As outlined in their opening statements this morning, what the defence says at this point is that Combs did in fact hit his girlfriends, as jurors went on to see in that hotel video - but the defence also says that's not what this trial is about, and that domestic abuse is not the same as sex trafficking.

Cassie Ventura testified in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial, detailing years of alleged abuse and “freak-offs” with male escorts.

Sean “Diddy” Combs' former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, has testified that the mercurial music mogul beat her mercilessly and ordered her to have sex with strangers while he watched during drug-fueled,