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Sean 'Diddy' Combs appeals judge's denial of his release from jail on $50 million bond

After two judges denied Sean Combs' request to be released from Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, he's taking his appeal to a higher court.

According to court filings obtained by USA TODAY, the Bad Boy Records mogul is seeking an appeals court judgment that would overturn Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr.'s Sept. 18 decision to deny his request to be released from jail on conditions that include a $50 million bond. "The danger, I think, is quite serious," she added of Combs' release, deciding that the bond package his team offered would not "assure his return to court or the safety of the community, or a lack of witness tampering." Investigators say the 54-year-old elaborately schemed to use his finances and status in the entertainment industry to "fulfill his sexual desires" in a "recurrent and widely known" pattern of abuse.

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