Diddy Adds Sam Bankman-Fried Litigator to Growing Defense Team

Oct. 1, 2024, 6:57 PM UTC

Sean “Diddy” Combs is getting some additional legal firepower to fight the federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges filed against him last month.

Alexandra Shapiro, a co-founder of litigation boutique Shapiro Arato Bach, and longtime New York trial lawyer Anthony “Tony” Ricco have joined Combs’ criminal defense team, said a source briefed on the outside counsel roster.

That team is led by Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, founding partners of Agnifilo Intrater. Geragos’ father is Mark Geragos, a celebrity litigator from Los Angeles who has previously advised Combs on other matters.

Shapiro, a former clerk for late US Supreme Court ...

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