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The multi-hyphenate mogul has made living the high life his brand. Now prosecutors aim to seize much of it under federal asset forfeiture laws.
“The court calls Casandra Ventura,” a clerk called out
Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs is on trial for sex trafficking, racketeering, and other charges. Here's everything to know about the rapper's trial, including how much time he's facing.
This is a free newsletter for Diddy on Trial newsletter subscribers. Sign up to get exclusive reporting and analysis throughout Sean Combs’ federal trial. Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer and model whose explosive civil lawsuit set the stage for this federal trial,
Amid the federal trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, several media entities including ABC News and The New York Times are requesting that the judge allow them to view the "freak-off" videos at the center of Combs' sex trafficking case.
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Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura wasn't swooning when Sean “Diddy” Combs kissed her for the first time. The R&B singer told jurors at his high-profile federal sex crimes trial on Tuesday, May 13, that when Combs kissed her in August 2007 on her 21st birthday in Las Vegas after a VMA event that she cried.
Lawyers for Misa Hylton, who previously showed support for Diddy accuser Cassie, said that she was at the trial to support her son with the music mogul.
Sean proposed to me this idea … called voyeurism; he would watch me in sexual activity with another person, specifically another male.”
The "Me & You" singer, who is married to personal trainer Alex Fine and eight months pregnant with their child, told jurors on Tuesday, May 13 how the hip-hop mogul forced her to take part in sex encounters called "Freak Offs" that Combs often filmed.