Diddy Demands Judge Overturn Conviction or Grant New Trial

As Sean “Diddy” Combs sits in a Brooklyn jail cell, his lawyers continue to keep the courts busy.

Late Wednesday, July 30, the music mogul’s legal team filed a motion in Manhattan federal court asking Judge Arun Subramanian to “either grant a judgment of acquittal or, at a minimum, a new trial.”

On July 2, jurors found Combs guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution involving his ex-girlfriends Cassie Ventura and a woman using the pseudonym “Jane Doe.” He was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking.

In the new filing obtained by Urban Hollywood 411, Diddy’s attorneys said the government “has painted him as a monster,” since he was arrested in September 2024.

“For months, prosecutors accused him of running a 20-year racketeering enterprise and of sex trafficking multiple women. But his 2-month trial showed these charges were not supported by credible evidence, and the jury rejected them,” the filing stated.

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The filing said Combs is “the only person” ever convicted of violating the federal Mann Act sex trafficking law, who did not make money off of prostitution.

“Sean Combs sits in jail based on evidence that he paid adult male escorts and entertainers who engaged in consensual sexual activities with his former girlfriends, which he videotaped and later watched with the girlfriends. That is not prostitution, and if it is, his conviction is unconstitutional,” the filing said.

The documents added that if the court “declines to acquit” Combs, he at least “deserves a new trial.”

On July 29, the mogul’s attorneys filed another motion requesting he be released on $50 million bond ahead of his sentencing on Oct. 3.

The attorneys argued it is unfair he remains jailed while others “involved in this identical conduct — his girlfriends, the “cowboys,” the agency’s leaders, the porn stars and others — walk free, as they should.”