Lawyers for Sean Combs told a federal judge it is important for them to name a famous rapper who participated in freak-offs with a male escort.
On Thursday morning, the defense mentioned an incident in January 2024 involving Combs’ ex-girlfriend “Jane” in a hotel room in Vegas.
Jane told the court she flew on a private jet with a famous rapper and his girlfriend in January 2024.
She described the rapper as someone who Combs regularly recorded with – an “icon” in the music industry.
Jane said a male escort, Anton, engaged in intimate relations with someone in the hotel room while the famous couple watched. Combs’ attorneys said it is important that they be able to name the rapper.
However, prosecutor Maurene Comey said that naming the rapper would be a “pretext to harass and intimidate this witness” and that enough had been revealed publicly already.
The judge agreed and said he wouldn’t modify the order to allow the names from the January incident to be publicized. The judge said this was a “collateral issue” and not related to the sex trafficking charges.
When Jane returned to the witness stand after a lunch break, she recalled that she saw Anton, one of the male escorts, having sex with someone while the rapper and his girlfriend watched.
Combs’ lawyer said he and the unnamed rapper “were really close to one another” and the rapper is “at the top of the music industry.”
Jane said she was aware that Anton had an intimate relationship with the rapper and often traveled with him on private planes.
Jane said she flirted with the rapper and flashed her breasts at him. She told the court that the rapper said he had always had a crush on her.
Combs, 55, was arrested in September 2024 and charged with sex-trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution, racketeering conspiracy, arson, kidnapping, bribery, and obstruction of justice. He has pleaded not guilty.
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