Third request for bail from rapper Diddy, imprisoned for sex trafficking, is rejected

A New York judge rejected this Wednesday the third request for bail from rapper Sean Combs (Diddy), who has been in jail since he was accused of sex trafficking last September, considering him a risk to public safety.

“The court believes that the government has shown with clear and convincing evidence that “There is no condition or combination of conditions that reasonably ensures the safety of the community,” Justice Arun Subramanian said in his ruling, published today on the digital judicial platform.

The judge points out that the artist is accused of “serious and violent crimes” and could manipulate witnesses, and also considers it proven that he has “violated prison regulations” to hide his communications with third parties, as the authorities denounced.

The defense of Diddy, who is in a Brooklyn prison awaiting trial in May 2025, He proposed bail of $50 million on Friday. and confine him to a Manhattan home without access to telephone or internet, subject to surveillance and with limitations on who he maintains communications with.

The Prosecutor’s Office, as on other occasions, argued against the artist’s release due to the risk of manipulating witnesses or victims, and denounced that has been communicating with the outside world from prison in an unauthorized manner, what they consider obstruction of Justice.

The judge, who did not rule on Friday because he wanted both parties to give him information about those communications from prison, did not allude to the “content” of them but to the “willingness to break prison rules” to make it difficult for him to be monitored.

After several searches in their mansions, Diddy was arrested in New York last September and charged with conspiring to commit racketeering, sex trafficking and human trafficking. supposedly from 2008 to the present, crimes that he has denied.

Two other judges have denied the rapper’s bail, the last last September, warning of possible witness tampering.