Diddy told a male dancer who had sex with Cassie he worked in ‘importing and exporting,’ witness testifies

https://www.businessinsider.com/diddy-trial-male-dancer-cassie-ventura-sean-combs-testimony-2025-5?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-entertainment-sub-post

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  1. ***From Business Insider’s Jacob Shamsian, Natalie Musumeci, and Laura Italiano***:

    When a male erotic dancer first met [Sean “Diddy” Combs](https://www.businessinsider.com/diddys-career-life-fell-apart-one-year-2024-12) in 2012, the hip-hop mogul was unconvincing in how he described his career, the man testified Monday.

    That dancer, Daniel Phillip, told Combs’ sex-trafficking jury that he would then go on to be paid to have sex with R&B singer [Cassie Ventura](https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-diddy-combs-cassie-relationship-timeline-2023-11).

    “He told me he was in importing and exporting,” Phillip, the ex-dancer, said on the witness stand, giving the [Combs jury](https://www.businessinsider.com/diddy-trial-jury-selection-complete-meet-jurors-sean-combs-2025-5) its earliest firsthand account of what happened at a “freak off” — the elaborate performances at the center of the sex-trafficking case.

    Phillip told rapt jurors that he believed he was called to Manhattan’s Gramercy Park Hotel that night in order to perform as a dancer for a bachelorette party.

    “I was expecting to do a little strip tease and that’s it,” he testified.

    Instead, “Cassie opened the door and asked if it was OK if it was just going to be us,” he told the jury, describing her attire as red lingerie, red high heels, and a red wig.

    “She said her husband wanted to do something special for her,” he said Ventura told him.

    [Read more](https://www.businessinsider.com/diddy-trial-male-dancer-cassie-ventura-sean-combs-testimony-2025-5?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-entertainment-sub-post).

  2. This sounds like Caligula, the film, with even worse focus on consent.

  6. Did anyone read the article? The male dancer was a witness to Diddy hitting Cassie

  9. Thats fuckin sickening. I cant believed he fuckn pimped her out. I am so sorry for her man smh

  10. “Several jurors smiled when Phillip described what he called the few encounters where he agreed to take drugs.”

    Umm. What?

  11. So at what point was he decide that he no longer wants to see him? By no means does that warrant him being victimized or hurt, and Diddy is guilty as ever, but when does someone stop willfully CONTINUING to attend these parties for $…. I mean cmon.

    You saw him on multiple occasions, you knew it was odd… although the male stripper deserves no harm, call a spade a spade. You were rather willfully complacent in all of this…

  13. Just imagine if they could compel testimony from Ellen DeGeneres, Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher and dozens other celebrities.

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