After a marathon two months and mountains of proof, Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs has been convicted of the 2 least severe costs he confronted – and cleared of essentially the most grim.
The rapper, 55, faces as much as 20 years in jail after being discovered responsible of two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution for his therapy of ex-girlfriends Cassie Ventura and ‘Jane’, a lady so traumatized she used a pseudonym all through.
He was discovered not responsible of racketeering conspiracy – the highest cost – and intercourse trafficking, essentially the most essential.
Combs put his head in his arms and dropped to his knees when ‘not responsible’ was introduced for the racketeering conspiracy cost – and he did a refined fist pump when ‘not responsible’ was introduced for the second of the 2 intercourse trafficking costs.
He turned to his household and mouthed ‘I am going house’ when the decision was learn.
Diddy’s supporters erupted in cheers and his household left Manhattan courtroom smiling after the rapper was handed the absolute best verdict, apart from a full acquittal.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey mentioned the federal government will search a 20-year most for Combs – whereas his protection will battle for much less and have requested he be freed on a $1 million bond whereas awaiting his sentencing.
It was an explosive trial full of jaw-dropping moments and mentions of a number of the world’s greatest stars.
Cassie, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend and the star witness, testified whereas closely pregnant.
There was a cameo from Kanye West, fixed warring between prosecutors and protection legal professionals, and a military of Diddy die-hards exterior courtroom day by day.
Now, the music mogul begins a brand new battle looking for a light-weight sentence. It stays unclear when he’ll study his punishment.

Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs was on trial for racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking. He was discovered not responsible of each costs

Diddy (heart) reacts after listening to his verdict in courtroom on July 2. His attorneys are seen embracing and smiling, whereas he sits his head in his arms (courtroom sketch)

An expression of aid rushes over Diddy’s face after discovering out his verdict on July 2

The rapper (left) seems to be again on the courtroom and offers a fist bump as the decision is learn aloud
The jury of eight males and 4 girls heard from 34 witnesses together with two of Diddy’s ex-girlfriends and 6 of his former private assistants for the reason that trial kicked off on Could 5.
Prosecutors painted an image of a mob-like determine who threatened to kill individuals in the event that they spoke out in opposition to him and ran a ‘felony enterprise’ that coated it up.
It wasn’t sufficient to persuade each juror of his racketeering conspiracy guilt – the jury initially returned a cut up verdict on the racketeering conspiracy cost.
However they have been fast to succeed in a verdict on the primary 4 costs.
These utilized to his therapy of Cassie and ‘Jane’.
Each claimed they have been pressured to participate in freak offs, the place that they had intercourse with a male escort whereas coated in child oil as Diddy masturbated whereas directing them on what to do.
The jury was proven a number of clips of the freak offs – which made one black feminine juror grimace, whereas one other put her hand to her face. The X-rated materials was not launched to the general public.
Dozens of celebrities have been named however none have been implicated in felony wrongdoing and just one turned as much as assist Diddy, Kanye West, who briefly appeared in courtroom.

Janice Combs (C), Diddy’s mom, offers a thumbs up as she departs together with her smiling kids and relations at Manhattan’s Federal Courtroom on July 2

A Diddy supporter celebrates exterior courtroom after listening to the decision
THE CASE AGAINST DIDDY
In her closing argument, prosecutor Christy Slavik mentioned that Diddy used a ‘methodical sample of violence and coercion’ to power girls into freak offs.
Slavik claimed that Diddy ‘groomed’ his victims and wished ‘full management’ over them which he achieved by drugging and abusing them.
Diddy typically known as himself ‘The King’ and wished to be handled as such, the jury was informed.
Throughout a marathon summation which took almost 5 hours, Slavik mentioned that Diddy was a person who ‘would not take no for a solution’.

