Sean Combs, otherwise known by the stage name P. Diddy, is still in pre-trial detention, targeted by around ten complaints for rape and sexual assault. At the heart of this affair, the “freaks off” evenings are the subject of chilling testimonies.
His fall was as spectacular as his rise in the 1990s. Sean Combs, 54, first known under the stage name Puff Daddy (the famous cover of “I’ll be missing you” in 1997, it was him) then P. Diddy or sometimes more simply, Diddy, is at the heart of a case of possible sex trafficking which is shaking up the American media sphere in recent days. The rapper and hip-hop producer, charged this month with sex trafficking and extortion, is the subject of around ten complaints and is detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Every day brings its share of new revelations in this affair with, among the latest elements of investigation, the light shed on the “freaks off”, evenings of debauchery organized by the rapper in hotel rooms or palaces. We thus learn on France Info, that during these “parties”, Sean Combs “used alcohol and drugs to obtain submission” of the participants. The rapper relied on his employees, “the resources and influence of the multifaceted business empire he directed and controlled to create a criminal enterprise, whose members engaged in… sexual trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, obstruction of justice” the channel continues, citing the indictment.
Drugs, beatings and blackmail
These freaks are offthe heart of this matter and they are inherently dangerous“, summarized a prosecutor, Emily A. Johnson, during an appearance hearing during which Sean Combs pleaded “not guilty” to counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation and extortion.
The revelations about these evenings reveal a system based on “violence” to force women to have “long sex with sex workers“, scenes that the rapper “recorded“and during which the victims took drugs, including GHB, the “rapist drug”.”When Combs didn’t get what he wanted, he was violent…kicking and dragging his victims, sometimes by the hair“, describes a federal prosecutor from Manhattan, Damian Williams. According to the New York Times, Sean Combs used the videos filmed to blackmail the participants and prevent them from protesting.
On Wednesday, rapper Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, announced that he was working on a documentary for Netflix about the case, the proceeds of which will be used “to support victims of sexual assault“.
