Diddy court docket sketch artist’s stunning confession as trial nears verdict

Christine Cornell, one of many sketch artist drawing scenes contained in the courtroom throughout Diddy’s trial made a stunning confession in regards to the embattled rapper.

‘He really seems to be fairly sinister,’ she instructed NBC Information in reference to a sketch she drew of him whereas he watched Cassie Ventura testify.

‘It was one the place I believed, “Did you cross the road, Christine? Are you letting your emotions creep in?”

‘As a result of I confess, I’m having a bit of little bit of a tough time with him,’ Cornell admitted.

Cornell beforehand sketched President Donald Trump throughout his hush cash trial.

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The protection will ship their closing arguments tomorrow in court docket.

His lead lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, will start their argument beginning 9am.

Marc Agnifilo seen strolling into the courthouse Thursday

Diddy was seen nodding his head at his household after court docket wrapped up this afternoon.

He was then noticed waving to the general public gallery, smiling as he did so.

He chatted along with his lawyer Marc Agnifilo and seemed very relaxed.

The 55-year-old then moved on to the gallery to talk along with his household.

His daughters blew him kisses and he did the identical again.

The prosecutor’s closing argument went on for 4 hours and 49 minutes Thursday.

Each the protection and prosecution mentioned their statements would take about 4 hours.

To finish her closing argument, Slavik completed with this: ‘Quite a lot of proof was laborious to listen to, laborious to see.

‘The defendant ran his legal enterprise with complete management and with the loyal help of his interior circle.

‘Foot troopers, private assistants….who knew their one job was to say sure to the defendant.

‘All of this [paints a] clear image of how the defendant dedicated crime after crime for twenty years, how he didn’t take no for a solution….

‘Up till immediately the defendant was in a position to get away with these crimes due to his cash, his energy and affect. That stops now, it’s time to carry him accountable.’ she ended.

After Cassie filed her lawsuit in opposition to Diddy in 2023, he knew he was in scorching water, prosecutor Christy Slavik mentioned.

As a result of ‘public response was swift,’ he ‘labored to neutralize two of the individuals who might harm him most: Jane and Mia,’ she added.

On the time, he instructed assistant Kristina Khorram and safety guard D-Roc to help with the fallout.

‘However this time paying folks off with $100,000 in a brown paper bag was not an possibility. He wanted to remain beneath the radar,’ she acknowledged.

Slavik mentioned the human sources division at Diddy’s firm acted as a ‘puppet’ for him as a result of they didn’t advocate for the mogul’s workers.

Former assistant Capricorn Clark, who labored for Diddy from 2004-2012, was repeatedly threatened personally and about her job, Slavik mentioned.

When a paper with $80,000 in unpaid extra time was handed to Diddy he tore it up, she added.

Human sources didn’t do something about it, the federal government mentioned.

Slavik mentioned ‘Mia’, Diddy’s former assistant, was a sufferer of compelled labor as her closing argument wraps up.

‘She carried out labor for the defendant for eight years. Required to go with out sleep on a regular basis,’ she mentioned.

‘Labor wasn’t simply normal private assistant stuff,’ Slavik added, stating that when there was nobody round to ‘fulfill his sexual wishes he turned to Mia, an worker he had full management over.’

‘Mia’ on the stand throughout her testimony on June 2

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ authorized workforce was slapped down by the decide presiding over his trial due to their alleged try to make use of the escalating battle with Iran of their upcoming closing argument.

Because the disgraced hip-hop mogul’s bombshell intercourse trafficking trial nears a verdict, his workforce of attorneys reportedly deliberate on citing the escalating tensions between the US and Iran in court docket in a bid to narrate it to his case, TMZ reported Monday.

Sources instructed the outlet the 55-year-old’s protection ‘might invoke the latest battle’ of their closing argument, and particularly go after the Homeland Safety Investigators who raided his dwelling within the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles in March.

Slavik dove into the proof to assist the transportation to have interaction in prostitution cost in opposition to Diddy.

She reviewed journey itineraries for intercourse staff who have been typically flown throughout the nation for his freak offs, Slavik mentioned.

She additionally went over the funds made for every journey, all of which have been placed on Diddy’s American Specific card.

The federal government additionally confirmed how each Cassie and Jane have been typically touring with the escorts by way of Los Angeles, New York, Miami and overseas to Ibiza and Turks and Caicos.

