Kanye West has turned up to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial in New York City in an all white outfit. The controversial rapper has publicly supported embattled music mogul Combs.
West, who now goes by the name Ye, emerged from a black Maybach outside the courthouse on Friday, which is day 23 of Combs’ trial. He was accompanied by two security guards and shook hands with members of the public as he was escorted inside.
The rapper turned up without his wife Bianca Censori, despite her also being in New York City with him the previous evening. Combs, 55, is currently facing a number of serious charges, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
He was arrested in September and strongly denies all allegations made against him. Combs has been in prison since his arrest, and a number of bail requests have been rejected.
West has been publicly backing Combs, stirring up controversy with online posts and earlier this year, announced a fashion collaboration with the Bad Boy Records boss. He has also called for Combs to be released from prison.
In a social media posting spree earlier this year, he began by simply writing: “FREE PUFF.” He went on to share with a series of expletives. West also called out other celebrities for watching “OUR BROTHER ROT AND NEVER SAY S***”.
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In one upload, Kanye shared a video in which he had FaceTimed Diddy’s son, Christian. His staunch defence continued as he wrote on the post: “A SON TO HIS DAD FOR EVERY SON WHO DAD IS LOCKED UP WRITE OR WRONG I WANT YALL TO LISTEN TO DAVE CHAPELLES JOKES VERY CLOSE THIS TIME LETS SEE HOW FUNNY IT GETS WHEN FAMILIES ARE SEPARATED ESPECIALLY BLACK FAMILIES.”
Over the weekend Combs’ legal team called for a mistrial after the third week of his trial concluded. His lawyers make a fresh bid to halt the trial, citing “prosecutorial misconduct”.
In a letter addressed to Judge Arun Subramanian on Saturday, June 7, the defence claims “the government has presented testimony that it knew or should have known was materially false related to its allegation that Mr. Combs dangled Bryana Bongolan from the balcony of Cassie Ventura’s apartment in September 2016.”
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According to PEOPLE, who obtained sight of the correspondence, it stated: “Accordingly, to avoid an unfair conviction in this case the Court should grant a mistrial.”
The defence team for the Bad Boy Records founder also challenged the credibility of testimony from his former partner Cassie, who alleged she saw Combs dangle Bryana from a balcony. They argue her account is “demonstrably false”, pointing to text messages that suggest she only heard about the incident later.
The defence team argued that the prosecution presented photos of Bryana’s alleged injuries from the incident, which were claimed to have been taken on 26 September 2016 in Los Angeles, despite “the government has long known” Combs was in New York City between 24-29 September that year.
They also accused the prosecution of “repeatedly attempting to disrupt” their line of questioning when they tried to “expose the perjury upon cross-examination.
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