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Closing arguments successful Sean "Diddy" Combs' national proceedings began Thursday, much than 7 weeks aft jurors were seated for the case. While the Bad Boy Records laminitis was the absorption of the government's charges, his erstwhile main of staff, Kristina (KK) Khorram, was brought up passim witnesses' testimony, though she ne'er testified nor was charged.
KK was antecedently compared to Jeffrey Epstein's righthand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, successful a suit brought against her and Diddy successful March 2024. Music shaper Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones claimed helium witnessed KK ordering enactment workers for Diddy. KK besides had each the assistants support drugs acceptable for Diddy astatine a moment's notice, according to Jones' allegations.
"From what we’ve seen truthful far, the examination betwixt Kristina Khorram and Ghislaine Maxwell isn’t truly a just one, fixed that Epstein’s victims were underage girls," John J. Perlstein explained to Fox News Digital. "Still, Khorram is an alleged co-conspirator successful the Diddy case, truthful it makes consciousness that she wouldn’t privation to testify, arsenic she would’ve apt had to plead the Fifth."
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Diddy was charged with racketeering conspiracy; enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution successful an indictment unsealed successful September. (Jordan Strauss)
"While Ghislaine Maxwell was not primitively charged successful the Jeffrey Epstein case, charges were yet filed against her," the Los Angeles-based litigator added. "That’s apt what we spot happening present with Khorram and the Diddy case. However, the transgression endeavor lawsuit against Diddy is highly weak, and it’s imaginable that the lawsuit against Khorram would beryllium adjacent weaker."
During Diddy's enactment trafficking and racketeering trial, prosecutors claimed the euphony mogul was the person of the alleged transgression enterprise. His interior ellipse included his main of staff, assistants and security. Diddy's ex-girlfriend, Jane, testified KK was the rapper's "righthand woman." The authorities claimed KK lived successful Diddy's location successful Miami and knew what helium was doing each the time. She adjacent allegedly responded to radical from his phones.
According to the prosecution, Diddy and his unit were progressive successful purchasing and distributing drugs. Jane testified that KK helped her transport drugs crossed authorities lines. KK was seemingly alert Diddy's assistants were purchasing drugs for the rapper. In texts shown during Brendan Paul's testimony, helium asked KK for reimbursement.
Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly procured underage victims for Jeffrey Epstein. (Patrick McMullan)
Diddy allegedly texted KK requests for "freak off" supplies, according to texts work successful court. (Jane Rosenberg)
KK was besides allegedly progressive successful covering up Diddy's onslaught connected Cassie Ventura astatine the InterContinental Hotel successful 2016. According to grounds from a edifice information guard, KK facilitated the merchantability of the surveillance footage showing the attack.
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Diddy's erstwhile main of unit was brought up successful grounds from Cassie; Diddy's ex, Jane; and each of his erstwhile idiosyncratic assistants. Text messages from KK were besides entered into grounds successful the trial. However, she ne'er really took the stand.
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KK apt wasn't called to attest due to the fact that her communicative mightiness not lucifer the government's lawsuit against Diddy, transgression defence lawyer Nicole Blank Becker told Fox News Digital.
"You ne'er telephone a witnesser oregon inquire a question that you don't know," Becker, who worked connected R. Kelly's case, told Fox News Digital. "So, successful this case, if nary 1 was capable to really person these heavy conversations with KK and cognize precisely what she was going to attest to, she could person really been a thorn successful the government's side."
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To date, KK has not been charged with immoderate crimes.
Diddy and Cassie Ventura watching the edifice battle video successful court. (Jane Rosenberg)
"It's precise communal successful endeavor cases that you're going to want, arsenic the government, to bring successful arsenic galore witnesses arsenic you tin to amusement that this was, successful fact, an organized organization. Now, the question becomes, 'Well, if KK is the 1 who was liable for immoderate of the precise transgression activities that they're present putting connected P. Diddy, wherefore isn't she charged with the aforesaid types of crimes?'
"From a ineligible strategy standpoint, the large food is who you spell after," Becker added. "Who's the large food that the nationalist knows? Who is the hip-hop mogul that we each cognize of? Well, it's not KK. Who is it? It's the face. And truthful the authorities wants to beryllium steadfast that the look of the endeavor is the idiosyncratic who gets successful trouble."
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The authorities wanted to amusement that KK was lone liable for the alleged crimes due to the fact that Diddy told her to bash them, the lawyer noted.
"P. Diddy was the 1 successful control," Becker said. "He was, for the government, they would similar to say, the puppeteer, and that she, though she was the main of his company, she inactive had strings that were attached. And those strings didn't determination unless Sean Diddy Combs told them to determination oregon had them moved."
Closing arguments began Thursday successful Sean "Diddy" Combs' seven-week national proceedings for alleged enactment crimes. (Jane Rosenberg)
However, the prosecution not charging KK with immoderate crimes "doesn’t mean she’s guiltless conscionable yet."
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"The prosecutors mightiness not person capable grounds yet, oregon she could adjacent beryllium cooperating down the scenes," New York-based civilian lawyer Nicole Brenecki explained to Fox News Digital. "These cases usually determination dilatory and with a circumstantial strategy."
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