Sean “Diddy” Combs said Wednesday that he will not allow women to visit his Florida estate while his defense team beg a court to release him to home detention until he faces trial on sex trafficking and racketeering allegations.
The 54-year-old rapper was scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court for the second day in a row at 3:30 p.m., for a hearing in which he will request release from the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center on a $50 million bond.
His defenders say that electronic monitoring and a variety of additional requirements should reassure the trial judge and prosecutors that Combs will not flee or endanger others while awaiting trial.
During that hearing, prosecutors convinced a magistrate judge that no release restrictions could safeguard the community from Combs and ensure he did not run or interfere with witnesses.
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However, Combs’ lawyers filed a letter Wednesday morning adding even more conditions to his bail proposal, hoping to persuade the judge to release him – including a vow that he will not have any women visit him other than his family and the mothers of his children.
The Bad Boy Records founder also stated that he is in the process of selling his private plane, which will be retained in Los Angeles, California, in the meanwhile, indicating that he does not intend to flee the law.
Combs has committed to remain in house confinement at his $50 million Miami, Florida estate, with GPS monitoring, and to limit his travel to South Florida, New Jersey, and parts of New York.
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He’s also offered to secure the bond with his Florida mansion, and he and seven family members have agreed to co-sign it.
Combs handed over his passport to his lawyer in April, as well as the passports of five other family members, which they intend to turn over to the court, according to the attorneys.
Other assurances Combs is providing include adding his mother’s Miami home to his bail, limiting visitors to relatives, property caretakers, and friends who are not deemed co-conspirators in the case, and having his security company keep visiting logs to pass over to the courts nightly.
He also agreed to weekly drug tests and swore not to contact any witnesses in the case.
“Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded, or run from a challenge in his life,” his lawyers stated, insisting he would not flee before trial. “He won’t start now. As he has handled every adversity, he will face this case head on, work hard to defend himself, and succeed.”
Combs’ lawyers also chastised prosecutors for making a spectacle of arresting their client, despite the fact that he had been in New York since September 5 and was perfectly prepared to surrender.
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“We requested for a time for the surrender. “They never responded to us,” the letter states. “The Government withheld this information solely so they could arrest Mr. Combs and not allow him to surrender, which he flew to New York to do.”
In a stunning indictment released Tuesday, authorities claim Combs engaged in a “decades-long pattern of physical and sexual violence against multiple victims.”
Combs allegedly arranged elaborate, drug-laced “Freak Off” sex sessions that lasted days, forcing women into sex acts with male prostitutes while masturbating and secretly filming, according to authorities.
According to prosecutors, Combs used his wealth, power, brutality, and threats of violence to entice the women into harmful situations, and he used the Freak Off recordings as leverage to force them to participate in additional sex sessions.
At the Tuesday hearing, Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, argued that only consenting adults participated in the sex romps.
In the Wednesday letter, Combs’ attorneys stated that the indictment only names one victim, “Victim-1” – Combs’ former long-term partner Cassie Ventura. Combs was captured in a frightening video released earlier this year beating Ventura up.
His lawyers claimed the couple had a decade-long connection and “were very much in love for a long time.”
When they separated up owing to mutual adultery and jealousy, Ventura attempted to extort Combs with embarrassing sexual assault charges, according to the lawyers’ Wednesday letter.
“There was no sex trafficking, there was no sex crime of any sort, and we will conclusively prove that at a trial,” according to the letter.
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