Legal professionals plan to argue at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ upcoming intercourse trafficking trial that the disgraced music mogul was merely dwelling a “swinger” life-style and isn’t a rapist just like the feds have made him out to be.
“There’s a way of life, name it swingers or no matter you’ll, that he thought was applicable as a result of it was widespread,” Combs’ legal professional Marc Agnifilo mentioned at a Friday pre-trial listening to for the rapper in Manhattan federal courtroom, per The Put up.
Agnifilio argued that Combs’ perception that it was acceptable to have a number of companions or to rent escorts proves that he didn’t intend to commit against the law.
“Many individuals assume it’s applicable as a result of it’s widespread.”
Decide Arun Subramanian dominated from the bench that Combs’ legal professionals will be capable to make their swinger argument, however they don’t seem to be allowed to call different notable figures who’re believed to have allegedly employed intercourse employees or participated within the proposed “life-style.”
The replace comes as federal prosecutors revealed on Friday that Combs, 55, rejected a plea provide forward of his trial. Particulars concerning the plea weren’t supplied in courtroom.
The “Final Evening” rapper is at present dealing with fees of racketeering, transportation to interact in prostitution and intercourse trafficking as prosecutors allege the Dangerous Boy data founder forcibly coerced ladies to interact in sexual exercise at his notorious “Freak-Off” events.
Many witnesses, together with Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, are anticipated tot take the stand throughout his eight to ten-week trial to present “graphic testimony” about “years’ price of beatings, drug-fueled coercive intercourse marathons, and a number of rapes.”
Combs is at present being held on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, NY, the place he was taken after his September 2024 arrest.
His arrest got here months after police raided his California and Florida houses, uncovering 1,000 bottles of lubricant and three AR-15s.
His trial is scheduled to start on Could 5.
He faces as much as life in jail.
