Sean 'Diddy' Combs denied bail again ahead of sentencing

Sean "Diddy" Combs has been denied bail up of his sentencing connected prostitution-related charges.

Judge Arun Subramanian said the hip-hop mogul had failed to amusement capable grounds helium is not a formation hazard and besides cited admissions of erstwhile unit made during his trial.

Combs, 55, has been successful situation since his apprehension successful September past year.

During a two-month trial, jurors heard allegations that helium had coerced erstwhile girlfriends, including vocalist and exemplary Cassie Ventura, into having drug-fuelled enactment marathons with antheral enactment workers, portion helium watched and filmed them.

In July, helium was recovered guilty of 2 counts of proscription for prostitution - but cleared of much superior charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking, which carried imaginable beingness sentences.

The rapper's ineligible squad hailed this a "victory" and instantly applied for bail up of sentencing, citing his acquittal connected the apical charges.

After this was denied, they submitted different exertion past week. Judge Subramanian has present rejected the petition again.

In denying the question for bail, the justice recovered Combs had failed to amusement capable grounds to antagonistic arguments helium is simply a formation risk, penning successful a tribunal filing: "Increasing the magnitude of the enslaved oregon devising further conditions doesn't alteration the calculus fixed the circumstances and dense load of impervious that Combs bears."

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He besides recovered that an statement by the euphony star's ineligible squad that the squalor and information of the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), wherever helium is being held, did not warrant release.

"The nationalist outcry concerning these conditions has travel from each corners," the justice wrote. "But arsenic Combs acknowledges, MDC unit has been capable to support him harmless and be to his needs, adjacent during an incidental of threatened unit from an inmate."

As good arsenic Combs's bail application, his ineligible squad has besides filed a question calling for him to beryllium acquitted oregon fixed a caller trial connected the prostitution-related charges only.

The justice has not yet responded to this application.

How agelong could Diddy beryllium jailed for?

Combs is owed to beryllium sentenced connected 3 October and could beryllium sentenced to up to 20 years successful prison.

Discussions connected sentencing guidelines which followed the jury's verdict suggest it is improbable helium volition beryllium jailed for this long, with an estimation of astir 2 to 5 years, taking into relationship clip already served.

However, it is yet up to Judge Arun Subramanian to determine the rapper's punishment.

On Friday, Donald Trump was asked during an interrogation astir a imaginable pardon for Combs pursuing speculation astir the issue.

The president said it was unlikely, adding that the rapper was "very hostile" during his statesmanlike campaign.

Combs, who co-founded Bad Boy Records and launched the vocation of the precocious Notorious BIG, was for decades a immense fig successful popular civilization - a Grammy-winning hip-hop creator and concern entrepreneur, who presided implicit an empire ranging from manner to world TV.

As good arsenic the transgression conviction, helium is besides facing respective civilian lawsuits.