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Anna Betts in New York

Seven weeks, 34 witnesses, a media circus: inside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s trial

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in New York in 2023. Photograph: Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images

After seven weeks in a Manhattan federal courtroom, the high-profile sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, one of hip-hop’s most influential figures, has come to a close.

On Wednesday, a jury of 12 New Yorkers found Combs guilty of the Mann Act transportation related to former girlfriends Cassie Ventura and “Jane”, and not guilty of running a criminal enterprise and two counts of sex trafficking.

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