Welcome to The Trial of Diddy - hosted by DailyMail.com’s West Coast News Editor Marjorie Hernandez and Manhattan-based Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail. Kayla and Marjorie explore every new development in this story each week, looking at what may - or may not - be coming next for Diddy. This week they dig into former Diddy Chief of Staff Kristina Khorram’s explosive new statement and catch up with state and federal criminal law attorney Lou Shapiro. Don’t miss it! Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Marjorie Hernandez and Kayla Brantley Editor: Sam Morris Producer Rob Fitzpatrick Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the latest allegations against Diddy?
The following episode explores a number of allegations regarding the artist Diddy. He denies all charges and has pled not guilty to sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world.
At the height of his career, Sean Diddy Combs had it all. It seemed like everything Diddy touched turned to gold. Now the once untouchable hip-hop mogul is fighting for his life as he faces multiple federal charges in New York, including sex trafficking and allegedly running a criminal enterprise.
Music mogul and rapper Sean Diddy Combs has faced four different lawsuits in recent weeks alleging sexual assault.
I'm DailyMail.com journalist Marjorie Hernandez, and over the last six months, I've been investigating this incredible story and speaking to the people in the eye of the storm. Welcome to the Trial of Diddy.
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Chapter 2: Who is Kristina Khorram and what did she say?
Chapter 3: What new developments occurred in Diddy's court case?
And with all that being said, let's meet this week's guest, L.A.-based state and federal criminal law attorney Lou Shapiro. Marjorie caught up with Lou late last night after he'd had another full day in court. And here they are.
Well, welcome back to The Trial of Diddy. And today we have attorney and legal analyst Lou Shapiro. Thanks so much, Lou, for coming back to our show.
My pleasure. Good to be with you again.
Yes. And can you kindly tell us first your background in federal criminal courts?
Yeah, sure. I'm a criminal defense attorney, formerly worked for the government Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office. Since then, I've started my own criminal law practice 10 plus years ago where I do state and federal criminal defense.
He has a lot of experience with analyzing a lot of these big cases. So very fortunate to have you on the show. Now, Lou, a lot has happened since we last spoke. Diddy is now in a federal lockup since, gosh, September 16th. He has remained there for, gosh, despite several attempts to be released on bail. And now actually it looks like the May 5th court date will be pushed back by a week.
The trial looks like it's going to start now on May 12th. Now, do you anticipate that it will actually move forward on May 12th?
Yeah, it seems like the judge is trying to keep the trial timeline on a shorter leash now. The final pieces of discovery and names of the alleged victims are being provided. So we are definitely nearing the finish line in terms of the pretrial phase.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the upcoming trial date?
And just today, as you mentioned, the federal prosecutors were told to hand over the names of those three alleged victims who are, again, connected to the federal criminal indictment. And the judge's order said their identities were disclosed to Diddy's attorneys, quote, under attorney's eyes only designation. Can you explain what that means?
Since Diddy's own attorneys had previously referred to Cassie as victim one.
Right. So when it comes to victims, of sexual abuse or domestic violence, the courts tried to make all efforts to protect those names, keep them confidential to prevent further harassment or embarrassment and so forth.
So that's why the judge said to the attorneys, you can have this information, you can do what you want with it in terms of investigating their backgrounds, their statements and so forth. You just can't release that information to the general public.
But the fact was, I think Diddy's attorneys actually also said that the other victims were possible former girlfriends. Would that affect the case in terms of what will be discussed moving forward now that these names are sealed for now?
So even if they were previously disclosed by counsel, because the judge made an order from here on moving forward, they won't be able to say the names of those individuals out loud, even if it's obvious.
Now, how about witnesses in the case? There hasn't been a release of any witness lists as far as we've heard, but could that be made available or made public anytime soon?
Yes, typically witness lists are provided shortly before trial. People at both sides are making last minute changes to who they're going to be calling or not. And in that sense, they're provided to the court And I don't see why the judge wouldn't allow those witness names to be at least provided to the public.
I think the judge is going to be conducting a balancing test because there is the right of the public also to the press to understand the court system and right of information. So he'll be balancing that or she'll be balancing that.
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Chapter 5: How did Kanye West get involved in this situation?
Well, it also depends on who's willing to cooperate with the government in this case. I don't expect a lot of witnesses on Diddy's side. I expect a longer witness list on the prosecution side. But again, They probably would want to call some A-listers, but A-listers probably want to stay as far away as they can from a proceeding like this. So it's not to be associated with Didi in any way.
You talked a little bit about the gag order. So how will that work? Will the public not learn the names of the folks in the witnesses until trial starts? Or will that be released earlier? Like we're now in the pretrial motion phase, right?
Right. It depends. how comprehensive the judge wants to make that order. He could tell everybody in the room, whoever is in the trial, that they're not allowed to release any information about the witnesses or the victims in the case. We have to see how the judge plays that. We don't know yet.
Now, can the judge actually close the court when victims one, two, and three testify?
Yes, the judge can order that everybody else except for the parties involved, exit the courtroom and have that part of the proceedings closed.
Oh, wow.
Does that happen often? Yeah, it does happen, especially when it's requested by the victims. It's certainly something that is common, yes.
So then the witness's testimony will not be public or the transcript would be sealed? Is that what will happen or what could happen?
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Chapter 6: Who is Lou Shapiro and what insights does he provide?
So the testimony would be public, just their names would not be.
So the transcripts of the testimony would be public, but their names will be kept out. I know like the Weinstein case, it was an open court and they did testify in person. I guess some of their names were not made public, right?
Right, because some wanted, I think, send a message to the public and stand for what they were testifying about and wanted to be reached out because they have a story to tell and they wanted to tell it. But others wanted to remain under the radar. So it's a personal decision made by the accusers.
There's more coming up, but for now, let's pause for a break.
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Welcome back to The Trial of Diddy. We're still here with attorney Lou Shapiro.
Now, there was some discussion at Diddy's hearing last week that the jury might possibly be sequestered or that there might be some indication that could be a possibility. Do you think this will actually happen in this case?
No, I don't think they're going to be sequestered like in the OJ case where they're taken to hotels and being given food and no access to television and so forth because back then, You could actually have a chance at sequestering a jury, meaning cutting them off from the media and so forth, so it won't influence their decision-making in the trial.
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