Kristina Khorram, known as “KK,” spent roughly a decade as one of the people closest to Sean “Diddy” Combs, most recently as his chief of staff. During his 2025 federal trial, prosecutors called her an “agent and co-conspirator,” and witness after witness mentioned her. She was never charged, never called to testify, and has denied all wrongdoing. She is still named in civil lawsuits.
This explainer lays out what is on the record about Khorram, what is only alleged, and where things stand as of November 2026.
Who she is
Khorram began working for Combs in 2013 as a senior executive, according to her now-deleted LinkedIn profile, NBC News reported. She later became chief of staff at Combs Enterprises (now Combs Global). In a January 2021 Facebook post, Combs introduced her to his followers: “She’s been my right hand for the last 8 years and has consistently proven to execute and get s— done.” He thanked her in his BET Awards acceptance speech in June 2022.
She was photographed with Combs at his Miami Beach home the day after he and Cassie Ventura settled Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit. That suit laid the groundwork for the criminal case.
Her place in the criminal trial
Khorram was not named in the indictment. During the trial, prosecutors identified her in court as “an agent and co-conspirator” of Combs. Several prosecution witnesses testified that she helped transport drugs across state lines, monitored Ventura’s whereabouts for Combs, and helped secure hotel surveillance footage of Combs assaulting Ventura, CNN reported. Text messages from her were entered into evidence.
Neither side called her. Prosecutors rested without putting her on the stand, and the defense called no witnesses, Rolling Stone reported. The Hollywood Reporter called her the “phantom” of the trial.
Combs was acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking and convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He is serving a 50-month sentence. (Our explainer on the case and the appeal has the details.)
Being called a co-conspirator in court is not a criminal charge. We found no public report that Khorram has been charged, has an immunity deal, or is cooperating. Lawyers quoted by Fox News and The Hollywood Reporter offered competing theories for why she was neither called nor charged, and none of them is established fact.
The civil lawsuits
NBC News identified at least three civil suits that name Khorram alongside Combs:
- Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer who worked on Combs’ The Love Album: Off the Grid. He alleges that Khorram dismissed his complaints about Combs’ advances and required staff to carry drugs. His suit compares her role to Ghislaine Maxwell’s. Khorram denied the allegations in an April 2025 court filing.
- Seven Güzel, who alleges that Khorram helped arrange places and transportation for abuse and acquired drugs.
- Phillip Pines, a former executive assistant who called Khorram the “enforcer.” On June 5, 2026, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge permanently dismissed some of his claims against her. He gave Pines 20 days to amend 12 others, including sex trafficking and sexual battery, USA Today reported. Pines’ lawyer said the complaint would be amended.
These are allegations in civil complaints. None has been proven in court.
What Khorram has said
In a March 2025 statement to Rolling Stone, Khorram said: “I have never condoned or aided and abetted the sexual assault of anyone. Nor have I ever drugged anyone.” She called the allegations false, said they were causing “irreparable and incalculable damage” to her reputation, and said she was confident they would be proven untrue. One of her lawyers, Deborah Colson, has declined to say whether Khorram would ever testify.
The open questions
The trial left an unusual gap. A person prosecutors described as central to the logistics was never heard from in court, and the jury rejected the racketeering charge her alleged role was meant to support. Whether Khorram ever answers the allegations under oath is now a question for the civil cases, not the criminal one.
Sources
- NBC News, “Sean Combs’ former chief of staff is accused in three lawsuits of aiding his alleged sex abuse,” April 26, 2025.
- CNN, “Kristina Khorram, former chief of staff to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, takes center stage in trial testimony,” June 11, 2025.
- Rolling Stone, “Sean Combs’ ‘Right Hand’ Kristina Khorram Looms Large Despite Absence,” 2025, and “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Chief of Staff Kristina Khorram Breaks Silence,” March 2025.
- The Hollywood Reporter, “How Diddy’s Right-Hand Woman Became the Phantom of His Trial,” 2025.
- Fox News, “Diddy trial wraps, and questions linger about his chief of staff’s alleged role,” 2025.
- USA Today, “Diddy’s former ‘right hand’ woman scores win in trafficking lawsuit,” June 9, 2026.
