Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex trafficking trial: Wild messages in music mogul’s bathroom mirror

A New York court has been shown pictures of messages scrawled across Sean Combs’ bathroom mirror during his sex trafficking trial.

A New York court has been shown the bizarre messages scrawled across a bathroom mirror in Sean “Diddy” Combs mansion, which were found during a raid by federal agents.

Authorities also found a wealth of drugs stashed around the music star’s home, firearm parts and high-heeled shoes. One closet alone contained more than 50 bottles of baby oil and lube.

Combs is on trial in Manhattan on federal charges which include sex trafficking and racketeering. He has denied all the charges.

The court in Wednesday, US time, also heard from a psychologist who is a regular at celebrity trials including for Amber Heard in her 2022 case against Johnny Depp.

On Wednesday, Special Agent Gerard Gannon testified about a March 2024 raid that took place at Combs mansion on Star Island, a Miami Beach enclave known for the homes of the stars.

As many as 90 agents searched the waterfront property, which was done when they knew Combs and his family were away.

The government lawyers prosecuting Combs detailed the drugs found in various boxes and wash bags in the property – one contained in a container which had the word “Puffy” embossed upon it.

Those drugs include ecstasy tablets with the Tesla and Supreme logos printed on them, other pills containing MDMA, tablets with a substance similar to Xanax as well as ketamine and cocaine.

A picture of Combs' hotel room was shown in court.

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The disassembled parts of various guns were also found including magazines and bullets.

Mr Gannon said one closet contained 56 bottles of lubricant and baby oil.

He was asked if they were the only bottles of lube and baby oil found in the building.

“No they were not,” he said to laughs from the courtroom.

At one point, a picture was shown of a bathroom in the home.

The mirror was full of messages possibly scrawled in red lipstick and black texter.

“What do you want?” said one message on the mirror.

“You a legend”, said another.

“You’re an icon Puff Daddy” was also seen.

It’s unclear who wrote the messages.

On Wednesday, the court also heard from clinical and forensic psychologist Dawn Hughes.

She has appeared for Amber Heard in her defamation trial against Johnny Depp and she is due to give testimony in the upcoming trial of Harvey Weinstein.

Ms Hughes said people often remained in abusive relationships due to “trauma bonds”. Abusers could “love bomb” partners after they victimise them. And financially they can control their victim’s live making it harder for them to leave.

A court sketch of Combs. Picture: Elizabeth Williams via AP

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Meanwhile, rapper and actor Kid Cudi is expected to testify at the sex trafficking trial, taking the witness stand later this week to tell the jury about his brief relationship 14 years ago with Combs’ ex-girlfriend, the R & B singer Cassie.

Cassie testified last week that Combs was enraged when she left him for a period of time in 2011 and began dating Cudi, whose legal name is Scott Mescudi.

She said Combs left a large bruise on her back where he kicked her as she left his Los Angeles home for the last time that year.

Prosecutors have contended in court filings that Combs was so upset that he arranged to have Cudi’s convertible firebombed.

A prosecutor said at the end of Tuesday’s court session that Mescudi will be the third witness after the federal agent finishes testifying about what investigators found last year when they raided Combs’ home in Florida.

Combs was said to be enraged when his ex-girlfriend left him and began dating Kid Cudi. Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File

Cudi at the Met Gala in 2022. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue

His lawyers say evidence in the case reflects domestic violence, not anything amounting to a criminal racket or sex trafficking.

Cassie testified last week that Combs arranged for her to meet Cudi several times in 2011 to work on music.

She said her relationship with Cudi began late in the year and she got a burner phone so the two could communicate without Combs learning about it.

Cassie said she and Combs had broken up at the time, although they still engaged in so-called “freak-offs” that involved sexual performances with male escorts that Combs watched and sometimes participated in.

It was during one of those “freak-offs” that Combs picked up her regular phone and noticed communications that revealed Cassie was seeing Cudi, Cassie said.

On Tuesday, Cassie’s mother, Regina Ventura, testified that she received an email in December 2011 from Cassie saying that Combs was so angry about her relationship with Cudi that he planned to release sexually explicit videos of her and send someone to hurt Cassie and Cudi.

Regina Ventura, mother of Cassie Ventura, testified earlier this week. Picture: John Lamparski/Getty Images/AFP

Afterwards, Regina Ventura said she received a demand from Combs for $20,000. Scared for her daughter’s safety, she went to the bank and sent Combs the money, only to have it returned by Combs days later.

Cassie testified that Cudi came to visit her at her mother’s Connecticut home around Christmas in 2011 and stayed for three or four days. She said she broke up with him.

“It was just too much,” she said. “Too much danger, too much uncertainty of, like, what could happen if we continued to see each other.”

Cassie said she told her family she was going to Los Angeles after the holidays to “get to work.”

But instead, she said, she travelled after New Year’s to meet Combs in Arizona, where he had gone to visit a college with his son. They resumed their relationship.

When Cassie and Combs were out of the country, Combs told her that Cudi’s car would be blown up and Combs wanted Cudi’s friends there to see it, Cassie said.

– with the New York Post

Originally published as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex trafficking trial: Wild messages in music mogul’s bathroom mirror