Brandon Livesay and Sakshi Venkatraman
BBC News, reporting from court in New York City
Jane Rosenberg /ReutersAn exotic dancer called The Punisher discovered his client’s identity when he turned on a hotel television before an encounter and the screen said, “Welcome Sean Combs”.
Sharay Hayes testified at the hip-hop mogul’s sex-trafficking trial that he was hired to create “sexy, erotic scenes” with Combs’ then-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura while a naked man watched from the corner.
But he did not realise at first that the man was Mr Combs. That changed when Mr Hayes was…
