Sean “Diddy” Combs repeatedly contacted victims and witnesses in the months leading up to his arrest on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, according to prosecutors, with the Bad Boy Entertainment founder allegedly asking one victim for her continued “friendship and support,” while hinting that he would continue to pay her rent if she complied. Days after Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed an explosive sex trafficking and abuse lawsuit against Combs in November, the hip-hop mogul allegedly made two phone calls to an unnamed victim that he financially supported. In response to the calls, the woman allegedly texted Combs that reading Ventura’s lawsuit felt like she was “reading my own sexual trauma,” reported Inner City Press’ Matthew Russell Lee .
But Combs “gaslit” the woman on the recorded call and attempted to “convince her that she had willingly engaged in sex acts with him,” prosecutors said. Combs ensured “the victim that if she continues to be on his side and provide support and friendship, that she doesn’t have to worry about anything else which is just a thinly veiled reference to continuing that financial support,” court papers claim. At another point in the conversation, Combs allegedly told the woman that if she continued to support him, that his “financial adviser should not make a mistake and not get that rent paid.
” Combs’ alleged witness tampering was a focal point of Southern District of New York prosecutors’ argume.