Diddy’s lawyer calls Cassie a ‘sexy woman’ in shock closing arguments: Live trial updates

Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told the court on Friday that there was no evidence of sex trafficking while Diddy was in a relationship with Cassie.

‘This is his personal life. They are swingers. They are validly swingers. This is their lifestyle. He wouldn’t think in a million years there was anything wrong with that,’ he suggested.

He claimed the evidence was ‘overwhelming’ that Cassie wanted to participate in freak offs and that they were consensual and she was ‘always free to leave’ Diddy but stayed because she loved him.

In a bizarre moment he described the texts between Ventura and Diddy as ‘some of the most beautiful language’ and if the public read them then they would ‘cry’.

‘If racketeering conspiracy had an opposite it would be their relationship’, Agniflio said.

Ventura sometimes reached out to escorts to set up Freak Offs.

Raising his voice, Agnifilo said: ‘This was their life. Noboys forcing her to do this. Glod bless her she’s a sexy woman and that’s what she deserve to be.’

‘When she wasn’t with Sean Combs she was with Michael B Jordan, he’s the most handsome man in the world. She’s not messing around!’

Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo finished closing statements in 4 hours and 3 minutes.

Marc Agnifilo claimed Diddy’s ex-assistant Kristina Khorram, who’s name has come several times throughout the trial, was the ‘single most helpful person’ and not a co-conspirator to Diddy’s alleged crimes.

When Agnifilo claimed ‘everyone should have a Kristina Khorram,’ Diddy nodded in agreement in court.

Diddy’s lawyer aid Jane was focused on luxury vacations and social media posts in their relationship together.

‘She’s a little bit more focused on what am I getting out of it that the world can see,’ he said.

He claimed she regretted agreeing to participate in freak offs with Diddy but ‘we can’t look at things like criminal conduct looking backwards.’

An unknown man appeared to collapse outside the federal courthouse where Diddy’s sex trafficking trial remains ongoing.

Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo said freak offs were date nights with beautiful hotels, food, and music from R’n’B singers Usher and Bryson Tiller.

‘These are lovely….what you have is this beautiful evening,’ he said of the video.

He claimed that there was a ‘nice quality’ to the freak offs.

‘They’re not aggressive…the physical intimacy is not aggressive. It’s very standard. Very typical homemade porn. (Diddy is) not the only man in America making homemade porn.

‘I’m under the impression this is a pretty popular thing these days,’ he continued.

The case will go to the jury once closing arguments on both sides have concluded. It remains uncertain if that will be today or early next week.

Jurors will then have to deliberate the charges.

There will be no court on July 3rd or 4th, so a verdict will be pushed into the following week if not reached by July 3rd.

Court is on break while the jury rumenates over Diddy’s lawyers arguments. They say that while many ‘horrible’ things have been laid out at trial, Diddy is not guilty of the crimes he is charged with – and that is the only thing to consider.

Agniflilo tried to recast the incident at the InterContinental Hotel in 2016, where Diddy chased Cassie Ventura into the hallway, kicked her and beat her before trying to drag her back into the room by her hair.

He played the CCTV footage of the incident and but disputed Ventura’s testimony that she was escaping after Diddy punched her in the face, leaving her with injuries.

Instead it was about a phone which Diddy grabbed from her hand, Agnifilo said.

While the footage was ‘unforgivable’, it was ‘not sex trafficking, it is very much domestic violence,’ he said.

‘Nothing is in Mr Combs’ hands. You see there’s nothing in his hands, now there’s a phone. He got her in a corner, he now has the phone in his right hand,’ Marc Agnifilo pointed out.

He said Israel Florez, the security guard who was allegedly bribed for the footage of the beating, was ‘jovial’ in the video, indicating that a serious crime had not been committed.

Agnifilo claimed that Ventura was telling Diddy to go back to the hotel room, meaning there ‘nothing scary’ about what had been happening there.

‘The room is not a scary place. This was a fight over a phone. There’s no clear point he relinquishes the phone back to Cassie,’ Agnifilo concluded.

‘There’s not been one single witness whose gotten on that stand and said I knew I was committing a crime and I was committing a crime intentionally for Mr Combs when I was bringing these drugs because I thought they were for personal use,’ Diddy’s defense lawyer continued to argue in closing statements.

‘The govt has charged him not with possession, not just with distribution, but distribution as a racketeering act.There’s just no evidence of that.

‘Is there evidence he had drugs, of course. There’s no doubt he had personal use drugs. Was he using his enterprise, is this really part of a racketeering conspiracy to sell drugs, possess with intent to distribute?

‘The answer is no,’ he concluded.

Government prosecutor Christy Slavik told jurors on Thursday that there are four elements of racketeering against Diddy.

1. There was a conspiracy to participate in the enterprise, which she said his employees did by agreeing to help him commit crimes.

2. It affected interstate or foreign commerce and that Diddy was knowingly a part of an enterprise.

3. The defendant knowingly and willfully became a member as he arranged for drugs and sex workers to travel across state lines.

4. Diddy agreed that he and another member would commit two racketeering acts. Slavik said Diddy’s criminal enterprise agreed to commit crimes related to sex trafficking, drugs, bribery and arson to help cover up his alleged crimes.

Jurors heard on Friday that there ‘every indication Mia loved working’ for Sean Combs during her time as the mogul’s personal assistant between 2009 to 2017.

Mia described her time working for Diddy as ‘toxic’ and ‘chaotic’ when she testified on the stand.

‘Forced labor, you woldn’t think of forced labor when someone is crestfallen and even suicidal if they’ve been fired?’ the defense said.

It was noted that Mia ‘loved’ Diddy when the court was shown a ‘Happy 45th birthday’ message by Mia.

The court is currently in a short break.

Jurors have currently heard two hours and 30 minutes of the defense’s closing statements.

Diddy’s lawyers suggested their closing statements may be up to four hours long today.

In court on Friday, Diddy’s sons Justin, King and Quincy Combs appeared to share a joke with his daughters Jessie, Chance and D’Lila.

His family giggled as the defense discussed the alleged bribery of InterContinental security guard Israel Florez for the footage of Diddy violently dragging Cassie in the hotel’s hallways in 2016.

Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi testified in court that Sean Combs became enraged after he found out about his affair with Cassie Ventura in 2011.

Mescudi received a call from his dog sitter in January 2012 informing him that his  vehicle was on fire on his driveway, the court heard.

It was later discovered that a molotov cocktail had appeared to be used in the arson.

Diddy’s lawyer in closing statements on Friday said that there was no evidence that the mogul had anything to do with the car’s destruction.

‘Blowing up a man’s car is cowardly. It’s a coward’s way out. Come on! He’s a fighter, he’s a fighter,’ defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo claimed.

Diddy’s former personal assistant Capricorn Clark told jurors at his trial that she was forced to take lie detector tests for five days and threatened with being thrown in the East River if she failed.

Clark said she was left ‘petrified’ after being brought to an abandoned building in New York and locked in while being questioned about the hip hop mogul’s missing jewelry.

‘This is (supposedly) a kidnapping, she’s not saying she was harassed. She was kidnapped. She went home – every day! She said I kept doing it because I wanted to pass and get back to my job ‘ Diddy’s lawyer exclaimed.

He then turned to face the jury and said:

‘You guys are stuck in here for hours. Anyone feel kidnapped? You’re about as kidnapped as she was kidnapped!’

In court on Friday, Diddy defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo said that Cassie ‘played’ both Diddy and Kid Cudi during her short-lived relationship with the rapper in late 2011.

‘She’s scared to death of Sean Combs, afraid of what he might do?

‘She lied to him for a long time over and over as she had a relationship with another singer songwriter under his nose,’ Agnifilo stated.

He went on to claim that Cassie was keeping it ‘gangster’ and was ‘in it for the long haul’ by purchasing a burner phone to keep their relationship private.

Diddy’s ex girlfriend Cassive Ventura sued him for $30million in a civil lawsuit in November 2023 because the mogul had $30million available in the bank, the defense claimed on Friday.

‘881 times the word love appears in this trial. This trials about love. The trial’s about jealousy, so much about jealousy. It’s about infidelity. It’s about money.’

Lawyers said the mogul ‘owned’ domestic violence accusations.

‘We own the domestic violence. I hope you guys noticed when Ms Ventura testified we didn’t ask her a single question to challenge her about being hit being dragged.’

Marc Agnifilo went on to say that Cassie was ‘nobody’s fool.’

‘She’s sitting somewhere in the world with $30million. If you had to pick a winner in this thing it’s Cassie. Cassie flat won.’

‘They found it, boxes of Astroglide. Take it off the streets! Whoo!’ Marc Agnifilo claimed of the raid on Diddy’s Miami mansion in 2024.

‘Thank goodness, they found the astroglide. They got five valium pills, way to go fellahs. You guys just do you,’ he continued sarcastically.

‘They take yellow crime scene tape and wrap it around his bedroom…Where’s the crime scene? The crime scene is your private sex life, that’s the crime scene.’

Prosecutors have argued that Diddy’s ex-girlfriend, who testified under the pseudonym Jane, was groomed and coerced by Diddy into freak offs.

Diddy’s lawyer claimed that was not a part of the mogul’s character.

‘The man takes care of people. Jane came up her and testified against him,’ his lawyer said.

‘I don’t know what she’s doing today but I hope she’s having a nice day in the house he’s paying for.’

In defense closing statements, Marc Agnifilo claimed that those who were around Diddy were all grateful for their experiences.

‘Being with him was like going to Harvard Business School….like drinking from a firehose,’ he said of witness testimony.

‘Did they always like him? No way. Let’s not even go there. They didn’t always like him but they loved him,’ Agnifilo stated.

Diddy’s mother Janice Combs, sons King, Justin, and Quincy and daughters D’Lila, Chance and Jessie arrive to court on Friday.

The mogul’s family have shown support throughout the seven week course of the mogul’s trial.

In court on Friday, Diddy lawyer Marc Agnifilo said the mogul’s seven week sex trafficking trial was not ‘real’ and that it has been ‘false and exaggerated.’

‘From the mouths of the witness from the evidence, the text messages, what do you see? What is that trial? It’s personal use drugs, that’s what it is,’ he said.

‘The trial of the evidence is a lifestyle. You want to call it swingers. You want to call it threesomes that’s what it is,’ he continued.

‘That is not what the prosecutors are saying to you.The prosecutors have charged one of the most serious complicated comprehensive statutes on the books.That is the false trial, that is the exaggerated trial, that is not the real trial.’

‘This trial is a tale of two trials,’ he began in court on Friday.

‘It is the trial told from the mouths of the witnesses, there’s the trial told from the text messages, there’s the trial told from the videos. There’s the trial that’s told in the evidence. That’s one trial.

‘The second trial is a very different trial…the trial as told from the mouths of the prosecutors.

‘The trial told from the mouths of the prosecutors is very different, nothing like the trial told from the evidence,’ he began.

He was slathered in baby oil, having wild sex with a beautiful woman, and earning mountains of cash.

And if her famous rapper boyfriend wanted to meticulously choreograph and film the action to satisfy his private appetites, that was all part of the VIP service.

Diddy’s ‘freak off’ parties were just another lucrative porn gig for Anton Harden, a male escort and OnlyFans star known for being enormously well-endowed.

That was until the woman involved told the hip hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial she was coerced into taking part in their drug-fueled romps lasting up to six hours.

He’s in the fight of his life in a Manhattan courtroom – and Sean Diddy Combs is pulling out all the stops to win back his freedom.

The music mogul, on trial for racketeering and sexual trafficking, remains hopeful he will be acquitted at the end of the long drawn out criminal blockbuster.

His defense strategy has impressed legal analysts – his lawyers have argued that while he may be a monster, sex addict and drug addled fiend, he’s not guilty of the crimes the jury has been asked to consider.

