Sean “Diddy” Combs’s lawful group is offering a look at his protection.
As the rap magnate’s legal representatives introduce one more effort to cost-free him from prison prior to his test– on costs of racketeering conspiracy theory, sex trafficking and transport to take part in hooking– his lawyer Marc Agnifilo showed up on his part in TMZ’s docudrama The Failure of Diddy: The Charge.
In the doc, currently streaming on Tubi, Agnifilo was smoked concerning the situation, consisting of Combs’s strategies to indicate, the hip-hop celebrity’s partnership with Cassie Ventura, the declared “fanatic offs” and the 1,000-plus containers of child oil and lube discovered throughout the government raids of his homes in L.A. and Miami.
Combs, that was jailed on Sept. 16, is charged of, over a duration of greater than 16 years, endangering and persuading ladies and others around him to accomplish his libidos. That purportedly consisted of compeling sufferers right into sex efficiencies, some enduring days and sustained by medicines (ketamine, euphoria and GHB), with male business sex employees that he videotaped as security. District attorneys charge Combs of producing a “criminal venture”– via his numerous services– with workers participating in criminal activities such as “sex trafficking, required labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and blockage of justice,” according to the charge.
Combs keeps his virtue and has actually begged innocent.
What does Combs’s lawyer claim in the doc?
Agnifilo attempted to repaint Combs as the sufferer of excitable government district attorneys and Cassie– whose accusations versus Combs go to the core of the situation– as a prepared individual in the “fanatic offs.”
He declared that government district attorneys are going after costs versus Combs as a “takedown of an effective Black male.” He claimed Combs has actually “made a few of one of the most vital services had by a Black male” and “we have actually minimized him … to being a beast.”
He believes Combs is being damned due to the fact that the federal government “[doesn’t] like the means he’s making love.”
Agnifilo claimed “fanatic offs” in his day “were called trios.” In this situation, he firmly insisted that they were consensual in between “his lady at the time,” describing Ventura, that filed a claim against Combs for supposed rape, misuse and sex trafficking in 2023, and 3rd parties. “I have actually spoken with concerning a six of these various guys entailed,” the legal representative claimed, and they informed him there was no indicator it was not consensual. He additionally declared they informed him “nobody was too expensive, nobody was as well intoxicated.”
When It Comes To the 1,000 containers of lube, he responded that Combs “has a huge home. He gets wholesale. I assume they have Costcos everywhere where he has a home. I imply, have you beinged in the car park of a Costco and see what individuals go out of there with?”
Agnifilo claimed Combs will definitely indicate at test, including, “I do not understand that I can maintain him off the stand.” He called him a “boxer” that’s established on obtaining a not-guilty decision. “His frame of mind is in fact extremely favorable,” he claimed, keeping in mind, “I invest numerous hours with him on a daily basis.”
When it comes to a possible appeal manage district attorneys, Agnifilo claimed, “I do not see it occurring” due to the fact that “he thinks he’s innocent. And what’s even more, he thinks that he requires to stand, not simply for himself, for his family members and for everyone that’s been targeted by the federal government.”
The legal representative discussed the monitoring tape showing up to reveal Combs literally abusing Ventura in an L.A. resort in 2016. He claimed Combs openly asked forgiveness when the video clip appeared in May. “It was difficult to look for him,” the lawyer declared. “It was difficult to look for me. It’s difficult to look for any person. That being claimed, it is not proof of sex trafficking.”
He declared that Combs and Ventura’s decade-long partnership was a “tale of love,” of “pain” and “broken heart.” He declared troubles on both sides, claiming, “There was a particular degree of poisoning and substance abuse.” He claimed “their troubles did not originate from their intimate time with each other. Their troubles came from the reality that she was ripping off on him and he was ripping off on her.”
Asked if Combs is sorry for not resolving his situation with Ventura– prior to she submitted it and made it public, causing the government examination– Agnifilo responded, “You understand, he is so concentrated on attempting to right this incorrect that it’s in fact offering him a type of toughness and a type of self-confidence that I assume is going to obtain him via this hard amount of time.”
What’s the current in Combs’s situation?
Combs’s lawful group is making a 3rd effort to cost-free him from the Metropolitan Apprehension Facility (MDC) in Brooklyn prior to his test.
On Monday, a notice of appeal was filed by brand-new lawful employee Anthony Ricco and Alexandra Shapiro asking that the previous choice to refute Combs bond be reversed.
Combs’s legal representatives formerly created a $50 million bond plan with his Miami home and his mom’s home as security. In it, the performer used to be under 24-hour monitoring, have his traveling limited and surrender his key. He additionally accepted outlaw ladies (minus his mom and the mommies of his youngsters) from seeing his home, not see or talk to any person that can be taken into consideration a witness or accomplice and go through once a week medication screening if his launch on bond was approved. The deal was turned down.
Prior to this most recent charm, Combs was in fact rejected bond two times. United State Magistrate Court Robyn Tarnofsky was the very first to decide, home siding on Sept. 17 with the district attorneys’ disagreement that the well-off hip-hop magnate can be a trip danger or damage witnesses. On Sept. 18, United State Area Court Andrew L. Carter Jr. rejected Combs’s launch demand rested on the $50 million bond plan.
Combs has actually increased his lawful group. Agnifilo went along with Combs to court and showed up in this docudrama. Teny Geragos, the little girl of star criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos (that formerly stood for Combs), additionally represented him in court and has actually been safeguarding him on television as well as on TikTok.
Ricco and Shapiro are the current enhancements. According to Service Expert, the last additionally stands for Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto chief executive officer that was punished to 25 years behind bars for fraudulence. Combs and Bankman-Fried are apparently housed in the exact same location of MDC.