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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged plan to work as a consultant for domestic violence after being released from the federal custody, causes outrage for his alleged victims.
Criticism of defense strategy
“This is completely absurd,” says Douglas Wigdor, sacrificial lawyer and representative of Combs’ ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. “How do you want to advise others if you haven’t worked on yourself? This is manipulation in pure form,” adds one person. It states to have been physically attacked by Combs in the 2010s. Rolling Stone confirmed this presentation. Another alleged affected person who is currently complaining to COMBS calls the plans “a mockery of the system”. And demands that Combs need “intensive therapy”.
The criticism sparked the statements of Combs’ defender Alexandra Shapiro to “Business Insider”. Accordingly, the founder of “Bad Boy Record” S wanted to work as an anti-violence consultant. Simply “to help others do not do this. And to have a positive way in the future”.
Shapiro announced that Combs’ plans should be presented in an application for punishment mitigation – up to a punishment “on probation for time that has already been heard”. “The idea is that he works with programs. And speaks to young people and other people affected to raise awareness. Sometimes people like him can be the best speakers,” said Shapiro.
Gloria Allred, lawyer of two plaintiffs, considers these ambitions to be premature. “His goal does not exist,” she says. First Combs had to complete an aggression management program. Take responsibility. Make compensation. And ask for forgiveness before he can start training as a violent consultant.
Convention and allegations of abuse
Combs (55) was guilty last month of violating the man act by transporting women to prostitution. More serious charges for organized crime and human trade were dropped. The public prosecutor accused him of forced Cassie Ventura and another girlfriend for drug and sexually motivated meetings with male escort service providers.
In May 2024, CNN released a surveillance video from 2016, which shows how Combs Ventura steps and pulls. Combs apologized in a video and took on “full responsibility”. In court, his defense admitted several violence against Ventura, but denied that this is human trafficking. Ventura described long -term abuse among tears, including an attack in January 2009, in which Combs kicked her face for ten minutes.
Judicial assessment and further procedures
Judge Arun Subramanian described Combs as a “danger to the public” after the guilty verdict and ordered custody of custody until October 3. He emphasized that Combs had become violent again after the investigation began in 2024 – proof that even the strictest conditions could not prevent such outbreaks.