By Daniel Arkin Sean “Diddy” Combs long styled himself as a king of American hip-hop, cultivating a public image as a rap hitmaker and savvy entrepreneur whose influence stretched across entertainment, fashion and business. But when opening statements start Monday in Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial in New York City, lawyers on opposite sides of the case will portray him in dramatically contrasting terms, underscoring how he has lost control of a reputation he once fiercely protected. The federal prosecutors behind United States v. Combs plan to portray him as the ringleader of a sprawling criminal conspiracy, a serial abuser who used
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