NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted Wednesday of a prostitution-related offense however acquitted of extra severe counts that might have put him behind bars for all times, drawing divided reactions by his fellow celebrities.
The jury discovered the music mogul responsible of two prostitution-related counts below the Mann Act, for transportation of star witness Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a girl utilizing the pseudonym Jane, however acquitted him of trafficking them for intercourse through the use of drive, fraud or coercion.
In addition they acquitted him of a racketeering conspiracy cost below the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
The Related Press doesn’t usually title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused until they arrive ahead publicly, as Cassie has.
Combs, 55, may nonetheless face a most of 10 years in jail. He is also the topic of a civil case from singer Daybreak Richard, mentioned her legal professional, Lisa Bloom. Richard testified on the trial that Combs threatened to kill her if she advised anybody she noticed him abusing his longtime girlfriend.
Listed below are some movie star reactions to the decision.
Not responsible verdicts draw anger
“Oh, this makes me physically ill,” mentioned singer Aubrey O’Day, previously of the music group Danity Kane, on her Instagram story as she watched the verdicts are available. “Cassie most likely feels so horrible. I’m gonna vomit.”
She’s beforehand been essential of Combs. Danity Kane shaped on Combs’ MTV actuality tv program “Making the Band” and signed to his Dangerous Boy Information.
Others jumped in. “I guess a jury just never wants to believe that a woman stays because of power and coercion, wow,” wrote actor Rosie O’Donnell on Instagram. “This decision got me angry.”
Others hold forth
“Diddy beat the Feds that boy a bad man!” the rapper 50 Cent wrote on Instagram.
50 Cent has been a vocal critic of Combs, whom he has lengthy beefed with — going again to his Diddy diss monitor “The Bomb,” launched in 2006. He expects to launch a docuseries on Netflix concerning the allegations in opposition to Combs.
Rapper Boosie BadAzz mentioned in an Instagram video captioned “GREAT DAY N HIP HOP” that the courts had spoken.
“I’m tired of seeing us Black moguls get took down like that,” he said. He added that he was “tired of seeing us Black people go against us Black moguls like that.”
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AP Author Itzel Luna contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
