Diddy's marathon enactment trafficking proceedings volition see graphic videos of 'freak off' orgies, the rapper brutally beating Cassie Ventura, and dozens of witnesser accounts.
Prosecutors lined up a what they accidental is simply a damning array of grounds against the disgraced entertainer, 55, arsenic they question to enactment him down bars for life.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs is charged with racketeering conspiracy, 2 counts of enactment trafficking and 2 counts of transporting individuals for prostitution.
Eighteen jurors - 12 superior and six alternates - volition reappraisal mountains of grounds implicit 8 to 10 weeks successful the Southern District of New York Federal Court.
One of the archetypal items volition beryllium an infamous security camera video of Diddy beating his then-girlfriend Ventura successful the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel successful 2016.
Ventura herself volition attest arsenic aboriginal arsenic Monday day aft lawyers connected some sides implicit their opening statements.
The mates had a turbulent relationship and she is expected to archer the assemblage however Diddy forced her to enactment successful the 'freak offs' and past blackmailed her with videos.
Ventura is simply a cardinal prosecution witness, some for her cognition of his notorious enactment afterparties and the alleged intersexual maltreatment astatine them, and his attraction of her.
Cassie and Diddy archetypal met successful 2005, erstwhile she was 19 and helium was a 39-year-old superstar. Her allegations of maltreatment against the rapper are astatine the halfway of his enactment trafficking trial. They are pictured successful New York successful 2006
Prosecutors are besides expected to trust heavy connected videos of the 'freak offs' they collected from Diddy's devices and those of different attendees.
The late-night events allegedly included women forced to person enactment with antheral prostitutes and beryllium degraded successful beforehand of a crowd, portion Diddy masturbated and filmed the sick spectacle.
The indictment alleged the events sometimes lasted days and participants required IV drips to recover.
Some of the videos were filmed by Ventura, which the defence tried to crook backmost connected her by claiming she had the powerfulness successful that situation, not Diddy.
The FBI seized 96 physics devices erstwhile it raided Diddy's mansion successful March past year, 8 of them containing an 'extraordinary' 90TB of data, prosecutors said.
Many of the civilian lawsuits against Diddy assertion helium filmed intersexual assaults perpetrated against victims, galore of them drugged.
Assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson wrapped up her opening statement by informing jurors they would spot unit for themselves.
She said they would spot videos of Cassie and a Jane Doe arsenic they 'pretend they bask themselves during freak offs and volition spot Combs 'brutally beating Cassie during a freak disconnected astatine an LA hotel'.
Diddy's yearly Labor Day 'White Party' was known for being brainsick and often getting retired of control. Prosecutors allege his White Parties were often followed by 'freak off' orgies
Diddy is pictured astatine his 1998 achromatic enactment successful the Hamptons
The videos of Ventura successful peculiar were 'souvenirs of the astir humiliating nights of her life'.
The authoritative alleged the 'freak offs' were truthful depraved that those participating were plied with drugs to 'stay awake and execute for him for hours and days connected end'.
Diddy allegedly besides had immense stores of babe lipid and different lubricants, and had assistants bringing them successful on with different items needed for the parties.
'He called them freak-offs, chaotic king nights, oregon edifice nights. His unit organized flights, cars and hotels,' Johnson said.
'At his direction, his unit acceptable up the country with lubricant and lighting. Staff came successful with currency to wage the escorts, and drugs.'
Johnson alleged Diddy 'viciously attacked' women erstwhile they resisted taking portion successful the parties, oregon different upset him.
Video grounds is considered to beryllium particularly almighty successful the case, arsenic it is incontrovertible dissimilar witnesser testimony, which tin beryllium embellished.
Diddy lone admitted to beating Ventura aft the video was broadcast past year.
'I instrumentality afloat work for my actions successful that video,' helium successful May 2024, calling what helium did 'inexcusable'.
'I was disgusted past erstwhile I did it. I'm disgusted now.'
This is the lone maltreatment Diddy has ever admitted to.
Ventura, who is expecting her 3rd kid with hubby Alex Fine, was spotted successful New York this week arsenic she awaits to attest against Diddy
Defense lawyers unsuccessfully tried earlier proceedings to get the video banned from the proceedings connected the grounds that a signaling that aired connected CNN past twelvemonth was unfair due to the fact that it was edited and incomplete.
The prosecution told jurors they volition perceive the lengths that Combs' interior ellipse went to arsenic they helped him fell the onslaught and get what they thought was the lone video recording.
Johnson said a information defender was fixed a brownish insubstantial container afloat of $100,000 successful currency portion Combs' bodyguard and main of unit stood by.
'This is acold from the lone clip that the defendant's interior ellipse tried to adjacent ranks and bash harm control,' she said.
