DIDDY STRIKES BACK: STATE BRACES FOR DEFENSE CLOSING ARGUMENT
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense summarizes their case today as defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo has said he hopes to complete his closing arguments in about three hours. Despite acknowledging the physical abuse between the couple, Agnifilo then goes on to describe the relationship between Combs and Ventura as "a great modern love story."
The highly anticipated trial of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs is nearing the end. Combs has been accused of sex trafficking by force, transportation to engage in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy as part of a blockbuster federal indictment originally filed in September 2024. He later faced two additional superseding indictments. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
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- Lynn Shaw - Founder and Executive Director of Lynn's Warriors - an organization committed to ending human trafficking and sexual exploitation, Host of Lynn's Warriors on YouTube, website: lynnswarrior.org, X: @lynns_warriors, YouTube: @LynnsWarriors
- Tisa Tells - Pop Culture Investigator & Commentator and Host of 'Tisa Tells' on Youtube, Instagram & TikTok: @TisaTellss, Facebook: Tisa.Tells.3
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- Sydney Sumner- Crime Stories' Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | Diddy strikes back and the state braces for the defense closing arguments. |
| 0:17.1 | Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:21.7 | At the courthouse, Vegas odds, even. Sean Combs will spend no time behind bars and Sean |
| 0:29.4 | Combs will spend life behind bars. It's all down to 12 jurors. We are headed into a verdict watch here at crime stories. Now straight to |
| 0:41.9 | crime stories investigative reporter, Sidney Sumner. Sydney, the state is braced. Closing arguments |
| 0:48.8 | going throughout the day. The state went five hours in closing arguments and they were withering. |
| 0:57.8 | The jury making notes furiously and leaning forward in their seats, that's always a good sign, |
| 1:03.3 | but you can't call this in the fifth inning. No, there's a long way to go. Sydney Sumner, today, defense closing arguments. Start |
| 1:15.7 | at the beginning with Sean Combs walking into the courtroom. Al-Namaste. What happened? |
| 1:22.9 | Well, Nancy, we have heard reports that Diddy has been greeting his lawyers with a yoga studio |
| 1:28.9 | ask bow classes hands together gives them a little nod of respect as he greets them in the |
| 1:34.7 | morning today is all about the defense just stop right there what what whoa whoa whoa |
| 1:41.0 | what a yoga zen thing? What are you talking about? |
| 1:48.2 | Well, Nancy, I don't know if you've ever been to a yoga class. I used to attend pretty often, |
| 1:52.6 | but you just, at the end of class, at the beginning of class, you put your hands together, |
| 1:57.4 | and you do a short little bow to everyone else in the classroom to show your |
| 2:01.9 | respect for everyone. And that's exactly what Combs has been doing to all eight of his lawyers |
| 2:08.2 | in the courtroom every morning when he comes to see them. Sydney, you cannot live in New York |
| 2:13.8 | City in Manhattan and not be subjected to a yoga class, particularly a hot yoga class, |
| 2:19.6 | the worst. But what you're saying is like a Zen namaste. Oh, okay, you know what? Straight out to |
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