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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Hey, everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is drop dead Serious. It was day 23 of the federal sex trafficking trial against Sean Diddy Combs, and today's headline had nothing to do with the witness stand. It was all about Kanye West. Side note, did you know that he has legally changed his name again? This time, he changed it from Yay to Yay. Yay. Like, oh, for God's sake. I mean, does it end with this guy, right? This guy, he's like such a drama queen. Nothing like the artist that he used to be. He's just like, all about silly outfits and naked women and Hitler. And it's like, like, so Kanye, yay. Mr. Yay. Yay. Decided that he wanted to come to the Diddy trial. Apparently, he wanted to support his good old friend P. Diddy. And the timing couldn't be more curious. We had been putting the pieces together on Kanye's decision to show up today, just one day after some very spicy testimony about a famous rapper friend of Diddy's who was also freaking off with a male prostitute in Las Vegas. So was it Kanye? Is that why Yey decided to show up today in a super expensive Maybach? I have a lot more details about this very flashy arrival, the choice of his outfit, and the diva treatment that he got in the courthouse. And also what Kanye did just minutes after he got settled inside the courthouse. But first, inside the courtroom, the prosecutors are parading their last few witnesses up onto the witness stand to make their case against Diddy as a sex trafficker and as a racketeer. And today, the jury heard from a Homeland Security agent who helped in that raid of Diddy's Los Angeles mansion. Do you remember, you know, the incredible helicopter shots, right? The jaw dropping day when the troops closed, closed in on both his Miami and his Los Angeles homes. The aerial shots were like the scene out of a movie. And hello, that house is sick. Like what a mansion, right? Looks like something out of Versailles. He's got, like, the most beautiful gardens. If nothing, Diddy has great taste in horticulture. But there we saw like a SWAT team moving in and snaking through his property. Almost like they were looking, you know, to bust some terrorist holdouts. I'm going to get to this agent and. And what he said about some super freaky stuff that he confiscated actually from Diddy's home. But there was another witness today who did something small that meant something big he asked for, and he got immunity. So this other witness brings the number of Diddy insiders who've been granted immunity to testify against Puff to like, I don't know, almost a half dozen. Now, this witness was one of Diddy's former personal assistants. Yes, Diddy has a lot of personal assistants, as we have come to learn in these weeks of trial. And this particular former personal assistant testified about setting up something he called King Nights. Hold on. There is yet another name for freak offs, AKA hotel nights. Apparently, they're also called king knights in Diddy's world. As in a night for Diddy the king to let loose. Like, spare me. This is where I'm just gonna go off on the whole ick factor. Talk about a guy with a superiority complex, with a king complex. And to have your staff fall in line with this sort of garbage, right, it's just like, I don't know, I mean, I guess we're really getting to know a ditty that we sort of thought existed, but now it's like in, in. In to the nth degree, right? His ego has no bounds and his morals have no bounds, right? It's just. Imagine working in this environment, and it is appropriate to call these sex parties King nights for your boss. Again, your boss, they had to fall in line, right, with this garbage. This assistant, like the others, copped to buying drugs as well, getting company cash to do it, and to helping clean up after the dirty, oily sex parties in the hotel rooms. Yet another assistant tasked with wiping up the slime that Diddy leaves behind when he's done with his women. Yeah. I also have an update about juror number six, too, who may be a little bit confused about where he actually hangs his hat and puts his head down. Or at least it sure looks that way to the court. Gonna let you know about what the judge said about this juror. Not too kind gonna tell you that. But let's start by digging into day 23, right from the beginning. The first witness of the day was Special Agent Andre Lemon. He is with Homeland Security in Los Angeles. And Agent Lemon helped lead that March 25 raid on Diddy's LA mansion. He said agents searched all three buildings on that property. The main house, a gym, and a steam room. In Diddy's bedroom, they found six manila envelopes marked K, and they were inside a nightstand, which, by the way, they were seized by investigators. Lamond showed the jury one of the envelopes that was found in Diddy's nightstand, and inside the envelope were little, small plastic bags of white powder. In total, they recovered eight bags, and all of them tested positive for ketamine. And then the jurors were shown a photo of Diddy's closet, where agents found a safe built into the wall. Inside the safe was Diddy's passport and a plastic bag containing brown particles and pebbles, which tested positive for mdma. And in the garage, it seemed more like a Freakies supply room than a normal garage. Agents found around 32 boxes of Astro Glide. And if you count all the bottles inside all the boxes, the agent said in his testimony, it totaled 900. 