Sean “Diddy” combs combs sex traial was delayed in the middle of a new accusation

Sean “DiddyThe combs trial for sex trafficking and more have been delayed one week until May 12 after a hearing on Friday at the Federal Court of New York.

The change of the starting date of the original May 5 occurred during a session on the accusation of replacement for forced labor against combs that Prosecutors demolished last weekadding to extortion, sex trafficking and transport statements to participate in prostitution.

Combs, who attended as it has been for each audience in the case since their arrest the past fall, said little during the audience, but declared “not guilty” to the new position, as well as the winning rapper of the Grammy and the founder of Bad Bad Boy Records has made for previous accusations in this matter.

The 55 -year -old defendant entered the court with the attire of the prison of Cochi and with hair that has become surprisingly gray since his last appearance in court. Upon entering, combs turned to the gallery and showed a smile to the members and followers of the family. Before entering his last supplication, combs, standing, he addressed Judge Arun Subramanian as “Lord” and told him that he did not need the new accusation read.

The rest of the audience was occupied with schedules for jury selection, motions and dissemination of evidence.

The setback of the opening arguments for a week was a recognition by the judge that litigating some of those problems could take additional time. It is expected that the only possible group of hundreds of jury candidates will last up to three days at the end of April, the judge said, before the final panel will be submitted to Voir Direct questions, scheduled to start the first days of May.

Lasting less than an hour in front of Subramanian, today’s hearing saw the United States prosecutor’s office and the defenders of the combative defense lawyers on potential witnesses for the 2016 trial and video broadcast the last spring of a half -naked hairstyle that beat the bride at that time, Cassie Ventura, in the hall of a hotel in Los Angeles.

Prosecutor Mitzi Steiner of the Southern District of New York revealed that the federals have another 20 potential witnesses, not yet identified, that they are “incredibly scared” given the idea that their names are revealed to the defense, since the intimidation and fears of the possible violent remuneration of the combs and associates have emerged numerous times in the case. However, today, Subramanian, however, ordered Steiner to deliver the identifications of potential witnesses next week to the defense only by lawyers.

The accusation reviewed (Read it here) Says that combs forced employees to “forced labor”, including sex through intimidation, retained payment, sleep deprivation and dismissal threats. The employees were led to believe that “they would feel damaged, even when losing their jobs, if they did not meet their demands,” says the accusation. “With respect to an employee, the combs used physical strength, psychological damage, financial damage and reputation damage, and/or threats of the same to make the employee participate in sexual acts with combs.”

Arrested A Hotel Manhattan lobby In September, combs faces life imprisonment if you are guilty. The Government cheerful That the combs and their assistants coerced women in marathon sexual encounters called “monsters” with male and female prostitutes, drug use, threats of violence and imprisonment in the hotel rooms where they were staged and video recorded.

Prosecutors claim that the ComBs Commercial Empire, which has fallen into difficult times since the avalanche of accusations began against him at the end of 2023, and the “extortion company” in the heart of his case against the murderer of rap employees was intertwined. The “combs company”, according to the accusation, fulfilled two purposes: operate “a global business in the media, entertainment and lifestyle industries”, and allowing its CEO, its deputies and associates “to participate in illegal acts”, including the distribution of narcotics and distribution of narcotics.

Combs has denied the charges and, through its lawyers, has said that all the sexual meetings described in the accusation were consensual.

Months before being accused for the first time, combs was already fighting to limit the damage of A assault video transmitted by CNN In May. The 2016 images showed the combs hitting their then bride Cassie Ventura, who is the “victim 1” in the federal accusation, and dragged her through a hall of the Los Angeles hotel. Comink apologized Through Instagram two days later CNN The hotel surveillance clip was issued, saying that it was “disgusted” by its behavior. With Ventura demanding the combs for abuse and assault in November 2023 and, after having reached an alleged agreement of $ 30 million within 24 hours, the singer’s lawyers received the apology of May 2024 at that time.

Submitting that image of 2016 to an almost constant minimum since the criminal case began, combs lawyers this week formally accused of cnn of medical the clip When editing and accelerating the footage to transmit and then destroy the original video. “This includes covering the time brand and then changing the video sequence,” the lawyers wrote, adding that “CNN videos do not just and precisely represent the events in question.”

In statements at the deadline that same day, a CNN spokesman denied that the journalist altered or destroyed the video.

In addition to the criminal case, Comps is accused in more than 25 cases of assault, abuse, rape and more, with even more accusations and presentations in the week. Lose one of your key lawyers In the criminal case earlier this year, combs also on February 12 sued Nbcuniversal for $ 100 million In a defamation action on what he calls as a “scandalous set of new lies and conspiracy theories” in Peacock’s documentary Diddy: Making of a bad boy.