A Manhattan federal jury of four women and eight men will begin deliberations on Monday in the criminal trial against Sean "Diddy" Combs for allegedly using his global music, entertainment, clothing and liquor conglomerate to force women into drug-fueled sex marathons under the threat of violence and blackmail.

Combs, 55, pleaded not guilty to five counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transporting male escorts for the purpose of prostitution. He faces life in prison if convicted on all the charges.

On Monday morning, District Court Judge Arun Subramanian will instruct the jury on how to apply the law to the evidence, which could take several hours. After that, the jurors will begin their deliberations.

During six-plus weeks of testimony, 34 witnesses were called to the stand by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York to recount what they said were 20 years of criminal activity — from 2004 to 2024 — in the service of Combs’ sexual tastes.

Two women, former pop singer Casandra Ventura, who performed under the name "Cassie," and another former girlfriend, testifying under the pseudonym Jane to protect her identity as an alleged sex crime victim, told essentially the same story with different details.

When they began dating Combs, there were fireworks. They described him as a charismatic man who swept them off their feet. He was flirtatious, attentive and intense.

They both kept their relationship secret — Ventura because she was dating someone else and Jane because her friend was dating Combs, so she carried on a secret text affair until he was free to date her.

Within a matter of months, Combs introduced the idea of bringing another man into the bedroom, they said.

Ventura and Jane both went along with it, eager to please their wealthy and powerful new boyfriend, they said.

After the first time, the women felt exhilarated, they said. Jane said that she thought it was exciting to break a "taboo."

It was also a turning point in their relationships, they said.

"I truly felt that that night opened a Pandora’s box," Jane testified. "It was a door that I was unable to shut for the rest of our relationship. It was so much of it after. It was too much of it."

Ventura, who won a $20 million settlement from Combs after she sued him for sex trafficking and rape in 2023, said that she spent two or three days in hotel rooms on and off for 11 years, high on ecstasy and having sex with multiple male prostitutes while Combs watched. He also recorded the sex binges, which they called "freak-offs," "hotel nights" or "wild king nights."

Defense lawyer Teny Geragos argued that Jane and Ventura are "capable, strong, adult women."

"They were all getting something each of them wanted from him and from being in a romantic relationship with him," she said. Combs still pays the rent in the house where Jane lives with her son, Jane said. Ventura said that he paid for her cars, trips and rent, but she also blames him for sidelining her singing career.

"These adult, capable, strong women will have to take on the same level of personal responsibility for their lives that he is going to take on for his," Geragos said.

However, the women testified that Combs often became violent when they no longer wanted to engage in the freak-offs. Prosecutors played a 2016 surveillance recording inside the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles showing Combs pulling Ventura to the ground and kicking her repeatedly after she left a freak-off early.

Photos entered into evidence show her back and legs bruised and a deep gash over her left eye from the time that she said Combs slammed her down on a bedframe.

Rapper Kid Cudi, who had a brief relationship with Ventura after a temporary breakup with Combs, testified that his car was firebombed and his house broken into. Los Angeles authorities, however, never made an arrest in either crime.

There were other victims of Combs' alleged abuse. Longtime personal assistant Capricorn Clark, who rose to hold an executive position at the company, said that she had been kidnapped twice by Combs. Another personal assistant who testified under the pseudonym Mia said that Combs sexually assaulted and raped her during the time she worked for him.

More than half a dozen personal assistants who worked for Combs testified of long hours and high demands from him as a boss.

"Did they always like him?" Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo asked the jury during the closing arguments. "They didn't always like him, but they loved him. They loved him. Even the ones who are suing him."

Aside from the violence toward his girlfriends, they said he also blackmailed them, threatening to release the video footage of the freak-offs to the public.

Ventura’s mother testified that she had to take out a loan against her Connecticut home to pay Combs not to release compromising videos. The money was returned quickly, she said.

Defense lawyers dismissed the episode, calling it an idle threat.

"There is no way on God's green earth Sean Combs is going to release one of these videos," Agnifilo said. "Zero. Zero. Zero percent chance."

Amid the reams of text messages, videos and witness testimony presented at trial, the most difficult to refute relates to the prostitution charge.

Agnifilo said that the men were paid for their time, but not for the sex.

Prosecutors provided receipts for airfare, car services and hotel stays for multiple escorts. There are text messages between Combs and the operator of Cowboys4Angeles, a male escort agency.

"If the two adults meet because you're paying for time, and they choose to have sex, it looks like that's not illegal because there are all these companies around the world doing this, and Cowboys4Angels is one of them," Agnifilo said.

Lead prosecutor Maurene Comey mocked the argument that they weren’t prostitutes.

Two escorts testified at trial that they were paid after having sex with Ventura while Combs watched. Both men told the jury that when they couldn’t perform, they were not paid, but the majority of the times they had sex and were paid thousands of dollars.