Sean “Diddy” Combs is a victim of “outlandish” claims that he spiked baby oil with a date rape drug, his lawyers have claimed.
One of Combs’ alleged victims claimed Combs rubbed the spiked baby oil on her skin and then raped her when was unable to move.
His legal team claim that Combs’ accusers have repeated the unfounded claims in the media and that it’s affecting their client’s ability to get a fair trial.
“Some have even peddled in outlandish conspiracy theories,” the defense team’s filing on Sunday night states, citing an article from The Daily Beast. It complains that a lawyer for an alleged victim had claimed that Combs “spiked baby oil” with a date rape drug.
Newsweek sought email comment from Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo on Tuesday.
Sean “Diddy” Combs at Howard University on October 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. The rapper’s defence team claim media speculation could prejudice his trial.
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“Accuser’s lawyer [is] claiming that, based on her ‘research,’ ‘baby oil could be used as a conduit’ for date rape drugs such as GHB or Rohypnol,” the filing adds.
The referenced article states that “shamed music mogul Diddy may have spiked some of his 1,000 bottles of baby oil to incapacitate his victims, an attorney for alleged rape victim Ashley Parham told The Daily Beast.”
“The Daily Beast spoke to Ariel Mitchell, a Miami litigator who filed a disturbing new complaint on behalf of Parham on Tuesday.”
“Mitchell told The Daily Beast that she believed the oil was spiked based on her client describing to her how she went ‘more and more limp’ when Diddy slathered her in copious amounts of oil before and during the alleged gang rape,” it states.
The spiked baby oil allegation is part of a civil lawsuit being taken against Combs and does not form part of a related criminal case against him.
In a court submission to a New York criminal court judge on Sunday, Combs lawyers state that the stream of statements could prejudice a potential jury.
They filed a gag order request “pursuant to Local Rule 23.1 and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, to request an order prohibiting further extrajudicial statements from prospective witnesses and their lawyers that substantially interfere with Combs’s right to a fair trial.”
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that the government will not try to take “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” and the sixth amendment guarantees an “impartial jury.”
Prosecutors have told New York federal judge Arun Subramanian that they have “several terabytes of electronic material” from searches in Diddy’s homes in California and Florida.
A terabyte is a thousand gigabytes of data and represents a large volume of material.
That material includes video of Combs’ alleged assaults of women.
In 2016 CNN published hotel surveillance video footage of an attack on his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, for which he publicly apologized.
The 54-year-old is in a Brooklyn jail awaiting trial for charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and travel to engage in prostitution, among other charges.
Over 120 alleged victims have come forward accusing him of sex crimes. Diddy denies the charges against him, and according to his Agnifilo, the rapper plans to testify in court.
Prosecutors say in a court filing that their evidence so far includes “physical evidence seized in searches of the defendant’s residence; law enforcement records; search warrant returns, including cell phone location information.”
