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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial may not take place until May 2025, but one witness has already testified before the grand jury.

On Thursday, October 31, Courtney Burgess and her attorney, Ariel Mitchell, appeared outside federal court in Lower Manhattan, where Burgess, who claims to be in possession of damning evidence of Diddy, had just finished testifying before a grand jury.

talking to TMZBurgess told the outlet that he was “surprised” to have been subpoenaed by Homeland Security. (Burgess also explained that he didn’t know Diddy “personally,” but that he had many ties to the music industry, including working with Tupac.)

Mitchell, his attorney, said TMZ that their client was there “to testify before the grand jury” and that they were about to address a hearing to find out, specifically, what material they needed to turn over to the courts.

“We have a hearing now to determine what…documents we will have to turn over and what we won’t have to turn over,” Mitchell explained.

As for what those documents imply, Burgess said news nation that he has been in possession of at least eight sex tapes involving celebrities — Diddy’s “victims,” ​​he claimed, adding that “two or three” of these stars were minors at the time.

The tapes are on 11 flash drives, which Burgess says he received from Kim Porter, Diddy’s late ex (and mother of four of his seven children).

Burgess also claims that the flash drives contain the original manuscript of Porter’s purported memoirs, a book taken from Amazon after being hotly contested by her and Diddy’s children.

According to Mitchell, the flash drives Porter allegedly gave to Burgess “tell the story of what Diddy has done over the past 30 years. His deviant activities.”

Diddy, 55, was arrested in September and charged with sex trafficking, extortion and transportation for prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty and plans to testify in court during his trial.

In addition to the charges against him, the disgraced rapper, who is behind bars in a Brooklyn jail while awaiting trial— He has been accused of sexual crimes by more than 100 people.: men, women and minors. Diddy’s team has vehemently denied all allegations.

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