The star witness for the protection was Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, who dated Diddy for greater than a decade and testified whereas eight-and-a-half months pregnant

In her closing argument, prosecutor Christy Slavik mentioned that Diddy used a ‘methodical sample of violence and coercion’ to power girls into freak offs
She described him because the ‘chief of a felony enterprise’ who had a gaggle of ‘loyal lieutenants’ prepared to guard him.
Emily Anne Johnson, one other prosecutor, rejected the concept that Diddy was on trial for his sexual proclivities.
She mentioned: ‘Let me be very clear…this case will not be a couple of movie star’s personal sexual preferences. The proof will present the sexual conduct at concern on this case was coercive and felony as a result of the defendant made girls have intercourse after they did not need to’.
DIDDY’S DEFENSE
Diddy’s protection was that he was a horrible boyfriend however not a intercourse trafficker.
His legal professionals mentioned that he was a ‘sophisticated’ man who was generally a ‘jerk’ who admitted to beating up girls.
His relationships with girls have been ‘poisonous’ and pushed by jealousy – however they weren’t felony.
Opening the case, Teny Geragos informed the courtroom: ‘The proof goes to point out you a really flawed particular person however it is not going to present you a racketeer or a intercourse trafficker’.
Based on Geragos, despite the fact that Diddy was ‘kinky’, the federal government should not prosecute him for what he did within the bed room.

The jury of eight males and 4 girls heard from 34 witnesses together with two of Diddy’s ex-girlfriends and 6 of his former private assistants for the reason that trial kicked off on Could 5

Opening the case, Teny Geragos informed the courtroom: ‘The proof goes to point out you a really flawed particular person however it is not going to present you a racketeer or a intercourse trafficker’
She mentioned: ‘He had a little bit of a distinct intercourse life.
‘Chances are you’ll know of his love of child oil. Is {that a} federal crime? No’
Geragos urged the jury ‘to not choose him (Diddy) for his sexual preferences’.
She mentioned: ‘You might be right here to guage whether or not the federal government can show past an affordable doubt what they really charged him with’.
Diddy’s protection case took simply 23 minutes and didn’t name any witnesses. Diddy didn’t testify himself, as his staff as an alternative relied on cross examination of the witnesses.
CASSIE VENTURA
The star witness for the protection was Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, who dated Diddy for greater than a decade and testified whereas eight-and-a-half months pregnant together with her third baby by her husband, private coach Alex Tremendous.
Ventura, now 38, met Combs when she was simply 19 and signed to his Unhealthy Boy Data label on a 10-album deal.
After they first kissed at her twenty first birthday in Las Vegas, Combs flew Britney Spears in to have fun – she shortly fell in love with him despite the fact that he was 17 years older than her.
Ventura mentioned she was so sexually inexperienced that he needed to educate her what oral intercourse was.
Slightly than serving to her profession, she testified that Diddy made Ventura’s ‘job’ to carry out drug-fueled freak offs for Combs with male escorts whereas he watched and masturbated.
Simply one in all her 10 albums would come out.
Ventura mentioned: ‘Throughout the first yr of our relationship Sean proposed to me this concept this sexual encounter that he known as voyeurism the place he’d watch me in sexual exercise with a 3rd occasion, particularly one other man’.

Ventura is seen making her strategy to courtroom on Could 16
With a sigh, Ventura mentioned in a halting voice: ‘It entails hiring of an escort, and… organising this expertise in order that I may carry out for Sean’.
The toll on Ventura was steep: freak offs would go on for as much as 4 days and when she wasn’t partaking in them, she was recovering from the consequences of taking ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and GHB, also called liquid ecstasy.
She incessantly contracted UTI infections however did not all the time have time to get better earlier than the following freak off, which means that she endured a ‘burning’ sensation whereas having intercourse.
Ventura defined in specific element what freak offs concerned: her and a male escort masking themselves in child oil whereas Diddy informed them learn how to have intercourse.
If Ventura refused then she could be overwhelmed so badly the whites of her eyes would flip pink, she informed the jury.
‘In the event that they have been violent arguments would normally end in some type of bodily abuse,’ she mentioned. ‘Dragging, simply various things of that nature.
‘He would bash me on my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me within the head if I used to be down’.
Prosecutor Emily Anne Johnson requested how incessantly this is able to occur. ‘Too incessantly’, Ventura mentioned.
Diddy’s temper may change ‘on the drop of a dialog, unhealthy dialog, that I had nothing to do with’, Ventura mentioned.
‘Probably the most sophisticated examples are the abuse. I additionally felt at sure instances once I knew it wasn’t even about me. Yeah, make up the flawed face and the following factor I knew I used to be getting hit within the face
‘If I wasn’t smiling at him the way in which he wished I simply seemed a sure manner he did not like. Perhaps I used to be a brat or one thing he would let me know I would like to repair my face or watch my mouth. These have been issues that have been mentioned very often. Repair your face, watch your mouth or you may have a slick mouth’.
The jury was proven chilling footage from a time in 2016 when Ventura tried to flee a Freak Off on the InterContinental resort in Los Angeles.
The CCTV digicam footage – first aired by CNN final yr – confirmed Diddy dragging Ventura by her hair and repeatedly kicking her whereas she was on the ground.
By 2017 Ventura was souring on the connection and messaged Combs: ‘Nothing good comes out of FOs (Freak Offs) any extra. You deal with me such as you’re Ike Turner’.
They broke up the next yr however not earlier than Combs allegedly raped Ventura on what she thought was one in all their last dinners collectively .
Diddy’s legal professionals used Ventura’s texts to try to undermine her testimony together with some pleasant ones despatched after the alleged rape.
The next month, in September 2018, Ventura informed Diddy: ‘I do love you’, and in one other message she mentioned: ‘Cannot wait to see you’.

