Sean “Diddy” Combs won’t be home for the holidays.
The judge overseeing his sex trafficking and racketeering case ruled Wednesday that Combs must remain behind bars ahead of his criminal trial in May.
In his ruling, Judge Aran Subramanian wrote that there is “no condition or combination of conditions that could reasonably ensure the safety of the community” if the music mogul is granted release.
Combs, 55, is currently in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
The news comes just days after Combs’ legal team outlined their plans for his release. They said he would live in an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with 24/7 armed security and would only be allowed to call his lawyers and be visited by pre-approved family members.
But prosecutor Christy Slavik argued that letting Combs out of jail would be harmful.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the MET Gala in New York City, on May 1, 2017.
“He is paying his way out of custody and continues to flout the rules. He is a flight risk, a danger to the community. He is obstructing and trying to undermine the integrity of this procedure,” Slavik said during Friday’s hearing .
Prosecutors also alleged that Combs tampered with witnesses behind bars by making three-way calls and using other inmates’ cell lines. They also alleged he has tried to infect potential jurors with a PR campaign, pointing to an Instagram post earlier this month in which his children spoke to him by phone from behind bars on his birthday.
But Combs’ team has said this is all within his constitutional rights.
The decision comes just over a week after the judge ruled that prosecutors must get rid of 16 pages of notes recovered from Combs’ jail that should have been protected under attorney-client privilege.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
