NEW YORK, NY — U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian issued a stern warning to Sean “Diddy” Combs today during his high-profile federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in Manhattan. The judge threatened to remove Combs from the courtroom if he continued to make what were perceived as attempts to influence the jury.

Sean “Diddy” Combs might be barred from his own trial, the judge said Thursday in a bombshell moment. With the jury absent, Judge Arun Subramanian warned defense attorneys in a sidebar that he might exclude the defendant from the Lower Manhattan courtroom if he continued to look,

Bongolan testified that Combs once held her over Ventura's 17th-floor apartment balcony in 2016 before he threw her onto the balcony furniture, causing bruising, ongoing night terrors and paranoia. Combs has denied her allegations.