A US FEDERAL appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in jail while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May.
In a decision filed today, Circuit Judge William J Nardini denied the hip-hop mogul’s immediate release from jail while a three-judge panel weighs his bail request.
Combs’ lawyers appealed to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals on 30 September after two judges rejected his release.
Combs, 54, has been held at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his 16 September arrest.
The indictment alleges that Combs – for decades – “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.”
It accused him of “creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other …