This is Hidden Killers Week in review.

I look back at the most prolific stories of the week.

This is continuing coverage of United States versus Sean Diddy Combs from the Hidden

Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

This last week, in case you missed, it saw a federal judge in Manhattan threatening

to kick Sean Diddy Combs out of his own

trial because he won't stop nodding at the jury like he's conducting an orchestra. That actually

happened three days ago. And it's just one surreal moment in what might be the most explosive

celebrity trial of our time. We're four weeks into Sean Combs' federal trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges,

and the testimony has been absolutely devastating.

Judge Iran-Sabermanian is presiding over a case where prosecutors are arguing that Combs ran a criminal

enterprise disguised as a music empire, while his defense team claims this is all about

consensual adult relationships gone wrong. The star witness was Cassie Ventura, who took the stand

for four consecutive days in mid-May. She was eight and a half months pregnant when she testified,

and she revealed for the first time that her two thousand, twenty-three civil settlement with Combs was worth twenty million dollars.

But the money wasn't the shocking part.

Cassie described in excruciating detail what she called freak-offs,

allegedly forced sexual encounters with male escorts that combs would orchestrate and film.

She testified these could last for days, that she needed medical treatment afterward for injuries and infections,

and that she had to take MDMA just to get through them.

Cassie told the jury about specific incidents of violence.

The 2016 hotel assault that we all saw

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