Here is The Newest On Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs As Trial Begins

Might 13, 2025Ventura, whose 2023 lawsuit accusing Combs of rape and bodily abuse kicked off his authorized issues, testified she and Combs would have “violent arguments” during which he would “smash me in my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me,” and that Combs commonly coerced her into “freak off” intercourse performances during which he would watch her have intercourse with a male escort, which Ventura stated made her really feel “disgusting” and “horrible about myself.”

Might 12, 2025Testimony started in Combs’ trial, starting with a then-hotel safety guard who responded in 2016 to Combs attacking Cassie in a Los Angeles lodge, an incident caught on surveillance cameras and revealed final yr by CNN, who testified Combs had bribed him to remain silent concerning the incident and stated he noticed Ventura “within the nook, hood on, coated up,” with a “purple eye.”

The second witness, male escort Daniel Phillip, testified he was paid to have intercourse with Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura whereas Combs watched and that he noticed Combs throw a bottle at Ventura, pull her by her hair and drag her right into a room when she didn’t come to him after he known as for her.

Testimony adopted opening statements, during which the prosecution portrayed Combs because the chief of a felony enterprise that coerced girls to have intercourse with male escorts, whereas Combs’ protection admitted he has engaged in violent habits, however denied this amounted to intercourse trafficking or his different prices.

Might 5, 2025The primary day of Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial started with the choice course of for 12 members of the jury and 6 alternates who will probably be vetted for impartiality and stay nameless all through the trial.

Might 1, 2025Combs turned down a plea deal from federal prosecutors, confirming his resolution with federal Decide Arun Subramanian 4 days earlier than he was scheduled to face trial on 5 federal prices together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering, all of which he has pleaded not responsible to.

April 25, 2025At a pre-trial listening to in New York courtroom, Subramanian stated the protection didn’t show a video of Combs beating Cassie in a lodge in 2016 is inadmissible, stating there’s no “unfair prejudice to Mr. Combs,” after Combs’s attorneys argued the footage was manipulated.

On the listening to, federal prosecutor Madison Smyser stated Combs had rejected a plea supply, although particulars of the deal weren’t disclosed, whereas Combs’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo informed the choose Combs took half within the “way of life” of a “swinger” and argued his sexual encounters had been consensual, a attainable trace at Combs’s protection for the trial.

April 19, 2025U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian rejected Combs’ request to delay his trial begin date by two months so his authorized crew may have further time to organize a protection in opposition to new prices filed simply two weeks prior, telling the rap mogul he made the request too late, leaving lower than three weeks earlier than Combs stands trial on his felony prices.

April 14, 2025Combs, who has been in jail for seven months, pleaded not responsible to new prices of intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution, that means he has pleaded not responsible to all 5 of his federal prices.

April 4, 2025Prosecutors filed one other superseding indictment in opposition to Combs in New York federal courtroom, including two prices to convey his whole to 5—with new counts together with an extra cost of intercourse trafficking and one other rely of transportation to interact in prostitution, each regarding an unnamed sufferer known as “Sufferer-2,” whom prosecutors allege Combs “recruited, enticed, harbored, transported and maintained” to “have interaction in industrial intercourse acts.”

March 24, 2025U.S. District Decide J. Paul Oetken stated Jones—a former producer for Combs who sued the rap mogul final yr for allegedly forcing him to interact in intercourse acts with intercourse staff and accused him of intercourse trafficking—didn’t present adequate harm to “enterprise or property” to convey claims in opposition to Combs beneath the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, however dominated his intercourse trafficking allegations may proceed.

March 14, 2025Combs pleaded not responsible to a brand new indictment prosecutors in Manhattan had filed per week prior, accusing the rap mogul of utilizing pressure and threats to coerce staff to work lengthy hours, with U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian noting jury choice for Combs’ trial will start Might 5 for a tentative trial date of Might 12.

March 6, 2025Prosecutors filed a brand new indictment in opposition to Combs in New York federal courtroom, which didn’t add new prices however accused him of sustaining management over staff by forcing them to “work lengthy hours with little sleep” by subjecting them to, or threatening them with, “bodily pressure, psychological hurt, monetary hurt, and reputational hurt,” inflicting them to consider they could lose their jobs if they didn’t comply along with his calls for, with Combs allegedly forcing one worker to interact in intercourse acts with him via threats and pressure.

Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifolio informed a number of information shops Combs “vehemently denies the accusations,” stating “many former staff stand by his aspect, ready to attest to the dedication, arduous work, and inspiration they skilled” whereas working for Combs, who “appears ahead to his day in courtroom when it should grow to be clear that he has by no means compelled anybody to interact in sexual acts in opposition to their will” (Forbes has reached out to Agnifolio for remark).

Feb. 21, 2025Lawyer Anthony Ricco stated in a movement filed Friday that “in no way can I proceed to successfully function counsel for Sean Combs.” He did not cite any particular causes he could not keep on the case, however stated they d0 exist and are protected by attorney-client privilege. Combs’ different attorneys, Marc Agnifilo and and Teny Geragos, are anticipated to proceed representing him.

Feb. 18, 2025Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs requested a choose to dismiss one of many prices introduced in opposition to him in a superseding indictment final month—transportation to interact in prostitution—claiming “no white particular person has ever been the goal of a remotely comparable prosecution. Combs was charged with transportation to interact in prostitution beneath The Mann Act, which in 1910 made it unlawful to move girls for prostitution and human trafficking. Combs’ attorneys argued in a memorandum filed Tuesday that the statute has racist origins, and that Combs “has been singled out as a result of he’s a strong Black man, and he’s being prosecuted for conduct that commonly goes unpunished.”

Feb. 14, 2025A high-profile swimsuit accusing Combs and fellow rapper Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old in 2000 was dropped by the plaintiff’s attorneys, after each Combs and Jay-Z denied the allegations (Learn extra about it right here).

Feb. 12, 2025Combs claimed NBCUniversal and Ample Leisure allowed claims they knew had been false to be broadcast within the documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy,” which launched final month. The lawsuit claims executives knew a number of allegations made within the movie had been false—together with that there are movies of Combs sexually assaulting inebriated celebrities and minors and that Combs was chargeable for a number of murders—however allowed them to air anyway with “reckless disregard” for the reality.

Within the documentary, a number of individuals interviewed make all kinds of allegations about Combs and people near him, together with that Combs had threatened individuals. Representatives for NBCUniversal, Peacock & Ample Leisure didn’t instantly reply to Forbes request for remark Wednesday.

Jan. 30, 2025Prosecutors filed a superseding indictment that accuses Combs of utilizing pressure, threats and coercion to trigger at the least three unnamed, feminine victims into industrial intercourse acts, and additional accuses him of abuse that included throwing issues at individuals, hitting, choking, pushing and, at one time, dangling a sufferer over an residence balcony. His lawyer denied the brand new allegations in a press release to the Related Press.

Jan. 30, 2025Combs was reportedly transported from jail to the Brooklyn Hospital Middle at round 10 p.m. for an MRI after complaining of ache in his knee. He returned hours later.

Jan. 14, 2025Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs submitted a letter to federal choose Arun Subramanian demanding prosecutors produce movies talked about within the indictment in opposition to him of his so-called “freak off” events, claiming they present his sexual exercise with certainly one of his alleged victims was consensual and that they’ll show the federal government is attempting to “police non-confirming sexual exercise.” Combs’ attorneys declare the 9 movies possessed by prosecutors will present “adults having consensual intercourse, plain and easy” and comprise no proof of violence, coercion, threats, intercourse trafficking or different claims made in opposition to Combs.

Dec. 18, 2024Combs appeared in courtroom for a quick listening to in his federal case at which federal prosecutors stated they plan to reveal all obtainable proof to his protection crew by the tip of the yr in preparation for a Might trial date. One courtroom reporter described Combs as showing “thinner” and “grayer” than when he was final seen in public, and the music mogul wished spectators a “Completely satisfied Holidays” as he left.

Dec. 2, 2024Maurene Comey, former FBI director James Comey’s daughter who litigated the case during which Maxwell was convicted for her position in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor ladies with Jeffrey Epstein, on Monday notified the federal courtroom within the Southern District of New York that she has joined the prosecution in opposition to Combs.

Nov. 27, 2024Subramanian denied Combs’ request to be launched on bail citing “compelling proof of Combs’s propensity for violence.” Subramanian’s ruling additionally acknowledged that there was proof supporting “a critical threat of witness tampering,” together with proof that he “violated Bureau of Prisons laws throughout his pretrial detention to obscure his communications with third events.” The choose additionally wrote the federal government prosecutors have proven “by clear and convincing proof that no situation or mixture of circumstances will moderately guarantee the protection of the neighborhood.”

