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Diddy has just received his first piece of good news in a long time. A judge has ruled that prosecutors can’t use materials seized from his jail cell.
As spotted on Deadline, the now embattled mogul might be feeling more confident heading into his upcoming bail hearing. On Tuesday (November 19), Judge Arun Subramanian denied the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District the ability to leverage any information seized from an October raid in Diddy’s jail cell. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams submitted a filing last week alleging that the Bad Boy Entertainment founder had written notes detailing plans to “blackmail” witnesses, make unauthorized calls, and more.
“While attempting to evade law enforcement monitoring, the defendant has, among other things, orchestrated social media campaigns that are, in his own words, aimed at tainting the jury pool; made efforts to publicly leak materials he views as helpful to his case; and contacted witnesses through third parties,” the memo read.
Additionally, prosecutors also submitted a transcript of a call Diddy made to one of his sons that shows “the defendant’s goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into silence or providing testimony helpful to his defense.”
Some of the items seized in the raid include “intact pages from two different legal pads, (ii) pages of an address book, (iii) a ripped-out, folded-over page of a third legal pad, (iv) a ripped-out page of another legal pad and (v) a ripped-out page of yet a different legal pad.”
Diddy’s legal team pushed back citing the raid violated several of their client’s Amendments rights. Diddy’s third bail hearing is scheduled for November 22. He has previously offered a $50 million bond and agreed to only be in contact with his family and legal team.
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Diddy’s pursuit of bail continues to be an uphill battle. Prosecutors claim he has been abusing his phone privileges to finesse the system and more.
PEOPLE reports that the mogul’s latest push for a restricted release faces more objection. On Friday (Nov. 15), prosecutors submitted new documents detailing their reasoning on why the Bad Boy Entertainment founder should not be granted a new bail hearing.
This time, they point to some of his behavior while behind bars and claim he has been bending the rules in his favor. They say the “Victory” rapper has been utilizing a “non-authorized third-party messaging service” to communicate with his staff, family, and others.
The app in question is ContactMeASAP, and the filing asserts he has been using it to contact “unauthorized” contacts. He is also accused of using other inmates’ phone access codes to make “three-way calls to contact other individuals.”
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Prosecutors also point to his recent conversation with his children on his birthday.
“The defendant enlisted family members to plan and execute a social media campaign around the defendant’s birthday, with the intention of influencing the potential jury in this criminal proceeding,” the paperwork reads. “At the defendant’s carefully curated direction, the defendant’s children posted a video to their respective social media accounts showing the defendant’s children gathered to celebrate the defendant’s birthday.” The feds would also go on to suspect Diddy had “monitored the analytics” of the post and “explicitly discussed with his family how to ensure that the video had his desired effect on potential jury members in this case.”
The footage in question shows Justin Combs, Quincy Combs, Christian Combs, Jessie, D’Lila Combs, and Chance Combs, who joined via FaceTime and spoke to Diddy over the phone. His children wished him a happy birthday and had a small cake on the table in his honor. Diddy has plead not guilty to the charges.
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It seems Diddy is keeping tabs on everything even from behind bars. His legal team has denied he set up Shyne as the fall guy during the club shooting trial.
As spotted on TMZ the Bad Boy Entertainment founder is fighting back against his former protege. Recently the rapper turned political has been promoting his upcoming documentary The Honorable Shyne via several interviews. While the film details his entire life story the unfortunate happenings of Dec. 27, 1999 has been continue to be a hot topic. That evening he, Diddy, Jennifer Lopez and others connected to the mogul went to Club New York in Manhattan. Soon after an argument ensued which was followed by several gunshots. After an almost seven-week trial a jury found the “That’s Gangsta” rapper guilty of assault and reckless endangerment. He would serve nine years in prison.
During his promotional run Shyne has repeated explained he was merely defending himself that evening and that Diddy’s strategy during the trial was to make the man born Jamal Barrow the fall guy. This week Diddy’s legal team has responded via an exclusive statement to TMZ and refute Shyne’s version of events. “Mr. Combs categorically denies Mr. Barrow’s allegations, including any suggestion that he orchestrated Mr. Barrow to ‘take the fall’ or ‘sacrificed’ him by directing witnesses to testify against him. These claims are unequivocally false” the unnamed representative says. “Mr. Combs appreciates the path Mr. Barrow has pursued and wishes him continued success. It is unfortunate that Mr. Barrow has chosen to revisit these allegations. Mr. Combs trusts that responsible journalism will weigh both the established legal outcomes and Mr. Combs’ positive, longstanding support for those he has worked with.”
