February 21, 2025
A defense attorney representing Sean "Diddy" Combs' in his criminal sex-trafficking case on Friday asked a Manhattan federal judge to allow him to quit, saying in a carefully worded court filing that "under no circumstances" could he continue to represent the disgraced hip-hop mogul.
February 12, 2025
Prosecutors did not intentionally invade Sean "Diddy" Combs' attorney-client privilege when they received photographs of his handwritten notes that were taken during a security sweep of the prison, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the music mogul's request for relief in his sex-trafficking case.
January 30, 2025
Sean "Diddy" Combs forced at least three women to engage in commercial sex acts, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Thursday in a superseding indictment accusing the jailed hip-hop icon of using his business empire to sexually abuse and exploit women for 20 years.
January 14, 2025
Sean "Diddy" Combs said Tuesday that New York federal prosecutors are trampling on his trial preparation rights by limiting access to exculpatory video evidence that supposedly depicts "clearly consensual sex among willing adults" rather than sex-trafficking.
January 01, 2025
The coming year's main event in New York courts is an expected sex-trafficking trial for hip-hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs, while the political reascendancy of Donald Trump will echo in halls of the judiciary as the president-elect litigates to quash his own conviction.
December 13, 2024
Embattled music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs abandoned his final avenue for pursuing bail amid racketeering and sex-trafficking charges Friday, agreeing to remain jailed through his scheduled May 2025 trial in New York federal court.
December 05, 2024
Sean "Diddy" Combs urged a Manhattan federal judge to hold a special hearing and consider dismissing his sex-trafficking indictment after staff at the Metropolitan Detention Center photographed his allegedly privileged, handwritten notes during a sweep of the prison and sent them to prosecutors, who he says used the information to argue against bail.
November 27, 2024
A Manhattan federal judge declined Wednesday to sign off on a restrictive, $50 million bail package for Sean "Diddy" Combs, following three other judges who refused to order the mogul accused of violent sex-trafficking set free pending trial.
November 19, 2024
A Manhattan federal judge directed prosecutors Tuesday to temporarily delete potentially privileged notes recovered from the jail cell of Sean "Diddy" Combs pending briefing, after lawyers for the hip-hop mogul called the seizure "outrageous."
November 19, 2024
Sean "Diddy" Combs said Monday that federal prosecutors are in possession of privileged attorney-client materials, including his own written notes, which they're "actively" using to detain him ahead of his trial, a move the hip-hop mogul called "outrageous government conduct."