Creative Babble.

For decades, he was unstoppable, a mogul, visionary, a king of hip-hop.

Sean Diddy Combs built an empire from the ground up, but now it's all coming undone.

Law and Crimes hit podcast series returns with a brand new season,

the rise and fall of Diddy, the federal trial. Hosted by Jesse Weber, we pick up with a story

left off. Now, as a federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial is underway, we go deeper

into the allegations threatening to dismantle one of the most iconic legacies in entertainment history.

Each week, they break down the courtroom drama as it happens, from explosive testimony to

behind-the-scenes legal strategy, to the questions on everyone's mind. How far will he fall,

or will he walk free? I'm about to play your clip from the rise and fall of Diddy, the federal

trial.

Follow the series on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcast.

This podcast is made possible by daily court transcripts obtained by law and crime,

along with on the ground reporting from our very own Elizabeth Milner embedded in the courtroom.

In her opening statement, defense attorney Tenney Garagos wasted no time reframing the government's case,

not as a criminal conspiracy, but as something much more familiar, a troubled relationship.

Teni Garagos presented the opening statements for the defense,

and she had to kind of admit while she was giving her opening statement and presenting this to the jury that Sean Combs is a complicated man, but she had said that this isn't a complicated case.

She said that this is a case about real-life relationships, that the government is turning into this RICO conspiracy and turning this into sex trafficking.

She says this case isn't what we had heard about on the news and that essentially Diddy's story

will be told over the next two months. She also reminded jurors of who Sean Combs is, not just the

man in handcuffs, but a music mogul whose influence shaped a generation.

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