Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial enters 3rd week with testimony from ex-employee

The federal sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs resumed on Tuesday morning, getting into its 3rd week of testimony.

The musician and businessman, 55, is dealing with fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He was once arrested in September 2024 and has pleaded now not responsible to all the fees.

On Tuesday morning, the prosecution referred to as Capricorn Clark, a former worker of Combs, to the witness stand.

So a long way, the jury has heard from two of Combs’s former staff – ex-assistants George Kaplan and David James.

At the tip of remaining week, Scott Mescudi – higher referred to as rapper Kid Cudi – took the stand.

He alleged that Combs broke into his house in 2011 after finding that he was once courting Combs’s on-again, off-again female friend, the singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.

Mescudi additionally advised the court docket how, a couple of weeks later, his automotive was once set on fireplace with a molotov cocktail, and that he believed Combs was once accountable. Combs and his attorneys have denied the allegation.

To date, greater than 15 witnesses have testified up to now on this trial. In addition to Mescudi, witnesses have incorporated singer Dawn Richard, two of Combs’s former assistants, Ventura’s former easiest buddy, Ventura’s mom, an unique dancer, a male revue supervisor, a resort safety officer, a distinct agent from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a forensic psychologist, a make-up artist who labored with Combs and Ventura, the normal supervisor of a Beverly Hills resort, and a pc forensics agent from HSI.

Ventura, the prosecution’s key witness, spent 4 days at the stand detailing years of bodily and emotional abuse she says she persisted by way of Combs all over their 11-year on-again, off-again courting.

She testified that Combs orchestrated and directed drug-fueled intercourse performances with male intercourse employees – encounters that he known as “freak-offs”. She additionally testified that he coerced and blackmailed her into taking part.

Attorneys for Combs have attempted to undermine Ventura’s credibility and feature sought to painting her as a prepared and consenting player within the freak-offs.

The trial is anticipated to proceed for approximately six extra weeks. If convicted, Combs may just spend the remainder of his existence in jail.