Photos of celebrity trials that have garnered wide-spread attention
Marc Agnifilo, attorney for Sean “Diddy” Combs, arrives at Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in New York. The jury in the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial went on to convict him of prostitution-related crime but cleared him of sex trafficking and racketeering charges. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
A New York City jury convicted Sean “Diddy” Combs on prostitution-related charges but acquitted him of sex trafficking and racketeering. The case joins a list of high-profile celebrity trials, including those of O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Harvey Weinstein and Alec Baldwin, that have captured public attention.
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FILE- Defendant O.J. Simpson is surrounded by his defense attorneys, from left, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Peter Neufeld, Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, and Robert Blasier, seated at left, at the close of defense arguments in his murder trial, Sept. 28, 1995, in Los Angeles. (Sam Mircovich/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE- Defendant O.J. Simpson is surrounded by his defense attorneys, from left, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Peter Neufeld, Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, and Robert Blasier, seated at left, at the close of defense arguments in his murder trial, Sept. 28, 1995, in Los Angeles. (Sam Mircovich/Pool Photo via AP, File)
O.J. Simpson holds up his hands before the jury after putting on a new pair of gloves similar to the infamous bloody gloves, during his double-murder trial in Los Angeles, June 21, 1995. (Vince Bucci/Pool Photo via AP, File)
O.J. Simpson holds up his hands before the jury after putting on a new pair of gloves similar to the infamous bloody gloves, during his double-murder trial in Los Angeles, June 21, 1995. (Vince Bucci/Pool Photo via AP, File)
O.J. Simpson, flanked by defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., reacts as he is found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 1995. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
O.J. Simpson, flanked by defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., reacts as he is found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 1995. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
Pop star Michael Jackson acknowledges his fans as he arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, in Santa Maria, Calif., March 17, 2005. Jackson was acquitted in 2005 of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland Ranch. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)
Pop star Michael Jackson acknowledges his fans as he arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, in Santa Maria, Calif., March 17, 2005. Jackson was acquitted in 2005 of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland Ranch. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)
Sheriff deputies scan Michael Jackson with metal detectors as he passes through a security checkpoint upon arriving for his child molestation trial at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria., Calif., on May 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Eric Neitzel/WireImage File)
Sheriff deputies scan Michael Jackson with metal detectors as he passes through a security checkpoint upon arriving for his child molestation trial at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria., Calif., on May 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Eric Neitzel/WireImage File)
Michael Jackson, center, is supported by his security personnel as he walks into the courthouse with his father Joe Jackson, right, after arriving late at Santa Barbara County Superior Court, in this March 10, 2005, in Santa Maria, Calif. Jackson was acquitted in 2005 of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland Ranch. (AP Photo/Kimberly White, Pool, File)
Michael Jackson, center, is supported by his security personnel as he walks into the courthouse with his father Joe Jackson, right, after arriving late at Santa Barbara County Superior Court, in this March 10, 2005, in Santa Maria, Calif. Jackson was acquitted in 2005 of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland Ranch. (AP Photo/Kimberly White, Pool, File)
R. Kelly, right, walks out of Cook County Jail with his defense attorney, Steve Greenberg, after posting $100,000 bail, in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2019. R. Kelly is serving time at a prison in North Carolina. A federal appeals court upheld the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer’s 2021 racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with a 30-year prison sentence. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP File)
R. Kelly, right, walks out of Cook County Jail with his defense attorney, Steve Greenberg, after posting $100,000 bail, in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2019. R. Kelly is serving time at a prison in North Carolina. A federal appeals court upheld the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer’s 2021 racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with a 30-year prison sentence. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP File)
R. Kelly arrives for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
R. Kelly arrives for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Bill Cosby, center, and spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, right, approach members of the media gathered outside the home of the entertainer in Elkins Park, Pa., June 30,2021. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
Bill Cosby, center, and spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, right, approach members of the media gathered outside the home of the entertainer in Elkins Park, Pa., June 30,2021. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
Bill Cosby, left, arrives with his wife, Camille, for his sexual assault trial, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
Bill Cosby, left, arrives with his wife, Camille, for his sexual assault trial, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
Hilaria Baldwin, right, speaks to her husband, actor Alec Baldwin, during his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie “Rust,” July 12, 2024, at the County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Ramsay de Give/Pool Photo via AP File)
Hilaria Baldwin, right, speaks to her husband, actor Alec Baldwin, during his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie “Rust,” July 12, 2024, at the County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Ramsay de Give/Pool Photo via AP File)
Actor Alec Baldwin attends his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie “Rust,” July 12, 2024, at the County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Ramsay de Give/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Actor Alec Baldwin attends his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie “Rust,” July 12, 2024, at the County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Ramsay de Give/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Actor Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria Baldwin leave District Court, July 10, 2024, following the day’s proceedings in his involuntary manslaughter trial in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales, File)
Actor Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria Baldwin leave District Court, July 10, 2024, following the day’s proceedings in his involuntary manslaughter trial in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales, File)
Actor Alec Baldwin, right, hugs his defense attorney Alex Spiro after District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer threw out the involuntary manslaughter case, July 12, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M., for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie “Rust.” (Luis Sánchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, Pool, File)
