肖恩“吹牛老爹”库姆斯将继续不得保释周三晚上，一名法官做出裁决，罪名包括强行进行性交易、运送他人卖淫和共谋敲诈勒索。
安德鲁·卡特法官拒绝保释，下令将库姆斯还押候审，他的律师说，他将被关押在布鲁克林大都会拘留中心的特别病房。
卡特说，政府已经提供了足够的证据证明库姆斯对社区是一个威胁，是一个妨碍司法公正和恐吓证人的威胁。卡特说，国防部提出的保释一揽子计划是“不够的。”
库姆斯似乎没有做出反应，但坐在被告席上时，他的眼睛向下看着。
周三晚上离开法庭时，这位音乐大亨的律师马克·阿格尼菲洛说，他计划再次对法官的裁决提出上诉。
“斗争仍在继续，我们绝不会放弃，”阿格尼菲洛在法院外告诉记者，并补充说，尽管库姆斯是否会放弃快速审判的权利仍悬而未决，但作为他的律师，他将“尽我所能尽快推进审判”，尽管他“更希望在他出狱后这样做。”
“库姆斯先生坚称自己是无辜的，”阿格尼菲洛说。“他是个聪明的家伙，他知道自己做了什么和没做什么，他知道自己想做什么和不想做什么，我相信他...他知道由12名纽约人组成的陪审团看着你说‘无罪’是什么感觉，他期待着这种情况再次发生。”
在做出裁决之前，卡特似乎对辩方的说法表示怀疑，辩方称2016年的一段视频是康姆斯对凯茜·温图拉拳打脚踢和拖拽的结果，这段视频是十年恋爱关系的产物，因为她嫉妒他的不忠。
“爱和那有什么关系?”卡特问道。
阿格尼菲洛承认这是“一个难以观看的视频”，但坚持认为这“并不意味着他应该被监禁。”
检察官艾米丽·约翰逊(Emily Johnson)要求继续拘留库姆斯，指控他“长期虐待”，并说他的受害者对库姆斯“极度恐惧”，因为他在娱乐行业的影响力。
约翰逊说，库姆斯在2023年11月打电话给一名受害者——在文图拉提起民事诉讼后——寻求保持这名受害者的公众支持。
根据检察官的说法，受害者告诉库姆斯，当她阅读文图拉的诉讼时，“我觉得我在阅读自己的性创伤。”据称，库姆斯试图说服她，她愿意参与这些行为，但该女子拒绝了，说这是“她不这样看事情”，约翰逊说。
迪迪告诉这名女子，检察官说他在经济上支持她，如果她继续支持他，“她没有什么可担心的”。检察官表示，这表明库姆斯将使用经济胁迫手段来接近受害者。
考虑到法官对潜在证人篡改的担忧，阿格尼菲洛提出在库姆斯的房子里随时安排一两名退休警察，以控制谁进入并保留访客记录。
阿格尼菲洛说:“我试图营造一种局面，在这种局面下，任何恐吓证人的行为……实际上都是不可能的。”
在周三的听证会之前，阿格尼菲洛对法官罗宾·塔尔诺夫斯基周二做出的拘留54岁的候审法官的决定提出上诉。
在周三听证会前给法院的一封信中，阿格尼菲洛写道，库姆斯“非常值得信赖”，应该以5000万美元的保证金获释。
这份债券将由库姆斯、他的母亲、他的姐姐、他的三个成年儿子和他两个女儿的母亲共同签署。辩护律师还提出了限制旅行，限制女性访客和家庭拘留等释放条件。
阿格尼菲洛反对检方将库姆斯与R·凯利、基思·拉涅尔和吉斯莱恩·马克斯韦尔等性侵犯者相提并论，这些人都曾在迪迪目前被关押的同一个地方——MDC-Brooklyn——被关押过一段时间。他说，这些指控虽然严重，但“完全可以辩护”，并保证库姆斯将出庭为自己辩护。
“尚恩·库姆斯一生中从未逃避、回避、躲避或逃避挑战。他现在不会开始，”阿格尼菲洛在信中说。
该律师此前表示，库姆斯正试图出售他的私人飞机。阿格尼菲洛说，他拿走了当事人的护照和他五个亲戚的护照。
据报道，库姆斯被指控经营一家“企业，从事性交易、强迫劳动、绑架、纵火和其他犯罪”起诉书周二解封。
联邦检察官说，从2008年到现在，库姆斯“虐待、威胁和胁迫他周围的妇女和其他人来满足他的性欲，保护他的名誉，并隐瞒他的行为”。指控反映了11起民事投诉从2023年开始起诉他。
塔尔诺夫斯基在解释周二拒绝库姆斯保释的决定时说:“我担心的是，这是一场闭门发生的犯罪。”
联邦检察官认为库姆斯对社区构成了持续的威胁。
“被告还构成了妨碍司法公正的重大风险，”检察官说。“在被指控的行为过程中，被告试图贿赂保安人员，并威胁和干扰其犯罪行为的证人。”
“他已经试图阻挠政府对此案的调查，多次联系受害者和证人，并向他们提供虚假的事件叙述。”
“根本没有任何条件可以确保被告阻挠和篡改证人的努力会停止，”检察官说。
他还辩称，当库姆斯进行了两次旅行——一次是为他的一个孩子参加毕业派对，一次是激流泛舟旅行——“我们告诉了政府他要去哪里。”
“信任必须赢得，我们已经赢得了信任，”他告诉法官。
据熟悉库姆斯监禁情况的消息人士透露，库姆斯在周二抵达监狱后，接受了监狱管理局生理学家进行的精神病学评估。该评估旨在确定他是否需要被安置在特殊的住房单元或接受自杀监视。
自杀监视需要24小时的看护和狱警每小时的检查。特殊住房是监狱的一个独立部分，这里关押着其他知名的MDC囚犯，如El Chapo。
消息人士称，尚不清楚有滥用阿片类药物历史的迪迪是否处于自杀观察或特殊住房中，但消息人士告诉ABC新闻，他不在MDC的普通人群中。
Sean 'Diddy' Combs denied bail again in sex trafficking indictment
Sean "Diddy" Combs will continue tobe held without bail, a judge ruled Wednesday evening, on charges including sex trafficking by force, transportation to engage in prostitution and racketeering conspiracy.
