August 21, 2025 • 11 mins
Federal prosecutors have submitted court filings urging the judge to swiftly reject Combs’s motion to overturn the jury’s verdict or to grant a new trial. They argue that the defense mischaracterizes the Mann Act’s application—asserting that the statute was neither unduly vague nor in violation of his constitutional rights—and emphasized that the evidence supporting the convictions is “overwhelming.” Prosecutors laid out how Combs is alleged to have orchestrated repeated, drug‑fueled sexual events between 2008 and 2023 involving male escorts, coordinating travel across state lines and using videotaped footage as a means of control—facts they say strongly uphold the jury’s guilty verdicts under the Mann Act.
Prosecutors also directly countered Combs’s defense claims that the encounters were consensual, non-commercial, and protected as private or expressive acts. They highlighted testimony from ex‑girlfriends—including Cassie Ventura and the woman identified as “Jane”—detailing coercion, threats involving the release of videos, and financial manipulation. The government maintains that Combs “masterminded every aspect” of these events, using them for his sexual gratification and, at times, engaging directly himself. With that, prosecutors argue the legal basis for the convictions remains solid and the jury’s decision should stand.
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' request for acquittal or new trial should be rejected, prosecutors say
Prosecutors also directly countered Combs’s defense claims that the encounters were consensual, non-commercial, and protected as private or expressive acts. They highlighted testimony from ex‑girlfriends—including Cassie Ventura and the woman identified as “Jane”—detailing coercion, threats involving the release of videos, and financial manipulation. The government maintains that Combs “masterminded every aspect” of these events, using them for his sexual gratification and, at times, engaging directly himself. With that, prosecutors argue the legal basis for the convictions remains solid and the jury’s decision should stand.
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' request for acquittal or new trial should be rejected, prosecutors say
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Diddy Diaries. In the aftermath of the Didty trial, as
he's been waiting for his sentencing, he's still been filing
a lot of court documents trying to get his case overturned,
and he filed a document recently with the court hoping
to get acquitted or a new trial. Well, the prosecution
(00:24):
has responded to that request, and of course they've asked
that the judge deny that request, and they want Diddy
to stay in prison and they want the charges to stand.
And considering the way that Judge Submaranian has handled the
trial this whole entire time, I don't think we're going
to see an acquittal or did he even getting a
new trial. I mean, I understand what he's trying to do, right,
(00:47):
Nobody wants to be a felon and nobody wants to
go to a prison for any amount of time, and
that includes Diddy for sure. But I just don't think
it's going to hit the way he wants it to hit.
And the main reason I say say that is because
we've had a bit of a tell from Judge Submaranean
with the previous rulings. So today we have an article
from NBC News and the headline Sean Didy Comb's request
(01:11):
for acquittal or new trials should be rejected, prosecutors say.
This article was authored by Patrick smith Shawan didy Colmb's
request for an acquittal for a new trial should be
quickly rejected, prosecutors said in a new court filing almost
three weeks after the music mogul was convicted of two
charges related to prostitution, and a filing made public just
(01:34):
before midnight on Wednesday, prosecutors said there was no legal
ground for the court to grant Colmb's request to quash
his convictions and that he should be sentenced on October third.
And I have no doubt that's what's going to occur.
I think the only question is how much time is
he going to get. And of course his lawyers they
(01:54):
want short time or no time at all, and the
prosecution they're pushing for a roughly five years. And I
think it's going to fall somewhere in the middle of that,
like I've said from the very beginning, and it certainly
looks like that's the timeframe that he's going to get.
Anywhere from three to five now, of course, things can change,
and who the hell knows what the judge is going
(02:14):
to ultimately decide. But looking at the factors and looking
at the motions and looking at what the judges said before,
it gives us a bit of a path to follow.
