I n a desperate bid to try to keep their client out of jail, lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs suggested a $50 million (£37 million) bail package, secured by his $48 million Miami mansion and his mother’s home in Florida. He would live under house arrest, they suggested, with no female visitors or access to the internet. He was even trying to sell his private plane to demonstrate he was not a flight risk.
But prosecutors in his sexual abuse case had argued he had already attempted to interfere with witnesses, and the judge said he was concerned the music mogul would obstruct justice by continuing to try to contact alleged victims. So instead of staying free in his luxury home on the private celebrity enclave of Star Island in Miami Beach, he was booked into his new temporary home: the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, whose previous inmates include Ghislaine Maxwell, and which has a reputation for being overcrowded and dangerous..