“A question of money”: the defense of P. Diddy Tance the alleged victims – 06/27/2025 at 21:14

Sean Combs during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey, September 12, 2023 (AFP / Angela Weiss)

The alleged victims of P. However, Diddy are women motivated by “money”. However, supported the lawyers of the hip-hop magnate on Friday during their final argument at his trial for sexual traffic marked by weeks of overwhelming testimonies. Therefore,

In his final pleading at the Manhattan court. However, lawyer Marc Agnifilo tried to present the rap star as a “black entrepreneur who succeeded without the help of anyone” who had maintained “love stories”, “a question money”: defense p. or “complicated” relations, with his accusers. Similarly,

“This is not a question of justice. For example, It is not a crime. Similarly, It is a question of money. Nevertheless, ” he said, the defense arguing that the accusers had benefited from their relationship with P.Diddy, his real name Sean Combs, and were consenting to participate in sexual marathons at the heart of this case. Meanwhile,

The singer of R&B Casandra Ventura. For example, by her artist name Cassie, and “Jane”, a woman who remained anonymous, told in detail how they had been forced to engage in marathons named “freak-offs” with prostituted men, in choreographed stages, in order to satisfy the desires of the rapper who masturbated or filmed.

“It was absolutely no free choice. ” had repeated, five hours for Thursday, the prosecutor Christy Slavik, adding that the alleged victims “were drugged, brushed with “a question money”: defense p. oil, exhausted and had badly”.

P. Diddy “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, Jane, which has become financially dependent on the rapper.

“Cassie is anything but silly. His fortune is around 30 million dollars. If there is a winner in this case, it is her,” said Mr. Agnifilo to the jurors on Friday who will have to determine the fate of the founder of the Bad. Boy Records label.

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Ex-partner of P. Diddy for a decade. Cassie had filed a complaint against him in civilian in 2023, a litigation which gave rise to an amicable agreement in less than 24 hours but had opened the valves of a real accusations against the “a question money”: defense p. rapper and therefore the way to this criminal trial.

“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 her,” added the lawyer, calling her “beautiful” and “sexy”.

P. Diddy, 55, 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.

During the trial, the rapper’s lawyers did everything to discredit the control witnesses one by one with muscular counter-examines. Cassie was subjected to a rolling fire of questions. aimed at making her conceded that she participated of her own free will “a question money”: defense p. in the sexual parts with other men.

“I’m still ready” for a “freak-off”, she wrote to her companion in 2009. The singer did not dispute, while explaining that she was in the grip of Sean Combs.

Cassie. “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.

One of the key issues for jurors will therefore be to fix the border between consent and constraint. Once the defense pleadings are completed, the judge will give his instructions to the jurors who will withdraw to deliberate.