Sean “Diddy” Combs Jury To Start Deliberations Next Week
Update, 2:28 p.m.: Next week, a jury of eight men and four women from New York will begin to decide the fate of Sean “Diddy” Combs in the mini-mogul sex trafficking test.
A few minutes ago, judge Arun Subramanian sent the jurors home after the defense concluded his closing argument and that the American assistant lawyer Maurene Comey finished his refutation with a “point to do so.
Diddy, who was sitting nearby in the Manhattan courtroom today, because he was every day and a half last month, faces being behind bars for the rest of his life if he was found guilty of racketeering, sex trafficking, transport to engage in prostitution and more charges he was arrested for last September.
The jurors will receive the judge’s instructions at 9:00 a.m. on Monday. Then, if everything goes as planned, the 12 will go behind closed doors to hammer a verdict. Unless they make a decision by July 3 (and who must say that they will not?), The jury will then obtain a few days off for the holidays of July 4 before returning to the courthouse of Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the United States the week of July 7.
At one point, the defense offering no witness and not ending his file after less than 30 minutes earlier this week, there was hope to do without speculation that the jury could conclude deliberations today – and even a verdict before the weekend. But with fence arguments up to 5 p.m. HE which came out by the window.
The execution of the accusation in recent weeks since the start of the trial, Ausa Comey has tried to put the ground of the defense innocence led by Marc AGINFILO from a real perspective. “Being a domestic aggressor is not a defense against sexual traffic,” said the prosecutor, trying to challenge the MEA Culpa from the other party.
“If part of the abuse involves your partner in a commercial sexual act, you are guilty of sexual traffic,” added Comey with a clear reference to Cassie Ventura and “Jane”, who both testified the trial.
Although his body language of day 1 indicated a high level of engagement, Sean Combs did not take a stand and oath.
Previously, 7:33 am: Sean Combs’ main lawyer has not lost time today in his closing argument in the sex trafficking trial of the founder of Bad Boy Records, trying to sweep the claims of rape and racketeering, and to reduce everything in cold cold species.
“This is not a crime, this is the money,” Marc Agnifilo told the jury on Friday, showing the trial quickly settled ($ 20 million) of November 2023 against Diddy de Cassie Ventura, a former girlfriend in the long term (and star control of the pursuit).
“Cassie Ventura continued Sean Combs for $ 30 million because Sean Combs has $ 30 million,” said this morning of the interpreter “All About the Benjamins”. “This very investigation is out of this civil affair. No 30 million dollars, no legal proceedings. No $ 30 million, no prosecution, no criminal case. This is why we are here. We are here because of money. “
Initially to avoid many vices and less attractive character traits that the defense raised preventively in its declaration of opening last month, Agnifilo rather praised its customer winner of a Grammy for having built “the wonderful and sophisticated companies which made the man who” takes care “.
A view from the judge’s headquarters in a federal courtroom similar to the room where the Sean Combs sex traffic trial is held by the New York Federal District Court. (Photo of Jefferson Siegel-Pool / Getty Images)
On the other hand, Ventura (who testified very very pregnant during the first week of the test) is a “gangster”, according to the increasingly hyperbolic agnifilo. In the lawyer’s field, as presented on Friday at the jury, the Me and you The rue de Singer credit has just had a burner phone to get in touch with the short -term kid Cudi without a snack. “She also played it well,” said Agnifilo, referring to the rapper of testimony Cudi presented in May. “She played them both.”
Lawyer Marc Agnifilo arrives at the Lower Manhattan Federal Justice Palace on June 18, 2025 (Photo by John Lamparski / Getty Images)
Dressed in his usual average man’s sweater, Diddy sat down today with his 10-avocado defense team in the Lower Manhattan courtroom, as he did at almost all audiences since his arrest last fall and since the start of this criminal trial.
Against a constantly increased file of cases of civilian violence and aggression as well as this criminal affair, the very accused combs concluded a non -guilty advocacy, reprimanded an agreement with the federal authorities and however did not testify on his behalf during this trial. The 55 -year -old combs is considering life behind bars if it is found guilty of racketeering, sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution and more, accusations.
To start at 9 a.m., today’s procedures were delayed due to a late juror. Surprisingly, such a delay has only occurred a few times in a trial that has lasted more than six weeks so far.
As expected, making money in a very different way, the accusation meticulously exceeded the case against Combs in its own closing argument on Thursday.
This presentation followed the federal authorities earlier this week by eliminating in a letter at the end of June 24 to the judge Arun Subramanian part of the kidnapping, an attempt to fire criminal and helping and encouraging allegations against Combs. The sad accusation that this decision was in order to “rationalize” things for the jury. Despite the claims of some, the modifications do not downright drop “theories of responsibility”, but rather fold them over the whole number of racketeers.
Citing violence, manipulation, blackmail threats and tight ropes and of course the “freak-off” sex sessions focused on drugs and filmed with male escorts, the assistant assistant of the United States Christy Slavik on June 26, returns to purchase of opinions and jane sexes like “MIA”. In a full day to speak directly to the jury, Slavik alternated between reading notes on the desk in front of her and directly looking at the four women and eight men from the panel. “It is time to hold him responsible,” said the prosecutor about “renown, wealth and power” protected the combs. “It is time for justice. It’s time to declare the guilty defendant. “
“The accused does not deny abuse,” said Ausa Slavik, adding “but during this trial, his crimes were exposed” and listing sexual abuses, “physical, emotional, psychological” abuses. “They just want you to call it” domestic violence “and believe that it has nothing to do with the crimes accused here,” she said.
“Until today, the accused was able to get away with these crimes,” said Slavik, “but during this trial, his crimes were exposed.”
The American lawyer’s office for the South New York district will have another kick in the judiciary later today, when they have the opportunity to refute the defense closing argument. The jury should at this stage to start the deliberations on June 30, thus making the promise of judge Arun Subramanian at the start of the trial to obtain the case wrapped by the holidays on July 4. How long it takes to make a verdict is of course TBD.
No word of the White House, if Donald Trump really thinks of forgiveness for Diddy or even took the time to examine it, as he said – which has greatly upset the Rivals 50 Cent.
