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Diddy: Jury Selection Gets Underway In Long-Awaited Trial; Music Mogul Faces Life In …

Jury selection for the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs got underway in Manhattan today.

In their indictment, prosecutors allege that Combs “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.” “There’s a lifestyle, call it swingers or whatever you will, that he thought was appropriate because it was common,” Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo said in a pre-trial hearing on April 25 (via the New York Post). (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)The mogul is not on trial for the violence documented in that footage, but the judge ruled that the tape is relevant as evidence of Combs’ character.

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