Sean Combs remains in prison pending the sentence: judge Arun Subramanian denied the king of hip hop freedom on deposit, arguing that the crimes of trafficking of people for prostitution purposes of which yesterday was recognized guilty imposing that the condemned remains behind the bars.
The judge quoted the words of the Combs defenders to motivate the decision: “If he had been accused of domestic violence we would not be here to make a trial because he would have declared himself guilty, because that did so,” said Marc Agnofilo, the head of the defensive college. Subramanian accepted the thesis of the prosecutor who will be in freedom would continue to represent a danger for others: the last episode of violence on a former partner for which he ended up in trouble dates back to 2024 when he already knew he was under investigation.
The trial could actually be worse for the hip hop mogul that the jury judged not guilty for the two most serious charges: sexual traffic and criminal association. In fact, Combs was not held responsible for managing a criminal organization or systematic sexual coercion. Instead, he was judged guilty of transport of people for prostitution purposes, without this taking place in the form of constraint. At this point Combs no longer risks life imprisonment, since the major accusations of the prosecutor has fallen. Instead, he risks up to 20 years in prison because the law he violated – the Mann Act – involves a 10 -year sentence for each episode at the center of the charges: however, he is to the judge Subramanian, who proposed a date for the sentence in October, decide how long Combs will have to pass behind the bars.
Also known as Diddy, a past behind the music not only in music but also as a fashion designer, the impresario had been arrested last September at the Park Hyatt in Manhattan on the basis of accusations linked to the now sadly famous “Freak off”, red light parties in which women tied to him and prostitutes had participated for years in “elaborate sexual performances” often filmed. The first to go out with a “negotiated” complaint within 24 hours had been the singer R&B Cassie (Casandra Ventura), whom he had contracted with the Bad Boy label and who had been his partner for years. Cassie, pregnant in the ninth month of her husband Alex Fine, had been the test witness of the trial.
Combs is 55 years old and in the 90s, working with stars like Notorious Big and Mary J. Blige, it was the engine for the marketing of hip-hop. The impresario is very rich, with an esteemed fortune a billion dollars, but from the incriminations it came out like a violent, perverse and morally corrupt man. At the trial, which lasted eight weeks, Combs had declared himself not guilty and his defenders had contested the description proposed by the government, claiming that women were consenting participants in sexual encounters in the framework of lasting romantic relationships with the impresario: “It is far from a saint’s shank, but he is not accused of being bad, nor is he accused of being an asshole. From the beginning the legal Teny Geragos.
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