Damning new text messages were revealed Wednesday in the sex-trafficking case against Sean “Diddy” Combs — as a Manhattan judge ruled the hip-hop mogul would remain behind bars pending trial.
Manhattan federal Judge Andrew Carter, Jr. said Combs’ proposal for home detention and electronic monitoring on $50 million bail were “insufficient” – upholding a magistrate judge’s Tuesday ruling to remand him.
Prosecutor Emily Johnson, during the hearing on Combs’ bail request, used messages between the Bad Boy Records founder and his alleged victims to bolster her argument that he should remain jailed.
Here’s what we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
One victim allegedly messaged Combs on Nov. 19 after reading allegations in Cassie Ventura’s Nov. 16 lawsuit against the rapper, saying Ventura’s claims sounded like her own.
“I feel like I’m reading my own sexual trauma,” the message, read in court by the prosecutor, said.
“It makes me sick how three solid pages word for word is exactly my experiences and my anguish,” the alleged victim wrote.
“In recordings, [Combs] gaslit her and he attempted to convince her that she had willingly engaged in sex acts with him,” Johnson claimed.
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