Miami ‘freak-offs’ and underage sex — lawsuits paint picture of Diddy’s world
MIAMI — The parties often took place in some of Miami’s most luxurious hotels: the Mandarin Oriental, with sweeping views of Biscayne Bay; the 1 Hotel, on the white sands Several lawsuits have been filed alleging that music producer Sean "Diddy" Combs hosted violent sex parties at lavish hotel rooms throughout the country, including in five-star hotels in Atlanta, New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The parties were so violent that the young women and men lured into attending them would vomit and pass out from being drugged, beaten and raped for hours on end. The lawsuits claim that Combs often filmed the encounters and instructed staff to change the lighting or bedding to enhance the presentation of the performers. At one party, one woman alleges Combs beat her and then dangled another woman over a hotel balcony. The alleged assaults were reported and Combs paid tens of thousands of dollars for damages and possession of any security footage captured by the hotels.
Published : 4 weeks ago by Julie K. Brown - Miami Herald (TNS) in Entertainment
But what is alleged to have happened in these lavish hotel rooms — not just in Miami, but also in five-star hotels in Atlanta, New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles — were sex parties so brutal that the young women and men lured into attending them would often vomit and pass out from being drugged, beaten and raped, sometimes for hours on end.
Several lawsuits filed over the past six months allege that flamboyant music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs called these self-styled bacchanals “Freak-Offs,” or “F.O.s” The gatherings were specially arranged for his hedonistic appetite — and according to the lawsuits — Combs often filmed the encounters as he directed his staff to change the lighting or bedding to better display the women and men who performed for him sexually.
At one of the hotel parties, she claims a drunken Combs beat her, then later, picked up one of the women in the hotel suite as if she were a child and dangled her over the 17th floor balcony of the unidentified hotel. There were other assaults at hotels around the country, according to the lawsuit, and Combs often paid the hotels tens of thousands of dollars for damages — and to take possession of any security footage that may have captured his violent behavior, the lawsuits claim.
“During some of the [Freak-Offs] Mr. Combs would become extremely intoxicated and would hit Ms. Ventura in front of the male sex workers,” the lawsuit claimed. She said the “F.O.s” were often so violent that she would vomit. And at other times, he forced her hide away at a hotel until her bruises healed, her suit alleges.
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