‘The presumption has not been rebutted’: Judge rejects Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ demand for jail release as attorney vows to ‘fight to the end’

Left: Sean "Diddy" Combs

Left: Sean “Diddy” Combs’ house in Los Angeles (KTVU/YouTube). Right: Combs’ house in Miami Beach (Law&Crime). Inset: Sean P. Diddy Combs at the amfAR Gala Dinner and Auction held on May 22, 2008 during the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France (File Photo by: zz/DP/AAD/STAR MAX/IPx 2008 5/22/08).

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been ordered to be kept behind bars following his arrest for allegedly running a decades-long sex trafficking scheme in which women were sexually abused, tormented, threatened, and forced to participate in sex parties that often involved coerced drug use and being filmed without permission.

Combs appeared in federal court in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. An indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses the music mogul of a pattern of transporting sex workers across state lines and working with a network of people to set up, carry out, and then hide extensive sexual abuse toward women he lured into his circle of influence.

“This was the first step,” Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo told reporters following the arraignment and detention hearing. “We have a bail appeal scheduled for tomorrow.”

“We made the points that we’ve been wanting to make,” Agnifilo also said. “Mr. Combs is a fighter. He’s going to fight to the end. He’s innocent.”

Agnifilo did not disclose where Combs is being detained. The bail appeal hearing is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Combs, the indictment says, “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals.”

“This abuse was, at times, verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual,” the filing continues. “As part of his pattern of abuse, Combs manipulated women to participate in highly orchestrated performances of sexual activity with male commercial sex workers … [ensuring] participation from the women by, among other things, obtaining and distributing narcotics to them, controlling their careers, leveraging his financial support and threatening to cut off the same, and using intimidation and violence.”

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