Mariska Hargitay, Christina Ricci, And More Outraged Celebrities Who Are Publicly Condemning The Diddy Verdict

This station contains treatment of intersexual assault, rape, and home violence.

On July 2, a Manhattan national assemblage delivered a mixed verdict successful Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial.

Combs was found blameworthy connected 2 retired of 5 charges: 2 counts of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. Each blameworthy number carries a maximum condemnation of 10 years, truthful the euphony mogul present faces up to 20 years successful prison.

The prosecution recovered that Combs violated the national Mann Act, which prohibits the interstate oregon overseas proscription of an idiosyncratic for sex, aft arranging for his ex-girlfriend, Casandra "Cassie" Fine (birth sanction Ventura), and different pistillate referred to arsenic “Jane” to question for allegedly coerced intersexual encounters.

Cassie first publically accused Combs of rape, coercion, and years of carnal maltreatment successful a civilian suit successful November 2023. They dated from 2007 to 2018.

Combs was acquitted of the astir superior charges: 1 number of racketeering conspiracy and 2 counts of enactment trafficking by force, fraud, oregon coercion. He had pleaded “not guilty” to each charges.

Dr. Luke and Kesha settled their suit successful 2023.

Actor Mariska Hargitay reshared an Instagram station from Glamour mag that critiqued Combs. The archetypal descent read, “We won’t hide what we saw you did to Cassie connected that video,” referring to the 2016 footage of Combs physically assaulting Cassie.

After the disturbing video was released by CNN past year, Combs said, “It's truthful hard to bespeak connected the darkest times successful your life. Sometimes you gotta bash that. I was fucked up. I mean, I deed stone bottom, but I marque nary excuses. My behaviour connected that video is inexcusable. I instrumentality afloat work for my actions successful that video.”

Mariska past reposted different slide that said, “Combs joins a agelong enactment of almighty and celebrated men who person allegedly engaged successful abuse, yet faced minimal consequence.”

Aubrey O’Day, who was antecedently signed to Combs’s Bad Boy Records label, shared her unrecorded absorption to the verdict connected Instagram. “Oh, this makes maine physically ill. Cassie astir apt feels truthful horrible. I'm gonna vomit,” she said.

She aboriginal shared a longer, written connection that read: “I’m inactive unpacking the magnitude of it all. The taste value of this determination is immeasurable. It is heartbreaking to witnesser however galore lives person been impacted by their experiences with Sean Combs -- lone for those stories to autumn abbreviated successful the eyes of a judge. I tin lone anticipation these jurors ne'er person to ticker idiosyncratic they emotion endure what truthful galore survivors person described.”

Rosie O’Donnell was besides among those condemning the verdict of the trial. “I conjecture a assemblage conscionable ne'er wants to judge that a pistillate stays due to the fact that of powerfulness and coercion- wow - they conscionable deliberation women enactment due to the fact that what? wealth - fame - 'they emotion the abuse' - what a fucking gag - this determination got maine aggravated #cassie,” she wrote connected Instagram.

Meanwhile, Evan Rachel Wood said of the verdict, “There is nary consent successful a home unit relationship. Period. Once the menace of unit is there, you comply. You bash not consent. It is aforesaid preservation and survival. It is not freely oregon willingly given. It is forced and coerced retired of you. We intelligibly person a agelong mode to spell successful our knowing of this.”

In 2021, Evan alleged that her ex-fiancé, Marilyn Manson, “horrifically abused” her for years, which the instrumentalist denied. Earlier this year, pursuing a years-long investigation, the LA territory attorney determined that allegations of home unit fell “outside of the statute of limitations.” “We cannot beryllium charges of intersexual battle beyond a tenable doubt,” they said.

Christina Ricci shared a saccharine connection of enactment towards Cassie, penning connected Instagram: “Sending truthful overmuch emotion and respect to @cassie today. She is an inspiration and a leader and I basal with her.”

Moreover, Cassie’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, released a statement to the property connected July 2 aft the quality of Combs’s verdict broke. “This full transgression process started erstwhile our lawsuit Cassie Ventura had the courageousness to record her civilian ailment successful November 2023,” helium wrote. “Although the assemblage did not find Combs blameworthy of enactment trafficking Cassie beyond a tenable doubt, she paved the mode for a assemblage to find him blameworthy of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.”

“By coming guardant with her experience, Cassie has near an indelible people connected some the amusement manufacture and the combat for justice. We indispensable repetition — with nary preservation — that we judge and enactment our lawsuit who showed exemplary courageousness passim this trial,” the connection read.

“She displayed unquestionable spot and brought attraction to the realities of almighty men successful our orbit and the misconduct that has persisted for decades without repercussion. This lawsuit proved that alteration is agelong overdue, and we volition proceed to combat connected behalf of survivors,” Wigdor added.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has experienced intersexual assault, you tin telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-HOPE, which routes the caller to their nearest intersexual battle work provider. You tin besides hunt for your section halfway here.