Throughout her hours-long closing assertion, Slavik briefly introduced up Daniel Phillip, an escort and male stripper who testified throughout the trial.

From 2012-2015, Phillip was paid $700- $6,000, she mentioned.

‘He was not paid for his time. I am not going to spend greater than 10 minutes on this ridiculous argument.’

Daniel Phillip seen in court docket sketch throughout his tesimony on Might 12

‘You’ve seen clips. You don’t see weapons, don’t see defendant hitting Cassie. He in all probability wouldn’t,’ Slavik mentioned.

‘You see Cassie chatting, masturbating, having intercourse. She’s following the defendant’s instructions simply as Jane did.

‘She’s performing similar to Jane. Do not’ be fooled into considering it’s any greater than that, a efficiency.

‘Every thing Cassie instructed you about freak offs ’s is true – they have been orchestrated, directed.The defendant is shifting the digicam round, at instances specializing in the escorts.

‘It’s clear this was his fantasy, not Cassie’s,’ she added.

Cassie testified that the freak offs have been gruelling and sometimes lasted 36-72 hours. The longest was 4 days lengthy.

Jane mentioned the identical issues: ‘Resort Nights’ lasted 24 – 32 hours. Resort reservations corroborated these claims.

Defendant didn’t let Cassie or Jane sleep. As a substitute the defendant gave them medication to make them keep away.
He instructed them to maintain going and end sturdy even once they have been drained.

Our bodies have been sore from staying for hours in uncomfortable intercourse positions the defendant appreciated. Each testified they regularly received UTIs, Slavik mentioned.

Cassie described how painful is was on the stand and mentioned that she received so most of the infections that antibiotics stopped working for her.

After the then-couple arrived in Cannes for the movie pageant, they quickly received into an intense argument.

Diddy ‘kicked her off the boat with out something,’ together with her footwear and passport.

They then caught a flight again to New York Metropolis the place Diddy ‘spent all the flight holding Cassie captive and making her watch movies he recorded of freak offs and threatening to launch them,’ Slavik detailed.

Then once they landed, Diddy allegedly demanded a freak off from Cassie.

‘She did not consider she had a selection,’ she added.

‘The incident ought to go away little doubt the defendant dedicated intercourse trafficking; he chased her and beat her and tried to pull her again to the room,’ Slavik instructed the jury.

She mentioned this proves he was ‘utilizing drive and coercion to get Cassie again to that room’ so ‘they may end the freak off.’

Slavik added that the video was proof of what occurs when Cassie ‘mentioned no’ to Diddy.

Cassie is seen being dragged by Diddy within the video

The juryy rewatched the video of Diddy beating Cassie on the InterContinental Resort on March 5, 2016.

Because the video performed, his 18-year-old daughters have been seen watching a monitor intently.

Throughout freak offs, Diddy would allegedly have escorts urinate on Cassie, Slavik reminded jurors.

As she mentioned this, the rapper bowed his head and checked out his arms in his lap.

‘She clearly did not need (to do freak offs,’ Slavik added.

‘She clearly did not need an escort urinating in her mouth whereas she was laying on the ground. The freak offs turned a strategy to coerce into doing freak offs.’

‘Generally he himself (Combs) or he would have the escort urinate on me… there was no dialog. It was a activate for him, so it occurred,’ Cassie mentioned throughout her testimony.

When requested if she had needed this, she mentioned a agency ‘no’, describing it as ‘humiliating if anybody was there to see it.’

Slavik confirmed photographs of bruises and wounds Cassie suffered after Diddy allegedly turned abusive after discovering out about her relationship with Child Cudi.

One other picture confirmed her with a busted eyebrow after he slammed her right into a mattress body.

‘Any certainly one of these assaults might have been terrifying [and] life altering however for Cassie it turned regular as a result of the defendant’s violence was so unpredictable it was destabilizing.

‘There was no secure house for Cassie. All of the violence, threats of violence, the opposite methods the def managed Cassie, they have been a part of the identical sample of coercion,’ she added.

The federal government mentioned Diddy’s aim was to have ‘complete compliance’ over Cassie once they dated.

‘With Cassie he thought he discovered somebody (who would try this),’ Slavik instructed jurors.

His ‘efforts to regulate Cassie outlined their relationship,’ she added.

