Diddy Denied Bail: Judge Cites ‘Compelling Evidence Of [His] Propensity For Violence’

Diddy will not be home for Thanksgiving, as a federal judge denied his latest shot at bail in his federal sex trafficking and racketeering case.

Judge Arun Subramanian issued his decision on Wednesday (November 27). He cited a variety of factors in his five-page order, ranging from the mogul’s violations of Bureau of Prisons rules around communications to “misrepresentations” he made to the judge at a recent hearing concerning material recovered during a sweep of his jail cell.

The judge also said that Diddy being free would present “a serious risk of witness tampering,” mentioning in particular his communications with an escort who the government says participated in multiple “freak-offs,” referred to only as “Witness-1.”

Diddy sent text messages to the witness repeatedly, even on the day he was giving grand jury testimony — some of which he deleted. The mogul’s lawyers had denied in a September hearing that their client interfered at all in the grand jury process.

But a chunk of Judge Subramanian’s decision deals with violence.

“[T]here is compelling evidence of Combs’s propensity for violence,” the judge wrote, citing, among other examples, the 2016 video of Diddy assaulting Cassie, as well as text messages Cassie sent in its aftermath, including “I have a black eye and a fat lip. You are sick for thinking it’s OK to do what you’ve done” and “I still have crazy bruising.”

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Diddy is currently appealing his bail status in a different court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. That case has been paused while today’s bail decision was in the works. No details were immediately available on when it will resume.

The Bad Boy founder had proposed a bail package $50 million bail package with his Miami Beach mansion as collateral, along with house arrest, 24/7 security and no contact with alleged victims or witnesses. In a hearing last week, Judge Subramanian said that house arrest at the Miami home wouldn’t work because there is a dock there.

Diddy’s legal team then proposed other options, including his three-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

HipHopDX has reached out to Diddy’s representatives for comment, but they did not immediately respond.