Sean Combs on Trial

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the Sean Combs trial, Josh Mankiewicz reports on Combs’s life and the events that triggered a five-count federal indictment that includes racketeering and sex trafficking.

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.6	He was a pioneer of hip hop.
0:05.2	He was behind Mary J. Blige, the notorious B.I.G.
0:09.3	I'm talking about a mogul.
0:11.6	P. Diddy, P. Diddy, P. Duff Daddy.
0:14.1	Sean Combs, you had it all.
0:17.3	And then you're in an orange jumpsuit.
0:19.7	It's the case. rocking the music world.
0:23.1	Sean Combs abused, threatened, and coerced victims.
0:26.8	It's just this whole underbelly.
0:29.1	Video of Cassie Ventura being attacked.
0:33.7	That tape made people take notice.
0:36.4	That tape counts as smoking gun evidence.
0:39.3	A federal trial.
0:41.3	A line of lawsuits.
0:42.3	We've seen one after the other, after the other.
0:45.3	A nightclub shooting in the past.
0:47.3	Point to where exactly you were shot.
0:49.3	I got shot right here.
0:50.3	I felt like I was hit with a flaming hot sledgehammer in my face.
0:53.3	Not guilty then.
0:55.4	What will the verdict be now?
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