Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been positioned on suicide watch as he awaits his trial for his ongoing intercourse trafficking and racketeering case.
On Monday (September 16), the rapper and music mogul was arrested in Manhattan, New York following a string of sexual misconduct allegations filed in opposition to him over the previous 12 months. He was then charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion and transportation to interact in prostitution, based on authorized paperwork on Tuesday (September 17).
The indictment additionally revealed a number of the gadgets that had been mentioned to have been seized from Combs’ home raids which occurred again in March. In keeping with The Unbiased, authorities recovered narcotics, three AR-15s with “defaced serial numbers”, ammunition and a drum journal, in addition to “greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant” and proof that aligned with the “freak offs” which had been alleged within the rapper’s ex Cassie Ventura’s lawsuit.
The indictment alleged that Combs “maintained management over his victims by means of, amongst different issues, bodily violence, guarantees of profession alternatives, granting and threatening to withhold monetary help, and by different coercive means, together with monitoring their whereabouts, dictating the victims’ look, monitoring their medical information, controlling their housing, and supplying them with managed substances.”
If convicted, the rapper might face a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years in jail and a most of life. Combs pleaded not responsible to the fees in opposition to him.
Whereas showing in court docket on Tuesday, federal decide Robyn Tarnofsky declared that Combs was to stay in federal custody whereas awaiting his trial, denying his legal professionals’ request for bail.
Combs is at present being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart (MDC) after being denied bail twice. Now, based on Individuals, the mogul has been positioned on suicide watch. His legal professional Marc Agnifilo advised TMZ that the suicide watch directive was issued by MDC officers as a routine measure for “new, high-profile inmates.”
He added that he had spent six hours with Combs on the detention centre and shared that he was “by no means suicidal” however fairly “robust, wholesome, assured and targeted on his protection.”
In keeping with the U.S. Division of Justice Nationwide Institute of Corrections, suicide watch is “supervisory precautions taken for suicidal inmates that require frequent commentary.”
MDC is thought for being harmful and understaffed with a excessive demise and suicide price. The centre at present homes about 1,600 inmates, a lot of that are awaiting trial.
Throughout their movement for Combs to be granted bail, the mogul’s attorneys famous that “a number of courts on this District have acknowledged that the circumstances at Metropolitan Detention Heart will not be match for pre-trial detention,” and added: “Simply earlier this summer time, an inmate was murdered. Not less than 4 inmates have died by suicide there up to now three years” (per The Every day Beast).
Agnifilo not too long ago requested the court docket to switch Combs to the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, New Jersey. The matter is at present underneath evaluation.
In a press release to Rolling Stone and different members of the press following Tuesday’s heading (September 17), Agnifilo introduced his intentions to enchantment the choice in opposition to Diddy’s bail denial in court docket later right now (September 18): “Mr. Combs is a fighter. He’s going to struggle this till the top. He’s harmless. We’re going to struggle this case with all the pieces we now have.”
Combs’ costs comply with a wave of accusations and lawsuits in opposition to Combs, starting in November 2023 when R&B singer and Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie filed a lawsuit in opposition to him on allegations of bodily and sexual abuse. Diddy denied the claims earlier than the pair settled the lawsuit “to mutual satisfaction” a day after it was filed. Footage of Combs’ assault on Cassie was later launched to the general public in Could, and Diddy issued an apology for his actions on the time.
Per week after Ventura’s authentic lawsuit filed in November final 12 months, two new allegations had been made in opposition to Diddy; one girl claimed Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her and the opposite alleged that Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Corridor took turns raping the plaintiff and her buddy in 1990 or 1991 – including that Diddy turned violent days later. Diddy went on-line to disclaim all allegations in opposition to him, however Corridor hasn’t replied to the accusations.
Earlier this 12 months, producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones sued Combs alleging he sexually assaulted him, had events the place intercourse staff and underage women had been current, and coerced him to sleep with prostitutes. Diddy replied, saying Jones’ claims had been “pure fiction”.
Diddy continues to disclaim any wrongdoing.
On Could 22, he was accused of drugging and assaulting Crystal McKinney, a former mannequin. McKinney accused him of assaulting her at a Males’s Vogue Week occasion in 2003 by giving her a “highly effective” joint after which assaulting her in a toilet. Diddy didn’t reply for remark.
A former porn actress additionally got here ahead on July 4 to accuse the rapper of intercourse trafficking. Diddy’s lawyer has denied the claims, sustaining that “Mr Combs has by no means sexually assaulted or intercourse trafficked anybody.”