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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex trafficking trial to begin in New York

The rapper and producer, who sold millions of records and was given the key to New York City, now faces trial and the possibility of a life sentence

Prosecutors describe these events being arranged almost like film shoots, with the aid of employees of Combs’s companies, security guards, household staff, and his retinue of personal assistants. A few days after this appearance on Norton’s sofa, as “Love”, the R&B singer, Cassie, whose real name is Cassandra Ventura, and who had been signed to his label and had been his girlfriend from 2007, when she was 21, until 2018, filed a lawsuit accusing him of beating her for years and forcing her to have sex with male prostitutes. Then, in May, CNN broadcast footage from a security camera in the corridor of a Los Angeles hotel, showed Combs, wearing only a towel, grabbing Ventura by the back of the neck, throwing her down and kicking her as she lay on the floor.

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