A number of damning images have been launched into proof on Monday (Could 19) as week two of Diddy’s RICO trial kicked off. The gadgets photographed have been collected through the Unhealthy Boy Data mogul’s arrest in September 2024.
As one of many arresting particular brokers testified final week, the authorities seized a number of bottles of child oil, pharmaceuticals, lubricants, stacks of money and pink powder, presumed to be the MDMA (ecstasy) beforehand recognized by particular agent Yasin Binda.
Final week, Binda testified police discovered medicine, child oil and numerous lubricants in Diddy’s resort room on the time of his arrest. Particularly, they uncovered baggage of Astroglide lubricant and child oil in a closet, together with extra lubricant bottles on a nightstand and within the toilet.
Police additionally recovered a bottle of Klonopin labeled with the identify “Frank Black” in a luxurious bag, in addition to ketamine and MDMA within the nightstand.
Jurors have been proven the images of the resort room and requested to go round a bag of pink medicine for inspection.
Concerning witness testimony, Danity Kane singer Daybreak Richard said she witnessed Diddy allegedly abusing his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura on a number of events. She described one significantly violent incident from 2009, after which Diddy allegedly threatened her to stay silent.
Together with the images, Richard additionally returned to the stand on Monday, telling the court docket USHER, Ne-Yo and report government Jimmy Iovine have been current at a West Hollywood restaurant, the place Diddy allegedly punched Ventura within the abdomen.
Diddy is at the moment on trial dealing with severe federal prices, together with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. The prosecution alleges that, over a interval of years, he orchestrated and took part in a sample of sexual exploitation, abuse and violence, primarily involving Ventura and others in his interior circle.
Diddy pleaded not responsible to 5 federal prices: one rely of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion and two counts associated to the transportation of people for prostitution.
If convicted, he faces as much as life in jail. Prosecutors have indicated that his substantial property, together with properties, companies and different properties, could possibly be topic to seizure as proceeds or devices of the alleged crimes.
The trial started on Could 12 and is predicted to final eight weeks.