'MACK DADDY' Diddy' FORCED TO USE $1 CANS OF FISH AS JAIL CURRENCY, DEMANDS TRIAL DELAY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Just a month before the start of his trial, Sean "Diddy" Combs faces a third indictment.
The new document adds two counts: sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The additional charges focus on “Victim-2,” who prosecutors say Combs recruited, harbored, and transported for coerced commercial sex acts between 2021 and 2024. If convicted, the charges could result in more jail time.
Combs pleads not guilty. His legal team argues the allegations are not new and involve the same accusers—former long-term girlfriends who, they say, had consensual sexual relationships with Combs. He insists the encounters prosecutors call “Freak Offs” were mutual decisions between romantic partners to invite others into their relationship. Combs claims the tapes prosecutors plan to introduce as evidence will show all parties as willing participants.
Prosecutors say “Victim-1,” also known as Cassie Ventura, plans to testify under her real name. They have asked Judge Arun Subramanian to allow witnesses 2, 3, and 4 to remain anonymous. They argue that revealing their names could lead to significant embarrassment, anxiety, social stigma, and media harassment. The witnesses are also concerned their testimony may affect personal relationships and future job prospects.
What else is going on with Diddy? Tune into Crime Stories for updates.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
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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
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Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author of "Deal Breaker,” and featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
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Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective, & Host of YouTube Channel, "The Interview Room"
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Dr. DeWayne Hendrix - Former Associate Warden at the MDC in Brooklyn, and former Senior Warden with the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Founder and President of A New Daylight Foundation, Author: "Who Are You? See it Say it and Seize it;" @anewdaylight (IG), @drdewaynehendrix (LinkedIn) @anewdaylight (X-Twitter)
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Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco - Executive Director of Freedom Light, Human Trafficking Expert Witness, Author of “Hidden in Plain Sight: America’s Slaves of the New Millennium;" X: @MehlmanOrozco
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Kayla Brantley - Reporter-At-Large for DailyMail.com, Host of Daily Mail’s podcast, 'The Trial of Diddy;" X: @_KaylaBrantley, Instagram: @KaylaBrantley
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Sydney Sumner - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.5 | Mac Daddy. |
| 0:08.9 | Yeah, you heard me right. |
| 0:10.8 | Sean Combs, aka Diddy, now humiliated as he is forced to use $1 cans of mackerel, fish, as jail currency. |
| 0:24.5 | What happened to the private jets, the private chef, all of those minions at his |
| 0:31.5 | back and call? |
| 0:32.9 | He is dealing in mackerel. |
| 0:36.7 | This in a bombshell bid for a trial delay. I'm Nancy Grace. This is |
| 0:45.0 | crime stories. Thank you for being with us. Jailed rapper and musician Sean Puffy Combs |
| 0:50.3 | hit with more charges amidst a federal sex trafficking case that alleges the musician |
| 0:56.0 | use his power and status in the music industry to coerce unknowing victims. |
| 1:01.8 | I wouldn't put it past the feds at this juncture. There is now a third superseding indictment |
| 1:07.1 | to add more charges because we are learning more about an alleged shooting that went down in a studio. |
| 1:14.3 | But first, can we get to the canned mackerel? |
| 1:19.2 | What? Okay, listen to this. |
| 1:20.9 | Inmate 37452-054, otherwise known as Sean Diddy Combs, will be housed in 4 north at the Metropolitan |
| 1:30.8 | Detention Center for at least 48 more days if his trial begins on time. Combs has spent most of |
| 1:37.8 | his time in the unit's visiting room with his lawyers or the video call room with his laptop |
| 1:43.3 | that cannot access the internet to work |
| 1:46.5 | through the mountain of evidence that prosecutors have turned over. |
| 1:50.2 | Combs' exorbitant monetary value hasn't gotten him anywhere behind bars, forced to use a more |
| 1:56.8 | humiliating currency. |
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