Scene “Didi” Combes was convicted of prostitution-related crimes, but on Wednesday (July 2, 2025), sex trafficking and raccuring allegations were acquitted, which could put one of the most famous hip-hop’s most famous figures behind bars for life.
Mixed results can still be sent to 55, combs to a decade for a decade, and a hitmaking music executive, fashion entrepreneurs, brand ambassadors and reality TV stars are likely to end their career.
After listening to the verdict, Comombs grabbed his hands at the speed of prayer, looking at the jury and hugged the defense lawyer Ten Geragos. Combus relatives and supporters in the audience can barely get their relief, despite the advice to avoid the outbreak of the judge: when the first “guilty” was not read out loud, someone shouted, “Yes!”
Comombs later continued to pump his right fist with subtlety, appearing to be acquitted on the most serious allegations.
Comombs were convicted of blowing up people across the country, paying their girlfriends and male sex workers, who violated hooliganism of the Federal Women Act, for engaging in sexual encounters.
But the jury of eight men and four women acquitted the allegations of conspiracy and sex trafficing, related to the allegations that they used their money, power and frightening physical force, which to manipulate their girlfriends to manipulate her girlfriends with men with hundreds of drugs.
Comombs’s defense team argued that women were participants and any of their violence upheld the seriousness of the allegations.
American District Judge Arun Subramanian was weighed whether the comb to bail was to be freed in view of the decision. The judge postponed the court, while he considers the matter.
Scene “Didi” Combes, Ten Geragos and Mark Agnifilo next to their lawyers, reacts after learning that he will not be released on bail, during his sex trafficking and racketing conspiracy tests in this court room sketch in New York City, New York, US, 2 July, 2025. , Photo Credit: Jane Rosenburg
Combes were overwhelmed as the court postponed for at least a few hours. He wiped his face, turning to his chair and kneeling, bowed his head in prayer. In the audience, his relatives stood up and appreciated him. He said, “I will come home soon,” and “I love you, baby. I love you, mom,” he said.
His relatives appreciated him and his lawyers as he was dropped from the court.
Combes have been behind bars since his arrest in September. His lawyers argued that the legal scenario changed enough by acquitting the most serious cases that he should get bail.
Before announcing their decision, the gamblers discussed for about 13 hours in three days. It was late on Tuesday (July 1, 2025) that he had decided in four cases, but was stuck on racketering. At that point, the judge asked them to keep intentionally and keep the partial decision in wrapped.
Comombs did not testify in his trialtrea, in which 34 witnesses along with a wrappers attacked their ex -girlfriend, R&B singer Cai.
His lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, said in a statement after the verdict that “from coming forward with his experience, Kaisa has left an indelible mark on both the entertainment industry and the fight for justice.”
Cassie testified about its 11 -year relationship with Combes for four days, which began after signing with her bad boy record label.
Kaisi said that Combes suffered from a vioristic encounter, arranged with the help of his employees, including sex workers and abundant baby oil. During sex events, called “Freak-off” or “Hotel Nights”, Comombs will order how to work with other men who seemed abusive, testified.
When things did not go in the way of combs, he would beat her, she said.
“I am not a rip doll. I am someone’s baby,” Cassyon told Comombs after pulling Combes under a hotel hallway in 2016.
Another ex-girlfriend, testifying under the pseudonym name “Jane”, said that she repeatedly told Combes that she did not want to have sex with men hired for her efforts. “I am not an animal. I need a break,” he told her. Nevertheless, he said that he felt “bound” to follow his demands, as he paid his rent.
The most famous witness to the trial, rapper Kid QD said that the Combes broke into his home in late 2011, when he and how he was dating more after learning. A few weeks later after his car was fired, Kudi – whose real name is Scott Mescudi – said he knew that Combes was “something to do”. Comombs rejected it.
Comombs’s defense team admitted that he could be violent but argued that the prosecutors were infiltrating their personal life. In his closing comment for the jury, defense lawyer Mark Agnifilo said it was not illegal for Combes to make “homemade porn” with his girlfriend.
“They go to man’s bedroom. They go to man’s most personal life. Where is the crime site?” Mr. Agifilo said.
While Jane described the violence – like a night when Combes kneaded her, hit her face, welts and a black eye when she opposed an encounter with a sex worker – she also admitted to the witness’s stand that her feelings were complicated.
She testified that she still loves Comombs and had planned to meet her in New York for a final “Hotel Night” when she was arrested last September.
AP usually does not name people who say that they have been sexually abused until they come forward publicly.
Combes were at the center of the eastern coast-west coast of the 1990s hip-hop battles and became one of the most influential hip-hop manufacturers and officials of the last three decades, who used to diversify their interests with Scene John Fashion Label, Sirok Vodka, a cable TV channel and a film and TV studios.
With his protect Biggi Smalls – infamous Big, who was shot dead in 1997 – Comombs Mary J. Worked with artists including Blig, Ashra and Lil Kim.
In 2001, Comombs was at the center of one of the largest hip-hop tests of his era, which in 1999 stems from the shooting of the Manhattan Nichclub, who injured three people. Comombs was acquitted from allegations that he took an illegal gun at the club and tried to bribe his driver to fall.
At that time his career was quickly cured.
The reputation of the combs can cause irreparable damage, however, Cas Kaisi, after sueing him in November 2023, accused the years of sexual and physical abuse. He settled for $ 20 million the next day, but followed more cases by other women and men.
Most are still pending.
