UPDATE — 8/1/25, 12:30 p.m. ET: Prosecutors in the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial responded to his latest request for bail and denied his attorneys’ assertions that “exceptional circumstances” justify his release.
“As the Court correctly found after written and oral submissions by the parties on July 2, 2025, the defendant’s detention pending sentencing is mandatory, there are no exceptional circumstances justifying his release, and even if there were, the defendant cannot demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he is not a danger to the community,” the government wrote in a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian on Thursday, July 31. “Further, following the Court’s unambiguous ruling, the defendant now seeks relief without even attempting to demonstrate a reason for reconsideration. Because the defendant’s motion fails to demonstrate any of the required showings, he fails to carry his burden and the motion should be swiftly rejected.”
Earlier this week, Diddy’s attorneys filed a new motion asking that he be released from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center ahead of his October 3 sentencing. His lawyers have made multiple requests for bail since his September 2024 arrest, all of which were denied.
According to the prosecution, Diddy’s legal team has not presented “clear and convincing evidence” that he is “not a flight risk or a danger and that ‘exceptional reasons’ exist” for him to be freed.
Subramanian has yet to rule on the rapper’s latest bail request.
Original story:
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are once again trying to get him out of jail before his sentencing hearing in October.
Attorneys for the disgraced mogul, 55, filed a motion on Tuesday, July 29, asking Judge Arun Subramanian to reconsider his previous decision to keep Diddy behind bars until he is sentenced on October 3.
“There are exceptional circumstances warranting a departure from mandatory detention and ensuring that Sean Combs is released,” Diddy’s legal team wrote in their filing before citing “the history of the Mann Act as well as how it has been prosecuted over the last several decades” as evidence that the rapper should be freed. (The Mann Act, enacted in 1910, is a federal law that prohibits the interstate or international transport of individuals for the purpose of prostitution.)
“There has literally never been a case like this one, where a person and his girlfriend arranged for adult men to have consensual sexual relations with the adult long-term girlfriend as part of a demonstrated ‘swingers’ lifestyle and has been prosecuted and incarcerated under the Mann Act,” the attorneys wrote. “Sean Combs should not be in jail for this conduct. In fact, he may be the only person currently in a United States jail for being any sort of john, and certainly the only person in jail for hiring adult male escorts for him and his girlfriend, when he did not even have sex with the escort himself.”
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The motion goes on to request that Diddy be released on $50 million bond to his Miami home, with his travel “limited to the Southern District of Florida, the Southern
District of New York for attorney meetings, as well as airports necessary to travel between the two.” He would also surrender his passport and not be allowed to apply for another one.
If the judge believes Diddy requires “more extreme conditions” to agree to his release, then the motion proposes adding “home detention, private security approved by the Court and Pretrial Services with the cost borne by the defendant, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, electronic surveillance of the defendant or any other condition the court deems necessary.”
“With any and all of the conditions posed above, Mr. Combs can show by clear and convincing evidence that he does not pose a danger to the community, and he would fully surrender to supervision by Pretrial Services to ensure that the Court knows that Mr. Combs does not pose a danger to any person,” the motion continued.
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Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with racketeering conspiracy, transportation to engage in prostitution and sex trafficking. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and denied all the allegations against him. On July 2, a jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation but acquitted him of the other charges.
Following the verdict, Diddy’s lawyers asked again for him to be released on bail, but the judge denied the request and ruled he must remain in jail until his October 3 sentencing. (Diddy has been incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since his arrest last year following multiple previous requests for pretrial release.)
Before Judge Subramanian made his July 2 decision to keep Diddy behind bars, Cassie’s lawyer sent a letter to the court supporting the government’s request to keep him in jail.
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“Ms. Ventura believes that Mr. Combs is likely to pose a danger to the victims who testified in this case, including herself, as well as to the community,” wrote attorney Douglas Wigdor.
Cassie, 38, dated Diddy off and on from 2007 to 2018 and served as a star witness for the prosecution during the trial, which began in May. Her testimony came nearly two years after she accused Diddy of physical and sexual abuse throughout their relationship in a November 2023 lawsuit. Diddy denied her claims at the time, and the parties settled out of court one day after the suit was made public.
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