Alert – Diddy trial nail-biter: Closing arguments begin as fans eagerly await verdict

Diddy’s six week federal trial is set to wind down today as both the prosecution and the defense shape up their closing arguments.

The prosecutors are set to speak for four hours starting 10am, where the defense will make their case on Friday.

Both sides hashed out a closing aguments schedule in court on Wednesday during charging conference where jurors were not present.

Diddy kept a singular AirPod in his ear for the majority of the proceedings and looked down at his lap.

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Diddy’s defense team did not call on any witnesses for his trial.

It is not unusual for legal teams to opt against calling witnesses in a trial because the weight of it is completely based on the prosecution proving charges beyond a reasonable doubt.

Because his team did not call witnesses, the defense believed the trial has already established enough doubt during cross-examinations.

It could have also meant there were no witnesses available who could help the case.

He was the self-made New York billionaire whose notorious parties earned him the reputation as the modern day Jay Gatsby, reportedly attracting the likes of Donald Trump, Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton to his mansion in the Hamptons for his infamous ‘Gatsby-esque’ White Parties – where, according to civil court documents, guests were allegedly ‘drugged and raped.’

Following his arrest on September 16, 2024, Sean John Combs is being held on remand as inmate number 37452-054 at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He faces a string of federal charges, including conspiracy to racketeer; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to.

DEEP DIVE delves into Diddy’s 30-year reign of excess and debauchery in unprecedented detail, starting with his ‘crazy’ fits of rage as a student in the 1980s that earned him the disturbing ‘Puff’ nickname.

Contained within hundreds of pages of civil court documents are the horrifying details of his tempestuous relationship with Cassie Ventura – which ultimately led to the floodgates opening.

Audio of a distraught Cassie Ventura threatening to kill a man over a ‘freak-off’ video was released last week as part of the evidence in Diddy’s trial.

The newly-released audio was played by the disgraced mogul's lawyers during their cross-examination of Cassie last month, but has only now become public after being uploaded into the evidence files.

The defense used the audio in an attempt to prove that Cassie was an enthusiastic participant in the marathon sex sessions with escorts.

‘It’s my f***ing life and I’ll kill you,’ Cassie told the unidentified man, who had apparently claimed to have seen a video of a freak off in 2014.

‘If you don’t show me right now I will kill you, and I will hide you and I will cut you up and put you in the f***ing dirt.’

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs scored a huge courtroom victory after prosecutors decided to drop key parts of the charges against him.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian prosecutors said they will no longer pursue theories presented during the blockbuster trial, including that the music mogul was involved in attempted arson and kidnapping.

The two alleged acts were initially included in the government’s racketeering conspiracy charge against Combs. All charges against him still remain.