But it's not a full blueprint, so we'll have to
wait and see what Judge Submaranian decides to do. But
if I had to make a wager, if I had to,
you know, guess right now, I'd say that did He's
(02:37):
still going to end up in prison, And I think
that he's going to end up with what the prosecutions
looking to give them. Combs fifty five, was acquitted of
the more serious charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking
at his lengthy and high profile seven week trial in
New York last month. At the time, lead attorney Mark
(02:57):
Agnafilo called the verdict a great victory for Sean Combs,
but the convictions against him on two counts of transportation
to engage in prostitution could see him jailed for up
to twenty years under the Man Act, which outlaws interstate
commerce related to prostitution. And I highly doubt that he's
getting twenty years now. I mean, the court could do
(03:19):
that if they wanted, but I highly doubt it. And
if they did, then I think that Diddy would probably
have a legitimate beef, a legitimate argument when it comes
to some kind of appeal, because I think that is
way too far. Twenty years for the Man Act, no way,
and you have to throw out all the other stuff. Right,
He wasn't convicted of that, So it's not about our
(03:40):
opinion about how we feel. It's about what the law says.
And I just don't think twenty years is appropriate for
the Man Act. And when we look at sentencing, we
have to look at the guidelines and we have to
look at precedent, and I think looking at both of those,
I think it gives us a ballpark estimate of what's
going to go down. Comes was the bail and has
(04:01):
remained in jail since the trial, as his defense team
continues to argue that he should serve no time. And
they're going to say time serve. Right, He's been in
there now for what September, so he got arrested and
now he's been in prison or jail ever since then,
so they're gonna say he served his time. He went
through the trial, he beat the most serious charges and
(04:23):
now you have him sitting here rotting away on the
Man Act. That's going to be the argument, but it's
going to fall short. And I think that they're going
to just have to come to grips with the fact
that Diddy is going to do time. And I don't
mean time in the lock up, I mean time in
a federal prison. In previous legal filings, Comes lawyers have
argued that the Man Act is vague and violates his
(04:44):
First Amendment rights. None of the elements generally used in
a Man Act conviction were present in this case, they argued,
including that Combs had no financial motive. Instead, he paid
to engage in voyeurism as part of a swinger's lifestyle.
The filing said, so it comes down to does the
judge believe that that's a valid argument. And I think
(05:06):
that when we heard Judge Submarinian talking during the trial,
he doesn't believe that that's a valid argument. He said
that did he was violent? He said that did He's
already engaged in witness tampering. We all saw the video,
and we also know about the drug use. Did he
admit it to all of that? In court, remember that.
So it's not like the judge is going to sit
(05:27):
here and be like, you know what, did He's done
his time. He is a change in or reform man,
and you know what, he wants to be a domestic
abuse advocate. So we're going to let him out. Does
that sound like a likely scenario to anybody out there? Now, look,
I'm not saying that that's not how it's going to
go down, because in the world of rich and famous people,
(05:49):
you just never know. But should it go down like that? No?
Should Did he do at least three to five years? Yep?
The question is Willie Cocuters, however, argue that not only
was a man act clear and relevant to the case,
but there was overwhelming evidence to support his conviction, centered
on the now well known freak offs and hotel nights,
(06:11):
drug fueled sex parties, and luxury hotels that involved mal
sex workers. But if we're being real, the stuff that
we heard about in court was not that crazy. Right,
We're talking about two or three people, we're talking about
a paid sex worker, and then we're talking about Cassie
and Jane do victim number two. So it's not like
(06:33):
they were saying at first these crazy parties, bunch of
people there, everybody watching, et cetera, et cetera. What it
was was these hotel nights where did he had these
mal sex workers flown in and he was getting down
with Cassie and with victim number two. Now, the court
found that there was no sex trafficking involved and that
(06:54):
Diddy and his partners were doing it all consensually. But
that's not what's that issue here. The issue is the
Man Act, and any time you engage in that and
you bring somebody across state lines for the purpose of
paying them for sex, you're in trouble. So there's not
even any basis really for Diddy to argue this. But
as far as the sex trafficking goes and the RICO,
(07:17):
the government certainly didn't make their case. They had all
the tools they needed, they had all the evidence they needed.
They just failed. And in my opinion, that's because of
the great cross examination that we saw from Diddy's team.
They blew a bunch of holes in the narrative and
they made a lot of those witnesses look unreliable, and
that of course led to Ditty beating the most serious charges.
