August 20, 2025 • 28 mins
Brendan Paul, a former Syracuse basketball player turned personal assistant to Sean Combs from late 2022 to March 2024, testified under immunity that his duties included purchasing cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy, marijuana, and other substances for Combs, as well as preparing hotel rooms for Combs’s so‑called “wild king nights” or “freak‑offs.” He described going days without sleep, relying on Adderall and occasional cocaine use to cope, and even sampling a pink-drug blend ("tusi") to demonstrate loyalty. Paul recounted incidents where he was reprimanded—at times fired—for minor mistakes like forgetting a Gucci fanny pack loaded with drugs. He clarified that he was not a drug mule, maintaining he transported only small amounts for Combs’s personal use, and that he ultimately assisted in the cleanup of these drug-fueled sex parties.
On cross‑examination, Paul emphasized that procuring drugs was a minor aspect of his role and insisted that the narcotics were used solely by Combs. He recounted how he accidentally carried cocaine through a Miami airport—picked up during cleaning Combs’s hotel room—and was arrested but later had charges dropped after completing a diversion program, attributing his silence to loyalty. Paul described Combs’s expectations that his staff operate with “militant” discipline, likening them to "SEAL Team 6." He testified that Combs became particularly “extremely creative” when under the influence, using charts, messages, and communications about these events as part of the prosecution’s racketeering-sex trafficking case.
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On cross‑examination, Paul emphasized that procuring drugs was a minor aspect of his role and insisted that the narcotics were used solely by Combs. He recounted how he accidentally carried cocaine through a Miami airport—picked up during cleaning Combs’s hotel room—and was arrested but later had charges dropped after completing a diversion program, attributing his silence to loyalty. Paul described Combs’s expectations that his staff operate with “militant” discipline, likening them to "SEAL Team 6." He testified that Combs became particularly “extremely creative” when under the influence, using charts, messages, and communications about these events as part of the prosecution’s racketeering-sex trafficking case.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Diddy Diaries. Day number twenty six, the day that Brendan
Paul finally takes the stand and the day that the
government advances their case at least they hope another few
inches closer to the finish line. So, considering we've been
waiting for three days, four days now for this testimony,
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I'll keep the winging to a minimum and we'll just
dive right in. This article was published by CNN and
the authors of this article are Nicky Brown, Lauren de Valley,
and Caris Scannell. And before things get started, there is
some housekeeping to do once again, and this has to
do with a sealed motion with one of the jurors.
(00:44):
Judge Jarren Submaranian denied a request from the defense team
regarding a sealed issue as to a jur Submaranian did
not elaborate, so it's unclear what the request was. In
the past week, defense lawyers and prosecutors addressed an issue
about Jury number seven under seal regarding communication with a
former colleague about his jurors service, according to a letter
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filed by the government, And of course this comes on
the back of what we already know about juror number six.
But like I explained in that episode when we were
talking more about jury number six, this kind of thing
happens in federal trials, hell in trials all the time,
and while it's certainly not something that's pleasant, it's something
that there are remedies for. And considering that we have
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so many alternate jurors that have been pulled, they have
the ability to go to that pool and have one
of those alternate jurors step up to the plate. And
that's exactly what they were able to do. But look,
it's never a good thing when you hear that there
is jury issues. Right as somebody following a case, you
want things to be as fair as possible, and that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Goes for the state as well as for Ditty.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now, look, I'm certainly not somebody that you would say
is a ally of Ditty, if you will, but I
don't have to like you to back you up when
it comes to the law if you're on the right
side of it. I mean, I despise Karen Reid. You
want to talk about white privilege, You want to talk
about somebody that just doesn't care. Oh it's Karen Reid.
But that doesn't mean that the state met their burden,
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And my opinion of her personally doesn't even come into
the equation when I'm looking at the question from a
legal standpoint, and they just didn't have the goods on her,
And the same will be for Ditty. If I think
the evidence is going against them, that's what I'm gonna say.
But if I think that Ditty is having a good
day or that his team has found an inroad, we're
going to talk about that too, because my aim is
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to give you folks as much of an HD picture
as possible. That way, when you're taking a look at
what we're talking about and these cases that you're following,
you have perspective because a lot of this stuff is nuanced, right,
there's a lot of gray area and there's certainly a
lot of room for interpretation. So that's why I like
to open the door and let you folks walk through it.
And after we wrap up with the Ditty case, we're
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going to be moving right into the Brian Colberger case,
and it's going to be just as insane, if not crazier,
because the circus is certainly out when it comes to
Brian Colberger, and I can already tell you that there's
going to be people out there with all kinds of
crazy ass, wild ass theories and all kinds of crazy,
wild ass commentary, and the bizarre shit you're gonna hear
is going to make the stuff that Jaguar a right
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and the people that were talking nonsense about Diddy look
like their profits, because it's already starting up in Moscow.
Brendan Paul, former assistant to Sean Didty Combs, is on
the stand. Prosecutor Christy Slavic is questioning Paul. Brendan Paul
said that he worked as an assistant for Combs from
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late twenty twenty two after graduating college, and stopped working
for Combs when he was arrested on March twenty fifth,
twenty twenty four, in a Miami airport. He said he
was on his way to a family vacation with Combs
when he was arrested for a possession of cocaine. It
was in my go yard bag for personal assistant duties.
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Paul said he was sweeping Comb's room and grabbed the
cocaine to put it somewhere else, but forgot to remove
it from his own bag before leaving for the trip.
Oh yeah, I'm sure that's what happened. I'm sure it
was just a big old mistake. Hey, let me get
this bag a blow and just put it in my
bag and I'll just say I forgot about it. Give
me a break, bro. You guys were taking a private jet.
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You weren't getting the extra scrutiny that the rest of
us get. And this was something that you guys were
doing on a regular basis. We've already heard from other
people about how they were bringing drugs for Diddy over state,
lions and internationally, So what all of a sudden, this
was something that was just missed and it was in
the bag. I'm sure that everybody's buying that right. Paul
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testified he first heard about the opportunity to be Sean
Didy Colms's personal assistant from Eli Maroon, one of Colm's
former assistants. He told me to get in to get out.
If you have a girlfriend, break up with her and
you're never going to see her family.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Paul testified.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He said he under stood Maroon was telling them that
it was going to be really tumultuous job that required
all of my attention. Paul interviewed for the position in
the fall of twenty twenty two at Colmes Los Angeles home.
