Sean “Diddy” Combs vowed Wednesday that he would not let women into his Florida mansion while his defense attorneys pleaded with the judge to keep him under house arrest until his trial.n Sex-trafficking and racketeering allegations,
The 54-year-old rapper was scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court at 3:30 p.m. — for the second consecutive day — for a hearing where he will request to be released from court. The infamous Metropolitan Detention Center on a $50 million bond.
His attorneys argue that electronic monitoring and a number of other conditions should assure the trial judge and prosecutors that Combs will not flee or harm others while awaiting trial.
Hip-hop legend He was remanded without bail on Tuesday He pleaded not guilty to three charges.
During that hearing, prosecutors successfully convinced a magistrate judge that no release conditions could protect the community from Combs, and ensure he would not flee or interfere with witness testimony.
But Combs' lawyers filed a letter Wednesday morning adding even more restrictions to the bail motion they hope will convince the judge to let him out of jail — including a promise that no women other than his family or the mothers of his children will visit him.
The Bad Boy Records founder also said he is trying to sell his personal plane – which will meanwhile be parked in a different state in Los Angeles, California – a fact that shows he is not planning to run away from the law, he claimed.
Combs has promised to remain under house arrest with GPS monitoring at his $50 million estate in Miami, Florida, and has vowed to restrict travel to South Florida, New Jersey and parts of New York.
He has also offered to secure the bond with his Sunshine State home and said he and seven members of his family would co-sign the bond.
Lawyers said Combs surrendered his passport to his attorney in April, along with the passports of five other family members — which he plans to turn over to the court.
Other assurances Combs is giving include including his mother's Miami home in his bond, limiting visitors to family, property caretakers and friends — who are not considered co-conspirators in the case — and having his security company compile a log of visitors so he can submit it to the courts nightly.
He has also agreed to weekly drug testing and has promised not to contact any witnesses in the case.
“Sean Combs has never in his life tried to evade, avoid, evade or flee a challenge,” his lawyers said, claiming he would not flee before the trial. “He won't start now. As he has with every difficulty he has faced, he will face this case head on, he will work hard to defend himself, and he will win.”
Combs' attorneys also took aim at prosecutors, saying they were putting on a sham. Arresting your client Whereas he was in the Big Apple since September 5 and had made complete plans to surrender.
“We asked him for time to surrender. He never contacted us,” the letter said. “The government concealed this information only to be able to arrest Mr. Combs and prevent him from surrendering, which he did by traveling to New York.”
in a blistering indictment The seal was opened on TuesdayProsecutors claim Combs engaged in a “decades-long pattern of physical and sexual violence against multiple victims.”
Prosecutors allege that Combs allegedly planned drug-fueled “freak off” sex sessions — which would sometimes last for several days — where he would force the women to perform sex acts with male prostitutes while he masturbated and secretly filmed.
Prosecutors claim Combs used his money, power, violence and threats of violence to lure women into abusive scenarios and that he used videos of the freak-offs to coerce them into participating in further sex sessions.
At Tuesday's hearing, Combs' attorney, Mark Agnifilo, claimed only consenting adults participated in the sexual relations.
And in a Wednesday letter, Combs' attorneys said there is actually only one victim identified in the indictment, “Victim 1” — Combs' former long-term girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs was seen in a disturbing video Released earlier this year Beating Ventura.
His lawyers argued that the two had a decade-long relationship and had been “very much in love with each other for a long time.”
The lawyers claimed in a letter dated Wednesday that after they separated due to mutual cheating and jealousy, Ventura tried to extort money from Combs by making scandalous sexual assault allegations against him.
“There was no sex trafficking here, no sexual crime of any kind, and we will prove that conclusively at trial,” the letter states.
A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment.