Sean combs has been convicted of two of the five crimes that were charged and will fight, for now, to spend the rest of his life in prison with a life imprisonment. In the trial for which the rapper has been tried since last May 5, the jury has decided that he is guilty of two positions of which he is accused, the. However, the four women and eight men in the jury have considered that the musician did not lead a criminal organization to abuse women nor has he found guilty for the other two positions for sexual traffic. Anyway, the so -called Puff Daddy or Diddy still has some 150 demands for abuse, harassment and rape.
Hours after the verdict, Judge Arun Subramanian has made a decision, although halfway. He has not made public what his sentence is (it can be up to 20 years in jail), but he has made a temporary decision with respect to Combs. Subramanian has decided, as the Prosecutor’s Office and some victims, such as Casandra Ventura, the main witness of the case, keep the rapper in prison. The musician has been detained since mid -September 2024, when the Federal Police went to a hotel in New York for him. He has been in a high security prison in Brooklyn during these 10 months. Although the defense has proposed to deliver the passport and even a bail of one million dollars and continuous drug tests so that its client will be released, Subramanian has refused.
The jury already announced on Tuesday, July 1 that, but that they had not made a decision about organized crime. When they went to the room, Subramanian rejected a partial verdict and asked them to continue their deliberations. In addition, he reminded them that his decision should be unanimous, but that they were not “forced to give up their honest convictions about the effect or weight of the evidence with the mere purpose of issuing a verdict or only for the opinion of other jurors.”
The jury members played with delicate material, since the crimes were very serious: the transport, the relatively lower, implies 10 years in prison; the sex trafficking, 20; And organized crime could have meant spending the rest of his life in jail. At the moment, he has fought the worst. Apparently, they have not been able to decide whether he led a criminal organization, but neither did the women who were with, so they have not finally accused him of sexual trafficking.
The rapper and businessman, 55, whose mother and several of his children were present in the room, had declared himself not guilty. His reaction to know the verdict has been to turn to his own and put his hands in the sky, in the form of prayer, and then raise the right fist, to later take his hands to the face: “I love you, mom, I love you, I love you, I love you”; “I’m going home.” The family has applauded their legal team. His lawyers, headed by the media Marc Agnifilo, have also received smiles from his part. For combs and for them, although there are two crimes that suppose up to 20 years in jail, this is a victory, and a surprise, especially the fact that it has not been convicted of the other two crimes that were expected, those of sex trafficking. They have asked to be free – he has in prison since – in exchange for delivering his passport and that the judge sets a bail of one million dollars. The Prosecutor’s Office refuses.
The last position, that of illicit association, has always been the most complex in the entire process. It can also carry prison for life. Hence the doubts of the jury, who requested to review the testimony of Ventura, ex -partner of combs, and specifically the incident occurred in 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles (California), while she tried to flee.
The point is that this crime requires many requirements to be met, since Cam should be proven to head a criminal network. To do this, it would have to be demonstrated that the musician agreed – verbal or written, expressed or implicit – with at least one more person of that network, which must be his partner or employee, to commit at least two crimes of a list of 35, among which are the kidnapping, fire, trafficking of people, possession and distribution of substances, forced work, extortion … And illicit activities should affect various US states or abroad, that is, not just a state.
The trial has been based on two cases, and both have been proven solely that of transport to exercise prostitution, but not that of sex trafficking ,. Of the two cases, the first was the most media of all, with whom he had a relationship since mid -2000 and until approximately 2018. She has told the vexations, physical and verbal aggressions, forced sexual relations and threats through which she made him pass combs for years.
The second testimony has been that of an anonymous woman, who under Jane’s pseudonym has also told the same horrors that Ventura passed, but more recent, since her relationship was extended until 2024. She has also talked about those celebrities freak-offsthe orgies with prostitutes that lasted days for which combs made him pass.
The nature of the relationship between combs and its partners has been central in the trial. Agnofilo and the rest of his lawyers – although – have tried to show that everything was spoiled, that Comink was a liberal person, with small problems, but liberal: from the consumption of substance to no less than the macho violence he practiced against his girlfriends, some who consider less. But in no case, they have maintained, practice orgies or couple exchanges made them, according to them, a criminal.
But from the beginning the Prosecutor’s Office knew where the shots would go, and he advanced: “This case is not about the private sexual preferences of a famous one,” both combs and his girlfriends would be “unfaithful, jealous,” they said, but “only one had power”: “He had the power to ruin his life.” The image of a prestigious, rich, but at the same time human musician, surrounded by his mother and children, as he has tried to sell the defense, has never been enough to stop the rain of accusations that have been implacably falling, on combs.
Ventura demonstrated it quickly. He did it, and that shocked all those who heard her, especially the jury already present in the room; So much that the rapper’s teenage daughters decided to leave for it. He told how he forced her to practice orgies, manipulating her and threatening her, as well as, to which she was unable to respond, because she knew that violence would go to more and she would pay it.
“I feared for my career, I feared for my family. It’s horrible, it’s disgusting; nobody should do that to anyone,” he said. He decided to take drugs to reduce the experience, to sleep, as “escape,” he said. If she showed interest in other people, romantic or not, he threatened her, hit her, insulted her. He came to assure him that he would jump through the car of a rapper, Cassie’s boyfriend then. The Porsche of the boyfriend in question ended in flames. He has even recognized that he thought about taking his life: “At that point, I no longer wanted to stay alive. I could not bear the pain in which I was, so I tried to leave home and get into the traffic, but my husband did not leave me.” With his words the final verdict.
This Wednesday, his lawyers have wanted to speak. “All this criminal process began when our client, Cassie Ventura, had the courage to file its civil complaint in November 2023,” they have proclaimed. “Although the jury has not declared combs guilty of sexually trafficing with Cassie beyond any reasonable doubt, she raided the way for a jury to declare him guilty of transport to exercise prostitution. And how “has paid attention to the realities of powerful men in our orbit, and the bad behaviors that have persisted for decades without repercussion.”
Fruitts still have to close in the case of combs or, rather, in their many cases. It remains to know the penalty that the judge will impose, which can make him spend many years in jail. But it also has pending issues. That, for the most part, they accuse him of having been raped under the influence of drugs supplied both by him and his colleagues while they were not aware. Therefore, there is still a long journey of judgments for the once almighty Combs, the winner of Tres Grammy, the rich entrepreneur with almost one billion dollars. You will have to prepare fortune for the following lawyers.
