Detained for several weeks, rapper and producer P. Diddy could be released in the near future.
According to reports, the latter tried once again to obtain his release from prison while awaiting trial. This, by filing a new application for bail on Friday, November 9.
In fact, the rapper’s lawyers tried several times to get him released on bail, but without success. But this time they played a different card.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Diddy’s lawyers are proposing a full bond that includes $50 million bail and extensive 24-hour monitoring to ensure he doesn’t flee or intimidate witnesses before his trial.
The motion follows efforts in September, when his previous requests for bail were twice denied.
His legal team says others facing similar charges have been released on bail with significantly lower bail amounts.
For example, a CEO accused of sex trafficking and witness intimidation was released on bail with bonds of $10 million and $500,000, respectively, significantly lower than the $50 million proposed by P. Diddy.
Despite these arguments, Diddy remains incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn after a judge ruled that the government had proven he posed a danger.
He faces federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. His trial is scheduled for May 2024.
It should be remembered that American rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested on Monday, September 16, 2024, by the police in Manhattan, after several complaints were filed against him, notably for sexual assault.
In total, nine complaints have been filed against the rapper since November 2023. In one of them, filed in November, his former partner “Cassie” Ventura accuses him of having engaged in “violent” and “deviant” behavior. for a decade.
In a video posted in May from 2016, P. Diddy lashes out at her.
We see the rapper, simply wearing a towel around his waist, catching up with her in a hotel corridor, grabbing her brutally and throwing her violently to the ground, before kicking her several times. “My behavior in this video is inexcusable”declared the billionaire in a video on his Instagram account.
The matter was settled “amicably” according to a confidential agreement. Sean Combs has been the subject of allegations of abuse since the 1990s, although no major convictions have ever been brought against him. We will come back to this.
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