Sean Combs Was Just an Escort Client Like Eliot Spitzer, Lawyer Argues

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ is planning an appeal arguing the federal prostitution statute he was convicted under wasn’t meant to apply to run-of-the-mill clients of adult escorts like himself, Combs’ lead attorney told Bloomberg Law.

For example: Eliot Spitzer. The former New York governor was “a regular client of the Emperor’s Club"—the escort ring Spitzer patronized—"and they didn’t prosecute Spitzer at all, who was arguably in the exact same position as Combs,” Combs lawyer Marc Agnifilo said in an interview Tuesday. “So it makes the point with a tangible example that they don’t typically prosecute these kinds of cases.”