Federal prosecutors began trying to prove Monday that Sean “Diddy” Combs turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires for two decades.

A federal prosecutor says the public knew Sean “Diddy” Combs as a larger-than-life music and business mogul, but in private he was coercing women into drug-fueled sexual encounters and using violence to control them for years.

The sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, one of the biggest music moguls and cultural figures of the past four decades, has begun in New York with jury selection.

The sex trafficking trial of hip-hop impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs is underway in New York with jury selection.

The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to begin in a New York courtroom.

A federal prosecutor says lawyers for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are looking for reasons to delay a sex trafficking trial slated to start in three weeks.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has returned to federal court in New York City to face the latest iteration of an indictment charging him with two decades of sex trafficking crimes.

A former Goldman Sachs banker has been convicted of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to loot the Malaysian state investment fund, 1MDB.