A judge has dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state’s case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state’s second-degree murder charges against him.
Fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey has sued the U.S. government over her abrupt July dismissal, saying it came without cause or notice and was unlawful and unconstitutional.
Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to quickly reject Sean “Diddy” Combs' request that he throw out a jury verdict or order a new trial after a jury convicted the music maven of two prostitution-related charges.
Prosecutors say they will seek a prison sentence for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs that is substantially higher than the four to five years they initially expected he might face under federal sentencing guidelines.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has asked a judge to dismiss his guilty verdicts on prostitution-related charges or grant him a new trial.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is asking a judge to release him on a $50 million bond while he awaits sentencing in October.
The lawyer whose defense team won acquittal for Sean “Diddy” Combs on life-sentence-eligible charges says the music mogul was greeted by a standing ovation from fellow prisoners when he returned to jail after the verdict.
The denial of bail for Sean “Diddy” Combs was an early signal by the judge that the music mogul won't be heading home soon.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been acquitted of the most serious sex trafficking charges against him and convicted of lesser ones.
A New York City jury’s decision to convict Sean “Diddy” Combs on prostitution-related offenses and acquit the music mogul on sex trafficking and racketeering charges is the latest in a line of high-profile celebrity criminal cases that garnered widespread attention.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been convicted of prostitution-related offenses under the federal Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking law with a century-old history.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted of more serious counts that could have put him behind bars for life.
A judge has declined to set Sean “Diddy” Combs free on bail to await sentencing in his sex crimes case.
The jury deliberating at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial heard testimony from 34 witnesses over the last seven weeks.
The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial says it has reached a verdict on four of five counts against the hip-hop mogul.
Prosecutors doubled down during closing arguments on their theory that Sean “Diddy” Combs carried out a sex trafficking criminal scheme for two decades as he enjoyed fame atop the hip-hop music world.
Jurors are set to begin deliberations in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Sean Diddy Combs' defense lawyer says the government “badly exaggerated” its evidence against the music mogul.
A prosecutor began two days of closing arguments at Sean “Diddy” Combs' sex trafficking trial by telling a jury that the music mogul used “power, violence and fear” to rule a criminal enterprise for two decades.
During weeks of testimony at the sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, nearly three dozen witnesses took their turns in front of a federal jury.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has praised the judge at his sex trafficking trial as he confirmed he won't be testifying.
A jury has now watched nearly 45 minutes of recordings of marathon sex events considered important evidence in the sex trafficking trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Hopes that Sean “Diddy” Combs might testify at his federal sex trafficking trial have faded after his lawyer predicted a defense presentation lasting two to five days.
The fifth week of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial featured a courthouse appearance by one of his famous friends: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, says he came to the New York sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs to support him but couldn't enter the packed courtroom.
A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs is protesting the rising tide of secrecy at the hip-hop icon's sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial after Combs and the public were excluded from lengthy legal arguments.
Under cross-examination, Sean “Diddy” Combs' ex-girlfriend says she performed for him sexually with male sex workers because it made her feel loved by the entertainer.
Sean “Diddy” Combs' ex-girlfriend says he forced her to have a “freak-off”-style sexual encounter with a male sex worker last year after chasing her around her California home, putting her in a chokehold, punching her in the face and kicking down doors.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recent ex-girlfriend sobbed on the witness stand Friday while describing their many drug-fueled sex marathons.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recent ex-girlfriend is back on the witness stand testifying about how he allegedly pressured her to take part in drug-fueled sex marathons.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recent ex-girlfriend described enduring drug-fueled sex marathons right up until the hip-hop titan’s arrest in September.
The Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial continues its fourth week of testimony with prosecutors calling a woman to the stand who is testifying under the pseudonym “Jane.”.
A former hotel security guard has testified that Sean “Diddy” Combs feared his iconic career would be ruined if the public ever saw a video of him beating his girlfriend in 2016.
A former personal assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs who says he raped her has defended the loving text messages she sent him for years after her job ended in 2017, saying she was “brainwashed.”.
The third week of Sean “Diddy” Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial featured testimony from the second of three women expected to testify that the hip-hop mogul sexually abused them.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers confronted his rape-alleging former personal assistant with her social media posts that praised the hip-hop mogul as a mentor and “friend for life” after she says he assaulted her.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former personal assistant testified that the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her, threw her into a swimming pool, dumped a bucket of ice on her head and slammed her arm into a door during a torturous eight-year tenure.
Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer and actor known simply as Cassie, has welcomed her third child.
A friend and former stylist of the R&B singer Cassie is the latest witness to testify at Sean “Diddy” Combs federal sex trafficking trial.
