Diddy Lawyer Calls Accusers 'Aggressive' and 'Gangster' in Closing

After six weeks of testimony accusing Sean “Diddy” Combs of sex trafficking, kidnapping, and physical abuse, defense attorney Marc Agnifilo tried to change the narrative in his closing argument by attacking the mogul’s alleged victims.

Agnifilo presented his four-hour closing statement on Friday, June 27 in Manhattan federal court. He told jurors the Bad Boy Records founder enjoyed a “swingers” lifestyle, but he insisted Combs is no criminal.

“This isn’t about a crime. This is about money,” Agnifilo said, according to the official court transcript.

The attorney said prosecutors wasted time and resources bringing the case to trial.

“Are you kidding me?” he said mockingly. “Did any witness get on that witness stand and say, ‘Yes, I was part of a racketeering enterprise — I engaged in racketeering?’” No, those accusations were a figment of the prosecution’s imagination.”

The attorney said the music mogul’s two former girlfriends who testified in the trial, Cassie Ventura and a woman using the pseudonym “Jane,” enjoyed the luxuries that came with dating the superstar rapper and producer. But he said the women were not trafficked.

Questioning Cassie’s Motives
During the first week of testimony, Cassie told jurors she endured years of physical abuse throughout her decade-long relationship with Combs. She said the mogul kicked, punched, stomped on her face, and forced her to have sex with male escorts during “freak off” sex sessions while he recorded the encounters, and masturbated.

Agnifilo admitted Combs could be violent. But he argued the sex was consensual and he portrayed his client as the victim.

“He sits there innocent. Return him to his family who have been waiting for him,” the attorney said.

Agnifilo said Cassie “played” Diddy and rapper Kid Cudi by dating both men at the same time.

“She’s a woman who loves sex. And it’s beautiful. She is unafraid. Let’s talk about Kid Cudi… Cudi comes here and says, ‘Cassie played me.’ She did. She played ’em both. Not everyone can do that,” Agnifilo told the jury. “Cassie is keeping it gangster.”

Cassie testified that she received a $20 million payout from Combs after she filed a rape and sex trafficking lawsuit in November 2023. She also received a $10 million settlement from the hotel where surveillance cameras recorded Combs physically assaulting her, and a security guard sold the mogul the footage for $100,000.

“If you had to pick a winner in this whole thing, it’s hard not to pick Cassie,” Agnifilo told the jury.

Calls Jane “Aggressive”
Jane dated Combs from 2021 to 2024. The social media influencer testified that she initially fell “pretty head over heels” for Combs. She said he paid her $10,000-per-month rent, and regularly gave her cash. But there was a price.

According to Jane, Combs demanded more and more “freak offs” or “king nights,” until eventually “90 percent” of their sexual encounters involved other men.

The single mother and sometimes OnlyFans model said in June 2024, she and Combs got into a physical altercation after she told him she attended a “freak off” with another rap “icon.” Jane admitted she pushed Combs’ head into a marble countertop, and said he reacted by punching, kicking, and choking her.

Agnifilo questioned why Jane was so “aggressive.”

“She doesn’t really give an explanation for doing this,” he said. “You’re just waging holy war on the guy, slamming someone’s face, it just doesn’t get much more aggressive than that.”

He also mocked the father of her child — a man Jane testified is a celebrity who pays $5,000 a month in child support.

The attorney said the father “dropped the ball.”

“Guess who’s giving her more? The one who has no responsibility for that child at all,” he said. “He’s picking up the ball for someone who seems to have dropped the ball for his own kid.”

Combs hugged Agnifilo and put his head on the attorney’s shoulder after he ended his closing argument, CNN reported.

Rebuttal
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey called Agnifilo out for spending “a whole lot of energy” making excuses for Combs’ “inexcusable criminal behavior.”

“For 20 years, the defendant got away with his crimes. That ends in this courtroom,” Comey said. “The defendant is not a god. He is a person. And in this courtroom, he stands equal before the law. Overwhelming evidence proves his guilt. It is time to hold him accountable. Find him guilty.”

Combs, 55, Combs faces five charges: one count of racketeering conspiracy; two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Monday.