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Diddy's Hail Mary: Convincing a sex-trafficking jury he, too, is a domestic violence victim Sean Combs plans to make his own alleged victimhood a centerpiece of his sex-trafficking defense. Prosecutors say Combs' ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, will testify throughout next week. "We are 100% going to raise that," Combs' lawyer said of his allegations that Ventura struck the rap mogul. Sean "Diddy" Combs wants 12 New Yorkers to see him as a victim. Central to the millionaire rap mogul's defense at his criminal sex-trafficking trial next week will be the claim that R&B singer Cassie Ventura — the star witness in the case against him — abused him, too. "We are 100% going to raise that," Combs' defense attorney Marc Agnifilo told the trial judge in a final pre-trial hearing on Friday. "We are going to take the position that there was mutual violence on both sides," he told US District Court Justice Arun Subramanian, as Combs sat at the defense table, nodding his head approvingly. "There was hitting on both sides," Agnifilo told the judge. "We're probably going to refer to it as domestic violence." The judge on Friday barred the defense from alleging to jurors that Ventura, Combs' ex-girlfriend of more than a decade, was violent to someone other than Combs. Agnifilo had argued that jurors needed to see that Ventura was a "strong" person who
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