9:26 am
Judge: So we have all our jurors. We'll start in 5 minutes.
[Meanwhile Combs has been taken back into the holding cell by the US Marshals; he will be brought back in before the jurors are brought in]

9:28 am
Judge: All rise!
[Jurors enter]
Judge: Mr. Agnifilo, are you prepared to proceed with the defense's closing?
Combs' Marc Agnifilo: There is a trial set forth by the text messages. Then there is the trial out of the prosecutors' mouths. They are different.

Combs' Agnifilo: The trial from the evidence, what is it? It is personal use d****. That's all it is. That and swingers, a lifestyle. But the prosecutors have charged one of the most serious statutes on the books. They called threesomes and d**** as RICO

Combs' Agnifilo: I want to thank you for your service to our country. I would love to speak to you for days. But it's Friday. I am trying to be efficient. I have to cover a lot of ground. But I'll focus on the most important part: Sean Combs.

Combs' Agnifilo: Sean Combs is a self-made Black entrepreneur. He has built real businesses, that are so outstanding that others create partnerships with them. We heard that from Derek Ferguson. It is hard to be Sean Combs. How many witnesses said they were moved

Combs' Agnifilo: The assistants were moved by Sean Combs. It was like Harvard Business School, he pushed me hard. Did they always like him? No way. Let's not even go there. Did they like him? No. But they loved him. Even the ones who are suing him.

Combs' Agnifilo: Mia? I'm not going to call her Mia, because that's not her name. I'm going to call her the witness who testified as Mia. Remember Derek Ferguson, from The Bronx? He said there were not many hiring people like me, from The Bronx

Combs' Agnifilo: There's something more to these businesses. Some times the real things in life are hard. No one remembers the easy days. These people grew. It was real. It was diversity. These days, DEI? Combs was doing it at 24.

Combs' Agnifilo: The prosecutors call his businesses racketeering. That's the fake trial. What happens? He gets arrested. They destroy his property. They have a SRT, Special Response Team. They are clandestine, can't follow with a camera. Rampant, they ran

Combs' Agnifilo: His kids were there. And here - six of seven, in the second row. The seventh is an infant. This is who he is. The man takes care of people. Jane came here and testified against him. Today's she's in a house he's paying for.

Combs' Agnifilo: And they found it! Boxes of Astroglide! Taken off the streets! And they got the baby oil! And the personal use d****! America is safer! Five Valium pills. When you're doing work like that? We can't photograph you. That's the evidence

Combs' Agnifilo: What do they do? They wrap yellow crime scene tape - figuratively - around his bedroom, around the hotel rooms he goes to with his girlfriends. That's a lot of crime scene tape. The crime scene is your private s***life.

Combs' Agnifilo: No one called 9-1-1. They called civil plaintiffs' lawyers. This case is about money. Cassie Ventura sues Sean Combs for $30 million because he has $30 million dollars. If he doesn't have it, no civil lawsuit, and no criminal case.

Combs' Agnifilo: This case is about five minutes. It's about love. Love as been said more than 800 times in this trial. The domestic violence, we own it. We did not ask Ms. Ventura about being hit, kicked or dragged.

Combs' Agnifilo: We did not cross Jane about it either. But domestic violence is not charged. If he was charged with that, he would have pled guilty. He did that. But he did not do racketeering conspiracy and s***trafficking. He did not kidnap or bribe anyone

Combs' Agnifilo: The first person to say this was about domestic violence was Cassie Ventura. She made an Instagram post. She said, Thank you for your love and support. The domestic violence is the issue... She could have said anything, on her phone or tablet

Combs' Agnifilo: To see their relationship is to see everything that racketeers is not. I am not going to go through a lot of text messages, or charts, or screen time - it's a terrible thing, screen time, I'm told - I'm going to tell you the story of this case.

Combs' Agnifilo: They fell in love. Cassie had a boyfriend of three years, ten years older than her - but she meets Combs and they are off the races. Mr. Combs rents a boat and they make love for the first time. They are in an intense relationship. 11 years.

Combs' Agnifilo: Cassie is smart. She flat won. She's got $30 million. And he's in jail. You probably know that. The nice looking men behind him? They are US Marshals. They keep him safe. Cassie has won 100 to nothing. They tell you she's a victim.

