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Diddy trial updates: Sean Combs' attorney slams 'fake' case


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This page reflects the news from Sean "Diddy" Combs' trial on Friday, June 27. For the latest updates from Diddy's trial, read Paste BN's live coverage for Monday, June 30. 

This story contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing.

Sean "Diddy" Combs' attorneys made their final pleas for the embattled hip-hop mogul as the mogul's criminal trial winds down and jury deliberations are set to begin.

Combs and his legal team returned to Manhattan court on June 27 to cast reasonable doubt in the minds of the 12 jurors who heard at times disturbing testimony from more than 30 witnesses over the course of nearly seven weeks. The defense took about five hours for closing arguments, with Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo framing the case as a "tale of two trials."

Agnifilo claimed the government distorted the mogul's consensual sexual "lifestyle" into criminal acts while witnesses spoke of the "successful Black entrepreneur" as a respected and generous figure. Agnifilo praised Combs' past, suggesting the accusations against him paint a "false," "exaggerated" picture.

The defense attorney argued the case is about love, jealousy and money, not trafficking or racketeering, and accused the government of putting on a show to target a wealthy celebrity.

For the government to call this a racketeering enterprise, Agnifilo said, "Are you kidding me? That's the fake trial I'm telling you about." Throughout his closing arguments, Agnifilo kept returning to that point: "Don't listen to the other trial, which is the fake trial. Listen to the real trial."

Prosecutor Maurene Comey returned to the floor to present the government's rebuttal, following the end of the defense's statements and prosecutors' own closing arguments on June 26, which lasted about six hours.

"Mr. Agnifolo suggested Cassie was the winner of a prize," Comey said. "Black eyes? A gash in her head? Getting urinated in her mouth? How could anyone think that's a prize? That's ridiculous."

What's next in the Diddy trial?

The jury will return Monday, June 30, for instructions from Judge Arun Subramanian before gathering for deliberations.

Combs, 55, was arrested in September and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

And amid Friday's court proceedings, both Combs and his son Justin Combs were hit with a gang-rape lawsuit, filed by attorney Tony Buzbee.

The 'tools' Diddy allegedly used

"They tried to leave. Cassie literally ran away," Comey said in her rebuttal. She reminded the jury that "the money, the career, the house were all tools" Combs used to keep Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine and Combs' ex "Jane" trapped, Comey said.

Comey described the June 2024 incident with Combs and Jane, in which he allegedly beat her and kicked down multiple doors, as the most "clear cut" example of sex trafficking. "Jane may have started the fight, but he finished it with a vengeance," Comey said, adding that Combs won that fight and made Jane pay with a "freak off."

In the 2024 incident, Jane was bruised, sore and tired, Comey said, noting Jane didn't want to perform oral sex on an escort for hours. Comey recalled Combs' alleged comments about coercion. Jane "had no choice, and the defendant knew that," Comey said.

As she closed her rebuttal, Comey said that for 20 years Combs got away with his crimes. That ends in this courtroom, Comey said, and it's time to hold him accountable. Find him guilty, Comey urged the jury.

One 'freak off' is all it takes

Comey said "there is a huge difference between what Cassie and Jane were willing to try early on" compared to what came later in their relationships with Combs. "Mr. Combs went so far past the line, he couldn't even see it."

She went on to say that "when you're getting threatened or manipulated, you don't need to say no" in order for it to be considering trafficking. One forced "freak off" is all the jury needs to understand this was coercion, Comey said.

Prosecution slams defense 'lemonade' argument: 'They have no motive to lie'

Comey argued Agnifilo was trying to say "that Cassie and Jane and Mia are liars because, of course, they wanted it." Contradicting Agnifilo, Comey said this was different from preferences for the beach or lemonade: These women were awake for days, covered in oil, wearing 8-inch heels, often with a UTI and having unprotected sex with strangers, Comey said. She said it's different from someone going "along like lemonade."

"What the defense is suggesting is that these women lied to you repeatedly," Comey said. "But these women have no reason to lie. They have no motive to lie at all."

Comey said Ventura Fine was already paid $20 million by Combs the day after filing suit against him, and she was not expecting a dollar more for her testimony. Comey questioned why Ventura Fine would agree to have the "freak off" videos played in front of the jury: because Cassie was "someone who was standing up for what is right." Comey said Combs' ex-assistant "Mia" also wasn't getting paid or trying to extract fame – on the contrary, she's using a pseudonym and was terrified of taking the stand. Mia physically folded on the stand, Comey said, shrinking and sobbing as she was asked to recount the horrible experiences she alleged.

"Mia is not a trained actor. No one is handing out Oscars or Tonys for performances in this courtroom," Comey said. 

Comey said Combs' ex-lover "Jane" similarly never sued, adding that because Combs still pays Jane's rent, Jane has a financial incentive, if any, to help the defense and Combs. "If Jane was going to come here to lie, it'd be to help the defendant," Comey said.

Comey also talked about the confusing feelings about untangling love and abuse, noting victims will often try to justify what happened to them. "Finding meaning and happiness in trauma does not mean the trauma never happened," Comey said. "It's healing."

'He's the general, not a foot soldier'

Comey reiterated Combs ran criminal enterprise fueled by his employees' help. Comey said Combs is a man who couldn't get his own water bottle or plug in his own phone – of course he wouldn't be able to do this alone, she said.

"He's the general, not a foot soldier," Comey said. Combs' business "had dual purposes: lawful and unlawful," Comey said.

Diddy 'is a hands and fists guy … with his girlfriends,' prosecutors say

Comey brought up the Kid Cudi incident, referencing Agnifilo's "John Wayne" fighting mentality comments from earlier in the day. "Combs is a hands and fists guy, sure, with his girlfriends. When he's beating up a woman half his size, he doesn't need a gun." But when it comes to meeting up with a man he intends to kill, Comey said, of course Combs would bring weapons.

Diddy's alleged coconspirators were 'nice and friendly and helpful'

Agnifilo also took the opportunity to minimize the alleged criminal conduct of Combs' employees, Kristina "KK" Khorram and D-Roc, his bodyguard who apparently frequently interacted with Combs' partners.

"They're just nice and friendly and helpful," Agnifilo said of the two. "KK is the single most helpful person. Everyone should have a KK."

He continued, "The government makes it sinister that he has security. Of course he has security at his level."

Lawyer encourages jurors to 'return' Diddy 'to his family'

Appealing to jurors as Combs' "peers" and praising the country's due process, Agnifilo told the 12-person group, "Today, you guys are the United States of America. This is your house. I’m asking you to acquit Sean Combs.

He added that Combs "sits there innocent. Return him to his family, who have been waiting for him."

He took aim again at U.S. attorneys when he said, "The Cassie lawsuit went out and these guys wanted to make a case because of Sean Combs. It’s not a real case."

'At what point do you stop trusting the government?'

Agnifilo continued to cast doubt on the government's case against Combs by taking aim at Los Angeles police and Homeland Security Investigations' findings.

Pointing to Andre Lamon's June 13 testimony, the attorney said the agent was unsure whether firearms recovered at Combs' Los Angeles home were in a safe. "They brought out a big, nasty, scary gun for what purpose? To scare you," Agnifilo said.

He also brought up questions around LA law enforcement's testimony, noting the possible female DNA found on the glass bottle that exploded Kid Cudi's Porsche as well as the fingerprints that went missing or were destroyed after that.

"At what point do you stop trusting the government? It takes a lot of courage to acquit," Agnifilo said.

Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo downplays 'freak-off' videos as 'homemade porn'

Agnifilo touched on the "freak off" videos that were only shown to jurors as evidence of alleged sex trafficking. He set aside the sexual aspect and cast the footage as indicative of a "nice" mood.

"Looking at the videos, they go to a nice dinner, go to a nice hotel. Put aside the sex, and what you have left is this beautiful evening. Everyone is smiling, laughing, listening to music, talking and just hanging out," Agnifilo said.

"There's a genuine intimacy and a nice quality to these evenings. The physical intimacy is not aggressive in any way," he added. "It's homemade porn. That's really what it is. And I don't think by any stretch this is the only man in America making homemade porn."

