The rapper and producer P. Diddy was represented in chief with violent and threatening sex trafficking for the accusation and the first witnesses on Monday, May 12 in his trial in New York, the “hidden face” of a successful artist and businessman who reigned more than three decades of hip-hop.
Given this dark presentation, which details numerous sexual violence and abuse, particularly in its ex -partner, the star of the R&B Cassie, the lawyers of Diddy, 55, tried to take the file to a “issue of love, jealousy, infidelity and money.”
Faced with twelve jurors and six alternatives selected meticulously by the two camps during last week, the very publicized trial of this American rap figure, today after bars, reached the heart of the matter on Monday before the Federal Court of Manhattan.
“A man who runs a criminal business”
The jury members, who will remain in anonymity, will have to say that if the artist with multiple Grammys and the successful producer, who has also made a fortune in fashion and alcohols, since then he has put his notoriety, his financial wealth and his dreaded influence on the world of hip-hop at the service of this traffic.
Sean combs, the real name of Diddy, was “a cultural icon, an extraordinary businessman,” said prosecutor Emily Johnson on which artists raised such as the soul of the hip Mary J. Blige or the rapper the big notorious, killed in 1997.
“But he had a ‘hidden face’, that of a man who runs a criminal business,” he added immediately.
She said that Combres was “brutally” beaten to her ex -girlfriend, singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, and threatened to transmit the videos he filmed when he had to participate in sexual marathons with sex workers.
Several children of Diddy present in the room
One of the men paid for these “monsters,” Daniel Philip, told jurors in details that uncomfortable these episodes dating from 2012 and 2013, remembering the violence committed by the defendant in Cassie. “Why does that do, why he stays with this guy?” He wondered.
“This matter has nothing to do with the private preferences of a celebrity,” the prosecutor insisted. “These are coercive and criminal acts by nature,” he added under the watchful eye of Sean Com combs, sitting among his lawyers, the hair of the clothes after eight months of detention.
In the room, the defendant’s mother is present, as well as several of her sons, including her two twin daughters.
Sean combs, whose fortune had been evaluated at more than $ 700 million by Forbes, is tried for trafficking in sexual exploitation, transport of people for prostitution, as well as acts of kidnapping, corruption and violence grouped under the accusation of a criminal company. Risk the prison for life.
According to the accusation, he forced his employees to distribute drugs to victims during sexual marathons. They would also have had the task of silencing them later.
But the defense has portrayed a completely different reality. The accusations? “Adult, strong women, in full capacity.” Your relationship with Cassie? “A toxic story between two people who loved themselves,” said Tey Geragos, one of the star’s lawyers.
Cassie could testify this Tuesday
“It is not sexual trafficking,” he insisted when describing P. Diddy’s relationship and the singer. According to the lawyer, the defense admits that there has been domestic violence, but the defendant is not judged by such facts.
Key witness of the accusation, Cassie could be called to deliver his truth to the jury on Tuesday. A video Transmitted last year by CNN And captured by the surveillance cameras had shown Sean combs furiously against her in 2016 in a hotel corridor in Los Angeles.
The first witness on Monday, Israel Florez, is the security guard who intervened that day. According to him, when he accompanied the rapper in his room, the latter would have tried to bring him to say anything with a large ticket package.
Bling-Byly is, which apparently showed his fortune at sumptuous festivals where the gratin of the show-biz, P. Diddy, also called Diddy, or Buff Daddy, was high, he fell high from the accusations, he established immediately friendly, Cassie in the autumn of 2023.
Subsequently, several dozen civil complaints for sexual violence were deposited, emanating from women and men. P. Diddy affirms his innocence and claims to have only sexual relations. He rejected a guilt agreement proposed by the accusation, whose details have not been revealed.
Source: BFM TV
