Diddy Wants New Trial I’m Just a Voyeur & Amateur Pornographer … Mann Act Doesn’t Apply to Me!!!
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Diddy wants his conviction on 2 counts of the Mann Act overturned, and if not, he’s demanding a whole new trial on those charges … according to new docs filed late Wednesday night.
It’s pretty stunning, but in the docs, obtained by TMZ, Diddy and his defense team make the case for Judge Arun Subramanian changing the Mann Act conviction to an acquittal. Here’s why … the Mann Act involves transporting someone across state lines for the purpose of sex.
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But, Diddy’s team says they believe he’s the only person ever convicted under this statute who did not make money off prostitution, did not have sex with an alleged prostitute and did not arrange the prostitute’s transportation.
Translation: he’s done none of the things spelled out in the Mann Act. Remember, during the trial, none of the sex workers, nor Cassie Ventura or “Jane” testified Diddy engaged in sex with the sex workers. They all said he was either watching and/or recording the freak-off sessions as the women had sex with the hired guns.
Testimony also revealed it was typically the women, not Diddy, who made all the arrangements — travel, compensation and hotels — for the sex workers involved in the freak-offs.
Further, they say Diddy’s sexual involvement was basically voyeurism, and they point out “multiple state courts have held that paying for voyeurism — to watch other people have sex — is not prostitution.”
Now, Diddy also says the male sex workers they hired were not only consenting, but they “enjoyed the activities and had friendships with [Cassie and “Jane”] and were not merely traveling to have sex for money.”
In other words … they were all good buddies. We’re not sure how much of a difference that will make, legally speaking, but there it is.
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Finally, Diddy says the freak-offs were protected under the First Amendment, because they were recording, or as they put it in the docs … “producing amateur pornography for later private viewing.”
Now, if the court does not overturn his Mann Act convictions — counts 3 and 5 in the federal indictment — Diddy’s defense says he deserves a new trial, where only evidence related to those counts is admitted. Specifically, his lawyers say that would exclude the Cassie beating video.
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According to the docs, that evidence was only admitted in his trial because of the RICO and sex trafficking charges — of which he’s been acquitted — and if Diddy were only facing the Mann Act charges, the infamous Intercontinental Hotel footage wouldn’t be relevant … and would only be “unfairly prejudicial.”
Diddy’s legal power move here comes on the heels of TMZ breaking the story … President Trump is already considering a pardon for Diddy, and could make a decision as soon as the judge makes a decision on Diddy’s latest motion to be released on bail ahead of his October sentencing.
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What’s clear now is … Diddy not only wants his freedom, but he wants it with a clean legal slate.
Tara Reid Guzzles Wine In Hotel Bar Video … Chummy With Smoking Buddy
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Tara Reidwas slugging wine at the hotel bar where she claims she was drugged … and she looked pretty chummy with the man whom she pointed out in a police report.
TMZ obtained the surveillance video from the Chicago-area hotel where Tara claims someone slipped something in her drink that made her black out and wake up in a hospital bed … and all you see in the video is Tara guzzling wine at the bar and talking to folks.
At first, she’s sitting at the bar with a glass of wine, surrounded by four men. She’s wearing a coat and beanie, and her purse is on the bar. It looks like two different bartenders bring over a glass of wine, and she slugs them both. Tara had said she only had one drink.
Tara leaves the bar and appears to have a wine glass in hand. She appears to gesture to some folks that she’s leaving.
Later, she’s back at the bar without her coat, sitting in a different area. She’s still drinking from a wine glass and when she finishes, she puts it down and touches the arm of the man sitting next to her. The man is Sean P, the YouTuber she named in the police report.
Sean says Tara accused him of slipping a roofie into her drink, which he denies.
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We broke the story … Tara was taken out of the hotel on a stretcher, loaded into an ambulance and driven to a hospital. She says she left her drink unattended at the bar and believes she was drugged.
Cops say there’s nothing in the video to back up Tara’s allegation that someone slipped a drug in her drink.
The surveillance footage from the hotel also shows new angles of Tara being taken into the ambulance by stretcher and driven away.
In 911 audio from the incident, Tara is heard slurring her words and sounds intoxicated.
Tara has told us she believes blood tests were done at the hospital, and was still waiting to get results.
Cops have told us they’re still waiting to get any medical records from Tara’s hospital stay “to confirm if tests were done, and if they were, if anything was in her system.” As of now, police say they don’t have evidence of a crime.
January Jones Celebrates Annoying Brother-in-Law’s Bday… By Not Killing Him!!!
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If January Jones ever lets her intrusive thoughts win, she could end up on trial for murder … at least according to a video she posted, joking about what she might do to her brother-in-law if he doesn’t stop annoying her.
In the Instagram video, the Emmy-nominated actress explained she’s had misophonia for as long as she can remember, and it’s gotten “progressively worse” over the years.
The condition causes one to feel anxiety or disgust at sounds like chewing or tapping.
And what’s not making it better is her brother-in-law, whose favorite food is chips. She says he crunches on them all the time, even after she’s talked to him about it.
She said, “He seems to think it’s funny to eat chips around me now. It’s like an ongoing joke to see what happens — to see what I do.”
Well … he might FAFO. She playfully called it “very dangerous for him,” saying, “What I didn’t do today was record this video inside a prison,” because of her restraint.
She joked that she’s imagined many ways to do “it” — “it” ostensibly being murder in the first degree.
This was all in good fun, of course, as JJ said her brother-in-law is an otherwise nice guy, and wished him a happy birthday.
Happy birthday, unnamed brother-in-law! But maybe sleep with one eye open!