Sean "Diddy" Combs used "power, violence, and fear" as the head of a decades-long criminal enterprise, prosecutors told jurors Thursday as they presented closing arguments in the final stages of the high-profile trial.

Attorney Christy Slavik told jurors how Combs "created a climate of fear" and "counted on silence and shame to keep his crimes hidden."

"Up until today, the defendant was able to get away with these crimes because of his money, his power, his influence. That stops now," she said as the 55-year-old looked on, occasionally passing notes to his legal team.

Combs, once one of the most powerful figures in music and entertainment, denies all charges.

For nearly five hours Slavik methodically walked the jury through the charges, weaving nearly seven weeks of testimony and thousands of phone, financial and other records into an intelligible narrative.

And she told them how each thread meets the legal threshold for guilt.

"Lots of that evidence was hard to hear or hard to see," Slavik told jurors. "And now it's all before you."

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