Diddy lawyer takes aim at 'Jane'

Agnifilo talked more about Jane, trying to paint her as a gold digger. "What am I getting out of it that the world can see?" he asked. From Jane's perspective, Agnifilo said, it was all about getting the bags, jewelry, trips, social media pictures, dinners, the house and things that she could show off.

"You guys know who her baby father is, and you know who she was with in Vegas," he said, referencing facts that were never confirmed in the trial. He also added that she was drawn to "that kind of strata. That's just how she moves."

Diddy lawyer claims mogul had a consensual relationship with ex-assistant, Cassie's friend Mia

Agnifilo attempted to push back against the woman called "Mia," who testified under a pseudonym during the trial. He said there is every reason to think that what Mia did in the courtroom was acting.

"There's every indication that Mia loved working at this company," Agnifilo said. He said that the birthday video that Mia made for Combs was "the real her. She put on a false persona in the courtroom." In the video, "she was bubbly, she was outspoken, she was happy," Agnifilo added.

In terms of the allegations that Combs sexually assaulted Mia multiple times, Agnifilo said that "this was undoubtedly a series of consensual things." He told the court the only reason Combs and Mia covered it up was to hide it from Ventura Fine, who was close friends with Mia. Agnifilo said platonic relationships are possible, but "the feelings that Mia had for Mr. Combs went way deeper."

Agnifilo talked about all of Mia's effusive social media posts and how she made a book of press clippings for Combs' 45th birthday. "This was not a part of her job. If there ever was an act of love, this is it," Agnifilo said. Agnifilo put on a show with the book, saying, "Look at this. This is a young man, his whole life ahead of him. It's remarkable." Agnifilo then read Mia's birthday message she had written in the book. "She loves him. You can't fake that," Agnifilo said. 

Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo attempts to cast doubt on Cassie rape

In court, Agnifilo discussed Combs' alleged 2018 rape of Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine.

Agnifilo said Ventura Fine's now-husband Alex Fine called when she was having sex with Combs, and she told him that she had been raped, so she had to stick with the story.

"She's in a bind," Agnifilo said. "She has to do the oldest trick in the book. … She has to say he raped her," because her now-husband calls while they were having sex. "She doesn't want to give up on the rape because she already told that to her husband," Agnifilo said.

Agnifilo cast doubt on the rape timeline, claiming Cassie wouldn't have had sex with Combs in September if he raped her in August.

Agnifilo also talked about Ventura Fine's testimony about the pain she said she faced. "I was gripping my chair. Whoa! What is she gonna say?" Agnifilo said sarcastically, before quoting Ventura Fine, who said the most painful thing was the shame. Agnifilo said only someone in love can respond that way.

Diddy lawyer calls Michael B. Jordan 'most handsome man in the world'

In court, Agnifilo said that Combs and Ventura Fine arguing about "freak offs" was the same as some couples disagreeing over going to the beach or drinking strawberry lemonade, adding that "your likes become one" as a couple.

Then, he invoked Ventura Fine's brief ex-boyfriend, "Sinners" star Michael B. Jordan. While seemingly attempting to describe Ventura Fine's sex appeal, Agnifilo said that she dated "Michael B. Jordan, who's the most handsome man in the world."

Combs' attorneys previously scrutinized Ventura Fine's other relationships, saying that Combs suspected that she was in a relationship with the Emmy-nominated actor after the pair broke up in 2015.

At the time of their split, the singer-actress was filming a movie in South Africa (Ventura Fine starred in the musical drama "Honey 3: Dare to Dance," which was set in South Africa and reportedly concluded filming in December 2015.)

Diddy lawyer says mogul, Cassie were swingers

In his closing arguments, Combs' lawyer Agnifilo pushed back against the idea that the Bad Boy Records founder sex trafficked his ex-girlfriend Ventura Fine.

"There's a lot more dirty talk in this case than most criminal cases by a long shot," Agnifilo said. He went on to say that it wasn't trafficking: "It's the sex that they're having. He's not making any money from this. They're swingers, it's their lifestyle. The evidence is overwhelming that Cassie wanted to do this."

Sexual "swinging," a consensual but nonmonogamous sexual behavior, takes place when singles or partners in committed relationships engage in intimate acts.

