Sean "Diddy" Combs' Supporters Celebrate Over Verdict Outside Courthouse

In one of the weirdest, most attention-grabbing spectacles of 2025, supporters of the music magnate Sean "Diddy" Combs transformed the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan into a massive celebration following the finding of the music magnate guilty on just two of five charges in his highly publicized sex trafficking trial. Their method of celebration was Baby oil, lots of it.

After a July 2 verdict saw the Bad Boy Records founder acquitted on three of five federal charges, supporters congregated outside the hearing room to treat Diddy to a surreal, oil-slicked tribute. Baby oil, which had featured prominently in the murk of the trial, was now what Diddy had emerged from clean and without the things the law said he had done. Onlookers said the scene was chaotic and dramatic. One woman danced barefoot, jubilant and free, taking off her wig as a man on the balcony above her dumped baby oil on her. Nearby, a shirtless fan oiled down his own torso, transforming the courthouse steps into a pop-culture performance art.

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The baby oil was not just a celebratory prop in the eyes of the prosecutor's office. When Diddy's Los Angeles and Miami homes were raided, authorities are believed to have confiscated more than 1,000 bottles of the liquid. During the trial, prosecutors claimed that baby oil was liberally used in the infamous private parties called "freak offs." These celebrations became the center of witness testimony and court exhibits. Diddy's lawyers conceded he was partial to the skincare product but argued that the surrounding story had been inflated and sensationalised to stir public rage.

But supporters outside the courtroom did not seem deterred by the remaining convictions. To those who view the partial acquittal as a sufficient pretext to take back the narrative, it was one bottle at a time. The baby oil, once a symbol of scandal, had been fan-manipulated into a strange badge of perseverance and fidelity. In celebrity justice, style often takes precedence over substance. And today, baby oil wasn't just evidence, it was a celebration.