She went on to say that the protection would similar to the jurors to name what he allegedly did to Cassie ‘home violence,’ however ‘that misses the purpose.’

‘The defendant was having freak offs with Cassie…the freak offs occurred earlier than, after and generally throughout the defendant’s violent episodes.They have been intertwined.

‘The cloud of defendant’s abuse was hanging over Cassie’s head. At all times hovering,’ Slavik continued.

Cassie and Diddy had an ‘intense bond’ all through their relationship, which Slavik described as ‘not regular.’

She mentioned Diddy ‘recurrently threatened and beat cassie,’ and likewise ‘piled her excessive with medication’ to the purpose that she ‘turned reliant on them.’

He additionally ‘compelled and coerced her to have intercourse with escorts in entrance of him,’ Slavik added.

‘Like with Jane it turned her job, it turned her disgrace.’

After describing the situations the place Diddy allegedly compelled Jane to have drug-fueled intercourse, Slavik mentioned ‘this isn’t an grownup girl making a free selection.’

‘It’s a girl whose instructed the def she would not wish to do resort evening however relented to keep away from any variety of unhealthy issues occurring to her.’

Following the lunch break, Slavik continued together with her closing assertion, revealing that Diddy gave Jane a ‘new drug’ known as ‘liquid molly’ throughout a ‘resort evening’ in July 2024.

‘[The] defence confirmed you clips of films from that resort evening,’ she instructed jurors.

‘They’ll argue [in] these movies Jane was into it, however what these movies actually present you is she was tremendous tremendous excessive similar to she instructed you.’

‘She was totally different in these movies than the movies you have seen, she was excessive on a special drug.’

Kristina Khorram, Diddy’s former assistant, made $600,000 a 12 months, prosecutor Christy Slavik mentioned in her closing arguments.

In the meantime, Brandon Paul, one other certainly one of his former assistant’s made simply $100,000 a 12 months.

‘However apart from conserving the folks….the defendant used the cash and gravitas from his enterprise to facilitate the crimes he dedicated,’ Slavik acknowledged.

‘Time and again, the defendant and his interior circle agreed to commit crimes collectively. That’s what a racketeering conspiracy is.’

The court docket is on a break for lunch and is ready to return at 1.15pm.

Slavik introduced the primary a part of her closing arguments for about two hours and 20 minutes.

The prosecution is allowed one other hour and 40 minutes for its argument to the jury.

On June 18, 2024, lower than three months after Homeland Safety Brokers searched Diddy’s dwelling, he arrived at Jane’s dwelling for what was purported to be a enjoyable date evening.

They quickly received into an argument about one other girl, main Jane to name him names and Diddy to kick open a locked door she ran behind.

‘He would not take no for a solution,’ Slavik mentioned.

Jane then hit Diddy, who responded by punching her twice within the face. Her accidents have been nonetheless seen even beneath make-up days later.

Jane then bumped into the yard as Diddy adopted after her and shortly grabbed her by her hair and dragged again inside the house.

‘Up thus far it was a brutal assault of home violence,’ Slavik mentioned earlier than happening to say that after ‘brutally assaulting Jane, the defendant determined it was time for her to have intercourse with an escort.’

When Anton, the escort, arrived, diddy ‘gave her a capsule’ and mentioned ‘take this f***ing capsule, you are not going to spoil my evening.’

She then mentioned she did not wish to, to which Diddy replied: ‘Is that this coercion?’

‘He used that very particular phrase,’ Slavik mentioned.

‘Was this coercion? The reply could not be clearer. She was afraid of the defendant as a result of he’d simply proven her in unsure phrases what he was able to.’

Jane on the stand on June 10

In October 2023, Jane despatched a textual content that learn she is ‘not an animal’ throughout a ‘sobriety occasion.’

This was the final occasion earlier than Diddy was supposedly going to get clear.

Jane quickly discovered herself in a resort room having intercourse with three totally different males.

Overwhelmed by the expertise, Jane vomited, however Diddy wouldn’t let her cease, Slavik mentioned.

‘The defendant used coercion to make her maintain going. But another excuse the defendant is responsible of depend 4.’

Diddy pictured in 2002 on the forty fourth annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles

In September 2023, throughout a visit to New York Metropolis, Slavik mentioned Diddy ‘methods Jane into considering she can have a correct NYC weekend after which did a freak off.’

