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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stay in jail until sex-trafficking trial begins as bail again denied

Second judge refuses bail to music mogul, 54, citing possibility that he could tamper with witnesses

The hip-hop mogul had returned to federal court in New York on Wednesday to ask a judge to free him on bail, after waking up for the second day behind bars following his arrest on Monday on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs’s lawyers had continued their arguments that he should be allowed to await his sex-trafficking trial at his luxury home on an island near Miami Beach rather than federal jail in Brooklyn. The federal indictment contained graphic details, including that Combs would force sex-trafficking victims to engage in group sex acts with associates of his that he referred to as “freak offs” – sometimes for days at a time – while he recorded video of the encounters and masturbated to them.

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