Sex Worker Gives Harrowing Details At Diddy Trial Of Paid Encounters, Abuse
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Daniel Phillip, 41, testified that he didn’t go to the police about the violence he witnessed because he saw Combs as someone with “unlimited power.”
Almost immediately after opening statements on Monday, testimony in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial turned graphic as the prosecution’s second witness described paid sexual encounters and instances where Combs allegedly abused his ex.
Federal prosecutors in New York have indicted Combs on five charges, including racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. The trial is expected to last eight weeks, and Combs is facing life in prison if convicted. He has denied the charges, arguing that he engaged in consensual sex and also that he has been targeted by prosecutors because he’s a powerful Black man.
On Monday, Daniel Phillip, 41, told jurors that R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura paid him to have sex with her in front of Combs, whom she was then in a relationship with, multiple times starting around 2012.
According to multiple reports, Phillip’s first encounter with the two took place at a hotel in Manhattan, where he was hired to perform a striptease for a bachelorette party. Instead, when he arrived, he said Ventura asked if he was OK with engaging with just the two of them and immediately gave him a few thousand dollars.
Combs was also in the room to watch, he said, but Phillip did not immediately recognize him because he was dressed in a robe and wearing a bandana that covered the bottom half of his face.
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