A month – the singer also known as Puff Daddy or Diddy – turned into the center of media care and conversation in the United States. The rapper and entrepreneur. After the arduous selection of the jury, which lasted a week, there are already four others of judgment as such, with high impact statements by people who have met combs for years, from workers to sentimental couples. One of the key, and toughest testimonies was that of Casandra Ventura, an artist known as Cassie, who, to whom ComBs submitted it for years.
However, now the trial has had an unexpected turn. This Monday the jury – formed by 12 members – has gathered again, but Judge Arun Subramanian has decided to replace the member number six. As he explained, he has “serious concerns about the honesty of the jury, and about whether he has hidden certain answers.” That jury member number six is a 41 -year -old black man who, apparently, has been “inconsistent” when talking about his home: he has sometimes cited Bronx, in New York, and in others the neighboring state of New Jersey. According to the judge, after knowing those differences in his speech, he spoke with the man in private and those inconsistencies went to more.
Therefore, it has been replaced by the first of six alternates, a 57 -year -old white man of Westchester, a county north of Manhattan, in New York. Subramanian’s concern was that the jury number six was looking to be noticed or achieve some type of information about the trial, of enormous media weight. The combs lawyers have opposed the jury change, stating that eliminating a black man from the panel could harm his client by not having enough racial representation; However, of the 12 jury members, four are white and eight no, being five of them black. But for them, that change would have to lead to the cancellation of the trial. In fact, it is the third time that they request it in these four weeks, all of them, without success.
It seems difficult for the trial to be annulled, and more for a formal and justified change. Especially after the numerous testimonies that point to combs. But not the only one. Another of the ex -partners of the tycoon, with whom he maintained an intermittent relationship between 2021 and 2024, also testified last week. Under the name of Jane, it is for her that combs is accused of organized crime and trafficking of people. The woman told that she was disgusted, sometimes physically, how she treated her combs, how she forced her to keep sessions of hard sexual activity, recorded her while she was with other men and masturbated before her. Some nights felt traumatized, raped, assured that it was not “a sexual robot,” but he despite it, and she consented for fear.
Jane also had to plan combs stays in hotels, provide lubricant and bring pills to help erections, and also led to escorts or porn actors to the sessions. She took drugs to help and evade himself, and explained that she did not “accept” but “fulfilled” what the musician demanded.
In addition, last week he also appeared by the trial. It was Friday the 13th when he appeared at the door of the Courts of Manhattan. The rapper, entrepreneur and ex -husband of Kim Kardashian, now known publicly and legally as Ye, arrived in the courts with Christian, one of Comong’s children, to support his colleague; He is the only famous draft who has shown support for Diddy in these months of complaints and trial. However, although he entered the courts, in a visit that lasted just half an hour, he never went to the room, because he was forbidden to not be on the list of present for that day. He only observed the trial for a while through the TV circuit of the court.
This week he has started focused on narrow collaborators of combs, such as Kristina Khorram, who was her staff head for years. She has not testified on the stand, but the Prosecutor’s Office has presented some of the messages she exchanged with her boss, with the intention of demonstrating that she was “her right hand,” they said, and that facilitated the organization of sexual encounters with other women. Even that it helped what would be a crime of traffic of people with two of the victims. The Prosecutor’s Office states that it often interacted with Casandra Ventura and the aforementioned Jane, and that he spoke with combs of them. That would cause one of the most serious crimes to be accused of combs, the criminal organization. At the federal level, it can involve up to 20 years in jail.
