The criminal Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial is all but over.
After the final arguments from prosecution and defense, all that’s left in the sex-trafficking trial of the disgraced rap mogul is for the 12 jurors to sit down and deliberate, a process which is set to start on Monday.
Diddy has been in pre-trial detention since his September arrest on charges of ‘sex-trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution’.
He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
On Friday (27), Diddy’s defense told the jury in its final summation that the rapper’s relationship with Cassie Ventura was ‘kind of a great modern love story’.
New York Post reported:
“’They loved. They loved out loud’, defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told jurors during closing arguments at the bombshell sex-trafficking trial against the rapper — who Ventura said repeatedly forced her to have sex with different men in front of him and who was caught on camera mercilessly beating her.
‘She was always free to leave. She chose to stay because she was in love with him, and he was in love with her’, Agnifilo told the jury in the Manhattan federal courtroom.”
Agnifilo invited jurors to read the ‘beautiful text messages’ between the couple as they broke up in 2018 – and cry.
“’If you want to read some beautiful, beautiful language … read the texts. You’ll cry. You will cry. You’ll read evidence with an exhibit sticker on it, and you will cry’, Agnifilo said.”
This may or may not work with a juror panel who saw multiple times the hotel CCTV footage of Diddy mercilessly beating Cassie as she tried to flee a ‘freak-out’ sex marathon.
Feds release full unedited video of Diddy and Cassie hotel fight in Los Angeles https://t.co/1i8WvoPnco
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“Over the course of the rapper’s seven-week sex-trafficking trial, jurors heard from 34 witnesses including star prosecution witness Ventura, who testified that Combs beat her countless other times and forced her to have degrading sex with male escorts in what he called “freak-offs,” before raping her in 2018 after they broke up.
Prosecutors claim that for two decades, Combs used his company and employees to commit a slew of crimes — most notably forcing Cassie and other women to participate in the ‘freak-offs’, or orchestrated sex-sessions with male prostitutes. “
Diddy has pled not guilty, and his high-octane defense team maintains that the allegedly abused women were willing participants in his ‘swinger’ lifestyle.
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