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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura is acceptable to attest against his him successful his sex-trafficking and racketeering proceedings successful Manhattan national court.
The disgraced euphony mogul, 55, is accused of starring a transgression endeavor for 20 years, utilizing his fame and wealthiness to coerce and endanger women into submission.
On Monday, the assemblage heard harrowing testimony from Daniel Phillip, a antheral escort who testified that helium was paid thousands of dollars to person enactment with Cassie arsenic Diddy watched.
Phillip recalled witnessing the rapper physically maltreatment Cassie connected aggregate occasions and added that the euphony mogul erstwhile gave him MDMA.
His grounds came aft the tribunal heard however Combs forced women to instrumentality portion successful drug-fueled enactment parties which went connected for days portion helium filmed them.
Combs' defence says helium is blameworthy of domestic violence but not of sex-trafficking oregon racketeering, and that the authorities is targeting him for his intersexual preferences.
Full grounds of antheral escort who claims helium was paid by Diddy to slumber with Cassie
Daniel Phillip, 41, took to the basal for an hr yesterday day to allege however Combs paid him up to $6,000 each clip to instrumentality portion successful orchestrated intersexual relations with R&B vocalist Casandra 'Cassie' Ventura.
Diddy would often nonstop their encounters, forcing them to engage successful awkward 'role play' earlier giving Mr Phillip circumstantial instructions connected erstwhile and wherever to orgasm, the antheral escort alleged.
Diddy's lawyer's astonishing petition of eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant Cassie
Lawyers for Sean 'Diddy' Combs requested if the rap mogul's ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura could beryllium readily seated when she testifies against her ex successful court, alternatively of walking to the basal successful beforehand of the jury.
Marc Agnifilo, 1 of Combs' attorneys, made a petition of District Court Judge Arun Subramanian to halt her from walking to the basal successful beforehand of imaginable jurors, hoping to debar emotionally swaying from those deciding his fate.
Diddy's children and parent supporting him during proceedings
Diddy's parent Janice Combs and six of his 7 children arrived successful tribunal for opening statements Monday.
They were escorted past a assemblage of media and would-be proceedings watchers and brought consecutive into the building.
They sat unneurotic during witnesser testimony, with the rapper's sons looking uncomfortable arsenic sordid details were shared connected the stand.
Diddy tried to obstruct justness from jail, prosecutors argued
In November, prosecutors claimed that the rapper had tried to scope retired to prospective witnesses and power nationalist sentiment from jailhouse successful a bid to impact imaginable jurors up of the trial.
Prosecutors wrote that a reappraisal of recorded jailhouse calls made by Combs showed helium asked household members to scope retired to imaginable victims and witnesses and urged them to make 'narratives' to power the assemblage pool. They said helium besides encouraged selling strategies to sway nationalist opinion.
An lawyer for Combs, Anthony Ricco, said successful tribunal that the prosecution’s portrayal of Combs arsenic 'a lawless idiosyncratic who doesn’t travel instructions' oregon 'an out-of-control idiosyncratic who has to beryllium detained' was inaccurate.
Judge Arun Subramanian denied the bail application, saying grounds showed Combs to beryllium a 'serious hazard of witnesser tampering.'
What Diddy's overheard courtroom whispers to heavy large TV newsman reveal
If immoderate different antheral had asked however she was feeling, large Fox5 newsman Michelle Ross wouldn't person batted an eyelid.
But coming from the lips of the astir celebrated showbiz villain successful the world, the elemental 'how are you?' carried what could beryllium perceived arsenic a seedy undertone.
Ross, who is 7 months pregnant, isn't the lone expectant parent connected the rapper's mind.
Next week, Cassie Ventura, who is besides heavy pregnant, is expected to instrumentality the basal successful Diddy's blockbuster enactment trafficking trial.
The rapper's ex-girlfriend and unfortunate of the notoriously convulsive smackdown video that was the catalyst for his arrest, she present holds the cardinal to the astir hotly anticipated personage proceedings successful caller memory.
Read the afloat database of charges against Diddy
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces a slew of charges related to his alleged intersexual and carnal maltreatment of women.
He was charged with 3 crimes - racketeering, enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
Heavily-pregnant Cassie seen days earlier she takes the basal against Diddy
The singer, who is expecting her 3rd kid with hubby Alex Fine, was spotted successful New York this week arsenic assemblage enactment successful her ex partner's lawsuit dragged on.
She announced her gestation successful February this year, and is understood to beryllium successful her 3rd trimester.
Will Diddy's proceedings beryllium televised?
Unlike different high-profile cases, the rapper's proceedings volition not beryllium televised arsenic it is successful national court.
Electronic media, including cameras, are banned successful the Manhattan tribunal room.
A sketch artist's enactment volition beryllium the lone visuals coming retired of the courtroom.
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