Sean Combs sex trafficking trial updates: Cassie's testimony ends after days of describing abuse

In opening statements, Combs' defense attorney, Teny Geragos, said Combs may come across as mean but reminded jurors that he's "not charged with being mean, he's not charged with being a jerk."

Geragos insisted that the criminal charges Combs faces relate to his private, personal sex life. "The government has no place here," she said.

The defense conceded Combs "has a temper" and "got violent" when they say he drank or used drugs but insisted domestic violence was not part of any RICO conspiracy or was meant to coerce women into sexual acts.

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The defense said the 2016 hotel security video of Combs and Cassie, in which Combs physically attacks her, shows a fight over a phone. Geragos said what is depicted in the video "is dehumanizing and violent and terrible" but not evidence of sex trafficking.

"It is evidence of domestic violence," Geragos said.

Geragos said Combs led a "swingers' lifestyle" and downplayed "freak offs" as consensual threesomes.

"That may not be what you like to do in your bedroom," Geragos said. "But you are not here to judge him for his sexual preferences."

Prosecutor Emily Johnson urged the jury not to believe how the defense characterized the evidence, which they said shows, among other things, Combs violently forcing Cassie and 'Jane' to participate in freak-offs under the threat of releasing videos of the event. Prosecutors have previously pointed to the 2016 video of Combs kicking and dragging Cassie as evidence of allegedly sex trafficking his then-girlfriend for a "freak off" in which she was forced to engage in sex acts with male prostitutes.

After the prosecution announced Cassie Ventura, "Jane" and others will testify at trial, defense attorney Teny Geragos, in her opening statement, accused the government of trying to turn relationships and choices involving consenting adults into a racketeering case.

"It will not work," Geragos said.

"Sean Combs is a complicated man but this is not a complicated case. This case is about love, jealousy, infidelity and money," Geragos said.

Sean Combs, the "musician who created an empire," also ran a criminal enterprise with his "trusted inner circle" that committed "crime after crime" for twenty years, including kidnapping, arson, drug offenses, sex crimes, bribery and obstruction, a federal prosecutor said Monday in opening statements.

The prosecutor also detailed Combs' alleged dealings with ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and another anonymous victim.

The prosecution described how Combs allegedly "used lies, drugs, threats and violence to threaten and coerce first Cassie and then 'Jane' to have sex with him in front of male escorts."

Combs had no discernible expression on his face as the prosecutor recounted the acts he allegedly committed. His six children and his mother are seated in the second row listening to all of it.

Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers began summarizing their cases Monday in the Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking trial, shortly after they settled on the jury that will eventually render judgement on the hip-hop icon.

The proceedings in Manhattan began with prosecutors and the defense rejecting several candidates for the 12-person jury, which also includes six alternates. Testimony will begin after the sides present their opening statements.