Jailed hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs renewed his efforts Friday to be launched from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart, proposing new circumstances together with $50 million bond, round the clock house detention with safety monitoring and strict limits on who he can contact outdoors his authorized workforce.
The bond settlement could be co-signed by Combs’ relations, together with his mother, sister and three grownup sons, and be secured by the fairness in his Miami house, in response to a movement filed in Manhattan federal courtroom. The property is claimed to be price roughly $48 million.
Combs’ attorneys declare new proof uncovered throughout the discovery course of “undermines the primary bases” on which the feds initially hunted for Diddy to be locked up.
His attorneys particularly discuss with a March 2016 video recording involving Diddy and a previous romantic companion, described solely within the paperwork as “Victim-1,” however believed to be Combs’ ex, Cassie Ventura.
Surveillance video launched earlier this yr depicted a March 2016 incident wherein Diddy was seen grabbing, kicking and dragging Ventura within the hallway of a Los Angeles resort.
“The video is not evidence of a coerced ‘freak off,’ but rather a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship between Mr. Combs and Victim-1,” his authorized workforce says within the submitting.
“Freak offs” discuss with the raucous intercourse events allegedly hosted by the defendant. They have been the first consider Diddy’s indictment for intercourse trafficking and racketeering following his arrest in September. Prosecutors declare the events included the violent abuse of victims who have been drugged with sedatives and coerced into sexual acts that have been typically recorded.
The 55-year-old’s attorneys contend the primary allegations of any criminality pertaining to Sufferer-1 got here in 2023, 5 years after the couple’s 2018 breakup. They declare their proof exhibits the accusations have been “merely attempts to obtain a financial windfall from Mr. Combs.”
Ventura filed a blockbuster lawsuit in opposition to Combs final November, alleging years of rape, intercourse trafficking and bodily abuse. His attorneys declare she demanded $30 million. The hip-hop mogul settled the swimsuit with Ventura the next day, although the phrases of the settlement weren’t disclosed.
Diddy has twice been denied bail as he awaits trial, with a choose ruling no circumstances of launch would mitigate the danger of witness tampering and obstruction. His attorneys say these allegations are baseless. Additionally they level to different defendants going through related intercourse trafficking expenses who have been lately launched on lesser circumstances, together with former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries.
The movement argues Combs can’t adequately help in his personal protection whereas behind bars at MDC Brooklyn, particularly contemplating the numerous quantity of knowledge obtained from a minimum of 96 digital units that have been seized from his Miami house throughout a raid in March.
Protecting Combs detained below such circumstances leaves him unconstitutionally “handicapped in consulting counsel, searching for evidence and witnesses, and preparing [his] defense,” his authorized workforce says within the movement.
Combs was arrested on Sept. 16 and charged with racketeering conspiracy, transportation to interact in prostitution and intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion. He has pleaded not responsible and is scheduled to go to trial on Could 5.
His attorneys had no touch upon Friday’s submitting.
Initially Printed: November 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM EST
