Hey everybody, Ashley Banfield here, and this is Drop Dead Serious with today's update on

P. Diddy. The government's sex trafficking case against Sean Combs hasn't even started,

and already it is veering off the rails. One of the prosecution's star witnesses

gone, like gone. Literally no trace of her. She's ghosted the court. And at first, reports suggested

that even that witness's lawyer couldn't be reached. But I'll have news about that in just a hot minute. All may not be

lost, though, because the feds just added another witness to their case, witness number five.

And with opening statements just days away, the case that was already explosive just detonated.

So let's get into it.

If you thought jury selection was already a circus, just you wait for Monday, everyone.

That's when things are supposed to finally wrap up with jury selection.

And I know, I know the jury was supposed to be picked by today, Friday, May, the 9th. But this last-minute

shuffle, that was all the judge's idea. This is a weird case. It really is. And the judge

really wants to make sure that no other potential jurors use the weekend to, you know, get

second thoughts, come up with a reason to drop off the jury pool.

So since court wrapped up on Wednesday, and remember they had the day off yesterday,

two more people were struck for cause, and that brought the pool down to just 43 people from the original 45.

So yeah, nobody can afford anybody else to drop off before the

peremptory strikes begin on Monday. And to the cause strikes, one woman, she was struck. She's

a white attorney from Rockland County who used to be an intern for a domestic violence prosecutor

in Kings County. And she made it pretty clear that she did not

want to be part of this trial. So out she goes. The other woman was dismissed because she's

currently suing the city of New York. And she just so happened to omit that from her jury questionnaire.

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