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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Loses Bid to Delay Sex Trafficking Trial

Diddy's trial won't be delayed, a judge ruled on Friday, saying his case on sex trafficking and racketeering charges will begin as scheduled on May 5.

Combs was indicted in September, charged with running a sprawling criminal operation that aimed to “fulfill his sexual desires” by subjecting numerous women to abuse. Diddy’s lawyers had called the move “a blatant violation of Mr. Combs’s Sixth Amendment rights to confront witnesses,” but prosecutors said it was necessary to protect them from harassment and embarrassment. The judge seemingly left at least one big pretrial issue unresolved: a motion filed by Combs on Thursday seeking to ban prosecutors from showing jurors the infamous 2016 surveillance video of him assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

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