In his first interview since a pretty dramatic Court Appearance this afternoon, where the megastar pleaded not guilty guilty to federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, Sex Trafficking, and transportation of prostitution did a remains in Jail Tonight as his team is arguing for his release. This is all coming as prosecutors are painting one of musics biggest moguls as a monster. All the names that sean combs has gone by over the years. Puff daddy p, diddy, diddy. Theyre now all being used as officially government aliases, replaced for the time being with an inmate number. Did he went from receiving the key to new York City doubt that long ago to being held right now at the metropolitan Detention Center in brooklyn, as he is facing the Pot Possibility of decades in prison. Federal prosecutors accused him of running what they call a criminal enterprise that went on for years. The evidence is laid out and a newly unsealed federal document accusing the threetime Grammy Winner of being a violent man. And im quoting from them now, saying that he engaged in persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals abuse that they say, quote, was at times verbal emotional physical, and sexual prosecutors say that combs manipulated women to participate in highly orchestrated performances of sexual activity with male Commercials Sex workers, maintaining control of these women, they say, by quote, Distributing Narcotics to them, controlling their careers, leveraging his financial support, and threatening to cut off the same. And also using intimidation and violence combs allegedly planned and control the sex performances, which he called free gauffs and he often electronically recorded them the Freak Offs, sometimes lasted days at a time, involve multiple commercial Sex Workers and often involve a variety of narcotics, such as ketamine, ecstasy, and ghb distributed to the victims to keep them obedient and compliant diddy is denying the allegations and pleaded not guilty in court this Afternoon Prosecutors are arguing that they can back up the charges with dozens of witnesses and a mountain of evidence. My Lead Source Tonight is Marc Agnifilo, attorney for sean diddy combs, who was there with him in court today. And its great to have you because the Bail Part was what you were arguing for that he should be released. The judge disagreed with you today youre appealing that actually tomorrow how likely is it do you think youll win on that appeal given the Judge Today said there were no conditions as she saw it, that could ensure that he would show up for court. So thank you. Kaitlan. So i think we have a good shot tomorrow. Tomorrow, we argue in front of the District Court Judge whose case this is. Today, we argued from a Magistrate Judge whos case. This is not will never have this magistrate as our judge again, but tomorrow we argue in front of Judge Carter and its Judge Carters case till The End. So hope springs eternal. And but i think we have strong arguments and i think we have a good chance. Well, and what prosecutors are arguing is not only does your client pose a Flight Risk because obviously he hes incredibly wealthy, has access to planes and 11, a lot of staff, even though you said he it turned over his passport two months ago, they were also worried about him being able to interfere with witnesses and calling them. And so i guess the question is, how do you assure the court that that wont happen if prosecutors are saying this is someone whos attempted to bribe Security Staff and has already threatened and interfered with witnesses so i think the most important thing even more important than the passport is that mr. Combs came to new york on september 5. Soon as we realized that this indictment was going to be coming down in a matter of weeks, maybe months, but sometimes soon. Mr. Combs got on a plane, left his home in florida, flew to new york. I call the prosecutors myself i said mr. Combs is in new york. Do you want to know where he is if you wanted to where he is . Ill tell you where he is, but he wants to surrender. Hes here to surrender. They didnt want him to surrender because if he surrenders, they dont get to tell the judge that hes a Flight Risk and hes a danger because who as a danger and a Flight Risk would fly to new york and surrender they didnt want them to surrender. So since september 5, you had known you expected it was likely he was going to formally face charges. So i really knew he was formerly going to face charges on on march 25, The Day of the searches, when when Homeland Security searched his Los Angeles home his miami home, and his airplane i knew that day by looking at the search warrants. I mean, this is ive been doing this for awhile. This is not my first or hundredth rodeo that this was going to come as a matter of time what i realized in early september soon. And so it was time for mr. Combs to come to new york, which he did. And let me just point out one very important thing that the prosecutors theyre seizing on something that happened eight years ago