Outside the Diddy Trial, a New Media Guard Takes Over

As television cameras in the courtroom rattled the O.J. Simpson trial 30 years ago, influencers and livestreamers outside 500 Pearl St. in Manhattan during the rapper's federal trial point to a trend and conundrum for media.

Kid Cudi leaves after testifying last month during Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Logo text Every weekday around 3 p.m. local time at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, a frenzy begins. Following hours of sensational testimony and evidence in the sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of hip-hop and fashion mogul Sean “ Diddy ” Combs - whose nosedive as a cultural icon after three decades of success seems to sink him further from those heights as new victims take the stand to implicate and denounce him - you'll spot the first tri

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