A court filing ahead of the trial accused Combs of using jailhouse communications to influence witnesses— including requesting authorized-contact family members and defense counsel to add other unauthorized individuals to three-way calls and using other inmates’ phone access codes.

The Independent provides a list of the key players in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial in New York as his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura takes the stand.

Prosecutors accused the music mogul of running a criminal enterprise to coerce women into sex. His lawyers acknowledged episodes of violence but denied he was a sex trafficker.

Cassie Ventura, a longtime girlfriend of Sean "Diddy" Combs, said she loved the hip-hop mogul and felt a sense of duty to join "freak offs."

(Exclusive) Some of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former ... witnesses to corroborate the accounts of the key witnesses or to provide other relevant information at trial, sources say.

Daily updates on Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial in New York City after his sex trafficking and racketeering charges from 2024