Here are five takeaways from Monday’s first day of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ New York trial where he faces federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, could face life in prison if convicted of all five felony counts.
Video of Hotel Attack Shown
Jurors were shown a surveillance video of Combs throwing his then-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, an aspiring hip-hop artist known as Cassie, to the ground in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 and kicking her as she tried to enter an elevator.Wearing only a towel, Combs was then seen grabbing Ventura’s belongings and dragging her into the hallway. He left her for a time before returning and throwing a vase in her direction, shattering it.
