Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ legal team is hard at work as they are preparing to lodge an appeal to the court for the release of the rapper, according to the recent legal documents of the case. He was denied bail twice in a row even after he proposed $50 million as opposed to the average $2 million. He is currently being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre after he was arrested in Manhattan.
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Diddy’s legal team files an appeal for his release One of the attorneys in Diddy’s legal team, Alexandra Shapiro, filed a notification to appeal for his release on Monday. A source close to the hip-hop mogul revealed to People that the official appeal documents will be filed soon. They added that Diddy is building up his “dream legal defence team" for his trial.
He was charged with sex trafficking and racketeering following his arrest. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky denied Diddy his first bail request on September 17, referencing the rapper’s alleged “substance abuse and what seems like anger issues.
" She added, “I don’t know that you can trust yourself” to inflict harm on people around him. One of the first lawsuits filed against him was by his ex-girlfriend of ten years, Cassie Ventura, who accused him of sexual assault and abuse for years. Diddy was accused of urging and coercing women and sex workers to participate in his Freak Offs as he intimi.
