US EditionOpening statements are expected in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex trafficking trial
- Sean 'Diddy' Combs, founder of Bad Boy Records, faces a sex trafficking trial with testimony beginning Monday in Brooklyn.
- The case arose after R&B singer Cassie, legal name Casandra Ventura, filed a 2023 lawsuit alleging years of abuse and exploitation.
- Prosecutors allege Combs orchestrated an empire exploiting women in drugged-up sex parties called 'freak-offs' and used violence against those who refused.
- A 2016 surveillance video showed Combs assaulting Cassie at a Los Angeles hotel, and former hotel security Israel Florez testified about the incident and Combs' behavior.
- Combs pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers argue the acts were consensual; if convicted, he could face 15 years to life in prison.
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Meet the 12 jurors who will decide Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering case
Aristide Economopoulos For The Washington Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As testimony begins in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal trial, his fate is in the hands of a jury that represents the city that allowed Combs to rise from working-class roots to the pinnacle of global cultural fame. Twelve New Yorkers were sworn in as jurors, along with six alternates — who do not yet know of their alternate status — on Monday. The jurors range in age from …
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Ex Cassie to Testify in Sex Trafficking Trial
A day after jurors saw a video of Combs hitting and kicking her, Sean Diddy Combs' ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, a rhythm and blues singer known as Cassie, is expected to testify Tuesday as the prosecution's star witness in the hip-hop mogul's sex trafficking case.
Cassie set to testify against Sean 'Diddy' Combs in sex trafficking trial
The R&B singer Cassie has been at the center of Combs’ stunning downfall. She sued him in 2023 alleging years of abuse. A surveillance video made public last year showed Combs beating her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
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