Judge Andrew Carter denied bail and ordered Combs remanded into custody, where his attorney said he would be held in the special housing unit of Metropolitan Detention Center-Brooklyn.
Carter said the government had provided sufficient evidence Combs was a danger to the community and a danger to obstruct justice and intimidate witnesses. Carter said the defense's proposed bail package was "insufficient."
Combs did not appear to react but had his eyes cast downward while seated at the defense table.
Departing court Wednesday evening, the music mogul's attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said he planned to again appeal the judge's ruling.
"The fight continues, we're not giving up by a long shot," Agnifilo told reporters outside the courthouse, adding, that while it's still up in the air whether Combs would waive his right to a speedy trial, as his lawyer he would "do everything I can to move this trial as fast as possible," though he'd "much prefer to do that with him out of jail."
"Mr. Combs has maintained he's innocent," Agnifilo said. "He's a smart guy, he knows what he did and what he didn't do, he knows what he intended and didn't intend and I believe him... he's a man who knows what it's like to have a jury of 12 New Yorkers look at you and say 'not guilty' and he's looking forward to that happening again."
Before making his ruling, Carter had appeared skeptical of the defense's claim that a 2016 video, in which Combs was seen kicking and dragging Cassie Ventura, was the product of a ten-year loving relationship dissolving because of her jealousy over his infidelity.
"What's love got to do with that?" Carter asked.
Agnifilo conceded that it was "a hard video to watch," but maintained that it "doesn't mean he should be incarcerated."
Prosecutor Emily Johnson, in pushing for Combs to remain in custody, accused him of a "longstanding pattern of abuse," and said his victims have an "extreme fear" of Combs because of his influence in the entertainment industry.
Johnson said Combs called a victim in November 2023 -- after Ventura's civil lawsuit was filed -- seeking to maintain this victim's public support.
According to prosecutors, the victim told Combs that when she read Ventura's lawsuit, "I feel like I'm reading my own sexual trauma." Combs allegedly tried to convince her she willingly participated in the acts, but the woman pushed back, saying that was "not how she saw things," Johnson said.
Diddy told the woman, whom prosecutors said he supports financially, that "she ain't got nothing to worry about" if she kept up her support of him. Prosecutors said it made clear Combs would use financial coercion to keep victims close.
Mindful of the judge's stated concern about potential witness tampering, Agnifilo offered to place one or two retired police officers at Combs' house at all times to control who enters and keep a visitor's log.
"What I am trying to fashion is a situation where any witness intimidation … would be virtually impossible," Agnifilo said.
Prior to Wednesday's hearing, Agnifilo appealed Judge Robyn Tarnofsky's Tuesday decision to detain the 54-year-old pending trial.
In a letter to the court ahead of the Wednesday hearing, Agnifilo wrote that Combs is "eminently trustworthy" and should be released on a $50 million bond.
The bond -- which would have been secured by his Miami home worth $48 million -- would've been co-signed by Combs, his mother, his sister, his three adult sons and the mothers of two of his daughters. The defense also proposed restricted travel, restrictions on female visitors and home detention among other conditions of release.
Agnifilo took issue with prosecution comparisons of Combs to sex offenders like R. Kelly, Keith Raniere and Ghislaine Maxwell, all of whom were jailed for a time at the same place -- MDC-Brooklyn -- where Diddy is currently being held. He said the charges, while serious, are "eminently defensible" and pledged Combs would show up to court to defend himself.
"Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded or run from a challenge in his life. He will not start now," Agnifilo's letter said.
The attorney previously said Combs is trying to sell his private plane. Agnifilo said he took possession of his client's passport and those of five of his relatives.
Combs is alleged to have run an "enterprise that he engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson and other crimes," according tothe indictmentunsealed Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors said Combs "abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct" from 2008 to the present. The allegations mirror11 civil complaintsfiled against him since 2023.
Explaining the decision to deny Combs bail on Tuesday, Tarnofsky said, "My concern is that this is a crime that happens behind closed doors."
Federal prosecutors argued Combs poses an ongoing threat to the community.
"The defendant also poses a significant risk of obstructing justice," prosecutors said. "During the course of the charged conduct, the defendant has attempted to bribe security staff and threatened and interfered with witnesses to his criminal conduct."
"He has already tried to obstruct the Government's investigation of this case, repeatedly contacting victims and witnesses and feeding them false narratives of events."
"There are simply no conditions that would ensure that the defendant's efforts to obstruct and tamper with witnesses will stop," prosecutors said.
He also argued that when Combs took two trips -- to a graduation party for one of his children and a whitewater rafting trip -- "we told the government where he was going."
"Trust has to be earned and we have earned it," he told the judge.
Upon his arrival to jail on Tuesday, Combs had a psychiatric evaluation administered by Bureau of Prisons physiologists, according to sources familiar with his incarceration. The evaluation is meant to determine whether he needed to be placed in the Special Housing Unit or on suicide watch.
Suicide watch requires around-the-clock care and hourly checks from corrections officers. Special Housing is an isolated part of the jail where other high-profile MDC inmates, like El Chapo, were kept.
It's unclear whether Diddy, who has a history of abusing opioids, sources have said, is on suicide watch or in special housing, but he is not in with the general population at MDC, the sources told ABC News.
