Hip-hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will have to await trial on sex-trafficking charges in a Brooklyn jail instead of his luxurious Miami Beach mansion after a second judge refused to grant a $50m bail package offered by his lawyers. On Wednesday, US district judge Andrew L Carter denied Combs’s request to be released to home detention with GPS monitoring, pointing to the possibility that Combs may tamper with witnesses. Carter’s denial marks the second refusal to grant Combs the hefty bail package, which included the $50m bond, as well as the passports of his children and mother .
The 54-year old was initially denied bail and ordered to jail on Tuesday after he was federally charged with sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs has pleaded not guilty. The arrest of Combscame roughly six months after federal authorities conducting a sex-trafficking investigation raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami.
The three-count, 14-page indictment alleges racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The federal indictment contained graphic details, including that Combs would force sex-trafficking victims to engage in group sex acts with associates of his that he referred to as “freak offs” – sometimes for days at a time – while he recorded video of the encounters and masturbated to them. The encounters were so physically exhausting for him and his victims – whom he would allegedly force to ingest dru.