June 17, 2025
The “freak off” movies hope to present the jury extra context on if Diddy engaged in intercourse trafficking.
The trial in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs is extra tense than ever because the “freak off” movies have lastly reached the courtroom amid a controversial juror dismissal.
The jury started watching clips of the alleged “freak off” movies once they returned to New York Metropolis court docket June 16. Based on TMZ, whereas they didn’t see the whole thing of any video, the jury did witness brief snippets of the footage.
The chosen clips might maintain footage recovered from Diddy’s home raids earlier than his September 2024 arrest, in addition to movies Cassie Ventura turned in as a part of witness testimony.
Nonetheless, given the graphic nature of the sexual content material, the movies weren’t performed for the whole courtroom. As a substitute, the clips performed solely on displays that the jurors might see, with every juror additionally granted headphones.
The prosecution and Diddy’s authorized group additionally didn’t watch the snippets in open court docket. Nonetheless, jurors paid particularly shut consideration to the ladies within the precise “freak off” movies, presumably both Cassie or Jane Doe, to notice their response to the sexual encounters.
Throughout Cassie’s personal testimony, she emphasised how she felt pressured or coerced into collaborating within the freak offs to please Diddy. The movies hope to supply extra context into how the ladies seemingly skilled the intercourse acts, because the prosecution tries to show that Diddy dedicated intercourse trafficking.
Nonetheless, the anticipated “freak off” video reveal comes as one juror faces dismissal, whereas one other could face the identical destiny. Based on the Hollywood Reporter, a Black and hispanic man from The Bronx, also called Juror #6, will not hear the trial given the discrepancy of the place he truly resided.
U.S. District Court docket Choose Arun Subramanian concluded that Juror #6 displayed a “lack of candor” with the courts, leading to his substitute with an alternate. The choose listed considerations as as to if the juror “shaded solutions” to remain on the case, on condition that he claimed to stay within the Bronx regardless of reportedly telling others that he lived in New jersey along with his girlfriend.
“There are severe questions concerning the juror’s candor and the juror’s capacity to comply with the court docket’s directions,” defined Subramanian. “Elimination of the juror is required, on this court docket’s view.”
The choice comes following final week’s stand-off between the prosecution and the protection on his removing. The protection claimed that prosecutors try to take away a person of an analogous racial background to Diddy in an effort to undermine the case.
“The federal government’s movement have to be evaluated in mild of the whole historical past of this investigation and prosecution, and never in isolation,” wrote the protection in a prolonged letter. “Sadly, when thought of in opposition to that background, it’s unattainable to imagine that this movement is merely a good-faith try to lift a sound query concerning the juror’s integrity quite than an effort to reap the benefits of a possibility to strike yet one more Black male from the jury.”
Nonetheless, Choose Subramanian determined to maneuver ahead with an alternate, a 57-year-old white male accountant from Westchester County in New York. Moreover, one other juror can also get the boot after suspicions that they’ve conversed with somebody exterior the jury. As of June 16, the choose made no declaration on whether or not or not the juror will keep on.
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