U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky has denied bail for Combs.
Sean"Diddy" Combs stands before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky after prosecutors brought three criminal charges against him in federal court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., September 17, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. - REUTERSPIX
The rapper and producer used his business empire including his record label Bad Boy Entertainment to transport women, as well as male sex workers, across state lines to take part in recorded sexual performances called “Freak Offs” in which the music mogul would watch and masturbate, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Combs enticed women by giving them drugs such as ketamine and ecstasy, financial support, or promises of career support or a romantic relationship. Combs then used the surreptitious recordings of the sex acts as “collateral” to ensure that the women would remain silent, and sometimes displayed weapons to intimidate abuse victims and witnesses, prosecutors said.
“My concern is that this is a crime that happens behind closed doors,“ the judge said in denying bail, before Combs was led out of the courtroom by members of the U.S. Marshals Service. “The defendant Sean Combs physically and sexually abused victims for decades,“ prosecutor Emily Johnson, arguing for continued detention, told the judge. “He is extremely dangerous to the community.”
Hit with a series of civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual and other misconduct as well as a federal criminal investigation, Combs' career has been derailed in the past year.Last November, his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, an R&B singer known as Cassie, accused him in a lawsuit of serial physical abuse, sexual slavery and rape. She agreed to an undisclosed settlement one day after suing. Combs denied her allegations.
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