Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs latest: Rapper sent back to jail as shocking texts after Cassie hotel attack revealed
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has faced a series of civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse over the last year
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Sean “Diddy” Combs will remain in jail until his federal trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, as shocking text messages following his attack on ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura were revealed in court.
The rapper appeared again in a New York City courthouse to propose a $50 million bail package to avoid the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center.
Diddy’s lawyers told District Court Judge Andrew Carter that he was not a flight risk or dangerous, but the request was denied, with the judge reasoning there is “no condition or set of conditions” that would ensure the safety of the community or that Diddy would not contact witnesses.
The prosecution shared alleged text messages from Diddy to his ex to strengthen the argument that he should remain behind bars until trial.
The court heard Diddy allegedly text Ventura: “Call me, the cops are here. I got six kids. You, please call. I’m surrounded. You gonna abandon me all alone.”
Diddy pleaded not guilty to racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, insisted his client is “an innocent man with nothing to hide”.
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Diddy will remain in jail until his case goes to trial.
He is staying in the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which has previously been home to Ghislaine Maxwell and R Kelly to name a few.
Diddy’s day will begin at 6am, when he will be expected to mop and clean his cell.
The rapper will be given three meals a day and is allowed to take a shower three times a week.
Recreational time is limited to one hour per day.
His laywer, Marc Agnifilo, who tried to persuade a judge to let his client wait for trial under house arrest, said: “I’m not going to let him sit in that jail a day longer than he has to.”
A woman who claims Diddy shot her in the face in a New York City nightclub back in 1999 has described the news of his arrest as “one of the best days ever.”
Natania Reuben was at Club New York in Manhattan in December 1999 when gunfire broke out, injuring three people. She miraculously survived, but the bullet scarred her brain.
Diddy was acquitted in 2001, but Reuben is hopeful that the latest charges against him - which he denies - means he might finally face justice, even if it’s not in her own case.
Reuben described the moment that her teenage daughter, Nirvana, broke the news of Diddy’s arrest to her on Monday. Reuben told The Daily Beast: “I said, ‘Are you kidding me, really?’ She said, ‘Yes!’ I just screamed out to God, ‘Thank you, merciful father!’”
“One of the best days ever,” she added.
Read the full story here.
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FBI raids found narcotics, AR-15s and 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant
The FBI raided Diddy’s home in March, which at the time his lawyers said was “a gross overuse of military level force.”
Tuesday’s indictment, however, revealed some of what authorities recovered in those raids: narcotics, three AR-15s with “defaced serial numbers,” ammunition, a drum magazine, and “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant”.
Here’s a video of the moment the property was raided.
Diddy should prepare for ‘long trial process'
Diddy should prepare himself for a long trial process that may result in a minimum of 15 years in prison and most certainly will hurt his reputation, a former federal and state prosecutor forewarned.
Elie Honig, an attorney with experience trialing “complex international sex trafficking rings” and who worked in the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, said his review of the indictment wasn’t great for Combs.
“Given what I know about the SDNY and its racketeering and sex trafficking prosecutions – the outlook for Combs is bleak,” Honig said.
Ariana Baio reports.
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Lauren Boebert compares government funding bill to a Diddy ‘freak-off’
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert tried to articulate her opposition to a government spending package bill by comparing it to “Freak Offs” – the alleged sex acts where Diddy coerced and drugged women to get them to participate for his pleasure.
“This CR, this continuing resolution, that we’re going to vote on today, it’s going to screw our country more times over than a Diddy Freak Off,” Boebert said on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast Wednesday.
The resolution the far-right congresswoman was referring to, is a piece of legislation that would prevent a fast-approaching government shutdown by continuing to fund the federal government at current spending levels.
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Fox News host peddles wild conspiracy connecting Trump and Diddy
A Fox News host has peddled the wild theory that the timing of Diddy’s arrest was purposely coordinated to distract from news of the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Anchor Maria Bartiromo said: “The timing of the P Diddy arrest, please. They must’ve had the P Diddy arrest on the shelf waiting to take it off-the-shelf for when they needed it.”
Watch here.
Kesha takes a swipe at Diddy
Kesha has teased a new version of her hit song “Tik Tok”, which contains a reference to the disgraced music mogul.
The 37-year-old singer, who originally released the 2009 track with the opening lyric “Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy”, has shared a new version with the alternative line, “feeling like f*** P Diddy”.
Kesha first teased the lyric change when singing the alternative version onstage with Reneé Rapp at Coachella in March, and has since promised fans she will officially release the song on streaming platforms when she secures the legal rights.
Ellie Muir reports.
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Diddy’s first meal behind bars revealed
Diddy’s first meal behind bars at a notorious New York prison has now been revealed.
The music mogul has switched his sprawling multi-million-dollar mansions in LA and Miami for the comfort of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, an infamous facility that has previously counted Ghislaine Maxwell and R Kelly among its inmates.
As he awaits trial in the facility, the disgraced rapper will be served three meals a day which will be delivered to his cell.
Read more here.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s first meal behind bars at notorious New York jail revealed
Inside the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the disgraced rapper will be served three meals a day and will be required to mop the floor of his own cell
Text messages from other alleged victims revealed in court
In court yesterday, prosecutor Emily Johnson read out text messages from other alleged victims.
The prosecution used the messages to argue that Diddy should not be granted bail.
Johnson read a text message from a woman who claims Diddy dragged her down a hallway by her hair.
“You always want to show me that you have the power, and you knock me around. I’m not a rag doll, I’m someone’s child,” the woman allegedly told the rapper.
Another alleged victim messaged Diddy after reading the allegations made in Cassie Ventura’s lawsuit in November, the prosecutor said.
“I feel like I’m reading my own sexual trauma,” the message, read aloud by Johnson, said.
“It makes me sick how three solid pages word for word is exactly my experiences and my anguish.”
Diddy has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
When will Diddy’s trial take place?
No trial date has been set for Diddy yet and he could be waiting a while behind bars.
Diddy faces charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution for allegedly running a decades-long “criminal enterprise” that forced victims to carry out sex acts. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said he wants the case to go to trial as soon as possible, but his team is considering the next steps following Wednesday’s bail denial.
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