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Now his songs, which he releases under a variety of aliases, have garnered millions of monthly listeners on streaming platforms.

Before entering politics, Mamdani had a brief venture into the world of rap: performing under the alias "Young Cardamom."

"He fled the country to avoid investigation. He took on an alias and, even in response to this case, refused to admit who he was," the judge said.

"The prosecution's case has always been that each of these accounts or aliases is in fact the defendant pretending to be a different person," said Mr Edwards.

The court heard Jones contacted his victims on the messaging platform Snapchat, sometimes using an alias and lying about his age, and would ask them for nude photographs and videos.