Diddy’s defense team wants to postpone the start of his trial for sex trafficking

The legal team of Sean “Diddy” Combs is attempting to delay the rapper’s sex trafficking trial from beginning.

It has recently come to light that Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo told the court the defense may ask for a two-week adjournment during the former music mogul’s Monday appearance in a federal courthouse in New York, where he is now due to begin on federal charges in less than three weeks. He mentioned problems with discovery, such as the government’s purported inability to acquire a whole set of emails from a crucial witness.

“Instead of requesting all 200,000 emails, the government allowed the witness to choose which were significant,” Mr. Agnifilo stated.

However, Judge Arun Subramanian allowed Combs’ attorneys until Wednesday, April 16, to formally ask for a postponement. Warner responded to them by saying, “We are a freight train moving toward trial.”

Since being arrested in September 2024, Combs has been detained without the possibility of release.
Prosecutors contend that recent procedural concerns, such as his refusal to submit a plea after fresh accusations and delays in the discovery process, point to a larger approach to buy time before trial, even though he filed a not guilty plea during Monday’s hearing.

Combs faces two additional accusations in the most recent indictment, which was filed on April 4.

The rapper allegedly coerced a woman, known as “Victim-2,” into performing commercial sex acts between 2021 and 2024 by using “force, fraud, or coercion,” according to the prosecution.

Additionally, he is charged with bringing the woman across state borders to engage in prostitution with other people, including commercial sex workers.

The enlarged indictment adds to previous allegations of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. Combs, according to the prosecution, forced several women into sex acts over the course of several years, including three who were sex trafficked and one employee who was pressured into having sex.

The lawsuit alleges that Combs, with the help of a network of allies and workers, exploited women by abusing his “power and prestige” as a well-known personality in the music industry.

Additionally, Combs allegedly used physical violence, arson, and kidnapping as means of aggressively intimidating and blackmailing victims, according to court records.

He is also charged with planning “Freak Offs,” when allegedly drugged women were coerced into engaging in staged sex.

The fresh accusations have been rejected by Combs’ legal team, which maintains that the relationships in question were consensual and that there are no new accusers.