Why did Diddy have 1,000 bottles of baby oil?

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As part of the federal indictment filed last week against Sean “Diddy” Combs, prosecutors included a particularly shocking detail. Amid allegations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse (Combs was charged with sex trafficking and racketeering), they noted that law enforcement officers seized “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant” from Combs' homes in Miami and Los Angeles during raids earlier this year . Now Combs' lawyer is trying to play off the amount of baby oil as if it wasn't a warning sign.

Attorney Marc Agnifilo sat down with TMZ's Harvey Levin for an upcoming documentary about the Combs prosecution. The gossip site posted a clip Wednesday in which Agnifilo attempted to stage Combs' “freak offs” — the alleged sexual performances that were at the heart of Combs' case, in which victims were “abused, threatened and coerced into participating,” according to prosecutors – reinterpret normal sexual behavior.

“When I was a kid, in the late '70s, they called them threesomes,” he told Levin. When Levin asked how that would explain the “1,000 bottles of baby oil,” Agnifilo said he didn't even know where that number came from. Levin told him it came from the U.S. attorney.

“I can't imagine it's thousands, and I'm not really sure what the baby oil has to do with it,” Agnifilo said. When Levin explained that it was a sexual lubricant, Agnifilo played dumb.

“I guess. I don't know what it takes a thousand times… a bottle of baby oil goes a long way. I don't know what it takes a thousand for. I mean, he has a big house. He buys in bulk,” he explained. “I guess , they have Costcos wherever he has a home. Have you ever sat in the parking lot of a Costco and seen what people come out with?”

A Costco spokesperson later told TMZ that they do not sell baby oil at any of their U.S. locations.

Agnifilo's attempt at spin is particularly galling when you look at Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura's lawsuit against Combs from last November. Her complaint went into detail about Freak Offs and was written by her lawyers
that the hotel rooms where Freak Offs took place were filled with “baby oil and Astroglide.” Ventura also claimed that Combs would instruct her to “pour excessive amounts of oil on herself.” This is probably not the best detail for Agnifilo to handle lightly.