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Inside the Diddy Trial Circus: How Screaming Fans, Baby Oil and Street Preachers Turned the Courthouse Into a Madhouse
For the reporters, lawyers and more inside the courthouse for Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial, life became a weeks-long circus.
Despite the restrictions on food and beverages, one Guy Fieri wannabe, complete with Oakley sunglasses strapped to the back of his head, smuggled a giant bag of buttered popcorn into the courtroom, shoving handfuls into his mouth while skirting the snack police. The Diddy- and Hitler-loving rapper strutted out of a Maybach wearing all white and was greeted outside by Combs’ son Christian, with whom he released the song “Diddy Free.” Marshals escorted West to another, empty overflow room, where he sat front row as his security guards whispered in his ear. I wondered if, during the past two months, Combs ever looked out the courthouse windows over the city — at the Bad Boy office where he built much of his billion-dollar fortune, at the hotels where he lived a secret double life before his alleged crimes landed him in a Brooklyn jailhouse.
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