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“Love you!” Sean Combs yelled to his family from across a courtroom barrier. “I’m gonna be home soon!”The 17 family members, filling two rows of seats in the lower Manhattan federal courtroom, cheered and clapped. They bent over the wooden benches to embrace each other.”Dream team! Dream team!” they chanted…
A federal prosecutor at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial painted the hip-hop mogul as the “powerful” head of a criminal enterprise who knew how to get his way. “He thought that his fame, wealth, and power put him above the law. But over the course of this trial,…
Manhattan federal prosecutors rested their sex-trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday following six-and-a-half weeks of trial testimony.It’s now the defense’s turn, and the hip-hop mogul’s lawyers have already indicated that they will not call any witnesses to testify on Combs’ behalf. Instead, his lawyers say they…
A juror who had been seated in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal sex-trafficking trial was dismissed by the judge on Monday.Juror no. 6, a 41-year-old Black man who said during the jury selection process known as voir dire that he was a fan of ’90s hip-hop and reggaeton, was removed by…
Ye, the embattled rapper formerly known as Kanye West, showed up Friday at Manhattan federal court to support Sean “Diddy” Combs at his criminal sex-trafficking trial.Ye made the surprise appearance at the courthouse shortly after 11 a.m. on Friday. The “Jesus Walks” rapper, though, never actually made it into the…
A final sexual assault witness testified on Thursday that agreeing to have sex with male escorts while Sean “Diddy” Combs watched and directed their actions opened up a “Pandora’s box” she could not close.”It was just a door I was unable to shut,” said the witness, testifying under the pseudonym…
Rape accuser and former employee “Mia” spent a second day under cross-examination at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial, explaining for two hours why she repeatedly told the rap tycoon that she loved and admired him.There were many times that “Puff,” as she called him, “used to be my protector,” she…
