Ben Kochman

1 day ago | nypost.com | Ben Kochman |Priscilla DeGregory

Judge Arun Subramanian threatened to have Sean “Diddy” Combs removed from the courtroom for nodding at jurors. After the jury was dismissed for lunch, the judge blasted Combs for “looking at jurors and nodding vigorously” during the morning testimony of Bryana “Bana” Bongolon. “It cannot happen again,” Subramanian said. The judge warned Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo that he would consider removing the Bad Boy Records founder from the courtroom if he continued the behavior.

2 days ago | nypost.com | Ben Kochman |Priscilla DeGregory

Sean “Diddy” Combs once threw a knife that came “pretty close” to hitting his one-time girlfriend Cassie Ventura, a witness just told jurors. Bryana “Bana” Bongolan — a friend of Ventura’s — recounted a time she saw the Bad Boy Records founder get violent toward his longtime on-and-off girlfriend. The friends were both sleeping at Ventura’s apartment when Bongolan woke up to “banging” and discovered an “upset” Combs inside the apartment.

2 days ago | aol.com | Ben Kochman |Priscilla DeGregory |Emily Crane

Sean “Diddy” Combs once hurled a knife that came “pretty close” to hitting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura — and dangled her friend over a seventh-story balcony as he raged “You know what the f–k you did,” according to dramatic testimony Wednesday. Bryana “Bana” Bongolan — a close friend of Ventura’s — recounted the harrowing ordeals as she took the stand at Combs’ high-profile sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial in Manhattan federal court.

2 days ago | nypost.com | Ben Kochman |Kyle Schnitzer |Priscilla DeGregory |Kaydi Pelletier

Never-before-seen footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ disgusting hotel beating of then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura nine years ago is expected to be shown to jurors Wednesday when a new witness takes the stand in the disgraced rap mogul’s bombshell sex-trafficking trial. A forensic video expert is set to walk jurors through new video of the brutal 2016 assault at Los Angeles’ Intercontinental Hotel.

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Ben Kochman |Priscilla DeGregory

A hotel security guard detailed in Manhattan court Tuesday how Sean “Diddy” Combs bribed him with $100,000 to bury now-infamous footage of the Bad Boy Records founder brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Eddy Garcia said he accepted the cash in exchange for giving Combs what he believed was the only copy of a surveillance video of the 2016 beatdown — and then described getting a bizarre phone call from the music mogul not long after on Easter. “He said, ‘Happy Easter.