Law&Crime Sidebar - 9 Disturbing Details of P. Diddy's 'Wild King Night' Parties Revealed in New Lawsuit
Episode Date: December 28, 2024A new bombshell lawsuit accuses Sean "Diddy" Combs of orchestrating drug-fueled parties and sexually coercing his former executive assistant to "prove his loyalty." Phillip Pines, who worked ...for Combs from 2019 to 2021, claims he was ordered to coordinate explicit events called "Wild King Nights," clean up afterward, and even scrub compromising videos from Combs' devices. Law&Crime's Jesse Weber breaks down the disturbing allegations in this latest filing.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW:Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SIDEBAR at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/sidebarHOST:Jesse Weber: https://twitter.com/jessecordweberLAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokeVideo Editing - Michael Deininger and Christina FalconeScript Writing & Producing - Savannah Williamson & Juliana BattagliaGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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setting up drug-fueled parties and even performing degrading acts to prove his loyalty to the music mogul.
We're going to break down these latest shocking details of alleged sexual coercion, abuse and manipulation,
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Well, it is another day, and it is another Diddy lawsuit.
Yep, this time from a man who says he was the former again.
executive assistant of the disgraced rapper and music producer. And he is accusing Diddy
of essentially sexual coercion, abuse, battery, sex trafficking, intentional infliction of emotional
distress. And it all stems, he says, from what happened at these lavish drug-fueled nights
called Wild King Nights. So this 32-page lawsuit, which was reviewed by multiple outlets,
including Rolling Stone, was apparently filed in Los Angeles by a man named Philip
Pines, who says he worked for Diddy from 2019 to 2021. So actually, more recent than some other
suits we've seen against Sean Combs that have been in the early 2000s or even in the 90s.
But according to reporting, in the suit, Pines is alleging a few different things here.
Now, before we even get into it, and there is a lot to get into, you might be wondering,
what the heck does that name mean? What are we talking about when we said, Wild King Knights?
while part of this lawsuit alleges that Pines had to prove his loyalty to Sean Combs,
who was dubbed the King, by performing sex acts for him, hence the name Wild King Nights.
The suit even reportedly says that Pines was treated, quote, like an animal playing fetch
in order to prove his loyalty.
And by the way, that is just one of the many disturbing details in this lawsuit.
So to help me break it down, I want to bring on friend of the show, defense attorney Mauricio Padilla,
who has been our go-to, as we've been covering, the Sean Combs saga.
I'm so good to see you. Thanks so much. Happy holidays.
Thank you. Thank you. Before we get into the specifics here, you know,
I feel like we're almost becoming numb to the lawsuit after the lawsuit, after the lawsuit.
And do all of the allegations against Combs so far that we've seen make the claims here,
these new claims, do you think it makes it more or less true? In other words, does the fact that a law
comes out in late 2024 as opposed to maybe at the beginning of the year or right after
he was arrested. But, you know, on the heels of all the allegations so far, how should we all
be thinking about yet another lawsuit again, Sean Combs? I think little by little, it's chipping
away at whatever he's got left as far as reputation wise. I mean, I think when I read it,
the biggest key factor for me is that we're talking about somebody that was under his employee
if that allegation is true. If this was actually somebody that was employed by him,
from 2019 to 2021, he's got a problem on his hands because it's not just a Jane Doe or John Doe or a random person.
This is someone that was, you know, in his circle, under his employee.
So the allegations are serious.
And as we've seen, could be foreshadowing testimony in the criminal case.
When I read this, I can't fathom that the prosecutors are going to want to talk to him or include them,
especially regarding the allegations of scrubbing his cell phone and other devices for evidence,
things of that nature that when you read it, it really, you know, it goes hand in hand with the
indictment. I want to get into that, especially the time frame, because let's keep this in mind,
prosecutors have alleged criminal conduct from 2008 to 2024. This would be right in that
time frame. So let's everybody keep that in mind. We'll talk more about it, but I have to get into
a little bit more of these allegations, starting with what Pine says he was in charge of doing for
these parties. What was his job? So one of the things Pine's alleges here is that he was responsible
for setting up these gatherings, which reportedly involved heavy usage of various illegal drugs
and alcohol and sexual paraphernalia.
And sometimes it would take place inside of Diddy's bedroom.
He says that Diddy instructed him to prepare spaces with these specific items.
Quote, plaintiff was instructed by Sean Combs on multiple occasions to ensure his personal bedroom
and or various hotel rooms were set up with red lights, ice buckets, alcohol, marijuana
of joints, honey packs for male libido, baby oil, astroglyde, towels, illegal drugs,
and I'm sorry to say this, power-banger sex machines. That's the way it's categorized.