Actor Alec Baldwin, right, hugs his defense attorney Alex Spiro after District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer threw out the involuntary manslaughter case, July 12, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M., for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie “Rust.” (Luis Sánchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, Pool, File)
Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial on June 5, 2025 in New York. Weinstein was convicted of rape and other charges in 2022 by a Los Angeles jury. He was sentenced then to 16 years in prison and is appealing that conviction. (Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial on June 5, 2025 in New York. Weinstein was convicted of rape and other charges in 2022 by a Los Angeles jury. He was sentenced then to 16 years in prison and is appealing that conviction. (Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Reporters look on as Harvey Weinstein, center, arrives to court after a break on the first day of jury selection of his sexual assault trial, in New York, Jan. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Reporters look on as Harvey Weinstein, center, arrives to court after a break on the first day of jury selection of his sexual assault trial, in New York, Jan. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York. Weinstein was convicted of rape and other charges in 2022 by a Los Angeles jury. He was sentenced then to 16 years in prison and is appealing that conviction. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool, File)
Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York. Weinstein was convicted of rape and other charges in 2022 by a Los Angeles jury. He was sentenced then to 16 years in prison and is appealing that conviction. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool, File)
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court during his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York. Weinstein was convicted of rape and other charges in 2022 by a Los Angeles jury. He was sentenced then to 16 years in prison and is appealing that conviction. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP)
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court during his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York. Weinstein was convicted of rape and other charges in 2022 by a Los Angeles jury. He was sentenced then to 16 years in prison and is appealing that conviction. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP)
Martha Stewart arrives at a Manhattan federal courthouse, Jan. 20, 2004, for her first appearance at her closely watched trial. Stewart was convicted in 2004 of lying to the federal government about a 2001 stock sale. She served five months in prison. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File)
Martha Stewart arrives at a Manhattan federal courthouse, Jan. 20, 2004, for her first appearance at her closely watched trial. Stewart was convicted in 2004 of lying to the federal government about a 2001 stock sale. She served five months in prison. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File)
Martha Stewart leaves Manhattan Federal Court after guilty verdicts in her federal stock fraud trial in New York, March 5, 2004. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Martha Stewart leaves Manhattan Federal Court after guilty verdicts in her federal stock fraud trial in New York, March 5, 2004. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Actor Kevin Spacey leaves Southwark Crown Court in London, July 26, 2023. In 2023, a London jury acquitted the Oscar-winning actor on sexual assault charges stemming from allegations by four men dating back 20 years. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
Actor Kevin Spacey leaves Southwark Crown Court in London, July 26, 2023. In 2023, a London jury acquitted the Oscar-winning actor on sexual assault charges stemming from allegations by four men dating back 20 years. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
Grammy-nominated rapper A$AP Rocky, center, facing two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm after allegedly shooting at a former friend in 2021, arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Grammy-nominated rapper A$AP Rocky, center, facing two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm after allegedly shooting at a former friend in 2021, arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
A$AP Rocky listens to closing arguments during his trial, Feb. 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles jury acquitted A$AP Rocky in February after a trial on two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. (Allison Dinner/Pool Photo via AP File)
A$AP Rocky listens to closing arguments during his trial, Feb. 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles jury acquitted A$AP Rocky in February after a trial on two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. (Allison Dinner/Pool Photo via AP File)
A$AP Rocky, center, is hugged by attorney Joe Tacopina after Rocky was found not guilty during his trial, Feb. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Daniel Cole/Pool Photo via AP File)
A$AP Rocky, center, is hugged by attorney Joe Tacopina after Rocky was found not guilty during his trial, Feb. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Daniel Cole/Pool Photo via AP File)
Escorted by sheriff’s deputies, Robert Blake is surrounded by a crowd of photographers and reporters as he gets into his attorney’s car after his release from jail to await his murder trial, in downtown Los Angeles, March 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Escorted by sheriff’s deputies, Robert Blake is surrounded by a crowd of photographers and reporters as he gets into his attorney’s car after his release from jail to await his murder trial, in downtown Los Angeles, March 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Robert Blake, right, kisses his attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach as Schwartzbach holds up Blake’s ankle monitor after Blake was found not guilty in his murder trial for the death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, in Los Angeles, March 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Robert Blake, right, kisses his attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach as Schwartzbach holds up Blake’s ankle monitor after Blake was found not guilty in his murder trial for the death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, in Los Angeles, March 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Actor Winona Ryder is escorted through a crowd of journalists upon arrival after a recess in her preliminary hearing on shoplifting and drug possession charges at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Beverly Hills, Calif., June 3, 2002. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)
Actor Winona Ryder is escorted through a crowd of journalists upon arrival after a recess in her preliminary hearing on shoplifting and drug possession charges at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Beverly Hills, Calif., June 3, 2002. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)
Actress Winona Ryder reacts in court during her sentencing hearing for her shoplifting case in Beverly Hills, Calif., Dec. 6, 2002. At right is Ryder’s lawyer Mark Geragos. (Steve Grayson/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Actress Winona Ryder reacts in court during her sentencing hearing for her shoplifting case in Beverly Hills, Calif., Dec. 6, 2002. At right is Ryder’s lawyer Mark Geragos. (Steve Grayson/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Music producer Phil Spector, center, is escorted to his car by Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies, Sept. 27, 2004, in Los Angeles after an indictment charging him with murder in the 2003 death of a B-movie actress at his Alhambra, Calif., mansion, was unsealed. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
Music producer Phil Spector, center, is escorted to his car by Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies, Sept. 27, 2004, in Los Angeles after an indictment charging him with murder in the 2003 death of a B-movie actress at his Alhambra, Calif., mansion, was unsealed. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)