Overview

• Jurors will begin deliberations on June 30 after seven weeks of testimony and the conclusion of closing statements.
• Combs is charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, facing a minimum 15-year sentence and up to life in prison if convicted.
• Prosecutors presented testimony from ex-girlfriends Cassie Ventura and “Jane” alongside video evidence of assaults to argue Combs coerced women into drug-fueled “freak-offs.”
• The defense rested without calling witnesses, arguing the encounters were consensual and disputing that Combs ran a criminal enterprise.
• Prosecutors dropped attempted kidnapping, arson and aiding-and-abetting sex trafficking theories to streamline jury instructions, but core trafficking and racketeering counts remain.