In the ever-expanding drama surrounding Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the embattled rapper’s lawyers have proposed house arrest at an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment.
On Friday (11.22,) the musician’s his legal team suggested their client he be given bail in order to live under house arrest in a New York City apartment with 24/7 monitoring. The latest request comes after a judge rejected Diddy’s request to be moved from jail to his Star Island mansion.
Concurrent with his third attempt at freedom while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, the disgraced hip hop mogul’s attorneys made the pitch that would include two live-in guards at the three-bedroom property, a third security guard downstairs, and no access to phones or the Internet.
Framing it as a “very, very rigorous set of conditions”, Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo claimed they were in fact tougher rules than those at the grim Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, where he is currently being held.
At the federal court in New York, Judge Arun Subramanian said he would decide whether or not to free Combs next week but he rejected the idea of Sean being under house arrest at his $48,500,000 mansion on Star Island in Florida, stating: “That’s not going to work.”
Prosecutor Christy Slavik said if Combs’ were allowed out on a multi-million dollar bail package it would amount to him “paying his way out of custody”.
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Author: Saul Goode
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