Warning: This story contains painful details.
The prosecution opened their incident by criticizing the comb of hip -hop mogul, who used reputation and violence to sexually abused women, and the rapper lawyer defended his “swing” lifestyle and rejected prostitution.
The 55 -year -old boy did not convicted the charges, including transportation to participate in prostitution, prostitution and prostitution.
Following the statement, which opened on Monday, the court was heard from the first witnesses of the prosecution, including the guards of the hotel that the prosecution can see in the current virus rick video from the first Witnesses of the prosecution.
Following his testimony, a man who said that Mr. Coms abused his ex -girlfriend in a sexual encounter with the couple followed.
After holding a panel of 12 jury and six alternatives on Monday morning, the government and COMBS lawyers explained the case.
Emily Johnson’s prosecution accused Combs that he used his celebrity status and “loyal” internal employees to sexually abuse women and run criminal companies.
In this case, she focused on Cassandra Ventura, a former girlfriend of two central victims, Cassandra Ventura.
The prosecution insisted that COMBS used violence and threatened Ben Tura’s music career, forcing COMBS to perform non -continuous and humiliating sex with male prostitutes during the so -called “monster” filmed by COMBS.
Johnson said, “I had the power to ruin her life.”
As the prosecution explained the obvious details of the charges for Mr. Kombs, he sat on a gray sweater and pants, and his hands were folded on his knees.
In the case of the government, there is a surveillance video showing that MS MS Ventura hit MS Ventura and attracts her to her head in the 2016 Los Angeles Hotel corridor.
COMBS’s lawyers said that this video was evidence of COMBS’s “defect” character, but not a bigger criminal company. Teny Geragos, a lawyer at COMBS, said, “Domestic violence is not prostitution.
Geragos said COMBS has a “slightly different sex life” and has changed his focus on women who are called “competent and strong women” chosen to stay with the rapper.
They claimed “freedom to freely choose their choice,” Geragos said.
A former security guard named Israel Flarez, the first witness of the prosecution, worked at the hotel, a site of the current viral surveillance video that shows the ex -girlfriends who work at the hotel. The clip announced last year by CNN was played for the jury on Monday.
FLOREZ received a call from the jury on the 6th floor of a “suffering woman” from the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles on March 5, 2016.
He said that on the towel, he found a “” malicious “appearance on his face and found a vase on the floor, and Florez said Ben Tura covered his face and hardened to the corner.
Florez told the prosecution that Mr. Ben Tura wanted to keep leaving, but Mr. Coms could not do it.
He testified that Mr. Ben Tura had a purple eye, but he didn’t want to call the police and eventually left a black SUV with a 7 -foot (2.1 meter) driver.
FLOREZ later said that “to make it disappear,” Mr. Coms tried to give him cash but he refused.
COMBS’s lawyers try to drill a hole in Florez’s claim, asking why they do not include specific details such as Ben Tura’s purple eyes.
Following his testimony, Daniel Philip, a male stripper manager, said that his boss asked him to fill it up with a virgin party stripper and met Ben Tura.
But Philip said Ventura was greeted at the hotel instead.
Philip told the court that the meeting, which lasted for 10 hours, sometimes influenced by the drug, would have sex with Ben Tura for 10 hours, sometimes 10 hours of drugs.
He screamed, “I’m sorry,” and claimed that when he dragged her with her hair, the comb witnessed attacking Ben Tura. Mr. Coms returned to the room with Ventura and had sex with the two, Philip said.
“I was shocked,” he said. “It came out anywhere. I was scared.”
Philip argued that Mr. Coms did not call the police because of the fear of “unlimited person,” and reported that he did not call the police because of the fear of “you can lose life.”
The trial will continue on Tuesday, which Ben Tura is expected to testify.
In the crowded court on Monday, the children of the Coms, including their daughters, were holding hands. His mother also took pictures of his public relations walking out of court.