Now, if you're unfamiliar, Astroglide is a lubricant, and also on that list allegedly was an erectile
dysfunction drug called Cialis and the morning after pill. So these party supplies, he says,
where it's kept in a bag called the MVP bag.
According to Rolling Stone, who says it reviewed a copy the lawsuit.
Pine says he couldn't just leave the supplies in the hallway and walk away.
No, he alleges he had to be let into the room, meaning he ended up seeing what was going on behind closed doors, so to speak.
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something very interesting here I want to talk about is that Pines makes mention the fact that
he was exposed to what was allegedly going on inside these rooms, that he couldn't just
drop the stuff off and leave. If those allegations are true, how does that impact the strength
of his claim, the strength of this lawsuit because allegedly he's a key eyewitness.
He's a key eyewitness and not only that, but he says that he was forced to look at the
videos that memorialize these parties and these events when he was scrubbing the videos off
of his phone. And he actually says that he was intimidated and threatened that if Sean
Combs family were to ever find the videos or images that he would never work in the industry again.
So not only was he live seeing the actual events that occurred,
but he was also referenced to have to look at the videos and images that were when he had to scrub the phone.
I mean, listen, this case is all encompassing to the point that P. Diddy has successfully vilified baby oil.
And if anybody thinks that that's not true, this, this Valentine's show up to your bedroom with a bottle of baby oil and see what your spouse says.
Wow.
They're not going to like it.
What is that?
What a year. What a year.
You know, one of the thing is, I mean, the thing that stuck out to me, you mentioned it before,
these allegations are so consistent with what the allegations are that are laid up by prosecutors
when they describe the freakoffs in their indictment, right?
These sex-fueled parties, these drug-fueled parties, the baby oil, the astroglide.
And it makes me wonder, A, do you think Mr. Pines is a cooperating witness for the government?
B, if so, do you think he was one of the people that they originally saw?
spoke to when they were coming up with this, when they were drafting the indictment and coming up
with the charges? Or do you think he's come out after? Because again, I think the timing of the
lawsuit's important to at the end of the year right now. Talk to me about what you think his role
might be. If I had to guess, I would figure that the feds already talked to him just because I know
from my experience dealing with them, how all encompassing their investigations are. And if he really was
his executive assistant from the time frame that they alleged in the lawsuit, I can't see a scenario
where they wouldn't. I mean, they investigate regular cases to the point that you're, you know,
that I'm shocked when I see it as a criminal defense attorney with late regular people.
When you're talking about a high profile celebrity case like this, I can't fathom that no one
spoke to this individual prior to this. So I would think that, yeah, I would think that they did
speak to him. And I can't imagine that he's not a witness because the way that they work is they want
everybody that can corroborate their theory of the case to be on their witness.
to be somebody that they could call.
And I can't think that if he actually was his assistant for this time frame, he would be an
excellent witness for them.
See, the problem is we don't know who the witnesses are in that criminal case yet.
I don't know when we're going to know, maybe closer to trial, but you have to imagine that
their case is built on more than just the testimony of one alleged victim, right?
Victim one in the indictment.
It has to be more.
And even if we assume victim one is Cassandra Ventura, Combs' ex-girlfriend who filed that initial
lawsuit against him recounted a lot of these details that are consistent with the indictment,
talking about the freakoffs and all this, it has to be more than just her.
So when I hear something like this, I will tell you, out of a lot of the lawsuits that I've
covered over the past several months, this is one of them, one of the few that I actually think
is the most consistent with what prosecutors are charging Sean Combs with, right?
Sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, transportation to engage in prostitution.
And it just makes me think that this is why he may play such a crucial role.
We could be wrong, though.
And it also talks about Sean Combs physically attacking gas, that he kicked somebody in the stomach, that he kicked somebody in the buttocks.
So it's really tying together the theory that the prosecution has put out there in their indictment.
And yeah, I mean, I believe that he is a witness.
I mean, he's really, it's really mimicking a lot of the same things that the federal government is saying that Sean Combs was up to during.
during this time period. And because the government says, you know, he had, it was a racketeering
conspiracy. It was a criminal enterprise. He had associates of his who would set up these events
and also clean up these events, which, by the way, let me get back to this lawsuit. Because Pine
says his role didn't just stop it preparing this. He also says he had to clean up these rooms
afterwards. And the cleanup is not any less disturbing, according to the lawsuit. Plaintiff would
remove any evidence of drugs, condoms, sex toys, remove bodily state.
like blood, urine, and fluids from any sheets, furniture, and pack away all the items
used during Wild King Nights.
