Sean “Diddy” Combs has formally given up on getting out of jail earlier than his trial date is available in Might 2025.
Authorized counsel for Combs, who’s presently incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, N.Y., filed a movement earlier as we speak to dismiss his enchantment for bail in his ongoing intercourse trafficking and racketeering case. He had beforehand been denied bail 3 times, and has in the end conceded to remaining in custody as he awaits his trial.
“Mr. Combs doesn’t search to enchantment the district court docket’s denial of his renewed movement and hereby strikes to voluntarily dismiss the enchantment,” reads the movement. “Counsel has defined the impact of voluntary dismissal of the enchantment.”
Combs has been lobbying for months to get out of jail, providing a $50 million bond backed by fairness in his properties, the promise of safety monitoring and assurance that he wouldn’t intervene with investigations surrounding the costs. In his newest bail enchantment listening to on Nov. 27, Choose Arun Subramanian dominated that “there’s proof of supporting a critical threat of witness tampering” and that Combs contacted witnesses even after his grand jury testimony in June 2024.
Simply yesterday, Subramanian dominated that Combs could be allowed entry to a preloaded laptop computer to evaluation discovery and put together for his Might trial. He can use the laptop computer seven days per week from 8 a.m. to three:30 p.m.
Combs was booked again in Sept. on costs of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. His authorized woes stem from a bombshell lawsuit that his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed final November and subsequently settled the subsequent day, setting off a series of fits the place accusers equally claimed that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted them.
Jay-Z was just lately named in a refiled case earlier this week, with a Jane Doe stating that he and Combs raped her when she was 13 years previous in 2000. Jay-Z fired again on the go well with in an announcement that mentioned his lawyer was despatched “blackmail” surrounding the allegations from legal professional Tony Buzbee in an effort to strain him into settling out of court docket. Carter went on to say that it had the “reverse impact” and as an alternative enflamed Carter to show his accusor for “the fraud [they] are in a VERY public trend.”
