During Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ongoing federal trial, former President Barack Obama was oddly mentioned in bombshell testimony regarding drug use during the rapper’s notorious “freak off” parties.
David James, Diddy’s former personal assistant, testified on Tuesday that celebrities would take ecstasy and Percocet at the parties.
He claimed that celebrities would celebrate with “various pills in the shape of the former president’s face,” but he did not claim that Obama was ever present at the events, according to the court.
James made the allegation that Diddy would use narcotics excessively throughout the day and frequently travelled with a medication bag filled with dozens of tablets.
“Some advil, tylenol,” he said. “He had water pills to help him lose weight, viagra, pills that helped increase his sperm count.”
According to James, Diddy would take Percocets during the day and ecstasy at night as part of his regular drug regimen.
During his testimony on Tuesday, the former personal assistant broke down in tears as he talked about his time working for Diddy and how he was frequently told to arrange the “freak off” s*xual performance sessions.
He said that Diddy filmed one of the parties where he was in ecstasy and threatened to use the footage as blackmail to embarrass him.
James broke down in tears as he recalled that an official at Bad Boy Entertainment told him his goal was to please Diddy when he initially started working for him.
“I remember sitting at her desk and there was a picture of Mr Combs on the wall,” James told the court.
“She pointed at the wall and said this is Mr. Combs kingdom. We’re all here to serve him.”
Key witnesses on the stand had named a number of other celebrities, who were then dragged into the current federal prosecution.
Dawn Richards, Cassie Ventura’s former closest friend and a former member of the girl group Danity Kane, which was signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy Records company, also gave Usher a dramatic name.
Usher was at a star-studded dinner when the disgraced rap mogul attacked Cassie Ventura in a restaurant, according to Richards’ testimony.
The singer allegedly got into a confrontation with Diddy, Cassie, rapper Ne-Yo, and Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records, at a dinner in 2010.
Richards claims that after the couple relocated to a different room at the restaurant, Diddy “punched Cassie in the stomach.”
She did not specify whether the other celebrities present witnessed the punch firsthand, but she claimed to have witnessed Cassie “immediately bend over” after taking the hit and that “no one intervened.”
Richards stated After telling Cassie to “leave” the restaurant, Diddy allegedly grabbed her “by the neck and popped her, slapped her in the mouth” as they were leaving.
Richards claimed in her evidence on Monday that she frequently witnessed Diddy beating Cassie during the years she worked with him in the early 2000s.
“He would punch her, choke her, drag her, slap her in the mouth,” she said.
In her earlier testimony on Friday, the singer claimed to have seen Diddy beat Cassie with a skillet of eggs in 2009.
After the attack, she claimed, Diddy betrayed his partner and threatened to have her vanish if she betrayed him.
“He said you could go missing, that we could die,” she testified.
Combs has entered a not guilty plea to federal accusations of s*x trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for prostitution.
