“Mr. Paul is happy to shut this chapter of his life,” Brendan Paul’s lawyer tells Rolling Stone
The private assistant accused of being Sean Combs’ drug “mule” had his two pending drug fees terminated Tuesday after he accomplished a court-ordered diversion program in Florida, his lawyer confirmed to Rolling Stone.
Brendan Paul, 25, was with Combs on the Miami-Opa Locka airport final March when he was arrested and led away in handcuffs on the identical day federal authorities raided Combs’ residences in Miami and Los Angeles as a part of a federal intercourse trafficking investigation. Officers searched Paul’s bag and allegedly discovered cocaine and marijuana sweet. As a first-time offender, he was supplied a substitute for prosecution.
“Mr. Paul’s case was formally dismissed at present in its entirety. We’re happy that every one fees have been dropped and the case closed,” Paul’s lawyer, Brian H. Bieber, tells Rolling Stone. “Mr. Paul is happy to shut this chapter of his life.”
Paul’s arrest got here one month after music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones sued Combs for sexual harassment and talked about Paul by title. Jones alleged that Paul “works as Mr. Combs’ drug mule. He acquires and distributes Mr. Combs’ medicine and weapons.” Jones mentioned he “personally witnessed” Paul transport or intend to move unlawful substances in his baggage whereas touring between Los Angeles, Miami, Virginia, the Caribbean, and London on three separate events between December 2022 and late 2023.
It was in November 2023 that Combs’ ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura first sued Combs for intercourse trafficking and rape, resulting in a wave of comparable lawsuits and a legal probe. (Combs and Ventura reached a settlement a day after she filed her go well with.)
Combs, 55, was indicted in September and has pleaded not responsible to fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. The media mogul was arrested in New York Metropolis on Sept. 16 and has been detained since. He’s at the moment housed on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn. His trial is about for Might 2025.
