After a number of doable delays, the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs started this week.
Mid-April, the protection requested Choose Arun Subramanian to push again the Could 12 begin date by two weeks. That request didn’t maintain up, evidently. Two days later, it was requested the beginning date be moved again 60 days, or two months. The rapper wrote a letter asking for the adjournment, however the begin date remained on the right track.
The jury choice took over every week, and a key witness introduced the beginning all the way down to the wire hours earlier than opening statements had been set to happen by remaining unreachable by the U.S. Lawyer’s workplace for the Southern District of New York. The trial might last as long as eight weeks.
The Unhealthy Boy Data founder, who’s at present incarcerated, faces quite a few costs, lawsuits and allegations for intercourse trafficking and extra. The rapper did have a 1995 rape allegation at a celebration for Biggie Smalls, aka The Infamous B.I.G. thrown out six weeks forward of the trial’s starting.
Choose Lewis J. Liman, the choose who’s overseeing the Blake Energetic vs. Justin Baldoni case, dismissed the rape case after the Jane Doe that introduced the allegations in opposition to Diddy didn’t file underneath her personal title by the deadline of March 20. With celebrities from Jay-Z Carter, in a since-dismissed rape case, to Usher implicated within the context of Diddy’s events from residing conditions or affiliation with the musician, the trial has infiltrated popular culture because the connections are countless.
For an entire timeline of the trial — and updates as to who testifies and the result, learn on under. We can be updating:
Could 12 – Trial Begins, Opening Statements
Former male stripper service supervisor Daniel Phillips opened the trial with graphic element about roughly two years throughout which he was paid 1000’s of {dollars} to have intercourse with Cassie Ventura in entrance of Combs, who grew to become more and more violent.
“He began directing us after the second session,”Phillips stated of Combs and the Gramercy Park Lodge in 2012. Former resort safety guard and now LAPD officer Israel Florez additionally testified Monday.
Could 13 & 14 – Cassie Ventura’s Trial Testimony
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American singer and dancer Cassie Ventura subsequent took the stand to testify within the trial as a witness for the prosecution. Ventura dated Diddy for over a decade, and in Nov. 2023, she accused him of rape and abuse in a shortly settled civil lawsuit.
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She testified Tuesday, Could 13. She agreed to drop her personal lawsuit 24 hours after she filed it in late 2023 for an undisclosed (rumored to be $30 million) sum. In reality, it was for $20 mullion, she confirmed the afternoon of Wednesday, Could 14. The previous longtime girlfriend of Combs described how he had managed each facet of her life when repeatedly questioned concerning the “freak off” intercourse classes wherein she participated.
“I needed to be compensated for the time, the ache … to repair my life,” the ‘Me & U’ singer stated.
Could 15: Diddy OD’d, Cassie Ventura Cross-Examination
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Thursday shifted to the subject of medicine used throughout Diddy’s and Cassie Ventura’s poisonous relationship, from Ecstasy, MDMA, opiates and GBH to extra, within the protection’s cross-examination of Ventura.
A lot of the fabric that was resurfaced Thursday was already identified.
One revelation was that, in 2012, Diddy overdosed throughout a celebration on the beforehand Hugh Hefner-owned Playboy Mansion.
“From what he advised me, he took a really robust opiate that evening, however we didn’t know what was taking place, so we took him to the hospital,” Ventura defined Thursday with Combs close by.
Could 16: Ventura Reveals $10M Settlement From Lodge In 2016 Beating By Diddy
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Friday closed out the primary week of Diddy’s trial.
In an sudden testimony, Ventura revealed that she has a $10 million settlement coming from the InterContinenatl Lodge in Century Metropolis for Diddy beating her, footage of which he resort’s safety cameras captured.
“I didn’t save Cassie, as some have stated, the previous private coach and doable protection witness said. “To say that’s an insult to the years of painful work my spouse has performed to save lots of herself. Cassie saved Cassie. She alone broke free from abuse, coercion, violence and threats,” Ventura’s husband Alex Positive stated in a press release Friday. “She did the work of preventing the demons that solely a demon himself might have performed to her. All I’ve performed is love her as she has cherished me. Her life is now surrounded by love, laughter and our household. This horrific chapter is eternally put behind us, and we is not going to be making further statements.”
Cassie Ventura in NYC after finishing her testimony ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse -trafficking on Could 16, 2025
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Daybreak Richard, the previous Making the Band contestant and Diddy’s collaborator, additionally took the stand for 20 minutes on the finish of the day although the protection objected to her testimony. She additionally described witnessing Ventura “being attacked by Combs” in 2009. Ricard, who has a civil go well with of her personal in opposition to Diddy, can be again on the stand on Could 19 – although she could also be restricted in what she will be able to focus on.
