A court filing ahead of the trial accused Combs of using jailhouse communications to influence witnesses— including requesting authorized-contact family members and defense counsel to add other unauthorized individuals to three-way calls and using other inmates’ phone access codes.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex trafficking trial began Monday with opening statements and searing testimony from witnesses who detailed alleged violence, paid sex acts and coercion by the music mogu...

According to Phillip, he was paid between $700 and $6,000 on several occasions to have sex with Ventura, as Combs watched and masturbated.

Cassie Ventura, a longtime girlfriend of Sean "Diddy" Combs, said she loved the hip-hop mogul and felt a sense of duty to join "freak offs."

Sean "Diddy" Combs is on trial for allegedly leading a criminal organization that operated through sex trafficking, kidnapping, forced labor and violence over the course of 20 years, per federal prose...