"He wouldn’t take no for an answer.”

Manhattan federal prosecutor Christy Slavik repeated the sentence over and over on Thursday during closing arguments in the six-week sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean "Diddy” Combs.

The assistant U.S. Attorney spent her daylong summation connecting the five federal counts against the Bad Boy Records founder to the evidence which she said shows how he spent the last 20 years tapping the vast business resources at his command to coerce two girlfriends to engage in dayslong, drug-fueled sex sessions with paid male escorts, which he alternately referred to as "freak-offs,” "hotel nights” or "wild king nights.”

The women, pop singer Casandra Ventura, who performed under the name Cassie, and a woman who testified under the name Jane, to protect her identity as a sex crime victim, were threatened with violence and blackmailed with sex tapes if they refused to give him what he wanted, Slavik told the jury.

At times the women were willing participants, the prosecutor acknowledged, but she said the testimony showed that there were beatings, threats and extortion of both women to manipulate them into continuing to perform the sex acts even after they made it clear that they no longer wanted to participate.

Combs pleaded not guilty to five counts which includes one count of racketeering, two counts of sex trafficking and two more for allegedly transporting the men across state lines for the purpose of prostitution. Jurors saw a photo array of 27 men — some who went by pseudonyms like "the punisher,” "the Italian” and "the unknown cowboy” — who participated in the episodes from 2004 to 2024.

His defense attorneys, who will present closing arguments on Friday, said at the beginning of the trial that he could be a demanding boss and a toxic boyfriend, but denied that he had violated any federal laws.

Slavik reminded the jury of the hotel, airfare and car service receipts that corresponded with testimony from male escorts, federal investigators and personal assistants about times and locations of the hotel nights.

To convict Combs on racketeering conspiracy jurors need to find that Combs and his inner circle — his chief of staff Kristina Khorram, his security detail and a rotating cadre of personal assistants — violated at least two other crimes that supported the freak-off enterprise.

"He was more powerful and more dangerous because of the support of his inner circle,” Slavik said. "Remember, it's his kingdom ... Serving him meant promoting and protecting the defendant’s power, reputation and brand. It meant fulfilling all the defendant’s personal desires, including his sexual desires.It meant enabling the defendant and his inner circle to commit crimes, and it meant protecting and preserving the enterprise.”

Prosecutors on Wednesday pared down some of the underlying crimes from the conspiracy, but Slavik presented a buffet of remaining federal infractions like — arson, sex trafficking, drug distribution, witness intimidation/obstruction of justice, bribery, inducement to travel for the purpose of prostitution and forced labor.

Even if those charges don’t convince the jury, Combs could still be convicted of the sex trafficking and promoting travel for prostitution.

Slavik emphasized the coercion aspect of the sex trafficking charge regarding Ventura and Jane, reminding the jurors of times when Combs lavished them with attention and affection, which she referred to as "love bombing” and then introduced the concept of group sex with a male escort.

Eventually both women testified that they grew weary of the sessions, which left them disoriented from extended drug use and nursing painful urinary tract infections.

"He told them to keep going,” Slavik said. "He wouldn’t take no for an answer.”

Videos, photos and text messages showed at trial that when sweetness didn’t work, he turned to violence. Surveillance footage taken in 2016 at the InterContinental Hotel showed Combs beating Ventura when she left a freak-off mid-session.

Text messages between the escort service Cowboys 4 Angels to Combs haggling over rates, in addition to money transfers and videos of the freak-offs, Slavik said prove the prostitution related charge.

"All of this evidence paints a clear picture of how the defendant committed crime after crime for two decades, how he didn't take no for an answer, the evidence showed you how he and his inner circle helped him carry out these crimes and how far they would go to cover them up,” Slavik said. "It's time to hold him accountable. It's time for justice. It's time to find the defendant guilty.”

Defense closings in the trial are expected Friday morning.

U.S. District Court Judge Arun Subramanian said that he would instruct the jury in the afternoon before turning the case over to the panel for deliberations.