A former top aide to Sean “Diddy” Combs has testified at his sex trafficking trial that the music mogul threatened her with death on her first day on the job.
The second week of Sean Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial featured a dozen witnesses who described the music mogul's physical attacks on others or who provided testimony addressing the government's charges.
Rapper Kid Cudi has testified that he was sure Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his home in 2011 after learning he was dating Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ one-time personal assistant has testified that he was in charge of cleaning up hotel rooms after the hip-hop mogul’s sex marathons.
The mother of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura says she paid Sean “Diddy” Combs $20,000 in 2011 when he demanded the money because he was mad that her daughter had started dating someone else.
Singer Dawn Richard has told the jury in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs that he threatened her with death if she told anyone that she saw the influential hip-hop promoter beat his longtime girlfriend, the singer Cassie.
Testimony in the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial has opened a window into what prosecutors say was the sordid world of group sex, drugs and violence beneath his glittering, jet-set persona.
R&B singer Cassie has finished testifying at her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs' federal sex trafficking trial.
R&B singer Cassie has been forced to read aloud her explicit messages with former boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs during his sex trafficking trial.
The R&B singer Cassie returned to the witness stand Wednesday for a second day spent recounting tumultuous details of life with her ex-boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The R&B singer Cassie has testified that her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs' raped her in 2018 and kept control over her life by threatening to release recordings of her with male sex workers during encounters he arranged.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, took the witness stand in his sex trafficking trial on Tuesday, a day after prosecutors showed jurors video of the music mogul beating her in a hotel in 2016.
Sean “Diddy” Combs' former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, has testified that the mercurial music mogul beat her mercilessly and ordered her to have sex with strangers while he watched during drug-fueled, multi-day marathons he called “freak offs.”.
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 judge presiding over the racketeering and sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs says there was no evidence to back up his lawyers' claim he was treated differently because of his race.
A federal judge has warned a lawyer for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to tame his public comments now that the rapper's sex trafficking trial is underway, saying it was “outrageous” that he referred to prosecutors as a “six-pack of white women.”.
Dandyism was at the heart of Monday’s Met Gala, where many of the world’s most famous and influential tastemakers donned their luxury best to kick off the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” exhibit.
Jury selection in the sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to wrap up on Wednesday.
In the criminal indictment for this week’s sex trafficking trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the document lists the hip-hop mogul’s aliases.
The sex trafficking trial of hip-hop impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs is underway in New York with jury selection.
A federal judge in New York says the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will proceed as scheduled in early May despite his lawyer's claims that they need an extra two months to prepare.
Attorneys for hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs say a federal judge in New York should delay his sex-trafficking trial by two months so they can better prepare a defense.
Five years after Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and hauled to jail in handcuffs, the disgraced movie mogul returns to a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday for a new trial covering the very same allegations.
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.
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs want a judge to let prospective jurors at his upcoming sex trafficking trial be questioned about sex, drugs and violence.
Federal prosecutors have added two charges to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ indictment, expanding on allegations that the jailed hip-hop mogul engaged in sex trafficking as recently as last year.
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.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is suing NBC Universal over a documentary that he says falsely accuses him of being a serial murderer who had sex with underage girls as he awaits trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are suing a man they said had falsely claimed in interviews to possess videos implicating the music mogul in sexual assaults on celebrities.
Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs are labeling the prosecution against the hip-hop star as “sexist and puritanical."
The man charged with gunning down United Healthcare’s CEO outside a Manhattan hotel is now in a federal jail after being returned to New York City in dramatic fashion.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says a rape allegation against rapper Jay-Z won’t impact the NFL's relationship with the music mogul.
The rapper Jay-Z says that a rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt.
A judge says he’ll rule next week on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ third request to be released from jail on bail while he awaits his sex trafficking trial.
A federal judge has ordered prosecutors investigating Sean “Diddy” Combs not to use papers taken from the music mogul's jail cell until he rules on defense claims that they are trial preparation materials protected by attorney-client privilege.
Prosecutors say Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has tried to reach out to prospective witnesses and influence public opinion from jail in a bid to affect potential jurors for his upcoming sex trafficking trial.
Investigators seized drugs, homemade weapons and electronic devices this week during an “interagency operation” aimed at cleaning up the troubled New York City federal jail in where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held.
Federal prosecutors say lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs are trying to “hijack” his criminal case from them by asking a judge to force early disclosure of evidence, including his accusers' identities.
Former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard turned to music to process the grief of losing a family member and the stress of having parents in and out of the hospital.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused in a new lawsuit of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York City hotel room in 2005.
