Megyn Kelly, 50 Cent, Rosie O'Donnell, and more reacted Wednesday to the shocking verdict from the Sean "Diddy" Combs jury, which found him guilty on the two lesser charges of the five he faced in his sex trafficking and racketeering (RICO) federal trial in New York.
During the SiriusXM "The Megyn Kelly Show," Kelly read the verdict on the air that the jury decided the disgraced music mogul was guilty of the two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution (of former girlfriends Cassie Ventura and "Jane"). She then noted he was acquitted of the three other charges, which included sex trafficking and racketeering, and called it "no question" a victory for Combs. Profanity alert:
"I'm disgusted by this verdict. This is ****ing ridiculous. I just find it absolutely outrageous the amount of crime that this guy got away with..."
@MegynKelly unloads on Diddy and the not guilty verdict on the most serious counts.
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"I'm disgusted by this verdict. This is fucking ridiculous. I just find it absolutely outrageous the amount of crime that this guy got away with..."@MegynKelly unloads on Diddy and the not guilty verdict on the most serious counts. FULL livestream: https://t.co/kCRdn2XiKt pic.twitter.com/UFE4c4JM1K
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) July 2, 2025
In true Kelly fashion, she did not hold back and said she was "disgusted" by the verdict, used profanity, and called the verdict "[..] ridiculous."
"It is stunning that he managed to escape a guilty verdict on RICO, less stunning on RICO, but on sex trafficking, where the evidence was just overwhelming, on the fact that he did threaten at least Cassie and Jane, over and over again, he beat both women when they would not comply with his demands," Kelly said. "But clearly, what we're seeing here is the jury bought and believed the defense argument that these women had agency, that these women were not forced to do anything."
"The New York Times reporting from inside the courtroom, 'Sean Combs is smiling as he shook one of his lawyers' hands and turned again to look at his family. He put his hands together in prayer and mouth, Thank you at the jury,' that's the right thing to say, Sean Combs," she added. "Yep, this is exactly the right attitude for Sean Combs, who just got away with serious felonies, in my view, he's guilty as sin, in my view, and this jury just gave him a total pass."
Comb's longtime rival rapper 50 Cent posted on Instagram and captioned his post, "Diddy beat the Rio [sic], that boy a bad man. He like the Gay John Gotti."
Kelly and the rapper weren't the only ones to react; other stars also took to social media.
"I guess a jury just never wants to believe that a woman stays because of power and coercion- wow - they just think women stay because what? Money - fame - 'they love the abuse' - what a [..] joke - this decision got me angry #cassie," Rosie O'Donnell wrote on Instagram.
Outspoken critic singer Aubrey O'Day, once part of the Danity Kane group, said the verdict made her physically sick.
"Oh my god. Not guilty on Cassie, not guilty on RICO," O'Day said, reacting in real-time to the verdict. "No way Jane is going to be guilty. Oh, this makes me physically ill. Cassie probably feels so horrible. I'm gonna vomit."
"Fox and Friends" host Lawrence Jones III had a different approach, pointing out where things went south for the prosecution.
"I called it. This was a terribly prosecuted case by the SDNY [United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York]," Jones wrote on X. "They never made the case that trafficking was involved. As for RICO…. they weren't even close. #Diddy."
"When victims claimed to have willingly participated, the case was dead. #diddy," he added in a second post.
As RedState reported on Wednesday, the jury finally reached a verdict on all five counts, returning a shocking decision, finding the disgraced music mogul guilty on just two of them.
On Wednesday, the jury read the verdict in Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering (RICO) trial, acquitting him of three of the more serious charges he faced while finding him guilty on both counts of transportation to engage in prostitution (of former girlfriend Cassie Ventura and "Jane"). Ventura and Combs dated from 2007-2018, and she was the prosecution's star witness in the trial.
As our sister site Townhall reported, the jurors came back with a mixed verdict:
🚨BREAKING: DIDDY FOUND GUILTY ON 2/5 COUNTS!
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 2, 2025
GUILTY:
- Two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution
NOT GUILTY:
- Racketeering conspiracy
- Two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion pic.twitter.com/UyB2v7gXjy
Each of the guilty counts carries a maximum of 10 years in prison.
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