Before entering the home, he said he gave his ID
and signed a non disclosure agreement. He then met with
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Christina Korum, colm's former chief of staff, and Frankie Santella,
Colm's music manager, for about twenty minutes. Paul said he
started working for COLMBS a few days later. In his
first few weeks on the job, Paul said that he
worked out of colmb's LA home and mainly received instructions
from other assistants. Paul said he divided assistant duties with
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colmbs other personal assistants. Paul testified he helped handle Colm's
travel logistics and packing, and helped COLMBS with his fitness workouts,
meal plans, and music related needs. Paul also said he
would pack marijuana joints in colmb's garage. I mean, imagine,
this guy just got done playing college bass leaves, playing
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college hoop, and now he's rolling joints for ditty in
the garage. Pro must have thought he hit the lottery.
Paul continued that he worked eighty two one hundred hours
a week. He said he would usually work between four
to six days a week, but he was always on call.
His starting salary was seventy five thousand dollars a year,
he testified, and he later got a raise four one
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hundred thousand dollars, and he said that he was paid
by Combs Enterprises, again tying it up to Ditty. I
was being paid by Combs Enterprise. I was being paid
by Ditty. I was being managed by Ditty, and Diddy
was the one who was giving us our marching orders.
Paul said that he traveled frequently for work. He flew
with Combs on his private jet three or four times,
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but he said he usually traveled separately so he could
get there early to set up the rooms so when
you walked in, everything was seamless and he had everything
he needed. Paul said sometimes other employees like stylists and
photographers would travel early with him as well. When he
traveled for work, Paul said Colmbs travel manager would book
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his travel. Paul said the longest time period he worked
without sleep was when they were in New York releasing
Colm's latest album. Paul stayed awake for about three days,
although he took some naps in between. I was young,
so I was able to handle it, he said.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah. Sure that's how you did it. Huh. Paul testified
he took.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The prescription adderall and the rare, rare use of cocaine
to help him stay awake and alert during his employment. Oh,
I'm sure that's all. It was just during your employment.
You know, these dudes were a pop an adderall like
it was fucking pez Yeah, let me get one of
those twenties. Oh you got a thirty, you got a
time release, Let me get one of those. These fools
might be able to bullshit people that have never been
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in that life, but people who have actually lived that life,
people that know how this life goes, Come on, nice, try.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I was up for three days. Oh I did a
little bit of coke. A little bit of coke.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Hunh What he means by a little bit of coke
is probably at least a quarter ounce, right, bro, probably
did a quarter in three days. Sounds about right. Normal people,
that's an a Paul's worth. You're out here with Diddy,
do an adderall, live in your best life? Sounds about right. Now. Look,
that's speculation on my part, but I don't believe for
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a second that Brendan Paul was some shrinking violet when
it comes to cocaine. Paul continued to testify that his
mission was to make sure Sean Diddy Combs was always happy.
He said that Colmbs told his assistants that they should
operate like Seal Team six. Paul said Combs fired him
two or three times, and he testified about one incident
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that sticks out in his memory. In late October or
early November of twenty twenty three, Paul testified that he
forgot Comb's Lululemon fanny pack when he wanted to go
for a walk. That's when Combs told Paul, I don't
want to see her face and call KK and tell
her you're fired. Paul said, you know, imagine call your
boss and tell her that I said you're fired, the
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ultimate disrespect. You can't call her in tell her why
do I have to do it? And the answer is
because Diddy wants to flex that power over everybody around him,
and everything he did, every movie he made, was directed
in that direction. Paul recalled that colmb's former chief of staff,
Christina Korum, told him to lay low soon after she
sent Paul to set up Colm's London hotel room around
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Colm's birthday that year. Colms never discussed the incident with
him again. Paul also said it wasn't a thing to
talk to human resources about any issues. He said, if
anyone had an issue, they went to colmb's or a QUORUM.
And I gotta tell you, I find it disappointing that
Christina Korum isn't going to be giving any testimony here.
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I find it very, very disappointing, and I can only
imagine what kind of deal she worked out with the government.
Considering how much he's been mentioned, you would think that
she'd be called up to the stand to give some testimony,
but I guess we're not going to see it, which
is crazy because you have people like Brenan Paul right
here telling you that anyone who had any kind of gripe,
any kind of beef, anything, they were told to go
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to Christina Korum. So while these people that file complaints
with Quorum, she never did anything about it. Sounds like
a lawsuit to me, and in fact, I think that's
gonna help out when it comes to the civil lawsuits
we've been talking about as well, because as this is happening,
those civil lawsuits are still coming in and they're still
making their way through the system. Paul continued that he
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saw Combs use drugs including cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy, and marijuana
about once a month, but there were other times he
seemed high. The jury saw photo Paul took early in
his employment of ecstasy of a powder form of ketamine
and molly that was dyed pink for the esthetic. According
to Paul's testimony, Paul said Combs or another assistant would
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tell him to obtain drugs for Combs. He testified he
would buy marijuana about every two months, paying forty two
hundred for sixteen ounces. He said he purchased the marijuana
from Philip Pines, on of Comb's previous assistants, somebody who's
also suing Ditty. By the way, Philip Pine said that
he was in charge of setting up the Wild King
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Knights and shit, and also that Diddy you know, assaulted him.
So here we go with the grand circle once again.
Paul said that he bought other drugs for Combs fewer
than ten times. He testified he would sometimes pay about
three hundred to five hundred for one to two grams
of drugs, and other times he would pick up packages
without paying for them himself. On some occasions, Paul texted
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a drug dealer and they would come to colmbs home
to deliver the drugs. The jury saw messages between Paul,
a drug dealer, and another Combs assistant, Jonathan Perez, from
February of twenty twenty four. Paul testified that Perez put
him in touch with the dealer to obtain drugs for Combs.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is it for you or Puff?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The dealer asked in the messages, Puff, Paul responded, according
to the messages read aloud in court, but please don't
disclose that you can tell whoever it's for me.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Paul said that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Once he received the drugs, he would give them directly
to Colmbs or put them in the Gucci pouch where
drugs were stored. Paul testified he would pick up prescription
drugs for Combs at pharmacies under Comb's real name or
alias Frank Black. Now, how are you going to get
drugs at a pharmacy under an alias? Don't you have
to give your real name out of pharmacy? Like the
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prescription comes over in your real name, right, So how
the hell are they going to get an alias over
here and say it's for Frank Black unless the doctor's
in on it and the doctor's writing prescriptions for Frank Black.
Then the question is does he have a fake ID
that says his name is Frank Black. I got a
lot of questions here. The jury then saw messages colmed
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Saint Paul in February fourteenth of twenty twenty four asking
him to get xenx. Paul testified that Combs didn't have
a prescription for xenx and he wasn't able to obtain
the drugs. And remember, all of this is going directly
into the RICO charges, the narcotics, the distribution, and the possession.
So this is all solidifying everything that we've heard previously
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and tying it up with a bow. It's no longer
while Diddy was doing this. It's I got Ditty the drugs.
I brought them to him. I bought them. Did he
told me to go do it? Paul continued that Ditty's
former chief of staff, Christina Korum, didn't really want him
involved in Wild King Knights for some reason, but he
set up and cleaned up a few times while he
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worked for Combs. Quorum called them wild King Knights, Paul said,
and that's the same thing that Philip Pines called them
and several other people too.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And I think there might.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Be some confusion with people when it comes to freak
offs and the White parties. The white parties were something different,
and allegedly at the White parties, the real party started
after the quote unquote main party ended. But that's not
what we're talking about. We're talking about the freak offs,
and we're talking about what the federal government said that
Diddy was involved in. And so the freakoffs weren't only
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named freakoffs. There were also called wild king Knights. So
did he called them forfs, but Christina Quorum and some
of the assistants, they called them Wild king Knights. Paul
said he only recalled Jane, one of Comb's accusers participating
in Wild King Knights with Combs during his tenure with Combs.
Paul testified his understanding of Wild King Knights to include partying, alcohol, sex,
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and drugs. The Knights were at hotels during the beginning
of his time with Combs, Paul testified, but Comb stopped
holding them at hotels after the Cassie lawsuit. Paul continued
that he'd set up for a wild King Knight, he
would ensure the room had baby oil. Alcohol, small toiletries,
and extra sheets and towels. Well, according to what we
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heard previously, you need a lot of extra sheets and
a lot of extra towels, he said. The assistant shared
a list that included all the items needed to set
up for those nights. Paul said that he often obtained
supplies through Comb's property managers. He said if he paid
for supplies with his personal credit card, he was reimbursed
through com financial personnel. Paul said he had once provided
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Combs with five thousand cash before a while King Knight,
and he said he got the cash from security. He
testified that another assistant told him he once left cash
in an envelope at the front desk of a hotel.
Paul said Combs would sometimes contact him during a wild
King Knight via audio message or FaceTime. The Jerry saw
a photo of the outfits from a sex shop that
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Paul sent the Combs. Paul testified that Combs had asked
him to run to the store while he was with Jane,
but Combs never responded after Paul sent the picture of
the outfits. Yeah, he was nineteen gallons deep in baby
oil and we're in a burka. He had no time
to respond to you, homie, and look what this all
really does. It shows us once again that did he
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was the one giving the orders? Did he was the
one telling everybody what to do? Did he was the
one launching guys like Brendan Paul to go to the
sex store to take a look at outfits, sending them
to go get drugs and set up these rooms. And
did I mention that he's also paying for it. So,
in my opinion, they have met the threshold at least
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when it comes to patterns, and then when you start
following the threads, the patterns all lead back to Diddy.
And I think that the government has framed their case
in a way that the jury is going to digest
that and they're going to buy onto the narrative. Now,
Paul's talking about cleaning up hotel rooms after the Combs
Wild King Knights. About three to four times he testified
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the rooms were in disarray and he would put towels
and sheets into a pile and throw out empty bottles
of baby oil and liquor. Paul said he wore gloves
during the cleanup for sanitary reasons.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Gloves.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I'd be out there in a fucking has matt suit
like there was an abola outbreak. Can you imagine the smell?
I know we talked about that previously, but good lord,
and then all of the different bodily fluids mixed with
baby oil and no, thank you. I would be out
there in a level four has matt suit looking like
I was chasing down the polovirus. Gotta be kidneyed, just
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some gloves. One time Paul saw white powder that he
believed was drug residue, he testified. The jury saw photo
of a hotel room with sheets covering the furniture. Paul
testified that he sent the photo to combs travel manager
to give her a heads up that there might be
some damaged charges might be huh, pretty sure that every
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time Diddy had a freak off or a wild King Knight,
there were some charges coming his way. Now, the jury
sees a selfie of Sean Didy Combs, his former chief
of staff, Christina Korum, and his former assistant Brendan Paul
on a private jet taken on March twenty fifth, twenty
twenty four, before Paul was arrested for cocaine possession at
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the Miami Opa LACA Executive Airport. They were about to
take off on a flight to the Bahamas for a
vacation with Colmes's family, Paul said. Paul testified he hasn't
seen or spoken of Combs basically since the photo was taken.
Paul didn't tell law enforcement that the cocaine wasn't his
that day. When asked why, Paul said loyalty. Paul testified
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that the charges against him were related to the incident
were dropped because I have a really good lawyer. Oh yeah,
I'm sure that's all it was. You show that the
Feds didn't pull some strings to get them to do
that so that you would play ball. Pretty sure that's
what happened, mister Paul. He's completed over twenty drug classes
and submitted random drug testing, Paul said. And now with that,
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Brian Steele is taking over and doing the cross examining
of Brendan Paul. Brian Steele starts his cross examination and
asking about his background, still mentioned that Paul walked on
to Syracuse University basketball team. Paul confirmed that he works
hard and strives for perfection. He said he was willing
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to work long hours for comes and learn from the
exposure he got to the music industry.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Through Combs.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Paul confirmed that handling drugs was a minor part of
all the work he did for comes. You were not
some drug mule, right, Defense attorney Brian Steel asked, absolutely not.
Paul responded, Okay, sure, what do you call somebody that
carries drugs for somebody on a plane, in a car, anywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You're a drug mule, homie.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Stop it. Just like he tried to make Jane his
drug mule when he had her bring the drugs out.
Ain't no different. Paul said that he believed the drugs
he obtained were just for Comb's personal use. Still asked
if Paul thought the Wild King Knights were also personal
for Combs. I considered it to be like an escape.
Paul testified, confirming that he believed that Comb's personal time
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to be alone with Jane. Paul testified that he often
spoke with Jane, one of Colm's accusers, before a while
King Knight, and almost every time afterward. He confirmed that
he never saw anything that made him think she was
hesitant or not a willing participant. Yeah, that means nothing.
