Sex Worker Hired for Diddy’s ‘Freak Offs’ Was Convicted Las Vegas Killer & Reality Star

Posted on: May 21, 2025, 10:47h. 

Last updated on: May 21, 2025, 10:58h.

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  • Ash Armand’s photo was introduced during the first week of Sean “P Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial
  • Prosecutors claim he was one of 13 male escorts hired to perform at the disgraced record mogul’s “freak off” sex parties
  • Armand was initially known as a star of the Vegas-based Showtime reality series “Gigolos”
  • That was before he became known as a killer

During the first week of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial, one of the photos prosecutors showed of the alleged male escorts hired to have sex with the former record mogul’s girlfriend at his “freak off” sex parties was familiar to regular viewers of Showtime’s “Gigolos.”

Sex worker and reality TV star Ash Armand is shown in his 2020 mugshot. (Image: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

Ash Armand’s photo was among 13 contained in a binder introduced by prosecutors on Monday in Manhattan federal court. Armand starred in the provocative reality series about a group of Las Vegas male escorts, which ran from 2012 through 2016.

Five years later, in a bizarre twist no one saw coming, he became a convicted killer.

Sean “P Diddy” Combs and his girlfriend at the time, Cassie Ventura, attend the 2017 Met Gala in Manhattan. (Image: Shuttershock)

Prosecutors claimed that Combs’ girlfriend at the time, Cassie Ventura, hired Armand and the others at Diddy’s behest. Their job was to have sex with her, while Diddy watched, at “freak offs” in Las Vegas, Miami, and LA.

Ventura, who dated Combs for six years, claims she was manipulated by Combs using a combination of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse.

Combs faces multiple federal charges that include sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution. His trial, which began on May 12, is expected to last several weeks. He has pleaded not guilty, his defense is portraying the “freak offs” as consensual.

Armand, whose real name is Akshaya Kubiak, admitted to the July 2020 murder of Herleen Dulai, a 29-year-old friend and client of his. Dulai, who moved to Vegas three years earlier to pursue a graduate degree, died from blunt force trauma and strangulation.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Armand’s 911 call characterized the killing as an accident precipitated by their use of psychedelic mushrooms.

In September 2021, he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, state prison records show, and is currently serving eight to 20 years at Las Vegas’ Southern Desert Correctional Center.

The case was recently revisited by the March 2025 Paramount+ documentary, “Sin City Gigolo.”