Diddys lawyer slammed by judge for calling prosecutors a six-pack of white women

The judge overseeing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial ripped a member of his family’s legal team Tuesday — after the lawyer griped on his podcast about the all-women team of prosecutors in the case.“This is ridiculous,” Judge Arun Subramanian said Tuesday during a behind-closed-doors dressing down of Mark Geragos, who represents Combs’ mother and has been seen huddling with the embattled hip-mogul’s lawyers, a court transcript shows.Geragos drew the judge’s ire for calling the all-women prosecution team “a six-pack of white women” on a recent episode of a podcast he hosts with TMZ founder Harvey Levin.“I think referring to the prosecution in this case as a six-pack of white women is outrageous,” Subramanian told Geragos, according to the transcript obtained by The Post.“This would not be tolerated in any court from any lawyer anywhere across the nation,” the jurist added to the veteran attorney.Geragos disclosed during the meeting that Combs, whom he said he speaks to “with great frequency,” believes he’s being “targeted” because he’s black.“I think when you’ve got a black man who’s being prosecuted and the client feels like he’s being targeted, it’s a — it’s an observation,” Geragos said in defense of his eyebrow-raising comment about the prosecutors.The lawyers representing Combs at trial, including attorneys Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, Mark’s daughter, have agreed not to argue that he was “targeted” by a “selective” prosecution because he’s black, or bring up prominent white people who have hired sex workers and not been charged with crimes.The testy encounter unfolded after Southern District of New York prosecutors urged the judge to remind Geragos and Combs’ defense team of their obligations not to make public statements that could infect the jury pool.Mark Geragos has repped several celebrity clients over the years, including Michael Jackson and Hunter Biden.He’s not li...

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