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(NewsNation) — A adjacent person of Sean "Diddy" Combs for much than 35 years said helium "never" witnessed the euphony mogul hitting women and maintains Combs is guiltless of enactment trafficking and racketeering charges, contempt caller grounds and witnesser grounds emerging successful court.
Charlucci Finney, speaking Monday connected NewsNation's "CUOMO," powerfully defended Combs arsenic the proceedings continued with 3 witnesses supporting Cassie Ventura's claims of maltreatment and fear. Newly released photos showed Ventura with a swollen articulator aft a 2016 edifice incident.
"I'm a begetter of 2 daughters, right? So I wouldn't beryllium present ... if I ever, if I've ever saw anyone, my friends, particularly him, deed a woman," Finney told NewsNation.
"It looked like, you know, similar I was saying drug-induced high, oregon whatever, immoderate you privation to telephone it. But that's not, that's not the Sean that I cognize that you spot successful the hallway" Finney said of the video showing Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend.
Federal prosecutors person released images from Combs' New York edifice country earlier his 2024 arrest, showing bags of drugs, medicine bottles nether the alias "Frank Black," $9,000 successful currency and bottles of babe lipid and lubricant.
Finney disputed prosecution claims that participants successful alleged "Freak Offs" were coerced, saying each participants were "willing, consenting adults."
Cassie 'brought the radical in': Diddy's champion friend
He said Ventura, not Combs, was liable for bringing enactment workers to these encounters.
"How you going to marque a enactment idiosyncratic alert successful municipality oregon travel ... determination and permission ... unharmed and unscathed? .. I ne'er heard, like, that successful my life," Finney said.
“He didn't bring anyone in. Cassie brought the radical in,” Finney alleged.
Finney said helium remains successful interaction with Combs during his custody and that the euphony mogul is focused connected clearing his sanction portion worrying astir his family, including his children, mother, sisters, nieces and nephews.
"We basal prayed up, and the grounds is going to amusement that he's not blameworthy of these crimes that they're alleging," Finney said. "They person to beryllium them charges."
Combs faces national charges of enactment trafficking and racketeering. He has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges and remains successful national custody aft being denied bail aggregate times.
