Diddy

American rapper, record producer and record executive, Sean “Diddy” Combs will remain in federal custody after his bail application was denied by a judge on Wednesday, September 18.

This is coming one day after he pleaded not guilty to three criminal counts including s3x trafficking and racketeering following a series of s3xual assault allegations and a federal investigation.

Combs’ lawyers sought bail for the rapper after reporting “horrific” conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he’s being held, but had their appeal denied by a magistrate judge who cited the severity of Combs’ charges and prosecutors’ accusations of witness tampering.

Combs was initially denied bail Tuesday after being indicted on three counts: racketeering conspiracy, s3x trafficking by force, cause or coercion and transportation to engage in pr*stitution, based on actions that allegedly occurred between 2009 and 2018 for s3x trafficking, and 2009 and 2024 for pr*stitution.

The indictment alleges Combs “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfil s3xual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct,” claiming he also used his business empire to “creat[e] a criminal enterprise” in which associates engaged in or attempted to engage in “s3x trafficking, forced labour, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.”

Prosecutors alleged Combs engaged in “a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse” including “verbal, emotional, s3xual and physical abuse,” accusing Combs of “striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at and kicking” women and alleging his employees helped facilitate and cover up his abuse.

Combs allegedly manipulated women into engaging in “extended s3x acts with male commercial s3x workers” that the mogul described as “Freak Offs,” prosecutors claim in the indictment, and Combs and his associates allegedly transported s3x workers across state lines which prosecutors allege constitutes s3x trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution and allegedly drugged women to keep them “obedient and compliant.”

Prosecutors confirmed Combs had been arrested Monday night in Manhattan, but the charges were only unsealed Tuesday morning.

Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo has denied any wrongdoing by the musician, saying Combs “voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges” and has “nothing to hide.”