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Thursday, July 3, 2025

What has Sean 'Diddy' Combs been convicted of you ask?


The trial of American king of the freak off parties and once mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was accused of running a sprawling sex trafficking operation, has ended with two guilty verdicts and an acquittal on three others. The rapper was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution of his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, and another woman known as "Jane" who had testified in the trial. He was found not guilty of the most serious charge of racketeering conspiracy, as well as two charges of sex trafficking in relation to Ms Ventura and "Jane".

Sean Combs also known as "The Diddler", 55, had pleaded not guilty and denied all allegations against him. But I mean to quote "Joe Biden" "Come on man!" Here is a breakdown of the charges faced by the rapper and how the jury came to its decision. Racketeering conspiracy, or directing an illegal enterprise under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico), is the formal name for the charge. The law was created to take on mob bosses, but it has since been used in other trials, including for sex trafficking such as in the case against disgraced R&B singer R Kelly. It is also sometimes used against a group of defendants. To me this was the hardest of the charges for the prosecution to prove without more people charged.

The Diddler has also gone by the names Puffy, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Love, and Brother Love emerged in the hip-hop scene in the 1990s. His early music career success included helping launch the careers of Mary J Blige and Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls, or The Notorious B.I.G. His music label Bad Boy Records became one of the most important labels in rap and expanded to include Faith Evans, Ma$e, 112, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez. Combs also had a prolific business career outside of music, including a deal with British drinks company Diageo to promote the French vodka brand Cîroc. In 2023, he released his fifth record The Love Album: Off The Grid and earned his first solo nomination at the Grammy awards. He also was named a Global Icon at the MTV Awards.

To convict Combs on this charge, prosecutors had to prove that he used his loyal network of associates to run a criminal enterprise to commit crimes including sex trafficking, kidnapping, drugging and obstruction of justice. In this case, that network would include his employees, who prosecutors argued played a part in setting up the "freak-offs" at the center of the case. These were prolonged sexual encounters at which the prosecution's key witnesses said they were coerced to have sex with male escorts while Combs watched. In a raid on his Los Angeles mansion, police found supplies that they said were intended for use in freak-offs, including drugs and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil. Combs' acquittal on the most serious charge of racketeering will likely be seen as a big win by his legal team. His lawyers had sought to undermine the allegation by asking witnesses whether Combs' employees ever witnessed the freak-offs. Cassie Ventura, the star witness for the prosecution, said she did not think they were present.

Defence lawyers argued that the case cannot be considered to be racketeering if members of Combs' staff were not knowingly complicit. "Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?" said defence attorney Marc Agnifilo. "Did any witness get on that witness stand and say 'yes, I was part of a racketeering enterprise, I engaged in racketeering'?" Robert Mintz, a criminal defence lawyer and former federal prosecutor, told the BBC that the racketeering charge was always going to be the most challenging one for prosecutors to prove to a jury. To gain a conviction, lawyers needed to prove that Combs established a co-ordinated plan between himself and at least one other person to commit at least two crimes over a span of several years, Mr Mintz said. "It's a very complicated charge, used typically in the past in organized crime prosecution," Mr Mintz said, adding it is unsurprising that this charge gave the jury the most difficulty.

Combs was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution relating to Ms Ventura and an anonymous victim known as "Jane". In simple terms, it means the jury found Combs guilty of transporting the two women to places where they would participate in sex acts and prostitution. The felony dates back to the Mann Act, which was enacted in 1910.

The Mann Act is a US federal law that was passed to combat human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women. Initially referred to as the "White-Slave Traffic Act", the more than 100-year-old law prohibits the transportation of individuals across state lines for illegal sex acts or prostitution. Both Ms Ventura and "Jane", who had dated the rapper, separately testified about "freak-offs" or "hotel nights". They described these as sexual encounters in which the couple would hire male escorts to have sex with the female partner while Combs watched, at times recording or directing them. In its early days, the Mann Act was used by federal prosecutors as a way to criminalize some forms of consensual activity, including interracial relationships. Combs' lawyers referenced that history in an unsuccessful attempt to get one of the charges against the rapper dismissed, arguing that he was being unfairly persecuted because of his race.

Transportation for purposes of prostitution the charge that Combs was convicted of carries a maximum sentence of 10 years. And Combs was convicted on two counts. After the verdict, his lawyer Marc Agnifilo immediately asked for his client to be released from federal detention until his sentencing hearing, and suggested a $1m bail. But a judge denied that request and said the hip-hop mogul will remain in jail until he is sentenced.

