At the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial, a Detailed Timeline of the Hotel Assault on Cassie
Jurors were also shown how expenses related to the sexual encounters were paid for by the mogul’s companies, as well as text and phone records surrounding a 2016 assault.Just after noon on Tuesday, the courtroom where Sean Combs is standing trial went silent.For a second time in Mr. Combs’s federal trial for sex trafficking and racketeering, jurors were shown explicit videos of “freak-offs,” the extended sexual encounters that are central to the case — this time, in excerpts chosen by the defense.On Monday, during questioning of a federal agent by prosecutors, jurors had viewed a series of short clips from the videos, each about 30 seconds in length. On Tuesday, during cross-examination, the defense chose segments that lasted up to five minutes.Jurors, wearing headphones, kept their eyes trained on screens in front of them. But, following an order from the judge supervising the case, Arun Subramanian, the videos were not displayed to reporters and members of the public in the gallery. The footage was taken from devices that Casandra Ventura, Mr. Combs’s on-and-off girlfriend for about 11 years, turned over to the government during its investigation.For about 20 minutes, as the videos were played, the courtroom was largely hushed while jurors watched. Mr. Combs, sitting in his chair, leaned back and tapped his fingers rhythmically against his right thigh. His lawyers eyed the jurors closely.On Monday, some jurors had seemed visibly uncomfortable when viewing the clips. But on Tuesday, they showed little reaction. When the videos ended, one juror rubbed his face and eyes.Teny Geragos, the defense lawyer cross-examining the agent, DeLeassa Penland of the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, said nothing about the videos, only giving the time codes for when the segments would stop and start; in some cases, she indicated that they were resuming where Monday’s clips had ended.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More