Diddy, after being denied bail following his arrest on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, is giving it another shot, and he’s offering additional concessions if he’s released: no non-family female visitors and weekly drug testing.
On Wednesday morning (September 18), the Bad Boy mogul’s attorneys Marc Agnifilo and Teny R. Geragos sent a letter to judge Andrew L. Carter, who will be overseeing a hearing appealing the bail decision, scheduled for 3:30 PM Eastern that same day.
The letter lays out a bail package for Diddy, slightly modified from the $50,000,000 one they had proposed — and that a judge had rejected — a day earlier.
The main differences are three conditions, responding to things Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky had said in her initial ruling denying bail.
First, Diddy’s team offers to “Restrict all visitors to Mr. Combs’ residences except for family, property caretakers, and friends who are not considered to be co-conspirators.” Second, they say they will to “Restrict female visitors to Mr. Combs’ residence except for family, or mothers of his children.” Third, they promise the mogul will undergo weekly drug testing.
All three stipulations seem to respond to Judge Tarnofsky’s ruling.
“I don’t know that I think you can trust yourself, and I don’t believe that counsel has the ability to control you, given the very significant concerns I have, particularly because of substance abuse and what seem like anger issues,” she said to Diddy.
According to TMZ, a pink powder that tested positive for Ecstasy was among multiple drugs found in Diddy’s hotel room upon his arrest.
In their letter, Diddy’s attorneys stressed their client’s cooperation with the government for months before his arrest.
“Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded or run from a challenge in his life. He will not start now. As he has handled every hardship, he will meet this case head-on, he will work hard to defend himself, and he will prevail,” they wrote.
In addition, following up on the picture they painted during the original bail hearing, they characterized Cassie‘s relationship with Diddy very differently than she did in her now-settled civil suit, accusing her of “extortion.”
The letter says that Cassie’s lawyer reached out to Diddy’s team, saying that Cassie had written a memoir that “would be embarrassing to Mr. Combs.” However, they continue, this lawyer said that publication could be prevented if Diddy paid $30,000,000. When that offer was turned down, they say, the civil suit followed.
The suit “was not because he raped or sex trafficked anyone, but because of the disastrous consequences a lawsuit of this nature would have on him and his business interests,” Diddy’s lawyers wrote.
