When music mogul and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in September on federal charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, a narrative started to build: Diddy parties apparently extended far beyond his celebrated white parties, in which guests at the star-studded events donned white clothing and munched white food supposedly to represent simplicity and break down barriers.
Accounts soon emerged of other legendary Combs parties. Referred to as “freak offs”, these events allegedly involved group sex, kink, BDSM, public masturbation and plenty of baby oil – more than 1,000 bottles of the slippery stuff was found when officers raided Combs’s Los Angeles mansion.
Combs has entered a plea of not guilty and is jailed in New York awaiting a trial set for May. Combs’s handlers, meanwhile, got to work defending him to the public. They have maintained that the mogul did nothing wrong and was merely engaged in an unconventional adult “lifestyle”.
