For the second time in simply over per week, Sean “Diddy” Combs desires the choose in his sex-trafficking case to declare a mistrial and kick the entire sordid matter to the curb.
Citing “prosecutorial misconduct,” protection lawyer Alexandra Shapiro wrote to Choose Arun Subramanian as we speak to insist this case, which might see Combs behind bars for the remainder of his life if discovered responsible, ought to go no additional.
“On this trial the federal government has offered testimony that it knew or ought to have identified was materially false associated to its allegation that Mr. Combs dangled Bryana Bongolan from the balcony of Cassie Ventura’s residence in September 2016,” Shapiro’s correspondence acknowledged with references to Bongoloan’s top in relation to the Dangerous Boy Data founder and to obvious inconsistencies within the testimony this previous week by the great buddy of Cassie Ventura. “Accordingly, to keep away from an unfair conviction on this case the Court docket ought to grant a mistrial.”
The 55-year-old Combs was arrested in September 2024 in a New York lodge foyer by a phalanx of police and federal officers on federal fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking, transportation to have interaction in prostitution and extra. From Combs’ crying ex-girlfriend “Jane” and her tales of abuse, and earlier than that Ventura’s pal Bongolan, who had advised the court docket Wednesday that Combs had dangled her off a Seventeenth-story balcony on September 26, 2016, the panel of eight males and 4 girls within the courtroom has heard specific and generally heartrending testimony about rapes, emotional and bodily violence. Additionally they listening, generally in apparent discomfort to tales of blackmail, narcotics being moved throughout statelines and an obvious arson try to Child Cudi’s automotive.
Moreover, maybe most damning, the jurors heard of a 2018 rape and the years of filmed drug-juiced “freak-offs” from the then very pregnant “Me & U” singer Ventura, male escorts, and Comb’s ex-personal assistant “Mia,” who additionally alleged Diddy repeatedly raped her.
A view from the choose’s seat inside a federal courtroom much like the room the place the Sean Combs intercourse trafficking trial is being held in Federal District Court docket in Manhattan on June 6, 2025. (Picture by Jefferson Siegel-Pool/Getty Photos)
In contrast to the final mistrial request of Might 28 within the Diddy case, which was made within the decrease Manhattan courtroom the place the Might 12 beginning trial is going down, Choose Subramanian has not issued a fast order on the newest movement. Contacted by Deadline as we speak, the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York declined to touch upon the newest mistrial transfer.
Casting virtually all of Bongolan’s testimony, and by implication, the federal government’s place in disrepute, protection lawyer’s Shapiro’s considerably redacted four-page letter additionally really helpful the prosecution come clean with what it supposedly is aware of.
“The federal government knew or ought to have identified this testimony was perjured, and that Ms. Bongolan couldn’t probably have been injured by Mr. Combs on a Los Angeles balcony within the early morning hours of September 26, and even the day earlier than that,” the Shapiro Arato Bach LLP associate wrote
“The federal government has lengthy identified that Mr. Combs was on the East Coast in late September, and particularly at across the time of this alleged incident,” Shapiro added with footnotes mocking what a easy Google search would inform the feds, with a reputation drop of the pardon contemplating present POTUS. “The federal government knew that he had stayed at Trump Lodge in New York Metropolis between September 24-29, 2016. In truth, the federal government had marked as GX7Y111 the data of this lodge keep, which are actually in proof. And it has had different proof in its possession for a while exhibiting Mr. Combs’s journey schedule and proving that he was on the East Coast when it advised the jury he dangled Ms. Bongolan over a balcony in entrance of Ms. Ventura.”
A hyperlink to a New Jersey web site’s September 26 assessment of Diddy’s present in Newark on September 25 that the protection offers of their letter introduced up the “Puff Daddy’s Dangerous Boy reunion tour ignites Newark, regardless of B.I.G. gap” article.
Not content material to let the Bongolan matter make their case for mistrial, the protection spend the final pages of the letter rehashing their earlier unsuccessful mistrial effort. Particularly, on the matter of some destroyed fingerprints of Child Cudi a.ok.a. Scott Mescudi from 2012, they declare “the federal government’s motive all alongside will need to have been to counsel that Mr. Combs had corrupt affect over the LA authorities.” Placing the beautiful highly effective testimony of Combs’ former aide “Mia” underneath the microscope over an incident the place some LAPD officers let the non-public assistant off the hook from driving infractions as a result of she revealed she labored for Diddy, the letter will get very particular. “In different phrases, the following questioning of Mia, even when itself permissible, additional corroborates that the federal government’s actual goal in its questioning of the hearth inspector, Lance Jiminez, was to improperly counsel that Mr. Combs corruptly brought about the destruction of the fingerprints.”
On the tail finish of per week that noticed the choose reprimand Combs for interacting with the jury and threatening to toss him out of the courtroom for his personal trial, as we speak’s letter ends: “This constitutes one other occasion of prosecutorial misconduct. Accordingly, the Court docket ought to grant a mistrial primarily based on prosecutorial misconduct.”
Scheduled to select up on June 9 for an additional week, the trial is ready to run from 9 a.m. to three p.m. ET day-in, day-out. With extra testimony from accuser “Jane” anticipated on Monday and possibly Tuesday, the trial will seemingly see the prosecution relaxation its case and the protection will choose up the baton.
