Things are not looking good for Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Combs was denied bail after pleading not guilty to federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges on Tuesday. He offered $50 million as bail, but Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky denied this request because of "very significant concerns" about the crimes he's been charged with and his substance and anger issues. His legal team is appealing this decision today.
He's being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the same Brooklyn jail that previously held R. Kelly, Fetty Wap, Michael Cohen, Allison Mack and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Marc Agnifilo, Combs' attorney, says the case stemmed from a civil case brought against Combs by his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
"This was a 10-year relationship," Agnifilo said. "There's no coercion. There's no crime. This is basically someone who brought a civil case and now is finding themselves as a witness in a criminal case. We're going to fight this case with everything we have, as is he [Combs], and eventually, he's going to be shown to be innocent."
But based on the indictment, this case involves so much more than just Combs' toxic and abusive relationship with Ventura. (Hotel security footage was released in May of Combs beating Ventura.) U.S. Attorney Damian Williams outlined on Tuesday details of the indictment, which claimed Combs "used force" during filmed events called "Freak Offs," which could last for days and documented victims engaging in "extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during and often electronically recorded."
If convicted, Combs is looking at a minimum 15-year prison sentence and could face life in prison.
I'll tell you one thing, while Combs' freedom might be in jeopardy, one thing is less uncertain: his career, it's over. There's no way somebody can bounce back from this.
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By H. Alan Scott
Fresh off his Tony nomination for Mother Play, Jim Parsons is back on Broadway in Our Town. So, does he not like taking a break? "Until [Big Bang Theory] wrapped in 2019, I did not really know what it was to take a break that was not only extended, but also uncertain."
Parsons plays the stage manager in Our Town, guiding the audience through "one of the better-known plays in the entire canon of theater, and with a cast of 28." Parsons knows many will always see Big Bang Theory's Sheldon in his performances, and he's fine with that, because the sitcom "undoubtedly offered me more opportunities as an actor and as a human than without it."
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