Attorneys for disgraced rap mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs assertion national investigators posed arsenic situation guards to hunt done his compartment for grounds successful the lawsuit against him.
The accusation was made arsenic appalling new allegations are acceptable to beryllium levied against Diddy successful a documentary adjacent week, including the erstwhile editor-in-chief of Vibe Magazine, Danyel Smith, who claims Diddy threatened to termination her.
Smith told of her alleged acquisition arsenic portion of the upcoming Investigation Discovery docuseries The Fall of Diddy, alleging Diddy flew into a rage erstwhile she refused to amusement him an aboriginal preview of a mag screen helium was appearing in.
After Smith rejected the request, she claimed that Diddy 'said he'd spot maine dormant successful a trunk if I didn't amusement it to him.'
She said Diddy lone apologized aft she threatened to spell to instrumentality enforcement, but said successful the days earlier helium 'he had travel up to the Vibe offices with 2 pugnacious guys, looking for me.'
Smith continued to enactment with Diddy connected galore occasions implicit the adjacent decades, and said successful the upcoming documentary that portion she tried to beryllium 'cordial' with him - a stance she present appears to regret, saying: 'It’s precise hard not to consciousness complicit - I privation that things were different.'
Diddy has languished successful a Brooklyn jailhouse for months aft helium pleaded not blameworthy to a question of transgression charges, with a slew of further alleged victims since coming retired of the woodwork with allegations astir the rapper.
His attorneys slated the soon-to-be released documentary successful a connection to People, saying the respective documentaries and shows that person travel retired since his apprehension successful September, saying they 'are rushing to currency successful connected the media circus' astir his case.
Shocking caller allegations against Diddy are acceptable to beryllium made adjacent week, including erstwhile editor-in-chief of Vibe Magazine Danyel Smith (pictured unneurotic successful 2006) claiming the rapper threatened to spot her 'dead successful a trunk' successful 1997
Smith claimed Diddy made the decease menace aft she refused to amusement him an aboriginal preview of a 1997 screen for Vibe Magazine (pictured) that helium was appearing on
It comes arsenic Diddy's attorneys assertion national investigators posed arsenic situation guards to hunt done his compartment astatine Metropolitan Detention Center (pictured) for grounds successful the lawsuit against him
In Diddy's attorney's claims astir national agents searching his jailhouse cell, they alleged that the hunt was directed by supervisors from the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the rap mogul.
They said successful a filing obtained by DailyMail.com that the hunt of his compartment and seizure of his belongings was 'illegal', including 'privileged notes.'
The hunt was 'for evidence, not contraband', the filing claims, 'and it is wide the intent was to stitchery grounds for the prosecution, not constabulary immoderate imaginable threats to (the jail's) security.'
'Mr. Combs has ne'er received truthful overmuch arsenic a constitute up successful his 4 months successful BOP custody, contempt the government’s changeless decries of his alleged obstruction from MDC and expected usurpation of policy,' the filing read.
The researcher who searched his compartment was 'an cause of the prosecution team' who 'admits helium listened to Mr. Combs’s calls, including with his counsel, and each those recordings, including the ones with attorneys, were furnished to the U.S. Attorneys’ Office', it is alleged.
'(The investigator) has been spying connected the defence squad each along,' the filing concludes.
Diddy has languished successful a Brookyln jailhouse for months aft helium pleaded not blameworthy to a question of transgression charges, with a slew of further alleged victims since coming retired of the woodwork with allegations astir the rapper
Smith continued to enactment with Diddy connected galore occasions aft the alleged decease threat, and said precocious that it is 'very hard not to consciousness complicit - I privation that things were different'
Smith's allegations against Diddy, which she archetypal revealed in a July 2024 idiosyncratic effort published successful the New York Times Magazine, were among respective shocking claims successful the caller ID documentary.
In 1 claim, a erstwhile pupil astatine Howard University successful the 1980s, who remained anonymous, alleged that she witnessed Diddy whipping and beating different woman.
'I americium perfectly tense astir sharing what I’ve seen him bash to different quality being. He’s almighty and he’s scary,' she said.
'The nighttime began with maine successful my dorm room. We heard idiosyncratic yelling and screaming truthful we pushed up the model conscionable capable to get a small thought of what was going on.'
She said Diddy, a chap pupil astatine the clip successful 1988, 'was screaming get your ass downstairs, travel downstairs close now.'
'And erstwhile she came downstairs timidly and frightened and truly not knowing what to do, helium started beating connected her,' the pupil continued.
Further allegations this week see a erstwhile assemblage workfellow who claimed they witnessed Diddy beating different pistillate with a belt, which his attorneys branded 'pure fiction'
'Whipping her with a belt, and she’s taking it.... So, we’re yelling get disconnected of her, halt hitting connected her, permission her alone. He’s yelling back, mightiness your f****** business. He pushes her backmost into the doorway of the dorm.
'We don’t cognize what’s going connected successful that space, we can’t see. Whatever he’s doing takes a fewer minutes earlier helium really stops immoderate he’s doing and past helium leaves her alone.
'It’s precise important to archer that young woman’s communicative due to the fact that helium was ne'er held accountable.'
In effect to the allegations made successful the documentary, Diddy's attorneys condemned the amusement and said producers didn't springiness them a just accidental to respond.
'The producers failed to supply capable clip oregon details for his representatives to code unsubstantiated claims, galore from unidentified participants whose allegations deficiency context,' the connection to People read.
'By withholding this information, they made it intolerable for Mr. Combs to contiguous facts to antagonistic these fabricated accusations. This accumulation is intelligibly intended to contiguous a one-sided and prejudicial narrative.
'As we've said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to each publicity stunt oregon facially ridiculous claim. He has afloat assurance successful the facts and the judicial process, wherever the information volition prevail: the accusations against him are axenic fiction.'