Prosecutor Maurene Comey has said she will push for the full 20 years - a decade for each conviction. "It is clear that the defendant does pose a danger," she said. Combs has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, since his arrest on 16 September 2024. Critics describe the prison as overcrowded and understaffed, with a culture of violence. His lawyers argued for his release in 2024, citing the jail’s “horrific” conditions, but a New York federal judge denied the bail request, describing Combs as a “serious flight risk”.

Judge Arun Subramanian proposed 3 October as a sentencing date for Combs, but the defence asked for an expedited schedule. The lawyers will meet again on 8 July to further discuss the schedule. The judge said Combs would get 10 months credit for time served. While the rapper faces a maximum sentence of 10 years on each count, it will be up to the judge to decide the length of time he will ultimately serve.

Separately, Combs faces a number of lawsuits accusing him of rape and assault. Tony Buzbee, a Texas lawyer handling some of these cases, said that more than 100 women and men from across the US had either filed lawsuits against the rap mogul or intended to do so. In December 2023, a woman known in court papers as Jane Doe alleged that she was "gang raped" by Combs and others in 2003, when she was 17. She said she was given "copious amounts of drugs and alcohol" before the attack. Combs's legal team dismissed the flurry of lawsuits as "clear attempts to garner publicity".

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's current legal issues began in late 2023 when he was sued by Ms Ventura, also known as Cassie, for violent abuse and rape. That lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount a day after it was filed, with Combs maintaining his innocence. Since then, dozens of other people have filed lawsuits accusing Combs of sexual assault, with accusations dating back to 1991. He denies all the claims. His controversial history with Ms Ventura resurfaced in 2024, when CNN published leaked CCTV footage from 2016 showing Combs kicking his ex-girlfriend as she lay on a hotel hallway floor. He apologised for his behaviour, saying: "I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now."

How were the New York jurors selected? Dozens of potential jurors were vetted by the court. The process included potential jurors looking through a long list of places and people that could be mentioned during trial, with names like Kanye West and Kid Cudi. Potential jurors also had to fill out questionnaires that asked whether they had "views about hip hop artists" or "feelings concerning violence, sexual assault". The judge reminded the court several times of the importance of choosing a fair and impartial jury.

Monday, December 2, 2024

Another Diddy day another Diddy beating?



Well nothing on Earth has captivated us more than the election of President Trump! But a close second this year was the take down of Sean "Diddy" Combs who as we know now is on the same level as Jeffery Epstein. But here now past the election and while Trump and company will continue to make news and important one's we cannot forget the other good times we're having with the take down of the most vicious, evil, and disgusting person to ever pick up a microphone and post a rap on a beat. YES The diddler himself! Sean is back in the news again! Check this out friends the Diddler is now accused Of Dangling A Woman Off 17th Floor Balcony, “Diddy” was Hit With $10M LA Sexual Battery Suit. So yes the hit's keep on coming during the holidays! MAN 2024 is going out in style!


The now Denied bail for the third time scumbag who remember is locked up in his East Coast federal sex trafficking case just before Thanksgiving is said to have done the dangling of the woman off a West Coast apartment building balcony in rage eight years ago. A jury-seeking complaint was filed on November 27 in L.A. Superior Court that has a lot of details, several appearances by the Bad Boy Records founder’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura (who’s alleged abuse, bruises and more by Combs are described frequently), some photos, and an ask for compensation “believed to be in excess of $10 million.” Man talk about he's never "Going, Going, Back, Back to Cali, Cali!" Unless he's in an orange suit, and in lock down. LMAO Oh man I love reading about anything that hurts this guy... I really hate Sean with passion and I don't often say this about people.

Having quickly settled an abuse and rape lawsuit from Ventura for around $30 million in November 2023, Combs has since been accused in an ever enlarging throng of dozens and dozens of civil suits of drugging, violently threatening, potentially blackmailing, beating, and raping music industry hopefuls and others in his celebrity filled “freak offs” and more. Arrested in a NYC hotel lobby by the feds on September 16, the 55-year-old Combs is charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Currently incarcerated in the infamous Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, the All About the Benjamins performer could face life in prison if found guilty in a trial set to start on May 5, 2025.