That means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme. According to Jane,
she wasn't even confiding in a her close friends, but
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she's gonna confide in. Brendan Paul okay. During cross examination,
he asked Paul about his arrest on March twenty fifth,
twenty twenty four. Paul confirmed his arrest was for a
small amount of cocaine for Comb's personal use that Paul
had accidentally left in his travel bag. I do not
buy this for a minute. Oh my gosh, I do
not buy it at all, personal use. I thought you
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didn't really use cocaine, mister Paul. You were on a
three day bender and you just did a little bit
of coke. So why do you have personal use cocaine
with you if it's not for Diddy? Neither Combs nor
chief of staff Christina Korum asked him to travel with
the cocaine.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Paul testified.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Paul recalled telling law enforcement that everything in the bag
was his, and then his hard drop when the agent
pulled the cocaine out of the bag because he didn't
mean to travel with it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Brian Steele asked Brendan Paul if he worked for a criminal.
Absolutely not, Paul testified. Steele asked Paul if he felt
indebted to come Holmes for all the experience he received
working for him. I guess what do you mean by indebted?
Paul responded, Still asked if Paul had learned a lot
from Colmbs, and Paul confirmed he had. Stele then asked
if he had a good experience working for Combs for
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the most part. Paul responded, and with that the cross
examination's over and Prosecutor Christy Slavic gets Paul again on redirect,
And on that redirect, Christy Slavic asked Paul what he
thinks was taking place during the Wild King Knights. There
was sex happening and partying, Paul responded. Paul confirmed that
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he was not present in the hotel rooms, so he
did not know definitively if anything illegitimate was happening. Sitting
here today, how do you feel about mister Colmbs, Slavic asked,
It's complicated, Paul.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Said, before he was excused.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
From the witness stand, all right, So that went pretty
much as expected, honestly, and you can tell by the
short cross they didn't want to go too deep. They
knew that Brendan Paul's testimony was going to be what
it is, and there was not much they could do
to rebuddy. Now, the Feds. They hope that this testimony
puts that exclamation point on things and shows the jury
that his own assistant here, who was called with the drugs,
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who was with them all the time, is telling you
that he was getting these drugs for Diddy. Not only that,
but he was setting up the Wild King Knights well
did he was allegedly trafficking Jane and setting up all
the other travel arrangements that were going on as well.
So what it does is it adds that extra layer, right,
and it helped shore up that foundation where the government's
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case is resting. And I think that Brendan Paul definitely
served his purpose when it comes to the prosecution and
what they were trying to show the jury. And with that,
the prosecutors call their next witness, and the next witness
is Joseph Churchillo. Churchillo was not involved in the case,
but he reviewed charts of evidence compiled by prosecutors to
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confirm the information in the charts corresponds with underlying exhibits,
which include thousands of pages the text messages, as well
as phones and financial records. Churchillo, a special agent for
Homeland Security investigations, explained the chart includes the location individual
names and transportation records associated with different date ranges. Churcello
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is reviewing charts evidence compiled by the prosecutors to confirm
the information in the charts corresponds with the underlying exhibits,
which includes thousands of pages of text messages, as well
as phones and financial records. He said the forty four
entries on the chart range from May twenty eight, twenty one,
to August twenty twenty four, and the only woman's name
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on the chart is Jane, one of the accusers in
the case. He said, before accuser Cassie Venture's lawsuit was filed,
most of the locations were hotels. After her lawsuit was filed,
none of them were hotels. Churcello said that there were
three of these events. After Combs posted an Instagram video
on May nineteenth, twenty twenty four, Colmbs apologize for physically
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assaulting his then girlfriend Ventura, two days after CNN published
exclusive surveillance video from twenty sixteen in which Colmbs appeared
to grab shove dragon kicker appeared. No, that's what he did,
not appeared. Churcello testified that the charts do not include
every time Jane or Colmbs were at a particular location,
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but that these were the instances with documentation to support it.
And remember this comes on the back of what we
heard from the Lisa Penland and the other chart summary
expert that was on the stand last week. I forget
her name, but their job is to go through all
of this stuff and tie it all up and make
it digestible for the jury. Now, Churcello is talking about
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how we reviewed documents related to a hotel stay that
Sean Didy Combs had in Los Angeles in January of
twenty twenty three. Hotel record showed the room was reserved
under the name Joseph Chavez and included a three thousand,
seven hundred and fifty dollars charge for damage firm A
report from the hotel said that there were bodily fluids
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stained on the wood floor across the entire room and
on some of the furniture. Like, what bodily fluids stained
on the wood floor? How does that even happen? How
do you stain the.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Wood floor with your bodily fluids?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Like I can understand staining the carpet, but the wood
floor seems like a whole lot of bodily fluids on
the floor for quite a long time. The evidence chart
referenced some of Colms text messages with Jane, one of
his accusers who was using a pseudonym, and the trial.
The messages showed that the two were coordinating the arrival
of three men at the hotel. One of those men
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deposited fifteen hundred dollars cash at ATMs in Los Angeles.
In the days following the hotel reservation, the jury saw
a message Comb sent to Jane telling her to send
eleven hundred to cowboys for angels and escort service, four
flights and an overnight rate. Records in the summary chart
reflect that Jane and Calms stayed at the London Hotel
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in Los Angeles in April of twenty twenty three. Text
between Combs and an entertainer documented in the chart suggested
the entertainer join them at the hotel, and again showing
that Diddy was the one telling Jane.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
What to do.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And you can dispute it all you want, but the
evidence is what it is. And we're not just talking
about testimony. We're talking about the undisputed messaging and the
forensic accounting that's been done very hard to dispute that
in fact, all you can really hope to do is
mitigate the fallout. After the hotel stay, Colmbs was charged
eighteen hundred dollars for damaged furniture in linen's. A security
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incident report filed about the damage said there was linen
damage and smoking in the room. The report and part
said the room towels appeared to be soaked in baby
oil and baby oil is in the carpet as well.
Now the jury's being shown a note recovered from the
phone of Colmbs out of security Fihi Mohammed on April
twenty fifth, twenty twenty five or stating five thousand dollars
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PD personal London. The jury is see evidence that Muhammad
kept track of some spending reimbursement for Comb's personal cash expenses.
And you're all call that Fihim Mohammed is Ditty's fixer.
I did a whole episode about Fihim Mohammad and people
like them and how they're utilized by people like Diddy,
And the best way to describe it is somebody like
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Ray Donovan maybe or like the wolf from pulp fiction,
that kind of guy that's who Fihim Mohammad was in
the world of Diddy, and with that, the jury has
been dismissed for the day. Assistant US Attorney Marine Komy
said she hopes the government will arrest by the end
of the day.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
On Monday.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Joseph Charichello, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, will
continue testifying on direct examination Monday morning. Komy said she
will likely question the agent through the lunch break Monday,
and the defense will question them for the remainder of
the day. Defense attorney Mark Agnafilo said at this point
he believes the defense will rest Tuesday or Wednesday, even
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shorter than we thought. So, folks, we're getting to it.
