HIP hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs last night went on trial for sex ­trafficking — but insists he was just living the “swinger’s ...

Lawyers for the three-time Grammy winner say prosecutors are wrongly trying to make a crime out of a party-loving lifestyle.

Combs entered the packed courtroom shortly before 9am, hugged his lawyers and gave a thumbs up to supporters seated behind him.

Lawyers on both sides of Sean Combs' sex-crimes trial delivered opening statements, and witnesses alleged the one-time mogul was violent in multiple instances.