Shyne originally stated his version of the shooting in his June 2001 XXL Magazine cover story. The Honorable Shyne documentary premieres HULU on Nov. 18. You can see him discuss the matter in depth on the Tamron Hall Show below.
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Ray J is claiming that certain celebrities are paying off those victimized by Diddy to keep their names from being revealed.
As Diddy sits in a New York City jail awaiting his criminal trial, more speculation has grown surrounding his alleged sexual assault. And according to Ray J, prominent celebrities are allegedly paying off Diddy’s victims to keep their names clear. The reality television star and R&B artist claimed that he had been “hearing about all these [people] paying victims to keep their name out of” the case on Wednesday (Nov. 13) while being interviewed for TMZ’s documentary, The Downfall of Diddy: Inside the Freak-Offs. The documentary is now airing on the TUBI streaming platform.
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“People do catch and kills all day,” Ray J stated as Harvey Levin was interviewing him. “Somebody has the truth, somebody pays you to keep it quiet and hopefully that money that you got paid secures your happiness while you watch the lie continue to succeed.” He described it as A-listers going to those people and saying, “I’ll give you money. Please don’t talk.”
When Levin asked if those scenarios were currently happening, Ray J confirmed it. “They want to talk to me about what happened to them. They call me. They feel like they can trust me. They want to tell me about certain things that happened with them and Diddy,” he said. The 43-year-old would then express some hesitancy about sharing that info. “I don’t even know why I just said it, but I said it,” he added. “So what? They’re gonna be mad. Come get me.”
Ray J’s allegations come as the embattled mogul is housed in the Brooklyn Detention Center after pleading not guilty to federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and prostitution. Tony Buzbee, a Texas attorney representing a slew of alleged victims of Diddy, aka Sean Combs, also made a claim to TMZ in October that he sent a letter to several A-list celebrities to talk with them.
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Diddy’s fight for bail continues. His lawyers have submitted a new request and mention that his relationship with Cassie was consensual.
As per E Online, the Bad Boy Entertainment mogul is trying his absolute best to get out on bail. Last week, his representatives filed an additional motion Friday (Nov. 8), asking the presiding judge to reconsider the prior denial of Diddy’s bail due to “changed circumstances” and new evidence. The newly submitted documentation makes it “clear that the government’s case is thin.” His defense also pointed to the infamous footage of Diddy assaulting Cassie in a hotel hallway claiming it’s “a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship between Mr. Combs and Victim-1.”
This is fourth time the “All About The Benjamin’s” rapper has requested bail. His previous attempts included large monetary offers for collateral and promises that he will not flee the country. On Tuesday (Sept. 17), U.S. Assistant Attorney Emily Johnson referred to the damming footage in her reasoning of why his bail should be denied. “Following a Freak Off at the InterContinental Hotel, the defendant violently assaulted the victim who was trying to leave the hotel room and was walking down the hall to the elevators,” she explained.
“He punched her, he threw her to the ground, he kicked her. He attempted to drag her back to the hotel room, and then later, he threw a vase at her. And it’s after this assault that the coverup started.” Johnson would later argue that this is just one of many incidents where he used his money, fame and power to suppress evidence of his wrongdoings.
Diddy’s trial is set to commence in May 2025.
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It seems whatever happened at a Diddy party, stayed at a Diddy party. The non-disclosure all attendees allegedly had to sign has leaked.
TMZ has obtained what they believe to be the agreement that the disgraced music mogul used to keep his festivities private. The three-page document reads like your typical NDA and forbids the intended persons from speaking on what they might have seen or heard while attending a Diddy function. This includes sharing any information with their friends, family, business associates, colleagues and spouses. “You hereby irrevocably agree that you shall not at any time use of disclose directly or indirectly to anyone any of the following information,” it reads. “Artists, Artist parties, and or Artist business activities, entertainment activities, financial affairs and or personal life.”
Diddy’s NDA also prohibits the signee from divulging any secrets via interviews or writing books. Additionally, the terms of the legally binding document extend well after Diddy has passed away. “The term of this Agreement and duty to keep all information confidential and not use Prohibited Material shall commence on the first date above and continue for the life of Artist plus twenty (20) years or seventy (70) years, whichever is longer.”
Last year, former Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day revealed that in order for Bad Boy Entertainment artists to receive their publishing rights back they too had to sign an NDA. During her interview with the Only Stans podcast she read the document saying she would have to “release [Diddy] for any claims or wrongdoings or actions prior to the date of the release.”
Diddy’s trial is set to commence in May 2025. You can read the NDA obtained by TMZ here.
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Today, Diddy will be celebrating his 55th birthday in a prison cell. Though that may not be the most ideal place for the rapper to commemorate his born day, he’ll still be getting some special treatment while behind bars. Well, not really.
