Sean “Diddy” Combs won’t be home for the holidays.
The judge in charge of his sex trafficking and rape case ruled Wednesday that Combs must serve time behind bars before his May trial.
In his ruling Judge Aran Subramanian wrote, that “no circumstances or combination of circumstances would guarantee the safety of the community” if the music mogul was released.
Combs, 55, is currently incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
The news comes just days after Combs’ legal team announced their plan if he were to be released. They said he would live in an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with 24/7 armed security and would only be allowed to call his lawyers and have visits from approved family members.
But prosecutor Christy Slavik argued that letting Combs out of prison would be counterproductive.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the MET Gala, in New York City, on May 1, 2017.
“He’s paying his way out of prison and he continues to break the law, he’s a flight risk, a danger to the community, he’s compromising and trying to undermine the integrity of these cases,” Slavik said at Friday’s hearing.
Prosecutors also said Combs committed witness tampering from behind bars by making three-way calls and using the phones of other inmates. They also said he tried to smear potential jurors with a PR campaign, pointing to an Instagram post earlier this month that showed his children talking to him on the phone on his birthday from behind bars.
But the Combs team said this is all within the constitution.
The decision comes just over a week after a judge ordered prosecutors to release 16 pages of notes taken from Combs’ jail cell, which should have been protected under an attorney-client privilege.
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