900 bottles of Astro Glide. A little later in the podcast, you're going to hear this agent being asked about that on the stand. Like in his history of doing raids, he get. He gets asked to sort of quantify this. And it's funny, but the agent also said he found 200 bottles of baby oil, all of it stacked just a few feet from the main house. The agents also found guns in the home, all stored in the security room, where Lamont said there were safes big enough for rifles and shotguns. The jury saw a photo of two chairs with multiple firearms laid out on them. Lamont explained that the guns were removed from the safes and then made safe by taking out the magazines. Listen to the list of what they found. A bolt action Ruger rifle, single shot, manually loaded, three Smith & Wesson M&P rifles, semi automatic, AR15 style. A Glock pistol, standard law enforcement handgun, and a Mossberg pump action shotgun, the kind you rack before each shot. You know, three 30 round magazines, a loaded Glock magazine with bullets visible, a smaller 10 round Glock magazine, a pistol holster, two gun locks, and a 5.11 tactical bag often used by police and the military. Ben LeMond testified that they also recovered a drum magazine that held 60 rounds. And LeMond said the ammo was designed to pierce body armor. That's some serious. Agent Lamont held up one of the rifles in court and then pointed out something kind of important, like, really important, like, not so legal important. The agent pointed out that the serial number had been scratched off the weapon, making the weapon untraceable. And hey, yes, if that sounds familiar to you, you are right. The agents in Miami said they found the same thing when they raided his Miami home. Weapons with serial numbers scratched off. So I. And I think you might be sensing a pattern here on cross. The defense pointed out that all the guns and ammo were found in the security room, not in bedrooms and nowhere that children could reach them. Lamont agreed and confirmed that Sean Combs had private security on site. When asked how many search warrants he'd executed in trafficking cases, Lamond said between 50 and 60. And in all those searches, Lamond said this was the first time that he had ever recovered Astroglide. And that actually brought up kind of a funny moment, except for the fact that the defense attorney, Mark Agnifolo, responded, yeah, that's what I thought. And boom, prosecution objected, and the judge sustained it. And with that, Agent Lemon's cross examination ended. And then came a long break in the courtroom, and one that some observers chalked up to a certain mega rapper who had arrived at the courthouse. Kanye. Kanye. Mister. Yay. Yay. Now to me, Kanye west sliding into the scene at the federal courthouse, riding in a black Maybach worth a couple hundred thou. And the crowd could not resist throwing a few questions and comments his way as he strode past them into the glass doors. But because Kanye was not on the official family list, the court staff sent him to the overflow room just like all the other mere mortals. But TMZ said that they talked to court staff and that several of the court staff reserved a couple of rows for Kanye. That would be unlike us mere mortals. Like, I've been reporting on court for decades, and nobody's reserved rose in a courtroom for me. I don't think they do it for the Today show or, you know, Good Morning America or all these people who, by the way, you, as the public, you are reduced to having the media be your eyes and ears, right? Because we can't have Cameras in the courtroom. We can't beam this out to you so that you can be your own judge of what's going on. So it's really important to have the media in these seats. But Kanye. Kanye gets rose reserved. Anyway, I digress. Kanye was actually in the courthouse for about 40 minutes, and they were, like, trying to peek through the glass and watch him as he's going through security. And he had to wait for, like, a couple of members of. Of, you know, Diddy's people to. To come and meet him and bring him to where he needed to be. So all told, he's in the courthouse for about 40 minutes, but he stayed in the overflow room for a grand total. You ready? Eight minutes. Like, literally, that was Kanye's contribution to, quote, unquote, supporting his dear friend Diddy. I'm going to show up at court to support my friend Diddy for eight minutes. And eight minutes later, he quietly slipped out. He didn't see the main courtroom. He did not see his best pal Diddy. And I would have loved to see them lock eyes, especially after, you know, all the rumor mills suggesting, was it Kanye in Vegas having a freak off with his girlfriend, you know, the nude one who always shows up on the red carpet. And then Jane walked in and saw her regular escort doing the nasty in the middle of the hotel room with Kanye and his girlfriend watching in the. In the freaky, you know, sex party. Was it Kanye? Because he sure picked a weird day to show up one day after Jane unknowingly brought up this incredible mystery on the stand of the. The famous rapper with the private jet and the girlfriend who's got a birthday in January. P.S. i guess it's his wife, now, former wife Bianca Censori's birthday's also the date that they were in Vegas. Let me go to Kanye's outfit. I am used to seeing Kanye west of late anyway, dressed in head to toe black, right? Usually really dumpy. I don't know if he's gained weight or what it is, but he usually wears really dumpy black clothing. While he insists that, you know, the lady in his life is completely naked, he's just wearing junk, you know, but today he went off the script, and he chose to wear all white. His outfit was pure white denim and dark sunglasses. And he gave a nod of support when asked about Diddy, but otherwise, he didn't say a whole lot to the people who were gathered outside the courthouse. But it was not for a lack of trying, y' all. The media, the onlookers, everybody who was there were yelling questions at yay, yay, yay. Regardless of how dismissive he was being to them. Take a look. But once Kanye left the building and once the clown car left, the courtroom actually settled down and the government called its next witness, Jonathan Perez. And there was some good stuff here. Like, I got to say, I wasn't expecting that the strength of the testimony this far into the government's case. But Perez brought it right. And there's a good reason. Before Perez could even take the stand, the prosecutor, Maureen Comey, she. She flagged something. She flagged Diddy's courtroom behavior again, saying that yet again, Diddy is nodding excessively, even though he'd been warned, admonished by the judge to stop nodding excessively. 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