Combs left out of meeting outside courtroom where lawyers and judge discussed whether another famous rapper’s name could be disclosed
A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs protested against the rising tide of secrecy at the hip-hop icon’s federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Thursday after Combs and the public were excluded from lengthy arguments over whether another famous rapper’s name could be disclosed.
Defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo complained to Judge Arun Subramanian after Combs was left out of an hour-long meeting in a private room outside the courtroom where lawyers and the judge discussed a hotel room “event” in January 2024.
That meeting added a two-hour delay to the start of the sixth and final day of testimony from a woman identified in court only by the pseudonym “Jane”, who dated Combs from 2001 until his arrest last September.
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