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Anderson Cooper 360

Sean "Diddy" Combs Acquitted Of Most Serious Charges

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Sean "Diddy" Combs is acquitted of the most serious charges against him, convicted of the rest, and denied bail by a judge who cited the defense's own admissions of Combs's violence. What that means for Combs's sentencing. Plus, President Trump's sprawling policy bill stalls for hours, as Republicans try to round up votes from within their own ranks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, Sean Combs acquitted of the very worst charges, convicted of the rest and denied bail by a judge who cited the defense's own admissions of Combs' violence.

0:11.0

The question now, could that foreshadow the sentence he'll get?

0:14.0

Also tonight, the president's big bill stalls for hours as Republicans try to round up votes from within their own ranks. And later, a fire in California in a warehouse full of fireworks.

0:24.6

The explosion that followed leveled the site and left seven people unaccounted for.

0:28.6

Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin with Sean Combs, who's no longer facing life in prison or anything close to it, but is still behind bars tonight.

0:36.6

That's because even though jurors in his federal trial today acquitted him of racketeering

0:41.1

and sex trafficking, they did convict on two counts in transportation to engage in prostitution.

0:47.2

One involving his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and the other in connection with an accuser

0:51.0

not named in court and others.

0:53.2

And though bail is not unheard of in such cases ahead of sentencing, this time the

0:57.0

judge said no.

0:58.0

In explaining why, he addressed defense attorney Mark Agnifalo, telling him, you full-throatedly

1:03.0

in your closing argument told the jury that there was violence here, and domestic violence

1:08.0

is violence, and you said this is a case that did involve violence.

1:11.6

Now, you remember the defense made a point from the very start of the trial,

1:14.6

acknowledging their client's violent acts.

1:16.6

Most infamously, this one against Cassie Ventura caught on tape in 2016.

1:20.6

And though it may not have factored in the verdict, it certainly did in today's bail denial.

1:25.6

And going by the judge's words certainly could factor into the sentencing.

1:29.3

None of that stopped a celebration by Combs' supporters outside the courthouse,

1:33.3

some of whom, according to CNN's Laura Coates, doused one another with baby oil,

1:38.3

a reference to Combs' so-called freak-off sex parties.

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