{"id":28680,"date":"2025-06-07T18:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28680"},"modified":"2025-06-07T18:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:14:51","slug":"the-judge-just-threatened-to-remove-diddy-from-the-courtroom-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28680","title":{"rendered":"The Judge Just Threatened to Remove Diddy from the Courtroom: Here’s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mogul’s sex trafficking trial is in its fourth week<\/h2>\n
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The judge overseeing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ case threatened to remove him from the courtroom<\/li>\n
Combs had been looking at jurors and “nodding vigorously,” said Judge Arun Subramanian<\/li>\n
The rebuke came after Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Cassie Ventura, testified Combs dangled her over a 17th-floor balcony<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The federal judge overseeing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial admonished the music mogul’s attorneys on Thursday, June 5, due to gestures he made towards the jury set to decide his fate.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI saw your client looking at the jury and nodding vigorously,” Judge Arun Subramanian said to Combs’ lead attorney Marc Agnifilo out of the presence of the jury. “That is absolutely unacceptable.”<\/p>\n
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“If it happens again, if it happens even once, I will hear an application from the government to give a curative instruction to the jury, which you do not want,” Subramanian also said. “Or I will consider taking further measures, which could result in the exclusion of your client from the courtroom.”<\/p>\n
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Agnifilo assured the judge that it would not happen again. The woman who had been testifying when Combs nodded at the jurors was Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Combs’ former longtime girlfriend and the government’s star witness, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.<\/p>\n
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Bongolan testified that Combs once held her over Ventura’s 17th-floor apartment balcony in 2016 before he threw her onto the balcony furniture, causing bruising, ongoing night terrors and paranoia. Combs has denied her allegations.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>Arun Subramanian District Judge for the Southern District of New York.<\/span>Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call via AP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Bongolan’s accusations came under intense scrutiny on Wednesday, June 4, and again on Thursday, when she was questioned by Nicole Westmoreland, one of Combs’ attorneys, about inconsistencies in accounts she has given in interviews with the government, a civil lawsuit she filed against Combs last year and in separate demand letters that were sent to the mogul by her attorneys.<\/p>\n
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Westmoreland questioned Bongolan about whether Ventura witnessed Combs dangling her over the balcony and where on the balcony she alleges Combs had held her. Bongolan responded many times to Westmoreland’s questions, “I don’t remember.”<\/p>\n
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On Wednesday, Westmoreland asked Bongolan: “Isn’t it true that just two days ago, you told the prosecution you just don’t recall the details of the balcony allegation?” Bongolan responded: “I don’t remember.”<\/p>\n
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