But their arguments aren’t the only way Diddy is subtly trying to curry favor.

From his wardrobe to his courtroom props and even interactions with witnesses and jurors, the 55-year-old is leaving nothing off the table when it comes to fighting for his freedom.

A Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse clerk announced this morning that there were ‘issues’ with the jury, but did not clarify what the issue seemed to be.

Diddy appeared to be bobbing his head nervously as proceedings were delayed.

Diddy appeared to be praying in court today before the jury arrived to be seated.

He was smiling as he clasped his hands together in prayer motion, looking at his lawyers who were returning the same prayer motion.

His sons Justin and King arrived to court to support their father today.

Judge Arun Subramanian arrived in court this morning. He confirmed that the defense will finish closing arguments today and the prosecution will offer rebuttal.

He said that jury deliberations are due to start on Monday to give both sides time to prepare the exhibit laptops that the jury will take with them to deliberate.

Diddy scored a huge courtroom victory after prosecutors decided to drop key parts of the charges against him.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian prosecutors said they will no longer pursue theories presented during the blockbuster trial, including that the music mogul was involved in attempted arson and kidnapping.

The two alleged acts were initially included in the government’s racketeering conspiracy charge against Combs. All charges against him still remain.

Diddy cut off the judge presiding over his sex trafficking trial to tell him that he would not be testifying on Tuesday afternoon.

Combs, 55, stood up in front of Judge Arun Subramanian and confirmed his answer, and even spoke over him to make it clear he won’t be taking the stand.

The judge asked Diddy: ‘Have you discussed whether you should or should not?’

‘Yes, thoroughly. Yes, have discussed it,’ the rapper replied, in his first words to the Manhattan court since his federal sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial started over seven weeks ago.

Judge Subramanian began to speak before Diddy cut him off and added: ‘That is solely my decision. It’s my decision with my lawyers.’

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ legal team was slapped down by the judge presiding over his trial because of their alleged attempt to use the escalating conflict with Iran in their upcoming closing argument.

As the disgraced hip-hop mogul’s bombshell sex trafficking trial nears a verdict, his team of attorneys reportedly planned on bringing up the escalating tensions between the US and Iran in court in a bid to relate it to his case, TMZ reported Monday.

Sources told the outlet the 55-year-old’s defense ‘may invoke the recent conflict’ in their closing argument, and specifically go after the Homeland Security Investigators who raided his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles in March.

To end her closing argument on Thursday, Slavik finished the prosecution’s closing arguments with: ‘A lot of evidence was hard to hear, hard to see.

‘The defendant ran his criminal enterprise with total control and with the loyal assistance of his inner circle.

‘Foot soldiers, personal assistants….who knew their one job was to say yes to the defendant.

‘All of this (paints a) clear picture of how the defendant committed crime after crime for two decades, how he didn’t take no for an answer….

‘Up until today the defendant was able to get away with these crimes because of his money, his power and influence. That stops now, it’s time to hold him accountable.’ she ended.

The prosecutor’s closing argument went on for four hours and 49 minutes Thursday.

Both the defense and prosecution said their statements would take about four hours.

Defense closing arguments are due to begin at 9am EST. Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo will lead closing statements.

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Diddy and his son Justin Combs, whom he shares with Misa Hylton, were accused of brutal gang rape by a Louisana woman in a shocking new lawsuit.

The documents, obtained by Page Six, allege that Justin lured the woman, whom he met on Snapchat in 2017, out to California under the promise of helping her career in the entertainment industry.

When she arrived, she claimed she was plied with drugs and alcohol by Justin before three ‘masked men’ arrived to the home to brutally gang rape her for several hours. She claimed one of the men was Diddy, 55.

In the documents, she said she was able to identify the music mogul by his ‘mannerisms,’ and alleged that Justin called him ‘Pops.’

Diddy’s attorney denies any wrongdoing.

‘No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone — man or woman, adult or minor,’ a lawyer for the rapper said.

‘We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth, and Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail in court.’

Justin Combs, left, with his father Diddy and brother King