Expected witnesses in the Sean Combs trial include former partners, a male sex worker and a friend of Cassie Ventura: Sources

Los Angeles CNN Unique Specific of Sean Diddy Combs former sexual partners a business associate and a male sex worker are among the spectators expected to testify at his criminal trial multiple sources tell CNN At least four observers who are expected to testify against Combs at his federal criminal trial starting next week are accusers who have already filed civil suits against the embattled music mogul The witness list has not been made citizens but three individuals familiar with the situation spoke to CNN under the condition of anonymity The central witness in the trial is Cassandra Cassie Ventura the singer and an ex-girlfriend of Combs who has chosen to testify under her real name The judge has allowed the other alleged casualties whom CNN has identified through sources to testify under pseudonyms in an effort to protect their identity In court papers the regime s key spectators are referred to as Victim- Victim- and Victim- CNN has reached out to a spokesperson at the U S Attorney s Office for the Southern District of New York as well as Combs representatives for comment Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy transportation to engage in prostitution and sex trafficking He has denied all civil claims against him These are not new charges or new accusers Combs attorneys advised CNN last month These are the same individuals former long-term girlfriends who were involved in consensual relationships This was their private sex life defined by consent not coercion Prosecutors have accused Combs of running a criminal enterprise where he and others coerced women into sexual situations known as Freak Offs with male prostitutes in which they were often drugged and forced to engage in sex acts for days Administration allege Combs recorded specific of the sex acts and controlled his casualties by promising financial and career opportunities as well as through threats of violence and other harm A number of supporting bystanders will also testify as authorities observers to corroborate the accounts of the key onlookers or to provide other relevant information at trial sources say Among those supporting viewers expected to testify is a male sex worker who is seen in explicit videos of Combs so-called Freak Offs according to one source who says additional sex workers may testify in the trial A friend of Ventura s will also take the stand according to another source who says this individual will corroborate Ventura s claims and testify about certain of her own states of violence by Combs referenced in the indictment Combs is facing over civil lawsuits The criminal episode will be limitedWhile Combs is facing more than civil lawsuits his criminal trial will be limited in scope with the jury instructed to deliberate on only what s presented in court At a hearing last month the judge gave Combs a major legal accomplishment ruling that preponderance evidence about prior sexual assault accusations against him not included in the indictment would not be allowed at trial Though Combs criminal trial is separate from the mountain of civil suits he is facing several of the lawsuits have served as a roadmap of sorts for prosecutors according to sources familiar with the federal research that led to Combs being indicted CNN previously communicated that federal investigators had brought in several civil accusers for questioning during their vast probe over the past year-and-a-half which resulted in federal searches of Combs homes in Los Angeles and Miami in March and Combs arrest in Manhattan in September One source explained to CNN that particular civil accusers who aren t being called to testify in the criminal trial have been integral to the regime s inquiry behind the scenes Ventura filed her lawsuit against Combs in November in which she accused Combs of a decade of repeated physical and emotional abuse during their relationship She alleged that shortly after she was signed to Combs Bad Boy Records label she was lured into an ostentatious fast-paced and drug-fueled lifestyle and into a romantic relationship with him where Combs was physically violent controlled all aspects of her life and forced her to engage in sex acts with other men In the criminal indictment against Combs the administration mirrored multiple of the proposes from Ventura s civil suit including an occurrence where she claimed Combs physically assaulted her in in a Los Angeles hotel In May CNN first broadcast hotel surveillance footage of that situation which matched Ventura s civil suggests Last week the judge mentioned he would allow footage of Ventura being beaten by Combs to be included as evidence in the trial Prosecutors have reported that a witness who recorded a version of the hotel surveillance video will be called to testify at the trial