Family Member Asked to Find ‘Dirt’ on Victims in Diddy’s Prison Cell: Report

Seized notes Sean “Diddy” CombsLast month’s jail cell snap allegedly included demands that a family member find “dirt” on the rapper’s alleged victims.

Accordingly NBC NewsContaining 11 pages and an “eight-page calendar book” written notes The 55-year-old was seized by Combs from his Metropolitan Detention Center cell in Brooklyn as part of a “planned anti-smuggling and anti-drug sweep,” according to media reporting of the court proceedings that took place on Tuesday, November 19.

Released by the Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik The prosecution claimed that Diddy wrote about “paying off witnesses and finding dirt on victims,” ​​then quoted Slavik directly, saying: “It’s not a privilege to pay off a witness and find dirt on two different victims.”

US District Judge Arun Subramanian That day, in court, it was decided that prosecutors should “get rid of copies” of the notes. Meanwhile, the court will “preserve the documents” as prosecutors and Combs’ legal team “serve briefings on the raid” in the coming weeks.

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Us Weekly He has reached out to Diddy’s legal representatives for comment.

At the court hearing, prosecutors accused Combs of trying to influence witnesses from behind bars during his time in custody. on the accusations After his arrest on September 16, he was charged with sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for prostitution.

Slavik told the judge that “no member of the prosecution team was aware of or responsible for the search” and noted that it was the result of investigations conducted by the Bureau of Prisons.

A representative from the Bureau of Prisons also spoke at Tuesday’s hearing, explaining that the search “was part of an ongoing investigation and the materials were obtained in a completely appropriate manner.”

Combs’ defense team denied prosecutors’ accusations; those accusations included allegations that Combs allegedly made an Oct. 14 call to a family member to “work with a non-lawyer to find information about the accuser.” .

Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo “The bottom line is that no multi-agency law enforcement initiative justifies the shuffling of Mr. Combs’ personal handwritten notes regarding his conversations with his attorneys, and prosecutors’ arguments to the contrary lack any credibility whatsoever,” he wrote in response to Tuesday’s hearing.

As for Slavik’s claim that reviewing Diddy’s notes “isn’t a privilege”: ABC News He reported that Agnifilo begged to differ. “Every page in the stack is subject to attorney-client privilege,” he allegedly told the court.

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“Almost everything in these legal memos are matters he discussed with his lawyers,” Agnifilo said, according to ABC. “This has been a complete institutional failure.”

Tuesday’s developments come after Agnifilo responded to prosecutors’ allegations in the lawsuit filed on Friday, November 15, that Diddy tried to obstruct the investigation by contacting witnesses while in prison.

“Defense counsel recently learned that prosecutors were in possession of privileged materials from the attorney client, including the defendant’s own written notes. Agnifilo argued in a letter filed Monday, Nov. 18, that this search and seizure violated Mr. Combs’ Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights.

Agnifilo claimed in court documents obtained: We That day, Diddy’s legal team was unaware that the musician’s written notes had been taken from his cell and given to prosecutors until the prosecutor’s office filed a petition on Friday.

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one in september 14-page indictment He accused Diddy of hosting “elaborate and manufactured sex performances” called “Freak Offs” and claimed that he “used force, threats of force, and coercion to cause victims to participate in prolonged sex acts with male commercial sex workers.”

Diddy remains behind bars after being denied bail twice by two different judges, who based their denials on concerns about possible witness tampering.

The third bail hearing, opened by Diddy’s legal team on October 8, is scheduled for Friday, November 22.

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