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Diddy ‘Freak Off’ Videos Prove His ‘Innocence,’ Defense Says

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The rapper’s legal team is requesting that the sex tapes be “electronically produced” into “copies” so they can dissect them for Diddy’s defense.

NEW YORK - JULY 2:  Musician Sean (P. Diddy) Combs arrives for his "Sean (P. Diddy) Combs Bad Boy Entertainment Party" at Eugene's on July 2, 2002 in New York City. Sean (P.Diddy) Combs has just sealed a deal which gives him full control of the Bad Boy Entertainment Empire, including the entire artist roster and past and present catalogue.  (Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images)
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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers filed a new motion in his sex trafficking and racketeering case demanding that the government provide “copies” of his “freak off” videos so they can craft Diddy’s defense, according to Page Six.

Combs’ team writes in the motion that the sex tapes show “no evidence that anyone is incapacitated or under the influence of drugs or excessive alcohol consumption” and “certainly no evidence of sex trafficking,” according to the site.

Not providing Combs’ defense team with “electronically produced copies” of said tapes in order to prepare their arguments would “violate the Due Process Clause and his right to present a meaningful defense,” the motion also says.

Combs was indicted on three counts: racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He was arrested at a Manhattan hotel on September 16 and is being held without bail until his trial in May. Combs has consistently denied the allegations. In addition to the indictment, the ex-mogul has been hit with several lawsuits from more than 30 women, men, and (at the time of the alleged crimes) children.

MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 31:  (L-R) Cassie and Diddy party at Mr Jones on December 31, 2017 in Miami, Florida.  (Photo by Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 31: (L-R) Cassie and Diddy party at Mr Jones on December 31, 2017 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images) Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images

One of the most damning lawsuits for Combs was the one put forth by his ex-girlfriend Cassandra Ventura in November 2023, who alleged that Combs subjected her to over a decade of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, including rape. Combs settled that lawsuit in just a day, but has consistently denied her allegations.

Ventura, according to Page Six’s review of Diddy’s motion, is a subject in the sex tapes in question—and Combs’ defense claims the tapes show that Ventura “not only consented but thoroughly enjoyed herself.”

In the same ruling, the team argues that prosecutors depicting Ventura as a victim in the sex videos—despite the allegations in her lawsuit and the publicized tape confirming that Combs had, at the very least, savagely physically abused her—is “sexist” and “puritanical.”

“The government’s theory [that Ventura was coerced into sexual activity] perpetuates stereotypes of female victimhood and lack of agency,” Combs’ team argues. “The prosecution reflects a paternalistic view that the government is here to protect women who cannot be trusted to make their own decisions about sex and are not capable of consenting to sex that the prosecutors view as outside the ‘norm.’”

Combs’ defense has tried before to “normalize” his “freak offs” as nothing more than sexual proclivities—with one of his lawyers suggesting he kept a thousand bottles of baby oil on hand just like anyone else who buys in bulk “Costco.” (Costco denies that the chain sells baby oil.)

Authorities suggest that the bottles, found in raids of Combs’ L.A. and Miami homes last March, were among the supplies his employees were forced to keep in stock for the elaborate sex events, whose participants prosecutors believe were coerced or threatened into compliance.

Combs’ defense believes that the videos “prove” this is not true, as “There are no secret cameras, no orgies, no other celebrities involved, no underground tunnels, no minors and not so much as a hint of coercion or violence.” The motion also points out that the videos submitted as evidence against Combs were not found on his devices or in his homes, arguing that he couldn’t have been using the footage as “collateral” to threaten people.

It was Ventura who produced the footage to authorities, the motion emphasizes, characterizing her as a “willing participant” who was “evidently happy, dominant and completely in control” in the videos. As such, they insist, “Having reviewed these videos, it is now abundantly clear that they confirm Mr. Combs’ innocence and that their full exculpatory value cannot be investigated and used unless they are electronically produced.”