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   NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs is staying locked up after a judge   
   Wednesday rejected the hip-hop mogul’s proposal that he await his sex   
   trafficking trial in the luxury of his Florida mansion instead of a grim   
   Brooklyn federal jail.   
      
   U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter ruled that Combs’ plan — which   
   included a $50 million bail offer, GPS monitoring and strict limitations on   
   visitors — was “insufficient” to ensure the safety of the community and   
   the integrity of his case.   
      
   Carter, agreeing with prosecutors who fought to keep Combs in jail, found that   
   “no condition or set of conditions” governing his release could guard   
   against the risk of him threatening or harming witnesses — a central charge   
   in his case.   
      
   Combs’ lawyers were making their second attempt in as many days to spring   
   him from the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been held since   
   pleading not guilty Tuesday to charges he physically and sexually abused women   
   for years.   
      
   Combs has been in federal custody since his arrest Monday night at a Manhattan   
   hotel. A federal magistrate on Tuesday rejected Combs’ initial bail request.   
   On Wednesday, he and his lawyers struck out with Carter, the judge who will   
   preside over his    
   trial.   
      
   Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo says he will now ask the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court   
   of Appeals to overturn Carter’s ruling and release Combs. In the meantime,   
   he wants Combs moved from the Brooklyn lockup, which has been plagued by   
   rampant violence and    
   horrific conditions, to a jail in New Jersey. Carter said decisions on   
   placement are entirely up to the federal Bureau of Prisons.   
      
   “I’m not going to let him sit in that jail a day longer than he has to,”   
   Agnifilo said to reporters outside the courtroom.   
      
   Combs looked at family members and tapped his heart several times as   
   Wednesday’s hearing began, then sat stoically as he listened to arguments.   
   Afterward, as federal agents led him away, his relatives somberly embraced and   
   exchanged hand slaps.   
      
   Combs, 54, is accused in an indictment of using his “power and prestige”   
   to induce female victims and male sex workers into drugged-up, elaborately   
   produced sexual performances dubbed “Freak Offs” that Combs arranged,   
   participated in and often    
   recorded on video. The events would sometimes last days and Combs and victims   
   would often receive IV fluids to recover, the indictment said.   
      
   The indictment alleges Combs coerced and abused women for years, with the help   
   of a network of associates and employees, while using blackmail and violent   
   acts including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings to keep victims from   
   speaking out.   
      
   Arguing to keep Combs in jail, prosecutor Emily Johnson told Carter that the   
   once-celebrated rapper has a long history of intimidating both accusers and   
   witnesses to his alleged abuse. She cited text messages from women who said   
   Combs forced them into “   
   Freak Offs” and then threatened to leak videos of them engaging in sex acts.   
      
   Johnson said Combs’ defense team was “minimizing and horrifically   
   understating” Combs’ propensity for violence, taking issue with his   
   lawyer’s portrayal of a 2016 assault at a Los Angeles hotel as a lovers’   
   quarrel. Security video of the    
   event, which only came to light in May, showed Combs hitting and kicking his   
   then-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, in a hotel hallway.   
      
   “What’s love got to do with that?” an incredulous Carter asked.   
      
   Johnson also seized on a text message from a woman who said Combs dragged her   
   down a hallway by her hair. According to Johnson, the woman told the rapper:   
   “I’m not a rag doll, I’m someone’s child.”   
      
   “There is a longstanding pattern of abuse here,” Johnson said.   
      
   Combs’ Florida house is on Star Island, a man-made dollop of land in   
   Biscayne Bay near Miami Beach, reachable only by a causeway or boat. It is   
   among the most expensive places to live in the United States. Combs’ request   
   echoed that of a long line of    
   wealthy defendants who have offered to post multimillion-dollar bails in   
   exchange for home detention in luxurious surroundings.   
      
      
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