During a court hearing April 25, less than two weeks before the trial began May 5, Agnifilo started laying the groundwork for his client's legal defense, suggesting behavior prosecutors have painted as illegal was simply the result of sexual swinging.

At the time, Agnifilo said in court that it was "a lifestyle" that Combs had, adding to "call it swingers."

Agnifilo said Cassie, Diddy were afraid of 'bad press,' not police

Referencing an incident in which Ventura Fine allegedly stayed in a London hotel room for a week to hide the injuries Combs had inflicted, Agnifilo sarcastically said, it was "a one for the ages kidnapping."

Saying that she wanted to go to Combs' house but was forced to stay at the hotel, Agnifilo told jurors: "When you wanna go to the house of the guy charged with the kidnapping, it's not a kidnapping."

"They don't want bad press," he said of the former couple. Turning to the hotel coverup, in which Combs allegedly paid large sums of cash to make a video of him beating Ventura Fine go away, Agnifilo said: "They're not worried about police, they're worried about bad publicity."

"It's a horrible video, it's a misdemeanor," he added, saying repeated calls from Combs to Ventura Fine after the incident were "just trying to get her attention."

Diddy's lawyers say Combs planned fist fight with Kid Cudi

Agnifilo did not deny that Combs went over to rapper Kid Cudi's house, noting they were fighting over a woman, Ventura Fine.

"At the risk of sounding sexist, they were going to do what men do: Have a good old-fashioned fist fight. A good old-fashioned, John Wayne, 8 in the morning in the Hollywood Hills fist fight," he said. There were no weapons; they were going to settle it like men do, Agnifilo argued.

"Blowing up a man's car is cowardly. He's going to fight him because that's who he is – he's not going to blow up his car," he said, adding that the Los Angeles Fire Department investigation into the alleged arson attack "stunk." The investigation leader "tried to track down Cassie. He tried to track down Capricorn. I wonder if that's a coincidence," he said to jurors.

Diddy's lawyer says Capricorn Clark was obsessed with him

Returning to a December 2011 incident in which Combs is alleged to have shown up at Capricorn Clark's apartment with a gun, Agnifilo said: "I'm gonna go through five reasons why he didn't have a gun."

One of those reasons, he suggested, was that Clark was obsessed with Combs. "She was probably waiting for him to come over at 5:30 in the morning for years. She loved him. He didn't need a gun," he told jurors, adding that Clark would go to the moon with Combs if he asked.

Another reason he cited was that Combs "had everything to lose and nothing to gain from having a gun."

"There's no way on God's green earth" that Combs would show up with a gun, he said. "Capricorn would not have stayed employed if he had pulled a gun on her."

Kid Cudi and Ventura Fine never testified that Clark had told them Combs had a gun, Agnifilo pointed out, noting that "gun" and "kill" are two of the most memorable words in the English language, and they would have remembered Clark saying that.

Agnifilo reiterated that it "was not a kidnapping."

"She doesn't want to say that she was there of her volition," he argued, "so she makes up 'gun.'"

Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo zeros in on Cassie's 'domestic violence is the issue' comments

During the trial, Agnifilo zeroed in on Ventura Fine's Instagram post from May 2024, where she said, "Domestic violence is the issue." The "Me & U" singer made the comments in a statement following public outcry after leaked hotel security footage surfaced of Combs kicking, dragging and hitting her at a now-closed Los Angeles luxury hotel.

"She could have said, 'Coerced sex with men is the issue.' She could have said 'Running away from freak offs is the issue.' No, domestic violence is the issue. Her words in an Instagram post," he said. "When she says domestic violence is the issue, I say believe her."

Diddy's lawyer says Sean Combs was DEI pioneer in closing arguments

As Combs' lawyer's closing arguments continued, he invoked race and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

"It was real. It was diversity," Agnifilo said about working for Combs. He brought up DEI, saying that Combs was "doing this in 1993 as a 24-year-old."

"Not because some government told him to, but because that's just who he is," Combs' lawyer Agnifilo said. For the government to call this a racketeering enterprise, Agnifilo said, "Are you kidding me? That's the fake trial I'm telling you about."

