Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ attorneys are anticipated to conclude their cross-examination of his ex-girlfriend and principal accuser Cassie Ventura on Friday.
Because the trial towards the mogul entered its fifth day, Justin Bieber‘s camp lastly addressed explosive rumors connecting him, insisting the previous youngster star was not amongst his alleged victims.
The music mogul, 55, has saved a poker face this week as a pregnant Cassie described being bodily and emotionally abused all through their 10-year relationship.
Combs’ protection says he’s responsible of home violence – which he isn’t charged with – however not of sex-trafficking or racketeering, and that the federal government is focusing on him for his sexual preferences.
On Thursday his legal professionals portrayed Cassie as a keen participant in his sexual way of life and say that, whereas he might be violent, nothing he did amounted to a felony enterprise. Combs denies all of the allegations and has pleaded not responsible to federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering cost
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Diddy has been charged with a bunch of intercourse trafficking and racketeering offenses with upwards of 120 victims already coming ahead.
A video has now resurfaced of Diddy, 54, and Justin, now 30, an look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! collectively when the singer was solely 16-years-old.
Diddy appears at Cassie as she takes the stand Friday
Cassie has taken the stand Friday to proceed being grilled by Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao.
She took a breath as she sat down – with Diddy taking a look at her as she did so.
Cassie appeared calm and seemed to be displaying off her bump.
Diddy then turned to face the jury, showing to be making an attempt make eye contact with one among them.
It follows on from final week when the mogul appeared to try eye contact with jurors throughout jury choice.
Diddy’s legal professionals scrambling to reply to Cassie’s claims on the stand
Decide Arun Subramanian admonished the protection for persevering with to file paperwork effectively into the evening throughout the trial.
‘Leters have are available in at 3am… I’ve are available in early,’ he mentioned on Friday.
‘This can be a drawback, we’re operating out of time to handle points’.
Protection lawyer Teny Geragos advised to the decide Wednesday that they needed to change immediately’s gameplan on the fly.
She advised Decide Subramanian that the questioning of Cassie by prosecutors over two days ‘has gone a lot in a different way than I anticipated. … So we’re type of altering our technique.’
Agnifilo later advised the decide that questioning Cassie about infidelities is essential. ‘All people is aware of that we’re going to carry up infidelities, that we’re going to need to carry up textual content messages of infidelities, and these textual content messages are sometimes in colourful language,’ he mentioned.
Diddy was hooked on opiates, courtroom hears
Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao questioned Cassie about addictions because it associated to Combs.
‘Would you say he was an addict?’ the protection lawyer requested. ‘I might say he was an addict,’ Cassie responded.
‘What was he hooked on?”’ Estevao requested.
‘Success,’ Cassie initially mentioned.
When the lawyer requested if Combs was hooked on opiates, Cassie mentioned: ‘At a degree, sure.’
Estevao requested her how she is aware of. Cassie answered: ‘As a result of he advised me.’
Cassie mentioned Combs would grow to be extra violent when he was gouing via Opioid withdrawals.
Diddy appears relaxed as his lawyer grills Cassie
Combs seems relaxed on the protection desk, sitting again in his chair together with his fingers folded earlier than him and his legs crossed.
He has been allowed to put on his personal garments for the trial.
Nevertheless, he has to rotate between 5 appears all through the trial, which is anticipated to final about eight weeks.
He can solely have as much as 5 pairs of pants, shirts and socks and solely two pairs of footwear – with no laces.
Diddy’s daughters lacking from trial as Cassie’s graphic testimony resumes
The mogul’s household, together with his mom Janice and 6 of his seven children, has supported him since his arrest final 12 months and have been current within the courtroom daily this week.
His three daughters – 18-year-old daughter Likelihood and17-year-old twins D’Lila and Jessie – had been in courtroom on Monday and Tuesday and heard horrific testimony from the primary three witness together with Cassie.
Nevertheless, Diddy’s daughters weren’t seen going contained in the federal courthouse on Wednesday as Cassie is to renew her testimony.
Solely Diddy’s mom Janice Combs and sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, and Christian, 26, had been seen getting into courtroom on Wednesday and Thursday.
Diddy’s legal professionals recommend prosecutors need to restrict their questioning of Cassie
Decide Subramanian mentioned there had been pre-trial discussions for months about the necessity to end Cassie’s testimony this week, given her superior being pregnant.
