Jun 26, 2025 08:11 PM IST
Prosecutor casts Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs as a felony who abused others via energy, violence and concern
NEW YORK — Two days of closing arguments in Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ intercourse trafficking trial started on Thursday with a prosecutor telling the jury the hip-hop mogul used “energy, violence and concern” to rule a felony enterprise that facilitated kidnapping, arson and brutal intercourse crimes that she stated have been on the coronary heart of the case.
Assistant U.S. Legal professional Christy Slavik offered the jury with a street map for a closing argument anticipated to final a number of hours.
She described Combs as somebody “who would not take no for a solution,” whereas he dedicated crimes of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy for 20 years.
Combs “counted on silence and disgrace” to allow and extend his abuse, Slavik stated. He used a “small military” of workers — an interior circle that included private assistants and bodyguards — to hurt girls and canopy it up, she stated.
The idea of racketeering legislation is that “when somebody commits crime as a part of a bunch, they’re extra highly effective and harmful,” Slavik stated. “The defendant was a strong man, however he turned extra highly effective and harmful due to his interior circle, his companies — the enterprise.”
Prosecutors say Combs coerced and abused girls for years as he used his “energy and status” as a music star to enlist a community of associates and workers to assist him whereas he silenced victims via blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
They are saying the Dangerous Boy Information founder induced feminine victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male intercourse employees in occasions dubbed “Freak Offs.”
Protection attorneys have argued that Combs was concerned in home violence however dedicated no federal crimes.
They constructed their case for acquittal via prolonged cross-examinations of a lot of the authorities’s 34 witnesses. Some witnesses testified solely in response to subpoenas and made it clear to the jury that they did not need to be there.
Earlier than Slavik started her closing, Decide Arun Subramanian informed the jury they might hear a closing argument from a protection lawyer on Friday and a rebuttal by a prosecutor earlier than he instructs them on the legislation and permits them to start deliberating as early as late afternoon.
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