Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been denied bail by a choose forward of his sentencing.

The 55-year-old was charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to interact in prostitution after he was arrested final September – he denied all allegations and pleaded not responsible.

Courtroom hearings started in New York in Might, with his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and fellow rapper Child Cudi amongst these taking the stand over the previous few weeks.

After six weeks of testimony, the jury started their deliberations on Friday, and in the present day confirmed that they’d unanimously reached a verdict.

Combs was discovered not responsible on counts one and two, the alleged racketeering conspiracy and the alleged intercourse trafficking of Casandra Ventura.

He was discovered responsible on depend three, the Mann Act Transportation ofVentura.

The rapper was additionally discovered responsible of Rely 5, the Mann Act transportation of former girlfriend Jane.

Nonetheless he was discovered not responsible of Rely 4, the alleged intercourse trafficking of her.

Combs was arrested on September 16, 2024, and initially charged with three offences – racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution.

Two further counts of the latter two offences had been added in April, bringing the full to 5.

When will he be sentenced?

Following the decision on Wednesday afternoon, Combs attorneys and the prosecution made submissions on whether or not to launch him on bail till his sentencing or hold him behind bars.

Choose Arun Subramanian, who’s presiding over the case, said that he needed to learn letters from either side earlier than making his determination concerning bail.

When explaining his determination, he stated the defence had not cleared the bar to warrant Coombs’ detention being lifted, additionally citing the rapper’s historical past of violence.

Combs authorized group had proposed a bail package deal together with a $1,000,000 bond, journey restrictions, surrendering his passport and drug testing.

Of their letter they ‘rejected the federal government’s depiction’ of the rapper as a ‘monster’.

They added it ‘can be unjust to detain him even sooner or later longer’.

The prosecution stated he posed a ‘actual danger’ if he was to be launched.

In the meantime Ventura’s lawyer Douglas H. Wigdor additionally stated that she believed that if he was launched, Combs was ‘prone to pose a hazard to the victims who testified on this case, together with herself, in addition to the neighborhood’.

Will he go to jail?

Prosecutor Maurene Comey stated the federal government will search a 20-year most for Combs. He will likely be sentenced on October 3.

The choose confirmed he would obtain a 10-month credit score taking time already served under consideration.

The BBC reported that, as the decision was learn out, Combs ‘remained stoic and exhausting to learn, staring ahead’.

Beforehand, he was seen praying along with his kids and hugging his attorneys.

When he heard he was solely responsible of the least critical costs, Combs appeared on the jury and made a prayer signal in the direction of them.

His lawyer, Teny Geragos, gave the impression to be crying subsequent to him, wiping her eyes with a tissue, after she heard the decision.

After the decision was learn, Combs attorneys instantly argued he shouldnow stroll out of the courthouse a free man, after months of being behind bars in a federal jail.

Lawyer Marc Agnifilo stated his shopper’s acquittal on probably the most critical costs meant he must be launched to go dwell at his residence in Florida on a $1,000,000 bond, till his sentencing listening to.

Though Choose Subramanian instructed the courtroom and the overflow room to remain orderly, the overflow room the BBC was sitting in ‘exploded with noise’ after every determination was learn out.

After the trial began in Might, the jury ended up deliberating for 13 hours over three days to come back to a unanimous determination on the costs towards Combs.

In a press release following the decision, Wigdor stated the ‘total felony course of’ started when she had the ‘braveness’ to file her civil criticism in November 2023.  

‘Though the jury didn’t discover Combs responsible of intercourse trafficking Cassie past an affordable doubt, she paved the best way for a jury to search out him responsible of transportation to interact in prostitution,’ he stated.

‘By coming ahead together with her expertise, Cassie has left an indelible mark on each the leisure business and the combat for justice. We should repeat – with no reservation – that we imagine and help our shopper who confirmed exemplary braveness all through this trial.

‘She displayed unquestionable energy and introduced consideration to the realities of highly effective males in our orbit and the misconduct that has persevered for many years with out repercussion.  This case proved that change is lengthy overdue, and we’ll proceed to combat on behalf of survivors.’

Exterior court docket he advised reporters: ‘We’re simply happy that he nonetheless faces substantial jail time.’

50 Cent, who’s extensively thought to be a longtime rival of Combs, additionally reacted to the decision with a publish on Instagram, showing to mock the rapper.

Because the court docket proceedings got here to an finish, prosecutors knowledgeable the choose that they had been now not ‘continuing on theories’ associated to tried kidnapping and tried arson, through CNN.

These allegations had been included within the racketeering cost, which is only one depend within the general indictment, however they nonetheless alleged that he was concerned in transportation for functions of prostitution, witness tampering, bribery, and drug-related offenses.

In November 2023, a yr earlier than Combs’ arrest, Ventura filed a lawsuit in November 2023, accusing him of raping and bodily abusing her in the course of the course of their relationship.

They settled the go well with privately the day after it was filed – however she appeared in court docket initially of the trial to element their 11-year on-off romance, and the ‘freak offs’, the place he allegedly coerced a number of individuals into ‘elaborate and produced intercourse performances’.

He’s stated to have organized the incidents, whereas ‘directing, masturbating throughout and infrequently electronically recording’ them, and forcing, or coercing, ladies to take part with male intercourse employees, who had been reportedly flown in to participate.

After claiming that the intercourse events may last as long as 36 or 48 hours, with the longest taking 4 days, she spoke of the bodily and psychological toll these took, telling the court docket that she repeatedly suffered from gastrointestinal points associated to the medication she consumed, and frequent ‘horrible’ UTIs.

She advised the court docket that she would usually have an an infection throughout ‘freak offs’ however continued to carry out in them.

Ventura additionally mentioned the extremely publicized video of Combs showing to assault her on the InterContinental Resort in LA in 2016, confirming that she will likely be receiving a $10million sum after negotiating an settlement with the resort.

Changing into emotional in court docket, she insisted that she would quit the cash if it allowed her to show again the clock and never undergo Combs’ drug-fueled intercourse events.

‘I’d give that cash again if I by no means needed to have freak-offs,’ she stated in tears. ‘If I by no means needed to have freak-offs, I might have company and autonomy. I wouldn’t have needed to work so exhausting to get it again.’

When requested how these conditions made her really feel, she merely added: ‘Nugatory’.

Combs denied all allegations towards him, and pleaded not responsible to all costs, however declined to testify himself.

His lawyer beforehand issued a press release concerning the federal felony costs, telling BBC: ‘Mr Combs and his authorized group have full confidence within the info and the integrity of the judicial course of.

‘In court docket, the reality will prevail: that Mr Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody – man or lady, grownup or minor.’

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