this video that weve all seen and its a bad video from mr. Combs and he said so himself, when he gave his apology this is eight years ago, and the prosecutors are talking about him bribing a hotel security worker, do as no criminal investors this was just a matter of personal embarrassment because he and the person in the video, were in the midst of a ten Year Relationship that was difficult at times that was toxic at times, but it was mutually so this whole notion that mr. Combs is forcing drugs on someone is just nonsense. Sensical, and its going to prove to not be true. Well, that video he initially denied the allegations when his then girlfriend, who is in that video filed a lawsuit last fall, and we have that video. I should note, cnn was the first ella to exclusively report on it. He denied that that happened when she filed a complaint, and then when the video came out is when he apologize for it. So i wasnt his lawyer back then, so i dont and i dont think he did. I mean, i think the lawyers were the ones mostly making the denials i think there were denying sex crimes. I mean, because at The End of The Day, the gravamen of that civil Complaint Wasnt a Misdemeanor Assault, which is what you see on that video, not minimizing it, but its a Misdemeanor Assault what the gravamen of the complaint was was sex crimes, and he denied that and he still does. Well, in youre saying that this is all just about that one relationship, but when you read through the indictment, they say that theres not just one victim. They say theres multiple that dems here today. And what i heard described was they said they have 50 witnesses or victims. Yeah. I think its 49 witnesses and one victim i think if you broke it down and i say that because count two, which is the Sex Trafficking count, has this victim number one, and there is no victim number two anywhere in the indictment. So youre saying that there are not other women because what they were essentially arguing here is that he coerced and forced women into Sex Acts by using physical force, financial pressure, emotional abuse, narcotics for what they described as these Freak Offs sessions, they saying that he selfdisclosed as that. Yeah. Theres theres one victim in the indictment thats the charging document. It does count i dont know, of course, but im just not its not 50. I mean, what they did is a little too cute is its 50 witnesses or victims. Well, its its one victim thats all thats in the indictment are reporter who was in the Courtroom Today said that he appeared to have a stunned expression on his face was he surprised that he was arrested last night . Know he definitely was not. I mean, i told him myself in early september you are going to be arrested soon and youre going to be charged with racketeering and you can charged with Sex Trafficking. So come to new york it wasnt a long conversation. He agreed. So we knew this was coming and in fact, we offered that he would turn himself in. So if there are these these witnesses and victims and youre saying that you believe its 11 victim and 49 witnesses who saw this behavior . Thats pretty powerful though, to to have that many people who have if they go to court and argue that they witnessed this behavior by your client. Well as defensive against my defense is very well established i interviewed myself the different men who were being brought into mr. Combs and this persons intimate situation ive flown around the country ive interviewed a large number of them, does not the slightest inkling according to the interviews that ive done of anything thats coercive, non consensual. Nobody was too drunk, nobody was too high. These were adults interrelate. This is a ten Year Relationship. We cant forget that this is a ten Year Relationship. And it was adults and can central and everybody who was there wanted to be there. So i feel very confident in our position. You said you interviewed the men, but what about the women i havent interviewed the won the womans not available to me. Shes a presumably a grand Jury Witness and we would not we cannot try to interview a grand Jury Witness. And you dont think that there are any other women who are going to say that they were coerced into this given drugs and essentially as prosecutors were saying that thats what kept them compliant. So there are a lot of women in these civil cases. Theres been theres been a mountain of civil cases ever since the civil case that was filed in november i dont see them as victims in the indictment. Thats my point and so when you talk about that that video of Cassie Ventura, that was his then girlfriend in the video . I mean just when you saw that you said its a bad video, its pretty difficult to watch. It is no question. So let me but let me tell you what, how thatd be used as evidence in court. Do you think 100 , 100 what i said in court today, and ill say it again here is the two of them were in a hotel. It was just the two of them and Hotel Room she found out that he was seeing someone else. She was going through his phone she hit him in the head with