The sudden change in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ appearance has surprised observers of his New York trial.
The trial is not being televised and cameras are not allowed in the courtroom, but reporters have described Combs as looking very different from how the public remembers him. He has been in jail for months.
According to The Daily Beast, Combs has aged “markedly” following seven months in jail, with his “hair and goatee” now “going white.”
The Daily Beast described Combs as looking like “the slightly pudgy uncle” of the man he used to be even just two years before, when he attended the Met Gala.
A courtroom sketch artist drew Combs in court on May 5 and 6 as a bespectacled man with graying hair and a goatee.
The trial started with two days of jury selection, which is ongoing. Combs “retained reasonably good posture, and remained alert and attentive,” Daily Beast reported.
The New York Daily News also noted Combs’ sudden change in appearance, reporting that the incarceration appears to have taken a “toll” on the music mogul, who now has a “full head of gray-white hair.” This might be due to a lack of hair dye in jail, the publication noted.
Combs was clad in “a dark sweater and white button-down shirt,” The Daily News reported.
On the first day of the trial, Combs admitted that he was nervous.
A lot is at stake for the rapper, whose white parties once drew top celebrities.
The federal indictment accuses Combs of having engaged in or attempting to engage in sex trafficking, obstructing justice, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, and bribery, the indictment says.
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