Rapper Ye, previously often known as Kanye West, confirmed up on the Sean “Diddy” Combs intercourse trafficking trial going down in decrease Manhattan.
A reporter requested Ye, “Are you here to show support?” He replied, “Yes.”
Ye arrived round 11:30 a.m. and was noticed leaving the courthouse round a half-hour later. He by no means entered the precise courtroom the place the trial is going down.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to fees that carry a possible jail sentence of 15 years to life in jail. Prosecutors say he used fame, fortune, violence and threats to control girlfriends into intercourse with paid intercourse staff in multi-day occasions that they later regretted.
Protection attorneys say the federal government is prosecuting consensual intercourse between adults.
Courthouse safety didn’t take Ye to the twenty sixth ground the place the trial happens in one of many constructing’s largest courtrooms. Admittance there’s strictly managed, with seats reserved for Combs’ household and authorized workforce, the media and spectators who wait in line for hours to get a coveted seat.
The rapper was taken as an alternative to a courtroom three flooring beneath the trial ground. There, he briefly noticed testimony on a big closed-circuit monitor in an overflow room that was one ground beneath the standard overflow room, which was filled with media representatives and courthouse staff who heard erroneously that he is perhaps there.
As phrase of his precise location unfold and spectators trickled into the room the place Ye sat within the entrance row with Combs’ son, Christian, a bodyguard and one other Combs’ supporter on a facet of the room that was in any other case saved vacant by a court docket officer, Ye appeared across the room earlier than abruptly getting up and leaving, together with the others with him.
Ye did not reply additional questions as he left the courthouse, strolling previous reporters and TV cameras and ducking right into a ready black Mercedes sedan.
Alexis Linkletter, Dr. Judith Joseph and NBC New York’s Erica Byfield be part of David Ushery to interrupt down the previous week of the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial, together with an in-depth have a look at the testimony from “Jane” and the disturbing particulars written within the margins simply exterior the headlines from the salacious trial.
Alexis Linkletter, from The First Diploma podcast, talks about what others aren’t saying out loud relating to the case, and New York psychiatrist Dr. Judith Joseph helps present perspective on a number of the uncooked human feelings and trauma which have been the topic of testimony — together with why the victims would not go away the scenario sooner.
We additionally take you exterior the courthouse to see what the environment past the partitions of the courtroom is like, getting perspective from YouTuber Oota Ongo on what has been occurring on the sidewalk at 500 Pearl Avenue.
The trial is going down on the Daniel Patrick Moynihan federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Avenue and is in its fifth week.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
