For decades, he was untouchable. A mogul, a visionary, a king of hip-hop. Sean Diddy Colmes 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 where the 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, we 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 but with a reputation in ruins? I'm about to play a clip from the rise and fall of Diddy, the federal trial. Follow the series on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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.

She had kind of talked about how Diddy contributed to the culture and had a lot of great music,

which drew a lot of people to him specifically, and that a lot of people just wanted to be

around him because he would give them opportunities.

And then came a calculated moment of theater.

There was this moment during the defense opening statements where Diddy kind of stands up,

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