Mr. Combs’s lead lawyer made a final appeal to the jury, arguing in often sarcastic tones that the government’s evidence contradicted its case against the hip-hop mogul.

The judge presiding over the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial scolded a defense attorney following a claim that the government targeted the hip-hop mogul.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s defense team called the sex-trafficking case against him “badly, badly exaggerated” in closing arguments Friday.