We are getting right down to it. And next week
Monday is going to be the last day of testimony,
at least as far as the prosecution's concerned. And then
you have the defense saying they're not going to take
very long to get things cracking. So we're coming right
up to it, and that train that's been barreling down
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the tracks that we call the Sean Didty Combs trial
is about to arrive at its destination. The question is,
will Shan didyy Colmbs be a free man or will
he end up in prison for the rest of his life.
And while that's the burning question, it looks like it's
going to be answered sometime in the next couple of weeks,
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and you already know we're going to be here every
step of the way as the government puts its final
touches on its case against Diddy. All of the information
that goes with this episode can be found in the
description box.
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Diddy Diaries. Day number twenty six, the day that Brendan
Paul finally takes the stand and the day that the
government advances their case at least they hope another few
inches closer to the finish line. So, considering we've been
waiting for three days, four days now for this testimony,
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I'll keep the winging to a minimum and we'll just
dive right in. This article was published by CNN and
the authors of this article are Nicky Brown, Lauren de Valley,
and Caris Scannell. And before things get started, there is
some housekeeping to do once again, and this has to
do with a sealed motion with one of the jurors.
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Judge Jarren Submaranian denied a request from the defense team
regarding a sealed issue as to a jur Submaranian did
not elaborate, so it's unclear what the request was. In
the past week, defense lawyers and prosecutors addressed an issue
about Jury number seven under seal regarding communication with a
former colleague about his jurors service, according to a letter
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filed by the government, And of course this comes on
the back of what we already know about juror number six.
But like I explained in that episode when we were
talking more about jury number six, this kind of thing
happens in federal trials, hell in trials all the time,
and while it's certainly not something that's pleasant, it's something
that there are remedies for. And considering that we have
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so many alternate jurors that have been pulled, they have
the ability to go to that pool and have one
of those alternate jurors step up to the plate. And
that's exactly what they were able to do. But look,
it's never a good thing when you hear that there
is jury issues. Right as somebody following a case, you
want things to be as fair as possible, and that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Goes for the state as well as for Ditty.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now, look, I'm certainly not somebody that you would say
is a ally of Ditty, if you will, but I
don't have to like you to back you up when
it comes to the law if you're on the right
side of it. I mean, I despise Karen Reid. You
want to talk about white privilege, You want to talk
about somebody that just doesn't care. Oh it's Karen Reid.
But that doesn't mean that the state met their burden,
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And my opinion of her personally doesn't even come into
the equation when I'm looking at the question from a
legal standpoint, and they just didn't have the goods on her,
And the same will be for Ditty. If I think
the evidence is going against them, that's what I'm gonna say.
But if I think that Ditty is having a good
day or that his team has found an inroad, we're
going to talk about that too, because my aim is
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to give you folks as much of an HD picture
as possible. That way, when you're taking a look at
what we're talking about and these cases that you're following,
you have perspective because a lot of this stuff is nuanced, right,
there's a lot of gray area and there's certainly a
lot of room for interpretation. So that's why I like
to open the door and let you folks walk through it.
And after we wrap up with the Ditty case, we're
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going to be moving right into the Brian Colberger case,
and it's going to be just as insane, if not crazier,
because the circus is certainly out when it comes to
Brian Colberger, and I can already tell you that there's
going to be people out there with all kinds of
crazy ass, wild ass theories and all kinds of crazy,
wild ass commentary, and the bizarre shit you're gonna hear
is going to make the stuff that Jaguar a right
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and the people that were talking nonsense about Diddy look
like their profits, because it's already starting up in Moscow.
Brendan Paul, former assistant to Sean Didty Combs, is on
the stand. Prosecutor Christy Slavic is questioning Paul. Brendan Paul
said that he worked as an assistant for Combs from
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late twenty twenty two after graduating college, and stopped working
for Combs when he was arrested on March twenty fifth,
twenty twenty four, in a Miami airport. He said he
was on his way to a family vacation with Combs
when he was arrested for a possession of cocaine. It
was in my go yard bag for personal assistant duties.
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Paul said he was sweeping Comb's room and grabbed the
cocaine to put it somewhere else, but forgot to remove
it from his own bag before leaving for the trip.
Oh yeah, I'm sure that's what happened. I'm sure it
was just a big old mistake. Hey, let me get
this bag a blow and just put it in my
bag and I'll just say I forgot about it. Give
me a break, bro. You guys were taking a private jet.
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You weren't getting the extra scrutiny that the rest of
us get. And this was something that you guys were
doing on a regular basis. We've already heard from other
people about how they were bringing drugs for Diddy over state,
lions and internationally, So what all of a sudden, this
was something that was just missed and it was in
the bag. I'm sure that everybody's buying that right. Paul
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testified he first heard about the opportunity to be Sean
Didy Colms's personal assistant from Eli Maroon, one of Colm's
former assistants. He told me to get in to get out.
If you have a girlfriend, break up with her and
you're never going to see her family.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Paul testified.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He said he under stood Maroon was telling them that
it was going to be really tumultuous job that required
all of my attention. Paul interviewed for the position in
the fall of twenty twenty two at Colmes Los Angeles home.
Before entering the home, he said he gave his ID
and signed a non disclosure agreement. He then met with
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Christina Korum, colm's former chief of staff, and Frankie Santella,
Colm's music manager, for about twenty minutes. Paul said he
started working for COLMBS a few days later. In his
first few weeks on the job, Paul said that he
worked out of colmb's LA home and mainly received instructions
from other assistants. Paul said he divided assistant duties with
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colmbs other personal assistants. Paul testified he helped handle Colm's
travel logistics and packing, and helped COLMBS with his fitness workouts,
meal plans, and music related needs. Paul also said he
would pack marijuana joints in colmb's garage. I mean, imagine,
this guy just got done playing college bass leaves, playing
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college hoop, and now he's rolling joints for ditty in
the garage. Pro must have thought he hit the lottery.
Paul continued that he worked eighty two one hundred hours
a week. He said he would usually work between four
to six days a week, but he was always on call.
His starting salary was seventy five thousand dollars a year,
he testified, and he later got a raise four one
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hundred thousand dollars, and he said that he was paid
by Combs Enterprises, again tying it up to Ditty. I
was being paid by Combs Enterprise. I was being paid
by Ditty. I was being managed by Ditty, and Diddy
was the one who was giving us our marching orders.
