Serious allegations to start the trial against Rapper Combs – DiePresse.com

The trial against rapper Sean Combs, also known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, started in New York. The indictment accuses him of severe sexual crimes and abuse. His defense denies the allegations of sex trade, but admits domestic violence. Combs, who has been in custody since September, did not guilty. The process that is supposed to take about eight weeks could end with lifelong imprisonment.

For the public, the 55-year-old was the cultural icon Puff Daddy or Diddy, said prosecutor Emily Johnson in New York, said several media reports. « But there was also another side on him. A side that was involved in criminal machinations. » He sexually abused a number of women.

Combs’ defense admitted in her opening plea that the Grammy winner had made domestic violence against women, but not the allegations of sex trade. Lawyer Teny Geragos said that Combs was a person with large character weaknesses – but he was not a human dealer and also forced anyone for sex.

In custody since September

Combs has been in custody since mid -September. He is accused of the public prosecutor’s office, organized crime and other offenses. In addition to the indictment of the New York public prosecutor, there are also numerous civil lawsuits against the rapper. Among other things, a law firm in Houston’s Texan’s Huston is represented by around 120 people with allegations against Combs.

Among the allegations mentioned on Monday were serious acts of violence against a former friend, whom he also forced sex with male prostitutes in order to film them and blackmail them with the material. In addition, Combs women put in drugs several times for days and forced them for sex. He referred to himself as king « and expected to be treated in this way, » said Johnson.

On Monday, the first witness of the trial, a security guard, was asked about the violent acts against Combs’ ex-girlfriend in a hotel. Accordingly, this obvious characteristics of violence in women described this obvious characteristics and described Combs’ Blick as « devilish ».

Rapper does not guilty

So far, the rapper rejected all allegations and did not guilty. Among other things, his lawyers argued in advance that Combs had lived a « swinger lifestyle » and might not have been completely accountable by drugs.

Judge Arun Subramanian had committed the selected jury in the morning and opened the internationally noticed procedure in terms of content. According to observers, the process should last about eight weeks. Combs – dressed in court with a gray sweater – threatens a lifelong imprisonment. At the beginning of the trial, several of his children and his mother were present in the courtroom in New York.

Combs (« I » ll Be Missing you « ) became world famous in the 1990s and helped under his pseudonyms puff daddy or Diddy to make rap an international phenomenon. (APA/dpa)