Overview

• A federal jury found Combs guilty on two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution under the Mann Act.
• He was acquitted of two sex trafficking counts and one extortion charge, avoiding potential life sentences on the most serious allegations.
• Jurors deadlocked on the racketeering conspiracy count, leaving the key organized-crime accusation unresolved.
• Prosecutors presented a viral 2016 hotel assault video and testimony from Cassie Ventura and ex-stripper Daniel Phillip to allege decades of coercive, drug-fueled “Freak Off” events.
• Combs’s defense maintained all encounters were consensual as part of a swinger lifestyle, a narrative the jury accepted in clearing him of the more severe charges.