FILE PHOTO: Sean “Diddy” Combs participates in “The Four” panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California, on January 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/Associated Press, File) NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs is staying locked up after a judge rejected the hip-hop mogul’s proposal that he await his sex trafficking trial in the luxury of his Florida mansion instead of a grim Brooklyn federal jail. United States District Judge Andrew L.
Carter ruled Wednesday that Combs’ plan — which included a $50 million bail offer, GPS monitoring, and strict limitations on visitors — was “insufficient” to ensure the safety of the community and the integrity of his case. Carter, agreeing with prosecutors who fought to keep Combs in jail, found that “no condition or set of conditions” governing his release could guard against the risk of him threatening or harming witnesses — a central charge in his case. Combs’ lawyers were making their second attempt in as many days to spring him from the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been held since pleading not guilty Tuesday, Sept.
17, to charges he physically and sexually abused women for years. A federal magistrate on Tuesday rejected Combs’ initial request for bail. On Wednesday, he and his lawyers struck out with Carter, the judge who will preside over his trial.
Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo said he will next ask the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals .