{"id":2029785,"date":"2025-09-17T20:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2029785"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:41:39","slug":"will-smith-more-stars-who-spoke-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/will-smith-more-stars-who-spoke-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith, More Stars Who Spoke Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p> Diddy Trial: Why Michael B. Jordan, Kanye West &amp; More Celebrities Were Name-Dropped<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sean_diddy_combs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> is about to face a judge for his federal charges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Over six months after the disgraced rapper was arrested in September for charges related to sex trafficking and racketeering, a jury has been selected and opening statements for the trial will officially commence May 12.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Throughout his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1416917\/sean-diddy-combs-court-clothing-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">time in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center<\/a> in Brooklyn, New York, the music mogul has maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to his charges, which include one charge of racketeering conspiracy, two charges of sex trafficking, and two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">While in jail, the 55-year-old\u2014who is dad to <\/span><strong>Quincy,<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> 33, <\/span><strong>Justin<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, 30, <\/span><strong>Christian<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, 26, <\/span><strong>Chance<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, 18, twins<\/span><strong> D\u2019Lila<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> and<\/span><strong> Jessie<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, 17, and <\/span><strong>Love<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, 2, from four past relationships\u2014has also been hit with 120-plus sexual assault allegations and lawsuits, all of which he has denied.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cHe cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus,&#8221; Combs\u2019 lawyer <\/span><strong>Erica Wolff <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">said in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1408605\/sean-diddy-combs-accused-of-sexual-assault-and-rape-in-series-of-new-civil-suits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">a statement to E! News in October<\/a>. &#8220;That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diddy Trial: Why Michael B. Jordan, Kanye West &amp; More Celebrities Were Name-Dropped Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs is about to face a judge for his federal charges.\u00a0 Over six months after the disgraced rapper was arrested in September for charges related to sex trafficking and racketeering, a jury has been selected and opening statements for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Will-Smith-More-Stars-Who-Spoke-Out.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}