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Prosecutors in Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial continue to target the hip-hop mogul's alleged cycle of abuse as more witnesses come forward.
A court filing ahead of the trial accused Combs of using jailhouse communications to influence witnesses— including requesting authorized-contact family members and defense counsel to add other unauthorized individuals to three-way calls and using other inmates’ phone access codes.
Seven witnesses have testified in Diddy's trial, detailing alleged abuse and control. Kid Cudi may testify next; Usher is not on the witness list.
Combs, 55, is being tried on charges that he exploited his status as an entertainment executive to force women into drug-fueled "freak offs" with male sex workers and engaged in other abusive acts against people who relied on him for their careers.
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The second week of testimony in the sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs began on Monday.
SInger Dawn Richard and Combs' former assistant, along with the former best friend of Ventura, faced tough questioning as they explained their experience with the rap mogul.
Jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial were introduced to a number ... Dawn Richard provided eyewitness accounts of multiple occasions where the defendant struck or attempted to strike Ventura ...
The Independent provides a list of the key players in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial in New York as his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura takes the stand.
Testifying as the fifth witness at Combs’ Manhattan Federal Court trial, Danity Kane member Dawn Richard, 42, of New Orleans, told jurors about witnessing the Bad Boy Records co-founder attack Ventura multiple times. Richard was selected for stardom as a member of Danity Kane by Combs in MTV’s “Making the Band.”
Regina Ventura, mother to R&B singer Cassie Ventura, described screaming at Sean "Diddy" Combs after he took control of her daughter's cellphone.
Casandra Ventura testified that she had been abused and raped by Mr. Combs, while his lawyers sought to challenge her account by questioning her recollections and motives.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is standing trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in a case that has captured widespread attention.