Diddy’s Legal Problems Are About to Get Worse

Prosecutors on Thursday are expected to disclose how much time they will need to extract evidence from the “voluminous” electronic data they have obtained from raids on rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes.
The 54-year-old is in Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, awaiting trial on charges that include sex trafficking, sex abuse and traveling to engage in prostitution.
If convicted on every charge, Combs would spend at least 15 years in prison—with the possibility of a life sentence. His attorneys are asking to go to trial quickly, requesting April or May 2025 in a letter to the judge this week since Combs was twice denied bail.
In a court filing on Wednesday, prosecutors informed federal Judge Arun Subramanian that they have “several terabytes of electronic material” from searches in Combs’ homes in California and Florida.
The material includes video of Combs’ alleged assault on women, including a 2016 hotel attack on his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, for which he has publicly apologized.
Prosecutors acknowledged in a separate filing on Thursday that they have a copy of the hotel video.
More than 120 alleged victims have come forward accusing him of sex crimes. Combs denies the charges against him, and according to his attorney, Marc Agnifilo, the music mogul plans to testify at trial.
Newsweek sought email comment from Agnifilo on Thursday.
Prosecutors say their evidence so far includes “physical evidence seized in searches of the defendant’s residence; law enforcement records; search warrant returns, including cell phone location information,” according to Wednesday’s filing.
They wrote that, on Thursday, they would reveal the “anticipated timeline of extracting electronically stored information” that “makes up a significant portion of the total discovery in the case.”
They also wrote that the discovery material they intend to hand over to Combs’ legal team is “voluminous,” involving data obtained from at least 40 devices as well as from an iCloud account.
The information is included in a joint letter from federal prosecutors and Combs’ defense team, in which they updated the judge on the status of the discovery procedure, in which prosecutors must hand over their evidence to a defense team, a mandatory process in all criminal cases.
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