BREAKING: Diddy has been found not guilty on 3 of 5 counts in his sex-trafficking trial

Diddy acquitted of sex trafficking but found guilty on lesser charges.

Jurors found Combs guilty of transportation to engage prostitution but acquitted him on the top charge of racketeering and both sex trafficking counts

Sean "Diddy" Combs was found not guilty on Wednesday (July 2), racketeering and sex trafficking charges in his sweeping, weeks-long criminal trial, but he was convicted on more minor prostitution charges involving two former girlfriends who say he physically, sexually and psychologically abused them.

NEW YORK — A New York jury has come back with verdicts in the case of Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Combs was found not guilty on two counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering conspiracy. The jury, however, did find him guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Each conviction carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Combs was convicted of flying people around the country, including his girlfriends and paid male sex workers, to engage in sexual encounters, a felony violation of the federal Mann Act.

But the jury of eight men and four women acquitted Combs of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges, related to allegations that he used his money, power and frightening physical force to manipulate his girlfriends into hundreds of drug-fueled sex marathons with the men.

Combs and his defense team argued that the women were willing participants and that none of his violence justified the severity of the charges.

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