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Diddy Combs Trial Begins With Opening Statements -Accusers Are TERRIFIED
Sean Diddy Combs Trial For Sex Trafficking & MORE Begins in New York -Diddy Filmed Women as He Forced Them Into Days Long Drug Fuelled Freaky Sex Parties
He stamped on a girlfriends head and dangled a woman from a baclony, his New York trial is told
MailOnline 13 MAY 2025
Combs attends Day 1 of 2023 Invest Fest at Georgia World Congress Center on August 26, 2023 in Atlanta
Rap superstar Combs forced women to take part in drug fuelled sex parties which went on for days while he filmed them, a court heard yesterday.
For decades, the music mogul ran a criminal enterprise built around trafficking victims, with his inner circle helping to cover up his offences, prosecutors told the opening of his trial in New York.
He once stamped on a girlfriends head, dangled one woman from a balcony and allegedly tried to set fire to another mans car, it was claimed.
The musician and businessman viciously attacked women who resisted taking part in the sex parties, known as Freak Offs, or otherwise upset him, jurors were told.
In a bombshell admission, Combs's lawyers told the court he had beaten up some of his girlfriends but insisted he was not guilty of sex trafficking.
They admitted he was kinky and that his conduct had been horrible, dehumanising and violent, but claimed it was all driven by jealousy and too many drugs.
Combs, 55, was once worth nearly $1billion and had a string of hits on his Bad Boy Records label in the 1990s, including his 1997 chart-topper with singer Faith Evans, I'll Be Missing You.
But in September last year, he was arrested months after an ex girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, sued him for sexual assault in a civil case.
U.S. Marshalls sit behind Sean Diddy Combs as he sits at the defence table alongside lawyer Brian Steel in the courtroom during his sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., May 9, 2025 in this courtroom sketch
A supporter of Sean Diddy Combs enters a federal courthouse as Combs trial for sex trafficking, racketeering, and prostitution charges continues in New York, New York, USA, 9 May 2025
Prosecutor Emily Johnson said the trial would hear testimony from victims who will tell you about some of the most painful experiences of their lives. The days they spent in hotel rooms, high on drugs, dressed in costumes to perform the defendants sexual fantasies.
Opening the case, she told Manhattan Federal Court: This is Sean Combs. To the public, he was Puff Daddy or Diddy, a cultural icon, a businessman, larger than life. But there was another side to him, a side that ran a criminal enterprise.
During this trial, you are going to hear about 20 years of the defendants crimes. But he didnt do it alone, he had an inner circle of bodyguards and high ranking employees who helped him commit crimes and helped him cover them up.
Kidnapping, arson, drugs, sex crimes, bribery and obstruction. These are just some of the crimes the defendant and his inner circle committed again and again. You're going to hear about all of them during this trial.
Prosecutors described a horrific claim made by Ms Ventura, who said she was left feeling like she was choking when Combs allegedly made an escort urinate in her mouth during a Freak Off.
Ms Johnson also told the court about an incident where the rapper was on the hunt for Ms Ventura because she was seeing another man.
The prosecutor said: When he finally found her, he did what he had done countless times before he beat her brutally. Kicking her in the back and flinging her around like a rag doll. All of that violence was not enough though.
The defendant had to make sure he had control over Cassie once again so he threatened her. The defendant told Cassie that if she defied him again, he'd publicly release the video of her having sex with a male escort he kept as blackmail. Souvenirs of the most humiliating nights of her life.'
A video from a hotel is shown as prosecutor Christy Slavik questions Israel Florez, a former security guard, at Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., May 12, 2025 in this courtroom sketch
But Combs lawyer Teny Geragos countered that prosecutors were trying to twist the stars romantic relationships into a racketeering and sex trafficking case.
Janice Combs (L), mother of Sean Diddy Combs, and King Combs (R), son of Sean Diddy Combs, exit a federal courthouse as the Sean Diddy Combs trial for sex trafficking, racketeering, and prostitution charges continues in New York, New York, USA, 12 May 2025
Sean Diddy Combs Trial Begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CySnwERYTfg
Combs Trial Begins With Opening Statements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_Vto0-P4Q
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