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What it was like covering both Diddy trials
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7/3/2025
Business Insider’s Senior Legal Correspondent Laura Italiano breaks down what it’s been like reporting on both Diddy trials.
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I'm Laura Italiano, a legal correspondent for Business Insider, and I have now watched Sean
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Diddy Combs beat the odds twice. In 2001, he was acquitted of gun possession and witness bribery
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charges. Back then, he was puffy, and he was out on bail for that one. For two months, he strode
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into his trial wearing a different crisp and shiny suit each day, as defense attorneys Johnny
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Cochran and Ben Brofman sat on either side of him, fixing his cufflinks. If it doesn't make sense,
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you must find for the defense, Cochran, known for his role, of course, in the O.J. Simpson trial,
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told reporters. Combs, then 31, won a full acquittal after his lawyers convinced a jury that he did not
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fire a bullet from a 9mm Smith & Wesson into the ceiling of a Times Square nightclub.
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This has changed me and matured me, he promised after this happy outcome, saying he has given
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up nightclubbing in favor of churchgoing. On Wednesday, I watched as a very different-looking
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Combs won surprise acquittals on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Each day of the trial,
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he was wearing jail-approved khakis and a succession of five blandly-colored sweaters over white-collared
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shirts. His hair is mostly gray now, deprived by his jailers of the Just For Men brand hair dye that
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his personal assistants had testified he kept in his toiletry bags. A quarter century ago,
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Puffy exuded swagger in court, even something close to menace. But Sean Diddy Combs could be
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Puffy's uncle. Combs' recklessness is a through line. His own lawyers conceded in closing arguments
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last week that Combs used drugs and committed domestic violence. This week's acquittal means
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this very complicated man no longer faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison and a
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possible maximum prison sentence of life.
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