Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial Live Updates: Witness Testimony Begins in Sex-Trafficking Case

Mr. Agnifilo is a criminal defense lawyer for a long time that he has represented high profile figures as former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli; Keith Raniere, the leader of the sexivm sexual cult; and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who in 2011 was accused of sexual assaulting a hotel maid in New York. (The case against Mr. Strauss-Kahn was dismissed before a trial). Together with Karen Friedman Agnifilo, his wife, Mr. Agnifilo, is also part of the Luigi Mangione defense team, who has accused of murder for murder in the murder of a medical care executive.

Inside and outside the courtroom, Mr. Agnifilo has perhaps been the strongest voice in defense of Mr. Combs. In an audience last month, Hey reiterated the argument of the defense that the sexual encounters of “Monsters” of Mr. combs that the Government argues that they were agreed, with the ex -girlfriend of Mr. combs, Casandra Ventura, a participant willing. “Call it” swingers, “call it as you want,” said Agnifilo.

In media interviews, he called the case an “unfair prosecution” and said that combs is “an imperfect person but is not a criminal.”

Mr. Agnifilo was a lawyer for a long time at the Brafman & Associates firm, but he left last year to help start Agnifilo Intrat. With him, he brought Mrs. Geragos, whose father is Mark Geragos, the celebrity lawyer who has represented Mr. Combs in the past. Mrs. Geragos also has ghost publicly about the case, even in a series of Tiktok videos she published before Mr. Combs was arrested in September.

The team also includes Alexandra Shapiro, an outstanding lawyer of the Court of Appeals of the firm Shapiro Arato Bach, who was once fiscal in the United States prosecutor’s office for the South District of New York, who is processing the case of combs. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Columbia and was one of the first employees of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Supreme Court. She also wrote a novel, “alleged guilty.”

Mrs. Shapiro is widely recognized for her success rate in the trial and in the appeals. “If you want to maximize your chancans to prevail in the trial or in appeal against the SDNY, then you must call Alexandra Shapiro (if she can pay it),” writes the original jurisdiction of the Legal Bulletin last year.

Given its specialty, Mrs. Shapiro can be maintained a close duration of the test on any problem that may be useful if the defense appeals a verdict.

The defense of Mr. Combs also includes Jason Driscoll or Shapiro Arato Bach and Anna Estevao or Harris Trzaskoma.

In recent weeks, Mr. Comits has added several other lawyers.

The highlight is Brian Steel, who defended rapper Young Thug in a long -term extortion trial in Georgia. Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, declared himself guilty of participating in the criminal activity of street gangs, and was released over time. But Mr. Steel, who was recently profiled in the New York, received a notice of broad notice, in legal circles and beyond, for a confrontation in the court where he mistreated a judge to meet incorrectly with a witness. He was a hero in contempt, but then claimed when the judge was ordered to be challenged.

Mr. Combs’s team has also recently added Xavier Donaldson, a New York lawyer whose LinkedIn profile describes him as “litigant, professor, speaker, crisis manager” and Nicole Westmoreland, who represented one of Young’s coacusates in his trial.

In April, Mr. Combs’s legal team requested a two -month delay of the trial to consider what he said that the Government was recently produced by the Government. The judge denied the request, pointing out that Mr. Comong had four law firms working for him, giving extensive resources to prepare.

Since then, Mr. Comits has added two more.