Cassie is seen with a gash on her eyebrow in proof picture

Cassie is seen with bruises on her physique in proof picture
She additionally admitted that she had consensual intercourse with Diddy one time after the alleged rape – despite the fact that she was relationship her now husband by then.
In August 2009, close to the beginning of their relationship, Ventura informed Diddy: ‘I am all the time able to Freak Off LOLOL’.
Two days later Diddy wrote to Ventura: ‘I can not wait to look at you, I would like you to get actual scorching’.
She replied: ‘Me too, I simply need it to be uncontrollable’.
Diddy’s’ legal professional Anna Estevao tried to painting his conduct as being as a result of his extreme drug consumption and mentioned that jealousy, fairly than abuse, was what drove their battle.
They instructed she was jealous of Kim Porter, the mom of 4 of Diddy’s kids and Gina Huynh, whom he’s presently relationship.
However Ventura remained a sympathetic determine and informed the jury how in 2023 when she lastly got here to phrases with what occurred, she wished to kill herself.
‘I used to be taking pictures a video with one other music artist and saved having these horrible flashbacks,’ Ventura mentioned.
‘I went house and it was tremendous tremendous late, my children have been asleep and I keep in mind telling him (her husband) you are able to do this with out me you do not want me anymore
‘I could not take the ache I used to be in any extra so I attempted to stroll out the entrance door into visitors and my husband wouldn’t let me’.
Throughout Ventura’s testimony it emerged that Diddy had paid her $20 million to settle a civil lawsuit she filed in opposition to him in 2023.
She can also be anticipating one other $10 million from the InterContinental resort.
Ventura gave start 9 days after she completed testifying.
THE RAIDS ON DIDDY’S HOMES AND THE DAMNING PHOTOS
Among the many most surprising proof have been the images and reveals seized from the raids on Diddy’s resort room in New York and his Miami mansion.
Diddy was staying on the Park Avene Hyatt on September sixteenth final yr when it was raided.
Regardless of understanding he was coming to New York to face arrest, Diddy nonetheless had quite a few bottles of child oil, astroglide lubricant and temper lighting within the room.
He additionally had $9,000 in money and luggage of pink powder which examined constructive for MDMA and ketamine.
A Homeland Safety agent informed the jury that throughout the raid on Diddy’s $40 million Miami mansion in March final yr, they discovered dozens of bottles of child oil all through the home, in addition to many bottles of Astroglide lubricant.

Regardless of understanding he was coming to New York to face arrest, Diddy nonetheless had quite a few bottles of child oil, astroglide lubricant and temper lighting within the room

There have been items of AR-15 assault rifles which had the serial numbers eliminated, a handgun and packing containers of seven inch stiletto heels, which have been apparently used throughout Freak Offs

