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Rapper P. Diddy's trial begins with jury selection
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5/5/2025
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Well, perhaps the most serious of the federal charges are sex trafficking and racketeering
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conspiracy, which is also known as RICO. And that was the charge that was used to bring down
00:09
the mob. So prosecutors are hoping that they're going to be able to knit together
00:13
all of this alleged criminal activity carried out by Diddy in order to get him on that charge
00:20
in particular. Now, this is a very high profile case and we are going to be expecting it to last
00:28
about 10 weeks, possibly about two months. Today, Monday, is jury selection. There are
00:34
some 150 people who have appeared for the jury selection and they're going to have to run
00:39
through them to see who is going to be able to be unbiased in this trial. Now, it all
00:45
centres around allegations that Sean Diddy Combs held these wild drug-fuelled parties in which
00:55
he allegedly coerced men and women into sex. At times, they were locked in, they were pumped
01:00
with drugs and subjected to abusive sexual acts. These parties have been dubbed free coughs.
01:07
Now, Diddy himself says that he has done nothing wrong. He says he's not a criminal, but simply
01:13
a swinger and that he should not be judged on his sexual preferences. So that's what he's going
01:18
to be arguing. We expect him to take the stand during the course of this trial.
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Jessica, given that puff daddy Sean Diddy Combs now, he's somebody who's known around the world,
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you know, given what he's done to hip-hop, what kind of media attention, I'm curious, is this trial
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getting? Well, I'm absolutely surrounded by media and by members of the public. There's been a lot
01:48
of yelling. There are a lot of people with strong opinions. Everyone knows who Puff Daddy or P Diddy
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or Sean Combs or Diddy, depending on which generation you're from, is. And there is a lot
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of attention on this trial because it's all about sex and drugs. It's also really, Diddy was a cultural
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force and he embodies much of the American dream. He is also really the first person from the music
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industry to face such a high profile MeToo trial and the charges against him are really serious. So
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this is garnering an awful lot of media attention.
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