Agnifilo tried in charge prosecutors, saying it ‘appears strategic’ that they known as two different witnesses earlier than Cassie, and suggesting they did so in an effort to restrict the cross examination.
The decide advised the protection to complete its cross within the morning Friday to go away time for prosecutors to ask Cassie followup questions. He left open the likelihood that Cassie may need to return to the witness stand subsequent week.
Jury sees textual content the place Cassie mentioned she ‘cherished freak offs’
Cassie wrote in a textual content to Diddy in March, 2017: ‘Please don’t play sufferer.
‘That’s all you wished and that’s why I used to be upset.
‘I really like our FOs after we each need it.’
Diddy’s lawyer has been making an attempt to show that, regardless of her claims, Cassie was not coerced into taking part within the grueling intercourse classes.
When requested about what she wrote, Cassie replied: ‘I might say that loving FOs had been simply phrases at that time.’
Will Diddy take the stand?
The choice to have Combs testify can be made after the federal government finishes presenting its case weeks from now.
And finally, it will likely be as much as Combs to determine.
In most felony trials, defendants select to not testify. With a celeb, the choice whether or not to take the stand will be difficult and dangerous, particularly if legal professionals consider prosecutors did not show their case.
Courtroom hears particulars of Cassie’s affair with Michael B Jordan
Diddy suspected Cassie was having a revenge affair with the actor Michael B. Jordan, the courtroom heard.
Cassie mentioned she dumped the hip hop mogul in 2015 after seeing a video of him and a girl known as Gina at an occasion whereas she was in South Africa filming ‘Honey 3: Dare to Dance’.
She advised a courtroom in New York that Diddy suspected she bought along with Jordan, who was in Cape City on the similar time whereas doing filming of his personal.
Cassie mentioned she ‘wasn’t there’ to see how Combs reacted when he discovered about her relationship with Jordan.
Cassie and Diddy finally patched issues up and stayed collectively till 2018.
The singer didn’t say she had an affair with the actor whereas on the stand, however she did reveal the roman in her 2023 civil lawsuit towards the mogul.
Cassie mentioned that she started a ‘flirtatious relationship’ with Jordan whereas she was in South Africa – and that they did have an affair.
‘She spent New Yr’s Eve with this actor however Mr Combs quickly discovered’, the lawsuit acknowledged.
‘Mr. Combs known as the actor and threatened him; the actor proceeded to name Ms. Ventura and inform her: ‘You actually need to name ‘Mr Combs’.
Cassie is anticipating her third youngster with Alex Superb
Only a 12 months after she was final seen with Diddy, Cassie married Alex Superb, who was initially Diddy’s private coach.
Cassie turned pregnant quickly after she began courting Superb.
The couple is presently anticipating their third youngster, which implies Cassie has been testifying as she is simply weeks away from giving beginning.
Very pregnant Cassie steps out as she heads again to the stand Friday
Cassie is on her approach to a Manhattan federal courthouse to proceed her testimony towards Diddy on Friday.
Her legal professionals have mentioned she should end her testimony immediately as a result of she is close to the tip of her third being pregnant and on account of give beginning quickly.
Full timeline of Diddy and Cassie’s relationship
As Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs faces fees of sex-trafficking in Manhattan federal courtroom, his relationship with the singer Cassie is on the heart of the horrific allegations.
The music mogul’s staggering downfall started when Cassie, actual title Casandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023 detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.
The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed quantity only a day after it was filed, however it was too late for Diddy’s popularity, and the rapper was then hit with dozens of lawsuits together with comparable claims.
Diddy overdosed in 2012, his lawyer reveals
Diddy’s protection lawyer questioned Cassie a few time when the rapper overdosed in February, 2012, after taking painkillers.
‘Was that across the time Whitney Houston died?’ Cassie requested Diddy’s lawyer.
Sure… We had a Freak Off. We went to a intercourse membership in San Bernardino. He had a celebration on the Playboy Mansion that evening and I went dwelling.
He took a really sturdy opioid that evening, we did not’ know what was occurring so took him to the hospital.
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, in an unintentional drowning after taking cocaine.
It is unclear why the protection introduced up her demise.
