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Sean “Diddy” Combs Jury Set To Begin Deliberations Next Week; “Find Him Guilty,” Feds Implore Panel – Update
Diddy's defense team went into full beast mode today in their closing argument of the Bad Boy Records founder's sex trafficking trial
Sean Combs ’ main lawyer wasted no time today in his closing argument in the Bad Boy Records founder’s sex-trafficking trial trying to sweep away claims of rape and racketeering, and reducing everything to cold hard cash. “This isn’t about a crime, this is about money,” Marc Agnifilo told the jury Friday, pointing to the quickly settled ($20 million) November 2023 lawsuit against Diddy from ex-long-term girlfriend (and prosecution star witness) Cassie Ventura. Citing the violence, the manipulation, the threats of blackmail and the tight purse strings and of course the drug driven and filmed “freak-off” sex sessions with male escorts, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik on June 26 came back again and again to the alleged abuse and sexual assaults suffered by Combs’ ex-girlfriends Cassie Ventura and “Jane” and former employees like “Mia.” In a full day of speaking directly to the jury, Slavik alternated between reading from notes on the lectern in front of her and looking straight at the four women and eight men of the panel.
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