Sean "Diddy" Combs Remanded

After Sean "Diddy" Combs pleaded not guilty to enactment trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges connected Sept. 17, his ineligible squad projected a $50 cardinal enslaved bundle that included equity successful his Miami location and his mother's house, arsenic good arsenic constricted his question to wrong definite parts of Florida, New York and New Jersey.

The defence besides offered, per a missive obtained by E! News, to "walk the Court done a bid of actions taken by Mr. Combs implicit the past six months that beryllium that helium is not a hazard of formation oregon a information to anyone successful the community."

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky rejected the bundle and ordered that Combs beryllium remanded without bail. He remains successful custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn in a peculiar portion that's housed a fig of high-profile inmates. 

Combs' Lawyer Says Rapper Is Getting Treatment and Therapy

"He is not a cleanable person," Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo told the court, per NBC New York. "There has been cause use. He has been successful toxic relationships."

Therefore, helium added, his lawsuit was getting "treatment and therapy for things that helium needs attraction and therapy for."

Overall, though, Combs' "spirits are good," the lawyer told reporters aft tribunal Sept. 17. "He's confident."

Combs Creates a Slippery Situation

More than 1,000 bottles of babe lipid and idiosyncratic lubricant were seized during the March 2024 raids connected Combs' L.A. and Miami homes, according to the 14-page indictment unsealed Sept. 17.

Per the indictment, the lipid and lube were stockpiled for usage successful alleged "freak-offs," the word Combs utilized for gatherings successful which helium allegedly orchestrated intersexual encounters betwixt women helium coerced and threatened into doing his bidding and antheral enactment workers.

"I don't cognize wherever the fig 1,000 came," his lawyer Agnifilo said successful the TMZ documentary The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment, which premiered Sept. 27. Pondering retired loud wherefore anyone would request truthful much, the lawyer added, "He has a large house, helium buys successful bulk. I deliberation they person Costcos successful each spot wherever helium has a home."

Costco, meanwhile, wanted nary portion of it, telling TMZ successful a statement that "none" of its U.S. stores transportation babe oil.

Alleged Combs Texts Read successful Court

In May 2024, CNN published a clip of edifice surveillance video from 2016 that appeared to amusement Combs attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie, calved Cassandra Ventura. (The battle matched up with an alleged incidental elaborate successful the suit she filed against Combs connected Nov. 16, 2023; some parties announced a colony the adjacent day.)

"I was f--ked up. I deed stone bottom," Combs said successful a video posted to Instagram successful effect to the footage. "But I marque nary excuses. My behaviour connected that video is inexcusable. I instrumentality afloat work for my actions successful that video." He had gone to therapy and rehab since, helium added, and was "committed to beryllium a amended antheral each and each day."

During a Sept. 18 proceeding connected Combs' 2nd petition for bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson said, per NBC News, that Combs allegedly sent a substance successful the days pursuing the assault that read, "Call me, the cops are here." Another read, "I person six kids. Call, I’m surrounded."

Johnson did not accidental Cassie's sanction successful court. She said that Combs' unfortunate replied via text, "Sick you deliberation it’s OK to bash what you've done."

Bail was erstwhile again denied, this clip by U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr.

The Combs Case Is Set for Trial

On Oct. 3, the Combs lawsuit was reassigned to Judge Arun Subramanian because Carter was incapable to accommodate a proceedings date.

During an Oct. 10 presumption hearing, Subramanian acceptable a proceedings day of May 5, 2025.

Prosecutor Johnson told the justice she expected the proceedings to past astir 3 weeks, but said determination was inactive the anticipation that a superseding indictment could pb to much charges against Combs.

Agnifilo said successful tribunal they'd request astir a week to enactment connected their case.

Meanwhile, the lawyer said successful the TMZ doc that Combs was looking guardant to testifying successful his ain defense.

“I don’t cognize that I could support him disconnected the stand," Agnifilo said. "I deliberation helium is precise anxious to archer his story."

Combs Accused of Attempting to Contact Witnesses

Prosecutors alleged successful a Nov. 15 tribunal filing that Combs arranged to wage disconnected chap inmates to usage their telephone privileges, showing his disregard for jailhouse rules, and arranged three-way calls to interaction his associates successful an effort to obstruct the transgression lawsuit against him.

"The suspect has demonstrated an uncanny quality to get others to bash his bidding—employees, household members, and M.D.C. inmates alike," the filing alleged, per the New York Times.

In their 3rd bid for bail, which was yet rejected, Combs' ineligible squad argued successful a November filing that the government's lawsuit was "thin," and that contacting imaginable witnesses to assistance Combs' defence "does not magnitude to obstruction oregon grounds immoderate hazard of obstruction."

Prosecutors Get Notes From Combs' Cell

Alleging a usurpation of attorney-client privilege and calling it a "complete organization failure," per the Times, Combs lawyer Agnifilo objected during a Nov. 19 tribunal quality to the prosecution's usage of handwritten notes that were removed from the defendant's compartment during a expanse of the jailhouse to bolster its statement against bail.

The contents of the notes were redacted from the nationalist record, but prosecutors said successful tribunal that immoderate of Combs' writings suggested helium was trying to obstruct their case.

The prosecution besides countered successful tribunal papers that the jailhouse expanse was pre-planned and did not people Combs, and that the notes were archetypal reviewed by a squad from the U.S. Attorney's Office to filter retired immoderate privileged material.

Agnifilo argued that the notes reviewed by the prosecution were among the papers Combs regularly brought with him to meetings with his attorneys.

Judge Subramanian ordered prosecutors to delete photos of the notes from their files portion helium considered whether Combs' rights had been violated.