During the seven-week-long trial, the jury has been shown screenshots and brief clips of recordings from the orgies where Combs would watch his girlfriends have sex with male prostitutes.

The defense has called the footage “powerful evidence that the sexual conduct in this case was consensual and not based on coercion.”

Lawyers for Combs had opposed the decision, saying that Combs would be "substantially prejudiced by the dismissal" of a black male from the jury.