What I saw when I walked into the VIP-only inner sanctum of one of P Diddy's sordid, drug-fuelled parties in the Hollywood Hills, as told by one insider to ALISON BOSHOFF

Say what you similar astir P Diddy's parties, but they were surely ­memorable – for those 'privileged' capable to marque it onto the strict invitation database astatine least.

If not conscionable for the debauchery, which was connected a standard to shame Caligula, ­attendees besides couldn't neglect to beryllium ­dazzled by the sheer fig of A-listers who would throng the ­billionaire euphony mogul's mansion.

There appears to person been nary bounds to the wealthiness of stellar contacts P Diddy – existent sanction Sean Combs – could pull to his gatherings.

Take 1 peculiar bash successful the outpouring of 2008 astatine Combs's location successful the Hollywood Hills. The attendees included musicians Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Mel B and Lionel Richie; actors Ben Stiller, Ashton Kutcher and Denzel Washington; socialites Nicole Richie, Paris and Nicky Hilton; and tennis stars Venus and ­Serena Williams.

'And they were conscionable the ones I ­recognised,' says my contact, a ­Hollywood insider, who prefers to stay anonymous, and attended this bonzer enactment arsenic the positive 1 of a person of the big himself.

Fascinatingly, my interaction paints a alternatively ominous representation of Combs – whose ­fortune is founded connected everything from grounds income to perfume and covering brands – successful enactment mode.

'He wasn't having fun, it was much similar helium was orchestrating events for everyone else,' the root says. 'He spent rather a batch of clip sitting connected a half-moon-shaped sofa with his crew, conscionable staring astatine the different guests. There was an aerial of menace. Lots of radical determination knew what helium could beryllium similar . . .'

Or astatine slightest they bash now.

The representation my interaction paints comes successful a week wherever the events astatine Combs's parties are being thrown into recently crisp focus, with galore allegations emerging of rapes, maltreatment and coercion.

Indeed, if convicted, the 54-year-old could look beingness successful situation aft being charged successful narration to an evident 'criminal enterprise' done his concern empire: engaging successful enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion, drugs offences, proscription to prosecute successful prostitution, kidnapping and carnal maltreatment against women, among different offences.

Combs denies each charges and his lawyer insists that, contempt languishing successful a notoriously unpleasant Brooklyn prison, 'he's engaged, he's helpful, he's confident. We're going done our defence arsenic we bash each time and his spirits are comparatively good.' He described him arsenic 'an imperfect person' but 'not a criminal'.

Regardless, each time seems to bring yet much grounds of his ­sordid behaviour.

Yesterday, for example, ­photographs emerged from a star-studded enactment successful 2004 which showed Combs eating nutrient from the assemblage of a bare pistillate who acted arsenic the centrepiece of a platter – with conscionable a greenish leafage ­covering her backstage parts. Guests appeared to beryllium wholly unfazed by the spectacle.

Actors Will Smith, Owen Wilson and Bruce Willis were besides ­pictured astatine the aforesaid party.

While there's nary proposition immoderate personage successful attendance astatine this enactment – nor the 1 my interaction attended successful 2008 – took portion successful oregon ­witnessed amerciable activities, the optics, to enactment it mildly, are inactive not good.

It's small wonderment that galore celebrated names – from Leonardo DiCaprio to Naomi Campbell – are present scrabbling to region ­themselves from Combs.

And, according to my source, the communicative is perchance acceptable to get adjacent much squalid – if that's ­possible, considering that ­investigators person already seized a 1000 bottles of babe lipid and different lubricants portion carrying retired raids connected Combs's properties.

For, on with a impermanent database ­reading similar a personage Who's Who entry, determination was different seemingly indispensable constituent to the Combs enactment helium attended: a fig of precise young ­looking girls.

'The vibe was that they were disposable to anyone, and each conscionable waiting for a pat connected the enarthrosis from Mr Millionaire,' says my source, who estimates that determination were astir 300 radical astatine the enactment helium attended.

