Sean ‘Diddy’ combs arrived at the Court on Monday to be prosecuted for an enlarged federal accusation that accuses the hyp-hop tycoon with five criminal positions, including extortion and sexual trafficking.
Combs, 55, had to present its supplication to the new positions at a hearing before the United States District Judge, Arun Subramanian, in Manhattan. He had previously declared an earlier accusation of three positions.
The combs, with sporty gray hair and with a tanned prison suit, smiled and took a sip of a bottle of water while satting at the defense table before the audience began.
In a statement earlier this month provided by the representatives of the combs media, their lawyers said: “These are not new accusations or new accusers. These are the same people, ex -girlfriends in the long term, who were involved in consensual relations.”
The jury selection for the combs trial remains scheduled for May 5, and the opening statements will begin on May 12.
The prosecutors of the Office of the United States Prosecutor of Manhattan say that combs used their commercial empire to sexually abuse women between 2004 and 2024.
The alleged abuse included that women participate in registered sexual actions called ‘Freak offs’ with male sexual workers, which were sometimes transported through state lines.
Combs has been imprisoned in Brooklyn since September. He also faces dozens of civil demands of women and men who accused him of sexual abuse.
The combs legal team has strongly denied that he has done something wrong.
Marc Agnifilo, one of Comong’s lawyers, said ComBs never forced anyone to participate in sexual acts against their will, and that the monsters were consensual sexual activities.
Also known during his career as Puff Daddy and P Diddy, combs founded Bad Boy Records and is attributed to help the rappers and singers of R&B as Mary J Blige, Faith Evans, notorious great and accompanied by the stars in the 90s and 2000s.
But prosecutors have said that their success concealed a dark side, citing incidents, even in March 2016, when combs was captured in a surveillance video kicking, dragging and throwing a vase to a woman who tries to leave a Los Angeles hotel.
CNN Last year he transmitted a surveillance video that shows surprising combs and dragging his ex -girlfriend Casandra Ventura, a R&B singer known as Cassie.
Comink apologized after the transmission. Agnifilo has said that the video was not evidence of sexual trafficking, and that combs and Ventura had “a toxic and loving relationship of 11 years.”
