Diddy Trial
Male Escorts’ Travel, Hotel Expenses
Paid for by Diddy
Published
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. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York — the company prosecuting the case towards Diddy — testified Diddy’s American Express account was charged practically $47,000 for damages at a single lodge in New York in a single occasion.
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Penland informed the jury Diddy, Cassie Ventura and Jules Theodore — an alleged male escort — stayed on the London Hotel on a specific date, which was paid for on Diddy’s AmEx, in addition to Virgin America airplane tickets for Jules.
More journey information had been cited through the testimony, together with an American Airlines flight from NYC to L.A., and a keep on the Four Seasons lodge for a person named Clayton Howard “AKA Dave.” Bad Boy Entertainment is listed on the journey bill.
Penland additionally testified a couple of reserving for the InterContinental Hotel in Times Square, New York within the identify of “Frank Black,” with a $46,786 AmEx fee for harm to the penthouse. Previous witnesses testified Diddy typically used “Frank Black” as an alias when reserving resorts across the nation.
There had been much more journey fees talked about on the stand, together with a lodge in Riverhead, within the Hamptons on Long 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 infamous video assaulting Cassie in a hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. A textual content from Diddy says “the cops are here.” A textual content from Cassie to Diddy reads, “You are sick to think it is OK to do what you have done. Please stay away from me. I have a premiere.”
Penland tells the jury Diddy texted Cassie “Call me. Help.” Then one other textual content: “Help me, I am about to be arrested.” Then one other: “If you don’t pick up you’ll never hear my voice again.” Penland says it seems the decision was not answered.
