Katt Williams’ comments from January are receiving renewed attention following Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest on Monday on sex trafficking charges.
Williams, 53, spoke about Combs, 54, on “Club Shay Shay,” a podcast hosted by ex-NFL tight end Shannon Sharpe. There, Williams claimed he’s turned down $50 million on four instances for illegal liaisons involving Combs.
Williams later told Sharpe that “deviants” like Diddy would be exposed this year.
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“P. Diddy be wanting to party, and you gotta tell him no,” Williams said. “See I got the receipts for everything I’m telling you.”
While Williams did not provide proof during that episode, which garnered 75 million views, his allegations may align with what federal prosecutors detailed in their indictment against Combs.
In the document, prosecutors repeatedly referred to “freak off” parties, which they said entailed Combs using “force, threats of force or coercion” to have victims have sex with male commercial sex workers. They said the victims were also given drugs during these multi-day encounters to ensure their compliance.
Combs was arrested at a Manhattan hotel on Monday, following a bevy of allegations and lawsuits accusing him of sex crimes.
In March, federal authorities raided Combs’ homes in Holmby Hills, California, and Miami. Reports indicated that the raid was connected to an ongoing sex trafficking investigation.
The reported raids also occurred four months after R&B singer Cassie Ventura accused him of sex trafficking and abuse. In a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, she alleged that Combs drugged her and forced her to have sex with other men. The pair settled the lawsuit a day after its filing.
However, in May, a video surfaced showing Combs assaulting Ventura at a California hotel in 2016. After the video was released, Combs put out a video expressing remorse for his behavior. That video is mentioned in the criminal charges filed this week against Combs.
Two more accusers came forward a week after Ventura’s lawsuit. One of the women claimed Combs drugged and raped her at Syracuse University in New York in 1991. Combs denied those allegations before a third accuser, Liza Gardner, levied similar allegations against him.
In that case, Gardner claimed Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall drugged and raped her and a friend following an Uptown Records event in 1990. Gardner said she was 16 at the time of the incident. She also accused Combs of choking her a day after the assault.
Days after footage of the 2016 assault was publicized, two more women filed lawsuits against Combs. One of those women was April Lampros, a student at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology who reportedly met Combs in 1994. Lampros accused Combs in the lawsuit of sexually assaulting her on four instances between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s.
Lampros claimed Combs promised to mentor her and connect her with executives in the fashion industry. Instead, Combs allegedly forced her to drink before raping her in a hotel room. Lampros recalled another instance in which Combs forced her to perform oral sex on her in a parking garage while a parking attendant watched.
Reports indicated that Combs has been accused of committing or facilitating sexual abuse in at least eight lawsuits. He has denied those allegations.
