Sean "Diddy" Combs will appear unshackled in court Friday in the disgraced mogul's third attempt at getting bail as he awaits his May 2025 sex trafficking trial.
Combs, 55, has a hearing in New York set for 2 p.m. He is currently being held at the notoriously rough MDC Brooklyn, where neither Combs nor his high-profile lawyers want him to be.
The "Bad Boy For Life" rapper's lawyers are again proposing a $50 million bail proposal, secured by Combs' Miami mansion, which his team claims is worth about $48 million.
Two different judges previously decided Combs would be a flight risk and a danger to the community, including alleged victims and possible witnesses.
Diddy Allegedly Contacted Potential Witnesses From Jail
Earlier this week, prosecutors claimed in court documents that Combs made "relentless efforts to contact potential witnesses, including victims of his abuse who could provide powerful testimony against him."
Combs is accused of contacting potential witnesses from behind bars by using other inmates' telephone accounts and using three-way calls to speak to people who are not on his approved contacts list.
They also claimed Combs has used a third-party communication service called ContactMeAsap to contact "unauthorized" individuals.
Teny Geragos, a lawyer for Combs, responded to this accusation in a court filing Thursday, stating she was aware that he was using the messaging platform but was never informed that it was unauthorized for him to do so.
"Mr. Combs is no longer using ContactMeAsap.com as of November 16, 2024," she wrote.
Diddy's Lawyers Given Instructions for Friday Bail Hearing
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian agreed with Combs' defense motion to destroy copies of 19 pages of handwritten notes allegedly photographed by a government investigator in Combs' jail cell.
Subramanian ruled that the original papers will remain in the court's custody while both sides submit briefs over the next few weeks and he determines if they can be used in the trial.
Combs' defense argued that the photographed legal pads and notes were found in a folder labeled "Legal" and are attorney-client material.
However, the "Legal" label is missing in the photographs turned in to the court, Subramanian said Wednesday in court documents.
"At the scheduled hearing on Friday, November 22, 2024, defense counsel (Combs' team) should be prepared to give the Court further context on the 'Legal' label that the Court was presented with at the November 19, 2024 hearing and to address why this label doesn't appear on the photographs in the Court's possession, and why it wasn't addressed in defendant's submission to the Court made a few hours before the November 19, 2024, hearing," Subramanian wrote.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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