Sean "Diddy" Combs is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
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This is week five of testimony in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs.
The highly anticipated trial of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has reached an end.
The jury found Sean Combs not guilty of racketeering conspiracy, the most serious charge.
The jury found Combs guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution (in connection with his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura) and guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution (in connection with his ex-girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym "Jane").
He was found not guilty of both charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in connection with Ventura and "Jane."
Combs was accused of being the ringleader of an alleged enterprise that "abused, threatened and coerced women" into prolonged, drug-fueled sexual orgies with male prostitutes, which he called "freak-offs," and then threatened them into silence. Combs has said that all of the sex was consensual and that while his relationships sometimes involved domestic violence, he wasn't engaged in trafficking.
Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said Combs was simply part of the swinger lifestyle and that he "vehemently denies the accusations made by the SDNY."
Kanye West arrived at the courthouse on Friday in the company of one of Sean Combs’ sons.
Asked by ABC News if he was at court to support Combs, the rapper nodded and said "yes."
Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo asked Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Andre Lamon, "How many human smuggling and trafficking investigations that you have been part of have you walked out with boxes of Astroglide?"
Lamon replied on the stand that this was the only one.
"Buy AstroGlide in bulk, that’s what it looks like to you?" Agnifilo asked. "Sure," Lamon responded on the stand.
The defense made sure on cross-examination that the jury understood that none of the recovered guns were found lying around Sean Combs’ Los Angeles mansion.
"Tell the jury where every single one of the guns were?" Agnifilo asked. "Security room," Lamon testified.
Lamon’s testimony has concluded. The next witness is Jonathan Perez, a Combs assistant, who is testifying pursuant to an immunity agreement.
Nine-hundred bottles of AstroGlide lubricant and 200 bottles of baby oil were seized from Sean Combs’ Los Angeles home during a search in March 2024, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Andre Lamon testified Friday.
The jury saw photos of 18 boxes of the lube stacked in a garage, as well as bottles of AstroGlide lined up neatly on shelves, in drawers and in a cigar box, interspersed with bottles of Johnson & Johnson baby oil.
The jury also saw photos of guns Lamon testified were recovered at Combs’ home, including a bolt-action Ruger rifle, Smith & Wesson M&P AR15-style semi-automatic rifles, a Glock pistol and a Mossberg pump-action shotgun.
Boxes containing the actual firearms were brought into the courtroom for the jury to view. Lamon was provided scissors to open one of the boxes and gloves to handle the gun inside, which he displayed for the jury. He stood to show the jury how the serial number on the rifle was scratched off.
A separate photo showed a 60-round drum magazine loaded with 59 rounds of green tip ammunition, meant to penetrate body armor.
Lamon held up bags of drugs -- which included ketamine and MDMA -- he testified were also seized from Combs' home.
Earlier this week, Judge Arun Subramanian was monitoring a potential issue with Juror #6, and it was revealed Friday that the matter is over where the juror lives -- but Subramanian said there was no issue with his qualifications to serve.
"There was a question really of just residence," Subramanian said Friday before the day’s testimony began.
The juror is a 41-year-old Bronx man who works in a correctional facility. The judge said the juror made an offhand remark during a casual conversation indicating that his family had moved to New Jersey in recent weeks.
"The juror has said multiple things that cannot all be true," prosecutor Mitzi Steiner said.
The defense said the juror’s remarks were "innocuous" statements.
"These were harmless, non-deceitful responses of a juror unfamiliar with courtroom conditions," defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said.
The judge appeared to agree.
"There’s maybe an inkling of something, but not much more than that," Subramanian said.
The judge shot down the defense assertion that prosecutors were making a "thinly-veiled attempt to remove a black juror" from the panel.
"There is absolutely no basis for that suggestion. Absolutely zero," Subramanian said. "From the outset of this proceeding to the current date, there has been no showing of any kind of biased conduct or manner of proceedings from the government."
The judge did not immediately decide to do anything. He said it’s possible he may ask the juror to stay after court to ask him some questions.