(07:40):
The defendant masterminded every aspect of freakoffs, the prosecution said
in its US District Court in the Southern District of
New York filing, he transported escorts across state lines to
engage in freak offs for pay, He directed the sexual
activity of escorts and victims throughout freak offs for his
own sexual gratification, and he personally engaged in sexual activity
(08:03):
during freak offs, the filing said. And look, all of
that's true, and all of that's illegal, but a peals
in comparison to rico and sex trafficking, right, and that,
of course is what they were trying to get him with,
and they failed spectacularly when it comes to the rico
and sex trafficking. So now they're going to fight tooth
and nail to make sure that the man act at
(08:24):
least sticks right. They can't have a complete failure here.
And I think when all said and done, Judge Submarinian's
gonna side with the prosecution and he's going to give
Diddy the time that we talked about, and frankly, did
he deserves it after everything we heard, after everything we've seen,
no doubt in my mind that Diddy definitely deserves some
jail time. Does he deserve twenty years, Absolutely not. But
(08:49):
does he deserve to just have time served and walk
Hell no. He has to be punished for what he did,
and I think the amount of time that's being requested
by the prosecution is reasonable and certainly fits the crimes
that were committed by Didty. NBC News has contacted colmb's
attorney for a comment, but had not received a response
(09:11):
by the time of publication. The case against Colmbs fell
apart in court despite the year's long effort of federal
prosecutors to build evidence to prove the sex trafficking charges
against them. More than thirty prosecution witnesses were called in total,
while the defense called none. And I thought at the
time that that was a bad idea, but it turned
(09:32):
out that the strategy was on point. Why open the door, right,
Why bring any witnesses in that are going to get
exposed on cross So instead they just relied on what
they unearthed during the cross examinations of their own and
they rolled with the hope that the credibility was damaged
enough to at least get a few of the jurors
on board with the narrative that was being spun by Ditty,
(09:54):
and it worked out in the end. Now, look, I
don't agree because I think the element were there, but
that's irrelevant because the government wasn'tabled to seal the deal
and prove beyond a reasonable doubt to the jurors that
Ditty was the man that they were trying to tell
the jurors that he was, and that's a death blow
to any prosecution. During the trial, the jury was shown
(10:17):
harrowing video evidence showing him assaulting R and B artist Cassie,
a former girlfriend whose real name is Cassandra Ventura, in
a Los Angeles hotel hallway in twenty sixteen. Ventura told
the trial that Combs was angered that she had decided
to leave a freak off, but there was no real
direct evidence of that, right, we saw the video of
(10:37):
him beating her, but there was no cooperation of that.
So that's where they failed. And then when it comes
to Rico, they didn't call Christina Korum and that was
just a very very bad idea. If you want to
say that Ditty is the head of an organization, you
have to have people that are working with him, right,
and not just as employees, low level people, you know,
assistants and shit. You have to have that one person
(11:00):
like Christina Quorum or Glaine Maxwell with Epstein to be
that co conspirator, but we didn't see that here. So
they gave us Rico with no co conspirators and that
was never going to fly. And riding on that wave
of victories plus the victories he's seen when it comes
to the civil cases recently, they're rolling the dice here
(11:21):
and going for broke, and why not. What's the worst
thing that can happen. He can end up in jail,
all right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
All of the information that goes with this episode can
be found in the description box.
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Diddy Diaries. In the aftermath of the Didty trial, as
he's been waiting for his sentencing, he's still been filing
a lot of court documents trying to get his case overturned,
and he filed a document recently with the court hoping
to get acquitted or a new trial. Well, the prosecution
(00:24):
has responded to that request, and of course they've asked
that the judge deny that request, and they want Diddy
to stay in prison and they want the charges to stand.
And considering the way that Judge Submaranian has handled the
trial this whole entire time, I don't think we're going
to see an acquittal or did he even getting a
new trial. I mean, I understand what he's trying to do, right,
(00:47):
Nobody wants to be a felon and nobody wants to
go to a prison for any amount of time, and
that includes Diddy for sure. But I just don't think
it's going to hit the way he wants it to hit.
And the main reason I say say that is because
we've had a bit of a tell from Judge Submaranean
with the previous rulings. So today we have an article
from NBC News and the headline Sean Didy Comb's request
(01:11):
for acquittal or new trials should be rejected, prosecutors say.
This article was authored by Patrick smith Shawan didy Colmb's
request for an acquittal for a new trial should be
quickly rejected, prosecutors said in a new court filing almost
three weeks after the music mogul was convicted of two
charges related to prostitution, and a filing made public just
(01:34):
before midnight on Wednesday, prosecutors said there was no legal
ground for the court to grant Colmb's request to quash
his convictions and that he should be sentenced on October third.
