Diddy Would Live on Manhattan's Upper East Side if Released on Bail, Decision Expected Next Week

Mar. 15, 2025

Sean “Diddy” Combs.Photo:Steve Granitz/WireImage

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Sean “Diddy” Combswould live on Manhattan’s Upper East Side if released, his attorneys said at a bail hearing on Friday, Nov. 21. A judge will decide next week if the music mogul will be granted bail.

Combs, 55, entered the Manhattan federal courtroom through a side door, dressed in a khaki jail-issued outfit. He smiled and waved toward his family in the second row, including his twin 17-year-old daughters.

During the hearing, a defense attorney told Subramanian that Combs would live in a three-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan if granted bail.

Combs has been in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his September indictment on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation. He has pleaded not guilty.

Previously two different judges had denied Combs bail, citing concerns of potential witness tampering. Since then, prosecutors have accused Combs of attempting to do just that even from behind bars.

In a prosecution filing, Combs is accused ofusing other inmates’ phone access cardsin prison to call different people including his sons.

Prosecutors allege that Combs has made “relentless efforts to contact potential witnesses, including victims of his abuse who could provide powerful testimony against him.”

The prosecution’s filing came in response to a bail request from the defense, which called the government’s case “thin” and proposed strict release conditions and $50 million bail for the Bad Boy Records founder.

Combs’ attorneys called the Bureau of Prisons sweep “outrageous government conduct” and a “due process violation.”

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Obtained in the sweep were 19 pages of notes that Combs’ attorneys claimed were legal materials and thus privileged. The prosecution was required to destroy its copies of the notes, though they argued most of the evidence obtained in the sweep was not privileged.

The charges against Combs center around alleged highly orchestrated sex performances called"freak offs"and forced or coerced women to participate with male sex workers.

During his first court appearances, Combs was shackled. But on Tuesday and again on Friday, the mogulappeared without chainsafter the defense filed a motion arguing that appearing in shackles could potentially create “juror bias.”

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source: people.com