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Prosecution in Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial gives closing arguments
- Sean 'Diddy' Combs faced closing arguments in his 2025 sex trafficking trial in New York, charged with crimes spanning two decades.
- Prosecutors claimed Combs exploited his celebrity status, influence, and intimidation tactics to orchestrate a criminal operation that forced women to participate in drugged sexual acts.
- Jurors heard from 34 witnesses across seven weeks, including four main accusers—Cassie, Jane, Mia, and Gina—who described abuse and forced encounters.
- Prosecutor Christy Slavik argued that the defendant leveraged intimidation, force, and fear to achieve his objectives, while the defense attorneys denied any conspiracy and maintained that the acts were consensual.
- Combs chose not to provide testimony in his defense, and jury deliberations were set to begin, with a conviction carrying the possibility of life imprisonment.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been charged with sex trafficking, organized crime, prostitution and drug distribution
Jury to start deliberating in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial
For seven weeks, a jury in Manhattan has listened as prosecutors laid out a criminal sex trafficking and racketeering case against rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. They heard his ex-girlfriends and other witnesses deliver shocking accounts of violence and drug-fueled sexual marathons. On Monday, jurors are set to begin deliberating, ultimately deciding whether Combs was running a criminal enterprise, as the government says, or – as his lawyer insists …
Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs resorted to “power, violence and fear” as the leader of a decades-old criminal organization, the prosecution said Thursday in the closing arguments of his media trial for illegal association and sex trafficking.
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