On Thursday, Southern District of New York Prosecutors Began Tying Together Elements of Their Sprawling Sex-Traffic and Racketeering Conspiracy Case Against Sean Combs to convince Jurors The Hip-Hop Mogul is guilty of all Five Felony Charges Leveled Against Him.
For the Past Seven Weeks, Jurors have Sat Through Testimony from More Than 30 Witnesses-Including Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, Kid Cudi, Male Escorts, and Several of Combs' former Assistant-Hearing How The Magnetic and Charming Combs Allegedly Wielded His Billion-Dollar Empire as to Tool to Tool to tool Coetce and Defraud Ventura and Another ex-girillfriend to participate in His sexual fantasies.
The 55-Year-Old, Who Faces Up to Life in Prison If Convicted As Charged, is accused of Twisting The Women's Love for Him Into Coeced Compliance. The Women Told Jurors They Felt “Obligated” to Participate and Sometimes facilitated The Drug-Fueled Sexual Encounters with Male Ascorts To Fulfill Combs' Voyeuristic Fantasies. Prosecutors Said Combs Personally Paid The Escorts and Sometimes Flew Them Cross-Country to Join The Days-Long Sex Marathons. The Women Said They Came To Know These Ecstasy-Induced Nights As “Freak-Offs,” “Hotel Nights,” and “Debauchery.”
Prosecutors Say Combs Rield On an Inner Circle of Security Members and Others to Keep The Women in What His Legal Team Has Highs to Minimize as “Toxic” and Sometimes Physically Abusive Relationships Marred by Jealousy. When Combs' Relationships With The Women Were on the Brink of Falling Apart OR His Reputation was Threatened, The Group is accused of Committing Acts of Bribery, Arson, Kidnapping, Witness Tampering, and Drug Distribution, Among Other Crimes, at the Mogul's Allged Direction.
Demstrating The Extent of His Influence and Power, Combs is accused of Suppressing Damning Hotel Footage of Him Attacking Ventura by Pulling Out A Brown Paper Bag Stuffed with $ 100,000 in Cash. His Romantic Rival Kid Cudi's Porsche Exploded in The Musician's Driveway in Broad Daylight, and the case Remains Unsolved. Three Witnesesses Alleged Combs or People Acting on his Behalf Made Direct Threts On Their Lives – And They Believed the Warnings.
As part of the case, prosecutors have relied on thousands of pags of text messages, email exchanges, explicit video, photographic evidence, notes app entries, law enforcement reports, and banks and travel records dating back years.
Assistant US Attney Christy Slavik's Closing Arguveni Are Expected to Last the Entity of Thursday, with the Defende Prepared to Give Their Side on Friday Before The Jury Begins Resolution On Monday. Us District Judge Arun Subramanian Assured the Jury That He Expected the case to be completed by the July 4th Holiday.
The Courtrom's Rows Reserve for Combs' Family Were Packed With His Sons and Loved Ones On Thursday. In The Final Days of the Trial, Combs appears to be pleasad with his all-star Legal Team's Handling of the case-Evident in the Hugs He Gave to His Attorneys Aryy Restad Their Defense Within 25 Minutes on Tuesday. The Music Executive Rejected a Plea Deal Before The Trial Date Commented and Pleaded Not Guilty to All Charges.
Prosecutors Say Combs Inshastilled Fear in Both of His Girlfriends. Ventura Said Physical Violence in Their Decade-Long Relationship Began Early on. In Janogy 2009, prosecutors and ventura allge that at 39-Year-Old Combs Had Beaten and Stomped on the then-22-Year-Is Face So Severely That Combs Forced Hide to Hide Out AT A Hotel For A Week Until Her Injuries Healed. In addition to domestic violence, when the coupele would fight, combs is accused of weaponizing his control over Ventura's music career, Threatening to release Freak-off Tapes, Kicking Ventura Out of the Apartment He Gifted Her, and Taking Away Her Phone and Car.
“Jane” Testified to One Physical Abuse Incident in June 2024 And Said Combs would routing Routainy Threaten to Break Up With Her When She Voice Hesitation At Continuing The Sexual Encounters With Other Men. When Combs Started Paying for Jane's $ 10.000-A-Month Rent in 2023 as part of a “Love Contract,” Jane Claimed Combs would often Hold His Financial Support Over Her Head So That She'd Continue Participating in Hotel Nights.
Some relatives Said They Were Aware of Combs' Capacity for Violence-A former Assistant Said Witnessing A Dispute Bethaeen Combs and a Girlfriend, Gina, Was the Last Straw of His Tenure-But they became So consumed by the Tight-Knit Bad Boy Family That Combs Fosted, The Employees. Were terrfied and distrops at the idea of walking Away from What Many Described As a Dream Job.
Prosecutors allege that combs' trusted inner circle also carried out acts of the racketeering conspiracy. Security Guards Allegedly Helped in Three Allged Kidnapping Acts Pertaining to Ventura and Combs former Assistant, Capricorn Clark.
His Longtime Chief of Staff, Kristina Khorram, Allegedly Hounded an Intercondontinental Hotel Security Guard Until Combs Successful Secured Footage of Combs Attacking Ventura in March 2016. When Ventura's Sex TrafficKing Lawsuits Against Combs Broke in November 2023, Prosecutors Found AN AUDIO Recording on Khorram's Device of Combs Highway to Assure Jane That She'd Have “Nothing to World About” If She Continued to Support Combs.
Several Personal Assistant Were Tasked With Up The Red Lights and Candles, Delivinging Baby Oil, and Sometimes Picking Up and Deliving Drugs and Thousands of Dollars in Cash for Freak-Offs. When Combs and his Girlfriend Finally Emerged from the Messy, “Nightmare” Rooms, Assistant Were Sent in To Sweep for Drug Residual, Collect Left-Behind Sex Items, and Throw Bodily Fluid-Stained Sheets and Towels Into to Minimize Hotel Damage Charges.