Many of the remainder of the prosecution’s witnesses will not be being revealed to far forward of time due to worries for his or her security. Having stated that, we all know that Ventura’s mom is ready to testify nest week, as is a former shut good friend of the singer.
Could 19 – Daybreak Richard Returns To The Stand
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After first taking the stand Friday, Could 16, Making the Band alumna Daybreak Richard returned Monday, Could 19, with extra testimony of abuse, each that she skilled and noticed. Throughout her 2.5 hours on the stand, Richard described Diddy’s abuse of Cassie Ventura in nice element whereas acknowledging her lack of interference.
Could 20: Cassie’s Mom Testifies
Cassie Ventura’s mom took the stand briefly Tuesday, Could 20, to supply her tackle the connection between her daughter and Diddy. “I used to be scared for my daughter’s security,” Regina Ventura advised jurors.
This was after the conclusion of a blended testimony from Combs’ former assistant David James.
Scott Mescudi aka Child Cudi on the world premiere of “Knuckles”
Could 21: Child Cudi Set To Testify
Wednesday noticed rapper Child Cudi cemented to testify within the trial on Thursday.
Could 22: Child Cudi’s Testimony Reveals Threats From Diddy Over Cudi’s Temporary Relationship with Cassie Ventura
Scott Mescudi, aka Child Cudi, revealed harm to his Porsche and different threats by Combs in response to Cudi’s briefly relationship Cassie Ventura. Cudi demanded compensation for the car, which was torched by a Molotov cocktail put in by the lower roof of the automotive.
Cudi spent simply over three hours on the stand because the thirteenth witness for the feds on the sex-trafficking trial.
Could 27: Captricorn Clark Testifies, 50 Cent Mocks Diddy
Coming off Memorial Day weekend, former Diddy aide Capricorn Clark took the stand for the prosecution to provide perception into her time working for Diddy. Clark spoke about alleged violence, threats, polygraph assessments and twin kidnappings.
Beneath oath, Clark stated Tuesday that after an MTV occasion with 50 Cent in attendance just a few years again, she heard Combs inform his then supervisor, the now deceased Chris Lighty, that he had issues with the usually provocative Curtis Jackson. 50 Cent took to social media to mock Diddy Tuesday.
Could 29: Combs Former Aide “Mia” Testifies, Detailing Fixed Worry of Him
“Mia” testified within the closing hour of Diddy’s trial Thursday. Diddy’s former aide spoke of many rapes she suffered from the rapper.
Could 30: President Donald Trump Says He Would Take into account Pardoning Diddy
“I would definitely have a look at the details if I feel anyone was mistreated, whether or not they like me or don’t like me,” Trump stated Friday, Could 30 within the Oval Workplace when requested if he would pardon Combs. “It wouldn’t have any influence on me.”
The president referred to as Savannah Chrisley Could 27 to inform her he deliberate to pardon her dad and mom Todd and Julie Chrisley, two actuality present TV stars sentenced to jail for fraud and tax evasion in 2022.
Could 31: 50 Cent Says He’ll Attain Out To Trump About Potential Pardon
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“He stated some actually unhealthy issues about Trump, it’s not OK,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson wrote on-line Saturday, mere shortly after the president advised he may pardon Diddy. “Im gonna attain out so he is aware of how I really feel about this man.”
June 3: Diddy Faces New Accuser; $100K Fee for Sole Copy of L.A. Lodge Footage Of Cassie Ventura Beating Surfaces
Early June noticed the trial focus in on how Combs shelled out $100 thousand for what he thought was the “solely copy” of the video of his beating Cassie Ventura on the Los Angeles InterContinental resort in 2016. NDAs had been additionally concerned
A former safety guard on the InterContinental testified on the Unhealthy Boy Data founder’s sex-trafficking trial June 3.
“He stated it needed to be the one copy and that he didn’t need it getting out and if I used to be certain nothing was on the cloud, Eddi Garcia stated of his conversations with the rapper 9 years in the past. Garcia additionally stated that Diddy claimed the video “might smash him” if it went public.
June 5: Choose Threatens To Bar Diddy From Courtroom If His Interplay With Jurors Continues
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CNN reported that Choose Arun Subramanian warned protection attorneys within the absence of the jury that he may exclude the rapper from the courtroom in Decrease Manhattan if he stored nodding or making facial expressions on the jurors.