Sean "Diddy" Combs' trial on sex trafficking charges will begin on Monday, a year and six months after he settled a lawsuit brought by his ex-girlfriend, accusing him of rape and abuse.

I have a black eye and a fat lip,” Cassie Ventura told the courtroom in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial Wednesday, reading aloud a text she sent to Combs after a beating from the “All About the Benjamins” performer at an L.

This is Sean Combs,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Ann Johnson told a Manhattan jury Monday in the courtroom on the opening day of Combs’ sex-trafficking trial. Cutting to the chase about the sordid allegations of rape,