Nov. 25, 2024Attorneys for the federal authorities argued in opposition to Combs’ push to get launched on $50 million bail and a laundry checklist of different circumstances, telling Decide Arun Subramanian in a letter the package deal “doesn’t come shut to making sure the safety of the neighborhood” or to making sure Combs will not intervene with the case or attempt to flee earlier than the trial—citing an alleged “sample of violence” towards girls and his personal workers. In their very own letter, protection attorneys argued Combs has been unconstitutionally held in jail and silenced since he was first arrested in September, that the federal government has launched a marketing campaign in opposition to him to maintain him from getting a good trial and that Combs “just isn’t required to take a seat idly by and acquiesce to all of this.” Subramanian is anticipated to decide on bail by Thanksgiving.

Nov. 22, 2024Subramanian heard arguments from attorneys on either side however punted a call to the next week on whether or not Combs needs to be launched on bail. Subramanian rejected the concept Combs be saved beneath home arrest at a house with a ship dock in Miami however appeared open to probably releasing him to confinement with around-the-clock safety at a three-bedroom residence on Manhattan’s Higher East Facet. He requested attorneys to submit additional arguments in writing by Monday, Nov. 25.

Nov. 19, 2024Subramanian informed prosecutors to “eliminate” their copies of handwritten notes taken by Combs in jail, making the choice as he considers authorized arguments from Combs’ attorneys that the notes had been topic to attorney-client privilege and counter arguments from prosecutors who accused Combs of writing a couple of witness tampering plot.

Nov. 15, 2024In a submitting opposing Combs’ request to be launched on bail, prosecutors declare Combs has tried to “corruptly affect witness testimony” by asking his members of the family to succeed in out to victims and potential witnesses and create “narratives” to have an effect on their opinion, whereas additionally asking his kids to put up a video to social media in celebration of his birthday and making certain the video had “his desired impact on potential jury members on this case.”

Nov. 12, 2024In “The Downfall of Diddy: Contained in the Freak-Offs,” Ray J claims high-profile celebrities are “reaching out to victims” and providing them cash in alternate for avoiding any public publicity, and aspiring singer-songwriter Tanea Wallace described her expertise at a 2018 social gathering the place she stated she noticed minors “dressed up like Harajuku Barbies, crimson lipstick, trying like actual horny.”

Nov. 8, 2024Combs’ attorneys once more requested the mogul be launched on bail with a $50 million bond with a laundry checklist of latest circumstances, together with house detention in Miami or New York Metropolis, safety lockdown and no web entry, which is scheduled to be heard at a listening to on Nov. 22.

Nov. 4, 2024In a video posted by his son, Combs spoke to his kids on the cellphone on his fifty fifth birthday Monday and stated, “I can’t wait to see y’all. I simply need to say that I’m happy with y’all, particularly the women. I imply, all y’all only for being robust.”

Nov. 3, 2024Comb’s attorneys despatched a letter to Subramanian asking he place all potential witnesses beneath a gag order till a federal trial scheduled for Might, claiming a “deluge of improper pretrial publicity that’s undermining Mr. Combs’s proper to a good trial.” (The request comes after a pal of Comb’s late girlfriend Kim Porter spoke outdoors a courthouse in Manhattan, saying he’d testified earlier than a grand jury and has footage of Combs raping and sexually assaulting a number of individuals, together with minors).

Oct. 31, 2024Ty Stiklorius, John Legend’s supervisor, wrote in a New York Instances piece that she herself skilled a “terrifying state of affairs” during which she says she was locked in a bed room whereas attending a celebration hosted by Combs in St. Barts within the late Nineties and “managed to speak her approach out” of what she assumed was an irregular expertise, however later realized “what occurred that evening was no aberration—it was an indicator of a pervasive tradition within the music trade.”

Oct. 28, 2024Federal authorities stated they’d carried out an “interagency operation” on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn the place Combs is awaiting trial, however didn’t present particular particulars about what was carried out inside the ability, which has been the goal of rampant criticism from the Combs crew and the situation of a number of crimes in current months, together with a murder-for-hire plot and the stabbing deaths of two inmates.

