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Diddy's Defense Team Claims 'Freak Off' Tapes Prove Consensual Sex

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By Niko Mann on January 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM EST

Sean "Diddy" Combs' legal team says they've watched several of the tapes collected by law enforcement of the music mogul's infamous "freak offs," and they claim the tapes prove consensual sex.

The Bad Boy Records founder is currently awaiting trial after he was arrested for racketeering and sex trafficking by federal agents in New York back in September. Combs pleaded not guilty.

Diddy's defense team claims that multiple tapes prove his innocence and "show private sexual activity between fully consenting adults in a long-term relationship."

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Diddy's Team Claim Tapes Prove Consent

Diddy and Cassie are seen at the Neon Carnival in Coachella
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Diddy's defense team says that they've seen nine videos collected by law enforcement of the "freak offs," and they claim the tapes prove consent.

According to TMZ, Diddy's ex-girlfriend, Cassie, is listed as "Victim-1" in court documents. The "Call U Out" singer settled a multi-million lawsuit against the music mogul after accusing him of rape and abuse back in 2023.

The record producer's legal team claims in court documents that the "freak off" tapes show "private sexual activity between fully consenting adults in a long-term relationship."

The documents also state that Cassie "not only consented, but thoroughly enjoyed herself" and "is evidently happy, dominant and completely in control" in the sex tapes.

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Lawyers Argue Tapes Prove 'Consensual Sex'

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Diddy's legal team also argued that the tapes don't show sex parties as the prosecution claims, but instead show "adults having consensual sex, plain and simple."

The federal indictment against the 55-year-old music executive claims the videos captured "elaborate and produced sex performances."

"Sean Combs used the business empire he controlled to sexually abuse and exploit women, as well as to commit other acts of violence and obstruction of justice. Today, he is charged with racketeering and sex trafficking offense," reads the indictment.

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"Sexual abuse of women included causing them to engage in frequent, days-long sexual activity with male commercial sex workers, some of whom were transported over state lines. These events, which Combs referred to as 'Freak Offs,' were elaborate sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, and often electronically recorded."

His lawyers say that Cassie kept the "freak off" tapes, and she is the one who gave them to law enforcement. They deny the tapes were seized from his homes in Miami and Los Angeles during a search last March.

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Diddy's Team Says Tapes Show 'No Secret Cameras'

Diddy arrives at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
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Lawyers for the "Last Night" singer also noted that there were no secret cameras involved in the "freak offs," and no minors were present.

Diddy was accused of assaulting two minors in a lawsuit filed in October. The legal team also claims no sex trafficking took place in court docs.

"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," according to the documents. "There is certainly no evidence of sex trafficking."

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Documentary Reveals Music Mogul Exposed To Sex In Parties At Childhood Home

Diddy and his mom Janice Combs at VH1's 3rd Annual 'Dear Mama: A Love Letter to Moms'
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The new Peacock documentary, "Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy" premiers on Tuesday. A childhood friend claims in the documentary that he and Diddy were exposed to adults having sex at parties held by his mother, Janice Combs.

Producer Tim “Dawg” Patterson said that Diddy's current issues "all goes back to childhood" while claiming the things he saw were "desensitizing" to Diddy and himself. The producer also revealed the two boys were exposed to drugs and alcohol at the parties.

“On the weekend, [Combs] partied in the house, and we did that a lot,” said Patterson. “He was around all types of alcohol; he was around reefer smoke. Drug addicts around, lesbians around, homosexuals, he was around pimps, pushers. That was just who was in our house. People that attended the parties were from Harlem, from the streets."

"It wouldn’t be a thing to mistakenly walk into one of the bedrooms and you got a couple in there, butt naked," he added. "Was it desensitizing us? I’m sure it was. Were we aware of it? No, that was just Saturday night."

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Documentary Claims Diddy Had Sex With Underage Girls

"Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy" streams on Peacock on Jan. 14.

The documentary's trailer includes one Diddy associate who claimed he witnessed underage girls go into rooms with the mogul for sex.

"I've been with Sean for quite a while," he said. "And I've captured a lot of moments. Anytime a studio or any rooms is red, he's making love and sex. Some of the girls who were in the room, for sure, they were underage."

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