Sean “Diddy” Combs vowed he won’t have women visit his Florida mansion Wednesday as his defense attorneys beg a judge to release him to home detention until he faces trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges.
The 54-year-old rapper was set to appear for a second day in a row in Manhattan federal court at 3:30 p.m. — for a hearing where he’ll request to be sprung from the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center on a $50 million bond.
His attorneys argue that electronic monitoring and a slew of other conditions should assure the trial judge and prosecutors that Combs won’t go on the lam or harm others while he awaits trial.
The hip-hop mogul was held without bail Tuesday after he pleaded not guilty to the three-count indictment.
Prosecutors during that hearing convinced a magistrate judge that no conditions of release could protect the community from Combs and ensure he wouldn’t flee or try to interfere with witnesses.
But Combs’ lawyers filed a letter Wednesday morning adding even more restrictions to their bail proposal which they hope will convince the judge to let him out of jail — including the promise that he won’t have any women visit him, besides his family or the mothers of his children.
The Bad Boy Records founder also noted he’s in the process of trying to sell his private plane — which will be kept in Los Angeles, California, in the meantime — a fact which shows he doesn’t plan to go on the run from the law, he claimed.
Combs has promised to remain on home detention at his $50 million Miami, Florida, estate with GPS monitoring and vowed to restrict his travel to South Florida, New Jersey and parts of New York.
He’s also offering to secure the bond with his Sunshine State mansion and said he and seven family members will all co-sign the bond.
Here's what we know about the allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs
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- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security in March amid a possible ongoing sex-trafficking investigation.
- Authorities targeted the rapper’s homes to seize phones and computers, sources told The Post.
- At least four Jane Does and one John Doe have been interviewed by New York prosecutors in connection to sex-trafficking allegations and a RICO case, sources told Rolling Stone.
- Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie (Cassandra Ventura) filed a lawsuit against him in November 2023 on several allegations, including rape and physical abuse for over a decade.
- Combs and Cassie settled the lawsuit one day after she filed it.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a woman on a date in 1991.
- A third woman filed a lawsuit against the celebrity in November 2023, claiming that he and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns sexually assaulting her and a friend in the early 1990s.
- In December 2023, Combs was hit with a fourth sexual assault lawsuit that accused him and others of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his NYC recording studio after drugging her and supplying her with alcohol.
- In September 2024, Diddy was sued by Dawn Richard, a participant on Combs’ 2004 MTV show “Making The Band,” claiming that he once broke into her dressing room and began groping her breasts and butt.
Combs already turned over his passport to his lawyer in April, as well as the passports for five other family members — all of which they plan to hand over to the court, the attorneys said.
Other assurances Combs is offering include adding his mother’s Miami home to his bond, restricting visitors to family, property caretakers and friends — who aren’t considered co-conspirators in the case — and having his security company keep logs of any visitors to turn over to the courts nightly.
He’s also agreeing to weekly drug testing and promised to refrain from contacting any witnesses in the case.
“Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded or run from a challenge in his life,” his lawyers said, claiming he wouldn’t run away before trial. “He will not start now. As he has handled every hardship, he will meet this case head-on, he will work hard to defend himself, and he will prevail.”
Combs’ lawyers also took aim at prosecutors for making a show of arresting their client when he’d already been in the Big Apple since Sept. 5 and fully planned to turn himself in.
“We asked them for a time for the surrender. They never got back to us,” the letter says. “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 bombshell indictment unsealed Tuesday, prosecutors claim that Combs carried out a “decades-long pattern of physical and sexual violence against multiple victims.”
Combs allegedly orchestrated elaborate, drug-laced “Freak Off” sex sessions — which sometimes lasted for days — where he forced women into sex acts with male prostitutes while he masturbated and secretly filmed, prosecutors allege.
Combs used his wealth, power, violence and threats of violence to lure the women into abusive scenarios, and he used the videos of the Freak Offs as leverage to force them into participating in further sex sessions, prosecutors claim.
At the Tuesday hearing, Combs lawyer Marc Agnifilo claimed only consenting adults took part in the sex romps.
And in the Wednesday letter, Combs’ attorneys said the indictment actually only identifies a single victim, “Victim-1” — Combs’ former long-term girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs was seen in a disturbing video released earlier this year beating Ventura up.
His lawyers argued the pair had a decade-long relationship and that they “were very much in love for a long time.”
And when they split due to mutual cheating and jealousy, Ventura tried to extort Combs with embarrassing sexual assault allegations, the lawyers claimed in the Wednesday letter.
“There was no sex trafficking, there was no sex crime of any sort, and we will conclusively prove that at a trial,” the letter says.
A spokesman with the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office declined to comment.
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