Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense team is fueling a narrative that their client's relationship with Cassie Ventura was always consensual. While in court on Tuesday, June 17, the powerhouse attorneys representing the Bad Boy Records founder showed jurors text messages between Combs and Ventura as they cross-examined DeLeassa Penland — a special agent from the U.

The prosecution is close to resting its case in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex trafficking trial as ex-assistant Brendan Paul testifies over drugs and “freak-offs.”

On Monday, June 16, a juror was dismissed over conflicting answers about where he lives. Judge Subramanian determined that the juror would be dismissed and replaced with an alternate. That alternate is a 57-year-old White male architect from Westchester County.