At this advanced stage of the social media and podcasting era, nearly every celebrity legal proceeding plays primarily as fodder for content. The case against Sean Combs will bring the dynamic to a new peak.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex trafficking trial starts with opening statements in a high-profile case that will not be publicly broadcast. Here are the key players.

Federal prosecutors will begin trying to prove Monday that Diddy turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires for two decades.