And I have no doubt that's what's going to occur.
I think the only question is how much time is
he going to get. And of course his lawyers they
(01:54):
want short time or no time at all, and the
prosecution they're pushing for a roughly five years. And I
think it's going to fall somewhere in the middle of that,
like I've said from the very beginning, and it certainly
looks like that's the timeframe that he's going to get.
Anywhere from three to five now, of course, things can change,
and who the hell knows what the judge is going
(02:14):
to ultimately decide. But looking at the factors and looking
at the motions and looking at what the judges said before,
it gives us a bit of a path to follow.
But it's not a full blueprint, so we'll have to
wait and see what Judge Submaranian decides to do. But
if I had to make a wager, if I had to,
you know, guess right now, I'd say that did He's
(02:37):
still going to end up in prison, And I think
that he's going to end up with what the prosecutions
looking to give them. Combs fifty five, was acquitted of
the more serious charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking
at his lengthy and high profile seven week trial in
New York last month. At the time, lead attorney Mark
(02:57):
Agnafilo called the verdict a great victory for Sean Combs,
but the convictions against him on two counts of transportation
to engage in prostitution could see him jailed for up
to twenty years under the Man Act, which outlaws interstate
commerce related to prostitution. And I highly doubt that he's
getting twenty years now. I mean, the court could do
(03:19):
that if they wanted, but I highly doubt it. And
if they did, then I think that Diddy would probably
have a legitimate beef, a legitimate argument when it comes
to some kind of appeal, because I think that is
way too far. Twenty years for the Man Act, no way,
and you have to throw out all the other stuff. Right,
He wasn't convicted of that, So it's not about our
(03:40):
opinion about how we feel. It's about what the law says.
And I just don't think twenty years is appropriate for
the Man Act. And when we look at sentencing, we
have to look at the guidelines and we have to
look at precedent, and I think looking at both of those,
I think it gives us a ballpark estimate of what's
going to go down. Comes was the bail and has
(04:01):
remained in jail since the trial, as his defense team
continues to argue that he should serve no time. And
they're going to say time serve. Right, He's been in
there now for what September, so he got arrested and
now he's been in prison or jail ever since then,
so they're gonna say he served his time. He went
through the trial, he beat the most serious charges and
(04:23):
now you have him sitting here rotting away on the
Man Act. That's going to be the argument, but it's
going to fall short. And I think that they're going
to just have to come to grips with the fact
that Diddy is going to do time. And I don't
mean time in the lock up, I mean time in
a federal prison. In previous legal filings, Comes lawyers have
argued that the Man Act is vague and violates his
(04:44):
First Amendment rights. None of the elements generally used in
a Man Act conviction were present in this case, they argued,
including that Combs had no financial motive. Instead, he paid
to engage in voyeurism as part of a swinger's lifestyle.
The filing said, so it comes down to does the
judge believe that that's a valid argument. And I think
(05:06):
that when we heard Judge Submarinian talking during the trial,
he doesn't believe that that's a valid argument. He said
that did he was violent? He said that did He's
already engaged in witness tampering. We all saw the video,
and we also know about the drug use. Did he
admit it to all of that? In court, remember that.
So it's not like the judge is going to sit
(05:27):
here and be like, you know what, did He's done
his time. He is a change in or reform man,
and you know what, he wants to be a domestic
abuse advocate. So we're going to let him out. Does
that sound like a likely scenario to anybody out there? Now, look,
I'm not saying that that's not how it's going to
go down, because in the world of rich and famous people,
(05:49):
you just never know. But should it go down like that? No?
Should Did he do at least three to five years? Yep?
