Diddy denied bail in sex trafficking, racketeering case

NEW YORK – Sean "Diddy" Combs has been denied bail.

The hip-hop mogul and Bad Boy Records laminitis has been held successful a national jailhouse successful Brooklyn connected enactment trafficking and racketeering charges since his apprehension successful September and had been denied bail doubly earlier contempt offering up $50 million.

Prosecutors had accused Combs of trying to power witnesses and intimidate victims from down bars and said helium would airs a formation hazard if released. They besides told the tribunal that his reliance connected his immense wealthiness successful his bail exertion could magnitude to a "two-tiered" justness strategy if his connection were allowed. It progressive the mogul paying for a backstage information steadfast to show him and power immoderate of his communications portion connected location arrest.

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Hip-hop creator Sean Puffy Combs performing connected MTV 2 Large connected New Year's Eve successful MTV's Times Square studios connected Dec. 31, 1999. (Photo by Scott Gries/ImageDirect)

Earlier successful the week, personage bail bondsman Ira Judelson was spotted astatine the courthouse attending 1 of Combs' hearings.

The justice connected Monday ordered national prosecutors to delete images of Combs' handwritten notes taken during a hunt of his jailhouse compartment – which his lawyers said were protected by attorney-client privilege and were improperly seized. Excerpts from those notes that prosecutors referenced antecedently cannot beryllium utilized astatine the enslaved hearing, the justice added.

The quotes successful question referenced getting "dirt" connected astatine slightest 2 imaginable witnesses.

Prosecutors besides claimed that Combs' merchandise could enactment victims and witnesses astatine risk. Despite the staggering sum offered up by the defense, the justice had truthful acold kept the hip-hop icon down bars. 

Diddy attends 2019 Roc Nation THE BRUNCH connected Feb. 9, 2019 successful Los Angeles, California.  (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Roc Nation)

Prosoecutors allege helium has a agelong past of obstruction, of encouraging witnesses and subordinates to screen for him, and of abusing some intersexual partners and idiosyncratic staff, according to tribunal documents.

"Former unit members person described the suspect threatening to termination them, throwing objects astatine them, and being struck, punched, and shoved by the defendant, and seeing him bash the aforesaid to others," prosecutors alleged. "This important past of unit indispensable beryllium taken into relationship erstwhile viewing the suspect obstructive activity. Taken together, determination tin beryllium nary uncertainty that the Government has proven the defendant’s dangerousness by wide and convincing evidence."

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After seeing his bail denied connected 2 anterior occasions pursuing an apprehension successful September, Combs renewed his quest for state past week with a caller bail connection offering the aforesaid $50 cardinal sum, secured by his Miami Beach mansion, which his lawyers accidental is worthy astir $48 million.

Prosecutors antecedently raised "serious concerns" astir the information of victims and witnesses if Combs were to spell free, and the justice overseeing his transgression lawsuit rejected his wide-ranging petition for a gag bid that would person restricted further accusers from coming forward.

A proceedings is scheduled for May 5 of adjacent year. By then, the U.S. lawyer overseeing his lawsuit could beryllium replaced by President-elect Donald Trump's nominee, erstwhile Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton.

Diddy's ex-girlfriend Cassie filed a intersexual maltreatment suit against Diddy successful November, which was settled 1 time later. (Getty Images)

The feds opened their probe successful November 2023, astir the clip his ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, the vocalist known arsenic Cassie, sued Combs, alleging carnal and intersexual abuse. He settled her civilian suit a time aft she filed it.

Combs vehemently denied the allegations from Ventura and from each the different accusers. Then, a video leaked – showing the astir bare billionaire brutally assaulting her successful the hallway of Los Angeles' Intercontinental Hotel.

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Over the past year, caller accusers person continued to travel forward, and Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee said successful October helium present represents much than 100 radical looking to writer the rapper.