He additionally had $9,000 in money and luggage of pink powder which examined constructive for MDMA and ketamine
There have been items of AR-15 assault rifles which had the serial numbers eliminated, a handgun and packing containers of seven inch stiletto heels, which have been apparently used throughout Freak Offs.
The jury was additionally proven a black Gucci pouch which contained numerous unlawful medication together with ketamine, cocaine and MDMA.
The images of the raid on Diddy’s Los Angeles house in March final yr have been equally as damning.
The jury was proven 17 unopened packing containers of Astroglide, a part of a haul of 900 bottles of the lubricant discovered within the house, in addition to 200 bottles of child oil.
Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo tried to go the haul off a ‘bulk shopping for’ by his shopper.
One other witness, Frederic Zemmour, the final supervisor of the L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, a luxurious resort the place Diddy was a daily, informed the courtroom that they solely let him keep in primary rooms as a result of they have been incessantly broken by extreme child oil use.
Diddy was charged $45,000 by a resort in New York for harm to its penthouse, apparently induced throughout a Freak Off.
KID CUDI
The rapper informed the courtroom how his $140,000 Porsche was blown up after Diddy discovered he had been seeing his girlfriend.
Scott Mescudi, who is called Child Cudi, mentioned the Porsche 911 Cabriolet was destroyed by the harm brought on by a molotov cocktail thrown in by assailants who slashed the roof.
Mescudi mentioned he suspected Diddy was concerned within the terrifying assault at his house in Los Angeles as a result of he was ‘violent’.
He additionally revealed that Diddy had damaged into his house when he discovered about his relationship with Cassandra Ventura.
Ventura had been relationship Combs since 2007 however Mescudi thought she had damaged up with him after they started seeing one another in 2011.
On December twenty second 2011 round 5.30am, Mescudi obtained a panicked name from Ventura whereas at his house in Los Angeles saying that Diddy had discovered about them.

Child Cudi informed the courtroom how his $140,000 Porsche was blown up after Diddy discovered he had been seeing his girlfriend

The rapper’s automotive is seen charred after it was lit on hearth
After choosing her up, he known as Diddy solely to search out the mogul was in his home.
By the point he arrived, no person was there. The one harm was that some Chanel presents had been opened and Mr Mescudi’s canine had been locked within the rest room.
Based on Mescudi, he broke up with Ms Ventura in late 2011 ‘for her security, for my security…as a result of I knew Sean Combs was violent’.
However the next month, Mescudi’s automotive was firebombed with a molotov cocktail.
A Los Angeles Fireplace Division report mentioned that the Porsche was set on hearth by an ‘incendiary machine’ and that the trigger was ‘intentional’.
Mescudi mentioned that he organized a gathering with Mr Combs for the following day at SoHo Home in Hollywood as a result of he ‘knew he had one thing to do with it’.
He mentioned that Diddy was standing like a ‘Marvel Supervillain’ in a gathering room and that he denied having something to do with the arson.
Prosecutor Emily Anne Johnson requested Mescudi: ‘What was your understanding when Mr Combs mentioned he did not know what you have been speaking about?’
He replied: ‘That he was mendacity’.
DAWN RICHARD
The singer mentioned that her years being in two of Diddy’s teams gave her a entrance row seat to his violent and abusive methods.
Richard, 41, who was in ‘Danity Kane’, which ran from 2005 to 2009 and ‘Diddy – Soiled Cash’ which went from 2009 to 2012, mentioned that Diddy as soon as threatened to kill her if she spoke out about seeing his brutal assault on Ventura.
The subsequent day she and one other member of the group have been summoned to the studio.

Daybreak Richard mentioned that her years being in two of Diddy’s teams gave her a entrance row seat to his violent and abusive methods

