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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Diddy Jury Chaos: Baby Oil, Shoplifting & the “Freak-Off” Defense

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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How do you find twelve impartial jurors for one of the most famous men in America — when the allegations involve baby oil, male escorts, and something called a “freak-off”? In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down Day 1 of jury selection in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial — where potential jurors confessed to liking viral jokes about baby oil, stealing from Harry Potter World, and working for HBO… the same network producing a documentary about the case.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley Banfield and I got a

0:11.3

question for you. You ready? How would you like it? If you were asked to stand up in front of a

0:18.7

room full of strangers and answer a whole bunch of questions

0:22.0

about SEX. And while you're at it, answer some questions about drugs and threesomes and, you know,

0:29.4

the kind of things that no one likes to talk about in public. Well, dozens and dozens of New Yorkers

0:35.3

who had other places to be today instead found themselves at the federal courthouse in Manhattan

0:41.2

because they got served with jury duty.

0:44.8

And the jury they may have to sit on is Puff Daddies,

0:48.9

aka P. Diddy, aka Sean Combs,

0:53.3

aka Diddy. And it isbs, aka Diddy.

0:54.7

And it is a federal trial, folks.

0:57.2

It's a federal case.

0:58.7

So because the evidence deals with, you know, unmentionable stuff that usually happens in the bedroom, but of course can happen kind of anywhere, the jury had to check out, right?

1:10.5

They had to check out. And there's going to be

1:12.0

a lot of embarrassing stuff brought up in this trial. I mean, freakoffs were as freaky as they

1:18.4

get. And some people are, let's face it, prudes, aka not cool with this kind of behavior.

1:25.3

So the voir dire today was unlike any other. And if you don't know

1:30.1

what voir dire is, it is the process whereby the court asks a lot of questions about prospective jurors

1:37.1

to get a feel for whether they can be unbiased in the case. And to that end, how do you find 12 fair and impartial jurors where the accused

1:48.4

is one of the most famous bad boys on the planet? The world famous music mogul Diddy.

1:55.9

The federal prosecutors in New York say that between 2004 and 2024, a 20-year-long conspiracy, Diddy abused and threatened

2:06.7

and coerced women into drug-fueled sex acts, often at parties he called free coughs,

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