“She Wanted It”: Diddy’s Lawyer Makes His Wildest Argument Yet | United States vs. Sean Combs Defense Closing Arguments
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 28 June 2025
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He was the king of Bad Boy Records: a billionaire mogul, a Grammy winner, and the face of luxury in hip-hop. Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a slew of federal charges in New York, accused of running a criminal enterprise for over two decades. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges and maintains his innocence.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. It is all over but the deciding. |
| 0:09.8 | And I doubt Sean Diddy Combs is going to sleep well in his jail cell this weekend at the federal lockup in southern Manhattan. |
| 0:17.7 | Both sides in his trial have had their say. Now it is time for the jury to start talking, amongst themselves though, and decide if he is a racketeering sex trafficker or just a successful black man who likes kinky sex and has done real well in his life. |
| 0:35.6 | As his lawyer was sure to tell the jury today, |
| 0:38.7 | he's a black man that the prosecutors targeted |
| 0:41.1 | because he did well. |
| 0:43.3 | There are some black people on the jury. |
| 0:44.9 | Maybe they'll buy it. |
| 0:46.3 | Maybe the other people on the jury won't. |
| 0:47.9 | Maybe no one on the jury will. |
| 0:49.2 | Maybe everybody will. |
| 0:51.2 | This morning, it was the defense's turn |
| 0:53.3 | to deliver closing arguments in Diddy's federal trial. |
| 0:57.1 | And right away, lead defense attorney Mark Ignifalo made it clear. He was taking a different |
| 1:02.7 | approach. He told the jury, quote, I'm not going to go through texts or documents like the |
| 1:08.8 | government did yesterday. I just want to talk to you. |
| 1:12.5 | And freestyle he did. His closings were like extemporaneous conversations with the jurors, |
| 1:19.0 | with tons of attitude, maybe a little too much attitude at times, and regular eye contact |
| 1:26.3 | with the jurors. |
| 1:28.4 | Agnifalo was clearly going for the casual, more personable approach, |
| 1:32.5 | like he was trying to come across as the most reasonable guy in the room. |
| 1:36.7 | He told the jury that this case is not about sex trafficking or racketeering. |
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