Sean Combs trial: Inside Bad Boy empire of threats, violence and bribes

Height, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment, music, video, fashion, liquor and style Combs was a business power center that made a billionaire business.

Combs won praise for visionary growth and brand management.

But federal prosecutors have another word for the bad child: a tribute business.

The federal hearing in New York includes the claim that Combs is involved in mafia family -style tribute with coercion, kidnapping, threats and beatings to cover the sexual assault, sex smuggling and prostitution model.

Mogul continued his innocence, even before his arrest last September.

The Federal indictment claims that Combs and its partners often draw women’s victims under the pretext of a romantic relationship. The combs are later claimed to use power, power, coercion and controlled substances to enable women to participate in sex actions with prostitutes, and from time to time watching in combs called “freak” from time to time. Tarak says that they gave women to women to “keep them obedient and harmonious” during their performances.

Combs threatened and abused women who were alleged to a “guilty venture ve and used members of the business for inter -state transportation for sex smuggling, forced employing, prostitution, narcotic crimes, narcotic crimes, kidnapping, bribery, bribery and obstacles to participate in obstacles. In the so -called Rico charges, prosecutors said that Combs helped a company employees, security personnel and assistants. They allegedly helped to arrange freak and then covered up the events. So far, the Combs is the only person who has faced criminal charges against the investigation.

Did the prosecutors do the case?

Prosecution

Prosecutors have called about 30 witnesses to the booth in Manhattan so far and are expected to finish with witnesses this week.

These include three women who define graphic sexual assaults, the lock witness of the defense, three women, including Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, once’s lover of Combs. Combs Enterprise was the case of Ventura in 2023, which allowed the dissolution of sex, violence and freak details.

Only the last ex -girlfriend, called Jane in court, explained how the frightening and challenging gender continued despite the security investigations until the arrest was arrested.

He texted the Combs pages of Ventura’s case immediately after filing.

“I have been crying for three days and I am under stress of reading all this. He wrote according to legal jobs and hearings.

On another occasion, he said that he had sent a message to the staff chief about his threats, “He threatened me about my sex tapes he had for me on two phones. He said he would expose me and send me to my child’s father.”

Jane is one of the three women whose testimony is at the center of the hearing, the others are an old employee who witnessed the name of Ventura and MIA, and that he was also sexually assaulted.

Was Bad Boy a guilty attempt?

Under Rafteer affected and corrupt organizations lawKnown as Rico, there are 35 special crimes such as kidnapping, murder, bribery and extortion, and federal prosecutors need to show a model that includes at least two open action as part of a crime attempt.

Nama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, said that to prove Rico, the existence of a real criminal attempt, not only the criminal activity, said the existence of a real criminal attempt.

People typically think of mafia, street gangs or drug cartels. However, he said that any loose relationship of two or more people is enough as the environment of Combs.

They also need to show a pattern of one or two or more RICO predicate movement for 10 years.

So bribery, kidnapping, obstacle, witness tampering and prostitution evidence of prosecution is important for the case, he said.

It will be attached to the jury members to determine if federal prosecutors prove Rico accusation.

R&B singer Ventura, who had a long relationship with the combs, was an early witness in the case of prosecution.

Ventura, by him in the physical and sexual abuse cycle “fell into the trap” and the relationship contained 11 years of beatings, sexual blackmail and rape, he said.

Combs, a large number of male sex workers with sexual encounters threatening to infiltrate, watching freaks and shining with baby oil shines.

Ventura, one of these freaks led to a disgraceful hotel. Video images from this March 2016 night punch and kick Ventura while trying to protect himself in front of a La hotel elevator bank. He then dragged him down by Sweatshirt with a hooded, down the hall towards the hotel rooms.

A second angle from another camera throws Combs a vase towards him. Bruising in his eyes, a fat lip and a bruise showed by prosecutors, two days later he was still visible during a film premiere, where he made sunglasses and heavy makeup on the red carpet.

According to the prosecutors, a covering began. Ventura said the police visited the apartment. He answered a few of his questions, but the jury told him he still wanted to protect the combs.

Im I don’t tell you who I was talking about, ”he said to the jury. “At that moment, I didn’t want to hurt him like this. There was a lot. It was too much.”

Intercontinental Hotel Security Officer Eddie Garcia said Combs gave him a brown paper bag containing $ 100,000 for the video.

Garcia said that after the supervisor agreed to sell the video recording, he came together with the combs, and that the combs came together with the Chief of General Staff Kristina Khorram and a protection. After expressing his concerns about the police, Garcia gave him the phone Ventura in FaceTime, and told Ventura to Garcia to “go”. After that, Garcia said that he had received the money and divided it with his colleagues.

Capricorn Clark, the former assistant of the combs, remembered a violent incident of 2011 with combs.

Clark said the jury member Combs forced him to go to Cudi’s house in December 2011. Once there, Combs and Clark entered the empty house and then appeared Cudi, the real name of Scott. Clark testified to avoid incorporating law enforcement officers, Combs ordered Combs to call Ventura, the former Girlfirend, and said that they should convince Cudi not to make a snitch to the police. “If you don’t convince him, I will kill everything, Clar Clark said.

Cudi said Porsche then fired a car on the road with a Molotov cocktail.

Ventura claimed that Combs was not only a victim of sex crime. Mia, a witnessing assistant under this name, described years of sexual abuse, rape and threats. The combs first, in 2009 at the 40th birthday party in New York, said he was sexually assaulted shortly after he started working for him. In the following year, he slept in a bedroom in his house where he was not allowed to lock the door. He said he raped him through tears. “I frozen. I didn’t react. I was scared, confused, embarrassed and scared.” Another attack occurred in a bedroom cabinet and said Combs was holding his head and forced him to have oral sex.

Under cross -examination, initially federal prosecutors, sexually assaulted and alleged attacks in the years after the accepting messages that love to send messages, he said.

Most recently, his ex-girlfriend Jane, Hip-Hop Titan until the arrest of drug-fuel sex marathons told how to endure.

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Ventura, said that Combs dangled her on a 17 -storey balcony and threw her into balcony furniture in September 2016.

A defense lawyer, as I challenge the date of proof that it is elsewhere in a country -wide hotel, said, “I will never forget to keep me on that balcony.”