Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs say they will keep fighting to have their client freed from the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., where other high profile defendants have also stayed.
“I’m not going to let him sit in that jail a day longer than he has to,” said defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo outside a New York federal courtroom Wednesday. His team wanted Combs to be placed on house arrest with a $50-million bond, but their request was denied. U.
S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter said Wednesday that a bail package that would have kept the hip-hop mogul under house arrest in his Star Island mansion in Miami — with security and no access to cellphones, internet or women apart from his family — was insufficient to release him pending trial.
The facility, which has housed inmates including R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, has a history of violence and squalid conditions . In a letter to the court, Combs lawyers said that comparing him to Kelly and Maxwell — both of whom served time in the Brooklyn federal lockup while awaiting trial for sex trafficking — were not fair.
“Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded, or run from a challenge in his life. He will not start now,” Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, Combs’ lawyers, said in a letter to Carter on Wednesday. The lawyers said there were major differences between Combs’ case and the others because Combs is not accused of trafficking minors.
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