Sean « Diddy » Combs is standing trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in a case that has captured widespread attention.
This is week three of testimony in the trial of Sean « Diddy » Combs.
The highly anticipated trial of hip-hop mogul Sean « Diddy » Combs is underway. Combs has been accused of sex trafficking by force, transportation to engage in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy as part of a blockbuster federal indictment originally filed in September 2024. He later faced two additional superseding indictments. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
Combs is accused of being the ringleader of an alleged enterprise that « abused, threatened and coerced women » into prolonged, drug-fueled sexual orgies with male prostitutes, which he called « freak offs », and then threatened them into silence. Combs has said that all of the sex was consensual and that while his relationships sometimes involved domestic violence, he wasn’t engaged in trafficking.
Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said Combs was simply part of the swinger lifestyle and that he « vehemently denies the accusations made by the SDNY » and « looks forward to his day in court. »
Former Sean Combs assistant Capricorn Clark testified that work was not yet complete on the then-new corporate headquarters of Bad Boy Entertainment at 1710 Broadway in New York City when she was allegedly taken there in 2004 by a bodyguard nicknamed Uncle Paulie and locked inside.
Clark told the court that she was taken to the “dilapidated” sixth floor, which she said was empty save for a folding table and chairs in the middle of the space.
“There was a heavy-set gentleman who was chain-smoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee,” Clark testified. “Very wide, very heavy, the size of two linebackers.”
Clark, seated in the witness box with her hair pulled back and wearing glasses, testified that she was “petrified” in that moment.
