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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial set to start Monday with opening statements

May 12, 2025
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial set to start Monday with opening statements
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Opening statements are expected Monday at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial — where the onetime hip-hop kingpin is charged with forcing women into marathon, drug-fueled sex sessions.

A jury of 12 New Yorkers will decide whether the embattled rap mogul, 55, led his Bad Boy Records label as a criminal “racket” that orchestrated and covered up a slew of crimes, including coercing his romantic partners into so-called “freak-offs”— or days-long sex romps with male escorts.

Prosecutors and Combs’ lawyers are set to each deliver their first pitch to jurors after a 12-person panel, plus six alternates, is finalized and sworn in Monday morning.

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Combs faces up to life in prison if convicted on all charges. REUTERS

The feds are then expected to call their first witnesses, including their star witness — the R&B singer and Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie — possibly as soon as Monday afternoon.

Cassie, whose full name is Cassandra Ventura, is expected to testify about her nightmarish experiences dating the powerful music producer on and off for more than a decade.

Ventura, 38, alleged in a quickly settled 2023 lawsuit that Combs, 55, forced her to have sex with male escorts while he filmed the encounters, and that he blew up Kid Cudi’s car in a jealous rage after learning that the musician was romantically interested in her.

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The singer Cassie, whose full name is Casandra Ventura, is set to be the prosecution’s star witness. DIggzy/Jesal / BACKGRID

Combs forced Ventura to take drugs before the sexual escapades, filmed the episodes and then threatened to release the footage if Ventura did not comply with his demands, her suit alleged.

An escort and another minor witness will testify before Ventura, prosecutors said last week.

The “Me & U” singer, dancer and model will also walk jurors through shocking footage of Combs, 55, punching and kicking her while wearing just a towel in a disturbing attack at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. She’s expected to be on the stand for several days.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to bombshell charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.

Lawyers for the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper plan to argue that the freak-offs were a “consensual” part of Combs’ admittedly kinky, but not criminal, sex life.

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Ventura is expected to testify about years of alleged abuse at the hands of Combs, once a hip-hop kingmaker. Kevin Mazur

They’ll also admit to jurors that Combs physically abused Ventura — but will claim that Ventura was violent with him as well, according to Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo.

“We are going to take the position that there was mutual violence in their relationship…There was hitting on both sides,” Agnifilo said in court last week.

Combs has been locked up without bail at a Brooklyn jail since his September 2024 arrest. He could face life in prison if convicted on all of the charges he faces.

The post Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial set to start Monday with opening statements appeared first on New York Post.

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