Sean “Diddy” Combs has voluntarily dropped his bail attraction, which means the Unhealthy Boy mogul will stay detained till his Might 2025 felony trial.
The 55-year-old has been held with out bail on the Metropolitan Detention Middle (MDC) since his arrest on Sept. 16, pleading not responsible to intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs. If convicted, he faces as much as life in jail.
Combs’ authorized group had been aggressively combating for his launch, placing ahead a considerable $50 million bail package deal, which included his Miami compound, a few of his youngsters’s passports, around-the-clock monitoring, and routine drug testing as collateral and phrases for his launch.
Nonetheless, U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian denied Combs’ bail for a 3rd time final month after Southern District of New York prosecutors accused Combs of being a hazard to the neighborhood and attempting to tamper with witnesses from behind bars.
Combs’ authorized group already had a bail attraction pending within the Second Circuit, however on Friday, they filed paperwork dismissing the attraction. “Mr. Combs doesn’t search to attraction the district courtroom’s denial of his renewed movement and hereby strikes to voluntarily dismiss the attraction,” the courtroom papers famous.
He’ll now stay detained till his felony trial is ready to start on Might 5, 2025. He stands accused of working a felony enterprise “by way of violence, use of firearms, threats, coercion, and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse.”
The case is basically constructed across the experiences of Combs’ ex-partner Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who sued Combs for intercourse trafficking and sexual abuse in November 2023. The R&B singer claimed that all through their decade-long relationship, Combs compelled her to interact in sexual acts with male intercourse staff. Ventura alleged that she was threatened with bodily violence, skilled retribution, potential leaks of the footage, and was stored compliant by way of extreme drug use.
Though Combs vehemently denied the claims and reached a non-public settlement with Ventura a day later, her lawsuit set off a domino impact. Federal investigators started constructing a case towards him and greater than 30 civil lawsuits have been filed towards the music mogul in New York and California. Combs has denied all claims of intercourse abuse by way of a spokesperson. “As his authorized group has stated earlier than, Mr. Combs has full confidence within the info and the integrity of the judicial course of,” his media group beforehand stated in a press release to Rolling Stone.