The jury was then proven textual content messages from Jane stating that she did not wish to go to the Large Apple to take part in intercourse marathons.

‘He led her to consider there wouldn’t be a resort evening. But when he was going to get a resort evening he had to verify she got here. He lied,’ Slavik mentioned.

‘As he’s telling Jane there received’t be a resort evening, he’s establishing a resort evening.’

She mentioned this was a ‘blatant instance’ of Diddy ‘utilizing fraud and coercion to get Jane to return to New York for a resort evening.’

Throughout this time, he additionally gave Jane an ecstasy capsule, Slavik added.

Slavik mentioned Diddy ‘went ballistic’ after Jane mentioned she felt like she was being ‘exploited’ throughout the freak offs and ‘resort nights.’

He then ‘went on to assault within the warmth of his anger the defendant known as Jane and mentioned he’d launch tons of of movies of her having intercourse with escorts to the daddy of her little one,’ the prosecutor detailed.

The jury heard an audio recording from August 2023 when Jane instructed Diddy she did not wish to participate in a ‘resort evening’ he deliberate with three entertainers.

‘Ain’t no one threatening you,’ he instructed Jane.

However then he was heard saying: ‘You getter get in your job… You bought me on my job,’ including that Jane was in for ‘a impolite awakening.’

‘Defendant conduct had one objective, to get Jane to comply with do resort nights,’ Slavik mentioned.

‘As a result of the defendant knew precisely what he was doing, this was intercourse trafficking.’

She added that Diddy would ‘gaslight, interrupt and discuss over Jane.’

Diddy gave the impression to be rattled by the prosecutor’s assertion on how he allegedly handled Jane.

He was seen shaking his head dismissively, showing to query her as she mentioned he ‘was about to cease paying her lease’ when Jane tried to keep away from a sex-fueled ‘resort evening.’

Whereas the prosecutor began to talk about Diddy’s relationship along with his ex-girlfriend Jane, his daughters D’Lila, Likelihood and Jessie appeared uncomfortable.

They have been caught trying on the ground and staring blankly forward as Slavik continued on.

D’Lila, Likelihood and Jessie Combs arriving on the courthouse Thursday

Slavik mentioned Diddy ‘began grooming Jane’ who was ‘chasing the extreme feeling of affection.’

On this, she famous that he was ‘slowly introducing her to the weather of freak offs.’

‘Defendant saved giving her medication, started introducing her to his different choice, very excessive excessive heels, child oil, crimson lights…,’ Slavik went on.

The jury was then proven texts from Jane compalining about freak offs that lasted 30-40 hours straight.

‘He was by no means glad, he was all the time pushing Jane to do extra,’ the prosecutor added.

The prosecution confirmed jurors a slide of all of the escorts Cassie and Jane have been sexually concerned with throughout ‘freak offs’ and ‘resort nights’.’

There have been six males beneath ‘each,’ 16 beneath ‘Cassie’ and a few beneath Jane.

There have been 27 escorts pictured in complete.

Slavik mentioned: ‘We’re not asking you to search out that each single Freak off or each single resort evening was intercourse trafficking,’ but in addition famous that on ‘a number of events’ Diddy ‘made Cassie and Jane have intercourse by threatening them, drugging them, mendacity to them and being violent.’

Slavik began off by mentioning the 2016 incident on the InterContinental Resort, when Diddy was seen assaulting Cassie in an elevator foyer.

Diddy tried to bribe Israel Florez, the responding safety guard, with a stack of money.

Throughout his testimony, Florez mentioned he declined the cash when he arrived on the scene and as a substitute escorted Cassie out of the resort room.

‘He didn’t know the defendant had simply crushed Cassie in a public space of the resort, however the defendant knew what he did,’ Slavik mentioned of Diddy.

‘Police involvement can be unhealthy for the defendant…it will be unhealthy for his profession and unhealthy for his picture,’ she added.

Slavik mentioned his two ‘most trusted’ and ‘loyal protectors,’ Kristina Khorram and D Roc, then ‘swing into motion’ to attempt to allegedly assist Diddy cowl it up.

‘Kristina Khorram began making an attempt to get that video surveillance in any respect prices.

