I went to Diddy’s ‘scary’ parties as a young model – a lot of my friends from that time didn’t make it, but the choice I made saved my life

A British TV personality has revealed how she attended Diddy’s notorious parties as a young model living in New York – and the choice she believes saved her life.

Precious Muir moved to the Big Apple in 2005 during her early twenties and was told the only way to make a name for herself was to ‘network’, which often involved schmoozing at glitzy parties attended by the rich and famous.

But there was a dark side to these bashes, where young girls were offered drinks laced with drugs, goaded into having sex and filmed without consent.

And the most debauched parties of them all were hosted by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the US rapper accused of kidnapping, drugging and coercing women into sexual activities with an upwards of 120 victims already coming forward. 

Now 40 and an experienced broadcaster, Precious feels it’s the right time to tell what really happened at the disgraced music mogul’s notorious parties, revealing how her decision not to take drugs saved her life, after many of her contemporaries at the time either quit modelling, entered rehab or ended up dead.

Speaking to MailOnline, Precious said: ‘There were a lot of girls who didn’t make it, a lot of girls who gave up modelling or went into therapy or rehab… Not doing drugs saved my life.

‘I truly believe that not participating in drugs prevented me from going into a dark place that many other girls went to.’

Precious, who starred in the first series of reality show The Circle on Channel 4 in 2018, spent ten years living in Manhattan, New York, working as a model and in that pre-social media age, was urged to connect with influential figures in order to land lucrative contracts.

To a fresh-faced Londoner, the prospect of schmoozing insider heavyweights was initially an exciting one.

Precious explained: ‘My agent really wanted me to network, go out there and meet people, opportunities would arise.

‘I was encouraged to go to parties and events because it was important to meet the right people.

‘I was new to the country and needed to make connections with people that I couldn’t get going to castings. A lot of jobs that models got back then were through networking.

‘I wanted to be invited and be around these amazing and incredible people so if you had the opportunity, you went. Back then we didn’t have the luxury of social media and Instagram to message a brand directly… going to parties weren’t just an option but they were part of our job.’

Precious revealed she was approached by a club promoter while attending a brand event for Ciroc Vodka who offered her the chance to attend a party hosted by Combs in New York in 2007.

He told her shuttle buses or blacked-out SUVs would transport her and fellow models from The Hamptons, where she was staying, to the nearby party, which was attended by a host of A-list celebrities.

Precious said: ‘I felt nervous, excited, I couldn’t believe I had been invited to be amongst these kinds of people. I hadn’t made a name for myself, I was still trying to establish myself. I was so young. I didn’t know how else to further my career. 

‘I had heard stories from other models who said you had to be very careful when you go to these parties because there are people who try to hit on you and I was young and naive.’

Precious had other reasons to be cautious. Before the Combs’ party she sipped a spiked drink at another raucous industry bash, which numbed half of her face.

She was also warned by a friend not to smoke any ‘weed’, as Diddy aids would allegedly ‘sprinkle stuff’ in it, plus the vodka shots were rumoured to be laced with drugs as one of the many ‘traps.’ 

She continued: ‘We arrived at the party and as you come into the house, there were servers giving you champagne.

‘There were certain spaces where the big celebrities would sit and they would sit and talk amongst themselves, there were also daybeds and sofas, everything was white and we were all wearing white as well.

‘We could be in the party for a few moments and somebody would offer me drugs immediately, “Do you want a line of coke?” “Do you want some coke?” “Do you want to smoke weed?”

‘Minutes into the party they want to kick it off in the right way.’

But Precious refused any offers of suspicious looking substances, admitting: ‘I got a lot of stick for it. But it was a form of control, they wanted to see who would be easily manipulated.

‘Who would take drugs and where they would go after that, it was the first step… if you’re okay with drugs then what else are you okay with?’

Precious added: ‘I know it sounds strange but when you get these advances from big celebrity men you’re thinking, ‘wow he works for this brand and works for this company’, they all have a selling point to them.

‘I would call them ‘The Suits’, they said they would help me in my career, and they would try and charm you.’

The model said rappers in particular were the most ‘aggressive’ and security would intervene if they saw guests taking pictures on phones.

She explained: ‘The rappers were very aggressive in my opinion, they were in your face, there would be a lot of hand gestures, they would grab you close, a couple of rappers took my phone and started putting their number in my phone.

‘You were watched a lot with your phone, they didn’t want you taking photos because it was a private setting, there was security, they didn’t want you to capture too much, it was very exclusive and very private.’

Precious describes host Diddy as very much ‘the leader of the pack’ at the parties but admitted ‘there were other wolves in the house.’ 

She believes some guests were only there to ‘take advantage of young models and girls’ who had dreams of becoming ‘singers, dancers and entertainers.’

