Sean “Diddy” Combs pleaded not responsible Monday to new expenses throughout an arraignment in his federal intercourse trafficking case.
Diddy, 55, appeared in a Manhattan court docket wanting stone-faced with principally grey hair and a beard, however smiled upon seeing his two attorneys, Teny Geragos and Marc Agnifilo.
His legal professionals requested for an adjournment to the trial, which is slated to start subsequent month, and argued that the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York has been withholding upwards of 200,000 paperwork associated to the case.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs appeared stone-faced in court docket on Monday. (Getty Photographs/Jane Rosenberg)
Agnifilo informed Choose Arun Subramanian that whereas the federal government has turned over discovery supplies, the newest indictment has substantial counts and will require a short-term, two-week adjournment.
Diddy was hit with two new expenses in an April 3 superseding indictment as federal prosecutors claimed the rapper engaged in sex-trafficking a feminine sufferer as lately as 2024. He was accused of transferring the girl, known as “Sufferer 2,” together with intercourse employees throughout state traces to interact in prostitution between 2021 and 2024.
Geragos acknowledged that her “ask is uncommon” in requesting the federal government to show over data from the witness, however that there have been emails and texts not being supplied in full to the protection.
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Prosecutor Christine Slavik objected to an adjournment and accused Diddy’s staff of “gamesmanship” for requesting 200,000 paperwork from the federal government relating to witness communications.
Diddy wore a tan shirt and slacks for court docket Monday. (Jane Rosenberg)
Authorities alleged Diddy ran a legal enterprise by way of his companies, together with Dangerous Boy Leisure. (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Photographs for Sean “Diddy” Combs)
Slavik claimed the witness’ legal professional supplied paperwork to Diddy’s staff pertaining to a key phrase search, to which the decide steered prosecutors flip over full docs by way of thumb drive or face a attainable adjournment or subpoena.
“When it comes to any request for adjournment, we’re a freight practice heading towards trial,” Choose Subramanian mentioned, and requested legal professionals to submit a request throughout the subsequent 48 hours. Legal professionals are due again in court docket on Friday, April 18.
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The “Final Evening” rapper final appeared in court docket on March 14 the place he pleaded not responsible to the federal government’s first model of a superseding indictment. That model lengthened the timeline of his alleged sex-trafficking and racketeering habits and added two extra victims.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion, and transportation to interact in prostitution within the indictment unsealed in September. (Munawar Hosain)
The prosecution additionally accused the music mogul of forcing staff to work lengthy hours by threatening them with bodily or reputational hurt and forcing an worker to interact in a sexual encounter with the musician.
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Throughout a earlier listening to, Choose Subramanian scheduled Combs’ trial to start on Might 5. The prosecution expects the federal government’s case to take six weeks to put out, whereas Diddy’s authorized staff now estimates needing two weeks to argue the rapper’s protection.
The “I will Be Lacking You” singer is spending his time on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn as he awaits his federal trial for alleged racketeering and intercourse trafficking. Diddy has been behind bars since September.
The disgraced music mogul has fought to be launched from jail pending trial 3 times, along with his most up-to-date try denied on Nov. 27. Combs had provided as much as $50 million to attend for his trial from his residence on Star Island, however prosecutors insisted the musician was a menace to witnesses and victims.
Sean “Diddy” Combs pleaded not responsible in September, and a decide set his trial date for Might 5. (Elizabeth Williams by way of AP)
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Combs has been beneath investigation for human trafficking since March 2024.
Diddy was charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion, and transportation to interact in prostitution in a federal indictment unsealed on Sept. 17. Whereas Diddy has maintained his innocence, if discovered responsible he faces a minimal of 15 years behind bars or a most sentence of life in jail.
Authorities alleged Diddy ran a legal enterprise by way of his companies, together with Dangerous Boy Leisure, Combs Enterprises and Combs World, amongst others. He used “firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse” to satisfy his sexual wishes, in line with the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox Information Digital.
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Fox Information’ Kirill Clark contributed to this report.
