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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs found guilty on two of five counts as lawyers call verdict ‘great victory’

Jury finds Combs not guilty of biggest charge, racketeering conspiracy, after deliberating for 13 hours across three days

Prosecutors accused Combs of operating his business empire as a criminal enterprise, dating back to at least 2004, to carry out and conceal various crimes including sex-trafficking, kidnapping, arson, bribery, forced labor, drug distribution, enticement to engage in prostitution and obstruction of justice, with help from employees and close associates. Prosecutors recapped their case against Combs, revisiting key testimony and breaking down each charge against the music mogul, painting him as a “leader of a criminal enterprise” who refused to take “no for an answer” and who used “power, violence and fear to get what he wanted”. Combs’s lawyer challenged witness testimony from the trial, pushed back on the government’s allegations and charges, and disputed the prosecution’s portrayal of Ventura and Jane as sex trafficking victims, describing them instead as women with agency who willingly participated in the “freak offs”.

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