Diddy’s federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial got here to an in depth on Wednesday (July 2) with the jury reaching a partial acquittal of the disgraced mogul, and Cassie’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor joined CNN to debate the case and break up verdict.
“I can let you know that among the feedback that had been made within the closing argument, I assumed had been repugnant,” Wigdor stated. “Frankly, calling these kinds of behaviors as a modern-day relationship, saying that she loved intercourse, saying she was a gangster, issues like that.”
He continued to criticize the protection. “I don’t assume, even with the jury verdict, that they might have provided that any credit score,” he informed correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister. “And I don’t assume anybody who really listened to the testimony and watched the testimony would both. And I assumed that these had been type of gratuitous feedback that basically weren’t based mostly on any actual details.”
Diddy was in the end found guilty on a pair of transportation to have interaction in prostitution costs, however evaded intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs, which might have include a lot heftier sentences.
Combs will now await sentencing on the pair of charges he was convicted of, which include a variety of no jail time to a most of 20 years behind bars. He’s been imprisoned with out bail since his arrest in September 2024.
Cassie gave 4 days of emotional testimony when she took the stand in Might whereas eight months pregnant to element the alleged abuse she took by the hands of Diddy. She’s since given delivery to child No. 3 and has been tending to her household, however Wigdor stated she’s nonetheless been maintaining with facets of the case.
The “Me & U” singer basically lit the fuse for what turned Diddy’s federal case when she filed a bombshell lawsuit in November 2023 accusing the Dangerous Boy mogul of rape and abuse. The go well with was settled in a day.
Following the decision, Diddy’s protection staff referred to as Cassie a “winner” within the case, which Wigdor vehemently pushed again towards.
“Cassie Ventura, at that time limit and at present, will not be the winner,” he asserted. “She endured 10 years of abuse, the place she needed to have interaction in days-long sexual acts with UTIs. She alleged that she was raped. And so to name her a winner, despite the fact that she did get $30 million half from — as she testified, half from Sean Combs, half from the lodge, no amount of cash goes to ever undo what she needed to endure and what she needed to undergo.”
Watch a portion of Douglas Wigdor’s interview with CNN beneath.