Sean “Diddy” Combs has officially given up on getting out of prison before his trial date comes in May 2025.
Legal counsel for Combs, who is currently incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., filed a motion earlier today to dismiss his appeal for bail in his ongoing sex trafficking and racketeering case. He had previously been denied bail three times, and has ultimately conceded to remaining in custody as he awaits his trial.
“Mr. Combs does not seek to appeal the district court’s denial of his renewed motion and hereby moves to voluntarily dismiss the appeal,” reads the motion. “Counsel has explained the effect of voluntary dismissal of the appeal.”
Combs signed the motion, which stated that “(a) counsel has explained the effect of voluntary dismissal of the appeal; (b) he understands counsel’s explanation, and (c) he desires to withdraw and voluntarily dismiss the appeal.”
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Combs has been lobbying for months to get out of prison, offering a $50 million bond backed by equity in his homes, the promise of security monitoring and assurance that he would not interfere with investigations surrounding the charges. In his latest bail appeal hearing on Nov. 27, Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that “there is evidence of supporting a serious risk of witness tampering” and that Combs contacted witnesses even after his grand jury testimony in June 2024.
Just yesterday, Subramanian ruled that Combs would be allowed access to a preloaded laptop to review discovery and prepare for his May trial. He can use the laptop seven days per week from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Combs was booked back in Sept. on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. His legal woes stem from a bombshell lawsuit that his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed last November and subsequently settled the next day, setting off a chain of suits where accusers similarly claimed that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted them.
Jay-Z was recently named in a refiled case earlier this week, with a Jane Doe stating that he and Combs raped her when she was 13 years old in 2000. Jay-Z fired back at the suit in a statement that said his lawyer was sent “blackmail” surrounding the allegations from attorney Tony Buzbee in an effort to pressure him into settling out of court. Carter went on to say that it had the “opposite effect” and instead enflamed Carter to expose his accusor for “the fraud [they] are in a VERY public fashion.”