WARNING: This story contains allegations regarding sexual violence and may relate to those who have experienced it or meet someone who touched him.
Prosecutors, during sexual trade and conspiracy attempt to tribute Hip Hop Mogul Sean (Diddy), rested their case after calling 34 witnesses to testify in over six weeks.
Music is accused of using his status to force women-in his ex-girlfriend, singer R&B Cassie-in offensive sexual meetings and using violence if they refuse.
Prosecutors quoted multi-day drug-related events, which Combs called “freak-of-offs” as proof of sexual trade and tribute conspiracy.
They argued that Combs were based on employees, colleagues and his business accounts to fly sexual men to Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York, where his employees set hotel rooms to meetings and later cleaned.
Later in the afternoon, the defense rested without calling any witnesses.
Combs lawyers asked the district judge Aruna Subramanian to throw the allegations, arguing that they were not proven. The judge said he was in a later date.
The 55-year-old rapper, producer and founder of Bad Boy Entertainment did not plead guilty of the charges of sexual trade and tribute. He did not testify in his own defense, and his legal team decided not to call any of his own witnesses.
He was imprisoned since the arrest in September. If he is convicted, he could get at least 15 years and lifetime in prison.
The closing arguments have been pre -planned on Thursday.
Here are some of the key moments in the process.
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Combs decision for not testimonies
After resting, subramans prosecutors directly questioned Combs about his decision to lack testimony, standard practice in federal criminal trials, partly to provide the accused, he knows that it was his decision, regardless of what his lawyers told him.
The judge asked Combs how he is doing.
“I do great, your honor,” he replied. “I want to tell you, thank you, you do a great job.”
Combs said that he “thoroughly” discussed the case with his lawyers before he decided not to testify, and said it was “only my decision.”
He then explained: “This is my decision with my lawyers.”
Cassie was afraid that Combs released freak-off movies
Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, was the star of the prosecutor's office and testified within four days in the first week of the trial.
The 38-year-old said that Combs dictated every aspect of events.
She said that Combs asked her for humiliating and painful sexual acts with men's sex employees and that she was doing freaks-offs for a decade, and the last one took place in 2017 or 2018.
She said that although she hated a violation of sex with strangers, she could not reject the Combs demands because she would make her “looked like a whore”, releasing the recordings of freak-offs.
She testified that she sometimes took IV liquids to recover and eventually developed opioid addiction because it made her “feel numb.”
Combs lawyers tried to show the jury that Cassie was a willing participant in his sexual lifestyle and say that although it could be violent, nothing was crimes.
WARNING: This film can affect people who have experienced sexual violence or know someone who touched it. |. Cassie, a singer of R&B, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, testified the second day in her former attempt to sex Combbs combsa on Wednesday, saying that the musical tycoon locked her in physical life, threatening to deteriorate her sexual films.
“Jane” participated in Freak-Offs to please Combs
The girl was different, testifying under the pseudonym Jane, she fought through tears and sobs to tell frequent sexual results in which she participated with male sex employees to satisfy Combs and maintain a three -year relationship alive for his September arrest.
Jane, who testified for six days during the last week of the trial, said that she never wanted to have sex with other men, but she did a happy sin because she loved him.
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Jane described almost the same experiences she had done from 2021 to August last year, although she called them “hotel nights”.
She said that her relationship with Combs began with an affair, but later she consisted of sexual results, especially after Combs began to pay rent.
Defense insisted that Jane and Combs would only get involved in consensual sex, and Jane's protests towards combs in text messages were powered by jealousy.
Kid Miraci talks about the arson of the car
Rapper Kid Miraci testified that Combs broke home in Hollywood Hills in 2011 after he found out that he was meeting Cassie and that someone set fire to his car a few weeks later.
He said he took Cassie to the West Hollywood hotel when he got a phone call from the Combs, Capricorn Clark, who told him that Combs and his colleague were at his home and that they forced her to go with them.
Miracle – whose name is Scott Mescudi – he said he called Combs and asked why he was at his home. He said Combs calmly replied, “I want to talk to you.”
But Miraci said that Combs were not when he arrived and that he called the police.
A few weeks later, Miraci testified that his Porsche 911 convertible was destroyed by a fire when parking in its driveway.
Photos shown the jury showed a hole cut out in the roof of the car fabric. Miracle said that a Molotov cocktail was found in the passenger seat.
The former advisor says that Combs kidnapped, threatened to kill her
A few days later, Clark testified that Combs waved a weapon when he kidnapped her rabble rush to find miracles.
Clark told how they rode in the black escalad Cadillac home Miraci in Los Angeles, where Combs and his bodyguard entered the residence.
After burglary, Clark testified that Combs told her that he had to convince Miraci, that he was not involved, saying: “If you do not convince him, I would kill you everything,” puncting his threat of curse.
Rapper Kid Miraci testified on the attempt to Combs Sean (Diddy) about his car in 2011 after confrontation with Combs with his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs did not plead for sexual trade and tribute.
Cassie's friend says that Combs hung her on the balcony
The court also heard accusations of other violent behavior.
Bryan Bongolan, a friend of Cassie, testified that Combs held her on the Cassie balcony in Los Angeles in Cassie.
Bongolan said she was afraid that she would fall to death when she pushed against the comb.
Bongolan said that Combami shouted at her throughout the test, estimating that he was holding her over the handrail for 10 to 15 seconds.
Combs was afraid that the video Cassie Assault “would ruin his career”
The court heard how Combs paid a hotel security officer to convey filmmakers that showed him violently attacking Cassie in the corridor.
Eddy Garcia, who worked at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, testified on June 3 that Combs contacted him shortly after the incident and asked for material. Garcia told him that Combs told him that “taking care of him” if he gave combs a video.
The jurors were previously shown video from March 2016 from the hotel hall, where Combs, dressed only in a towel, threw Cassie to the ground, kicked it and pulled it away.
“He was afraid that this film would come out and that he would ruin his career,” said Garcia, who received immunity from the prosecutor's office to testimony.
Garcia said that when he told his boss, what Combs said about the film, he said that Combs could have it in exchange for $ 50,000. The boss gave Garcia a USB drive with materials for providing combs. When Garcia gave him him, Combs returned with a brown bag and a meter of money.
CNN gained access to the film and broadcast it last year, leading Combs to an apology.
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