Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team filed to have evidence from raids of the “Act Bad” rapper’s homes to be suppressed ahead of his sex trafficking trial.
Combs’ attorneys claimed in documents filed in Manhattan federal court Sunday that the search warrant applications for their client’s Los Angeles and Miami homes, iCloud accounts, phones and hotel room were too broad, excluded facts that could have been favorable to him and “presented a grossly distorted picture of reality.”
“The probable cause statements were intentionally misleading,” the lawyers wrote in the filing obtained by Page Six.
“But it worked — the government got its warrants, leaked damaging information and then executed its military-style raids at Combs’ residences.”
Combs’ legal team said in the documents that the most obscene details listed in the search warrant came from “Producer-1,” whose claims they argued “were never credible.”
The court papers redacted what the unnamed producer told investigators, but the defense claimed he “had relayed stories about his time working for Combs.”
“The government eventually dropped these allegations in later warrants, but their lack of credibility was manifest from the outset,” the attorneys wrote. “And the government once again failed to disclose Producer-1’s financial incentive to fabricate and embellish.”
Combs’ lawyers said the government is not calling “Producer-1” to testify as a witness during the upcoming trial because “his stories are fantastical, and he lacks any credibility.”
The disgraced hip-hop mogul’s legal team also said the warrants were “unconstitutionally broad” and that his charges “reflect an extraordinary legal theory that Mr. Combs is himself an ‘enterprise’ and that his businesses, his household, his personal relationships and his sex life were all part of a criminal conspiracy.”
“The government essentially took the position that everything about his life is possible evidence of a crime. … The only limitation was that evidence had to be ‘related to the subject offenses’ — but because the theory was that his entire life was a racketeering enterprise, that was no limitation at all,” the docs read.
Homeland Security raided two of Combs’ homes in March 2024 in connection to a sex trafficking investigation.
During the searches, feds seized various supplies allegedly used at the Revolt co-founder’s sex parties, including narcotics, more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant and three AR-15 rifles.
Combs, 55, and members of his Combs Enterprise — including high-ranking supervisors, security staff, household staff and personal assistants — facilitated the “Freak Offs” that were allegedly filled with drugs, alcohol and sex.
Last September, the “I’ll Be Missing You” emcee was arrested by federal agents at the Park Hyatt hotel in New York City and charged with three counts: racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial is set to begin in May.
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