A male intercourse employee who had freak-offs with Diddy and Cassie and ended up with a sexually transmitted illness is going through stiff opposition from the federal government in his quest to be labeled a sufferer of the ex-couple.

Federal prosecutors say Clayton Howard, a self-described male intercourse employee who as soon as testified earlier than a grand jury about Diddy’s infamous “freak offs,” isn’t legally a sufferer of anybody.

In a December 23 submitting to Decide Arun Subramanian, prosecutors argued Howard doesn’t qualify as a sufferer beneath the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, despite the fact that he was counted as one beneath sentencing tips in Diddy’s felony case.

The Justice Division is pushing again arduous, saying the freak-off participant was not “immediately and proximately harmed” by Diddy’s crimes and, by his personal admission, was a paid escort who willingly joined these occasions.

“Howard marketed business intercourse companies,” the submitting mentioned, noting he has “self-published a e book” and “made a number of media appearances” describing his experiences.

Howard’s relationship with the federal government started in December 2023, when he contacted a buddy of Cassie Ventura, claiming to have details about her civil go well with towards Diddy.

Throughout interviews, Howard admitted he was a business intercourse employee who took half in Diddy and Cassie’s freak-offs between 2010 and 2017 and described witnessing violence by Diddy towards Cassie throughout these encounters.

Prosecutors mentioned Howard participated in a minimum of six interviews earlier than he testified to a federal grand jury in March 2025.

However simply earlier than the trial, his lawyer informed the federal government that testifying once more would damage Howard’s psychological well being. By Could 2025, Howard had switched attorneys, and neither facet referred to as him as a witness at Diddy’s trial.

After Diddy was convicted of two Mann Act offenses in July 2025, the court docket counted Howard and different male escorts who traveled interstate for Freak Offs as victims for sentencing functions—however not beneath the federal crime victims statute.

As soon as the decision got here down, Howard began urgent the Justice Division for paperwork proving his sufferer standing. He additionally sought assist making use of to the Backpage Remission Program, which compensates verified trafficking victims.

Prosecutors say that Diddy was by no means charged with trafficking Howard, and that Howard’s claims of sexual exploitation had been aimed mainly at Cassie Ventura, who was legally acknowledged as a sufferer, not a perpetrator of a criminal offense.

In latest public statements and filings, Howard has accused federal prosecutors, together with Maurene Comey, of utilizing his story to safe a conviction towards Diddy after which “ignoring him” as soon as the case ended.

He says the federal government denied him rights beneath the Crime Victims’ Rights Act and blocked him from testifying about Cassie’s alleged function.

In his separate civil lawsuit towards Diddy and Cassie, filed in June 2025, Howard claims he was sexually trafficked, assaulted and contaminated with herpes after being manipulated into unprotected intercourse and drug use on the couple’s personal gatherings.

He’s in search of $20 million in damages.

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