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Diddy Partially Acquitted In Sex-Trafficking Trial, Denied Release

Sean “Diddy” Combs at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar party. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters)

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs was acquitted of three counts of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy Wednesday but found guilty of two lesser prostitution-related charges. While the verdict marks a major legal victory for the music mogul, Combs will remain in jail as he awaits sentencing in a case that upended his public standing and reputation as a business-savvy and influential music industry figure.

As the verdict was announced in Manhattan federal court, Combs held his hands in prayer and locked eyes with jurors, nodding and mouthing the words “thank you” multiple times. Judge Arun Subramanian later denied Combs’s $1 million bail request to be released from a Brooklyn detention center where he has been held since his arrest in September.

In denying Combs’s petition, Subramanian repeated back the defense team’s admission that Combs had a history of domestic violence. “Domestic violence is violence,” the judge said.

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