Sean "Diddy" Combs Hospitalized While Awaiting Sex Trafficking Trial - E! Online
Sean "Diddy" Combs was taken from the federal prison where he is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges to undergo treatment at a hospital, multiple reports said.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs reportedly underwent treatment in a hospital as he continues to await trial on sex trafficking charges.
The 55-year-old was transported from Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the federal prison where was sent following his September arrest, late Jan. 30 to undergo an MRI and was then soon returned to police custody later that night, Page Six reported. The outlet cited a source as saying that the medical scan was authorized because his "knee was bothering him."
TMZ cited sources with direct knowledge as saying Combs was taken to a Brooklyn hospital from the Metropolitan Detention Center that day after experiencing pain with his knee.
E! News has reached out to reps for Combs and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for comment and has not heard back.
The Grammy winner's attorney Marc Agnifilo told TMZ, "I cannot comment on anything related to prisoner movements. Also, I’m not commenting on anything related to possible medical issues."
Combs had shared in a since-deleted Instagram post in 2017 that he had undergone his third knee surgery in a year.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons has neither confirmed nor denied the reports about Combs' hospital visit. "For privacy, safety, and security reasons," a spokesperson for the government agency told the New York Post, which operates Page Six, "we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for anyone in our custody to include medical status or medical trips."
The hospital visit allegedly took place hours after federal prosecutors filed a new criminal indictment against Combs, accusing him of coercing two additional women into commercial sex acts. No additional charges are included in the new filing. The original September indictment had referenced one female victim.
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"Combs manipulated women to participate in orchestrated performances of sexual activity with Combs," read the document. "Combs ensured participation from the women by, among other things, obtaining and distributing narcotics to them, controlling their careers, leveraging his financial support and threatening to cut off the same, and using intimidation and violence."
Following his September arrest, Combs pleaded not guilty to all three federal charges filed against him—racketeering, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. In December, he wrote on Instagram that the allegations made against him are "sickening," adding, "I did not do any of the awful things being alleged."
His lawyer has accused the prosecutors of making a major error in the new indictment.
"The prosecution's theory remains flawed," the attorney said in a statement to E! News Jan. 30. "The government has added the ridiculous theory that two of Mr. Combs’ former girlfriends were not girlfriends at all but were prostitutes."
The lawyer added, "Mr. Combs is as committed as ever to fighting these charges and winning at trial."
The trial is set to begin May 5.
Read on for more about Combs' criminal case...
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Sean "Diddy" Combs Remanded
After Sean "Diddy" Combs pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges on Sept. 17, his legal team proposed a $50 million bond package that included equity in his Miami home and his mother's house, as well as limited his travel to within certain parts of Florida, New York and New Jersey.
The defense also offered, per a letter obtained by E! News, to "walk the Court through a series of actions taken by Mr. Combs over the past six months that prove that he is not a risk of flight or a danger to anyone in the community."
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky rejected the package and ordered that Combs be remanded without bail. He remains in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in a special unit that's housed a number of high-profile inmates.Â
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Combs' Lawyer Says Rapper Is Getting Treatment and Therapy
"He is not a perfect person," Combs' attorney Marc Agnifilo told the court, per NBC New York. "There has been drug use. He has been in toxic relationships."
Therefore, he added, his client was getting "treatment and therapy for things that he needs treatment and therapy for."
Overall, though, Combs' "spirits are good," the lawyer told reporters after court Sept. 17. "He's confident."
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Combs Creates a Slippery Situation
More than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and personal lubricant were seized during the March 2024 raids on Combs' L.A. and Miami homes, according to the 14-page indictment unsealed Sept. 17.
Per the indictment, the oil and lube were stockpiled for use in so-called "freak-offs," the term Combs used for gatherings in which he allegedly orchestrated sexual encounters between women he coerced and threatened into doing his bidding and male sex workers.
"I don't know where the number 1,000 came," his attorney Agnifilo said in the TMZ documentary The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment, which premiered Sept. 27. Pondering out loud why anyone would need so much, the lawyer added, "He has a big house, he buys in bulk. I think they have Costcos in every place where he has a home."
Costco, meanwhile, wanted no part of it, telling TMZ in a statement that "none" of its U.S. stores carry baby oil.
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Alleged Combs Texts Read in Court
In May 2024, CNN published a clip of hotel surveillance video from 2016 that appeared to show Combs attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie, born Cassandra Ventura. (The assault matched up with an alleged incident detailed in the lawsuit she filed against Combs on Nov. 16, 2023; both parties announced a settlement the next day.)
"I was f--ked up. I hit rock bottom," Combs said in a video posted to Instagram in response to the footage. "But I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video." He had gone to therapy and rehab since, he added, and was "committed to be a better man each and every day."
During a Sept. 18 hearing on Combs' second request for bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson said, per NBC News, that Combs allegedly sent a text in the days following the assault that read, "Call me, the cops are here." Another read, "I have six kids. Call, I’m surrounded."
Johnson did not say Cassie's name in court. She said that Combs' victim replied via text, "Sick you think it’s OK to do what you've done."
Bail was once again denied, this time by U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr.
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The Combs Case Is Set for Trial
On Oct. 3, the Combs case was reassigned to Judge Arun Subramanian because Carter was unable to accommodate a trial date.
During an Oct. 10 status hearing, Subramanian set a trial date of May 5, 2025.
Prosecutor Johnson told the judge she expected the trial to last roughly three weeks, but said there was still the possibility that a superseding indictment could lead to more charges against Combs.
Agnifilo said in court they'd need about a week to put on their case.
Meanwhile, the attorney said in the TMZ doc that Combs was looking forward to testifying in his own defense.
“I don’t know that I could keep him off the stand," Agnifilo said. "I think he is very eager to tell his story."
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Combs Accused of Attempting to Contact Witnesses
Prosecutors alleged in a Nov. 15 court filing that Combs arranged to pay off fellow inmates to use their phone privileges, showing his disregard for jailhouse rules, and arranged three-way calls to contact his associates in an attempt to obstruct the criminal case against him.
"The defendant has demonstrated an uncanny ability to get others to do his bidding—employees, family members, and M.D.C. inmates alike," the filing alleged, per the New York Times.
In their third bid for bail, which was ultimately rejected, Combs' legal team argued in a November filing that the government's case was "thin," and that contacting potential witnesses to aid Combs' defense "does not amount to obstruction or evidence any risk of obstruction."
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Prosecutors Get Notes From Combs' Cell
Alleging a violation of attorney-client privilege and calling it a "complete institutional failure," per the Times, Combs attorney Agnifilo objected during a Nov. 19 court appearance to the prosecution's use of handwritten notes that were removed from the defendant's cell during a sweep of the jail to bolster its argument against bail.
The contents of the notes were redacted from the public record, but prosecutors said in court that some of Combs' writings suggested he was trying to obstruct their case.
The prosecution also countered in court papers that the jail sweep was pre-planned and did not target Combs, and that the notes were first reviewed by a team from the U.S. Attorney's Office to filter out any privileged material.
Agnifilo argued that the notes reviewed by the prosecution were among the papers Combs regularly brought with him to meetings with his attorneys.
Judge Subramanian ordered prosecutors to delete photos of the notes from their files while he considered whether Combs' rights had been violated.
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