Diddy trial live updates: Jury set to begin deliberations as Sean Combs sex-trafficking trial enters final phase

The government has proposed 10 predicate acts – a specific crime that forms part of a larger criminal pattern – that support the racketeering conspiracy charge.

A jury must unanimously find that at least two of those acts listed were committed to convict Combs of the specific charge.

One of the predicate acts is sex trafficking, which, if jurors agree happened, they must specify it involved either of Combs’s ex-girlfriends Cassie Ventura – between 2009 and 2018 – or a witness who testified under the pseudonym “Jane” – between May 2021 and 2024.

It is separate from the two charges of sex trafficking and two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution that Combs faces.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial has entered its final stretch.

The judge is expected to read approximately 118 pages of legal instructions to the jury before deliberations begin.

The jury is set to begin deliberations today after receiving legal instructions from Judge Arun Subramanian.

There is no fixed timeline for deliberations, which can last anywhere from a few hours to several days or longer.

Given the volume of testimony from 34 witnesses that took the stand and the case’s legal complexity, it’s possible the jury will take its time to reach a unanimous verdict.

Judge Arun Subramanian sent jurors home over the weekend so they could “come back fresh on Monday morning.”

Before deliberations can begin, the 12 jurors are set to receive the judge’s instructions in a process known as “charging the jury,” in which the court reviews the government’s key arguments and outlines the relevant laws and charges.

The process is expected to last several hours.

Judge Arun Subramanian will give instructions to the jurors this morning before sending them off to deliberate inside the Manhattan federal courthouse.

The jury must unanimously decide guilty or not guilty on each count, meaning all 12 members of the panel must agree. If jurors don’t reach an agreement, they could come back and say they are deadlocked.

Traditionally, the judge would then encourage them to continue deliberating, but if they can’t reach a consensus, it would be up to the judge to decide whether to declare a mistrial.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

After seven weeks inside Manhattan federal court, a jury is set to begin deliberating later this morning to decide whether Sean Combs was running a criminal enterprise or merely living a swinger’s lifestyle, which included drug abuse and violence.

The 12 men and women on the panel have listened to dozens of witnesses, including two of Combs’s ex-girlfriends – Cassie Ventura and “Jane” – and two male escorts who took part in his drug-fueled marathon sex parties known as “freak-offs.”

The 55-year-old music mogul, who is facing sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy charges, could face between 15 years to life in prison.

With jury deliberations about to begin in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal trial, here’s a look at the 12 members of the panel tasked with deciding the music mogul’s fate.

Eight men and four women comprise the dozen New Yorkers selected to sit for the trial.

Ranging in age from 30 to 74, the jurors come from Manhattan, the Bronx, and nearby Westchester County.

Their professions vary widely: from an investment analyst to a massage therapist.

Several of the younger jurors said they listen to hip-hop and R&B music, genres aligned with Combs.

Some of the jurors have said they were familiar with the 2016 surveillance footage of Combs assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway.

The defense for Sean “Diddy” Combs described the “tale of two trials” as the music mogul’s sex trafficking trial is soon to enter jury deliberations.

Marc Agnifilo, Diddy’s lead attorney, paced in front of the jury box as he delivered an animated closing argument for the defense Friday, claiming the case against his client tells the “tale of two trials.”

One trial relies on witnesses, text messages, videos and evidence; the other is “told from the mouths of prosecutors” and is “badly, badly exaggerated,” he argued.

Kelly Rissman has the details: