Diddy’s lawyer mocks intercourse trafficking case in closing argument – NBC New York

Sean “Diddy” Combs was portrayed in his lawyer’s closing argument on Friday because the sufferer of an overzealous prosecution that attempted to show the leisure use of medication and a swinger way of life right into a racketeering conspiracy that might put the music mogul behind bars for all times.

Lawyer Marc Agnifilo mocked the federal government’s case in opposition to Combs and belittled the brokers who seized tons of of bottles of Astroglide lubricant and child oil at his properties as he started a presentation anticipated to final a number of hours.

“Method to go, fellas,” Agnifilo stated of the brokers.

He stated prosecutors had “badly exaggerated” proof of the swinger way of life and threesomes to mix it with leisure drug use and name it a racketeering conspiracy.

“He didn’t do the issues he is charged with. He did not do racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking,” the lawyer stated.

Agnifilo additionally known as Combs’ prosecution a “faux trial” and ridiculed the notion that he engaged in racketeering.

“Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?” Agnifilo requested. “Did any witness get on that witness stand and say sure, I used to be a part of a racketeering enterprise — I engaged in racketeering?” No, Agnifilo argued, telling jurors that these accusations had been a figment of the prosecution’s creativeness.

Combs’ household, together with six of his kids and his mom, had been within the viewers for the closing.

All his life Combs has taken care of individuals, Agnifilo stated, together with the ex-girlfriend who testified below the pseudonym Jane, whose lease he’s paying.

“I don’t know what Jane is doing immediately,” Agnifilo stated. “However she’s doing it in a home he’s paying for.”

Referring to lawsuits filed by Combs’ accusers, he stated: “This isn’t about crime. It’s about cash. That is about cash.”

He famous that Combs’ girlfriend of almost 11 years — Casandra “Cassie” Ventura — sued him in a lawsuit that was settled for $20 million in a day in November 2023, triggering a federal probe the next day.

“If you happen to needed to decide a winner on this entire factor, it’s arduous to not decide Cassie,” Agnifilo stated.

Cassie and Jane each testified through the trial that they had been coerced repeatedly by Combs to carry out in drug-fueled dayslong intercourse marathons with male intercourse employees whereas Combs watched, directed, masturbated and generally filmed the encounters.

Prosecutors, he argued, have invaded Combs’ bed room and his most intimate private affairs.

“The place’s the crime scene? It’s your intercourse life,” Agnifilo stated.

He additionally mocked the prosecution’s assertion that Combs and his underlings had engaged in tons of of racketeering acts and their suggestion that a lot of his so-called freak-offs and “resort nights” had been crimes.

If that’s so, he stated, “we’d like a much bigger function of crime scene tape,” a reference to a well-known line from the film “Jaws.”

Agnifilo reiterated that the protection “owns” the truth that Combs was violent, however he argued that habits doesn’t justify the grave prices he faces.

He stated Combs and Cassie had a “loving, lovely relationship,” albeit a “sophisticated” one.

“If racketeering conspiracy had an reverse, it will be their relationship … they had been deeply in love with one another,” Agnifilo stated.

If convicted, Combs might face a compulsory minimal of 15 years in jail and a most of life.

He didn’t testify through the trial that’s in its seventh week.

After Agnifilo completes his closing, Assistant U.S. Lawyer Maurene Comey was anticipated to ship a rebuttal summation earlier than the decide reads the regulation to the jury, which isn’t anticipated to start deliberations till Monday.

Assets for victims of sexual assault can be found by means of the Nationwide Sexual Violence Assets Middle and the Nationwide Sexual Assault Phone Hotline at 800-656-4673.