{"id":112883,"date":"2025-08-02T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112883\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:52:29","slug":"sean-diddy-combs-no-ordinary-john-feds-say-in-urging-ny-judge-to-keep-him-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112883\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs no ‘ordinary john,’ feds say in urging NY judge to keep him jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs was \u201cno ordinary john,\u201d but a violent and controlling mastermind of perverse sex sessions where participants were drugged and brutalized, prosecutors wrote in new court papers<\/a> opposing his latest bail bid \u2014 and indicating they\u2019ll push for a longer prison term than expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In late-night filings Thursday, the Manhattan U.S. attorney\u2019s office pushed back on recent framing by Combs\u2019 lawyers portraying him as persecuted. The feds said the rap mogul had presented nothing to dispute a judge\u2019s determination that he was too dangerous to be released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among a flurry of motions following his July 2 convictions on two counts of transporting people for prostitution, Combs\u2019 legal team this week urged the judge to let him await his Oct. 3 sentencing under home confinement<\/a> in Miami, Fla., on a $50 million bond. They argued there was never a case like Combs\u2019<\/a> and that prosecutors had criminalized an innocent \u201cswingers\u2019 lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 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,\u201d the motion argued.<\/p>\n

The verdicts against the Harlem-born multimillionaire found him guilty of transporting people across state lines to engage in dayslong, marathon sex sessions as he watched, filmed and masturbated. He was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges<\/a> carrying a potential life sentence. The counts he was found guilty of carry up to 10 years each.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecutors on Thursday said Combs had failed to address the proper standard for asking the judge to reconsider bail, \u201clet alone meet it,\u201d and that even if he had demonstrated exceptional circumstances to justify his release, he was still unable to prove he\u2019s not a danger to the community or a flight risk. Having initially said federal guidelines suggest Combs should serve four to five years in prison, Assistant U.S. Attorney Meredith Foster said prosecutors now believed the appropriate range would be \u201csubstantially higher,\u201d making him even more of a flight risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foster posited that Combs\u2019 lawyers were way off the mark in comparing his case to others who were granted bail after being found guilty of similar crimes and framing his continued jailing on the prostitution offenses as unique, writing that his detention was mandatory under the Bail Reform Act. She said they had further minimized the conduct he was convicted of by describing him \u201cas a mere john.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFar from being an ordinary and casual consumer of commercial sex, the defendant transported individuals for the purpose of prostitution on hundreds of occasions over the course of decades, plied Cassie Ventura and Jane (as well as male commercial sex workers) with drugs to ensure their continued participation in the days-long Freak Offs, used violence against both Ms. Ventura and Jane in connection with Freak Offs, and employed a small army of personal staff to ensure that his every need was met during Freak Offs,\u201d Foster wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant\u2019s actions surely distinguish him from an ordinary \u2018john.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Judge<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Williams via AP<\/p>\n

Judge Arun Subramanian denied Combs’ initial bail request after the verdict. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)<\/p>\n

Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian considered releasing Combs in the wake of the verdict, ultimately denying his request in finding that the violence toward women he admitted to, \u201cwhich happens behind closed doors in personal relationships, sparked by unpredictable bouts of anger, is impossible to police with conditions.\u201d <\/p>\n

Faced with explaining footage of him violently laying into his ex<\/a>, Casandra \u201cCassie\u201d Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel lobby in 2016, Combs\u2019 lawyers at trial had argued that being a \u201cjerk\u201d who assaulted women didn\u2019t make him guilty of the crimes he was charged with.<\/p>\n

Foster said Combs had delivered nothing to disturb Subramanian\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n

\u201cNor can he. The trial record is replete with evidence of the defendant\u2019s acts of violence towards others,\u201d the prosecutor wrote, detailing trial evidence that established Combs \u201cfrequently punched, kicked, and dragged\u201d Ventura throughout their 11-year relationship and also brazenly beat Jane, a woman who testified anonymously, when he knew the feds were looking into him.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he defendant brutally attacked Jane in June 2024, also in the context of a Freak Off,\u201d the prosecutor wrote. \u201cMoreover, the fact that the defendant committed this vicious attack just three months prior to his arrest \u2014 and while he was unambiguously aware that he was under federal investigation \u2014 highlights, as the court concluded, \u2019a disregard for the rule of law and the propensity for violence.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutors are also expected to respond to a request by Combs Thursday<\/a> asking the judge to throw out his conviction or give him a new trial, which argued, in part, that the sexual performances he dictated were a form of \u201camateur pornography\u201d made for private viewing and protected by the First Amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lawyers and reps for Combs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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