During the seven weeks that this hypermediatal trial lasted before the Manhattan Criminal Court, the jurors heard 34 witnesses, peeled with thousands of pages of transcription of telephone conversations or SMS exchanges, and scrutinized financial documents to decide on the fate of the star of hip-hop.
P. Diddy, of his real name Sean Combs, is accused of having forced women – including her girlfriend from 2007 to 2018, the singer Cassie, and a former more recent companion who testified under the pseudonym “Jane” – to engage in sexual marathons with prostituted men while he masturbated or filmed. And also to have implemented a criminal network, of which he was at the head, to organize these marathons called “freak-offs”.
“It was absolutely no free choice,” had repeated in its indictment the prosecutor Christy Slavik, specifying that the alleged victims “were drug addicts, brushed with oil, exhausted and had badly”.
“She (Cassie) has always been free to leave. She had chosen to stay because she was in love with her and that she was in love with her (…), she loves sex and great good,” replied Marc Agnifilo, the rapper’s lawyer.
P. Diddy pleaded not guilty to these accusations and chose not to testify, a current defense strategy in the United States. His lawyers do not have to prove the innocence of their client, but rather to sow a reasonable doubt among the members of the jury regarding the accusations of the prosecutors.
At the trial of P. Diddy, the new overwhelming testimony of an ex of the rapper: “These practices constituted 90% of their relationship”
