when they contended<\/a> in a submission to the judge late last month that the Mann Act was unduly vague and violates his due process and First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n\u201cEvidence of the defendant\u2019s guilt on the Mann Act counts was overwhelming,\u201d prosecutors wrote.<\/p>\n
They noted that the multiday, drug-fueled sexual marathons that Combs demanded of his girlfriends involved hiring male sex workers and facilitating their travel across multiple states for what became known as \u201cfreak-offs\u201d or \u201chotel nights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said he then used video recordings he made of the sexual events to threaten and coerce the girlfriends to continue participating in the sometimes weekly or monthly sexual meetings.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt trial, there was ample evidence to support the jury\u2019s convictions,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
They said Combs \u201cmasterminded every aspect\u201d of the sexual meetups, paying escorts to travel across the country to participate and directing the sexual activity that took place between the men and his girlfriends \u201cfor his own sexual gratification\u201d while sometimes joining in.<\/p>\n
Casandra \u201cCassie\u201d Ventura, an R&B artist who dated Combs from 2008 through 2018, testified during the trial that Combs sometimes demanded the sexual meetups with male escorts every week, often leaving her too exhausted to work on her music career. She said she participated in hundreds of \u201cfreak-offs.\u201d<\/p>\n
A woman who testified under the pseudonym \u201cJane\u201d said she participated in \u201chotel nights\u201d when she dated Combs from 2021 to last September and that the events sometimes lasted multiple days and required her to have sex with male sex workers, even when she was not well.<\/p>\n
Both women testified that Combs had threatened to release videos he made of the encounters as a way of controlling their behavior.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring these relationships, he asserted substantial control over Ventura and Jane\u2019s lives. Specifically, he controlled and threatened Ventura\u2019s career, controlled her appearance, and paid for most of her living expenses, taking away physical items when she did not do what he wanted,\u201d prosecutors wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendant similarly paid Jane\u2019s $10,000 rent and threatened her that he would stop paying her rent if she did not comply with his demands,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
In their submission requesting acquittal or a new trial, Combs\u2019 lawyers argued that none of the elements normally used for Mann Act convictions, including profiting from sex work or coercion, existed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is undisputed that he had no commercial motive and that all involved were adults,\u201d the lawyers said. \u201cThe men chose to travel and engage in the activity voluntarily. The verdict confirms the women were not vulnerable or exploited or trafficked or sexually assaulted.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawyers said that Combs, \u201cat most, paid to engage in voyeurism as part of a \u2018swingers\u2019 lifestyle\u201d and argued that \u201cdoes not constitute \u2018prostitution\u2019 under a properly limited definition of the statutory term.\u201d<\/p>\n
Originally Published: August 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM EDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bostonherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors are urging a federal judge to quickly reject Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs \u2019 request that he throw out a jury verdict or order a new trial after a jury convicted the music maven of two prostitution-related charges. Prosecutors said in papers filed shortly before midnight Wednesday that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1972970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[27239,351578,306416],"class_list":["post-1972969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-diddy","tag-diddy-trial","tag-sean-combs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Prosecutors-say-Sean-\u2018Diddy-Combs-request-for-acquittal-or-new.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}