Richard and Diddy pictured in 2010
Richard mentioned Diddy informed them: ‘The incident was (as a result of) ardour and Cassie was OK and that if we mentioned something we may go lacking’.
Requested what Diddy meant by that, Richard mentioned: ‘That we may die’.
Richard additionally testified about seeing Diddy secretly punch Ventura within the abdomen at a celebrity-packed dinner in Hollywood with Usher and Ne-Yo among the many company.
THE MALE ESCORTS
The jury heard from two unique dancers who mentioned they have been paid 1000’s of {dollars} to participate in Freak Offs.
One in every of them was often called ‘The Punisher’, a reputation he mentioned that he obtained from taking part in basketball in his teenagers.
The escort, whose actual title was Sharray Hayes, informed how he usually labored as an unique dancer – at one level bragging about his potential to ‘dry hump’ girls.
However after being paid $2,000 by Ventura and Diddy, he took half in a Freak Off at a Trump resort in New York.
Hayes mentioned he wished to create a ‘attractive scene’ so poured child oil throughout himself whereas Diddy watched.
Hayes, 51, informed the courtroom that he was employed for the Freak Off in 2012 and would go on to do round 10 extra.
He later revealed he had written a e-book known as ‘In Search of Freezer Meat’ about his erectile dysfunction points.
The opposite escort, Daniel Phillip, mentioned he was paid between $700 and $6,000 for participating in Freak Offs.
However he testified he stopped doing them after seeing Diddy beat Ventura, at which level he may not carry out when Diddy was within the room.
A lot of Ventura’s escorts have been employed from a service known as ‘Cowboys 4 Angels’ which was the topic of a Bravo actuality TV collection.
Jane, one other of Diddy’s ex-girlfriends, discovered the boys she did Freak Offs with from watching porn and messaging one of many performers she and Diddy preferred.
THE ASSISTANTS
The trial heard from six of Diddy’s former private assistants who informed the courtroom in regards to the excruciatingly lengthy hours they needed to work for his or her demanding boss.
Probably the most vivid testimony was from David James, George Kaplan and Capricorn Clark who mentioned they needed to be at his home earlier than he awoke after 9am and could be with him within the studio till 4am.
Current on between two and 4 hours of sleep an evening induced Clark to lose her hair by means of stress.
The assistants’ duties included getting Diddy’s meals, arranging his schedule, shopping for him medication – and getting provides arrange in his rooms for Freak Offs
James, Kaplan and Clark mentioned they felt conflicted about their time working for Diddy and mentioned that that they had discovered loads about learn how to function as a businessman.
However all of them testified that they needed to look the opposite strategy to acts of violence – till they have been the goal.
Clark broke down in tears whereas describing how she was subjected to 5 days of lie detector checks in an deserted constructing after a few of Diddy’s jewels went lacking.

Cassie and Capricorn attend Sean Combs’ October 2008 L’Uomo Vogue music concern cowl celebration at 1OAK in New York Metropolis

George Kaplan arrives at Federal Courtroom for Sean Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial
One in every of Diddy’s safety guards took her to the sixth flooring the place there was a fold up desk and an enormous man sitting chain smoking.
Clark mentioned: ‘He mentioned I had been dropped at the constructing to take a lie detector take a look at to determine what occurred with this jewellery. He mentioned in case you fail these checks they will throw you within the East River’, referring to the river off the coast of Manhattan.
Preventing again tears, Clark mentioned she did the take a look at as a result of ‘I used to be afraid of what would occur if I did not go….and the take a look at was the one strategy to get by means of this factor’.
One other time Clark informed the courtroom she was kidnapped by a gun-toting Diddy who wished to kill Child Cudi, the rapper, after discovering out he had been seeing Ventura.
On the finish of the day, Ventura went again to Diddy who she testified kicked her repeatedly and warned Clark to remain out of it or he would ‘f*** her up too’.
MIA: THE ASSISTANT ALLEGEDLY RAPED BY DIDDY
One in every of Diddy’s former private assistant tearfully informed the trial how she allegedly awoke in mattress to search out him raping her.
Mia – who testified below a pseudonym – mentioned she allegedly felt the load of the hip hop mogul’s physique on her within the bunk at his house in Los Angeles.
Mia claimed that she ‘froze’ and felt ‘terrified’ because the alleged rape continued at his Los Angeles house in 2009.
She mentioned: ‘I keep in mind it was type of like him telling me shhh, be quiet and utilizing one hand to get his pants off’.
Wanting all the way down to the ground and crying, Mia claimed she felt ‘terrified and confused and ashamed and scared’.

Witness ‘Mia’ is questioned by prosecutor Madison Smyser
Based on Mia’s testimony, Diddy sexually assaulted her quite a few instances, every event leaving her with a ‘particular horrible, darkish feeling in my abdomen’.
Requested why she did not ever say no, Mia mentioned that with Diddy ‘I could not inform him no a couple of sandwich, I could not inform him no about something’.
She claimed in courtroom: ‘Then he would know that what he was doing was flawed and I might be a goal’.
Crying and shaking, Mia alleged she was apprehensive Diddy would ‘hearth me and spoil my future’.
She additionally allegedly feared for her private security and thought she ‘could be in some way attacked or…I simply did not need to die’.
THE SECURITY GUARD AND THE $100,000 BRIBE
A safety guard informed the courtroom how Diddy counted out $100,000 from a brown paper bag to purchase the one copy of a video exhibiting him beating up his ex-girlfriend.
Eddy Garcia, who labored on the InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles, informed in vivid element how the hip hop mogul used a counting machine so as to add up the cash for the bribe in 2016.
Garcia mentioned that Diddy known as him ‘Eddy, my angel’ for deleting it from the servers and giving it to him on a USB stick.

