Judge Orders Sean Combs To Remain Behind Bars While Awaiting Trial As Incriminating Texts Are Revealed During His Bail Hearing

Incriminating text messages were revealed in the sex-trafficking case against rap mogul Sean Combs – leading a Manhattan judge to keep the rapper behind bars while he awaits trial. 

Federal Judge Andrew Carter Jr. said Combs’ proposition for home detention and electronic monitoring on $50 million bail was inadequate. 

In an effort to bolster their case that Combs stay in jail until trial, during the hearing for Combs’ bail request, prosecutor Emily Johnson used messages between Diddy and his alleged victims. 

After reading the claims presented in Cassie Ventura’s Nov. 16 lawsuit, one victim allegedly messaged the rapper on Nov. 19, saying, “I feel like I’m reading my own sexual trauma.”

“It makes me sick how three solid pages word for word is exactly my experiences and my anguish,” the alleged victim wrote. 

In addition to reading the messages of the victim aloud during the hearing, Johnson claimed that prosecutors have recordings in which Combs can be heard gaslighting the woman and attempting to convince her that she had participated in sexual acts with him willingly. 

Johnson then went on to read texts sent by Combs to Ventura after he assaulted her in 2016, which was caught on video and later published by CNN. 

“Call me, the cops are here. I got six kids. You, please call. I’m surrounded. You gonna abandon me all alone,” the rapper texted her, according to Johnson. 

Ventura replied, “I have a black eye and a fat lip. You are sick of thinking it’s OK to do what you’ve done. I still have crazy bruising.”

Johnson also read a text message from a woman who accused Combs of dragging her by her hair down a hallway: “You always want to show me that you have the power, and you knock me around. I’m not a rag doll. I’m someone’s child.”

While Combs’ defense attorney, Marc Agnifilo, tried to assure the judge that the rapper would make all of his court appearances and abide by their proposed bail conditions, Carter said that Combs could still “obstruct justice and intimidate witnesses” through other people.

The judge ordered that Combs remain at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, until he is due back in court on October 9. 

Combs’ attorney continues to defend him, stating that he’s “an innocent man with nothing to hide.”