June 27, 2025 – Closing arguments in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey said Sean “Diddy” Combs is trying to “wiggle out” of federal transportation charges by saying he never tried to pay anyone for sex.

“He flew escorts across the country, watched them have sex while he masturbated and then he handed them cash,” she said.

Comey said the defense’s suggestion that those things had nothing to do with each other “doesn’t even pass the laugh test.”

“Common sense alone shows you that when the defendant flew those escorts out, it was not for their scintillating conversation. It was for sex,” she said.

“His money is for sex, the sexual performance, not for time. That’s prostitution,” Comey said.

The prosecutor allowed that some of the men might have been willing to do the acts regardless of money, “but when they got cash at the end of the night, they were getting paid for sex.”

Comey also said it’s irrelevant what the escorts thought about the interaction. The law pertains to Combs’ state of mind when he transported the men for prostitution, she argued.

Combs knew what he was doing was illegal because he said in text messages to Ventura that she needed to make sure escorts weren’t undercover cops, Comey said. The jury also saw Combs text an escort asking if he was a cop.