The R&B singer Cassie could testify as soon as Tuesday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial, as the Bad Boy Records founder faces charges that he orchestrated a deviant empire of exploitation that forced women into drugged-up sex parties called “freak-offs.

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Sean "Diddy" Combs, the rapper and music mogul who discovered world-famous artists and helped bring the genre into the mainstream, went on trial in New York on Monday on charges that he ran a two-decade racketeering and sex trafficking conspiracy.