that he is innocent.

“Contrary to numerous sensational media reports, the video does not depict a sex party,” the document says. “There are no secret cameras, no orgies, no other celebrities involved, no underground tunnels, no minors, and not even a hint of coercion or violence.”

Combs’ defense wants to create electronic copies of the videos to improve their quality and “analyze the metadata.” They also seek to “remove parts of the footage to create evidence, photographs and transcripts.”

Citing earlier documents discussing “weirds,” Combs’ team said Tuesday that the media mogul’s prosecution is “sexist and puritanical.”

“This is sexism because the government’s theory perpetuates stereotypes of female victimhood and lack of agency. The charge reflects a paternalistic view that the government is there to protect women who can’t be trusted to make their own decisions about sex, and who are incapable of consenting to sex that prosecutors consider to be outside the “norm.”

Combs is being held at the Brooklyn Detention Center as his May 5 trial date approaches. He denies the charges against him.

HuffPost reached out to representatives for Combs and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where the case is pending, but did not hear back.

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