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The alleged forced labour as an element of the racketeering is now being highlighted by prosecutor Christy Slavik, who says there has been evidence of forced labour in the testimony of four people, Cassie, Jane, Mia and Capricorn Clark.

She describes the "freak offs" which Cassie and Jane performed in, saying Diddy would not let them sleep and would give them drugs, including ecstasy and cocaine to keep them awake.

She says their bodies would get sore, and get sick from infections, including urinary tract infections (UTIs) which were "horrible" and "painful," especially when antibiotics stopped working.

On call for Diddy "whenever, wherever he wanted", Jane said during her evidence: "I'm the one putting all the physical and mental work in 48 hours straight," meaning they couldn't focus on their own careers.

Mia, a former assistant to Diddy, said she once went without sleep for five days while working for Diddy, resulting in a mental breakdown. She also detailed rape and sexual assaults at his hands, calling them "the most traumatic things that ever happened to her", and describing his violence towards her and fear for her life.

Meanwhile, Capricorn Clark, another ex-assistant, described being kidnapped and forced to go to Kid Cudi's home.

The prosecution says all of these are examples of forced labour.

After a short break, the court is back in session, and Christy Slavik should be wrapping up the government's closing argument before 10pm UK time.

The prosecution has hit the four-hour mark with its closing arguments, but says it still has around an hour to go.

In light of that, the court takes a brief break.

Now entering its final stages, the argument moves onto the subject of transportation.

Two of the counts are for interstate transportation for prostitution, and there have been discussions of the travel itineraries for the male escorts, as well as payments, which were put on Diddy's American Express credit card.

Cassie and male escorts travelled through Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Atlanta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Ibiza, according to the prosecution.

The court is told there was no way Diddy's staff did not know what was going on around the "freak-offs", listing team members including ex-chief of staff Kristina Khorram, security officer D-Roc and various assistants.

Slavik says: "It defies logic to think [Diddy's] most trusted lieutenants were in the dark, they knew what was happening and they helped him do it."

The government say the examples of coercion given are far from the only ones, saying Diddy created "a climate of fear".

Slavik says violence was in Cassie's mind whenever Diddy proposed a "freak off," adding, "She didn't want to make him angry because when he was angry, he would be violent, he could be a scary person, his temper, if he wanted something to happen that is what was going to happen and there was no way around it."

While they say the defence suggested Cassie could say no to "freak offs," she says: "Imagine the person closest to you hit you and dragged you by your hair for not answering the phone fast enough, for taking too long in the bathroom.

"Your boss, bigger and stronger than you are, the terror of not knowing what might set him off, now imagine what it means to say no."

Referring to the multiple videos of the "freak-offs" or "hotel nights", Slavik says: "You have seen clips鈥� you don't see weapons, you see Cassie chatting, masturbating and having sex, she is performing just like Jane."

She goes on: "Don't be fooled, it is anything more than that, a performance, they are orchestrated and directed, at times focusing on escort and not her at all, this was his fantasy not Cassie's."

The court is shown the CCTV of Diddy beating Cassie at the InterContinental Hotel, chasing her down the corridor wearing just a towel around his waist.

At this point in the courtroom, Diddy's head is down and he is not watching the video.

Slavik says this incident should leave no doubt that Diddy committed sex trafficking, using force to cause Cassie to continue to participate in a freak-off.

She says: "He was angry but in control and knew what he was doing鈥� he was using force and coercion to get Cassie back in the room where the escort was waiting."

During this time, Diddy has been passing notes to his lead lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, as he listens to Christy Slavik's final hour of closing arguments.

The prosecution now circles around to Cassie Ventura, who dated Diddy for around 11 years and gave four days of evidence at the start of the trial.

They say Cassie was transported around the country and coerced into "freak-offs".

They say she never did a "freak-off" without drugs, calling them "her job and her shame".

Signing her to a 10-year album deal when she was just 19, a past witness, Diddy's ex-assistant David James, described how Diddy told him Cassie was very "mouldable", and another assistant said Cassie "did exactly what [Diddy] told her to do".

Violence

Slavik describes multiple moments of alleged abuse - punching, kicking and hair pulling, including alleged attacks at a party at music star Prince's house and a beating allegedly metered out after discovering she was seeing rapper Kid Cudi.

But Slavik goes on to tell the jury: "We don't have time to talk about all the violent incidents, there are too many."

Photos of Cassie's injuries are shown to the court, and Slavik says: "Any one of these attacks would have been life changing, but for Cassie, it became her normal.

"As Cassie said, 'I make the wrong face and the next thing I know I was getting hit in the face'."

'Trauma bond'

We hear that security guard D-Roc both helped Cassie and reported back to Diddy, showing "there was no safe space for Cassie" and that "all the threats of violence and the ways he controlled her were all part of the scheme of coercion".

In 2018, Cassie and Diddy finally split up, but shortly after the prosecution say Diddy raped her.

Cassie later had consensual sex with him one more time.

Slavik says: "Like Jane, Cassie went back after the violence because of their bond - even after the rape, they had sex, consensually because they were trauma bonded."

Slavik says each of the examples of sex trafficking she has so far given - describing different situations of sex with strangers in front of Diddy - did not happen "in isolation" and all followed a "pattern".

She points the jury to a "hotel night" in July 2024, when she says Diddy's "love bombing" of Jane had persuaded her to take part in an event, giving her a drug she had never taken before, liquid molly.

Slavik describes the drug's effect as "an intense high".

She says: "The defence showed you videos of those nights suggesting she was into it.

"But what it really showed was that she was super, super high."

She describes "a library" of videos of hotel nights Diddy had collected, calling them "private intimate moments of Jane's life", and Diddy's threat to share them with her ex-partner.

Slavik says: "She told him she didn't want to do hotel nights, but she relented to avoid bad things from happening to her."