Who is Jonathan Oddi? Diddy's alleged $5 million ‘sex slave' who stormed Trump's golf resort
Jonathan Oddi claims he had a 5$ million deal with Sean 'Diddy' Combs (Photo: X)
A former porn star who once stormed Donald Trump's Florida golf resort in 2018 is now back in the spotlight, this time tied to the
sex trafficking case
against rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs, reports the New York Post.
Jonathan Oddi
was arrested after a shootout with police. Following his arrest, he claimed he had signed a non-disclosure agreement with Combs and was used as a 'sex slave' alongside singer
Cassie Ventura
, who also testified against Diddy on Tuesday, accusing the rapper of being 'violent' with her.
Oddi was caught on camera in May 2018 waving a US flag and shouting about Trump as he entered the
Trump National Doral Golf Club
. He allegedly fired shots before being taken down by officers, who shot him in the legs. He has remained in a
Florida jail
awaiting trial on charges including attempted murder of police officers, armed burglary, and grand theft.
The claims Oddi made after his arrest are now under fresh scrutiny due to Combs' ongoing criminal case. In a police interview, Oddi told investigators: 'I had sex with Cassie and Sean. Basically, he would masturbate and tell me what to do to Cassie. I was like a sex slave. For them, that's what I was."
$5 million contract and divorce with wife
Oddi's statement has resurfaced just as a copy of an NDA, allegedly signed by him and Combs in Miami in 2014, emerged this week.
According to Oddi, he agreed to the NDA in exchange for $5 million. His ex-wife, attorney Tonia Troutwine, told the Daily Mail that the timing of the contract coincided with their divorce.
'The date of that contract was around the same time as our divorce. I almost feel like he divorced me because he came to all this money and so I wouldn't claim it,' she said. 'But our lives were already going in different paths. I started feeling like a third wheel in someone else's life rather than a wife.'
Troutwine said Oddi had begun changing after leaving his job as a stripper and getting involved in pornography. She believes he met Combs during a party at Star Island in Miami and started partying more with the rapper and Ventura.
Troutwine said Oddi filed for divorce in August 2014. Troutwine recalled Oddi rushing to finalise the paperwork: 'He kept on insisting that we sign the divorce paperwork, which I thought was very odd how he wanted to get things going so quickly.
It was only later that I found out he had signed this agreement.'
Despite saying he had just $2,000 a month in income and was $1,800 in debt, Oddi suddenly bought five properties worth over $765,000 without any loans, raising questions about where the money came from.
In his police interrogation, Oddi claimed, 'He's scared I will expose him. My settlement put me in a box. Basically, I couldn't talk because I was going to be sued. They kept following me.' It remains unclear who 'they' were.
Combs, who has denied all allegations and pleaded not guilty, is currently facing multiple charges in a federal sex trafficking case.
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