Paul said that he traveled frequently for work. He flew
with Combs on his private jet three or four times,
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but he said he usually traveled separately so he could
get there early to set up the rooms so when
you walked in, everything was seamless and he had everything
he needed. Paul said sometimes other employees like stylists and
photographers would travel early with him as well. When he
traveled for work, Paul said Colmbs travel manager would book
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his travel. Paul said the longest time period he worked
without sleep was when they were in New York releasing
Colm's latest album. Paul stayed awake for about three days,
although he took some naps in between. I was young,
so I was able to handle it, he said.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah. Sure that's how you did it. Huh. Paul testified
he took.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The prescription adderall and the rare, rare use of cocaine
to help him stay awake and alert during his employment. Oh,
I'm sure that's all. It was just during your employment.
You know, these dudes were a pop an adderall like
it was fucking pez Yeah, let me get one of
those twenties. Oh you got a thirty, you got a
time release, Let me get one of those. These fools
might be able to bullshit people that have never been
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in that life, but people who have actually lived that life,
people that know how this life goes, Come on, nice, try.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I was up for three days. Oh I did a
little bit of coke. A little bit of coke.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Hunh What he means by a little bit of coke
is probably at least a quarter ounce, right, bro, probably
did a quarter in three days. Sounds about right. Normal people,
that's an a Paul's worth. You're out here with Diddy,
do an adderall, live in your best life? Sounds about right. Now. Look,
that's speculation on my part, but I don't believe for
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a second that Brendan Paul was some shrinking violet when
it comes to cocaine. Paul continued to testify that his
mission was to make sure Sean Diddy Combs was always happy.
He said that Colmbs told his assistants that they should
operate like Seal Team six. Paul said Combs fired him
two or three times, and he testified about one incident
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that sticks out in his memory. In late October or
early November of twenty twenty three, Paul testified that he
forgot Comb's Lululemon fanny pack when he wanted to go
for a walk. That's when Combs told Paul, I don't
want to see her face and call KK and tell
her you're fired. Paul said, you know, imagine call your
boss and tell her that I said you're fired, the
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ultimate disrespect. You can't call her in tell her why
do I have to do it? And the answer is
because Diddy wants to flex that power over everybody around him,
and everything he did, every movie he made, was directed
in that direction. Paul recalled that colmb's former chief of staff,
Christina Korum, told him to lay low soon after she
sent Paul to set up Colm's London hotel room around
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Colm's birthday that year. Colms never discussed the incident with
him again. Paul also said it wasn't a thing to
talk to human resources about any issues. He said, if
anyone had an issue, they went to colmb's or a QUORUM.
And I gotta tell you, I find it disappointing that
Christina Korum isn't going to be giving any testimony here.
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I find it very, very disappointing, and I can only
imagine what kind of deal she worked out with the government.
Considering how much he's been mentioned, you would think that
she'd be called up to the stand to give some testimony,
but I guess we're not going to see it, which
is crazy because you have people like Brenan Paul right
here telling you that anyone who had any kind of gripe,
any kind of beef, anything, they were told to go
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to Christina Korum. So while these people that file complaints
with Quorum, she never did anything about it. Sounds like
a lawsuit to me, and in fact, I think that's
gonna help out when it comes to the civil lawsuits
we've been talking about as well, because as this is happening,
those civil lawsuits are still coming in and they're still
making their way through the system. Paul continued that he
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saw Combs use drugs including cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy, and marijuana
about once a month, but there were other times he
seemed high. The jury saw photo Paul took early in
his employment of ecstasy of a powder form of ketamine
and molly that was dyed pink for the esthetic. According
to Paul's testimony, Paul said Combs or another assistant would
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tell him to obtain drugs for Combs. He testified he
would buy marijuana about every two months, paying forty two
hundred for sixteen ounces. He said he purchased the marijuana
from Philip Pines, on of Comb's previous assistants, somebody who's
also suing Ditty. By the way, Philip Pine said that
he was in charge of setting up the Wild King
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Knights and shit, and also that Diddy you know, assaulted him.
So here we go with the grand circle once again.
Paul said that he bought other drugs for Combs fewer
than ten times. He testified he would sometimes pay about
three hundred to five hundred for one to two grams
of drugs, and other times he would pick up packages
without paying for them himself. On some occasions, Paul texted
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a drug dealer and they would come to colmbs home
to deliver the drugs. The jury saw messages between Paul,
a drug dealer, and another Combs assistant, Jonathan Perez, from
February of twenty twenty four. Paul testified that Perez put
him in touch with the dealer to obtain drugs for Combs.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is it for you or Puff?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The dealer asked in the messages, Puff, Paul responded, according
to the messages read aloud in court, but please don't
disclose that you can tell whoever it's for me.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Paul said that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Once he received the drugs, he would give them directly
to Colmbs or put them in the Gucci pouch where
drugs were stored. Paul testified he would pick up prescription
drugs for Combs at pharmacies under Comb's real name or
alias Frank Black. Now, how are you going to get
drugs at a pharmacy under an alias? Don't you have
to give your real name out of pharmacy? Like the
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prescription comes over in your real name, right, So how
the hell are they going to get an alias over
here and say it's for Frank Black unless the doctor's
in on it and the doctor's writing prescriptions for Frank Black.
Then the question is does he have a fake ID
that says his name is Frank Black. I got a
lot of questions here. The jury then saw messages colmed
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Saint Paul in February fourteenth of twenty twenty four asking
him to get xenx. Paul testified that Combs didn't have
a prescription for xenx and he wasn't able to obtain
the drugs. And remember, all of this is going directly
into the RICO charges, the narcotics, the distribution, and the possession.
So this is all solidifying everything that we've heard previously
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and tying it up with a bow. It's no longer
while Diddy was doing this. It's I got Ditty the drugs.
I brought them to him. I bought them. Did he
told me to go do it? Paul continued that Ditty's
former chief of staff, Christina Korum, didn't really want him
involved in Wild King Knights for some reason, but he
set up and cleaned up a few times while he
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worked for Combs. Quorum called them wild King Knights, Paul said,
and that's the same thing that Philip Pines called them
and several other people too.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And I think there might.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Be some confusion with people when it comes to freak
offs and the White parties. The white parties were something different,
and allegedly at the White parties, the real party started
after the quote unquote main party ended. But that's not
what we're talking about. We're talking about the freak offs,
and we're talking about what the federal government said that
Diddy was involved in. And so the freakoffs weren't only
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named freakoffs. There were also called wild king Knights. So
did he called them forfs, but Christina Quorum and some
of the assistants, they called them Wild king Knights. Paul
said he only recalled Jane, one of Comb's accusers participating
in Wild King Knights with Combs during his tenure with Combs.