Diddy's lawyer say trial was about 'love'

Still defiant, Agnigilo said the trial had been about multiple things – none of which are sex trafficking, racketeering or transportation to engage in prostitution, the charges that Combs is facing.

The trial is about love, he said, noting the word has been said 881 times throughout the proceedings. The trial is about infidelity, and it is "so much about jealousy," Agnifilo added.

He then turned to Ventura Fine's testimony, noting that in their cross-examination of her, "We didn't ask her a single thing about being hit, being kicked, being dragged – we own it. It happened. That's not charged. That's part of the fake trial." Combs' defense team is hinging their success on the idea that jurors will decide that the music mogul may be a domestic abuser, but that does not make him a criminal kingpin.

"We wouldn't all be sitting here because he would have pled guilty," Agnifilo said of the possibility of a trial on domestic violence charges. Instead, he said, Combs is going to "fight to the death to defend himself," against the racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo slams 'false' and 'exaggerated' trial

During his comments, Agnifilo went on to call the trial "the false trial, the exaggerated trial," and effusively thanked the jurors for their attention. He said they are "a credit to the jury system and to our country."

Agnifilo began by calling Combs a "successful Black entrepreneur," adding that he would like to think that there are thousands of them, but sadly, " I don’t think there are." Agnifilo reiterated how many witnesses came into the courtroom and said they were moved by Combs, recounting how witnesses described working for him as "going to Harvard Business School. The single greatest experience of my life. He made my world so much bigger. He taught me to have a work ethic."

Combs' lawyers have long stated that Combs may not be likable, but he is also not guilty of the federal sex charges against him.

"Did they always like him? No way, let's not even go there. But they loved him, even the ones who are suing him, they love him. They didn't want to leave him," Agnifilo said. "The woman who testified as Mia," Agnifilo continued, said she was suicidal after leaving Combs' employ. "Was it always easy? No, but sometimes the best things in life are hard. That is how you build character," Agnifilo said.

Diddy lawyer strikes defiant, sarcastic tone in final arguments

As his closing statement continued, Agnifilo became more forceful, adopting an almost sarcastic tone with jurors.

Mentioning one of the prosecution's key witnesses, Combs' ex-girlfriend anonymously identified as Jane, he said: "I hope she's having a nice day. But do you know where she's doing it? In the house he's paying for." In her testimony, Jane alleged that Combs used the fact that he paid for her home to coerce her into sex acts, and confirmed that he still pays her rent.

Agnifilo then turned to the federal raids on Combs' various homes. "I guess that's all worth it," he said, "Boxes and boxes of Astroglide. They got it, the streets of America are safe from the Astroglide. Thank God for the special responses team. They got the baby oil, way to go fellas."

In the photos of the hotel rooms and houses that federal agents had raided, Agnifilo suggested that the government was putting on a show with excessive yellow crime tape.

"You know, it's the 50th anniversary of 'Jaws.' We need a bigger boat, we need a bigger crime scene tape," he continued, hammering home his point that the whole ordeal had been for show.

"This isn't about a crime. It's about money," he said. "Cassie Ventura sued Sean Combs for $30 million because he has $30 million." In 2023, Ventura Fine filed a civil suit against Combs, which was settled within a day. She later revealed on the stand that the lawsuit was settled for $20 million.

A 'tale of two trials,' Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo says

As Combs' defense lawyers began to make their final arguments, Agnifilo characterized the proceedings as "a tale of two trials."

There's one trial of evidence and "one from the mouths of prosecutors," he said. The prosecutors' version of events, he said, is "nothing like" what the evidence shows.

He continued to describe Combs' behavior, which included days-long "freak-off" sex parties and heavy drug use, as "a lifestyle."

"You wanna call it swingers, you wanna call it threesomes, whatever it is," he said, chastising prosecutors for trying to claim Combs' sex life was "one of the most serious, complicated, comprehensive" criminal acts.

Prosecution details times Diddy sex-trafficked Cassie

Ventura Fine was the victim of sex trafficking multiple times, Slavik told jurors on June 26, detailing three specific instances.

