Just a month before the start of his trial, Sean Diddy Combs is slapped with a third indictment. The new document adds two new counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The additional charges center on “Victim-2,” who prosecutors say Combs’ recruited, harbored, and transported for the purposes of coerced commercial sex acts between 2021 and 2024. The additional charges could spell more jail time for Combs if convicted.

Sean Combs pleads not guilty to the new charges, his legal team contending the allegations are not new. His defense claims the accusers remain the same: former long-term girlfriends who engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with the rapper. Combs insists the escapades that prosecutors refer to as “Freak Offs,” were not coerced commercial acts, but joint decisions between romantic partners to bring other partners into their bed. Combs claims the “freak off” tapes prosecutors plan to submit as evidence will clearly show all parties are active and eager participants.

While prosecutors have revealed that ‘Victim 1’, aka Cassie Ventura plans to testify using her name in Sean Combs’ upcoming federal sex trafficking trial, they have asked Judge Arun Subramanian to allow witnesses 2, 3, and 4, to remain anonymous on the stand. Prosecutors are concerned that due to the nature of their testimony, asking the witnesses to use their real names would lead to "significant embarrassment, anxiety and social stigma," as well as harassment by the press. Prosecutors say the witnesses are also worried their testimony will affect their personal relationships and future employment opportunities.

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Joining Nancy Grace today,

• Eric Faddis - Trial Lawyer and TV Legal Analyst, Founding Partner of Varner Faddis Elite Legal, former felony prosecutor and current criminal defense and civil litigation attorney
• Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker,” featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock www.drbethanymarshall.com/ , Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
• Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective, & Host of YouTube channel, "The Interview Room." Website: www.coldcasefoundation.org/chris-mcdonough
• Dr. DeWayne Hendrix - Former Associate Warden at the MDC in Brooklyn, and former Senior Warden with the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Founder and President of A New Daylight Foundation, Author: "Who Are You? See it Say it and Seize it" , newdaylightfoundation.com @anewdaylight (IG) @drdewaynehendrix (LinkedIn) @anewdaylight (X-Twitter)
• Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco - Executive Director of Freedom Light and Human Trafficking Expert Witness, Author of “Hidden in Plain Sight: America’s Slaves of the New Millennium”, mehlmanorozco.com/ and freedomlight.org/ , X: @MehlmanOrozco
• Kayla Brantley - Reporter-At-Large for DailyMail.com, Host of Daily Mail’s podcast: 'The Trial of Diddy' Twitter: @_KaylaBrantley, Instagram: @KaylaBrantley
• Sydney Sumner - Crime Online Investigative Reporter

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