{"id":6721,"date":"2025-07-02T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cassies-lawyer-slams-diddy-closing-argument-after-verdict-repugnant\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:40:02","slug":"cassies-lawyer-slams-diddy-closing-argument-after-verdict-repugnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cassies-lawyer-slams-diddy-closing-argument-after-verdict-repugnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassie’s Lawyer Slams Diddy Closing Argument After Verdict: ‘Repugnant’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tDiddy\u2019s 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\u2019s lawyer Douglas Wigdor joined CNN <\/a>to discuss the case and split verdict.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can tell you that some of the comments that were made in the closing argument<\/a>, I thought were repugnant,\u201d Wigdor said. \u201cFrankly, calling those sorts of behaviors as a modern-day relationship, saying that she enjoyed sex, saying she was a gangster, things like that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued to criticize the defense. \u201cI don\u2019t think, even with the jury verdict, that they would have given that any credit,\u201d he told correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t 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\u2019t based on any real facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDiddy 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs 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\u2019s been imprisoned without bail since his arrest in September 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tCassie 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\u2019s since given birth to baby No. 3 and has been tending to her family, but Wigdor said she\u2019s still been keeping up with aspects of the case.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cMe & U\u201d singer essentially lit the fuse for what became Diddy\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the verdict, Diddy\u2019s defense team called Cassie a \u201cwinner\u201d in the case, which Wigdor vehemently pushed back against. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCassie Ventura, at that point in time and today, is not the winner,\u201d he asserted. \u201cShe endured 10 years of abuse, where she had to engage in days-long sexual acts with UTIs. She alleged that she was raped.\u00a0And so to call her a winner, even though she did get $30 million part from \u2014 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch a portion of Douglas Wigdor\u2019s interview with CNN below.<\/p>\n

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