Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hosted a sex party at Donald Trump’s hotel in New York, a court was told yesterday.
It came as images were released for the first time showing the American rapper’s ex-girlfriend with injuries after he allegedly beat her.
An exotic dancer known as ‘The Punisher’ told the hip-hop mogul’s trial he was paid $2,000 to take part in a ‘Freak-Off’ with Combs and his then-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura.
Sharay Hayes, 51, said he poured baby oil all over himself and Ms Ventura during the ‘sexy scene’ at the Trump International Hotel in New York in 2012.
Combs, 55, watched the whole time and pleasured himself while wearing a veil to disguise his identity, Mr Hayes told jurors.
He said Ms Ventura told him it was her birthday and her partner had said she could hire a dancer for her and some friends.
But when he turned up at 2.30am, she was alone in the hotel room, the court in New York heard.
Mr Hayes – who explained that he had been given his Punisher nickname from playing basketball in his youth – said: ‘She explained her and her husband [boyfriend Combs] liked to create a sexy scene that consisted of me and her mutually applying baby oil to ourselves and each other and her husband would eventually come out to watch. Once she explained [this] she handed me a stack of money and instructed me to change into underwear or a towel. It was $800.’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hosted a sex party at Donald Trump ‘s hotel in New York, a court was told yesterday
It came as images were released for the first time showing the American rapper’s ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura with injuries after he allegedly beat her
Pictures were released showing R&B singer Ms Ventura with bruises to her eyebrow, back and thigh after Combs allegedly attacked her
Mr Hayes said he was told not to acknowledge Combs when he came into the room, which was dimly lit with electric candles and the furniture covered in sheets.
He put on a towel and went to the sofa while Ms Ventura sat opposite him. ‘I mimicked what she did. She got a bottle of baby oil and started pouring it on herself and I did similar,’ he said.
Combs entered the room. He was nude bar the veil covering his face while he performed a sex act, the court heard.
After 30 minutes, Ms Ventura and Combs went into a different room. Ms Ventura came back and gave him an additional $1,200 and he left.
Mr Hayes said he went on to participate in about ten more similar events. He eventually worked out the identities of Ms Ventura and Combs.
After a while, the encounters ‘escalated’ into sexual activity which Combs had directed, the court heard.
He said: ‘There was a time we were having sex and he dropped a stack of money on the bed. I said, ‘Are you OK?’ [He said] ‘I like this s***’. One other time he threw some condoms on the couch and said, ‘I’m ready to see you f*** her’, so that was an instruction too.’
The so-called ‘Freak-Offs’ lasted about four hours, with 25 to 45 minutes of sexual activity, and sometimes Mr Hayes was hired more than once in a weekend, he told the jury.
The rapper’s former assistant told the court that the rapper always travelled with a medicine bag that contained numerous pills
Ms Ventura’s mother Regina told the court that Combs once ordered her to pay him $20,000 when he found out her daughter had been seeing another rapper (pictured: court sketch of Sean Diddy Combs)
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He was paid either $1,200 or $2,000 each time.
Sometimes Ms Ventura would ‘sigh’ or ‘wince’ when Combs gave her instructions, Mr Hayes said.
‘That appeared to be a frustration with the frequency of the directions,’ he said.
Mr Hayes told the court he began his career as an exotic dancer in 1995. Jurors also heard yesterday from the rapper’s former assistant, who revealed how he often had to take Combs’s supplies to different hotels all over the world.
David James said the Trump International hotel in New York was the hip-hop star’s ‘favourite’. Mr James also told the court that the rapper always travelled with a medicine bag that contained about 30 pills, including some ‘in the shape of former President Obama’s face’.
Meanwhile, pictures were released showing R&B singer Ms Ventura with bruises to her eyebrow, back and thigh after Combs allegedly attacked her.
Earlier, Ms Ventura’s mother Regina told the court that Combs once ordered her to pay him $20,000 when he found out her daughter had been seeing another rapper.
She said that she sent him the money but it returned to her account a few days later.
The mother also said she had been ‘scared for my daughter’s safety’ after getting an email from her saying that Combs was threatening to release sex tapes featuring her.
Combs denies sex trafficking and other charges. He faces life in jail if convicted.
The trial continues.