Sean “Diddy” Combs has been denied bail for a third time.
According to multiple outlets, Federal judge Arun Subramanian denied the rapper’s plea on Wednesday following his court appearance on Friday.
“The Court finds that the government has shown by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community,” Subramanian wrote in a five-page order, per CNN.
Prosecutors argued in court Friday that Combs, 55, poses too much of a threat to victims if released from prison ahead of his sex trafficking and racketeering trial, which is set for a May 5 start.
They claimed he would try to intimidate witnesses if freed from jail — and that he was already tampering with witnesses via three-way calling while in federal custody at NYC’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been locked up since his arrest in September.
Subramanian’s order reportedly referenced evidence the disgraced music mogul has lied about using ContactMeASAP service for inmates.
During the two-hour court hearing Friday, his defense reportedly claimed he stopped using the service on Nov. 16. but data showed he was active on it on Nov. 24.
In an attempt to get his bail plea approved, Combs’ legal team argued a 24/7 private security team would be better equipped to keep tabs on Combs than federal officers and even suggested he could reside in a three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side.
His team’s reported suggestion that he could stay at his Miami mansion — which was raided by Homeland Security along with his recently listed Los Angeles home in March — was immediately shut down.
His defense team said he was prepared to pay a $50 million bond.
Page Six has reached out to his rep for comment, but we did not receive an immediate response.
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