US Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky made the decision today after hearing lengthy arguments from prosecutors and Combs' lawyers. P Diddy King Combs, son of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, arrives at the US Court in Manhattan after Combs was arrested by federal agents in New York City (REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado) Attorney Marc Agnifilo arrives at US Court in Manhattan after music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested by federal agents in New York City (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid) A judge has ordered that Sean “Diddy” Combs be held without bail in his federal sex trafficking case. US Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky made the decision today after hearing lengthy arguments from prosecutors and Combs' lawyers.
Prosecutors wanted the music mogul held without bail. His attorneys proposed that he be released on a $50 million bond to home detention with electronic monitoring. Combs pleaded not guilty earlier to racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
An indictment accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes, coercing and abusing women for years while using blackmail and shocking acts of violence to keep his victims in line. Charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, the music mogul is accused of inducing female victims and male sex workers into drugged-up, sometimes days-long sexual performances dubbed “Freak Offs.” The indictment against him also refers obliquely to an attack on his former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, that was captu.