his with his own phone. And then she walks into the into the hallway with two bags one of the bags has all of his clothing that she is taking from him, which is why he runs out in the towel. So this isnt her fleeing from one of these Freak Offs. Why would she take his clothing . Thats not what it is. And when the evidence comes out, this is going to be completely different than the governments portrayed it. But on this video, and i just want to show that again now, how do you defend against allegations that he hit, kicked, and dragged women when hes on video hitting, kicking and dragging a woman. Sure. Its not hes not charged with hitting, kicking, and dragging what hes charged with Sex Trafficking. And he didnt traffic anybody, but hes charged with conspiracy here where he was using physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial pressure, as prosecutors alleged to keep these women in his fold maybe maybe just Cassie Ventura, but keeping these women in the fold Cassie Ventura lived by herself. She had her own house. She had a family. She had a career, and he was seeing another woman at the time. He wasnt around a lot. She could have done whatever she wanted to do. All of these allegations of oi, i was worst i was coerced. I had to stay or nonsense. And this can be proven to be so that video in the indictment, it alleges that your client paid Hotel Staff 50,000 to make it disappear from the hotel surveillance system. Did he pay off the Hotel Staff . Not that i know of. I know thats an allegation. I dont know that that is true what i was concerned about when i heard about this allegation is whether there was an allegation that there was some sort of Law Enforcement Investigation pending because then that would be a crime. But there was none and so this is not a crime you talked about . You said youre portraying this as adults who were at these events that wanted to be i shouldnt even call them events. Thats not certainly how anyone else would would label it but that they wanted to be there, but they also alleged that they were recorded. And essentially used as blackmail. Is that not true . Thats not true. Thats not how can you prove that . That when they have electronic evidence that as they argue over 90 cell phones, laptops, icloud storage accounts 30 electronic and storage devices, hard drives, Thumb Drives or not worried about that. Because if they had it, they would have put it in the indictment. Thats not in the indictment. When it comes to your clients credibility, i think people will look at what he said last fall and its not just his attorneys. I mean, he pays those attorneys there speaking on his behalf. Theyre the ones calling her at her claims baseless and ridiculous. When you read the indictment today, they line up with what she alleged in that lawsuit last fall if the claim is that he had unwanted sex with her, that claim is baseless and it will be proven to be baseless when we have a trial but the claim is obviously the conspiracy, the racketeering its much larger than just that, obviously, as you know it is. But the government wants it to be. But, but, but count two, which is the Sex Trafficking count, relates to one person and one person alone all of this talk of dozens of victims and 50 witnesses if they have that, they really had it. It would be in the indictment. Its not in the indictment. So then why was he reaching out to so many of these people after it was clear this investigation was picking up steam so he will firstly, i dont think its clear that he was reaching out they said in the memo that he reached out to one person. I believe 48 times in three days. So i think i know youre talking about there there was a Civil Complainant who plays no role in the criminal case whatsoever, who brought a civil all case against mr. Combs and she was in a band and a another one of the Band Member says, i was in the same banned she was and none of the things that shes complaining about in her complaint, i saw none of those things. And so she came forward and made a statement. Shes not a witness. Shes not a government witness, but after 48 pieces of outreach, whether calls or texts from your client i dont i dont know that its 48 you know, i theres someone who had a business relationship, so it makes sense that combs would speak to her. Theres no theres no theres no allegation that this person was saying something false so this person was somehow coerced into saying these things. And if you read the statement, the statement is actually quite soft and respectful. Its i respect that this person has this perspective. I was in the band at the same time. I never saw such things. Is there any chance sean combs takes a Plea Deal . I dont see it happening i do not see it happening he hes hes innocent. I believe hes innocent. I believe hes innocent of the charges and he is going to go to trial. And i believe hes going to win Marc Agnifilo. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you. Appreciate your time. Were going to take a. 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