
Jury sees more sex videos as prosecutors wind down case against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Closing arguments were tentatively scheduled for Thursday after what was expected to be a brief defense presentation.
Closing arguments were tentatively scheduled for Thursday after what was expected to be a brief defense presentation.
Attorney Marc Agnifilo told Judge Arun Subramanian that the defense presentation could last less than two days and not more than five, an estimate that would likely not apply if Combs testified.
The second day of cross-examination seemed aimed at supporting the defense position that the woman was a willing participant in the sometimes-weekly sex with male sex workers that Combs directed.
Prosecutors allege Combs used violence, threats and a network of employees and associates to control and abuse women for two decades.
The woman said Combs forced her to have a “freak-off”-style sexual encounter with a male sex worker last year after chasing her around her California home, putting her in a chokehold.
Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan told jurors that Combs lifted her over the railing of a 17th-floor balcony for 10-15 seconds before pulling her back and throwing her onto patio furniture.
A hotel security guard testified Tuesday that the hip-hop mogul gave him a brown paper bag stuffed with $100,000 in cash in order to buy the surveillance footage
Cudi testified Thursday that Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011 after finding out he was dating Combs’ ex-girlfriend.
The class-action litigation, in which former CNO customers say they were overcharged for life insurance, is scheduled for trial in June. About $70 million is being sought for the 2,000 or so class members.
Regina Ventura said she felt “physically sick” when her daughter sent her an email in late 2011 to say Combs threatened to release two explicit videos of her and send someone to hurt her.
Combs’ former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, is expected to take the stand Tuesday after prosecutors on Monday showed jurors video of the performer beating her in a hotel in 2016.
Judge Arun Subramanian granted a request by defense lawyers to delay until Monday the final step in the jury selection process, expected to last less than an hour.
The music mogul has pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment charging him with leading a racketeering conspiracy from 2004 to 2024 that resulted in various crimes, including kidnapping, arson, bribery and sex trafficking.
Miriam Haley, a former TV and movie production assistant, alleges that the former movie mogul forcibly performed oral sex on her at his New York City apartment in 2006.
It’s no ordinary life jurors sent him on to when they quickly returned not guilty verdicts Tuesday on two counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic handgun.
Jurors began deliberating Friday morning and took less than three hours to come up with a verdict following five days of testimony.
Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is set to stand trial before a jury next week, following two years of delays — and nearly seven years since Hill allegedly groped a lawmaker and three staffers during a party.
It’s not often that photojournalists’ cameras get confiscated by the government, at least not in the American land of press freedom. But it happened at the Delphi double-murder trial.
Eight women and six men have been selected so far to a jury in the trial of a man charged in the Indiana killings of two teenage girls during a winter hike in 2017.
A May 5 trial date was set Thursday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’sex trafficking case, and a prosecutor argued that the jailed hip-hop mogul’s lawyers were trying to exclude a “damning piece of evidence” by claiming it was leaked by the government.