Resort safety guard Eddy Garcia testifies in courtroom
The cash, he testified, was cut up between Garcia, one other safety officer and the top of safety on the resort.
However one other safety officer secretly made a duplicate which was leaked to CNN in 2024: the airing of the footage helped result in Diddy’s downfall and arrest in September that yr.
THE FASHION DESIGNER DANGLED OVER A BALCONY
Clothier Bryana Bongolan informed the jury that Diddy dangled her over a seventeenth storey balcony in 2016, leaving her certain she was going to die.
Bongolan mentioned that she was left with ‘evening terrors’ after the terrifying incident in 2016 which left her so disturbed she ‘screamed in my sleep’.
‘I used to be dealing with the view however he got here up from behind me,’ she informed the courtroom.
Lifting up her arms, Bongolan mentioned: ‘He lifted me up after which put me on high of the rail.
‘He got here up from behind (along with his arms) into my armpit and (lifted me) up’.
On the time Bongolan was simply 110lbs and Diddy was greater than her, she informed the jury.
Bongolan mentioned that her toes have been ‘on the rail’. She mentioned: ‘I used to be making an attempt to not slip and pushing again on him, as a result of I used to be scared to fall.

Cassie Ventura’s pal Bryana Bongolan, leaves the Federal courtroom after testifying throughout the intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial
‘For a cut up second I used to be pondering if I used to be going to fall. For essentially the most half he was yelling at me so I used to be making an attempt to reply him. He saved repeating you realize what the f*** you probably did’.
Bongolan mentioned she had ‘no thought’ what she supposedly did. She informed Diddy: ‘I do not know what the f*** I did’.
Throughout cross examination, Diddy’s lawyer Nicole Westmoreland introduced up texts that contradicted the date Bongolan mentioned the incident occurred.
The choose appeared so impressed he later known as it a ‘Perry Mason second’ for the protection.
JANE: DIDDY’S GIRLFRIEND UNTIL THE END
‘Jane’, who testified below a pseudonym, claimed in courtroom she was ‘obligated’ to participate in Freak Offs for the three years she dated Diddy on and off till his arrest in September 2024.
Jane testified that the Freak Offs went on for as much as three-and-a-half days and she or he was made to have intercourse with a number of escorts out of worry Diddy would cease paying the $10,000 lease on her Los Angeles house.
Based on Jane, she was ‘consumed’ by Diddy and claimed that he emotionally manipulated her as a result of she craved alone time with him.
However even when he promised her that, they might find yourself having a Freak Off, together with on her birthday one yr when she had intercourse with three totally different males, she informed the courtroom.
Similar to Ventura, Jane testified that freak offs have been fueled by medication and Jane mentioned that Diddy would give her ecstasy capsules each time.
She solely tried to do with out medication twice: on a type of events she vomited within the rest room however Diddy informed her to stand up and have intercourse with one other man, in accordance with her testimony.
The jury was performed a chilling audio wherein Diddy mocked Jane’s request to make use of a condom while having intercourse with one of many escorts.

