OJ Simpson lawyer reveals Diddy judge’s subtle signal that rapper will get a LONG prison sentence: Live updates

Diddy will be appear in court remotely on Tuesday at 2pm EST for a post-trial hearing on the sentencing schedule.

The 55-year-old music mogul was acquitted last week of sex trafficking and racketeering charges but convicted on two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution.

His lawyers are pushing for less than the recommended 21 to 27 months behind bars, while prosecutors argue his crimes — and history of violence — justify at least four to five years.

The judge has tentatively scheduled sentencing for October but said he’s open to moving it up, with further discussion expected at today’s hearing.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian will decide Diddy’s sentence and isn’t required to follow the usual federal guidelines, meaning he has plenty of leeway.

Diddy’s lead defense attorney Marc Agnifilo previously urged the judge to release the mogul on a $1 million bond, insisting his client had changed dramatically over the past year.

But Subramanian was unmoved and denied him bail, citing his ‘propensity for violence’ against his ex-girlfiends and accusers Cassie Ventura and ‘Jane.’

The maximum possible sentence for each of the prostitution convictions is 10 years in prison.

Diddy has already spent 10 months in jail since his September arrest.

The 55-year-old music mogul was depicted in court sketches visibly panicking when jurors announced earlier this week that they had reached a verdict on four of the five charges against him.

The images – some of which were commissioned by Jane Rosenberg – provided rare glimpses into the rapper’s mood and demeanor during the high-profile proceedings.

But Combs was not always satisfied with the way Rosenberg was portraying him, even criticizing her work during a break in proceedings last month.

She recounted to PEOPLE how the I’ll Be Missing You singer returned to the Manhattan federal courtroom and mouthed something at her.

The music mogul, 55, and his main accuser Cassie Ventura have been accused of drugging and traumatizing one of the male escorts they hired to participate in their freak offs, Clayton Howard.

Howard, who also goes by ‘Dave,’ claims Cassie gave him an STD and that she aborted his baby without telling him. He says she manipulated him into taking ecstasy and having unprotected sex.

The male escort says both Diddy and Cassie were ‘toxic individuals addicted to opiates and methamphetamines who had no regard for others or the law.’

Howard challenges the narrative of Cassie as a victim, claiming: ‘Ventura was not merely a victim forced into sexual encounters with male escorts, but rather an active and engaged participant who willingly manipulated and exploited others, including Plaintiff, to satisfy the sexually depraved desires of Defendant Combs and herself.’

Deonte Nash, a former stylist for Combs and Cassie who reluctantly testified during the trial, told the judge in a letter that bail would ‘send a dangerous message: that wealth and influence can shield someone indefinitely from accountability.’

Cassie, through her lawyer, also encouraged Subramanian to keep Combs in jail.

‘Ms. Ventura believes that Mr. Combs is likely to pose a danger to the victims who testified in this case, including herself, as well as to the community,’ Cassie’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, wrote.

Diddy watches as prosecutor Maurene Comey questions celebrity stylist Deonte Nash

Nash exits the federal court after testifying

On Friday night, Cassie appeared to be escaping New York City as she made a dash for her vehicle with an entourage shielding her from the spotlight.

It’s the jaw-dropping conclusion to one of the most high-profile celebrity trials in recent memory—and in our latest YouTube video, Daily Mail reporters who followed every moment of the case reveal the key courtroom bombshells, emotional testimony, and behind-the-scenes insight you won’t get anywhere else.

From Cassie Ventura’s harrowing four-day testimony (while heavily pregnant) to the bizarre “freakoff” allegations involving escorts, blackmail, and baby oil by the gallon—it’s all covered in detail.

We unpack the shocking surveillance footage from a Los Angeles hotel, explore Kid Cudi’s Marvel-villain comparison, and explain why the jury wasn’t shown a single clip from inside the courtroom.

After tentatively setting Diddy’s sentencing for October 3, Judge Arun Subramanian said he is open to a defense request that it happen as soon as possible, with further discussions expected at Tuesday’s hearing.

Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo sees a long road ahead once he is freed and resumes work on personal demons, likely reentering a program for domestic batterers that he had just started before his arrest.

‘He’s doing OK,’ said Agnifilo, who speaks with him four or five times daily.

He said Diddy genuinely desires improvement and ‘realizes he has flaws like everyone else that he never worked on.’

‘He burns hot in all matters. I think what he has come to see is that he has these flaws and there’s no amount of fame and no amount of fortune that can erase them,’ he said. ‘You can’t cover them up.’

Marc Agnifilo talks to the press after Combs being denied bail in his sex trafficking trial verdict on Wednesday.

The verdict in Manhattan federal court came after a veteran team of eight defense lawyers led by Marc Agnifilo executed a trial strategy that resonated with jurors.

Combs passed lawyers notes during effective cross-examinations of nearly three dozen witnesses over two months, including Diddy’s ex-employees.

The lawyers told jurors Combs was a jealous domestic abuser with a drug problem who participated in the swinger lifestyle through threesomes with his girlfriends and other men.

‘You may think to yourself, wow, he is a really bad boyfriend,’ Combs’ lawyer Teny Geragos told jurors in her May opening statement. But that, she said, ‘is simply not sex trafficking.’

Agnifilo said the blunt talk was a ‘no brainer.’

‘The violence was so clear and up front and we knew the government was going to try to confuse the jury into thinking it was part of a sex trafficking effort. So we had to tell the jury what it was so they wouldn’t think it was something it wasn’t,’ he said.

Diddy got a standing ovation from fellow inmates when the music mogul returned to jail after winning acquittals on potential life-in-prison charges, providing what his lawyer says might have been the best thing he could do for incarcerated Black men in America.

‘They all said, “We never get to see anyone who beats the government,”‘ attorney Marc Agnifilo said a few days after a jury acquitted Combs of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges.

After federal agents raided Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and the Miami area in March 2024, Agnifilo said he told the “I’ll Be Missing You” singer to expect to be arrested on sex trafficking charges.

‘I said: “Maybe it’s your fate in life to be the guy who wins,”‘ he recalled during a telephone interview briefly interrupted by a jailhouse call from Combs. ‘They need to see that someone can win. I think he took that to heart.’

George also described the video evidence he saw of the ‘freak offs’ at the center of the case against Diddy, who in the end was only convicted of lesser prostitution offenses.

The video evidence remained sealed throughout the trial, and only the jury and lawyers got to see it in court.

The judge who will decide Diddy‘s prison sentence gave a hint that he will side with prosecutors and apply the full weight of the law against the music mogul.

Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Beidel told DailyMail.com the judge’s comments suggest he will side with prosecutors, who want Diddy to face four to five years – above the guidelines based on the sentences of other similarly situated defendants.

Diddy has been sporting a new look in the court sketches from his trial – the only glimpse into the federal courtroom, where no cameras are allowed.

The music mogul’s hair and famous goatee are now mostly white, and he is often wering reading glasses.

Diddy has not been photographed since the day of his arrest, and the world will see a different man whenever he is released.

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