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Sean “Diddy” Combs took drugs “every day” — including sometimes downing Obama-shaped ecstasy pills, his ex-personal assistant told jurors Tuesday. “There were various pills, but one was in
the form of a former president’s face,” Combs’ one-time personal assistant, David James, said in Manhattan federal court, of the types of ecstasy pills he saw his boss take. “Which former
president?” prosecutor Christy Slavik asked. “President Obama,” James responded. James was named by the prosecution’s star witness, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, as the Bad Boy Records
founder’s “trusted assistant” who helped set up “freak-offs” — depraved, drug-fueled sex romps that form the backbone of the case against Combs. EXPLORE MORE James began his testimony Monday
in Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial, recounting how the music mogul once told him Ventura — whom the hip-hop star dated for a decade — was “young” and “moldable.” The testimony
from James — who worked for Combs between 2007 and 2009 — continued Tuesday and delved into the laundry list of drugs that the once-powerful producer kept in his toiletry bag for hotel
stays. Combs stored between 25 to 30 pill bottles in the bag, including Percocet, ecstasy, Viagra, weight loss, and sperm count pills, James testified. “Some were Advil, Tylenol,” James
said. “He had water pills to help him lose weight. He had Viagra in there. Some pills to help increase his sperm count. He had ecstasy and Percocet in there as well.” James said the Combs
received their drug haul from a dealer named “One-Stop.” When asked how frequently he saw Combs take drugs, James said: “I’d say every day.” The mogul took Percocet during the day, and James
said he assumed Combs was high on the drug during business meetings. ------------------------- FOLLOW THE LATEST ON SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS’ FEDERAL SEX-TRAFFICKING TRIAL:
------------------------- He said he’d book hotel rooms for Combs under the alias “Frank Black,” and he was tasked with running errands to stock the room and grabbing his belongings from
home. If Combs was staying in New York City, James said, his boss preferred the Trump International Hotel. He recalled there was a Duane Reade convenience store near the Trump hotel where he
would pick up a few things for Combs, including applesauce, Jello, Fiji Water, and Ciroc vodka — a liquor brand that the mogul famously used to promote. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty.
He faces life in prison if convicted.