Diddy Advised Male Dancer He Labored in ‘Importing and Exporting’: Witness

When a male erotic dancer first met Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2012, the hip-hop mogul was unconvincing in how he described his profession, the person testified Monday.

That dancer, Daniel Phillip, informed Combs’ sex-trafficking jury that he would then go on to be paid to have intercourse with R&B singer Cassie Ventura.

“He informed me he was in importing and exporting,” Phillip, the ex-dancer, stated on the witness stand, giving the Combs jury its earliest firsthand account of what occurred at a “freak off” — the frilly performances on the heart of the sex-trafficking case.

Phillip informed rapt jurors that he believed he was known as to Manhattan’s Gramercy Park Resort that evening in an effort to carry out as a dancer for a bachelorette occasion.

“I used to be anticipating to perform a little strip tease and that is it,” he testified.

As a substitute, “Cassie opened the door and requested if it was OK if it was simply going to be us,” he informed the jury, describing her apparel as purple lingerie, purple excessive heels, and a purple wig.

“She stated her husband wished to do one thing particular for her,” he stated Ventura informed him.

Phillip testified Ventura informed him his project can be to rub child oil on her — and extra, if he was as much as it.

Combs, in the meantime, sat within the nook of the darkened room, carrying solely a bathrobe and the bandana that coated his face from the nostril down, he stated.

“He wasn’t going to attempt to contact me or something,” Phillip stated Ventura informed him of Combs. “I stated that is good, as a result of I wasn’t with that.”

Within the room, Phillip stated he noticed velvet couches and a desk topped with lit candles, bottles of child oil, and Astroglide lubricant.

Phillip testified he anticipated to be paid $200, and that he acknowledged Combs “as quickly as he spoke to me.”

“I complimented the room, the resort that we had been in, and I requested him what he did for a residing,” Phillip testified. That is when Combs stated his job was in imports and exports, he added.

“We ended up having intercourse,” Phillip informed jurors of his encounter with Ventura.

Prosecutor Maurene Comey requested Phillip, “Earlier than you and Ms. Ventura had intercourse, what, if something, did you rub on one another?”

Phillip responded, “Child oil.”

He informed the jury that throughout the encounter, Combs sat within the nook and masturbated.

On the finish, “Cassie gave me extra money. I feel a pair thousand {dollars} extra,” he stated.

Phillip stated that they had a number of extra related sexual encounters, together with in resorts throughout Manhattan, in Combs’ private residence in Midtown, and in Ventura’s dwelling on Manhattan’s west facet.

At one level, throughout an encounter at JW Marriott Essex Home, Combs stopped carrying a masks, Phillip stated.

“This was the primary time that Sean Combs opened the door as himself. You understand, wearing a go well with,” he stated, including that these encounters went on till late 2013 or 2014.

Because the encounters continued, Phillip stated he noticed an offended facet to Combs.

Throughout one, Combs threw a liquor bottle at Ventura as a result of she didn’t instantly come over when he stated, “Babe, come right here,” Phillip stated. Phillip stated Combs then dragged Ventura right into a bed room, and that he may hear Combs slapping her.

Combs is on trial for intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He faces as much as life in jail if convicted on all counts.

The trial, set to run about two months, formally kicked off earlier Monday with opening statements.