Julia Jacobs

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Julia Jacobs |Ben Sisario

NEW YORK — A woman who dated Sean Combs, up until his arrest on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges last year, testified at his federal trial Thursday that an intense love affair with the music mogul turned into a pattern of unwanted voyeuristic sex that she struggled to end. “It was a door that I was unable to shut for the remainder of the relationship,” she testified.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Ben Sisario |Julia Jacobs

NEW YORK -- The judge overseeing Sean Combs’ federal trial denied an application by defense lawyers for a mistrial on Wednesday, after they argued that prosecutors had unfairly suggested through testimony that Combs was responsible for the destruction of fingerprint evidence. The defense objected to a line of questioning Wednesday morning during the testimony of a Los Angeles Fire Department arson inspector.

1 month ago | spokesman.com | Ben Sisario |Julia Jacobs |Joe Coscarelli

NEW YORK — It was only about a half-hour into the cross-examination of Casandra Ventura that a lawyer for Sean Combs drew on messages the couple exchanged, in an attempt to establish one of the defense’s key arguments in the case: that Ventura was a willing participant in the sex marathons known as “freak-offs.” Anna Estevao, the defense lawyer questioning Ventura on Thursday, presented a message the singer wrote to Combs in 2009 that read: “I’m always ready to freak off lolol.” In another...

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Ben Sisario |Julia Jacobs |Joe Coscarelli

Share In its cross-examination on Thursday of Casandra Ventura, the singer known as Cassie, she was a willing participant in the marathon sex sessions with prostitutes he called “freak-offs.” Among the messages shown, many of them sexually explicit, was one Ms. Ventura sent to Mr. Combs in 2009: “I’m always ready to freak off.”The defense had acknowledged in its opening statement on Monday that Mr. Combs was responsible for domestic violence and had an unconventional sex life.

1 month ago | spokesman.com | Julia Jacobs |Olivia Bensimon

NEW YORK — Jury selection for Sean Combs’ racketeering and sex-trafficking trial was delayed on Friday over worries that some jurors might get “cold feet” before the start of the high-profile case. Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing the case, expressed concern that if jurors were selected before the weekend, they could grow uneasy and drop off the panel before the trial begins Monday.