“He is none of these things. He is innocent,” defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo said, glancing at Combs during a four-hour closing argument. “He sits there innocent. Return him to his family who have been waiting for him.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs listens as his lawyer Marc Agnifilo makes his closing arguments during Combs’ sex trafficking trial. (Picture: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
Agnifilo repeatedly mocked the government’s case, saying prosecutors “badly exaggerated” the evidence.
“Way to go, fellas,” the lawyer said.
In a rebuttal, Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey said Agnifilo had spent “a whole lot of energy” trying to distract from Combs’ “inexcusable behavior.”
Agnifilo called Combs’ prosecution a “fake trial” and ridiculed the notion that the singer engaged in racketeering.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ son Christian “King” Combs exits court during a break in his father’s sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial. (Picture: Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
Combs’ ex-girlfriends, a singer known as Cassie and a woman testifying under the pseudonym “Jane” told jurors that Combs coerced them into participating in “freak-offs” or “hotel nights”, which were drug-fuelled sex marathons with male sex workers while Combs watched, directed, masturbated and sometimes filmed them.
He also mocked the prosecution’s assertion that Combs and his underlings engaged in hundreds of racketeering acts, as well as the government’s suggestion that many of the sex marathons at the heart of the case were crimes.
“This isn’t about crime. It’s about money. This is about money,” Agnifilo said.
“If you had to pick a winner in this whole thing, it’s hard not to pick Cassie,” Agnifilo said.
With AP
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