Overview
- Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is charged in Manhattan with federal counts of sex trafficking, racketeering and transporting individuals for prostitution.
- Combs remains detained at the Brooklyn Detention Center under a $10 million bond as the trial enters its latest evidentiary stage.
- Cassie Ventura testified that she was emotionally coerced into participating in sex acts throughout her 11-year relationship with Combs.
- Defense lawyers introduced a 2012 black-and-white image showing Rihanna, Serena Williams and Diddy’s former assistant Capricorn Clark in bikinis to support claims of consent.
- Prosecutors maintain neither Rihanna nor Williams face any criminal implication and accuse Combs of attempting to contact potential witnesses from jail.