Two out of the three biggest court cases in the US this year have a bizarre connection that has left people questioning our reality.
Luigi Mangione, the suspected gunman who fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and Sean 'Diddy' Combs, who has been charged with racketeering and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, are being represented by lawyers who are very familiar with each other.
You're probably wondering what the third is - well, it's President-elect Donald Trump ,who in May was convicted of 34 charges of falsifying business records in an attempt to cover up what could have been a potential sex scandal in the lead-up to his first presidential victory back in 2016.
All cases are being played out in New York - with prosecutors having recently stated that they will wait to sentence Trump after the 47th Presidential term... so, in 2029.
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Anyway, over on social media, people have reacted to the crazy romantic link between the defence representatives of both Mangione and Combs - who both plead their innocence.
"Luigi's lawyer is married to Diddy's lawyer bruh this cannot be real life," one commented on Twitter.
A second typed: "So the lawyers for Diddy and Luigi Mangione are married. You can't make this stuff up."
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Another wrote: "Luigi Mangione reportedly hiring the wife of Diddy’s lawyers to represent him in New York is something I couldn’t even dream up."
A fourth stated: "Yes, it's true that the defense attorneys for Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Luigi Mangione are married to each other.
"Karen Friedman Agnifilo has been retained to represent Luigi Mangione, while her husband, Marc Agnifilo, is representing Diddy in his legal proceedings. Anything off?"
While someone else added: "So, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, the attorney representing Luigi Mangione, is married to Marc Agnifilo, the lawyer representing Sean 'Diddy' Combs."
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"That’s … really weird …"
So yes, Karen Friedman-Agnifilo has been hired to represent Thompson's 26-year-old murder suspect Mangione, while her husband Marc Agnifilo has been representing the 55-year-old rapper.
Friedman-Agnifilo joined her hubby's private firm Agnifilo Intrater LLP back in 2021.
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Combs is currently serving time behind bars as he awaits his trial, which is due to take place May 5 next year, after he was indicted by a grand jury following his arrest at the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan back in September.
He continues to deny all charges held against him.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday (December 10), computer science graduate Mangione - who is understood to have come from a wealthy family in a Maryland community, and was raised in Towson, outside of Baltimore - entered a plea of not guilty.
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