Jury selection in federal racketeering, sex trafficking case against Sean 'Diddy' Combs to begin

LOWER MANHATTAN -- Jury enactment is acceptable to get underway successful Sean Combs' national transgression proceedings connected Monday.

The disgraced euphony mogul's aboriginal volition measurement successful the jurors' hands arsenic helium has pleaded not blameworthy to the lengthy database of charges stacked against him.

If convicted, Combs could beryllium down bars for decades.

He was indicted connected a slew of charges, including racketeering conspiracy and enactment trafficking aft bringing enactment workers crossed authorities lines.

Prosecutors accidental Combs allegedly coerced women into participating successful enactment acts with prostitutes during drug-fueled parties.

Lawyers for Combs accidental the enactment was consensual.

The 55-year-old's transgression saga, which unraveled successful November 2023 with vocalist Cassie Ventura filing a civilian suit against him with allegations of rape, enactment trafficking and years of carnal abuse.

Diddy rapidly settled the lawsuit the time aft it was filed.

Depicted successful this courtroom sketch, Sean "Diddy" Combs, sits astatine the defence array with 1 of his attorneys, Teny Garagos, right, during his bail hearing.

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The civilian suit prompted a transgression investigation, arsenic national agents raided his properties successful Miami and Los Angeles, seizing aggregate devices.

Combs has been successful custody astatine a Brooklyn jailhouse since his apprehension successful 2024.

Today, some the defence and prosecution look to spot a sheet of jurors to find Combs's fate.

Experts accidental the 2 sides volition beryllium eyeing a precise antithetic benignant of juror.

"I would deliberation the prosecution is looking for older people, I deliberation they're surely looking for instrumentality and bid people," Dr. Jo-Ellan Dimitrius told Eyewitness News.

"They would beryllium asking astir the maine excessively movement, experiences with intersexual assaults with the maine excessively movement, enactment with aggregate partners."

Ventura, who is Diddy's erstwhile girlfriend, on with 3 different radical who are expected to stay anonymous, are expected to archer the assemblage astir being drugged and forced to enactment successful alleged freak offs.

Meanwhile, the proceedings is expected to past up to 8 weeks.