Attorneys representing rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs have claimed that federal investigators (posing as prison guards) searched his cell for new evidence.
This situation arises as new allegations are set to be made against Diddy in a documentary next week.
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These include accusations from Danyel Smith, the former editor-in-chief of Vibe Magazine, who asserts that Diddy threatened to k!ll her.
Smith spoke about her alleged experience in the upcoming Investigation Discovery docuseries, ‘The Fall of Diddy’.
She claims that Diddy became enraged when she refused to show him an early preview of a magazine cover featuring him.
After Smith turned down the request, she stated that Diddy “said he’d see me dead in a trunk if I didn’t show it to him.”
She mentioned that Diddy only apologized after she threatened to involve law enforcement, however, she added that in the days before, “he had come up to the Vibe offices with two tough guys, looking for me.”
Smith continued to collaborate with Diddy on many occasions over the next decades.
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She expressed in the upcoming documentary that while she tried to be “cordial” with him – a choice she now seems to regret, saying: “It’s very hard not to feel complicit – I wish that things were different.”
His attorneys criticized the soon-to-be-released documentary in a statement to People, claiming that the various documentaries and shows (which have appeared since his arrest in September) are ‘rushing to cash in on the media circus’ surrounding his case.
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Diddy’s lawyer also made claims about federal agents searching his jail cell; they alleged that the search was ordered by supervisors from the Southern District of New York, who are prosecuting the rap mogul.
They stated in a filing (obtained by DailyMail.com) that the search of his cell and the seizure of his belongings were ‘illegal’ (including ‘privileged notes’).
However, this has raised many questions about the legality of the actions taken. Although there are many opinions on the matter, it remains a complicated situation.
The search was ‘for evidence, not contraband’, the filing claims, ‘and it is clear the purpose was to gather evidence for the prosecution, not police any potential threats to (the jail’s) security.’
‘Mr. Combs has never received so much as a write-up in his four months in BOP custody, despite the government’s constant decries of his alleged obstruction from MDC and supposed violation of policy,’ the filing read.
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The investigator who searched his cell was ‘an agent of the prosecution team’ who ‘admits he listened to Mr. Combs’s calls, including with his counsel, and all those recordings, including the ones with attorneys, were furnished to the U.S. Attorneys’ Office’, it is alleged.
