Jury returns to verdict in Sean Diddy’s comb trial, not guilty of most serious charges

After a federal criminal trial in New York, the jury’s prostitution jury was found guilty of music tycoon Diddy’s comb, but had no charges for the worst: extortion and sex trafficking.

The split decision puts celebrities in prison for up to 10 years. The verdict was at least part of the comb’s victory, Comms’ lawyers argued that prosecutors were too expensive for him to prove their case.

The jury’s verdict in Manhattan limited a legal drama, drew global attention and provided graphic and violent glimpses to one of the nation’s most powerful musical figures and his nearly billion-dollar business. Jurors heard three women, two ex-girlfriends and a personal assistant who described a culture in the empire that prosecutors compared to coercion, kidnapping, threats and assaults to cover up decades of patterns of sexual assault, sexual trafficking and prostitution.

After the verdict was announced, Judge Aron Sabramanian told defense attorneys and prosecutors to submit letters on their positions regarding the position of releasing the comb. Combs has been in custody since the prosecution last year.

“Mr. Combs has been given life by this jury,” defense attorney Marc Agnifilo told the judge.

Each of the two counts of prostitution faces up to 10 years in prison.

During trial, prosecutors often portray combs and colleagues as attracting female victims in the pretense of romantic relationships. Prosecutors said once he caught their interest, Combs said the use of force, threats of force, coercion and drugs made them sexually with male prostitutes, while he occasionally watched the combs as being called “freaks” at parties.

At the booth, witnesses testified that the comb gave women ketamine, ecstasy and GHB “make them obedient and compliant” during the performance.

The government accused his bad boy entertainment activities of mob families and criminal businesses that threatened and abused women and used corporate members to engage in a range of crimes including kidnapping, abuse, bribery, arson, arson, forced labor and justice.

The government’s case relies heavily on three main witnesses: Combs’Combs’Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, whose 2023 lawsuit begins to dissolve the Combs empire; his recent former Jill friend, who was identified only as Jane; and his former assistant, who was identified only as MIA in court.

During the trial, Mia testified that the comb had sexually assaulted her, and Jane testified that the freak continued after Ventura’s lawsuit and the comb’s property was raided by homeland security investigators.

But R&B singer Ventura has an 11-year relationship with Combs, who has provided some of the most disturbing testimony of the trial.

Prosecutors charged combs, commonly known as RICO, under the Organization of Blackmailings Impacted and Corrupted Act, which requires defendants to be part of businesses with at least two of the 35 crimes listed by the government. These crimes include murder, bribery and blackmail.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahami said that while RICO cases are often associated with mafia, street gangs or drug cartels, any loose connection between two or more people would suffice. Rahami said that part of the case at Coms trial would require evidence that the organization exhibited a pattern of criminal or predicate behavior (such as bribery, kidnapping or prostitution) within 10 years.

During the trial, Ventura testified that she felt “trapped” by the comb’s physical and sexual abuse cycle and that the relationship involved years of assault, sexual blackmail and rape.

She claimed that the comb threatened to leak videos of sexual encounters with numerous male sex workers, while poisoning the drug agent and covering the baby oil, and watching and orchestrating the freak.

One of these freaks led to the infamous hotel beating, which was captured on hotel security cameras. Video footage from the evening of March 2016 showed a comb punching and kicking while horns and trying to protect itself in front of the Los Angeles hotel elevator bank. He then dragged her hooded sweatshirt into the hall and headed towards their hotel room.

Another camera captures the comb throws a vase at her from the second angle. Her eyes suffered bruises, and the obesity and bruises displayed by prosecutors are still visible in the film premiere two days later, where she put on sunglasses and heavy makeup on the red carpet.

Prosecutors said during the trial that the comb and its panel members worked hard to cover up the incident. Ventura testified that police visited her apartment. She answered some of their questions but told the jury that she still wanted to protect the comb at the time.

Eddie Garcia, a former InterContinental Hotel security guard, testified that the comb gave him a brown paper bag containing $100,000 in cash for video of the incident.

In the end of the argument, assistant we atty. Christy Slavik told jurors “relying on silence and shame” to make his abuse and prolong his abuse and use “small employees” to hurt and cover up women, according to the Associated Press.

He said the comb said, “There is no other answer.”

When Combs’ defense team brought a case, they chose to go straight to the ending argument without having to raise a witness. Former federal prosecutor Rahami said the defense lawyer expects jurors to question why people who did not report behavior to authorities on their stance when this happens, in some cases, chose to stay on the comb track.

Marc Agnifilo, one of Combs’ lawyers, told jurors that federal prosecutors “exaggerated” their case and tried to turn the hip-hop tycoon’s swing lifestyle into the worst federal crimes – extortion and sex trafficking and sex trafficking without evidence to back it up. In fact, Combs has a drug problem, and his relationship with Ventura is a “modern love story” that the tycoon “has domestic violence” reveals during the trial.

According to Combs’ defense, his former assistant, Clark, Clark, did not kidnap, described being detained for several days and being forced to test the lie detector for the lack of jewels, and “no evidence that Combs was set on a Porsche in Fire Kid Cudi. He paid off security personnel only for the InterContinental Hotel security video, which attacked him in order to avoid “bad publicity” rather than a police investigation.

Attorneys say Ventura settled in her lawsuit for $20 million with a comb, while Mia and Jane both motivated by money. Agnifilo noted that the government has never prosecuted any other accomplices and has never called for testimony to any Combs’ internal circles.