Robyn Tarnofsky, the US Justice of the Peace choose, has ordered that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs be despatched to jail to await trial in his federal intercourse trafficking case.
According to AP, the choose held that the embattled rapper, who’s at the moment dealing with federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees, be held with out bail.
Tarnofsky gave the order on Tuesday after the music mogul pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking.
The bail denial adopted after Diddy was accused in a 14-page federal indictment of utilizing his sprawling enterprise empire to abuse, threaten, and visitors girls to “fulfill his sexual wishes” and defend his repute.
Federal prosecutors, within the indictment, charged Diddy with intercourse trafficking by pressure, transportation to interact in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy.
They alleged the rapper, with assist from Combs Enterprise associates, ran an “enterprise that he engaged in intercourse trafficking, pressured labor or, kidnapping, arson and different crimes”.
Combs was stated to have “abused, threatened, and coerced girls and others round him to meet his sexual wishes, defend his repute, and conceal his conduct” from 2008 to now.
Of the three fees in opposition to the rapper, two carry a most sentence of life in jail. Prosecutors had requested that he stay jailed till trial.
His legal professionals, nonetheless, prayed that he be launched on a $50 million bond to dwelling detention with digital monitoring.
Tarnofsky kicked in opposition to the bail request. The 54-year-old rapper was thereafter taken out of courtroom with out handcuffs.
Diddy is the highest-profile musician to face sexual misconduct fees since Robert Sylvester Kelly, the R&B singer popularly generally known as R. Kelly.
Kelly was sentenced in 2022 to greater than 30 years in jail for sexually abusing followers, a few of them youngsters, racketeering, and intercourse trafficking.
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