United Kingdom, April 16 -- Sean 'Diddy' Combs' legal team is trying to stall the start of the rapper's sex trafficking trial.

The former music mogul, 55, is currently scheduled to begin in less than three weeks on federal charges, and he appeared in a New York federal courtroom on Monday (14.04.25), during which it has now emerged Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo told the court the defence may request a two-week adjournment. He cited discovery issues, including the government's alleged failure to obtain a full set of emails from a key witness.

Mr Agnifilo said: "The government let the witness select which emails were important, instead of asking for all 200,000."

But Judge Arun Subramanian gave Combs' lawyers until Wednesday (16.04.25) to ...