When Sean Combs goes on trial for sex-trafficking charges beginning this week, the case could turn on disturbing video footage that the rap impresario’s defense team fought to keep out. The footage shows Combs assaulting and dragging an ex-girlfriend in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.

Sean “Diddy” Combs strode into court Monday morning to a packed courtroom filled with his children and anxious family members, as the hip-hop mogul faces charges of sex trafficking and racketeering that could put him behind bars for life.

Casandra "Cassie" Ventura is expected to be the prosecution's star witness at the music mogul's trial When Casandra "Cassie" Ventura entered the courtroom in Lower Manhattan, preparing to take the stand at Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial,