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Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs is on trial for sex trafficking, racketeering, and other charges. Here's everything to know about the rapper's trial, including how much time he's facing.

Prosecutors' star witness, Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, took the stand on Tuesday in the hip-hop mogul's sex trafficking trial, accusing the rapper of controlling her life and coercing her into "humiliating" sex acts.

Lawyers for Misa Hylton, who previously showed support for Diddy accuser Cassie, said that she was at the trial to support her son with the music mogul.

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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.

The trial is expected to last throughout the year.

Lawyers on both sides of Sean Combs' sex-crimes trial delivered opening statements, and witnesses alleged the one-time mogul was violent in multiple instances.