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

Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

Picture this.

You're at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles.

It's March 2016 and security guard Israel Flores is doing his rounds when he stumbles onto something that's going to change everything.

Sean Diddy Combs is in the hallway, and he's just finished beating the hell out of his girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

Flores locks eyes with one of the most powerful men in music, and Combs gives him what Flores later describes as a devilish stare.

Then comes the tall stack of money.

The unspoken message is crystal clear.

Take this and forget what you saw.

Flores doesn't take the bribe, and nine years later,

he's sitting in a Manhattan courtroom telling this story to a jury

that's about to hear some of the wildest allegations ever brought against a music mogul.

So here we are, June 2025,

and Sean Combs is fighting for his life in federal court.

Not his actual life, though at 55 facing potential life in prison, maybe it amounts to the same thing.

The government says he ran a criminal enterprise for two decades that makes the mob look like a knitting circle.

We're talking sex trafficking, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and something called freak-offs that

sound like they belong in a horror movie, not a music executive's calendar.

Let me take you through what's been happening in that 26th floor courtroom in Manhattan, because

if you think you've heard crazy celebrity trial stories before, buckle up.

This one's got pregnant witnesses, exploding Porsches and Kanye West, showing up to watch

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