‘They’re determined for this video… if it is launched it might spoil his profession. They cannot take no for a solution,’ the prosecutor added.

The prosecution mentioned Diddy was ‘one hundred pc behind’ the arson involving rapper Child Cudi’s automobile.

On January 9, 2012 Cudi’s Porsche was set on fireplace.

Throughout closing arguments, the jury was proven photographs of the destroyed automobile and the definition of arson in legislation.

‘This was arson. Somebody reduce a gap within the roof of Child Cudi’s automobile and dropped a molotov cocktial into it,’ U.S. Lawyer Christy Slavik mentioned.

‘Solely query is whether or not the defendant was accountable and naturally the defendant was behind this.’

‘He actually mentioned he was going to explode Child Cudi’s automobile,’ she added because the jury was proven Cassie’s testimony.

The jury noticed a 2011 e mail Cassie wrote saying Diddy would harm her and Child Cudi and can be overseas when it occurred.

‘Such a coincidence the person Sean Combs hated and needed to harm had his automobile set on fireplace simply two weeks after this e mail was despatched,’ she continued.

In accordance with the prosecution, Diddy restricted the actions of others no less than three totally different instances – that are all examples of kidnapping.

The primary was the kidnapping of Cassie in January 2009 after he stomped on her face and made her disguise in a resort whereas her accidents healed.

The second concerned his former assistant Capricorn Clark in 2004 when he made her take a lie detector take a look at and was compelled to remain in New York with Uncle Paulie, Diddy’s head of safety on the time, as a result of she had been holding costly jewellery.

Clark was instructed if she failed the take a look at, which she was compelled to soak up a locked room in a constructing, she can be thrown into the East River.

Slavik mentioned it was a ‘tactic defendant used to take care of management.’

‘They have been keen to kidnap their very own workers to maintain that management.’

The third instance concerned Capricorn once more, when she mentioned she was woken as much as assist him search for rapper Child Cudi in 2011.

After discovering out Cassie Ventura was seeing Child Cudi, he ‘barked an order at Capricorn’ and instructed her to return with him to ‘kill’ Cudi, per the prosecutor.

‘When Capricorn instructed the def she didn’t wish to go together with him, he instructed her I don’t give a f*** what you wish to do, go dress. Didn’t take no for a solution.’

Cassie Ventura and Capricorn Clark in 2008

Slavik mentioned there are 4 components of racketeering in opposition to Diddy.

1. There was a conspiracy to take part within the enterprise, which she mentioned his workers did by agreeing to assist him commit crimes.

2. It affected interstate or overseas commerce and that Diddy was knowingly part of an enterprise.

3. The defendant knowingly and willfully turned a member as he organized for medication and intercourse staff to journey throughout state strains.

4. Diddy agreed that he and one other member would commit two racketeering acts. Slavik mentioned Diddy’s legal enterprise agreed to commit crimes associated to intercourse trafficking, medication, bribery and arson to assist cowl up his alleged crimes.

Assistant U.S. Lawyer Christy Slavik in court docket Friday

The prosecution mentioned Diddy ‘counted on silence and disgrace (to cease folks talking out).’

‘He thought his fame, wealth and energy put him above the legislation,’ Slavik added.

The prosecution mentioned the intercourse trafficking prices are ‘brutal crimes on the coronary heart of this case.’

‘The defendant repeatedly compelled and manipulated Cassie and Jane into having intercourse with escorts for his personal leisure,’ Assistant U.S. Lawyer Christy Slavik acknowledged.

Diddy’s son’s Quincy and Justin seen strolling into courthouse.

Sarah Chapman, the mom of Likelihood Combs, is seen strolling into court docket.

When speaking in regards to the many medication mentioned to have been used throughout freak offs and all through Diddy’s relationships along with his ex-girlfriends, Assistant U.S. Lawyer Christy Slavik specified which substances have been most well-liked by the mogul.

‘We’re not speaking about marijuana, we’re speaking about laborious medication, the type of medication the defendant fed to Cassie and Jane,’ she mentioned.

The jury was then proven a slide of the listing of medication present in Diddy’s houses, together with cocaine, methamphetamine, ketamine, ketamine, MDMA, GHB, psilocybin and Tusi – often known as pink cocaine.

‘You understand in regards to the medication the defendant took….and you understand how he received them. He enlisted his assistant and his safety employees to purchase, decide up medication and provides the medication to him,’ she instructed the jury.

