Sean 'Diddy' Combs seeks 2-month delay to sex-trafficking trial

Theresa Braine, New York Daily News on Apr 17, 2025

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NEW YORK — As prosecutors predicted, lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday requested a two-month delay to his sex-trafficking trial in New York, alleging a lack of prep time because potential evidence was not being handed to them quickly enough.

“We cannot, in good conscience, go to trial on the scheduled date [of May 5],” they said in a letter to federal Judge Arun Subramanian. “This is a problem that the government has created, yet it opposes our reasonable request.”

Diddy’s defense said prosecutors had missed Wednesday’s deadline for giving them exhibits and a witness list, as well as materials linked to one count in his indictment that levies a 15-year mandatory minimum prison sentence if the hip-hop mogul is convicted.

Other evidence relates to a superseding indictment that a grand jury returned earlier this month, accusing Combs of forcing and transporting women into prostitution from 2021 through last year.

Subramanian said he’d address the matter at a previously scheduled hearing on Friday, but told both sides to prepare as if nothing has changed.

Prosecutors are opposed. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik said on Monday they suspected Combs’ attorneys were drawing out the evidence-sharing discovery phase in an attempt to stall for time.

Combs’ attorneys are also pushing to have potential jurors screened for their views on sex, drugs and violence. Prosecutors have slammed his defense team’s proposed questionnaire, arguing that some of the 72 questions are “utterly irrelevant” to a juror’s ability to serve.

The 55-year-old rapper has been held without bail since his arrest in September on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him, including the two latest counts added to his indictment on April 3.