According to the New York Post, the founder of the iconic Bad Boy Records will be getting basic prison grub for his special day while being locked up at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial for sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Instead of expensive cuts of meat, chicken, or lobster, Diddy will be feasting on oven-browned potatoes, biscuits and gravy, and bread and oatmeal. And that’s just the breakfast menu.
As the day goes on Diddy will be able to chow down on some pizza along with Italian pasta salad and green beans before ultimately getting some birthday chicken with tofu fried rice with black beans and carrots. We’re not gonna lie, that tofu fried rice sounds low-key fancy for a prison meal. Just sayin’.
While we’re sure Diddy will be reminiscing on his past birthday parties that involved his celebrity friends and allegedly baby oil as far as the eye can see, we doubt many people will be feeling sorry for him now that everyone’s seen that video of him putting hands on Cassie and the atrocious allegations made against him.
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Prosecutors claim Diddy forced his alleged victims to participate in “Freak Offs,” aka “elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded.”
They accuse him of drugging his alleged victims to keep them “obedient and compliant,” sometimes for days at a time. Prosecutors claim Diddy would record the “Freak Offs” and use the footage as “collateral” for blackmail, alleging he’d also use guns “to intimidate and threaten” them.
Diddy denied the accusations and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Well, at least he can have some “breakfast cake” for his birthday, but he’d have to get up at 6 a.m. to do so, and who knows if the cake is worth even getting up that early for. Might as well just use his commissary to get himself a Snickers bar or something later in the day.
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Diddy’s demand to have the names of witnesses against him in his upcoming criminal trial has been blasted by prosecutors in a recent filing.
According to reports, a request by the legal team for Diddy to reveal the names of those witnesses for the prosecution has been rebuked in a recent filing. “The Victim Gag Motion should be denied as an attempt to backdoor the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to compel the Government to prematurely disclose its witness list,” wrote prosecutors for the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York in a filing on Thursday (Oct. 31).
The 56-page motion blasted lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos for the move, writing: “Not only would such relief be unprecedented, but the defendant should not be permitted to use a local criminal rule as a sword to gag civil claimants whether or not their statements were connected to this criminal proceeding, or to evade established case law in this Circuit.” The motion also dismissed allegations levied by Agnifilo and Geragos that the federal government leaked to the public the 2016 hotel security footage that showed Diddy, aka Sean Combs, assault his then-partner Cassie Ventura.
“As the defendant is fully aware, the video was not in the Government’s possession at the time of CNN’s publication and the Government has never, at any point, obtained the video through grand jury process,” wrote U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who also swatted away other defense claims that the government leaked material to media outlets. “Here, too, the defendant is grasping at straws. Because the defendant cannot show that the information in the Cited Articles is grand jury material, and because he cannot show that Government agents with access to grand jury material leaked the information, he cannot make the prima facie showing required for the relief he seeks.”
The filing comes as the grand jury for the criminal case is continuing to meet and hear from witnesses as well as to review new evidence submitted by the government including text messages, video, and audio from 60 of Diddy’s devices. “The grand jury is always meeting. This is an ongoing investigation,” said one source close to the case to CNN. The case, set to be heard by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, will begin May 5, 2025. Diddy is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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The claims against Diddy are getting even wilder. A man says he has videotapes of the mogul having sex with other celebrities including two child stars.
As spotted on Page Six, a man named Courtney Burgess is stepping forward with some very wild allegations about the founder of Bad Boy Entertainment. The self-proclaimed music executive was interviewed on NewsNation’s Banfield show.
During the Q&A hearing he revealed that he has several flash drives given to him by the late Kim Porter. In them, Burgess says are videos of Diddy and other celebrities, specifically six men and two women. Even more egregious is his claim that two of the proposed a-listers were minors at the time. Burgess would go on to detail that all the high-profile stars in the footage appeared to him to be under the influence and were victims.
On Thursday (Oct. 31), he testified before a grand jury in Manhattan. TMZ caught up with him and his attorney Ariel Mitchell outside and were able to get some additional details and clarification. Burgess explained that not only does he have possession of the tapes but also an unedited version of Kim Porter’s memoir.
Earlier this year, Jamal T. Milwood published a book titled Kim’s Last Words. The purported memoir was written by investigative journalist Chris Todd and contained several serious accusations against Diddy, including claims of physical abuse and sexual debauchery. Porter’s children soon denounced the release, prompting Amazon and Barnes & Noble to pull it. Ariel confirmed they are looking to release their unedited version for sale shortly.
Sources tell TMZ that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed him and have demanded he turn over all his files which include Diddy. You can see the NewsNation interview with Courtney Burgess below.
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