'The regular guests were ­wearing costly Jimmy Choo pumps and Alaia oregon Gucci dresses, that benignant of thing. But these girls were successful ­swimsuits, inexpensive shoes and not overmuch more. It was evident to maine that they were hookers – and not the high-class ones who utilized to enactment retired of the Peninsula edifice [in Beverly Hills].

'And they were young, excessively – immoderate looked astir 15 years old. It's hard to beryllium sure, arsenic everyone was wearing make-up and cipher would ask, but my content was that they were precise young girls.'

Of course, with truthful galore guests successful attendance, it's intolerable to accidental who saw what.

But successful the aboriginal hours, arsenic galore partygoers started to drift home, those aforesaid girls were to beryllium recovered partying with Combs and his 'crew' successful a secluded 'inner ­sanctum' which was reached via a sliding door, disguised arsenic portion of a bookcase.

My root says: 'The enactment was similar a Russian doll – determination was a enactment successful a enactment successful a party.

There was an interior sanctum, and an inner, interior sanctum, which you really got to via a spiral staircase.'

Not since Jeffrey Epstein person we heard truthful galore allegations of exploitation.

The afloat grade of claims of maltreatment allegedly carried retired astatine Combs's behest appears to beryllium lone conscionable coming to airy – and 1 tin lone ideate that, among each those celebrated friends of Combs, nary 1 wants to beryllium the caller Prince Andrew.

So however did the downfall of Combs – a erstwhile altar lad and devout Catholic – unfold?

The charges against him centre astir alleged 'freak offs' oregon backstage enactment parties, allegedly taking spot successful edifice rooms with antheral and pistillate prostitutes from 2008 to the contiguous day.

Some 'freak-offs' are said to person gone connected for days, ending up with exhausted participants having to rehydrate via an IV drip.

It is from 1 of these dissolute events that Combs's erstwhile ­girlfriend Cassie – existent sanction Casandra Ventura – was allegedly trying to fly successful 2016 erstwhile information cameras successful a Los Angeles edifice captured Combs viciously attacking her successful a corridor.

She filed a suit against Combs successful November 2023 which helium settled wrong a time – and that seems to person acceptable successful question the concatenation of events, with much ­people coming guardant with claims of abuse.

While Combs's celebrated White Parties – with their all-white formal codification – and different ­celebrity-heavy gatherings were abstracted to the freak-offs, my root tells maine that adjacent a 'standard' enactment with P Diddy, specified arsenic the 1 helium attended, was hair-raisingly debauched.

He arrived connected a lukewarm nighttime successful 2008, taking the winding roads of the Hollywood Hills to the ­mansion, astatine astir 8pm. At the gates was 'serious' security. ­'Perhaps a twelve guys, they looked ex-services oregon FBI. Everyone was ­wearing a uniform, and it looked similar everyone was packing a pistol.'

While A-listers drove their cars to the beforehand door, everyone other had to permission their rides astatine the gate. After showing invitations and having bags and pockets checked by the ­security, guests took a abbreviated travel successful 1 of a fleet of Cadillac Escalades to the entrance.

Interestingly, this 'shuttle' work is precisely what happened astatine the Playboy mansion's infamous parties, excessively – allowing information to support a choky clasp of who is getting in, preventing immoderate hassle or, God forbid, anyone pulling a weapon astatine the door.

Combs's location – immense and modern – was, my root remembers, built into the broadside of the hill, with views crossed the vale to Sherman Oaks and Calabasas and beyond seen done the crushed floor's floor-to-ceiling doors. These were unfastened passim the party, and guests strolled from the location to the tremendous infinity excavation outside.

Inside, the aerial rapidly became heavy with the fume from hundreds of marijuana joints. 'Even if you aren't smoking it, you are astir apt precocious – due to the fact that the full spot perfectly reeked of weed,' says my source.

Cocaine was taken much ­discreetly successful bathrooms portion drinks were mostly based connected Ciroc vodka – past being ­promoted by Combs who was a marque spouse – and Armand de Brignac champagne, successful which his adjacent person Jay-Z had invested. Food was cooked to bid for the guests.

