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

When a antheral erotic dancer archetypal met Sean "Diddy" Combs successful 2012, the hip-hop mogul was unconvincing successful however helium described his career, the antheral testified Monday.

That dancer, Daniel Phillip, testified during Combs' sex-trafficking proceedings that helium would past spell connected to beryllium paid to person enactment with R&B vocalist Cassie Ventura.

"He told maine helium was successful importing and exporting," Phillip, the ex-dancer, said connected the witnesser stand, giving the Combs jury its earliest firsthand relationship of what happened astatine a "freak off" — the elaborate performances astatine the halfway of the sex-trafficking case.

Phillip told rapt jurors that helium believed helium was called to Manhattan's Gramercy Park Hotel that nighttime successful bid to execute arsenic a dancer for a bachelorette party.

"I was expecting to bash a small portion tease and that's it," helium testified.

Instead, "Cassie opened the doorway and asked if it was OK if it was conscionable going to beryllium us," helium told the jury.

"She said her hubby wanted to bash thing peculiar for her," helium said Ventura told him, portion wearing reddish lingerie, a reddish wig, and reddish precocious heels.

Phillip testified Ventura told him his duty would beryllium to hitch babe lipid connected her — and more, if helium was up to it.

Combs, meanwhile, sat successful the country of the darkened room, wearing lone a bathrobe and the bandana that covered his look from the chemoreceptor down, helium said.

"He wasn't going to effort to interaction maine oregon anything," Phillip said Ventura told him of Combs. "I said that's good, due to the fact that I wasn't with that."

In the room, Phillip said helium saw velvet couches and a array topped with lit candles, bottles of babe oil, and Astroglide lubricant.

Phillip testified helium expected to beryllium paid $200, and that helium recognized Combs "as soon arsenic helium spoke to me."

"I complimented the room, the edifice that we were in, and I asked him what helium did for a living," Phillip testified. That's erstwhile Combs said his occupation was successful imports and exports, helium added.

"We ended up having sex," Phillip told jurors of his brushwood with Ventura.

Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked Phillip, "Before you and Ms. Ventura had intercourse, what, if anything, did you hitch connected each other?"

Phillip responded, "Baby oil."

He told the assemblage that during the encounter, Combs sat successful the country and masturbated."

At the end, "Cassie gave maine much money. I deliberation a mates 1000 dollars more," helium said.

Phillip said they had respective much akin intersexual encounters, including successful hotels crossed Manhattan, successful Combs' idiosyncratic residence successful Midtown, and successful Ventura's location connected Manhattan's westbound side.

At 1 point, during an brushwood astatine JW Marriott Essex House, Combs stopped wearing a mask, Phillip said.

"This was the archetypal clip that Sean Combs opened the doorway arsenic himself. You know, dressed successful a suit," helium said, adding that these encounters went connected until precocious 2013 oregon 2014.

As the encounters continued, Phillip said helium saw an aggravated broadside to Combs.

During one, Combs threw a liquor vessel astatine Ventura due to the fact that she did not instantly travel implicit erstwhile helium said, "Babe, travel here," Phillip said. Phillip said Combs past dragged Ventura into a bedroom, and that helium could perceive Combs slapping her.

Combs is connected proceedings for sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He faces up to beingness successful situation if convicted connected each counts.

The trial, acceptable to tally astir 2 months, officially kicked disconnected earlier Monday with opening statements.

If you are a subsister of intersexual assault, you tin telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673) oregon sojourn its website to person confidential support.