Sean “Diddy” Combs plans to appeal a Manhattan judge’s ruling that the disgraced hip hop mogul be locked up without bail ahead of his trial on disturbing sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
Combs, 54, filed a notice of appeal with the Southern District of New York on Monday, according to court documents, the first step in an attempt to spring himself from the slammer.
It remains unclear when the official appeal will actually be filed, or when a hearing will be held.
Combs was arrested at a Manhattan hotel on September 16, and has been held in Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center — which has housed the likes of sex criminals R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell, and crypto-currency swindler Sam Bankman-Fried.
As a “preventative measure,” Combs had been placed on suicide watch — but his legal team has insisted he is in a good state of mind and is preparing his case.
