Jailed hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs renewed his efforts Friday to be launched from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle, proposing new circumstances together with $50 million bond, round the clock house detention with safety monitoring and strict limits on who he can contact exterior his authorized crew.
The bond settlement can 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, based on a movement filed in Manhattan federal courtroom. The property is claimed to be price roughly $48 million.
Combs’ legal professionals declare new proof uncovered through the discovery course of “undermines the primary bases” on which the feds initially looked for Diddy to be locked up.
His attorneys particularly check with a March 2016 video recording involving Diddy and a previous romantic associate, described solely within the paperwork as “Victim-1,” however believed to be Combs’ ex, Cassie Ventura.
Surveillance video launched earlier this 12 months depicted a March 2016 incident by which 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 crew says within the submitting.
“Freak offs” check with the raucous intercourse events allegedly hosted by the defendant. They had been the first think about Diddy’s indictment for intercourse trafficking and racketeering following his arrest in September. Prosecutors declare the events included the violent abuse of victims who had been drugged with sedatives and coerced into sexual acts that had been typically recorded.
The 55-year-old’s attorneys contend the primary allegations of any criminal activity pertaining to Sufferer-1 got here in 2023, 5 years after the couple’s 2018 breakup. They declare their proof exhibits the accusations had been “merely attempts to obtain a financial windfall from Mr. Combs.”
Ventura filed a blockbuster lawsuit towards Combs final November, alleging years of rape, intercourse trafficking and bodily abuse. His legal professionals 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 chance of witness tampering and obstruction. His attorneys say these allegations are baseless. In addition they level to different defendants going through related intercourse trafficking costs who had been lately launched on lesser circumstances, together with former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries.
The movement argues Combs can’t adequately support 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 had been seized from his Miami house throughout a raid in March.
Preserving Combs detained beneath such circumstances leaves him unconstitutionally “handicapped in consulting counsel, searching for evidence and witnesses, and preparing [his] defense,” his authorized crew says within the movement.
Combs was arrested on Sept. 16 and charged with racketeering conspiracy, transportation to have interaction in prostitution and intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion. He has pleaded not responsible and is scheduled to move to trial on Could 5.
His attorneys had no touch upon Friday’s submitting.
Initially Printed: November 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM EST
