The rapper Sean combs, known as ‘Diddy’, was exonerated today from the most serious charges he faced and declared guilty only of two charges for “transport to exercise prostitution”, which ends an eight -week trial that has attracted a multitude of curious and media every day.
These are the main keys of the judicial process, which has passed more than thirty witnesses, all called by the Prosecutor’s Office (the defense did not summon any declarant).
The double face of the rapper
The prosecutors, a group made up of six women, tried to demonstrate without success that when the ‘Diddy’ cameras went out “he directed a criminal company” in which their employees “knew they had to say yes to everything.” But his witnesses did not convince the jury.
For his part, the defense of Comps acknowledged that his client came to mistreat his ex -girlfriend, but said he did not commit any of the crimes mentioned by the Prosecutor’s Office and that all the intimate relations he had with his ex -partners were spoiled.
The “freak offs” or “sexual marathons” with prostitutes
The three victims of the Prosecutor’s Office in this judicial process have been the old girlfriends of the rapper, Cassie Ventura and a woman who testified under the generic pseudonym of Jane Doe, as well as one of her former employees, mine.
The fourth victim appeared in the accusation finally did not appear before the court, after the Prosecutor’s Office informed the judge of the case, Arun Subramanian, who did not know his whereabouts.
In their testimonies, Ventura and Jane Doe accused the rapper of forcing them to participate in “sexual marathons” with stipe or sex workers, to which the combs himself called “Freak offs”, “hotel nights” or “nights of the wild king”.
The “Freak offs” could be extended for days in which both victims remained awake thanks to the drugs provided by ‘Diddy’, a cocktail of substances that included cocaine, MDMA and ecstasy, among others.
Ventura and Jane Doe assured that in these acts, choreographed to the millimeter by ‘Diddy’, there was always a lot of lubricant and baby oil. Some videos of these meetings, engraved by combs himself while masturbating, were shown to the twelve members of the jury.
Cassie and Diddy, in an image of 2018
A criminal company? It was not demonstrated
In the most important position that the singer faced – and that the perpetual chain could have cost him – he has been found not guilty of leading a criminal company in which, with the help of his workers, he allegedly dedicated himself to committing crimes as sex, trafficking, trafficking in persons and kidnapping for two decades.
They are left without prove then that there was a “co-conspirator”, their then head of attendees, Kristina Khorram, who was allegedly in charge of reserving the hotel rooms in which the “Freak offs” took place, which facilitated the transfer of prostitutes between cities and that helped ‘Diddy’ to bribe a worker at the intercontinental hotel of Los Angeles to hide the video in hiding the video to hide the video in hiding the video to hide the video. The rapper brutally hits Ventura.
The celebrities appointed in the trial: by Michael B. Jordan to Prince
Before the beginning of the trial there was a great expectation among the public for knowing which celebrities they would have been involved in the “combs sexual parties.” However, the celebrities mentioned in the process were simply tangentially related to the defendant or his near circle.
For example, the Prosecutor’s Office appointed Michael B. Jordan in the Court because he maintained a sentimental relationship with Ventura that enraged combs. Prince’s name was also mentioned in the Court when Ventura said that he went to a party organized by the artist without telling him to ‘Diddy’, who upon hearing hit her.
And in the same way the 21st Ventura 21st birthday party was mentioned, which celebrities such as Britney Spears or Dallas Austin attended.
The video of the aggression to Ventura
Beyond the victims themselves, another undoubted protagonist appeared in the trial: the viral video in which Comink appears hitting Cassie Ventura at the Los Angeles Intercontinental Hotel in 2016.
In the images, the rapper, with a towel tied to the waist, pulls his victim to the ground and begins to kick her on the floor while she remains motionless. In his subsequent testimony in the Court, Ventura indicated that at that time he was trying to flee a “Freak Off”.
A demand resolved with 20 million dollars
At one point in his testimony, Ventura, who had sued the rapper in 2023, revealed that ‘Diddy’ paid 20 million dollars to resolve the litigation. But, overwhelming, the victim declared that he still appeared before the court because he could not “endure the guilt and shame” and wanted to “do the right thing.”
Kid Cudi’s car and a Molotov cocktail
In the trial, the name of another famous rapper, Kid Cudi, who came to declare as a witness of the Prosecutor’s Office was mentioned on numerous occasions. In the court, Cudi claimed to believe that ‘Diddy’ was behind the explosion of his car in 2012, when he maintained a brief romance with Ventura, although there is no evidence of it.
An ‘Diddy’ exasisant, Capricorn Clark, testified that Comps forced her, with a gun in hand, to accompany her one day to Cudi’s house after ensuring that “he was going to kill him.” Some time later, Cudi’s vehicle exploded.
The support of combs in the court
Combs has received great support from his mother and six of his seven children, who have attended the court on multiple occasions. Thus, ‘Diddy’ entered the room every day and stopped in front of the public to launch a kiss and greet their relatives with one hand in the heart.
The controversial rapper Ye -more known as Kanye West -also showed his support for ‘Diddy’ and a few weeks ago he attended the court, where he sat in one of the open alternative rooms to meet the great demand of public.
Despite the severity of the charges that were imputed to him, combs has also had multiple fans in the Court, which in the rooms alternate to the principal were dedicated to questioning the arguments of the Prosecutor’s Office.
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