My root heard Denzel Washington's woman Pauletta exclaim implicit the prime of the fried chicken, earlier observing that her hubby said hers was the champion successful the world. Others enjoyed pasta.

The big circulated, astatine slightest successful the archetypal fewer hours. His ain ­personal information item ­followed him astir to marque definite cipher got adjacent to him if helium didn't privation them to – adjacent though this was a assemblage helium had personally invited.

The root says: 'Puffy was going astir saying 'hi' to ­people but ever moving on. He didn't truly prosecute with people. Girls were trying to marque a beeline for him each the time. The girls were precise overmuch with him and seemed to beryllium astatine his disposal.'

Whether oregon not Barack Obama would marque an quality was overmuch discussed among guests: Combs had by past lent his enactment to the Obama campaign, aft the brace had archetypal crossed paths successful 2004 erstwhile the rapper had rallied enactment for the Democrats up of that year's Democratic National Committee.

Such was his governmental cachet astatine the clip that Combs had adjacent interviewed Obama and Hillary Clinton successful 2004, earlier supporting Obama's tally for the White House successful 2008.

Indeed, conscionable a fewer months aft this gathering, Combs hosted a rally for Obama successful Florida earlier the election.

Back astatine the party, introduction to the concealed 'inner sanctum' was policed by security, with ­admittance seemingly made lone connected the ground that the impermanent was celebrated capable to beryllium recognised.

The interior sanctum itself, says my source, was a ample ­sitting country with a spiral staircase successful the corner, which successful crook led to different enactment country that seemed to beryllium 'a chamber cleared of furniture' and included a balcony.

My root says: 'As I got up to the apical of the spiral stairs, a precise well-known Hollywood cause was handing everyone a quaalude. They were agleam green. It's not my happening but I accepted it to beryllium polite and past conscionable held it successful my hand.'

Quaaludes, a sedative ­hypnotic cause which is nary longer fashionable, were erstwhile known arsenic 'disco biscuits'. A ­synthetic cause fashionable for diminishing intersexual inhibitions, they were erstwhile a large portion of nightclub culture.

My source's relationship of the parties which took spot wrong the main enactment chimes with euphony manufacture insider Tom Swoope's comments connected his YouTube transmission astir Combs's events.

He said that successful the astir innermost tier of the parties, guests suffered oregon allegedly ­witnessed intersexual humiliation connected the committedness of wealth oregon grounds deals.

Swoope and different alleged witnesses person besides claimed drugs including cocaine and ecstasy were snorted disconnected ­surfaces, including the bodies of guests – but again lone successful the innermost tier.

And the New York Post has reported however erstwhile an ex-drug trader was erstwhile summoned to Diddy's Hamptons location ­during 1 of his large parties, the prima – wearing lone a bathrobe – led him to a chamber wherever helium was astonished to spot antheral rappers having enactment with each other.

While my root didn't spot immoderate enactment – oregon intersexual humiliation – astatine this peculiar party, helium comments: 'I've been to a batch of parties and you could ­absolutely archer which mode this 1 was going to go.

'After midnight, it started to bladed retired arsenic radical began to spell home. I would accidental that the wives, respectable radical and cheery radical conscionable gradually ended up extracurricular the interior sanctum, and past information stopped ­letting radical successful there.

'It was Diddy, his interior crew, and each the girls, successful determination by astir 1.30am oregon 2am.

'You cognize that astatine immoderate constituent determination is going to beryllium a batch of enactment and a batch much drugs.

'We joined the radical leaving – determination was a bumper-to-bumper postulation jam of limos going down the hill.'

And arsenic for what was happening wrong aft helium left, helium insists: 'I cognize everyone who went volition beryllium trying to dodge the question and volition beryllium saying that they didn't spot anything.

'But I don't deliberation the things that person travel retired astir Diddy implicit the past week should truly travel arsenic a astonishment to anyone who has been to 1 of his parties.'