While Sean “Diddy” Combs awaits trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, his former senior executive assistant Phil Pines, who work
While Sean “Diddy” Combs awaits trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, his former senior executive assistant Phil Pines, who worked for the hip-hop mogul from 2019 to 2021, is speaking out.
Pines’s bombshell interview with journalist Mara S. Campo concluded The Fall of Diddy, a modern four-part Investigation Discovery docuseries containing allegations from Combs’s former friends, colleagues, and employees. “The reason I wanted to tell my story was to make sure that Sean Combs and people like him can’t do these kinds of things to anybody else,” Pines said in the bonus episode, which aired on Tuesday, January 28. “It’s hard to come here and sit down with you and talk about these situations, because he was somebody that I looked up to.”
Pines’s interview was filmed in New York City only last week, according to Investigation Discovery. It marks his first on-camera remarks since he filed a lawsuit against Combs last month, alleging that his former employer ordered him to supply drugs and sexual paraphernalia for, and later spotless up after, parties called “Wild King Nights.” Diddy’s legal team addressed the filing in a statement to People at the time, saying, “No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone—man or woman, adult or minor. We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth, and Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail in court.”
During The Fall of Diddy’s final installment, Pines said that he wasn’t present for any of Combs’s “freak-offs”—the term allegedly used for days-long sex performances facilitated by various drugs. But Pines did claim that he was instructed to provide drugs, alcohol, sex toys, and lubricant like baby oil for what his boss allegedly called “Wild King Nights.” According to Pines, he would also be told to anticipate “emergency cleanup” after such events, meaning that Combs had “destroyed the hotel room,” said his ex-assistant. “That was, for me, probably one of the hardest things to do—when you get there and you see the wreckage.”
Later in the interview, Pines alleged that Combs once pressured him to have sex with a female participant at a “Wild King Night” after he had drank alcohol. “I remember hearing the words: ‘Prove your loyalty to me,’” said Pines. “He grabbed me by the shoulders, kind of gave me, like, a quick massage—like a coach would give a player that’s about to enter the game—and handed me a condom, pushed me to a girl that was on the couch, a guest.”
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