An attorney for a new accuser of Sean “Diddy” Combs says he's been contacted about the “sale of one of Diddy's tapes,” specifically a pornographic video featuring the embattled hip-hop mogul, indicted last week on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. and someone “higher profile” than the rapper and founder of Bad Boy.
“There have already been leaked tapes around Hollywood being shopped around, … but one particular person contacted me to purchase a particular video that they had and to contact the person who was in the video to see if she was interested in purchasing the video before it entered the public domain,” Ariel Mitchell-Kidd said on NewsNation on Friday Banfield. “I can say that the video was pornographic in nature. … This was in his home in Atlanta, and it appears the person wasn't watching the video. It doesn't seem to me like that person knows they're being filmed.”
Mitchell-Kidd also said she was contacted a few weeks ago by a new client who claims Combs raped her in 2018 and filed a police report at the time.
“He called me and told me about his attack and his escape,” Mitchell-Kidd said. “It was at the house of a friend who had ties to the industry and Diddy decided to come to the house.”
Mitchell-Kidd says her client learned that Combs was planning to sex traffic her when he arrived.
“This led to him serving her drinks. She started to feel dizzy. Combs sexually assaulted her with an inanimate object,” Mitchell-Kidd said. “And then directed another gentleman to sexually assault her while he watched and pleasured himself.”
Mitchell-Kidd said his client managed to escape, running into the street, in the presence of a neighbor.
These charges come as Combs remains behind bars awaiting trial after being indicted earlier this month on three counts of running a vast criminal enterprise through which he assaulted and trafficked women with the help of his empire commercial since at least 2008. accused of engaging in a “pervasive pattern of abuse” that involved coercing women into highly orchestrated sexual encounters with male sex workers who would be transported across state and international borders. His bail was denied after he pleaded not guilty to the charges, due to fears he might flee the country.
Combs last week was hit with another lawsuit, at least the 10th filed against the rapper after Cassie Ventura sued him in November 2023 in a lawsuit that triggered a federal investigation into sex trafficking and racketeering.
This time Combs was sued in federal court in New York for allegedly drugging and raping a woman in 2001. The accuser alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Combs and his bodyguard.
It was also reported last week that Combs is in the same unit at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center as Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency tycoon convicted of fraud.
Following Diddy's arrest on September 16, his attorney, Marc Agnifilo, released the following statement: “We are disappointed in the decision to pursue what we believe is an unfair prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the United States. Sean “Diddy” Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, doting on his children and working to uplift the black community. He is an imperfect person but he is not a criminal. To his credit, Mr. Combs has done nothing but cooperate with this investigation and voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges. Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man who has nothing to hide and is eager to clear his name in court.”
Agnifilo has not yet responded The Hollywood journalistrequest for comment on Mitchell-Kidd's claims regarding the video and the new accuser.