Legal professional Ariel Mitchell-Kidd has come ahead with extra explosive claims involving three A-list celebrities allegedly caught on tape in compromising, intimate conditions with disgraced rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The tapes are stated to be circulating on the underground black market.
Mitchell-Kidd, who’s representing one in all Combs’ accusers in a high-profile sexual assault case, dropped this bombshell throughout an interview with NewsNation’s visitor host Laura Ingle.
In response to the legal professional, these express tapes had been purportedly recorded at Combs’ residence, and a number of the people concerned had no data they had been being filmed.
The tapes, allegedly pornographic in nature, reportedly characteristic not solely Combs but additionally different high-profile celebrities, together with one particular person even “extra excessive profile” than the disgraced rapper himself.
The allegations surfaced as a part of an ongoing investigation into Combs, who’s at the moment dealing with critical fees, together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported that Mitchell-Kidd claimed to have seen nonetheless pictures from the tapes and confirmed their authenticity.
“I additionally was only in the near past contacted by somebody who wished me to primarily characterize them within the sale of one of many Diddy tapes, which I declined,” stated Ariel Mitchell-Kidd.
“Sure, there have already got been tapes leaking round Hollywood, being shopped round to people in Hollywood. However one specific particular person contacted me to buy a selected video they had been in possession of and to contact the one who was within the video to see in the event that they had been inquisitive about buying the video earlier than it grew to become public data,” she added.
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On Friday, Mitchell-Kidd claimed that a number of people approached her, claiming to own incriminating tapes that includes high-profile celebrities with disgraced music mogul Diddy.
“The people who contacted me presupposed to have three totally different tapes with three totally different celebrities, together with Diddy, after which a fourth celeb with out Diddy however in a compromising scenario with somebody,” the lawyer revealed throughout the interview.
“I can’t attest as to if or not they exist or not,” she stated, “I simply was advised initially that ‘they’ personal this treasure trove of movies, so I’ve to consider that there are numerous celebrities who know what they did.”
In response to the New York Post, a Division of Homeland Safety official, who took half in a raid on Combs’ Miami dwelling earlier this 12 months, steered that the footage obtained throughout the investigation contains “recognizable names” from the leisure trade. Whereas the official declined to disclose any identities, they did affirm that there’s a couple of celeb concerned, additional corroborating Mitchell-Kidd’s claims.
Partial transcript from the interview:
Laura Ingle: We all know that you’ve got seen the footage. You talked about that final week once you had been with us. As you realize who it’s, and I do know which you can’t inform us who it’s for all the explanations, proper?
However as you realize who it’s, and as we’re transferring by this story, and it is beginning to actually really feel prefer it’s unraveling, and you are feeling dangerous for the particular person, and we do not even know who it’s. Is there something extra you possibly can inform us about that a part of it?
Ariel Mitchell-Kidd: I actually do really feel dangerous concerning the particular person. A part of the rationale that I did come and say one thing, exterior of simply to guard my very own security, was to sound the alarm, primarily—deliver the canine whistle, if you’ll—to that person who possibly they need to do one thing about this earlier than it got here out. If I used to be them, I might do one thing about this.
And the one method to do something is to do the catch and kill. That is the one method to make sure that it would not come out. We’re taught that God helps those that assist themselves. So if we now have a scenario the place that particular person does have the chance to buy the video, if I had been them, I might completely buy the video.
Laura Ingle: Properly, do you suppose that is going to floor publicly? I imply, are we getting near that second?
Ariel Mitchell-Kidd: From what I am listening to, I believe so. I am listening to whispers that there’s no less than one main community, presumably two, in a bidding struggle for that footage.
So I consider we’re sooner slightly than later possibly discovering out, until that particular person comes and purchases the video themselves, which is admittedly the objective of the individuals who have the video. At this level, if that particular person would not wish to buy it, then it is going to go on the open market. Wow.
Laura Ingle: We have been listening to that this has been happening in Hollywood for a very very long time. That is simply the most recent, however that is such an enormous deal, clearly, for all of the individuals concerned.
Even when the intercourse was consensual, the footage was illegally obtained with out the topic’s data. So how is that this potential? How does the sale and the discharge of this work legally?
Ariel Mitchell-Kidd: I believe that is the difficulty right here. After studying The Publish article, it appears that evidently the particular person was not conscious that they had been being filmed. So, with that being stated, that brings in a secondary difficulty: if this particular person was not conscious, which is once more why the primary objective was to not take it to the open market. However then, that is a problem for the purchaser who finally ends up shopping for the video. That is their authorized downside to beat, not essentially the vendor’s downside.
