Sean “Diddy” Combs stays jailed forward of his legal trial, and in keeping with authorized consultants, he’ll seemingly be there for some time, having misplaced an enchantment to be launched on bail.

The embattled music mogul was charged on Sept. 17 with three felony counts of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Diddy pleaded not responsible and has denied wrongdoing amid a number of lawsuits over the previous 10 months alleging sexual abuse.

The newest lawsuit, filed on Sept. 24, is from a girl who alleges she was drugged, raped and certain by the Dangerous Boy Leisure founder and his former bodyguard in 2001. She claims she discovered in November 2023 the alleged rape was recorded and bought as pornography. She’s the eleventh particular person to accuse Diddy of sexual assault.

Whereas the world has but to listen to immediately from Diddy about his alleged “freak offs,” the web has resurfaced outdated movies of him speaking about his notorious events.

How damaging are these resurfaced clips to Diddy’s case? Might a plea deal be on the desk? And what occurs subsequent? Yahoo Leisure has spoken to authorized consultants about these burning questions.

Do any of those outdated viral Diddy movies matter?

Within the court docket of public opinion: sure. At trial: no.

A number of resurfaced clips of Diddy have gone viral since his arrest — together with a 2002 interview on Late Evening With Conan O’Brien the place he talked about how locking “stunning ladies” in rooms makes for a “killer get together.” Ashton Kutcher’s quotes about partying with Diddy have made headlines as have numerous movies of Diddy with a younger Justin Bieber. Except one among these individuals comes ahead with an allegation towards Diddy to help the federal government’s case, it seemingly does not imply a lot.

“Out-of-court statements made by different individuals can’t come into proof as a result of they’re rumour statements,” legal protection lawyer Lauren Johnson-Norris tells Yahoo Leisure. “Nevertheless, if witnesses really noticed [alleged crimes related to the indictment], these witnesses might be delivered to court docket to testify towards Combs as to what they really noticed.”

There are many unverified rumors flying on X, previously Twitter, “however rumors should not proof.”

“The federal government goes to be specializing in proving the costs they’ve alleged and placing the items of the puzzle collectively,” Johnson-Norris explains.

The place is Diddy proper now?

Diddy continues to be being held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, N.Y., however NBC Information studies that Diddy has been moved from suicide watch to an space reserved for detainees who require particular safety. Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud, is among the many 18-20 inmates in the identical part.

Diddy has been denied bail twice, and Johnson-Norris would not see him getting out: “Except there are some important adjustments in circumstances, which I don’t see occurring right here, it seems that Combs is more likely to stay behind bars till his trial.”

The rapper has reportedly spoken briefly along with his “shock[ed]” youngsters.

Will others be charged?

Diddy is accused of working a legal group, however former federal prosecutor Jennie Wang VonCannon, tells Yahoo Leisure she would not consider others will likely be charged right now.

“Combs is alleged to be ‘the chief of the Combs Enterprise,'” she says, referring to wording within the indictment. “Based mostly on the allegations, it seems that the federal government already has the proof it must cost these whom Combs allegedly directed because the chief of the Combs Enterprise; the truth that it charged solely Combs signifies that there’ll seemingly be no extra lower-level individuals charged for conduct described within the indictment.”

Does the federal government have any purpose to supply a plea deal?

“The brief reply is sure,” VonCannon, associate at Crowell legislation agency, says.

“There are actual victims who’ve suffered [alleged sexual] abuse and who can be uncovered to a years-long course of,” she says, calling Diddy “a closely resourced defendant.”

“If a defendant pleads responsible, that might be a faster decision that might not require victims and witnesses to testify at trial,” she provides. A plea deal additionally “severely curtails” Diddy’s proper to enchantment, which is also useful to prosecutors.

Nevertheless, Diddy must plead responsible as a way to make that occur. Apart from publicly apologizing when surveillance footage leaked of him assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, he is maintained his innocence.

Can Ventura testify?

Diddy was sued by Ventura, his longtime ex-girlfriend, in November 2023 for intercourse trafficking, rape and bodily abuse. It was rapidly settled out of court docket and phrases weren’t disclosed, however a nondisclosure settlement (NDA) was seemingly concerned, authorized consultants agree.

Nevertheless, an NDA “doesn’t override a court docket subpoena or order for a witness to testify in a legal case,” Johnson-Norris says, opening the door for Ventura to testify.

“NDAs normally embody exception language in them, or if they do not, the court docket will discover it could be in any other case towards public coverage to preclude a witness from testifying,” she says. “A court docket order will all the time take priority over contracted language about who can and may’t make statements. Which means we should always hear Cassie testify on this legal case.”

Ventura appears very related to the federal case towards Diddy because the wording in her 35-page civil go well with matches among the allegations towards him within the authorities’s indictment.

Is Diddy going to mount a ‘consent’ protection?

Sexual abuse instances will be troublesome to prosecute because the protection sometimes claims that acts had been consensual; nevertheless, VonCannon says this is not a typical “he-said, she-said” case.

“Whereas the consent protection is frequent in instances the place the alleged acts occur between two individuals and behind closed doorways, this case is way broader than that, with racketeering allegations involving non-sex acts resembling kidnapping, arson, bribery, witness tampering, compelled labor and distribution of narcotics and managed substances,” she explains. “All the predicate acts of the RICO conspiracy, taken collectively, make it very troublesome to Combs to mount a profitable ‘consent protection.'”

What occurs subsequent?

Johnson-Norris says that in these kinds of federal instances, it sometimes takes “two years between the submitting of an indictment till sentencing.”

“I anticipate there will likely be intervals the place we hear concerning the case because of motions filed by the protection, after which there will likely be intervals of time that we hear nothing in any respect,” she explains.

The subsequent standing convention within the case is on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. ET.