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 towards him over the previous yr. He was then charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, in response to authorized paperwork on Tuesday (September 17).
The indictment additionally revealed a few of the objects that had been mentioned to have been seized from Combs’ home raids which occurred again in March. Based on 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 data, 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 towards him.
Whereas showing in courtroom on Tuesday, federal choose Robyn Tarnofsky declared that Combs was to stay in federal custody whereas awaiting his trial, denying his attorneys’ request for bail.
Combs is presently being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart (MDC) after being denied bail twice. Now, in response to Individuals, the mogul has been positioned on suicide watch. His lawyer Marc Agnifilo instructed 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 “in no way suicidal” however somewhat “sturdy, wholesome, assured and centered on his protection.”
Based on the U.S. Division of Justice Nationwide Institute of Corrections, suicide watch is “supervisory precautions taken for suicidal inmates that require frequent remark.”
MDC is understood for being harmful and understaffed with a excessive loss of life and suicide charge. The centre presently 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 usually are not match for pre-trial detention,” and added: “Simply earlier this summer time, an inmate was murdered. A minimum of 4 inmates have died by suicide there up to now three years” (per The Each day Beast).
Agnifilo lately requested the courtroom to switch Combs to the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, New Jersey. The matter is presently beneath evaluation.
In an announcement to Rolling Stone and different members of the press following Tuesday’s heading (September 17), Agnifilo introduced his intentions to attraction the choice towards Diddy’s bail denial in courtroom later at present (September 18): “Mr. Combs is a fighter. He’s going to battle this till the tip. He’s harmless. We’re going to battle this case with all the things we have now.”
Combs’ fees observe a wave of accusations and lawsuits towards Combs, starting in November 2023 when R&B singer and Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie filed a lawsuit towards 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 Might, and Diddy issued an apology for his actions on the time.
Per week after Ventura’s authentic lawsuit filed in November final yr, two new allegations had been made towards Diddy; one lady 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 good friend in 1990 or 1991 – including that Diddy turned violent days later. Diddy went on-line to disclaim all allegations towards him, however Corridor hasn’t replied to the accusations.
Earlier this yr, 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 Might 22, he was accused of drugging and assaulting Crystal McKinney, a former mannequin. McKinney accused him of assaulting her at a Males’s Trend Week occasion in 2003 by giving her a “highly effective” joint after which assaulting her in a rest room. 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.”
