Sean “Diddy” Combs S3x Human Trafficking Trial to Begin May 2025 | General entertainment

Disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will stand trial on federal charges of S3X trafficking and racketeering from May 5, 2025, a US judge decided on Thursday, October 10.

Combs appeared Thursday in Manhattan federal court before Judge Arun Subramanian. His family, including his mother and six of his children, were present.

Combs, dressed in an all-brown prison outfit, smiled and waved at his family as he entered and hugged his attorneys.

Combs, 54, pleaded not guilty on September 17 to a three-count indictment accusing him of using his business empire, including legendary record label Bad Boy Entertainment, to transport women and male sex workers across state lines to participate in recorded sexual performances called “Freak-offs.”

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian set the trial date during a hearing in Manhattan federal court.

Prosecutor Emily Johnson told the court the prosecution’s case would take at least three weeks. Combs’ defense will last about a week, attorney Marc Agnifilo said.

Combs has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest. His appeal against another judge’s decision to deny him bail is pending.

The rapper and producer faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a minimum of 15 years if convicted of the three charges he faces: racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to indict.

Prosecutors said Combs seduced women by giving them drugs such as ketamine and ecstasy, financial support or promises of career support or a romantic relationship.

Combs then used the surreptitious recordings of the sex acts as “collateral” to ensure the women would remain silent, sometimes displaying weapons to intimidate abuse victims and witnesses, prosecutors said.

The indictment made no allegation that Combs himself directly engaged in unwanted sexual contact with women, although he was accused of physically assaulting them.