And all of this cleanup, he says, was also part of a cover-up so that no one would suspect
anything was going on.
And that alleged cover-up also included leaving very large tips for the housekeeping staff
to essentially prevent them from reporting anything.
And going even further into the duties of his supposed cleanup, this also extended, as we
were talking about to wiping Diddy's personal devices of any evidence. According to the lawsuit
reviewed by Rolling Stone, plaintiff was further instructed to scrub Sean Combs' personal devices,
including but not limited to personal phones, laptops, tablets of any compromising videos. And by the way,
unfortunately in doing so, he says he was once again unwillingly exposed to the alleged conduct
that was occurring. In order to accomplish this unreasonable task, plaintiff would have to again
unwillingly see the video and then erase it. Okay, Maricio, let me ask you this. How does he prove
this? How does he prove all this happens? It's just his testimony. Will you try to subpoena
those people to come forward? How do you prove something was deleted? Talk to me.
Well, first of all, I can only imagine how sloppy Sean Combs was with evidence when he got
busted with those two machine guns or three machine guns with the altered serial numbers. So I really
don't trust Sean Combs or the people around him's ability to properly cover up anything.
So I envision that you're going to see a trial, payments from his Amex, for flights for people,
straight payments directly from his company to people.
And then the time frame is important because this happened in hotels, in places that
have surveillance, that there's records that could be consistent with his testimony about when
he alleges that these parties took place.
He probably has his own, his own information about who attended the events.
When you're somebody like Sean Combs and you're such a celebrity and you're engaged in this
type of behavior, people around you are memorializing it's on their own.
So I feel like this guy probably was creating his case prior to him even filing this lawsuit
back when it was happening.
Because when you're part of this and if this is true that he's, you know, threatening you
with the threat of being fired, with a threat of, you know, being ostracized in the industry,
he may have taken steps to memorialize this himself saying, you know what, I may have to defend
myself in the future, and I'm going to start keeping records of what's going on. So I wouldn't,
I wouldn't doubt it if we see something like that. Does it hurt or help him that, I'm talking about
Mr. Pines, that he could be seen as an active participant in this, that he was complicit in it.
Does it hurt his case? Does it hurt maybe if he takes the stand and testifies against Sean
Combs at a criminal trial.
I mean, listen, it's a double-edged short.
If it hurts or it helps, yeah, he was complicit.
He even admits in his lawsuit that he went as far as to start having sex with this
woman when, when Sean Combs forced him, but then he felt bad.
So a lot of people are going to be like, well, you felt, you felt bad about it,
but you got an erection and you started to have sex with her.
So how badly did you feel about it?
And I'm sure that his lawyers, Sean Combs' lawyers, are going to attack that.
Like, yeah, you were a willing participant.
You actually had sex with this woman.
You penetrated her.
And all of a sudden, years later, you want to back out and say,
I wasn't, you know, I wasn't a willing participant.
I, you know, I was forced.
And I think you're going to see that a lot in the criminal trial as well,
where people, they're going to be like, oh, all of a sudden,
Sean Combs flew you to a destination, paid you $20,000 to take part in an orgy,
gave you drugs, but you're the victim.
You're the victim.
You weren't, you know, you didn't want to do it.
And I think they were going to see that a lot.
Not only from Mr. Pines, from a lot of the witnesses that are going to come forward
in the actual case where Sean Combs' attorneys are going to be, you know,
labeling them as, you know, willing participants in something that is not illegal.
But the problem is, is that, you know, as we've discussed in before,
even if you were doing this on the regular since 2008, it's illegal.
And it's illegal to pay somebody to cross state lines to perform a sex act.
And it's illegal.
And it's illegal to cross state lines with drugs to have these orgies.
This stuff's illegal.
And the main, one of the main underlying themes in the indictment.
and I think you could argue here is the element of using fraud, force, or coercion to force people to engage in these alleged sex acts.
Because according to the review by Rolling Stone, Pine says if the devices, going back to the devices, for example, if the devices weren't wiped clean, he said there would be severe consequences.
Plaintiff was instructed that if any of Sean Combs' family sees the videos either on the personal device or cloud-based storage,
plaintiff would be terminated with negative comments so that he could never be in the entertainment
industry. That's something you mentioned, Maricio. And I think that's interesting, by the way,
on a side note, if that is true, why maybe in the face of all these allegations, his family has
stood by him, right? So if all of this is true, it does make, if all of this is true, and again,
Sean Combs has not been found guilty. He's not been found liable in any of these lawsuits.
