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Sean Combs Loses Bid to Delay Racketeering and Sex Trafficking Trial

At least three of Combs' alleged victims opposed the delay, prosecutors said, and the judge ruled the proceeding will begin as scheduled on May 5.

Combs, 55, asked for the delay earlier this month, saying he needed more time to prepare after prosecutors filed a third superseding indictment with a new sex trafficking count for Victim 2. Combs was arrested last September and immediately pleaded not guilty to allegations he trafficked multiple women under a “criminal enterprise” that used violence, threats, and manipulation to fulfill his “sexual gratification.” The Bad Boy Records founder has been in custody ever since and repeatedly denied bail. Steel represented Young Thug, born Jeffery Williams, during the rapper’s nearly two-year trial related to his YSL gang and racketeering case in Atlanta.

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