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Diddy Showed Us Who He Is. His Trial Verdict Doesn’t Change That.

The mogul escaped the most serious charges from his criminal trial, but disturbing evidence and his own actions have already exposed who he really is.

A New York jury found the mogul, 55, guilty on two felony counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in relation to Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a woman known as “Jane,” his ex-partners who testified during the trial. Several legal experts predicted that jurors were unlikely to convict Combs if the government didn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was a criminal who had broken the specific laws cited in their federal indictment. Even without a conviction on his most severe charges, though, Combs already showed us who he is — from his attempted rebrand as “Brother Love” years before his disturbing allegations came to light, to the video footage that caught him assaulting Ventura just months after denying any misconduct, to his legal team’s acknowledgment of his history of violence.

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