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Sean Combs’ Lawyer Calls Cassie Relationship ‘Great Modern Love Story’ in Closing Argument

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' defense team has begun their closing arguments to the jury.

One day after a prosecutor called Sean Combs the “vicious” leader of a criminal enterprise in the government’s closing arguments, the music mogul’s lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, stood before a jury in lower Manhattan Friday and said his client was simply living a “lifestyle” of swingers, threesomes, and “personal use drugs.” In her more than five-hour summation Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik told jurors that Combs’ alleged criminal enterprise used a “methodical pattern of violence, coercion and manipulation” to traffic Ventura as well as a more recent ex-girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym “Jane.” Slavik said the evidence proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Combs’ inner circle of security staffers and “loyal lieutenants” engaged in crimes including the purported sex trafficking as well as drug distribution, forced labor, arson, kidnapping and witness tampering – all to “satisfy his every desire” and protect his reputation in the process. After the lawyers lost their bid to keep video of Combs’ 2016 assault of Ventura inside a Los Angeles hotel out of the trial altogether, they met it head on, characterizing their client as a “flawed individual” with substance abuse and anger issues.

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