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Sunny Hostin, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor, sat in on Seam Combs’ trial.
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The View cohost reported seeing the rapper looking “like a defeated mogul.”
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She said “he’s walking feebly” and is “dressed like Mister Rogers.”
After sitting in on Donald Trump’s hush-money trial throughout May 2024, The View cohost, former federal prosecutor, and legal expert Sunny Hostin is back on the case — this time revealing that she witnessed rapper Sean Combs’ ongoing sex trafficking trial.
The 56-year-old lawyer and media personality recounted Tuesday watching Combs’ New York City trial unfold in person, where she said she observed notable changes to the 55-year-old recording artist’s physical appearance as he and his legal team weather charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
“Sean Combs is not the person that we used to see out there,” Hostin said at the top of the show’s Hot Topics discussion about the trial, which also included Combs’ former partner, singer Cassie Ventura, taking the stand after video circulated of Combs assaulting her inside a hotel — which Combs called “inexcusable” after the clip was first publicized last year.
Hostin continued, telling The View audience that Combs “looks very much like a defeated mogul” and that “he’s all grey because you can’t have hair dye in federal detention.”
“He looks like he’s dressed like Mister Rogers, he’s got sort of like a grey sweater, he’s walking feebly,” Hostin explained. “That could be a defense tactic. He has a lot of support in the courtroom, all of his children were there except for one.”
She recalled that “there was a lot of interaction” between Combs and his team, calling him “very engaged in his case” to the point where “he was writing down notes on orange stickies, passing it to his attorneys” as things unfolded.
“They would not close their examination of witnesses until he said he was okay,” Hostin finished.
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Sean Combs in 2023
Fellow cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin then brought up the 2016 video of Combs assaulting Ventura, which prompted a response from moderator Whoopi Goldberg when Hostin confirmed that “they showed that video yesterday” multiple times.
“I’d like them to stop showing that video on television,” Goldberg said. “It’s like, we know.”
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Hostin then said she’d leave The View studio in Manhattan shortly after the telecast ended, so she could sit in and witness some of Ventura’s words during the trial.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Combs for a response to Hostin’s courtroom observations.
Combs was previously arrested in Manhattan in September 2024, following a grand jury indictment. At the time, he pleaded not guilty to the aforementioned charges.
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.
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