Paul testified his understanding of Wild King Knights to include partying, alcohol, sex,
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and drugs. The Knights were at hotels during the beginning
of his time with Combs, Paul testified, but Comb stopped
holding them at hotels after the Cassie lawsuit. Paul continued
that he'd set up for a wild King Knight, he
would ensure the room had baby oil. Alcohol, small toiletries,
and extra sheets and towels. Well, according to what we
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heard previously, you need a lot of extra sheets and
a lot of extra towels, he said. The assistant shared
a list that included all the items needed to set
up for those nights. Paul said that he often obtained
supplies through Comb's property managers. He said if he paid
for supplies with his personal credit card, he was reimbursed
through com financial personnel. Paul said he had once provided
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Combs with five thousand cash before a while King Knight,
and he said he got the cash from security. He
testified that another assistant told him he once left cash
in an envelope at the front desk of a hotel.
Paul said Combs would sometimes contact him during a wild
King Knight via audio message or FaceTime. The Jerry saw
a photo of the outfits from a sex shop that
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Paul sent the Combs. Paul testified that Combs had asked
him to run to the store while he was with Jane,
but Combs never responded after Paul sent the picture of
the outfits. Yeah, he was nineteen gallons deep in baby
oil and we're in a burka. He had no time
to respond to you, homie, and look what this all
really does. It shows us once again that did he
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was the one giving the orders? Did he was the
one telling everybody what to do? Did he was the
one launching guys like Brendan Paul to go to the
sex store to take a look at outfits, sending them
to go get drugs and set up these rooms. And
did I mention that he's also paying for it. So,
in my opinion, they have met the threshold at least
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when it comes to patterns, and then when you start
following the threads, the patterns all lead back to Diddy.
And I think that the government has framed their case
in a way that the jury is going to digest
that and they're going to buy onto the narrative. Now,
Paul's talking about cleaning up hotel rooms after the Combs
Wild King Knights. About three to four times he testified
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the rooms were in disarray and he would put towels
and sheets into a pile and throw out empty bottles
of baby oil and liquor. Paul said he wore gloves
during the cleanup for sanitary reasons.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Gloves.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I'd be out there in a fucking has matt suit
like there was an abola outbreak. Can you imagine the smell?
I know we talked about that previously, but good lord,
and then all of the different bodily fluids mixed with
baby oil and no, thank you. I would be out
there in a level four has matt suit looking like
I was chasing down the polovirus. Gotta be kidneyed, just
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some gloves. One time Paul saw white powder that he
believed was drug residue, he testified. The jury saw photo
of a hotel room with sheets covering the furniture. Paul
testified that he sent the photo to combs travel manager
to give her a heads up that there might be
some damaged charges might be huh, pretty sure that every
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time Diddy had a freak off or a wild King Knight,
there were some charges coming his way. Now, the jury
sees a selfie of Sean Didy Combs, his former chief
of staff, Christina Korum, and his former assistant Brendan Paul
on a private jet taken on March twenty fifth, twenty
twenty four, before Paul was arrested for cocaine possession at
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the Miami Opa LACA Executive Airport. They were about to
take off on a flight to the Bahamas for a
vacation with Colmes's family, Paul said. Paul testified he hasn't
seen or spoken of Combs basically since the photo was taken.
Paul didn't tell law enforcement that the cocaine wasn't his
that day. When asked why, Paul said loyalty. Paul testified
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that the charges against him were related to the incident
were dropped because I have a really good lawyer. Oh yeah,
I'm sure that's all it was. You show that the
Feds didn't pull some strings to get them to do
that so that you would play ball. Pretty sure that's
what happened, mister Paul. He's completed over twenty drug classes
and submitted random drug testing, Paul said. And now with that,
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Brian Steele is taking over and doing the cross examining
of Brendan Paul. Brian Steele starts his cross examination and
asking about his background, still mentioned that Paul walked on
to Syracuse University basketball team. Paul confirmed that he works
hard and strives for perfection. He said he was willing
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to work long hours for comes and learn from the
exposure he got to the music industry.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Through Combs.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Paul confirmed that handling drugs was a minor part of
all the work he did for comes. You were not
some drug mule, right, Defense attorney Brian Steel asked, absolutely not.
Paul responded, Okay, sure, what do you call somebody that
carries drugs for somebody on a plane, in a car, anywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You're a drug mule, homie.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Stop it. Just like he tried to make Jane his
drug mule when he had her bring the drugs out.
Ain't no different. Paul said that he believed the drugs
he obtained were just for Comb's personal use. Still asked
if Paul thought the Wild King Knights were also personal
for Combs. I considered it to be like an escape.
Paul testified, confirming that he believed that Comb's personal time
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to be alone with Jane. Paul testified that he often
spoke with Jane, one of Colm's accusers, before a while
King Knight, and almost every time afterward. He confirmed that
he never saw anything that made him think she was
hesitant or not a willing participant. Yeah, that means nothing.
That means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme. According to Jane,
she wasn't even confiding in a her close friends, but
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she's gonna confide in. Brendan Paul okay. During cross examination,
he asked Paul about his arrest on March twenty fifth,
twenty twenty four. Paul confirmed his arrest was for a
small amount of cocaine for Comb's personal use that Paul
had accidentally left in his travel bag. I do not
buy this for a minute. Oh my gosh, I do
not buy it at all, personal use. I thought you
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didn't really use cocaine, mister Paul. You were on a
three day bender and you just did a little bit
of coke. So why do you have personal use cocaine
with you if it's not for Diddy? Neither Combs nor
chief of staff Christina Korum asked him to travel with
the cocaine.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Paul testified.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Paul recalled telling law enforcement that everything in the bag
was his, and then his hard drop when the agent
pulled the cocaine out of the bag because he didn't
mean to travel with it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Brian Steele asked Brendan Paul if he worked for a criminal.
Absolutely not, Paul testified. Steele asked Paul if he felt
indebted to come Holmes for all the experience he received
working for him. I guess what do you mean by indebted?
