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Sean ' Diddy' Combs, 2nd from left, watches from the defence array arsenic Judge Arun Subramanian speaks to the assemblage successful Manhattan national court, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
NEW YORK – Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted Wednesday of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted of much superior counts that could person enactment him down bars for life, drafting divided reactions by his chap celebrities.
The assemblage recovered the euphony mogul blameworthy of 2 prostitution-related counts nether the Mann Act, for proscription of prima witnesser Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a pistillate utilizing the pseudonym Jane, but acquitted him of trafficking them for enactment by utilizing force, fraud oregon coercion.
They besides acquitted him of a racketeering conspiracy complaint nether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
The Associated Press does not typically sanction radical who accidental they person been sexually abused unless they travel guardant publicly, arsenic Cassie has.
Combs, 55, could inactive look a maximum of 10 years successful prison. He besides is the taxable of a civilian lawsuit from vocalist Dawn Richard, said her attorney, Lisa Bloom. Richard testified astatine the trial that Combs threatened to termination her if she told anyone she saw him abusing his longtime girlfriend.
Here are immoderate personage reactions to the verdict.
Not blameworthy verdicts gully anger
“Oh, this makes maine physically ill,” said vocalist Aubrey O’Day, formerly of the euphony radical Danity Kane, on her Instagram story arsenic she watched the verdicts travel in. "Cassie astir apt feels truthful horrible. I’m gonna vomit.”
She’s previously been critical of Combs. Danity Kane formed connected Combs’ MTV world tv programme “Making the Band” and signed to his Bad Boy Records.
Others jumped in. “I conjecture a assemblage conscionable ne'er wants to judge that a pistillate stays due to the fact that of powerfulness and coercion, wow,” wrote actor Rosie O’Donnell connected Instagram. “This determination got maine angry.”
Others dependable off
“Diddy bushed the Feds that lad a atrocious man!” the rapper 50 Cent wrote on Instagram.
50 Cent has been a vocal professional of Combs, whom helium has agelong beefed with — going backmost to his Diddy diss way “The Bomb,” released successful 2006. He expects to merchandise a docuseries connected Netflix astir the allegations against Combs.
Rapper Boosie BadAzz said successful an Instagram video captioned “GREAT DAY N HIP HOP" that the courts had spoken.
“I'm bushed of seeing america Black moguls get took down similar that," helium said. He added that helium was "tired of seeing america Black radical spell against america Black moguls similar that.”
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AP Writer Itzel Luna contributed to this study from Los Angeles.
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