Diddy’s legal team is demanding that his ex, Cassie Ventura, hand over documents related to the memoir she allegedly wrote about the disgraced rap mogul.
Court documents filed earlier this month revealed the disgraced hip hop mogul’s lawyers are seeking any documents related to a book being written by Ventura, his ex-girlfriend.
Diddy hopes that the memoir will provide a ‘different from the story she has provided the government’ that ‘undermines her allegations’ that he subjected her to years of rape and abuse. But Ventura’s lawyers are resisting the request to hand it over, calling the defense’s subpoena that was sent to her on March 19 a ‘fishing expedition’.
Meanwhile, the prosecution submitted a motion on Thursday, revealing the ‘physical evidence’ taken from his Miami and Los Angeles homes during raids last year – including ‘items for use during Freak Offs’, or sex parties – could be shown to the jury.
That includes Diddy’s baby oil stash – his victims shockingly claimed he would use an entire bottle of it in less than five minutes during sex.
Homeland Security agents seized more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant from the properties in May 2024.
Diddy’s legal team is demanding for his ex Cassie Ventura to turn over her memoir in hopes it will provide a ‘different from the story she has provided the government’ that ‘undermines her allegations’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 55, trial is set to begin on May 12 with jury selection starting a week before. He’s pled not guilty to five counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution
Diddy at his April 13 hearing with his lawyer Marc Agnifilio where he pleaded not guilty to the prosecution’s new indictment, which included five additional criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking
Diddy’s trial is due to open on May 12 with jury selection starting a week before.
The 55-year-old, whose real name is Sean Combs, has pleaded not guilty to five counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
A judge is holding a hearing at a court in New York on Friday to resolve a number of matters ahead of the trial.
Ventura sued Diddy last year in a shocking civil case which accused him of rape and years of abuse. A video of him beating her up at a hotel in 2016 – which was leaked to CNN last year – was a major factor in his downfall.
In court filings, Diddy’s lawyers revealed they are seeking 10 months of Ventura’s bank statements and any documents or drafts related to the memoir.
The highly-redacted request also seeks diaries or journal entries written by Ventura, who dated Diddy for more than a decade before splitting with him in 2018.
The video which led to Diddy’s downfall – which was published by CNN in May 2024 – shows Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching, kicking and throwing Ventura to ground
Ventura’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor called the request for her memoir and her bank statements from the past 10 months an ‘impermissible fishing expedition’ and should be rejected
They claim that it is ‘important exculpatory information in her possession’ and accuse her and prosecutors of trying to ‘conceal copies of her draft memoirs and other writings that memorialize a version of events that is markedly different from what she has told the government and will testify to at trial’.
Ventura’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor called the request an ‘impermissible fishing expedition’ and should be rejected.
The prosecution backed Wigdor in their own reponse to the original supoena saying the defendant’s request for her bank statements served to ‘cast doubt’ on her ‘financial incentives’ and that the defense’s push for her writings was a ‘wholly improper use of a subpoena’.
Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing the case, will have to decide on whether the evidence should be used.
Prosecutors said in their filing from Thursday that during the trial the jury will see ‘physical evidence seized from the defendant’s properties – including firearms, narcotics and items for use during Freak Offs’.
That indicates dozens of bottles of baby oil are likely to be brought into court in a dramatic moment that may well resonate with the jury.
Court documents filed earlier this month revealed the disgraced hip hop mogul’s lawyers are seeking any documents related to a book being written by Ventura, his ex-girlfriend
The prosecution submitted a motion on Thursday, revealing the ‘physical evidence’ taken from his Miami and Los Angeles homes during raids last year – including ‘items for use during Freak Offs’, or sex parties – could be shown to the jury
Diddy’s Miami mansion which was raided in May 2024 by Homeland Security. They seized ‘physical evidence’ of his ‘freak off’ parties there
Last September, Diddy’s lawyer Agnifilo tried to explain why Diddy was so fond of baby oil saying ‘he buys in bulk’
Last September, Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo tried to explain why Diddy was so fond of baby oil.
He told TMZ: ‘Back when I was a kid in the late ’70s, they were called threesomes’.
Agnifilo said he ‘can’t imagine’ that there were thousands of bottles of baby oil.
When told it was a sexual lubricant, Agnifilo said: ‘I guess. I don’t know what you need a thousand… one bottle of baby oil goes a long way. I don’t know what you need a thousand for. I mean, he has a big house. He buys in bulk.
‘I think they have Costcos in every place where he has a home. Have you sat in a parking lot at a Costco and seen what people walk out of there with?’
Diddy’s victims have claimed that he used to use an entire bottle of baby oil in just five minutes, with one woman called ‘Nicole’ telling Rolling Stone that after being given two pills that made her black out, she woke up several hours later in a room surrounded by empty bottles of baby oil, towels and wine bottles.
Photo of a shelf full of baby oil. Diddy’s victims have claimed that he used to use an entire bottle of baby oil in just five minutes
Law enforcement removing boxes of evidence and a laptop from Diddy’s Star Island mansion in Miami Beach during the 2024 raid
Other evidence which could come up at trial is a diary kept by a former employee of Diddy, along with texts between him and a number of his victims.
Prosecutors revealed that their main witnesses have considerable baggage which Diddy’s lawyers are likely to use to try and discredit them.
Some of them have DUIs, have used illegal drugs, committed illegal sex acts, tax offenses and one even has a felony – prosecutors said Diddy should be barred from asking about them all as they are not relevant.
Nor should Diddy’s lawyers be allowed to ask about prior domestic violence incidents.
Some of the law enforcement officers who could testify have prior misconduct cases against them – another line of attack for Diddy.
Another court document refers to a ‘minor victim, a sign that they may either testify or be referred to during the trial: allegations of abuse involving children are among the most serious he faces.
Prosecutors are seeking to allow three of the four main accusers to testify anonymously but Diddy’s lawyers are strongly objecting to that.
