Donald Trump could also be hedging on Sean Combs getting a pardon, however the ex-girlfriend and AWOL authorities witness who skipped the sex-trafficking trial of the convicted Unhealthy Boy Information founder now thinks Diddy‘s modified, poses no menace, and must be out on a $50 million bond ASAP.
“Our relationship, like many, was not all the time good, we skilled ups and downs, and errors have been made however he was keen to acknowledge his errors and make higher selections sooner or later,” declares the self revealing Virginia Huynh a.ok.a. “Gina” a.ok.a. Sufferer-3 in a letter included with correspondence from Combs’ protection crew filed right this moment in federal court docket.
Cited within the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace for the Southern District of New York’s indictment of Combs on racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution as one of many accused main victims, Sufferer-3 was scheduled to testify for the feds together with Sufferer-1 Cassie Ventura and Sufferer-2 “Jane” within the Might 12 beginning trial in Manhattan. Nevertheless, simply days earlier than the jury trial in entrance of Decide Arun Subramanian was starting, Sufferer-3 was nowhere to be discovered and wasn’t responding to prosecutors’ makes an attempt to contact her or her lawyer.
Risking throwing the entire matter into chaos, the previous Combs girlfriend’s absence was famous by attorneys and witnesses alike repeatedly over the greater than a month of trial. “Gina, although she won’t be testifying, is a essential character on this trial,” prosecutor Christy Slavik acknowledged at one level of the abuse and assaults Sufferer-3 allegedly suffered.
Figuring out herself publicly now at a pivotal time for Combs, who in early July was solely discovered responsible of two lesser counts of transportation to interact in prostitution and is set to be sentenced on October 3, Huynh began seeing the ‘I Want A Lady’ performer in 2014. Huynh and Combs’ relationship prompted tensions with each Ventura (who dated him from 2007 to 2018, with Combs alleging raping her after they broke up) and “Jane” (who dated Diddy from 2021 to 2024) as generally harrowing testimony of drug pushed and filmed “freak-off” intercourse periods with male escorts, horrible violence by admitted home abuser Combs and extra laid naked.
Nonetheless that alleged maltreatment and exploitation appears solid apart in Huynh’s letter Sunday.
“Through the years that adopted he made seen efforts to turn out to be a greater particular person and to deal with the hurt he had prompted,” she says of the a lot accused and far sued Combs, advocating for him being sprung from the Metropolitan Detention Heart, the place he had been in custody since his September 2024 arrest, on a $50 million bond. “By the point our relationship ended, he embodied an power of affection, persistence and gentleness that was markedly totally different from his previous habits. To my information, he has not been violent for a few years, and he has been dedicated to being a father first.”
In a direct blow to prosecutors’ POV and to Decide Subramanian’s personal repeated opinion in denying earlier bond requests by Combs’ legal professionals, Huynh provides: “I’m writing as a result of I don’t view Mr. Combs as a hazard to me or to the neighborhood.” On the finish of the one-page letter she takes a reasonably large leap of religion: “Permitting him to be at dwelling will even assist the therapeutic course of for all concerned.”
On this courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs, far left, reacts because the jury foreman reads the July 2, 2025 verdict convicting him of prostitution-related offenses however acquitting him of intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses that might have put him behind bars for all times (Elizabeth Williams through AP)
Elizabeth Williams through AP
With out direct point out of Sufferer-3, the as soon as Maurene Comey-led prosecution (Trump’s DOJ fired her out of the blue late final month) has already put their distinction of opinion and info within the docket. “The trial file is replete with proof of the defendant’s acts of violence in the direction of others,” the feds mentioned in a July 31 letter to Decide Subramanian pushing again on the Marc Agnifilo- and Teny Gerago-led protection’s newest transfer to get their consumer out.
Once more, in correspondence filed earlier than Huynh’s letter Sunday, the SDNY additionally counter the notion that Combs has modified lately.
“Extra lately, the defendant brutally attacked Jane in June 2024, additionally within the context of a Freak Off,” they pinpoint of Combs, an abuse episode that might be months after Ventura’s rapidly settled lawsuit ($20 million) in opposition to him and months after federal officers had raided houses of his on the East and West Coast. “As Jane testified at trial, after she initiated a bodily confrontation with the defendant, she repeatedly locked herself in rooms in her dwelling to guard herself from the defendant.”
The protection right this moment waved off prosecutors allegations about “Gina,” the reported June 2024 assault on “Jane” and the place Combs himself is at now.
“If any of this was true,” the now eight-lawyer deep protection says in a nuanced but in addition closely redacted eight web page letter of the abuse and freak-offs that allegedly rained down on Sufferer-3, “the federal government would have known as this particular person, however with out credible proof the Courtroom mustn’t think about this to proceed to detain Combs.”
Reiterating the preemptive acknowledgement they used at trial, Agnifilo, Geragos, Alexandra Shapiro, Jason D. Driscoll, Nicole Westmoreland, Xavier Donaldson, Brian Metal and Anna Estevao be certain to affirm Combs has been on the straight and slender since his arrest and detainment. “At trial, the protection admitted violence in reference to decades-old violence, and an incident of assault for which Combs was first attacked repeatedly in June of 2024,” they mentioned Sunday.
“However Combs has not participated in any violence for the previous 11-months, demonstrating to the Courtroom that even within the situations he’s at present topic to, the place there may be ‘unchecked violence’ surrounding him, he won’t commit assault,” the protection went on to say. “He’s sober, has been dedicated to bettering himself with remedy (as established within the trial file) and is dedicated to doing the whole lot potential to assist himself and his household.”
The excessive profile protection goes on to exclaim: “That Sean Combs has been freed from violence of each type is vital to understanding that man he’s right this moment. He has proven nothing however respect for the legal justice system and everybody in it, from his first minute in jail till now. There is no such thing as a purpose to consider he will probably be violent or threatening to anybody in any method.”
The U.S. Legal professional’s workplace for the SDNY didn’t reply to Deadline’s request for remark Sunday on the protection’s newest letter and the correspondence from Huynh.
With simply two months to go earlier than the 20-year stint going through Combs is definitely sentenced (he gained’t get wherever close to that), it appears virtually ludicrous for him to be let loose at this level, particularly with time served clearly to be a part of what he will get. Nearly, ludicrous however much less so as a result of the protection are already asking for a brand new trial and plan to formally attraction as quickly as Decide Subramanian fingers down the sentence in October.
until, having rejected bail requests for nearly a yr and as lately as when Combs was convicted on July 2, Decide Subramanian has mentioned he’ll entertain the notion yet one more time — whether or not right this moment’s letters have any affect past public opinion is the wild card — except Trump actually does pardon the “half-innocent” Combs beforehand.
