Madeline Halpert & Sakshi Venkatraman BBC News, New York Reuters Mr Agnifilo framed Combs’ victims as willing participants in so-called freak-offs The sex trafficking and racketeering case against hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was “badly, badly exaggerated”, his lawyer told a panel of 12 New York jurors on Friday. In his closing, Marc Agnifilo argued...
Madeline Halpert BBC News in New York court Watch: The BBC’s Nada Tawfik explains how prosecutors went after Diddy in his sex trafficking trial Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team rested their case in his sex trafficking trial on Tuesday after making arguments for only about 20 minutes. Their short presentation followed nearly seven weeks of...
Sakshi Venkatraman and Kayla Epstein Reporting fromReporting from New York court Jane Rosenberg/Reuters In a courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs watches as a prosecutor questions “Jane” during the rapper’s sex trafficking trial. The judge presiding over Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal trial has threatened to ban the disgraced music mogul from the courtroom for nodding and...
A former assistant of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a New York court that he repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was employed by him for eight years. The witness – who testified anonymously under the pseudonym “Mia” – also tearfully said she lived in fear of violent rages from Mr Combs as...
Is there any world in which Sean Combs comes out of this trial and still has any kind of career? His lawyers have been arguing that he’s an abusive creep but not a sex-trafficker which is probably the best they can do. But even if the jury somehow buys that he’ll be branded an abusive...
I should say up front that I don’t really care about Sean Combs in any of his various incarnations as a rapper or a business mogul. In fact the only music I can associate him with is some song he did for the terrible 1998 Godzilla movie where he appeared with Jimmy Page. My thought...
Madeline Halpert BBC News in New York court Reuters/Jane Rosenberg Prosecutors’ star witness, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, took the stand on Tuesday in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial, accusing the rapper of controlling her life and coercing her into “humiliating” sex acts. Mr Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges including racketeering...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has formally rejected the US government’s offer to plead guilty and spare himself the possibility of a prolonged prison sentence. The musician appeared in court on Thursday, wearing glasses and a beige prison uniform, ahead of the start of his sex trafficking trial next week. He...
Yinka Bokinni explores rap mogul Sean Combs’s life and the criminal charges he denies. Read full article at source...
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs appear to have offered a preview of his legal defence in his sex trafficking case, arguing that the rapper led the “lifestyle” of a “swinger” and was not a criminal. At a hearing in New York on Friday – a little more than a week before his trial – his...
This is a cheerful one for your evening nightcap. Even though it is about a helicopter crash, all’s well that ends well, which hasn’t happened a lot lately. Most importantly, it didn’t happen in the United States, which is one less thing our Transportation Secretary has to worry about. Now for the story as the...
Sussex wore down Somerset’s spirited resistance to claim their first win since promotion back to Division One in the County Championship. Needing six wickets on the final day at Hove, they eventually bowled Somerset out for 334 to win by 260 runs – their first top-flight victory for a decade. It was a commendable final-day...
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with two new criminal charges including sex trafficking and engaging in prostitution, just a month before he is set to go on trial in New York. The new accusations, made public on Friday in a Manhattan court, include allegations of more recent criminal offences and note that a second...
Bowen’s love of horses has certainly grown since childhood, even if the allergies remain. “I still am [allergic to horses] now a little bit, it’s a bit of a weird one,” Sean tells BBC Sport Wales. “If dad would come in from clipping and there’d be horse hair everywhere, I’d be itching for days. Even...
Lynn, who was used to being on the other end of big scorelines during a hugely successful spell at Gloucester-Hartpury, now has the gift of time during the tournament’s fallow week. It is something he has not had before having come into Wales camp the day after winning a third Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) title,...