The former glory of American music is accused of having forced old girlfriends to participate in sex marathons.
The jury withdrew on Monday June 30 to start its deliberations in the hypermediatal trial in New York of the Hip-Hop P. Diddy magnate, notably accused of having forced old girlfriends to participate in sexual marathons. On Monday morning, at the Manhattan Criminal Court, judge Arun Subramanian gave his instructions for more than two hours, explaining, among other things, the concept of reasonable doubt and the different types of evidence to determine the fate of the 55 -year -old rapper, liable to life imprisonment. Then, the jurors withdrew to start their deliberations after listening to around thirty witnesses, peeled with thousands of pages of transcription of telephone conversations or exchanges of SMS, financial documents, during the seven weeks of trial.
P. Diddy is accused of having forced women – including her girlfriend from 2007 to 2018, the singer Cassie, and a more recent ex who testified under the pseudonym «Jane» – to engage in sexual marathons with prostituted men while he was masturbating or filmed. And also to have set up a criminal network, of which he was the master, to organize these named marathons «freak-offs». “It was absolutely no free choice”had repeated in her indictment the prosecutor Christy Slavik, adding that the alleged victims “Were drugged, brushed with oil, exhausted and had pain”.
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P. Diddy, of his real name Sean Combs, “Did not accept the + no + as a possible answer”she insisted, recalling the control he exercised on his ex-partner «Cassie» And the rents paid for his other ex, who testified under the pseudonym Jane, who became financially dependent on him. “She (Cassie) has always been free to leave. She had chosen to stay because she was in love with him and that she was in love with her (…), she loves sex and great good doing “had retorted Marc Agnifilo, the rapper’s lawyer.
The jurors had received the investigation not to follow the news surrounding the case, a major task while the trial floods traditional media or social networks with on -the -site influencers who dissect each detail in their own way. P. Diddy pleaded not guilty 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.
“Not God”
During the trial, they did everything to discredit the control witnesses with a muscular counter-examination and tried to show that their customer had a lifestyle “Polyamoureux” which does not fall under criminal law. Cassie was subjected to a rolling fire of questions, aimed at making her conceded that she participated of her own free will in the sexual parts with other men. “I’m still ready” for a «freak-off»she had written to her companion in 2009. The singer did not dispute, while explaining that she was under the influence of the founder of the Bad Boy Records label whose fortune is valued at $ 700 million according to Forbes magazine.
Cassie and «Jane» admitted that their respective relationship involved love, but that they were at the same time subject to threats linked to their reputation, their financial situation and their physical integrity. “He (P. Diddy) had so far exceeded the limits that he could not even see them anymore”said another prosecutor, Maurene Comey, saying that the rapper felt himself “untouchable”. “But the accused is not God”she had said to the jurors.
