On Monday (June 16), jurors in the criminal trial against Diddy had an unorthodox respite from the usual witness testimony and evidence presentation, as they got to view portions of the videotapes of the sex parties that Diddy threw. Prosecutors for the federal government showed the jurors the footage of the alleged “freak offs” as they questioned a special agent for the Department of Justice on the witness stand.
According to the New York Times, the footage jurors viewed was from 2012 and 2014, and involved Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, Diddy’s former partner. The jurors viewed the footage while in the courtoom, wearing headphones as they looked at screens with privacy guards attached. One young juror was reported to have giggled audibly as the clips, 30 seconds in length, were first displayed. The remaining jurors were silent, with some wincing at what they saw and one snatching the headphones off after the first clip was done. According to TMZ, some of the audio from the video clips could be faintly heard as the courtroom went silent.
Prior to the viewing of the videos, prosecutors presented a bevy of text and audio messages which involved Kristina Khorram, Diddy’s former chief of staff directing assistants to have luxury hotel rooms furnished with supplies for the “freak-offs”(which were also dubbed “wild king nights” and “hotel nights”). The messages are part of the prosecution’s case to prove that these assistants helped facilitate the sex trafficking run by Diddy, aka Sean Combs. Khorram has not publicly testified, but her phone was seized by the government last year.
The jurors’ viewing of the clips came after the morning session, where Judge Arun Subramanian replaced Juror No. 6 citing that he was inconsistent about his place of residence, noting that it led him to believe that he was “shading answers” to get on the jury and stay on. “There’s nothing that the juror could say at this point that would put the genie back in the bottle,” Judge Subramanian stated after Diddy’s lawyers protested the move.
Diddy “Freak-Off” Videos Including Survivor Shown To Jurors
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