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Diddy’s Family Showed Up to Support Him for Opening Statements
“The trial of the year” wasn’t a complete circus, apart from the ventriloquist.
At around roughly 4 a.m., many members of network media arrived to score a coveted spot outside 500 Pearl Street for the opening statements in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking and racketeering trial. Combs, who has been locked up for the past eight months in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, looked considerably older with his graying hair, arriving to sit face-to-face with the jury deciding his fate against the federal charges that he led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, among other crimes. Les Trent, on-air senior correspondent for Inside Edition, said with federal court not allowing cameras in the courtroom, the only visuals have been “family members coming and going and the attorneys, who probably will not speak.” That means a lot of waiting.
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