In a sweeping indictment that accuses Combs of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, prosecutors allege the same business empire that nearly made Combs a billionaire also enabled him to illegally coerce women into sex and conceal his illicit conduct to protect his reputation.

Follow live updates on the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial. Testimony begins with a security supervisor from the hotel where video caught Combs attacking Cassie Ventura.

Week four of the mogul's trial saw testimony from alleged victim "Jane" and a woman who claimed Combs dangled her off a balcony

The prosecution wants to admit into evidence some communications ... When Derek Ferguson became Sean Combs’s chief financial officer in 1998, he testified, Combs was very involved in the company ...