DIDDY'S $10 MILLION DOLLAR DEFENSE STARTS TODAY, JURORS IN FEAR
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A jury has been seated in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial.
Prosecutors delivered their opening statements, followed by witness testimony. Still unclear is whether “Victim 3” will testify. A prosecutor said last week that both the witness and her attorney were missing.
“Victim 1,” Cassie Ventura, will be the prosecution's third witness. Combs’ team may try to counter her testimony by portraying her as confrontational and violent—someone with a personality too strong to be coerced.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Eric Faddis - Partner at Varner Faddis Elite Legal, Former Felony Prosecutor and Current Criminal Defense and Civil Litigation Attorney; Instagram: @e_fad @varnerfaddis; TikTok: @varnerfaddis
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker," and featured in hit show "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
- Robert Crispin - Private Investigator with “Crispin Special Investigations," Former Federal Task Force Officer for the United States Department of Justice [DEA and Miami Field Division], Former Homicide and Crimes against children investigator; Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations Inc.
- Lynn Shaw - Founder and Executive Director of Lynn's Warriors - an organization committed to ending human trafficking and sexual exploitation, Host of Lynn's Warriors on YouTube; X: @lynns_warriors Youtube: @LynnsWarriors
- Lauren Conlin - Investigative Journalist, Host of The Outlier Podcast, and also Host of "Corruption: What Happened to Grant Solomon; X- @Conlin_Lauren/ Instagram- @LaurenEmilyConlin/YouTube- @LaurenConlin4V
- Sydney Sumner - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.1 | Diddy's $10 million defense starts today. |
| 0:17.6 | This, as we learn, the jury is in fear of sitting on the ditty trial. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:24.9 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:28.2 | Cassie Ventura is set to take the stand with prosecutors expected to highlight a 2016 hotel assault caught on video. |
| 0:38.3 | This trial of Sean Combs started early this morning in a Manhattan courtroom, joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now. |
| 0:48.0 | Straight out to Lauren Conlon joining us, co-host Pop Crime TV. |
| 0:58.0 | Lauren, thank you for being with us. Tell me about what happened first thing this morning. Court began this morning with Diddy asking the judge for more water or |
| 1:05.3 | the judge said something like, do you have enough water? And he said, could I have some more, |
| 1:09.8 | Your Honor? Diddy appear to be wearing a |
| 1:12.2 | light cream-colored sweater, which I thought was a great choice for a defendant. He had his |
| 1:17.2 | glasses on. He was looking through some paperwork at the beginning of the morning, and he would turn |
| 1:22.9 | around to smile at his mom and wave to his family who were in the front row. He gave a thumbs up at one point. |
| 1:29.5 | I actually saw Janice Combs, his mother in the lobby this morning, and she was wearing an all-black |
| 1:36.2 | suit, a black purse, and she looked like she was going to a funeral, to be honest. I also want to |
| 1:41.4 | point out that when the jury walked in, Diddy did not take his eyes off of |
| 1:45.6 | them. He watched their every move. This, as we are learning, the jury is actually in fear. In fact, |
| 1:53.1 | the judge was afraid to a panel of jury on Friday thinking they would back out with cold feet |
| 1:58.2 | over the weekend. Listen. The original plan was for jury selection |
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