Diddy Trial Texts Reveal Hotel Prep, Cleanup Drama
So here’s a slightly wild detour from your usual scroll: the Diddy trial just rolled out a cascade of text threads about Four Seasons reservations, baby oil runs, and extra towels that are somehow both mundane and eyebrow-raising. On day 24 of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial in Manhattan, a paralegal specialist from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Ananya Sankar, laid out the nitty-gritty of hotel planning for alleged “freak-offs.”
Sankar walked the jury through a December 2019 message chain between Kristina Khorram, Diddy’s former chief of staff, and Ryan Lopez, his ex-assistant. Lopez spotted “one of the cowboys”—a male escort—in a hotel lobby and pinged Khorram, who replied with four laughing emojis and asked, “how long is he going to stay awake?” Then came the audio bomb: a January 30, 2023 recording that included transcripts of Khorram coordinating with another assistant, Dave Shirley, about a Four Seasons outing. “Heads up, he’s about to do wild king tonight,” Khorram wrote, prompting Shirley to arrange cash pickups and say he needed “to reup on baby oil.” She even texted, “Ask them if they can bring up 15 bath towels.”
The excerpts kept rolling: texts on prepping flights and discreet cash drops for “Jane,” a pseudonymous former Diddy girlfriend who testified under shielded identity. Jane messaged Khorram that Diddy had threatened to leak sex tapes to her child’s father—a claim echoed earlier by Regina Ventura, mother of Cassie Ventura, another “freak-off” girlfriend (court testimony, May). Meanwhile, hotel staff previously testified that Diddy’s rooms often required extra cleanup after “excessive amounts of oil” and spilled candle wax, per a May witness statement.
All these details sketch a behind-the-velvet-rope look at how Diddy’s inner circle managed travel logistics and post-party cleanup concerns. Plus, before the jury reconvened Monday, Judge Arun Subramanian swapped out Juror Number 6 over residency discrepancies for a 57-year-old Westchester dad serving as the alternate.
This fractional peek into the trial’s digital breadcrumbs raises more questions than answers: how central were these “freak-off” arrangements to the broader racketeering claims? And will more intimate texts surface next? If this continues trending, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and TMZ.com, U.S. Attorney’s Office filings
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