While the selection of the jury in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean “Diddy” should start at the beginning of May, his legal team would have noted a major addition in the form of the lawyer based in Los An
Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, Jodi Arias, Jussie Smollett, Scott Peterson and many other household names make up the list of previous customers of Geragos while he was tried to defend them against the allegations of agricultural aggression, display flight, first degree murder and have false relations with the police. His list of customers alone indicates that not all cases were a feather in the ceiling of the lawyer for celebrities, but he is renowned for having provided a rigorous defense and often achieving surprising victories in the courthouses of California.
Although it was not officially confirmed as part of the Combres defense team, a place seemed to open when lawyer Anthony Ricco retired from his case. He submitted the request to withdraw before the Federal Court of Manhattan on February 20, declaring cryptically: “In no case can I continue to serve effectively as a council (for Combs).”
Combs and Geragos also have several other links. For decades, Kenny Meiselas, the father of Ben Meiselas, partner of the homonymous law firm in Geragos, was a personal lawyer of Combs. And Geragos said publicly that he has been a friend with Combs for at least a decade and said that he represented the rap star in the past – although he was not clearly clear and, if this representation was in judicial affairs, with which Geragos was involved.
Since the combat houses were attacked in March 2024, Geragos appeared on news television, especially on the newspaper Cuomo With the former host of CNN Chris Cuomo, as a guest and expert to discuss his friend and sometimes the case of customer. Here is an overview of some of the declarations on Diddy and his legal problems in the past year.
In March 2024, Geragos appeared as part of a panel of guests on Cuomo And described the federal raids on the Combres and Miami houses as a “message of shock and fear”. The lawyer, who was not known to be associated with Combs professionally, suggested that he was aimed at putting pressure on potential witnesses to cooperate with the authorities.
After the release of CNN in May of the same year of a shocking and horrible surveillance video of 2016 which shows combs assaulting its former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura in a hotel in Los Angeles, Geragos expressed skepticism about the calendar and the reason behind the flight, suggesting that it was strategically released after the raids. Last month, when the Combs legal team told court that CNN had changed the images, Geragos had focused on the issue on his question 2 angry men podcast. As a co-host, Harvey Levin de Tmz said that he could not see why the images would be eligible for the trial, Geragos spent time on the podcast, wondering deeply why the network would modify such a damaging media.
Finally, during an appearance on television in October, Geragos spent time having doubts about the credibility of the Courgess witness, which claims to have sex cassettes with combs and some of his famous friends. Geragos questioned the authenticity of evidence and publicly indicated that Burgess’s claim on having or saw the images “does not succeed in the odor test”. The lawyer also declared on News Nation Cuomo Let him question the reasons for the accusation concerning Burgess.
“I suspect that the prosecutors brought him before the Grand Jury to make him work,” Geragos told the host Chris Cuomo. “Because I only think anyone buy what he sells.”