But if all of this is true, it makes me wonder, did he compartmentalize his life and keep
it away from his family because they have been backing him. So let's start there. So what do you
think about that, Maricio? Well, I mean, listen, it seems to me from the lawsuit that I read involving
his son that he really wasn't compartmentalizing anything with his son because apparently his son
was involved in these in these parties, at least the one on the super yacht that that ended up
in a lawsuit. The issue is, I mean, when you're when you're Sean Combe's son and you're 20-something
years old, you know, and your dad isn't drawing, you know, drawing boldly defined last.
and what's acceptable and what's not, one can imagine that maybe his son was mimicking his father,
committing the same mistakes as his father. And that's a problem because, as we discussed before,
the federal government loves superseding indictments and they love to rope in your family members.
That may not be the issue in this case because they could lose the, you know, the battle of public opinion.
You know, people may be like, wow, they're going too far in indicting his son.
But that's something that I've seen a lot of my career.
and I think a lot of criminal defense attorneys have seen.
So far, what we've said in the indictment, has Mr. Pines committed a crime?
Why do I ask that?
Has he, you think he has been offered some sort of immunity to testify?
Again, assuming he would be a cooperating witness in a criminal case based on these allegations.
Has he done something illegal by wiping the devices, by paying off the house staff, by cleaning things up,
where he would be offered immunity to testify against Sean Combs?
I mean, maybe he could, maybe theoretically, he could be part of it.
of this sex trafficking operation or this racketeering operation. What's your thoughts?
Well, listen, anytime that from what I've read, if they wanted to say that he was part of the
conspiracy, they could because anybody that helps in furtherance of the conspiracy can be
roped into it. So if you were handing out drugs, if you were scrubbing devices, if you were, you
know, picking up sex workers at the airport and bringing them to the hotel, yeah, you're part
of it. So I would envision that if the government wanted him to testify, they would offer
immunity because you're right. Some of the things that he says could lead to, you know,
admissions of guilt and wrongdoing in the criminal sense. So I would envision that they that they
would offer him immunity. Interesting. Now, by the way, his responsibilities, you know, we talked about
him allegedly setting up and cleaning up these, you know, alleged escapades. But that is not where
the lawsuit ends. Marisa was talking about it before. There was a
another harrowing allegation of what could be considered sexual coercion in a very particularly
graphic revelation where Pine's claims that Diddy allegedly forced him to expose himself
to a female guest at Diddy's command to which Pine says he participated at a fear of consequences
and the way he says this played out according to the lawsuit began with Diddy allegedly
massaging him, forcing him to take a shot of tequila before pushing him into a female guest.
And remember how we mentioned that this was what the supposed meeting behind these wild king knights was?
Well, it's Rolling Stone who mentions that this appears in this lawsuit.
Combs was sexually rubbing the shoulder of the plaintiff Pimes informing him to show loyalty to the king.
And the next part is just graphic, but let me just say it involved Pines supposedly having sex with this female guest and then exposing himself to Combs as well.
And now after he says he went along with this because he was fearful.
He was fearful. And then he steps out of the room, apparently upset.
You know, Mariso, he's suing, my understanding, based on the reporting for a number of causes of action here, sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Does that apply to these circumstances, everything I've described so far?
Yeah, I mean, listen, intentional infliction of emotional distress based on what he's describing here is completely a count that could survive.
you know i mean uh everything that he's saying is the type of thing that it could be defended
but it's definitely something that that sean combs has to worry about civilly um and he also
they also sued his company so it's not only him it's bad boy records and it's uh a couple
of other uh companies that under under sean combs control um the the allegations
especially the ones that include violence are pretty alarming um
Listen, if I was going to cross-examining this guy, at the end of the day, he admits that he, you know, he penetrated this woman.
And if you penetrated somebody, you know, there's an issue of what were you aroused or not.
I mean, are you forced or not? Did you want to or not?
And when a man penetrates a woman, the argument is, and I'm sure this is going to come up in, in trial or in deposition, you know, you wanted to do it.
At least at some level, you, you know, you were erect and you, you, you penetrated herself.
Well, I mean, the other way is look, look, look, the other way, the other way flipping the narrative is like,
Look who I'm around. Look what I'm witnessing.
Look what he's doing.
And you mentioned it before.
Pines also alleges that he actually witnessed Combs kick a guest during a party,
that during a birthday celebration in Turks and Caicos, Combs didn't tell anybody he had COVID,
actually gave another person COVID, and Pines was instructed to keep quiet.
Again, we're talking about Sean Combs, not in 2024, but Sean Combs years ago,
who was at the height of his power, wealth, and fame.
