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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs granted permission to seek bail for third time in sex trafficking case
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs granted permission to seek bail for third time in sex trafficking case

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs have won a third chance to seek bail for the music mogul, arguing he should be released from prison before his May 5, 2025 federal sex trafficking trial date.

The “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper, 54, has been denied bail twice so far – with the latest failed attempt by his legal team being shot down last month.

Now, lawyers for the distraught hip hop mogul argue that “changed circumstances” are enough for him to await trial in the comfort of his home.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers have won a third chance to seek bail for the music mogul. Diddy/Instagram

The global celebrity is accused of organizing disturbing orgies he called “Freak Offs” in which women were allegedly lured into his orbit, drugged and forced into marathon sex sessions with male prostitutes, they said the feds.

The Bad Boys Records founder has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and sex-trafficking charges and has strongly denied any wrongdoing.

In their motion, the defense team argued that new evidence shows “that the government’s case is weak.”

Combs’ legal representatives added that the uncovered evidence contradicts the prosecution’s allegation that a March 2016 video showed Combs physically abusing a woman during a coercive “Freak Off” — as originally stated in the indictment.

Combs, 54, has remained in a federal correctional facility since his Sept. 16 arrest. A?

Combs’ attorneys argue that the video in question instead showed a mere glimpse “into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship between Mr. Combs and Victim-1,” the motion states.

A bail hearing was set by US District Judge Arun Subramanian for November 22 at 2 p.m.

The Post has reached out to Combs’ representatives for comment.

Combs has remained in a federal correctional facility since his Sept. 16 arrest. Ahead of his upcoming bail hearing, he was not due back in court until December 18.

The feds accused Combs of creating disturbing orgies he called “Freak Offs.” SDNY/MEGA

combs last month he appealed a Manhattan judge’s ruling denying bail, saying he should be released from prison ahead of his sex-trafficking trial because prosecutors’ efforts to hold him behind bars is based on speculation.

His lawyers filed the case with the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on October 8, as Combs has languished in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center since his arrest on federal bomb charges.

At the time, the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan successfully argued to a judge that Combs was a “serial abuser and serial obstructionist” who could intimidate witnesses or even flee before his trial.

However, Combs’ defense attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, argued that “the government’s arguments about the risk of obstruction were based on speculation, based primarily on untested allegations about communications with witnesses in civil cases and communications initiated by alleged witnesses and not by Mr Combs’.

“The sensationalism surrounding his arrest distorted the bail analysis: Mr. Combs was not released pending trial, although he offered to abide by restrictive conditions that would have prevented any imaginable risk of flight or danger,” Shapiro wrote in his legal filing. .

The Bad Boys Records founder has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and sex-trafficking charges and has strongly denied any wrongdoing. Reuters

The filing came a month after Combs was denied bail in October — weeks after it was originally denied bail on Sept. 17, on charges he ran a depraved criminal empire in which he threatened women and forced them to participate in drug-fueled sex shows for more than a decade.

Prosecutors argued the music mogul should be jailed because he is “an extreme danger to the community.”