Combs' Agnifilo: This is a great modern love story. They didn't write these in the past because they didn't have these problems. He had six kids at the time. It's a relationship based on love. Cassie said she was young and insanely jealous.

Combs' Agnifilo: If you're in the jury room and you don't want to go home, read their text messages at the time of the break up. You will cry. They were selfless with each other. When it wasn't going to work, for the original sin of their relationship. That Gina

Combs' Agnifilo: Gina wouldn't come here, but she's out there. Then Kim Porter passed away, and Mr. Combs said what he did. For Cassie it was the last straw. She made an adult choice and left, like she always could leave. What happened? Nothing.

Combs' Agnifilo: Pick a mesage from 2018 and read it. These two people loved each other. If racketeering conspiracy had an opposite, it would be their relationship. They were their best selves when it came to sex. There were times that Sean Combs was proud

Combs' Agnifilo: On sex, they found each other. It's a beautiful thing. You won't find a single text where she says, I didn't like that sex. It was an 11 year relationship. The issues were jealousy and other women. But they match up when it comes to sex. Swingers

Combs' Agnifilo: She's a woman who loves sex. And it's beautiful. She is unafraid. Let's talk about Kid Cudi. He came in here. I'm not meaning to be judgey. Cudi comes here and says, Cassie played me. She did. She played 'em both. Not everyone can do that.

Combs' Agnifilo: She goes for it. She liked to Sean Combs as she had a relationship with another singer songwriter under his nose. She's not afraid of him. Was she going to tell either? No. Cassie is keeping it gangster. She's like, I'm going to lie to both

Combs' Agnifilo: Cassie gets a burner phone! Finally! That's what you expect in a racketeering case! She's the one who got the burner phone. The morning of Dec 22, 2021, the whole thing with Cudi and all that. She had two hotel rooms - whoa! A room for the burner

Combs' Agnifilo: She was not going to tell nobody nothing! Let's talk racketeering. The judge is going to give a legal charge later today, assuming... The first one is the 2004 kidnapping of Capricorn Clark. Let's talk about her - she said, I wanted my life back

Combs' Agnifilo: Capricorn Clark's parents passed away when she was young, I don't mean any disrespect. She told you, I'm happy she did. Others didn't tell you about their parents. She moves to The Bronx and meets Sean Combs. She goes, Super Platonic. What?

Combs' Agnifilo: I think she means, she didn't want it to be Platonic. She's out there, you could see it. She says, You know, I had the biggest crush on you. I think we misused our dope chemistry.

Combs' Agnifilo: If she's kidnapped, why does she want to go back and work for him? She's getting her nails down with Mike B - he'd going to be mad at me - she says she called 1440 and said lock everyone in. She got the lie detector, and Mike B did too.

Combs' Agnifilo: How was she kidnapped if she went home every day. Is the Government alleging five separate kidnappings? Paulie drove her home. Door to door kidnapping. The SDNY is charging this as kidnapping (laughs). It's not a kidnapping

Combs' Agnifilo: You guys come here after day, long days, and you come back the next. Have you been kidnapped? No. At the time, Sean Combs is in Raisin in the Sun, he is running Vote or Die. He couldn't care less about this. The lie detector was former FBI

Combs' Agnifilo: You guys have the right to say, Huh, that sounds like a stretch. Why charge it as a kidnapping? Come to whatever answer you think is the right answer... Capricorn leaves for a year, she makes more money, they she comes back

Combs' Agnifilo: Next, Sean and Cassie are having a freak off. It's December 22, 2011. Cassie has two hotel rooms. Combs look at her non burner phones, sees message with CC about Cudi, maybe called Scott in the text, something about hiking

Combs' Agnifilo: Why would he have a gun? He goes to get Capricorn? Why? She would do anything with him, go to the moon. He didn't need a gun, he didn't have a gun. Cudi said Cassie told Cudi that Cassie already told Combs. Are you following me?

Combs' Agnifilo: Sean Combs has nothing to gain by having a gun, and everything to lose. He is already Sean Combs. Capricorn would love have stayed employed if he pulled a gun on her. No way. Didn't happen. No gun.