The criminal trial for Sean "Diddy" Combs featured opening statements Monday from both the prosecution and defense. Prosecutors played the hotel video depicting Combs allegedly beating ex-partner Cassie Ventura,

Prosecutors allege the rapper used fame and violence to sexually abuse women, while the rapper's attorneys defended his "swinger" lifestyle.

Opening statements started in Diddy's sex trafficking trial, where he faces charges of racketeering and transportation for prostitution

Here is everything the attorneys defending Sean 'Diddy' Combs said in their opening statements as their rapper's trial gets underway in New York.

Federal prosecutors will begin trying to prove that Sean “Diddy” Combs turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires for two decades.