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Sean Diddy Combs has been facing new legal problems of late. In recent days, his homes in Los Angeles and Miami have been searched as part of a sex trafficking investigation, but he’s also named at the center of allegations of sex trafficking and abuse in a lawsuit filed by Rodney Jones aka Lil Rod.

And Lil Rod brings up Jennifer Lopez’s name in the case as he looks back at the infamous club shooting in 1999.

Diddy was involved in a club shooting in 1999, when he was in a relationship with Jennifer Lopez. Three people were injured in the incident, and Combs and Lopez were apprehended by the police. Although Jennifer Lopez was later acquitted, questions remain about the actual events of the evening.

So the relationship between Sean Combs and Jennifer Lopez has once again come under the microscope, as this event can be found in the legal documents of the man accusing Combs of sexual abuse and trafficking.

In his lawsuit, Lil Rod argues that Combs’ hold and the climate of power he creates around him has existed for a long time, and is not a recent phenomenon. For example, Lil Rod refers to the shooting incident in 1999 and claims that Diddy forced Jennifer Lopez to bring the gun into the club herself.

However, another person was formally accused of bringing the gun into the establishment at the time and was even sentenced to a notable penalty in connection with the shooting.

Jennifer Lopez recently addressed her past relationship with Diddy. In her documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, she reveals that their relationship was a mixture of both professional and personal mentoring. She also claims that Diddy cheated on her during this period. However, many people are wondering whether Diddy could also be the man Jennifer Lopez accuses, without naming him directly, of manhandling her.

Diddy has a storied legal history… including numerous arrests and various charges, some dating as far back as 1991, for assault. Over the years, several people, including former employees and his ex-girlfriend, have also filed complaints against him. More recently, Cassie, his ex-girlfriend, filed a complaint alleging that he had abused and controlled his employees, forcing them to take drugs and even sexually assaulting them! However, the case was settled out of court before going to trial.

And finally, Rodney Jones, a former Combs employee, is accusing Diddy of sexual exploitation during the production of his 2023 album.

One wonders if new evidence related to the shooting involving Lopez and Combs will emerge at this upcoming trial.

One thing is certain: the raids on the rapper and producer’s residences are not good news for Combs…

A New York judge in a high-profile trial involving bribery charges has ruled that the trial will begin as scheduled in April, despite Trump’s attempts to delay it.

In their attempt to delay the trial, Trump and his lawyers argued that prosecutors had filed more than 100,000 pages of potential evidence. Trump’s lawyers claimed they needed more time to review these documents, arguing that some contained inconsistencies that could exonerate him.

The judge ruled that the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office had taken the necessary steps to obtain the documents from an earlier federal investigation in the Southern District of New York. He also ruled that there had been no fault on the part of the DA in the late provision of the documents to the court, contrary to what defense lawyers had claimed.

Recall that in this trial, prosecutors argue that payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels were not recorded financial transactions, but rather allegedly aimed at influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

This led to the indictment of Trump, who is accused of falsifying his business records to conceal these expenses.

This new evidence originated in the early stages of the discovery process, when defense lawyers subpoenaed federal prosecutors in January 2024. Defense attorneys sought to obtain various documents from Mr. Cohen, believing they could reveal information crucial to Mr. Trump’s defense.

The Southern District of New York released a portion of the requested documents after negotiations.

They total 119,000 pages!

Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan have rejected the defense’s arguments of the need for a new delay due to new evidence. They argue that most of the documents do not provide new revelations, but rather confirm existing evidence. Furthermore, they argue that Trump’s legal team has had ample time to prepare, a position supported by the judge’s favorable ruling.

This means that Trump will be present in the courtroom as the legal proceedings kick off with the jury selection process on April 15.

Is Sean Combs involved in sex trafficking?

The search of P. Diddy’s home has rocked the entertainment world. According to NBC News, federal law enforcement agents executed search warrants at several properties owned by entertainment mogul Sean Combs. The actions were carried out in Los Angeles, Miami and other locations as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation.

Homeland Security Investigations, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for complex crimes such as human trafficking, is leading the investigation, no less.

Clearly, the case takes a very dark turn the more we learn.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1772371654749945914

Representatives of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, however, declined to comment on the case.

Combs’ involvement in the investigation and his current position have not been clarified.

The images are striking, however, and of imposing police command posts around Combs’s Los Angeles residence in the affluent Holmby Hills neighborhood, and agents from Homeland Security Investigations. Agents were also seen at the Miami site processing documents.

These raids come after several months of controversy and rumors surrounding Combs. Combs has been the subject of numerous civil lawsuits related to allegations of sexual assault. Most notably, Cassie Ventura settled a lawsuit in November 2023 in which Combs was accused of raping and abusing her for years.

He denied the allegation.

In February, Combs was sued by a music producer who claimed that Combs had forced him to solicit prostitutes and pushed him to commit sexual acts.

Combs’ lawyer, Shawn Holley, called the allegations lies.

Recently, a blueberry from Corindi in New South Wales entered the Guinness Book of Records as the heaviest picked in the world. It was picked somewhere in November, to make a dramatic entry into the fleshed-out account of world records.

The blueberry measured 39.31 millimetres, almost the size of a golf ball, and weighed 20.40 grams when placed on a small scale. We’re talking about 10 times the size of a blueberry you pick in the fields during the summer months. This blueberry comes from a new variety called Eterna and is grown by the farm that harvested it.

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In 2020, a company from Western Australia presented the world’s heaviest blueberry, weighing in at 16.20 grams.

By the way, with this new variety, records could be broken one after the other, since when this one was picked, some twenty other blueberries were almost as big as the one that will end up in the Guinness World Records.

Going forward, the company won’t necessarily be looking to beat the “size” record, as the main aim is to improve heat tolerance and disease resistance.