Sean “Diddy” Combs vowed he gained’t have girls go to his Florida mansion Wednesday as his protection attorneys beg a decide to launch him to residence detention till he faces trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering costs.
The 54-year-old rapper was set to look for a second day in a row in Manhattan federal court docket at 3:30 p.m. — for a listening to the place he’ll request to be sprung from the infamous Metropolitan Detention Middle on a $50 million bond.
His attorneys argue that digital monitoring and a slew of different circumstances ought to guarantee the trial decide and prosecutors that Combs gained’t go on the lam or hurt others whereas he awaits trial.
The hip-hop mogul was held with out bail Tuesday after he pleaded not responsible to the three-count indictment.
Prosecutors throughout that listening to efficiently satisfied a Justice of the Peace decide that no circumstances of launch might shield the neighborhood from Combs and guarantee he wouldn’t flee or attempt to intervene with witnesses.
However Combs’ legal professionals filed a letter Wednesday morning including much more restrictions to their bail proposal which they hope will persuade the decide to let him out of jail — together with the promise that he gained’t have any girls go to him, apart from his household or the moms of his kids.
The Dangerous Boy Data founder additionally famous he’s within the strategy of making an attempt to promote his non-public aircraft — which will probably be stored in a distinct state in Los, Angeles, California within the meantime — a truth which exhibits he doesn’t plan to go on the run from the legislation, he claimed.
Combs has promised to stay on residence detention at his $50 million Miami, Florida property with GPS monitoring and he vowed to limit his journey to South Florida, New Jersey and elements of New York.
He’s additionally providing to safe the bond together with his Sunshine State mansion and stated seven relations and himself with all co-sign the bond.
Combs already turned over his passport to his lawyer in April, in addition to the passports for 5 different relations — all of which they plans at hand over to the court docket, the attorneys stated.
Different assurances Combs is providing, embody including his mom’s Miami residence to his bond, limiting guests to household, property caretakers and mates — who aren’t thought-about co-conspirators within the case –, and having his safety firm take logs of any guests to show over to the courts nightly.
He’s additionally agreeing to weekly drug testing and he’s promised to chorus from contacting any witnesses within the case.
“Sean Combs has by no means evaded, averted, eluded or run from a problem in his life,” his legal professionals stated, claiming he wouldn’t run away earlier than trial. “He is not going to begin now. As he has dealt with each hardship, he’ll meet this case head-on, he’ll work onerous to defend himself, and he’ll prevail.”
Combs’ legal professionals additionally took purpose at prosecutors for making a present of arresting their consumer when he’d already been within the Huge Apple since Sept. 5 and absolutely deliberate to show himself in.
“We requested them for a time for the give up. They by no means received again to us,” the letter says. “The Authorities withheld this info solely so they may arrest Mr. Combs and never permit him to give up, which he flew to New York to do.”
In a bombshell indictment unsealed Tuesday, prosecutors declare that Combs carried out a “decades-long sample of bodily and sexual violence in opposition to a number of victims.”
Combs allegedly orchestrated elaborate drug-laced “Freak Off” intercourse periods — that generally lasted for days — the place he pressured girls into intercourse acts with male prostitutes whereas he masturbated and secretly filmed, prosecutors allege.
Combs used his wealth, energy, violence and threats of violence to lure the ladies into abusive situations and he used the movies of the Freak Offs as collateral to power them into taking part in additional intercourse periods, prosecutors declare.
On the Tuesday listening to, Combs lawyer Marc Agnifilo claimed solely consenting adults took half within the intercourse romps.
And within the Wednesday letter, Combs’ attorneys stated the indictment really solely identifies a single sufferer “Sufferer-1” — Combs’ former long run girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs was seen in a disturbing video launched earlier this 12 months beating Ventura up.
His legal professionals argued the pair had a decade lengthy relationship and that they “had been very a lot in love for a very long time.”
And once they break up as a consequence of mutual dishonest and jealousy, Ventura tried to extort Combs with embarrassing sexual assault allegations, the legal professionals claimed within the Wednesday letter.
“There was no intercourse trafficking, there was no intercourse crime of any kind, and we’ll conclusively show that at a trial,” the letter says.
A spokesman with the Manhattan US legal professional’s workplace declined to remark.