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Wednesday’s drama in the Sean “Diddy” Combs case extended to the courthouse hallway as well — where members of the embattled rap mogul’s legal team rushed to help a man having a seizure.

Immediately after Combs’ failed bid to get released on bail Wednesday afternoon, the jailed hip-hop tycoon’s lead lawyer Marc Agnifilo left the 26th-floor courtroom in Manhattan federal court and saw a man collapse to the ground, Agnifilo recalled to The Post.

The veteran defense attorney — who had been on his way to meet with Combs in a holding cell inside the Lower Manhattan courthouse — then straddled the ailing man, who was hitting his head on the marble floor, and laid him on his side so that he wouldn’t choke on his tongue or vomit, he said.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers gather outside Manhattan Federal Court after rap mogul is denied bail. Lead lawyer Marc Agnifilo (center). Mayer/ MEGA

Agnifilo’s law partner Jacob Kaplan then placed his backpack under the man’s head, while his daughter Sofia Agnifilo, who’s working for the firm as a paralegal, and a member of Combs’ family helped make sure the man was breathing and checked his pulse, the lawyer said.

“I can’t imagine a busier five-minute period in my life,” Agnifilo said Thursday. “I’m going down to see Combs, everything was so intense, and my mind was on the case, and I walk out, and a man falls and is clearly seizing.”

“It seemed pretty dire. I was worried about him,” Agnifilo added.

“I’ve just dealt with lots of seizures,” the lawyer further explained. “I just know exactly what to do because I’ve dealt with this before.”

Diddy’s lawyer rushes to save seizing civilian with blood “pouring from his mouth” following trial verdict. New York Post
Agnifilo straddled the ailing man, who was hitting his head on the marble floor, and laid him on his side so that he wouldn’t choke on his tongue or vomit. New York Post

After the man appeared to stabilize, Agnifilo said he left the scene before EMS workers arrived. Cameras caught the man being taken out of the courthouse on a stretcher minutes later.

The status of the man was unclear.

The lawyer said that he then briefly met with Combs before walking out with the rest of the legal team to do a press conference with a throng of media.

Combs, 55, was convicted Wednesday morning of two prostitution counts, but acquitted of stiffer sex trafficking and racketeering charges after a two-month-trial that shed light on his repeated beatings of his girlfriends, and his taste for “freak-offs” — sex marathons with male escorts.

Sean “Diddy” Combs reacts as the courtroom deputy reads verdicts before US District Judge Arun Subramanian of the five counts against him, during Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., July 2, 2025 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS

Agnifilo — who made the eyebrow-raising claim that Combs’ relationship with ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura was “kind of a great modern love story” despite her testimony that he beat her — also said Thursday that he woke up in the middle of the night before the verdict convinced Combs would only be convicted on the two lesser counts.


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He said he texted his law partner Teny Geragos at 3 a.m. to start preparing a bail application — which would only make sense if Combs were to be found guilty on the lower charges.

“I believed that he would be convicted on the Mann Act and acquitted of anything else,” the lawyer claimed, referring to the legal name for the prostitution charge.

Combs faces up to 10 years in prison on each of two counts at his October sentencing.

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