Sean “Diddy” Combs has been positioned on suicide watch on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, the place he’s awaiting trial on three felony fees stemming from years of alleged abuse.
The music mogul’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, informed TMZ the directive issued by jail employees was a routine measure for all “new, high-profile inmates.” He added that Diddy is “not at all suicidal” and described him as “strong, healthy, confident and focused on his defense.”
Diddy has been in federal custody in New York Metropolis since his arrest Monday night time. He was taken into custody on the Park Hyatt Lodge in Midtown and initially positioned in MDC’s particular housing unit, or SHU, earlier than he was moved to the jail’s East Facet.
His arrest got here after a months-long investigation carried out by Homeland Safety and the federal authorities, which noticed brokers raid Diddy’s properties in Miami and Los Angeles in reference to drug and intercourse trafficking allegations.
On Tuesday, the Unhealthy Boy Data founder pleaded not responsible to fees of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He’s accused of utilizing his cash and affect to coerce girls into collaborating in his “freak off” intercourse events, which allegedly concerned degrading and bodily abusive acts that have been typically recorded.
He was ordered held with out bond.
U.S. District Decide Andrew Carter on Wednesday for the second time denied bond for the music producer, whose lawyer proposed he be launched on $50 million bail, GPS monitoring and strict limitations on guests.
However Carter stated the provide was inadequate, ruling “no condition or set of conditions” governing Diddy’s launch might guard in opposition to the chance of him threatening or harming witnesses.
Talking to the press after the listening to, Agnifilo vowed he would proceed the struggle to free Diddy from MDC, which has for years been plagued with points like rampant violence, extreme staffing shortages and the widespread smuggling of medication and different contraband.
“Mr. Combs is a fighter, he’s going to fight this until the end, he’s innocent,” Agnifilo stated. “We’re going to fight this case with everything we have, as is he.”
Agniflo will subsequent ask the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals to overturn Carter’s ruling and launch his shopper from jail.
Within the meantime, he desires Combs moved from the Brooklyn lockup, which has housed different high-profile inmates together with disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly, Epstein-enabler Ghislaine Maxwell, “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli and NXIVM intercourse cult chief Keith Raniere. Agniflo requested Diddy be transferred to the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, N.J.
Diddy has additionally individually been named in eight completely different lawsuits since November 2023, most of them detailing allegations of rape, sexual assault, drugging and bodily abuse.
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