Choose Arun Subramanian started court docket Monday early morning by excusing juror No. six, whose believability was referred to as into problem immediately after inconsistencies in his statements about where by he lived.
Jury dismissed for the day Judge Arun Subramanian has now finished present day court docket session and dismissed the jury.
Lawsuits: Combs has faced more than 70 sexual assault lawsuits because November 2023. The lawsuits began when Ventura, an R&B singer, accused Combs of rape, intercourse trafficking and also other abuses within a lawsuit, just before settling with Combs the next day.
The rapper has pleaded not responsible to prices of intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He faces lifetime in prison if convicted.
The ex, who testified very last 7 days beneath the pseudonym “Jane,” sent Kristina Khorram messages in early November 2023 saying that she wished “no additional lodge nights,” and “I just can’t.”
These integrated messages from March 2016, when Combs's then Main of staff Kristina Khorram appeared to ask for a hotel area to generally be arrange, with objects requested such as Gatorade, drinking water and rooster noodle soup;
Cross-analyzing Penland about texts and other information she reviewed for the case this afternoon, the defence hoped to point out that Combs's previous associate and alleged victim Cassie Ventura didn't item to her part in his "freak off" sex classes - and was even an enthusiastic participant.
Combs's law firm Teny Geragos launched one text chat wherein Cassie wrote website "LOL, guaranteed, when", when asked via the rapper to fulfill him in a hotel in October 2013.
“BTW how long is he gonna continue to be awake?” Khorram asked in a single message to Combs’s assistant. Combs’s ex-girlfriends have stated the freak-offs or “resort evenings” typically lasted 24 to 48 hours.
"I am about to be arrested," he texted her, right before calling her 5 times in 22 minutes without response.
Combs also appeared to mail Khorram audio files of cellphone calls he recorded with Jane from the speedy aftermath with the Ventura lawsuit. Jane told Combs that the lawsuit explained, “like, term for word” her knowledge.
Courtroom again in session Jurors are back again from their lunch split and Distinctive agent Deleassa Penland has returned to your stand to continue her testimony.
Ye has publicly advocated for Combs’s release from prison. He has also been in normal contact with Combs’s loved ones which is reportedly collaborating with Christian on an forthcoming album.
The movies, which involved Combs, his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, and sexual intercourse personnel in a New York City hotel, were being from 2012 and 2014, and ended up shown Briefly clips. These have been shown only to jurors rather than on the gallery or the media.
Messages despatched to Sean Combs’s chief of staff members advise that she was conscious the mogul’s ex-girlfriend felt mistreated and sexually exploited, and didn’t desire to take part in any more freak-offs, or “lodge evenings.”