The first was when Combs assaulted her at the Los Angeles InterContinental Hotel in 2016. Pointing to a text message Ventura Fine had sent Combs at the time that read "We can have fun, I don't want you thinking I don't want to," Slavik said: "She knows that the defendant won't take no for an answer." The prosecutor also noted the "freak off" did not need to have been completed for Combs to be found guilty of sex trafficking.

The other two incidents, which Slavik said are not the only times Combs trafficked Ventura Fine, involved Combs paying Daniel Phillip to have sex with Cassie between 2012 and 2014, as well as an alleged incident at the Cannes Film Festival, during which Combs kicked Ventura Fine off a boat.

Prosecutors lay ground for racketeering charge

Slavik alleged during the June 26 hearing that Combs is "the head of a criminal enterprise" as she walked jurors through racketeering charges against the mogul. She pointed to allegations that Combs physically and sexually abused Ventura Fine and Jane over and over again — and worked with his staff to force the women into "freak offs."

Slavik described racketeering as the act of committing a crime as part of a group. "Remember, it's his kingdom. Everyone was there to serve him," she said, alleging Combs' staffers "made it their mission" to promote his power and stature.

Was Diddy found not guilty?

No, a verdict has not yet been reached in Combs' criminal case.

After more than a month of harrowing testimony from several of Combs' associates, the prosecution rested its case on June 24. Meanwhile, Combs' lawyers rested their case in less than half an hour, with the defense opting not to call any witnesses to the stand.

Although the music mogul's alleged abuse is at the center of the trial, Combs told the court he would not be testifying.

Closing arguments began Thursday, June 26, and are expected to conclude Friday, June 27.

Did Diddy's charges get dropped?

No, none of the charges from Combs' federal indictment have been formally dropped. But in a June 24 letter to Judge Arun Subramanian, prosecutors revealed they were withdrawing some of their criminal allegations ahead of closing arguments.

U.S. attorneys said they don't want jurors to consider their previous claims that Combs allegedly engaged in racketeering by attempting kidnapping in California and New York, attempting arson in California, and aiding and abetting sex trafficking. The move was made as part of an effort to "streamline" jury instructions.

Despite the tossed allegations, Combs' indictment accused him not just of attempting arson and kidnapping, but also of committing these crimes outright as part of a criminal conspiracy.

Is Diddy in jail?

The disgraced music mogul is in custody, and despite repeated attempts at bail, has remained confined to the Special Housing Unit in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center. He has been in jail since his arrest on Sept. 16, 2024.

When is the Diddy trial over?

Subramanian has said he's hopeful proceedings will wrap up by the July 4 holiday, and that schedule is still on track. Jurors will begin deliberating either Friday, June 27, or Monday, June 30.

How much time is Diddy facing?

If convicted on all counts, the Bad Boy Records founder faces a minimum 15-year prison term and could be sentenced to life behind bars.

How many kids does Diddy have?

Combs has seven children. He had his first biological son, Justin Combs, 31, with fashion designer and stylist Misa Hylton.

The rapper shared four children with longtime girlfriend Kim Porter, including Porter's son Quincy Brown, 34, whom she had with R&B singer-songwriter Al B. Sure! The couple's other children include son Christian "King" Combs, 27, and twin daughters D'Lila and Jessie Combs, 18.

Combs has two other daughters: 18-year-old Chance Combs, whom he shares with businesswoman Sarah Chapman; and 2-year-old Love from his relationship with model and cybersecurity specialist Dana Tran.

What is Diddy on trial for?

Combs is facing federal sex-crimes and trafficking charges in a sprawling case that has eroded his status as a power player and kingmaker in the entertainment industry.

He was arrested in September 2024 and later charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. The rapper has pleaded not guilty to the five counts against him.

What is racketeering?

Racketeering is the participation in an illegal scheme under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Statute, or RICO, as a way for the U.S. government to prosecute organizations that contribute to criminal activity.

Using RICO law, which is typically aimed at targeting multi-person criminal organizationsprosecutors allege that Combs coerced victims, some of whom they say were sex workers, through intimidation and narcotics to participate in "freak offs" — sometimes dayslong sex performances that federal prosecutors allege they have on video.

How to stream the Diddy trial

The trial will not be televised, as cameras are typically not allowed in federal criminal trial proceedings.

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