Oct. 25, 2024In a letter submitted to the courtroom Friday, Combs’ attorneys requested a gag order be carried out for all federal officers concerned in his case, particularly citing a New York Submit article that quotes a “federal regulation enforcement supply who’s concerned within the investigation” as proof the Division of Homeland Safety is purposefully interfering with Combs’ proper to a good trial (in October, Combs’ authorized crew claimed DHS leaked an incriminating video of Combs to CNN, which the company denied). A choose later known as the quotes within the article “plainly improper” however rejected the gag order request.

Oct. 22, 2024Two of Combs’ seven kids—Quincy Brown, Combs’ adopted 33-year-old son, and Likelihood Combs, his 18-year-old daughter with Sarah Chapman—made a joint put up on Instagram calling the final month “devastating” for his or her household and defending their father from what they known as “accusations, conspiracy theories and false narratives.”

Oct. 15, 2024Combs returned to Instagram for the primary time since his arrest in September with a put up marking the second birthday of his youngest daughter, named Love Sean Combs (he’d beforehand deleted each put up on the social media account as allegations piled up in opposition to him, however has posted a complete of 3 times since July, every time with images of his kids).

Oct. 11, 2024A U.S. Appeals courtroom referred Combs’ newest request for bail to a panel of three judges, however dominated he’ll stay behind bars till a call is made.

Oct. 10, 2024Combs appeared in courtroom for the primary time since his arrest, the place a trial date of Might 5 was set for him to face federal prices of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution.

Oct. 9, 2024Combs’ crew filed a memo alleging that the Division of Homeland Safety leaked a surveillance video that confirmed him abusing his ex-girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, although prosecutors have denied the allegations and stated they didn’t acquire that video till it was made public by CNN.

Oct. 8, 2024Attorneys for Combs filed paperwork asking he be allowed to await trial outdoors of the Metropolitan Detention Middle the place he resides, claiming the preliminary resolution to disclaim him bail was unfairly “distorted” by the eye on the case (the preliminary choose, who has since been changed, dominated Combs ought to keep in jail so he can’t use his cash and affect to intervene within the authorities’s case in opposition to him).

Oct. 6, 2024Janice Small Combs, Sean Combs’ mom, stated in a press release via her household’s lawyer she is “devastated and profoundly saddened” by the allegations in opposition to her son, including these accusing him of misconduct are “searching for a monetary achieve” and likened Combs to “many people” who’ve been “wrongfully convicted resulting from their previous actions or errors”—although she additionally stated Combs “could have been not totally truthful” when denying assault allegations raised by his ex-girlfriend Ventura.

Sept. 30, 2024Attorneys for Combs filed a discover asking the Second Circuit Court docket of Appeals within the Southern District of New York to overturn the choice to carry him in jail whereas he awaits trial, a selection Decide Andrew Carter made citing issues Combs had allegedly tampered with witnesses who had been contacted as a part of the investigation in opposition to him (the request was not granted).

Sept. 26, 2024A documentary was launched for streaming on Tubi and featured an interview with Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo—who addressed a leaked surveillance video of Combs shoving and kicking ex-girlfriend Ventura—during which he known as the indictment a takedown of a “profitable Black man” and stated he would not anticipate Combs to simply accept a plea cut price.

Sept. 18, 2024 Combs’ attorneys cited “horrific” circumstances on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, New York in a request for bail—which included a $50 million bond supply, GPS monitoring and strict limitations on guests—that was denied by U.S. District Decide Andrew Carter, who stated the circumstances weren’t sufficient to make sure the protection of the neighborhood.

Sept. 17, 2024A federal courtroom in Manhattan unsealed prices in opposition to Combs for racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution, alleging he “abused, threatened, and coerced girls and others round him to satisfy sexual wishes, defend his fame, and conceal his conduct.”

Sept. 16, 2024Combs was arrested in Manhattan after being indicted by a grand jury.

Might 29, 2024Sources informed CNN federal investigators had been getting near submitting prices in opposition to Combs, and that plaintiffs who had filed particular person civil lawsuits in opposition to him had been interviewed as a part of the case.

March 25, 2024Federal brokers raided Combs’ houses in Florida and California in relation to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation.

Nov. 2023, 2024A $30 million lawsuit filed by Ventura kicked off a sequence of felony complaints in opposition to Combs which have included rape, sexual assault, intercourse trafficking and different claims (see the entire allegations right here).