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The lawyer of disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has claimed that he stays optimistic after being indicted final week on federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses.
Combs, 54, has pleaded not responsible to the costs. He faces a mess of lawsuits surrounding allegations of assault and sexual misconduct, together with a recent declare from a lady who accuses him of drugging, raping and bodily abusing her over the course of 4 years.
His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, is interviewed within the new TMZ documentary The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment, through which he spoke about his shopper’s frame of mind.
“His frame of mind is definitely exceptional optimistic,” he claimed. “I spend a number of hours with him day by day… His resolve is powerful. He’s engaged.”
He continued: “He’s targeted on his defence… he [has] come to phrases with the truth that that is the place he’s for now.”
Agnifilo stated that he’s engaged on setting a trial date for as quickly as doable.
In the identical documentary, Agnifilo addressed the stunning video of Combs abusing his then-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, which was caught on a lodge safety digital camera in 2016.
“It’s onerous to observe for anybody,” he stated. “That being stated, it isn’t proof of intercourse trafficking. There was a sure stage of toxicity and drug use within the 10-year relationship between Mr Combs and the girl that he was in love with.”
Agnifilo claimed that the “difficulties” in Combs’s relationship with Ventura had been associated to the mogul’s perception that she “was dishonest on him”.
“[The video is] not associated to the cost,” he stated.
In Could, Combs posted an Instagram video apologising over the incident, calling his bejaviour “inexcusable” and saying he took “full duty” for his actions.
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He stated the assault was “one of many darkest occasions in my life”, including that he was “f***ed up” and “disgusted” by his actions. He didn’t point out Ventura by title in his apology video.
His newest accuser, recognized solely as Jane Doe, stated within the go well with that she met Diddy within the fall of 2020 “at an abroad location.” Combs paid for the girl to be there, and the 2 started seeing one another “usually” after that, in line with the go well with.
All through 2021 and 2022, Combs would fly Doe to his properties in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami, utilizing “coercive and harassing language to compel her to conform,” the lawsuit acknowledged.
“Defendant Combs and his brokers and staff not solely used language and techniques to power Jane Doe to behave in opposition to her will: she was additionally unwillingly drugged with alcohol unknown substances.”
Earlier this week, Agnifilo provided a weird rationalization for why 1,000 bottles of child oil had been discovered throughout raids on Combs’s dwelling.
“I don’t suppose it was 1,000. I believe it was rather a lot,” he advised The New York Post, earlier than suggesting that the rapper merely likes to top off on his necessities.
“I imply there’s a Costco proper down the road. I believe People purchase in bulk, as we all know.”
He added: “We will’t get so puritanical on this nation to suppose that by some means intercourse is a foul factor as a result of if it was there could be no extra individuals.”
Combs is being held behind bars in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre following his arrest on 16 September. He has pleaded not responsible to the costs and was denied bail twice.
