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Footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ drug-fueled sex marathons — which he dubbed “Freak-Offs” — shows that one of his alleged victims “enjoyed herself” and was “completely in control,” his lawyers claimed Thursday.
The feds’ evidence of nine videos depicting six sexual encounters “show adults having consensual sex, plain and simple,” the jailed hip-hop mogul’s lawyers argued in a court filing in advance of his May trial.
Combs’ four attorneys did not explain how they concluded the woman’s alleged pleasure in the videos, which they viewed in November and December while being supervised by government agents.
Combs plied his alleged victims with “controlled substances” to keep them “obedient and compliant” during the encounters, prosecutors allege.
But Combs’ lawyers Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Alexandra Shapiro and Anthony Ricco claimed Tuesday, without elaborating, that a woman depicted in the sex tapes is “not only consenting: she is evidently happy, dominant, and completely in control.”
“These videos unambiguously show that the person alleged in the indictment to be ‘Victim-I’ not only consented but thoroughly enjoyed herself,” the filing claims.
Combs, 54, is locked up at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial on sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution charges. Prosecutors have accused him of abusing several women and leading Bad Boy Records as a “criminal enterprise” for more than a decade.
The embattled rap kingpin forced his lovers into the “Freak-Offs,” days-long sexual “performances” where the women had sex with male escorts while he watched and masturbated, court papers allege.
Combs often secretly filmed the encounters to use as leverage against his alleged victims, the feds say.
The allegations first came to light in a quickly settled civil suit filed by Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura — who Combs was caught on camera punching and kicking in disturbing footage unearthed last May.
Combs’ lawyers also claimed Tuesday that “contrary to innumerable sensationalistic media reports,” the sex tapes that are currently part of the case “do not depict sex parties” — a term they did not define — and do not show other celebrities.
Combs had rooms inside his Miami mansion “dedicated to sex” and stocked with sex toys, bondage gear, hidden cameras and lingerie, one of the Department of Homeland Security agents who raided the house told The Post in September 2024.
Tuesday’s filing argues however that the feds’ footage viewed so far shows “no secret cameras, no orgies, no other celebrities involved, no underground tunnels, no minors, and not so much as a hint of coercion or violence.”
The attorneys are barred from getting into specifics about the videos because of a judge’s protective order, Combs’ lawyer Agnifilo told The Post.
Under the terms of that order, which is aimed at protecting the privacy of the woman in the videos, Combs’ lawyers are only allowed to view the sex tapes under supervision from federal agents.
Tuesday’s motion asks a judge to loosen those restrictions and force prosecutors to turn over the footage, which Combs’ lawyers say they have the right to show to “experts” or use to prepare their trial evidence.
The filing also echoes arguments Combs’ team made in their several failed bids to get him released from jail pre-trial, including the claim that the government is “criminalizing” the sexual behavior of allegedly “consenting” adults.
“The prosecution reflects a paternalistic view that the government is here to protect women, who cannot be trusted to make their own decisions about sex, and are not capable of consenting to sex that the prosecutors view as outside the ‘norm,’” Tuesday’s filing claims.
Federal prosecutors will likely respond in their own court papers.
Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted at trial.
