Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys filed a motion Tuesday seeking the music mogul’s release on a $50 million bond ahead of his scheduled October sentencing.
Earlier this month, a jury convicted Combs on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, and acquitted him on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. The judge denied Combs’ bail request on the day his verdict was announced, claiming that Combs has displayed a “disregard for the rule of law and a propensity of violence.” He’s been held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since his arrest last September, despite multiple unsuccessful motions for his release since.
“In the lifestyle that he and other adults voluntarily chose, Mr. Combs would be called a swinger. But in the vocabulary of the Mann Act or of prostitution generally, he might—at worst— be somewhat analogous to a ‘john,’” Combs’ attorneys wrote in their 12-page bail motion, obtained by HuffPost. (A “john” is a term that refers to the client of a sex worker.)
Prosecutors alleged that Combs used his fame and power to run a criminal enterprise. The indictment claims that he engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, prostitution, narcotics offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice since at least 2008. Much of the case revolved around Combs’ so-called freak-offs, which were sexual marathons that included male sex workers and his partners, and sometimes lasted several days.