The question is Willie Cocuters, however, argue that not only
was a man act clear and relevant to the case,
but there was overwhelming evidence to support his conviction, centered
on the now well known freak offs and hotel nights,
(06:11):
drug fueled sex parties, and luxury hotels that involved mal
sex workers. But if we're being real, the stuff that
we heard about in court was not that crazy. Right,
We're talking about two or three people, we're talking about
a paid sex worker, and then we're talking about Cassie
and Jane do victim number two. So it's not like
(06:33):
they were saying at first these crazy parties, bunch of
people there, everybody watching, et cetera, et cetera. What it
was was these hotel nights where did he had these
mal sex workers flown in and he was getting down
with Cassie and with victim number two. Now, the court
found that there was no sex trafficking involved and that
(06:54):
Diddy and his partners were doing it all consensually. But
that's not what's that issue here. The issue is the
Man Act, and any time you engage in that and
you bring somebody across state lines for the purpose of
paying them for sex, you're in trouble. So there's not
even any basis really for Diddy to argue this. But
as far as the sex trafficking goes and the RICO,
(07:17):
the government certainly didn't make their case. They had all
the tools they needed, they had all the evidence they needed.
They just failed. And in my opinion, that's because of
the great cross examination that we saw from Diddy's team.
They blew a bunch of holes in the narrative and
they made a lot of those witnesses look unreliable, and
that of course led to Ditty beating the most serious charges.
(07:40):
The defendant masterminded every aspect of freakoffs, the prosecution said
in its US District Court in the Southern District of
New York filing, he transported escorts across state lines to
engage in freak offs for pay, He directed the sexual
activity of escorts and victims throughout freak offs for his
own sexual gratification, and he personally engaged in sexual activity
(08:03):
during freak offs, the filing said. And look, all of
that's true, and all of that's illegal, but a peals
in comparison to rico and sex trafficking, right, and that,
of course is what they were trying to get him with,
and they failed spectacularly when it comes to the rico
and sex trafficking. So now they're going to fight tooth
and nail to make sure that the man act at
(08:24):
least sticks right. They can't have a complete failure here.
And I think when all said and done, Judge Submarinian's
gonna side with the prosecution and he's going to give
Diddy the time that we talked about, and frankly, did
he deserves it after everything we heard, after everything we've seen,
no doubt in my mind that Diddy definitely deserves some
jail time. Does he deserve twenty years, Absolutely not. But
(08:49):
does he deserve to just have time served and walk
Hell no. He has to be punished for what he did,
and I think the amount of time that's being requested
by the prosecution is reasonable and certainly fits the crimes
that were committed by Didty. NBC News has contacted colmb's
attorney for a comment, but had not received a response
(09:11):
by the time of publication. The case against Colmbs fell
apart in court despite the year's long effort of federal
prosecutors to build evidence to prove the sex trafficking charges
against them. More than thirty prosecution witnesses were called in total,
while the defense called none. And I thought at the
time that that was a bad idea, but it turned
(09:32):
out that the strategy was on point. Why open the door, right,
Why bring any witnesses in that are going to get
exposed on cross So instead they just relied on what
they unearthed during the cross examinations of their own and
they rolled with the hope that the credibility was damaged
enough to at least get a few of the jurors
on board with the narrative that was being spun by Ditty,
(09:54):
and it worked out in the end. Now, look, I
don't agree because I think the element were there, but
that's irrelevant because the government wasn'tabled to seal the deal
and prove beyond a reasonable doubt to the jurors that
Ditty was the man that they were trying to tell
the jurors that he was, and that's a death blow
to any prosecution. During the trial, the jury was shown
(10:17):
harrowing video evidence showing him assaulting R and B artist Cassie,
a former girlfriend whose real name is Cassandra Ventura, in
a Los Angeles hotel hallway in twenty sixteen. Ventura told
the trial that Combs was angered that she had decided
to leave a freak off, but there was no real
direct evidence of that, right, we saw the video of
(10:37):
him beating her, but there was no cooperation of that.
So that's where they failed. And then when it comes
to Rico, they didn't call Christina Korum and that was
just a very very bad idea. If you want to
say that Ditty is the head of an organization, you
have to have people that are working with him, right,
and not just as employees, low level people, you know,
assistants and shit. You have to have that one person
(11:00):
like Christina Quorum or Glaine Maxwell with Epstein to be
that co conspirator, but we didn't see that here. So
they gave us Rico with no co conspirators and that
was never going to fly. And riding on that wave
of victories plus the victories he's seen when it comes
to the civil cases recently, they're rolling the dice here
(11:21):
and going for broke, and why not. What's the worst
thing that can happen. He can end up in jail,
all right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
All of the information that goes with this episode can
be found in the description box.
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