I mean, that is something that is a kind of.
common theme throughout all these cases. And one of the reasons why you have seen a number of
these lawsuits come out after Sean Combs was either indicted or arrested, and particularly after
his bail was denied. So I think that was a big concept, too, is that he no longer can attack you
and he can no longer be a threat to you. That, at least, is the allegation put forward in one of
the reasonings that's been put forward by a number of his accusers. And by the way, let me just
go back to this. So while Diddy, of course, is at the center of these allegations, as Marisa
said in this lawsuit that was reviewed by Rolling Stone, he's named Combs Enterprises,
Bad Boy Entertainment, and a senior employee named Christina Corum. Now, Corum was mentioned
in a filing by music producer Rodney Jones. I want to talk about that for a second here,
because Christina's Corum is allegedly Sean Combs' right-hand woman. She's even been described
as a sort of Galane Maxwell-type figure to Combs. And we know, of course, that Maxwell is the
woman who is convicted of trafficking young girls on behalf of her boss, Jeffrey Epstein, or
her boyfriend or accomplice, whatever you want to call him.
Now, according to a complaint that we've talked about here before,
this was filed by Rodney Jones,
as the chief of staff defendant Corum was instrumental in organizing
and executing the RICO and TVPA Enterprises.
That's the sex trafficking enterprises.
And of course, we can't be totally sure what her alleged role is
in these Wild King Knights,
but that is just some background a little bit on Ms. Corum.
And Mauricio, I want to circle back with you on this,
because I do wonder, you know, Sean Combs is the only one being charged right now.
The government's been a little bit cagey about whether or not there's going to be a superseding
indictment.
Why do you think there hasn't been additional charges?
Do you think there would be charges against additional other people after Sean Combs' trial
in May, or do you think that is a situation where people are going to be cooperating with
the government and testifying against him?
I think it's the latter.
I think people are going to be cooperating with the government.
testifying against them. I see it all the time in regular cases. I don't see why that would change
in a case of this magnitude. And I believe that people around him must have been complicit. I think
that he felt that he was above the law. This is somebody that got Obama to pardon one of his best
friends that was in prison for drugs. This is somebody that actually thought that he was above the
law. So I can only think that, you know, think that, you know, he was sloppy in the way that he did these
crimes, that there's probably a trail of evidence, not only involving him, but everybody in his
circle that he would, you know, delegate these responsibilities to. And those people are when they're
faced with the reality of, hey, do you want to testify or do you want to, you know, do possibly
do time? I think we're going to see a lot of people testifying against them. And it's, again,
it's not that just even a power dynamic between an employer and employee. It's the power dynamic
between a Sean Combs as your employer and you as the employee. I think that's going to be a big
theme, as I mentioned before. Now, as for Sean Combs, we mentioned, he's facing federal
charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. He's pleaded not guilty to these charges. He's
presumed innocent until proven guilty. But Combs attorneys denied these allegations in this lawsuit,
saying in a statement to Rolling Stone magazine, no matter how many lawsuits are filed,
it won't change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone,
man or woman, adult or minor. We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason.
Unfortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth.
And Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail in court.
Real quick, Marisa, before we wrap this up, he is right.
He is innocent until proven guilty.
If he is acquitted in his criminal trial, what happens to the other lawsuits?
Do you think they still go forward?
Yeah, they go forward.
You're dealing with a different bar regarding, you know, whether it's reasonable doubt or
preponderance of the evidence.
You could be found in, you know, not guilty of a, of a current.
criminal case, but they could have more than enough evidence to convict you in a civil trial.
These civil guys are looking for money.
They're not going to stop no matter what, even if he's acquitted or not.
It's a completely different threshold.
And I don't see them stopping until they actually, you know, get money from it, which is what they want.
But do you think that these plaintiffs who, as I mentioned, it seems that they came forward,
particularly after Combs was arrested and now he's been denied bail, if he is acquitted and he is
released. Do you think that they'll still want to go after him? Well, listen, I think so because
their name's already in the media. They've already started, you know, this fight. That means if
he's acquitted and he's out and you're fearful of, you know, retribution, you're still on his
hitless no matter what just because you started. Might as well finish it and might as well try and get
your money. You know, these lawsuits cost money. So the lawyers are going to be, you know, on the hook
for everything that they put forward regarding costs. So they're going to want to generate revenue from
lawsuits. So I don't think they're going to stop it until they get money. All right,
Maricio Padilla, good seeing you. Thanks so much for coming on. Thanks, man. Thanks,
thanks. Thanks so much. All right, everybody, that's all we have for you right now here on
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