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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attempt to get bail before the holidays is denied


Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attempt to get bail before the holidays is denied

Sean “Diddy” Combs won’t be home for the holidays.

The judge overseeing his sex trafficking and racketeering case ruled Wednesday that Combs must remain behind bars before his criminal trial in May of this year.

In his ruling, Judge Aran Subramanian wrote that “there is no condition or combination of conditions that would adequately ensure the safety of the community” if the music mogul were granted bail.

Combs, 55, is currently in prison at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

The news comes just days after Combs’ legal team outlined their plans should he be released. They said he would live in an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and would be monitored around the clock by armed security guards and would only be allowed to call his lawyers and receive visits from pre-approved family members.

But prosecutor Christy Slavik argued that releasing Combs from prison would be harmful.

Sean “Diddy” Combs
Sean “Diddy” Combs at the MET Gala in New York City on May 1, 2017. Lucas Jackson / Reuters file

“He pays his way out of prison and continues to ignore the rules. He poses a flight risk, a danger to the community. He is obstructing and attempting to undermine the integrity of this process,” Slavik said at Friday’s hearing.

Prosecutors also alleged that Combs tampered with witnesses behind bars by making three-way calls and using other inmates’ cell phone lines. They also claimed he tried to unsettle potential jurors with a public relations campaign, pointing to an Instagram post from earlier this month that showed his children talking to him on the phone behind bars on his birthday.

But Combs’ team has said this is all within his constitutional rights.

The decision comes a little more than a week after the judge ruled that prosecutors must remove 16 pages of notes taken from Combs’ jail cell that should have been protected under attorney-client privilege.

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