An legal professional for one in every of Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ accusers claims somebody contacted her relating to an alleged pornographic tape that includes Combs and somebody “extra high-profile” than the music mogul, who she mentioned did not seem like an “energetic participant within the videotaping.”
Ariel Mitchell-Kidd — a lawyer representing a girl who claims Combs, now 54, sexually assaulted her in 2018 — revealed in a brand new interview with NewsNation that she was individually “contacted by somebody who wished me to basically signify them” within the sale of a pornographic tape that includes Combs, which she “declined.”
“There have already got been tapes leaking round Hollywood, being shopped round to people in Hollywood, however one specific individual contacted me to buy a specific video they had been in possession of and to contact the one that was within the video to see in the event that they had been taken with buying the video earlier than it grew to become a public information,” Mitchell-Kidd mentioned on Banfield on Friday, Sept. 27.
In response to NewsNation, Mitchell-Kidd is representing a girl who claims Combs allegedly sexually assaulted her with an inanimate object and directed one other man to sexually assault her earlier than she escaped.
The legal professional mentioned she will probably be “submitting that lawsuit throughout the week.”
As for the alleged pornographic tape, after being requested to elaborate by correspondent Laura Ingle, the lawyer claimed it was a “catch and kill” scenario and that she “cannot clarify” who the opposite individual within the video was, describing the individual as “extra high-profile” than Combs.
“I’ve seen stills of the video, okay, so you possibly can confirm that it exists, that it is actual, that the opposite individual within the video may be very seen,” she mentioned. “It is no query if it is that individual within the video, and I can inform the video was pornographic in nature.”
Mitchell-Kidd additionally claimed that the video was allegedly filmed in a former Atlanta residence belonging to Combs.
“And it does appear that it is the individual is not, like, wanting into the video,” she mentioned. “So, it is, to me, would not appear to be that individual is aware of they’re being videotaped. It would not appear to be they’re [an] energetic participant within the videotaping, like they’re being surreptitiously recorded.”
PEOPLE has reached out to a lawyer for Combs for remark.
The Unhealthy Boy Information founder was indicted on expenses of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution on Sept. 17 and has since pleaded not responsible to all expenses.
Within the indictment, prosecutors accuse Combs of arranging “freak offs,” which they describe as intercourse performances the place ladies are allegedly coerced or compelled into acts with male intercourse employees, typically for a number of days.
Federal raids of Combs’ Los Angeles and Miami houses in March led to investigators discovering “1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant” — objects thought of to be “freak off provides.”
Marc Agnifilo, a lawyer for Combs, revealed in a current interview with TMZ that Combs wants to testify. “I don’t know that I might preserve him off the stand,” Agnifilo mentioned. “I feel he’s very keen to inform his story.”
Combs, who’s in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart, is due in court docket in early October.
If you happen to or somebody you realize has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.