He was partying prefer it was 1999.
Handheld camcorder footage cryptically labeled “Ibiza Tapes” have been amongst a trove of possessions jailed music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs — a self-described newbie porn director — has agreed to forfeit as a part of his intercourse crimes sentencing, new courtroom papers stated.
The Unhealthy Boy Information founder will give up the cassette tapes and different units the feds seized in March 2024 raids on his mansions, together with exhausting drives, thumb drives, iPhones, iPads and computer systems, in keeping with the paperwork filed Wednesday.
The feds may even grasp onto the $9,000 in money recovered from the Park Hyatt resort in Manhattan the place Combs, 55, had been staying earlier than his September 2024 arrest.
The authorized submitting, collectively signed by the feds and Combs’ legal professionals, didn’t particularly describe what was depicted on the “Ibiza Tapes.”
However courtroom papers stated the tapes and different seized units have been all “property used or meant for use” as a part of the prostitution counts Combs was convicted of in July.
All of the gadgets will probably be turned over to the US Customs and Border Safety to be held in “its safe custody and management,” courtroom papers state.
The tapes, shot with a Sony “DVCAM” digital camera, a mannequin launched in 1996, have been included on a listing of electronics that the hip-hop entrepreneur utilized in his scheme to recruit male escorts for drug-fueled intercourse romps that he known as “freak-offs.”
Witnesses testified at Combs’ salacious two-month-long trial in Manhattan federal courtroom that the disgraced rapper generally arrange camcorders to movie his lovers participating in numerous intercourse acts with the escorts whereas he watched.
Combs has repeatedly visited Ibiza, a Spanish island often called a nightclub hotspot, throughout his decades-long profession as a globe-trotting rap and enterprise entrepreneur.
In 2010, he carried out a present on the island alongside his girlfriend, R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, Web page Six reported on the time.
Ventura was the star witness at Combs’ trial and considered one of two ladies who testified they feared Combs would launch the intercourse tapes he had of them in the event that they refused to conform together with his calls for to carry out in degrading, usually days-long sexual experiences with the male escorts.
The jury nonetheless acquitted Combs of expenses of coercing Ventura and a girl who used the alias “Jane” into the intercourse acts, after his legal professionals claimed the encounters have been a “consensual” a part of admittedly abusive relationships.
Decide Arun Subramanian sentenced Combs on Friday to serve round 4 years in jail.
The sentence was far lower than the 11 years that prosecutors requested for, and below the choose’s personal calculated sentence tips of between six and 7 years.
However Subramanian additionally shot down Combs’ request to be launched from jail on time served, saying that “a significant sentence is required to guard the general public from additional crimes.”
Combs described himself as an “newbie” porn director as a part of a failed bid to persuade the choose to toss his case.
His legal professionals claimed in useless that he had a First Modification proper to movie the twisted encounters.
He’s anticipated to additional attraction the decision on the Second Circuit Court docket of Appeals.
