Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs' Sex Crimes Trial To Begin In May 2025

NEW YORK CITY — Sean “Diddy” Combs' sex crimes trial, will begin in May 2025, a Manhattan federal judge announced Thursday.

The trial date has been set for May 5, 2025.

Prosecutors also revealed during the Thursday court appearance that there could be a superseding indictment.

Combs' lawyers, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, were hoping that his case be scheduled to go to trial either in April or May of next year, according to the New York Post.

A timeline of when federal prosecutors would turn over evidence to the defense was expected to be discussed as well.

Combs had been placed on suicide watch as he remains detained for his upcoming sex crimes trial, Patch previously reported.

Combs was put on suicide watch as a "preventative measure" while he's held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. He is facing racketeering and sex trafficking charges following his arrest in Manhattan.

Combs was denied bail following an appeal hearing in a Manhattan court last month. Combs and his lawyers were seeking house arrest as he awaits his trial.

Sex Trafficking/Racketeering Case

In an unsealed indictment, prosecutors allege Combs created "a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in" various crimes, such as "sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice."

In addition, Combs used his businesses and employees to carry out, facilitate, and cover up his abuse and commercial sex, according to prosecutors. The employees remained 'loyal' through acts of violence and threats, prosecutors said.

He is also accused of threatening and forcing victims to perform sex acts that he would record called "freak offs", according to the indictment.

Combs would assault women by striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at and kicking them, prosecutors said.

From 2008 to the present, Combs abused, threatened and coerced victims to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct, Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a press conference.