Lawyers reveal they’ll claim Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was a ‘swinger,’ not a rapist – as he turns down plea deal from feds

Sean “Diddy” Combs will reason astatine his upcoming racketeering proceedings that he was simply a “swinger” and not nan depraved activity fiend feds person made him retired to be, his lawyer revealed Friday.

“There’s a lifestyle, telephone it swingers aliases immoderate you will, that he thought was due because it was common,” Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo said astatine a pre-trial proceeding for nan disgraced euphony mogul successful Manhattan national court.

“Many group deliberation it’s due because it’s common,” Agnifilo added.

Judge Arun Subramanian ruled from nan chair that Combs’ lawyers tin bring up nan swinger argument, but that they cannot mention different examples of salient group believed to person engaged successful specified a “lifestyle,” aliases who person allegedly hired activity workers.

Federal prosecutors besides revealed for nan first clip Friday that Combs rejected a plea connection made successful beforehand of his May 5 proceedings date.

The 55-year-old Bad Boy Records laminitis faces racketeering and activity trafficking charges, pinch prosecutors alleging he forced lovers into drug-fueled, days-long activity marathons dubbed “Freak-Offs,” and ran his institution arsenic a criminal enterprise.

He faces up to life successful prison.

Federal prosecutors person said successful tribunal papers that witnesses taking nan guidelines astatine an 8-to-10-week-trial will springiness “graphic testimony” astir “years’ worthy of beatings, drug-fueled coercive activity marathons, and aggregate rapes.”

Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura is expected to attest against him, along pinch 3 different alleged victims who will usage pseudonyms erstwhile they return nan stand.