Cassie's Lawyer Calls Diddy's Defense Closing Arguments ‘Repugnant' Following Verdict

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03-07-2025

Diddy's federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial came to a close on Wednesday (July 2) with the jury reaching a partial acquittal of the disgraced mogul, and Cassie's lawyer Douglas Wigdor joined CNN to discuss the case and split verdict.
'I can tell you that some of the comments that were made in the closing argument, I thought were repugnant,' Wigdor said. 'Frankly, calling those sorts of behaviors as a modern-day relationship, saying that she enjoyed sex, saying she was a gangster, things like that.'
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He continued to criticize the defense. 'I don't think, even with the jury verdict, that they would have given that any credit,' he told correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister. 'And I don't think anyone who actually listened to the testimony and watched the testimony would either. And I thought that those were sort of gratuitous comments that really weren't based on any real facts.'
Diddy was ultimately found guilty on a pair of transportation to engage in prostitution charges, but evaded sex trafficking and racketeering charges, which would have come with much heftier sentences.
Combs will now await sentencing on the pair of charges he was convicted of, which come with a range of no jail time to a maximum of 20 years behind bars. He's been imprisoned without bail since his arrest in September 2024.
Cassie gave four days of emotional testimony when she took the stand in May while eight months pregnant to detail the alleged abuse she took at the hands of Diddy. She's since given birth to baby No. 3 and has been tending to her family, but Wigdor said she's still been keeping up with aspects of the case.
The 'Me & U' singer essentially lit the fuse for what became Diddy's federal case when she filed a bombshell lawsuit in November 2023 accusing the Bad Boy mogul of rape and abuse. The suit was settled in a day.
Following the verdict, Diddy's defense team called Cassie a 'winner' in the case, which Wigdor vehemently pushed back against.
'Cassie Ventura, at that point in time and today, is not the winner,' he asserted. 'She endured 10 years of abuse, where she had to engage in days-long sexual acts with UTIs [urinary tract infections]. She alleged that she was raped. And so to call her a winner, even though she did get $30 million part from — as she testified, part from Sean Combs, part from the hotel, no amount of money is going to ever undo what she had to endure and what she had to go through.'
Watch a portion of Douglas Wigdor's interview with CNN below.
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