Sean “Diddy” Combs has formally given up on getting out of jail earlier than his trial date is available in May 2025.
Legal counsel for Combs, who’s at present incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., filed a movement earlier at this time to dismiss his attraction for bail in his ongoing intercourse trafficking and racketeering case. He had beforehand been denied bail 3 times, and has finally conceded to remaining in custody as he awaits his trial.
“Mr. Combs doesn’t search to attraction the district court docket’s denial of his renewed movement and hereby strikes to voluntarily dismiss the attraction,” reads the movement. “Counsel has defined the impact of voluntary dismissal of the attraction.”
Combs signed the movement, which said that “(a) counsel has defined the impact of voluntary dismissal of the attraction; (b) he understands counsel’s clarification, and (c) he wishes to withdraw and voluntarily dismiss the attraction.”
Combs has been lobbying for months to get out of jail, providing a $50 million bond backed by fairness in his houses, the promise of safety monitoring and assurance that he wouldn’t intrude with investigations surrounding the fees. In his newest bail attraction listening to on Nov. 27, Judge Arun Subramanian dominated that “there’s proof of supporting a severe danger of witness tampering” and that Combs contacted witnesses even after his grand jury testimony in June 2024.
Just yesterday, Subramanian dominated that Combs could be allowed entry to a preloaded laptop computer to evaluation discovery and put together for his May 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 expenses of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. His authorized woes stem from a bombshell lawsuit that his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed final November and subsequently settled the following day, setting off a sequence of fits the place accusers equally claimed that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted them.
Jay-Z was not too long ago 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 swimsuit in an announcement that stated his lawyer was despatched “blackmail” surrounding the allegations from legal professional Tony Buzbee in an effort to stress him into settling out of court docket. Carter went on to say that it had the “reverse impact” and as a substitute enflamed Carter to reveal his accusor for “the fraud [they] are in a VERY public vogue.”
