Overview

• Judge Arun Subramanian gave jurors instructions Monday following weeklong closing arguments, marking the start of deliberations over racketeering and sex-trafficking charges.
• Prosecutors portrayed Combs as the leader of an alleged decades-long RICO enterprise that coerced ex-partners into 'freak-off' events and cited evidence of arson, kidnapping and surveillance footage of assaults.
• Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo argued all sexual encounters were consensual and warned against criminalizing private lifestyles, mocking the seizure of hundreds of bottles of lubricant as overreach.
• Key witnesses included ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, whose 2023 lawsuit and $20 million settlement sparked the probe, and a woman testifying as 'Jane,' who described similar 'hotel nights' through 2021.
• If convicted, Combs faces life imprisonment under RICO and federal sex-trafficking statutes after being held without bail since his September 2024 arrest.