‘Jane’ is cross-examined by lawyer Teny Geragos
The jury was learn a textual content from Jane to Diddy dated September seventeenth 2023 wherein she talked about Freak Offs as a ‘Pandora’s Field’
She mentioned that ‘one evening of enjoyable’ turned ‘all I am anticipated to do’
She wrote: ‘I do not need to play this function in your life any extra. It is darkish, sleazy and makes me really feel disgusted with myself.
‘I really feel it is the one purpose you may have me round…I do not need to really feel obligated to do these nights in worry of dropping the roof over my head’.
Jane’s relationship with Diddy almost ended after he subjected her to a terrifying, all evening assault at her Los Angeles house the place he broke down three doorways and a closet door, she testified.
Jane claimed that Diddy ordered her to have intercourse with a male escort and dragged her inside the home by her hair.
However after this she nonetheless went again with him and Diddy’s legal professionals used this to recommend that she was a keen and enthusiastic participant within the Freak Offs.
In July 2022 she despatched him a message saying ‘I had a good time with you too’ after one in all their Freak Offs.
One other level made by Diddy’s protection was that the one monetary maintain Diddy had over Jane was the lease on her house: in contrast to Ventura Jane’s profession was not in his arms.
Diddy’s legal professionals additionally tried to painting Jane as a cash grabber and requested her about Chanel and Bottega Veneta luggage, which Diddy purchased her.
Teny Geragos, one in all Diddy’s legal professionals, requested Jane: ‘How a lot do Bottega luggage run?’
Jane snapped again: ‘How a lot does my physique value?’
Throughout her testimony Jane put ahead a unprecedented idea to clarify why Diddy pressured his girlfriends to do Freak Offs.
She mentioned that after doing her personal analysis she thought he was a ‘cuck’, which means a person who could also be bisexual however was too ashamed to have intercourse with one other man so requested his lady to take action.
KANYE WEST
The rapper made a shock go to to the courtroom to point out assist for Diddy, a pal of his.
West wore all white and spent an hour contained in the courthouse within the fifth week and briefly watched the listening to in an overflow room earlier than strolling out.
Requested if he was there for Diddy, West nodded however didn’t in any other case communicate.
JUROR DRAMA
One juror was faraway from the panel halfway by means of the trial after making ‘inconsistent’ statements about the place he lived.
Juror no.6 was dismissed after claiming in Voir Dire he lived within the Bronx however later letting slip to a member of courtroom employees he had just lately moved to New Jersey.
The juror, a black man who likes 90s hip hop, was changed by a white man from Westchester who works as a mechanical architect.
Diddy’s legal professionals complained vehemently in regards to the juror being dismissed and instructed it was racially motivated, a declare the choose slapped down.
One other juror was almost dismissed after considerations have been raised about him probably speaking to a former colleague about his jury service.
Juror no.7 was allowed to remain on after being questioned by the choose. TMZ reported that the juror obtained a textual content from an unknown quantity asking if he was the juror who had been dismissed.
The report sparked an offended response from the choose who threatened either side with felony prosecution as the small print have been below seal.
The trial paused for in the future throughout the sixth week of proof as a result of a juror obtained vertigo whereas on the way in which in and needed to flip again.
DIDDY IN COURT
Diddy’s household attended courtroom most days and all six of his grown up kids got here for the primary week of the trial.
Quincy Taylor Brown, 33, Justin Combs, 30, Christian Combs, 27, Likelihood Combs, 18 and twins D’Lila and Jessie Combs, 18 all sat within the third row of the general public gallery.
They have been joined by Diddy’s mom Janice Combs, 85.
Every time Diddy noticed them in courtroom he would make coronary heart or prayer symbols along with his arms and generally blew them kisses.
Whereas Diddy’s sons and his mom attended most days, D’Lila and Jessie Combs walked out halfway by means of Ventura’s testimony when she was describing their father performing a vile intercourse act on her.
After a ruling from the choose, Diddy was allowed to put on civilian garments however he shied away from designer gear and opted for crew neck sweaters, grey pants and loafers: the choose’s order forbade him from having shoe laces.

Janice Combs arriving at courtroom Monday

Diddy’s 18-year-old daughters Jeesie, Likelihood and D’Lila Combs on Could 13

A number of sketches present Diddy expressing his feelings in courtroom as he’s seen making a coronary heart gesture along with his arms throughout his trial

King and Justin Combs seen exterior the courthouse
Diddy’s confidence in courtroom grew because the trial went on: on the primary day of jury choice he requested for a loo break and informed the choose he was ‘a bit of nervous’.
By week three he was, as one observer put it, appearing just like the ‘boss’ and writing remarks on copious quantities of Submit-It notes.
He requested a pregnant lady within the public gallery how she was doing and requested the courtroom sketch artists to cease making him appear to be a ‘koala’.
However Diddy pushed it too far and the choose upbraided him for nodding alongside and locking eyes with the jury which was ‘unacceptable’.
One other day, a lady was thrown out of courtroom after being disruptive. As she was escorted out Diddy circled and watched as the girl mentioned the courtroom was ‘laughing at you’.
Diddy introduced numerous motivational books into courtroom together with ‘The Magic of Believing’, a greatest vendor by Claude M. Bristol, which he pored over throughout breaks.
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