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On February 20, 2025, Anthony Ricco announced that he would no longer represent embattled music mogul, Sean Combs, aka P. Diddy. Anthony Ricco, a defense lawyer renowned for handling notorious cases, joined Diddy’s defense team in September 2024.
In a statement obtained by the Daily Mail, on February 21, 2025, the hotshot lawyer filed a motion for withdrawal of counsel. Ricco, who had been working closely with Mark Agnifilio, Diddy’s lead counsel, revealed that he had notified Agnifilio of his decision to leave the defense team.
A part of Ricco’s statement read:
“On September 22, 2024, I was retained by the defendant, Sean Combs, to serve as his counsel, and I have served as his counsel since that time. Although I have provided Sean Combs with the high level of legal representation expected by the court, under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs. There are sufficient reasons (related to the protections afforded by the attorney/client privilege) for brevity in my application for withdrawal as counsel in this case,”
Sean Combs is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, on charges of racketeering conspiracy, s*x trafficking, and transporting to engage in prostitution. He goes to trial on May 5, 2025.
More details on Anthony Ricco, Sean Diddy Combs’ former attorney
According to a February 21, 2025 report from USA Today, Ricco refused to share details of what led to his decision to stop representing the music executive and cited attorney/ client privilege in his motion for withdrawal of counsel. Ricco is a Harlem-born lawyer and an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law—a teacher of trial advocacy.
He is a member of the faculty of the Bryan R. Schechmeister Death Penalty College and an instructor at the Capital Case Defense Seminar. Anthony Ricco has served as counsel in up to 45 Federal death penalty across the US.
Some of his notorious cases include the 9/11 bombings cases—United States v Omar Abdel Rahman and the United States v Osama Bin Laden. He was also counsel for Detective Gescard Insnora in the controversial Sean Bell case.
The New York-based lawyer has been in the private practice of law since December 1982. Some of the lawyer’s awards include the 2004 New York County Lawyers Association Criminal Defense Division Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession, the 2008 Attorney of the Year Award by the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, and the 2012 New York State Bar Association.
Diddy’s legal team boasts high-profile lawyers like Marc Agnifilio, Alexandra Shapiro, and Teny Geragos.
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