Witness grounds from alleged victims, employees, and dozens of others volition besides signifier portion of the case, though it is not wide precisely who volition beryllium called.
Johnson told jurors they would perceive grounds from victims who said Combs, 55, routinely bushed them and exploded with rage astatine the smallest slights.
'They volition archer you astir immoderate of the astir achy experiences of their lives. The days they spent successful edifice rooms, precocious connected drugs, dressed successful costumes to execute the defendant's intersexual fantasies,' Johnson said.
Diddy is charged with racketeering conspiracy, 2 counts of enactment trafficking and 2 counts of transporting individuals for prostitution
Diddy pours champagne implicit 2 near-naked women astatine his Labor Day enactment successful 1998
Witnesses could see immoderate of the men and women who sued Diddy successful civilian tribunal for alleged intersexual maltreatment and rape, on with orgy guests.
But the large bulk of those allegations aren't portion of the transgression lawsuit arsenic prosecutors chose to absorption connected a comparatively tiny fig of accusers and allegations wherever determination is carnal grounds oregon corroboration by witnesses.
Prosecutors shared a horrific assertion of Ventura 'feeling similar she was choking erstwhile Diddy made an escort urinate successful her mouth' during a 'freak off'.
Johnson besides said she overdosed astatine a 'freak off' erstwhile she had an unfastened coiled connected her look from the astir caller battle by the rapper.
People who watched arsenic the women were allegedly degraded and forced into enactment could beryllium named during the trial, including celebrities.
The archetypal witnesser called was Israel Florez, present a Los Angeles Police Department officer.
In March 2016, helium was moving astatine a Los Angeles edifice arsenic adjunct manager of information erstwhile helium got a telephone that a pistillate was successful distress connected the sixth level and encountered Combs.
Johnson previewed different claims including however Diddy had his bodyguards kidnap an employee, acceptable occurrence to someone's car, and dangled a idiosyncratic disconnected a balcony.
'Champagne from heaven' served to guests by models dressed arsenic angels astatine Diddy's Labor Day enactment successful 1999
A exemplary dances astatine The Real White Party astatine Diddy's East Hampton property connected September 2, 2007
About 150 imaginable jurors were vetted earlier the last 18 were selected. Each was handed a binder containing dozens of names and places that whitethorn travel up during the euphony mogul's trial.
The database of astatine slightest 190 individuals includes comedian Mike Myers, histrion Michael B. Jordan, rappers Kanye West and Kid Cudi and Destiny's Child vocalist Michelle Williams.
It was not made wide what relation immoderate of them would play successful the proceedings oregon whether they would beryllium called to testify, oregon conscionable mentioned successful passing.
Myers was apt dragged into the lawsuit implicit a country successful Austin Powers: Goldmember, wherever the quality Dr Evil had an 'E. Diddy' tattoo connected his buttocks aft spending clip successful prison.
The country successful the 2002 drama besides featured Beyoncé.
Diddy's lawyers argued prosecutors, were trying to crook intersexual relations betwixt consenting adults into a prostitution and enactment trafficking case.
'Sean Combs is simply a analyzable man. But this is not a analyzable case. This lawsuit is astir love, jealousy, infidelity and money,' Diddy's lawyer Teny Geragos began successful her opening statement.
'There has been a tremendous magnitude of sound astir this lawsuit implicit the past year,' Geragos told jurors, noting immense quality media sum and societal media chatter.
'It is clip to cancel that noise.'
The rapper's intersexual habits were portion of a swinger manner involving consenting adults, Geragos said.
Diddy's parent Janice Combs (right) walking into the courthouse alongside chap supporters for her son's archetypal time connected trial
All of Diddy's kids, including his adopted lad Quincy Brown (right) - the biologic lad of the rapper's precocious ex-girlfriend Kim Porter - showed up to enactment their father
Diddy reacts to his household members seated successful the assemblage astatine his enactment trafficking trial
She acknowledged that immoderate jurors mightiness not condone 'his kinky enactment and his preferences for sex' but she urged them to justice the lawsuit with an unfastened mind.
Those intersexual predilections, she said, bash not equate to enactment trafficking.
You volition perceive astir swinger parties...they volition attest astir things that should ne'er beryllium heard successful a Federal courtroom, that helium liked to watch,' she said.
'You whitethorn not similar that, but you are not present to justice him for his intersexual preferences.'
Geragos claimed the lawsuit was a 'money grab', peculiarly for Ventura.
This transgression lawsuit started due to the fact that [Cassie] filed a nationalist suit against C [Diddy] successful 2023, erstwhile she was having fiscal occupation and surviving successful her parents' humble location successful Connecticut,' she claimed.
'They volition assertion they were truthful acrophobic they couldn’t spell to the constabulary but they were not truthful acrophobic to spell to civilian lawyers… for unbelievable amounts of money.'