‘Jane instructed you on two events the defendant instructed her to deliver medication to him.’

In referencing the racketeering cost in opposition to the embattled rapper, Assistant U.S. Lawyer Christy Slavik mentioned: ‘I’m going to name it the Combs Enterprise. I’m not speaking in regards to the title of the corporate. Defendant was the top of the enterprise…what he mentioned went.’

Slavik went on to check with Kristina Khorram, Diddy’s former assistant who has been known as ‘KK’ within the trial, as his ‘proper mind.’

She famous that his a number of assistants have been ‘foot troopers’ who ‘have been younger and keen.’

‘[They] didn’t blink a watch when instructed to do no matter it took to make the defendant pleased, even when it meant facilitating crimes.’

The prosecutor went on to say that the weapons discovered throughout the raid on Diddy’s dwelling, together with two AR-15 rifles, ‘aren’t crucial for knowledgeable safety element.’

Misa Hylton and Charlie Liucci have been seen getting into court docket Thursday morning.

Hylton is the mom of Combs’ eldest little one Justin.

Liucci has been seen all through the trial carrying ‘Free Puff’ hoodies and escorting Diddy’s kids into court docket.

The prosecution began their closing argument by stating that Diddy, ‘the chief of a legal enterprise,’ doesn’t ‘take no for reply.’

‘Throughout all, the defendant used energy, violence and concern to get what he needed. Dozens of witnesses agreed: he would not take no for a solution,’ they continued.

Additionally they mentioned that Diddy used his ‘small military of private employees’ all through the years.

‘No-one might cease him and he managed to do that for twenty years as a result of he used his cash and affect to cowl up his crimes.’

Diddy donned a blue sweater and grey pants in court docket.

He was noticed holding the ebook ‘The Happiness Benefit’ by Shawn Achor as he made his method into the courtroom, the New York Occasions reported.

He was additionally seen along with his hand on his coronary heart as he smiled at family and friends within the gallery.

The rapper poured himself a glass of water as he rocked side-to-side whereas standing, showing to be a bit anxious.

Choose Arun Subramanian mentioned the jury will probably be allowed to find out their very own schedule for deliberations as soon as closing arguments conclude.

The courtroom is packed Thursday for day 31 of Diddy’s trial.

His twin daughters, Jessie and D’Lila Combs, 18, are within the public gallery.

They’re carrying hanging matching outfits, together with white jackets and pants together with black shirts. His different daughter Likelihood Combs can be there.

Diddy was noticed smiling at them.

His son’s Quicy and Justin are additionally in attendence, together with Diddy’s niece, nephew and his mom Janice.

Choose Arun Subramanian has entered the courtroom.

‘There must be no disruptions within the courtroom,’ he mentioned.

‘Please await a break to depart the courtroom and switch your cellphones off.

‘When the jury is available in I plan to fill them in on the schedule,’ he added.

The decide famous that immediately must be ‘shorter’ and tomorrow will final ‘longer.’

Diddy has been charged with two counts of intercourse trafficking, two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution and one depend of racketeering conspiracy

If convicted for intercourse trafficking: Diddy might face a minimal of 15 years to a most of life in jail.

If convicted for partaking in prostitution: He might resist 10 years in jail.

If convicted of racketeering conspiracy: The embattled rapper might resist life in jail.

Closing arguments in Diddy’s trial are set to start out at 10am.

His mom, Janice Combs, arrived early Thursday morning to assist her son.

She has been at practically day by day of her son’s trial, sitting within the gallery and listening to the federal government analyze her son’s actions over the previous 20 years.

It has been laborious to learn her expressions as she typically wears giant sun shades within the courtroom.

Diddy’s daughters additionally gave the impression to be in attendance, although it’s unclear precisely which of them are there.

Janice Combs seen making her method into the courthouse

Diddy spoke for the primary time in his trial Tuesday afternoon, making the decide chuckle.

The rapper took no time to pay his charming compliments to Choose Arun Subramanian in his first speech in entrance of the jury and witnesses.

When requested: ‘Mr Combs, how are you feeling immediately?’ Diddy replied in a assured, loud voice: ‘I am doing nice.’

He addressed the decide personally, saying: ‘I needed to let you know thanks. You’re doing a wonderful job.’

