Sean “Diddy” Combs: Did he pay $ 100,000 for the hotel video?

In the trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs (55), the surveillance video from a hotel was once again spoken, which shows how the rapper attacks its ex-partner in 2016. An employee claims that Combs paid $ 100,000 to get the material.

After months of serious accusations of sexual abuse to human trafficking published in May 2024. The recordings showed how Combs attacked his then girlfriend Cassie Ventura (38) in a hotel in 2016. The rapper apologized in an Instagram video that was deleted later. In September, the hip-hop mogul was finally arrested due to suspected sex crimes and has been in custody since then. He has been on trial since the beginning of May for sex trade, blackmail and promotion of prostitution.

Now a hotel employee of the hotel has that the rapper once paid him and his colleagues $ 100,000 for the surveillance video. Eddy Garcia had been contacted several times by Combs: “He said that I heard myself like a good guy, that I sounded as if I wanted to help and that something like that could ruin it.”

After Garcia first told the rapper that he had no access to the video, he later contacted Combs and explained to him that his supervisor would be willing to delete the material for $ 50,000. “Eddie, my angel, I knew that you would be able to help,” said Combs’ answer. The next day he personally met the rapper, handed over a USB stick and told him that it was the only copy. He should also sign confidentiality agreements.

During the statement, Garcia further explained that Combs finally paid $ 100,000: $ 50,000 therefore went to Garcia’s superiors, $ 20,000 to a colleague involved and $ 30,000 to himself.

Ventura has already testified against Combs on several trial days. In court, she traced a relationship characterized by violence and manipulation for years. According to her statement, she did not fight back in the hotel at the time, otherwise Combs would probably have become “even more violent”.