(3 Jul 2025)
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New York – 2 July 2025
1. Wide of Sean "Diddy" Combs’ defense team leaving press podium
2. Wide of Sean "Diddy" Combs’ defense team hugging
3. Left to right Pan of Brian Steel, Alexandra Shapiro, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Garagos, Anna Estevao, Nicole Westmoreland, Jason Driscoll and Xavier Donaldson
4. Marc Agnifilo hugging a man
STORYLINE:
The legal defense team for Sean "Diddy" Combs’ celebrated and hugged after their client was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put one of hip-hop’s most celebrated figures behind bars for life.
The rapper was convicted of lesser prostitution-related offenses and denied bail as he awaits sentencing.
The defense team consisted of Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Brian Steel, Nicole Westmoreland, Xavier Donaldson, Anna Maria Estevao, Jason Driscoll and Alexandra Shapiro.
The mixed result capped a sordid legal odyssey that shattered Combs’ affable “Puff Daddy” image and derailed his career as a Grammy-winning artist and music executive, fashion entrepreneur, brand ambassador and reality TV star.
Combs stands convicted of two counts of a crime — transportation to engage in prostitution — that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. But jurors cleared him of three charges, two of which carried a mandatory 15 years and a maximum of life.
He was convicted of flying people around the country, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, to engage in sexual encounters, a felony violation of the federal Mann Act.
Combs’ lawyers said that under federal sentencing guidelines, he would likely face about two years in prison.
Prosecutors, citing Combs’ violence and other factors, said the guidelines would call for at least four to five years.
Locked up since is September arrest, Combs has already served nine months.
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