{"id":7163,"date":"2025-07-31T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/overturn-convictions-since-freak-offs-were-just-movie-shoots\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:09:07","slug":"overturn-convictions-since-freak-offs-were-just-movie-shoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/overturn-convictions-since-freak-offs-were-just-movie-shoots\/","title":{"rendered":"Overturn Convictions Since ‘Freak-Offs’ Were Just Movie Shoots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tSean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/strong> filed a motion to overturn his prostitution convictions, saying the government \u201cpainted him as a monster\u201d but that the jury \u201crejected\u201d the case \u2014 and that the \u201cfreak-offs\u201d were just pornographic movie shoots protected by free speech.<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs was acquitted earlier this month on the most serious criminal charges he faced over drug-fueled sex marathons called \u201cfreak-offs,\u201d but was convicted on two lesser counts of interstate prostitution.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new filing on Thursday, his lawyers took the long-awaited move of seeking to have that even those lesser convictions thrown out entirely. They say the outcome was \u201cunprecedented\u201d in the history of the federal prostitution law.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cSean Combs sits in jail based on evidence that he paid adult male escorts and entertainers who engaged in consensual sexual activities with his former girlfriends, which he videotaped and later watched with the girlfriends,\u201d writes Marc Agnfilo<\/strong> and Diddy\u2019s other lawyers. \u201cThat is not prostitution, and if it is, his conviction is unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to arguing that the \u201cfreak-offs\u201d did not actually legally count as prostitution, Diddy\u2019s lawyers are also making a creative alternate argument: That his actions were protected free speech under the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was producing amateur pornography for later private viewing,\u201d they write. \u201cThis is protected First Amendment conduct that no substantial government interest justifies prohibiting, since the films depicted adults voluntarily engaging in consensual activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs was arrested and charged last year with racketeering (RICO) and sex trafficking violations over accusations that he ran a sprawling criminal operation aimed at facilitating the freak-offs \u2014 elaborate events which he allegedly forced his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura<\/strong> and other women to have sex with male escorts while he watched and masturbated.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut following a blockbuster trial in May and June, a jury cleared Combs on the RICO and sex trafficking charges. The rapper was found guilty on two other counts for transporting Ventura, another woman and various sex workers across state lines for the purposes of prostitution.<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs will face sentencing on those convictions in October; sentencing guidelines suggest he\u2019ll likely receive between two and five years in prison. <\/p>\n

\n\tLegal filings are not the only avenue Combs is pursuing to clear his name. President Trump<\/strong> is reportedly \u201cheavily weighing\u201d giving him a full presidential pardon after several of his associates have pitched the White House on such a move.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs filed a motion to overturn his prostitution convictions, saying the government \u201cpainted him as a monster\u201d but that the jury \u201crejected\u201d the case \u2014 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[330,6065,5649,942,3531],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-convictions","tag-freakoffs","tag-movie","tag-overturn","tag-shoots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}