
The first witness called in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial was Officer Israel Florez. He’s now a Los Angeles Police Department officer, but in March 2016, he was working at a Los Angeles hotel as assistant director of security when he got a call that a woman was in distress on the sixth floor and encountered Sean Combs.
Federal prosecutors are trying to prove that Combs turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires for two decades.
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