Once one of the most powerful music moguls in the world, Sean 'Diddy' Combs is now relying on a $10 million team of legal heavyweights to rescue his ruined reputation as his sex trafficking trial rolls on for another six weeks.
The defiant Grammy Award winning rapper is used to commanding a crowd - but he has been sitting silently on the defense benches while eight key defense attorneys take center stage during the blockbuster case in Manhattan federal court.
His leading lawyers are Marc Agnifilo, 60, a former Manhattan District Attorney who has tried more than 200 cases during his 30-year career, and millennial 'nepo baby' defender Teny Geragos, 34, who has been using TikTok to argue Diddy's case.
Other key attorneys on the defense team include Brian Steel, who secured a reduced sentence for Young Thug in his RICO trial and has a Drake song named after him, and top-rated white-collar crimes attorney Anna Maria Estevao.
Alexandra Shapiro, who represented FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in his conviction appeal, is also on the team, while one of the associates at her firm, Jason Driscoll, is one of the more junior members in Comb's line of defense.
