Diddy Trial
Male Escorts’ Journey, Resort Bills
Paid for by Diddy
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Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial resumed Tuesday in NYC for the twenty fifth day … and a federal particular agent testified about journey and lodge bills involving alleged male escorts that Diddy paid for.
DeLeassa Penland, a particular agent with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York — the company prosecuting the case in opposition to Diddy — testified Diddy’s American Categorical account was charged almost $47,000 for damages at a single lodge in New York in a single occasion.
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Penland instructed the jury Diddy, Cassie Ventura and Jules Theodore — an alleged male escort — stayed on the London Resort on a specific date, which was paid for on Diddy’s AmEx, in addition to Virgin America airplane tickets for Jules.
Extra journey data had been cited throughout the testimony, together with an American Airways flight from NYC to L.A., and a keep on the 4 Seasons lodge for a person named Clayton Howard “AKA Dave.” Dangerous Boy Leisure is listed on the journey bill.
Penland additionally testified a couple of reserving for the InterContinental Resort in Occasions Sq., New York within the identify of “Frank Black,” with a $46,786 AmEx cost for injury to the penthouse. Earlier witnesses testified Diddy usually used “Frank Black” as an alias when reserving accommodations across the nation.
There have been much more journey costs talked about on the stand, together with a lodge in Riverhead, within the Hamptons on Lengthy Island.
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Penland was then requested a couple of collection of texts and calls between Diddy and Cassie, on March 5 and 6, 2016 — the date Diddy is seen within the notorious video assaulting Cassie in a hallway of the InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles. A textual content from Diddy says “the cops are right here.” A textual content from Cassie to Diddy reads, “You might be sick to assume it’s OK to do what you’ve achieved. Please keep away from me. I’ve a premiere.”
Penland tells the jury Diddy texted Cassie “Name me. Assist.” Then one other textual content: “Assist me, I’m about to be arrested.” Then one other: “For those who do not choose up you will by no means hear my voice once more.” Penland says it seems the decision was not answered.
