Diddy's alleged 'drug mule' takes the stand with immunity deal; trial reveals dark secrets

Jurors successful Sean "Diddy" Combs' national proceedings volition perceive from a adjacent state of the rapper erstwhile erstwhile Syracuse hoops subordinate Brendan Paul takes the basal Friday.

Paul became embroiled successful Diddy's ineligible play successful April 2024, aft helium was named successful a suit filed by Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones against the disgraced mogul. The euphony shaper claimed Paul worked arsenic a "mule" for Combs, procuring and distributing "drugs and guns." The erstwhile assemblage hoops prima was past charged with felony cocaine possession, which was aboriginal dropped.

Paul was fixed immunity successful speech for his grounds successful Diddy's national enactment trafficking and racketeering trial. 

Nicole Blank Becker explained that Paul whitethorn beryllium a important witnesser to the authorities arsenic it attempts to necktie up escaped ends and wrapper its lawsuit against Diddy.

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Sean "Diddy" Combs' alleged cause mule, Brendan Paul, is expected to attest Friday. (Getty Images)

"In this peculiar case, wherefore [Brendan Paul] whitethorn beryllium important is due to the fact that helium is allegedly 1 of the individuals who supplied the drugs," Becker told Fox News Digital. "The organisation of drugs, giving different radical drugs to marque them intoxicated and perchance bash much than they would bash had they not been intoxicated – that's a predicate felony.

"In different words, successful bid to beryllium this peculiar complaint of racketeering, there's got to beryllium a fig of different felonies that they tin connect," the lawyer said. "Whether it's the coercion of women and/or they indicated astir however ... [Diddy] brought [escorts] in. That's 1 mode to beryllium a predicate. You person to beryllium 2 of them. So, different mode to beryllium a predicate felony is bring successful the feline who supposedly is the 1 who was supplying P. Diddy and oregon his radical with what [the authorities is] gonna say, the drugs that helium utilized [on others.]"

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Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy (RICO); enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution successful a national indictment unsealed Sept. 17. 

Throughout 2 weeks of testimony, jurors heard allegations of "freak off" parties involving antheral escorts and Diddy's ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. The "Me & U" vocalist testified that drugs, including ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine, were successful regular circulation during the "freak offs" for her to disassociate during the sessions.

Cassie admitted ecstasy made her consciousness euphoric and aroused, portion ketamine would marque her dissociative. She said cocaine made her bosom race, mushrooms made her spot things and GHB, besides known arsenic the day rape drug, made her consciousness drunk.

Another ex, who testified nether the pseudonym "Jane," told prosecutors determination were times she felt coerced into edifice nights with Diddy and that the Bad Boy Records laminitis inactive pays for some her ineligible fees and rent. 

Diddy's alleged cause mule, Brendan Paul, appeared successful tribunal to attest successful the rapper's trial. (John Lamparski)

Brendan Paul was pictured successful grounds submitted for Sean "Diddy" Combs' national indictment. (United States Federal Court Southern District New York)

Jane recalled alleged instances of maltreatment portion dating Diddy connected and disconnected for 3 years and up until the week earlier helium was arrested successful New York City connected national charges. Jane told the court Diddy asked her astir coercion aft helium allegedly forced her to instrumentality drugs earlier having enactment with a antheral escort. She testified astir Diddy's alleged convulsive behaviour and said helium erstwhile enactment her successful a chokehold aft kicking and punching her.

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Diddy's transgression defence lawyer, Teny Geragos, questioned Jane astir her narration with the rapper and her information successful the allegedly forced "hotel nights."

Diddy paid Jane's rent done their "love contract," according to her testimony. The ex-girlfriend told the prosecution she felt obligated to execute astatine "hotel nights" for the rapper due to the fact that helium had threatened to halt paying for her home. For "hotel nights," Jane claimed she was expected to formal successful lingerie and person enactment with different men successful beforehand of the rapper.

Audio released successful Diddy's enactment trafficking and racketeering proceedings featured the rapper calling Jane a "crack pipe." Jane claimed she was forced to proceed having enactment with aggregate antheral escorts aft becoming sick.

Cassie Ventura wiped distant tears portion testifying against Diddy. (Jane Rosenberg)

Audio released successful Diddy's enactment trafficking and racketeering proceedings featured the rapper calling his Jane a "crack pipe." (Jane Rosenberg)

Becker, who works arsenic R. Kelly's defence attorney, explained wherefore the authorities mightiness connection immunity to witnesses the authorities wants to testify. In Diddy's enactment trafficking case, Paul was the 5th witnesser granted immunity.

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"It is precise common, particularly successful national cases, that immunity is fixed to witnesses if they person the accusation oregon the penetration that they request for their case," Becker said. "Oftentimes, those individuals who are fixed immunity, though they whitethorn person crimes that they are either facing oregon faced, they're usually a batch little successful the hierarchy of crimes. 

"They're usually little crimes successful which the authorities says, 'You cognize what, this accusation that this peculiar idiosyncratic has is truthful important that we are consenting to forego immoderate you've got going connected successful the transgression conception oregon part present present truthful that we tin person you attest successful this bigger case.'

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"Their goal, i.e. the government, is to get successful arsenic overmuch imaginable accusation from anybody who knows anything."

Nearly six weeks aft the proceedings began, prosecutors indicated they'd remainder their lawsuit by Friday. The rapper's ineligible squad precocious told Judge Arun Subramanian it volition request betwixt 2 and 5 days to contiguous its case, a stark opposition to its archetypal petition of up to 2 weeks with witnesses connected the stand.

Becker noted determination were a batch of questions whether the authorities was "actually proving thing specific" to the charges Diddy faced. 

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"Yes, determination was domestic violence. Yes, determination was immoderate … relationships and carnal unit happening, but does that emergence to the level of what he's really charged with successful the national court?" Becker said. "I deliberation astatine the opening determination were question marks everywhere. However, I deliberation arsenic clip goes on, what does the authorities do? 

"They conscionable propulsion up witnesser aft witness. Although those idiosyncratic witnesses person their ain story, unneurotic they signifier what they are trying to form, which is this measurement beneath P. Diddy, who's up here. And these individuals, each idiosyncratic individual has a relation successful what they're calling the enterprise." 

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Becker said this was the transportation the authorities was attempting to beryllium to the 12 jurors.

Diddy was arrested and charged with aggregate counts successful September. (Shareif Ziyadat)

"In a vacuum, if we conscionable had the archetypal witnesser oregon we conscionable had Jane, who conscionable testified, people, I think, would beryllium a small confused, like, ‘Wait a minute.’ Maybe telephone him a atrocious boyfriend, a atrocious person, a atrocious hubby for sure, based connected what we see, for example, successful the video," Becker said. "But does that emergence to the level that the authorities needs to get to successful bid for an eventual verdict of guilty?

"I think, similar I said, astatine the beginning, it was a small shaky. However, arsenic clip goes on, they are capable to enactment successful their antithetic witnesses and truly signifier what they're trying to shape, which is to basically, you know, this complaint of RICO successful the United States. This has not, it was not initially made for purposes of the mode it's being utilized now."