Video of Sean 'Diddy' Combs beating ex-girlfriend will be allowed at trial, judge rules
Jurors at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial will see video showing him assaulting his former girlfriend, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Jurors at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ upcoming sex trafficking and racketeering trial will see a security video showing him assaulting his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Also during the hearing, defense attorneys seemed to suggest they would defend Combs by arguing his lifestyle as a swinger was not criminal.
And Assistant U.S. Attorney Madison Smyser disclosed that the government offered Combs a plea deal, but he rejected it. Smyser did not provide details about the offer.
In a setback for Combs’ legal team, U.S. District Court Judge Arun Subramanian said the video, first broadcast by CNN last year, was admissible as evidence. The defense had sought to exclude it from evidence in a motion filed this month, arguing the video “is wholly inaccurate, having been altered, manipulated, sped-up, and edited to be out of sequence” — claims CNN has forcefully denied.
Prosecutors have said the video is a critical piece of evidence and denied it was deceptive.
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