Sean “Diddy” Combs and his authorized crew are proposing a brand new $50 million bail package deal as he awaits trial on intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses.
Based on the Related Press, Diddy, 54, filed a brand new request on Friday, November 8, claiming that due to modified circumstances and new proof, he must be allowed to organize for his Could 2025 trial from exterior of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart, the place he has been behind bars since his September arrest. The brand new submitting serves as his fourth request. He has been denied bail a number of occasions.
Within the submitting, Diddy’s legal professionals proposed a “way more sturdy” bail package deal, full with around-the-clock safety monitoring, residence detention and restrictions on his capacity to contact anybody, save for his authorized crew.
He would additionally not have entry to the web or cellphone, and requested for a pre-approved customer record of choose members of the family. Moreover, the submitting stated Diddy would give up passports belonging to him and his members of the family, per USA Immediately.
Diddy’s authorized crew additionally cited new proof that “makes clear that the federal government’s case is skinny” in opposition to the rapper. Based on his legal professionals, that proof refutes the federal government’s claims {that a} 2016 video of Diddy assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie occurred throughout a “Freak Off,” the place Diddy allegedly coerced feminine victims to take part in “elaborate and produced intercourse performances.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Diddy’s crew for remark.
Diddy was arrested and charged with intercourse trafficking and racketeering in September and has remained behind bars since. His authorized troubles started in November 2023 when Cassie, 38, accused him of sexual assault and rape in a bombshell lawsuit. He denied her claims and the case was settled out of courtroom someday after it was filed.
Within the wake of the case, a number of people got here ahead with sexual assault lawsuits of their very own in opposition to the rapper, ultimately main Homeland Safety to raid Diddy’s houses in Miami and Los Angeles in connection to a intercourse trafficking investigation.
Diddy’s 14-page indictment was unsealed someday after his September 16 arrest in New York Metropolis. The courtroom docs accuse the disgraced music mogul of internet hosting events often known as “Freak Offs,” which he’s stated to have recorded. Diddy allegedly “distributed quite a lot of managed substances to victims” as a management tactic.
Diddy and his legal professionals have vehemently denied the a number of accusations in opposition to him. The rapper pleaded not responsible to his intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses.