Prosecutors have cited drug-fueled multi-day events as evidence of sex-trafficking charges against the music mogul
The jury at Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial viewed more video recordings on Monday of the sex marathons that have played a prominent role in a prosecution that was likely to rest by Tuesday.
The assistant US attorney Maurene Comey sometimes referred to the mostly 1- or 2-minute clips filmed by the music mogul as “explicit” videos, a signal for jurors to put on headsets that enabled them to hear and view the recordings without them being heard or seen by spectators in the Manhattan courtroom.
Prosecutors have cited the drug-fueled multi-day events as evidence of sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges, saying Combs relied on employees, associates and his business accounts to fly male sex workers to Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York, where his staff set up hotel rooms for the encounters and cleaned up afterward.
Last week, prosecutors showed jurors about two minutes of the footage from 2012 and 2014 involving Combs’s then-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a male sex worker and Combs. Cassie earlier testified that she participated in hundreds of the “freak-off” events. She and Combs were in a relationship from 2007 until 2018.
