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May 2025
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Sean Combs: Opening statements and the f...

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Listen to this bonus episode of Dateline: True Crime Weekly, in which Chloe Melas describes the mood inside and outside the Manhattan courthouse on the first day of testimony. The record producer has denied the allegations against him, and in his defense's opening statement claimed the encounters described in the indictment were consensual. A security guard ... Show More
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