Another concerning aspect about the parties which struck Precious was the attendance of young children, who were mixing with guests during the day before the darker, more debauched, sinister side of the party kicked in later in the evening.

But the young attendees would still have been privy to nudity and sexual encounters.

She explained: ‘These were day parties that went into night, but I saw children there.

‘I thought, as much as it’s a day party and The Hamptons, why would you bring your child to something like this?

‘You’re seeing half naked women and naked women in the pool, there were a lot of girls who were trying to impress people, hooking up in the pool, kissing and touching and groping each other naked in the pool, there were dancers performing in different outfits.

‘This is not an atmosphere for children at all. I saw people hooking up, sexually, when I went to the bathroom I saw condom wrappers, fragments of cocaine on the side with whatever thing they used to sniff it.

‘People don’t understand that the atmosphere was palpable, the sex is around you and there was so much graphic behaviour of sex… you can feel it and see it. I walked past a room, and I could hear people having sex in the bedroom.’

Indeed, the later into the party, the more extreme the behaviour.

Precious described how girls who looked like ‘video vixens’ with ‘big bums and big breasts’ were ferried in, as well as ‘porn stars.’ 

She said: ‘Those types of girls would do anything, they were grinding and dancing and on platforms.

‘There was more drug taking, more drinking, more dancing and more everything.

‘I saw girls hooking up, girls kissing, men hooking up, that stuff did happen, it was around us and we saw that.’

Precious says she met Diddy, 54, at one of his parties when he was dating singer Cassie Ventura, 38, who he was captured assaulting inside a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.

The model admits she felt instantly concerned for his partner, who was 21 at the time, as she looked so young, like herself, and felt their slender physiques were preyed on by guests.

She explained: ‘When I was at Diddy’s parties, I did meet Diddy. I met Cassie too a few times. He is a very unique individual.

‘You can sense that he has a lot of confidence and that he likes to be in control and tell his inner circle what to do and I don’t think anyone ever really says no to him.

‘I kept my distance because I met him not only at his house in The Hamptons but also in Manhattan because there was always a sponsored event.

‘Me and Cassie were very similar in age as well, so I looked at her and thought she’s so pretty and we’re similar in age. She was of age, but she had a very young face.

‘I was always concerned about rappers coming onto me and trying to instigate these kinds of things, you can tell they wanted to sleep with me, basically, when I looked so young. I looked like a child, I didn’t look like those girls with a voluptuous shape.’

Precious also confirmed cameras were scattered around the house, filming activity in each room.

Rumours have been swirling around Hollywood regarding Diddy secretly holding tapes of his A-list guests having sex at his parties, which they fear may come out in his trial.

Precious said: ‘I was aware of the cameras inside Diddy’s house. Everybody knew a property of this value would have cameras everywhere.

‘I don’t want to out any celebrities because they know they were there. I was new to the country and industry and I was aware of the cameras.

‘It’s down to their conscience and soul, if they have taken advantage of somebody or drugged them, taken the opportunity to physically and sexually assault someone, it will be on camera.

‘I thought that everybody that was getting on in these kinds of things were consenting and now it’s come out that obviously it wasn’t the case.

‘If I had known at the time that this was going on behind those doors, I would have said something 100 per cent.’

The longer the parties went on, the more X-rated they got and Precious admits male guests would try and entice young models to stay and head down to the ‘basement’ after the last cars taking attendees back home had gone.

She explained: ‘The later it got at Diddy’s parties, the worse it got. Everybody has been drinking all day, they have loosened up, things got more aggressive, and the atmosphere changed.

‘There would be guys at the party encouraging girls to stay on and go down into the basement or different rooms and to stay longer with them, you had to make that decision.

‘It was uncomfortable because you felt obligated in a way because you are there as their guest and you feel like you’re a form of entertainment, you don’t want to p*** them off in any way or upset them because they had a way of trying to manipulate you and if you didn’t do what they said they could ruin your career.

‘It was a lot of pressure on a young girl in a new place and I felt vulnerable, and we were these little rabbits and there were these wolves surrounding you.’

She added: ‘You felt like you were obligated in some way to do what they asked you to do. It wasn’t a good feeling. I felt privileged to be there, but it was scary when things started to get dark and how it started to turn. I don’t know how I made it. You don’t want to get yourself blacklisted.’

Diddy is currently incarcerated in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial and could face a lengthy prison sentence if found guilty. He denies the charges. 

Precious, who is in a relationship with Phats & Small singer Ben Ofoedu, 52, admits she wasn’t surprised when she heard the rapper had been arrested.

She said: ‘Hearing all the allegations, I am disgusted. I can’t understand why a person would want to be like this, but I’m not surprised at all by the accusations because when I was at the Diddy parties it was borderline already.

‘It was a very adult atmosphere. It could go anywhere.’