Choose Subramanian then laughed, Individuals reported.

With Diddy’s blockbuster trial in its seventh week and the decision closing in, here’s a evaluate of the fees in opposition to him:

The disgraced rap mogul, 55, has been charged with two counts of intercourse trafficking, two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution and one depend of racketeering.

In accordance with prosecutors, the rapper used his ‘multi-faceted enterprise empire’ to hold out a ‘legal enterprise’ for years, allegedly coercing victims into sexual ‘freak off’ marathons and threatening them into silence.

The jury has heard from his former workers and ex-girlfriends who testified that Diddy was allegedly abusive towards them.

His former staffers particularly mentioned he compelled them to work lengthy and tireless hours, procure medication for him and clear up after his lengthy ‘resort nights.’

In the meantime, his two ex-girlfriends, Cassie Ventura and a girl by the pseudonym ‘Jane’ mentioned Diddy made them each take part in drug and sex-fueld freak offs with escorts.

His protection workforce argues that Diddy’s actions pointed towards his private life and that prosecutors have did not show the legal prices in opposition to him.

The jury in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial is anticipated to deliberate for an hour on Friday following closing statements immediately.

The prosecution is ready to current their closing arguments immediately, with the protection doing the identical very first thing tomorrow.

After that, the prosecution will comply with with their rebuttal earlier than it strikes on to the jury.

Diddy seen in court docket Wednesday throughout the cost convention

Diddy’s protection workforce didn’t name on any witnesses for his trial.

It’s not uncommon for authorized groups to choose in opposition to calling witnesses in a trial as a result of the load of it’s utterly based mostly on the prosecution proving prices past an affordable doubt.

As a result of his workforce didn’t name witnesses, the protection believed the trial has already established sufficient doubt throughout cross-examinations.

It might have additionally meant there have been no witnesses obtainable who might assist the case.

He was the self-made New York billionaire whose infamous events earned him the fame as the trendy day Jay Gatsby, reportedly attracting the likes of Donald Trump, Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton to his mansion within the Hamptons for his notorious ‘Gatsby-esque’ White Events – the place, in response to civil court docket paperwork, company have been allegedly ‘drugged and raped.’

Following his arrest on September 16, 2024, Sean John Combs is being held on remand as inmate quantity 37452-054 on the infamous Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn. He faces a string of federal prices, together with conspiracy to racketeer; intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion; and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, all of which he has pleaded not responsible to.

DEEP DIVE delves into Diddy’s 30-year reign of extra and debauchery in unprecedented element, beginning along with his ‘loopy’ matches of rage as a scholar within the Nineteen Eighties that earned him the disturbing ‘Puff’ nickname.

Contained inside tons of of pages of civil court docket paperwork are the horrifying particulars of his tempestuous relationship with Cassie Ventura – which in the end led to the floodgates opening.

Audio of a distraught Cassie Ventura threatening to kill a person over a ‘freak-off’ video was launched final week as a part of the proof in Diddy‘s trial.

The newly-released audio was performed by the disgraced mogul’s attorneys throughout their cross-examination of Cassie final month, however has solely now grow to be public after being uploaded into the proof recordsdata.

‘It is my f***ing life and I will kill you,’ Cassie instructed the unidentified man, who had apparently claimed to have seen a video of a freak off in 2014.

‘When you do not present me proper now I’ll kill you, and I’ll disguise you and I’ll reduce you up and put you within the f***ing dust.’

Diddy’s six week federal trial is ready to wind down immediately as each the prosecution and the protection form up their closing arguments.

The prosecutors are set to talk for 4 hours beginning 10am, the place the protection will make their case on Friday.

Either side hashed out a closing aguments schedule in court docket on Wednesday throughout charging convention the place jurors weren’t current.

Diddy saved a singular AirPod in his ear for almost all of the proceedings and seemed down at his lap.

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs scored an enormous courtroom victory after prosecutors determined to drop key elements of the fees in opposition to him.

In a letter to U.S. District Choose Arun Subramanian prosecutors mentioned they’ll now not pursue theories introduced throughout the blockbuster trial, together with that the music mogul was concerned in tried arson and kidnapping.

The 2 alleged acts have been initially included within the authorities’s racketeering conspiracy cost in opposition to Combs. All prices in opposition to him nonetheless stay.