Paul responded, Still asked if Paul had learned a lot
from Colmbs, and Paul confirmed he had. Stele then asked
if he had a good experience working for Combs for
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the most part. Paul responded, and with that the cross
examination's over and Prosecutor Christy Slavic gets Paul again on redirect,
And on that redirect, Christy Slavic asked Paul what he
thinks was taking place during the Wild King Knights. There
was sex happening and partying, Paul responded. Paul confirmed that
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he was not present in the hotel rooms, so he
did not know definitively if anything illegitimate was happening. Sitting
here today, how do you feel about mister Colmbs, Slavic asked,
It's complicated, Paul.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Said, before he was excused.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
From the witness stand, all right, So that went pretty
much as expected, honestly, and you can tell by the
short cross they didn't want to go too deep. They
knew that Brendan Paul's testimony was going to be what
it is, and there was not much they could do
to rebuddy. Now, the Feds. They hope that this testimony
puts that exclamation point on things and shows the jury
that his own assistant here, who was called with the drugs,
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who was with them all the time, is telling you
that he was getting these drugs for Diddy. Not only that,
but he was setting up the Wild King Knights well
did he was allegedly trafficking Jane and setting up all
the other travel arrangements that were going on as well.
So what it does is it adds that extra layer, right,
and it helped shore up that foundation where the government's
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case is resting. And I think that Brendan Paul definitely
served his purpose when it comes to the prosecution and
what they were trying to show the jury. And with that,
the prosecutors call their next witness, and the next witness
is Joseph Churchillo. Churchillo was not involved in the case,
but he reviewed charts of evidence compiled by prosecutors to
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confirm the information in the charts corresponds with underlying exhibits,
which include thousands of pages the text messages, as well
as phones and financial records. Churchillo, a special agent for
Homeland Security investigations, explained the chart includes the location individual
names and transportation records associated with different date ranges. Churcello
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is reviewing charts evidence compiled by the prosecutors to confirm
the information in the charts corresponds with the underlying exhibits,
which includes thousands of pages of text messages, as well
as phones and financial records. He said the forty four
entries on the chart range from May twenty eight, twenty one,
to August twenty twenty four, and the only woman's name
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on the chart is Jane, one of the accusers in
the case. He said, before accuser Cassie Venture's lawsuit was filed,
most of the locations were hotels. After her lawsuit was filed,
none of them were hotels. Churcello said that there were
three of these events. After Combs posted an Instagram video
on May nineteenth, twenty twenty four, Colmbs apologize for physically
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assaulting his then girlfriend Ventura, two days after CNN published
exclusive surveillance video from twenty sixteen in which Colmbs appeared
to grab shove dragon kicker appeared. No, that's what he did,
not appeared. Churcello testified that the charts do not include
every time Jane or Colmbs were at a particular location,
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but that these were the instances with documentation to support it.
And remember this comes on the back of what we
heard from the Lisa Penland and the other chart summary
expert that was on the stand last week. I forget
her name, but their job is to go through all
of this stuff and tie it all up and make
it digestible for the jury. Now, Churcello is talking about
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how we reviewed documents related to a hotel stay that
Sean Didy Combs had in Los Angeles in January of
twenty twenty three. Hotel record showed the room was reserved
under the name Joseph Chavez and included a three thousand,
seven hundred and fifty dollars charge for damage firm A
report from the hotel said that there were bodily fluids
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stained on the wood floor across the entire room and
on some of the furniture. Like, what bodily fluids stained
on the wood floor? How does that even happen? How
do you stain the.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Wood floor with your bodily fluids?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Like I can understand staining the carpet, but the wood
floor seems like a whole lot of bodily fluids on
the floor for quite a long time. The evidence chart
referenced some of Colms text messages with Jane, one of
his accusers who was using a pseudonym, and the trial.
The messages showed that the two were coordinating the arrival
of three men at the hotel. One of those men
(25:39):
deposited fifteen hundred dollars cash at ATMs in Los Angeles.
In the days following the hotel reservation, the jury saw
a message Comb sent to Jane telling her to send
eleven hundred to cowboys for angels and escort service, four
flights and an overnight rate. Records in the summary chart
reflect that Jane and Calms stayed at the London Hotel
(26:01):
in Los Angeles in April of twenty twenty three. Text
between Combs and an entertainer documented in the chart suggested
the entertainer join them at the hotel, and again showing
that Diddy was the one telling Jane.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
What to do.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And you can dispute it all you want, but the
evidence is what it is. And we're not just talking
about testimony. We're talking about the undisputed messaging and the
forensic accounting that's been done very hard to dispute that
in fact, all you can really hope to do is
mitigate the fallout. After the hotel stay, Colmbs was charged
eighteen hundred dollars for damaged furniture in linen's. A security
(26:39):
incident report filed about the damage said there was linen
damage and smoking in the room. The report and part
said the room towels appeared to be soaked in baby
oil and baby oil is in the carpet as well.
Now the jury's being shown a note recovered from the
phone of Colmbs out of security Fihi Mohammed on April
twenty fifth, twenty twenty five or stating five thousand dollars
(27:02):
PD personal London. The jury is see evidence that Muhammad
kept track of some spending reimbursement for Comb's personal cash expenses.
And you're all call that Fihim Mohammed is Ditty's fixer.
I did a whole episode about Fihim Mohammad and people
like them and how they're utilized by people like Diddy,
And the best way to describe it is somebody like
(27:23):
Ray Donovan maybe or like the wolf from pulp fiction,
that kind of guy that's who Fihim Mohammad was in
the world of Diddy, and with that, the jury has
been dismissed for the day. Assistant US Attorney Marine Komy
said she hopes the government will arrest by the end
of the day.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
On Monday.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Joseph Charichello, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, will
continue testifying on direct examination Monday morning. Komy said she
will likely question the agent through the lunch break Monday,
and the defense will question them for the remainder of
the day. Defense attorney Mark Agnafilo said at this point
he believes the defense will rest Tuesday or Wednesday, even
(28:02):
shorter than we thought. So, folks, we're getting to it.
We are getting right down to it. And next week
Monday is going to be the last day of testimony,
at least as far as the prosecution's concerned. And then
you have the defense saying they're not going to take
very long to get things cracking. So we're coming right
up to it, and that train that's been barreling down
(28:23):
the tracks that we call the Sean Didty Combs trial
is about to arrive at its destination. The question is,
will Shan didyy Colmbs be a free man or will
he end up in prison for the rest of his life.
And while that's the burning question, it looks like it's
going to be answered sometime in the next couple of weeks,
(28:44):
and you already know we're going to be here every
step of the way as the government puts its final
touches on its case against Diddy. All of the information
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