Sean “Diddy” Combs is filing a new motion.
The 55-year-old music entertainer is looking to overturn his prostitution convictions, saying the government “painted him as a monster” but that the jury “rejected” the case, and that the “freak-offs” were just movie shoots protected by free speech.
If you didn’t know, he was acquitted earlier this month on most charges, but was convicted on two lesser counts of interstate prostitution.
In a new filing on Thursday (July 31), his lawyers are seeking to have those lesser convictions thrown out, as the outcome was “unprecedented” in the history of the federal prostitution law, per Billboard.
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“Sean Combs sits in jail based on evidence that he paid adult male escorts and entertainers who engaged in consensual sexual activities with his former girlfriends, which he videotaped and later watched with the girlfriends,” the lawyers wrote. “That is not prostitution, and if it is, his conviction is unconstitutional.”
“He was producing amateur pornography for later private viewing,” they wrote. “This is protected First Amendment conduct that no substantial government interest justifies prohibiting, since the films depicted adults voluntarily engaging in consensual activity.”
Diddy was arrested and charged in 2024 with racketeering (RICO) and sex trafficking violations, and accused of running a criminal operation aimed at facilitating “freak-offs.” He was cleared on the RICO and sex trafficking charges, but found guilty of transporting ex Cassie and another woman and various sex workers across state lines for the purposes of prostitution.
He will face sentencing in October, which will likely be somewhere between two and five years in prison.
President Trump is reportedly “heavily weighing” a pardon.