Other than the passing mentioned Ventura’s suit, plus more details that have been whispered about for months and openly discussed (with no victims named besides Ventura) on social media and in more traditional media by songwriter Tiffany Red last year, the claims in this latest lawsuit could find Combs facing bicoastal courtrooms. “On or about September 26. 2016, Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs sexually battered Ms. Bryana ”Bana’ Bongolan, dangled her off of a 17-story-high balcony. and then slammed her into the patio furniture on the balcony,” alleges the seven-claim November 27-filed complaint from the self-described “quintessential starving artist” and one-time Combs clothing designer of what happened to her in Ventura’s luxury Los Angeles pad.

“His outrageous and abhorrent conduct violated Ms. Bongolan’s fundamental dignity, bodily autonomy, and sense of safety,” according to the document. It goes on to detail the supposed attack that occurred at an apartment of Ventura’s where Bongolan was staying with her girlfriend and the singer when an enraged Combs showed up pounding on the door. “This event was the culmination of a series of threats, intimidation, and violence that colored many of Ms. Bongolan’s interactions with Mr. Combs from the day she met him.” “The September 26 assault ultimately proved that Ms. Bongolan was correct to fear Mr. Combs and has resulted in deep and lasting harm,” the filing by Miller Barondess’ James R. Nikraftar adds of the West L.A.-set incident. “Mr. Combs’ threats that he was the ‘motherf*cking devil,’ and that ‘he could kill’ her were intended to terrorize intimidate, and instill fear. Therefore when he forcibly groped her breasts, dangled her from a balcony and battered her, she reasonably believed that Mr. Combs’ assault was him making good on his threats.”

If the suspending of someone from a balcony seems familiar out of hip hop lore, that’s because the likes of currently jailed former Death Row Records boss Suge Knight and others have been said to have done just that in the past. Probably the most well-known of such potentially tragic tales is when ex-NFL replacement player Knight supposedly dangled Vanilla Ice off the side of a Bel Air building for the publishing rights to his megahit “Ice, Ice Baby” in the early 1990's. It should be noted that Vanilla Ice has said over and over that the whole thing has been greatly exaggerated, Knight never held him off a balcony, and the whole thing was settled in court later.



In this case, with Combs, it is exactly the opposite and for much more than money. As the 17-page complaint declares: “The only purpose of dangling someone over a balcony is to actually kill them or to intentionally terrorize them and rob them of any concept of dominion over their own bodily autonomy and safety. It should be no surprise that is exactly what happened to Ms. Bongolan.” Taking into account that Combs has denied all claims against him, and of late in his East Coast criminal case seems to be walking back his apology earlier this year of a 2016 hotel corridor beating of Ventura captured on a security camera, it is no surprise his representatives are rejecting Bangolan’s West Coast claims. 

“As we have shared previously, anyone has the right to file a lawsuit, regardless of the evidence they may or may not have,” Combs attorneys told Deadline in statement today about the case. “Since last year, Ms. Bangolan (sic) has expressed an intention to sue Mr. Combs and has sought legal representation to pursue her claims. Mr. Combs firmly denies these serious allegations and remains confident they will ultimately be proven baseless. He has unwavering faith in the facts and in the fairness of the judicial process. In court, the truth will come to light, demonstrating that the claims against Mr. Combs are without merit.”

Folks I hope that Diddy ends up living out his life in a cell with Suge Knight as his cellmate... This would be a happy ending wouldn't you think? So also let's keep in mind that if he gets convicted and goes to population the other inmates will have fun with him and well he’s not going to be a star he’s going to be prey and that’s where he should be. 

Also just for some fun it's come to my attention that there is a little clue in a movie about Diddy we all seemed to miss from decades ago! 

Remember "Austin Powers: Goldmember" ? Well there is a scene near the end where "Austin" and "Dr Evil" are working together as friends after finding out they're brothers. 


The movie trilogy is hilarious! But in this one scene Austin and Dr Evil are going up a ladder and Austin is going up first and while he loses his footing and falls down he catches his fall on Dr Evils pants, and manages to rip them down to expose his bare ass, and he lands on the exact place to see a "Butt cheek" tattoo on Dr Evil that says "E. Diddy" on it... Like a "TRAMP STAMP" and remember Dr. Evil been to Jail. lol Wonder if he got lost in a Diddy party freak off also! But if you missed it here are the pictures below from my digital copy as screen shots.









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