Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday in his sex trafficking and racketeering case — as the jailed hip-hop mogul’s lawyers push for a trial as soon as April.
Combs, 54, is due in front of Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian at 2 p.m. to discuss a potential trial date and set a timeline for when the feds will turn over “voluminous” reams of evidence to the embattled entrepreneur’s attorneys.
The ongoing probe into Combs has produced “several terabytes of electronic material” — including from the Bad Boy Records boss’ seized phones, laptops and hard drives — that the feds have started divulging to his legal team on a rolling basis, prosecutors said in a letter to the judge Wednesday.
The feds made their first data dump to Combs’ team on Monday, turning over the alleged sex trafficker’s phone seized by federal agents in March, a complete set of search warrants in the case and information on two of his iCloud accounts, says the letter, filed jointly with the defense.
Prosecutors expect to, within the next 30 days, make “rolling productions” of evidence gleaned from Combs’ hard drives, plus materials from searches of his homes and the New York City hotel room where he was staying before his Sept. 18 arrest, the letter says.
Combs “intends” to request that his case go on trial either in April or May 2025, his lawyers, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, said in the letter.
The feds responded that they’ll be “available for trial” on whatever date the judge sets, whether that happens Thursday or at a later time.
The attorneys also filed a motion late Wednesday accusing the Department of Homeland Security of leaking secret grand jury information to the media, which they argue “damaged” Combs’ right to a fair trial.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges contained in a sprawling indictment depicting him as the kingpin of a criminal syndicate which since at least 2008 abused and coerced women in his orbit — while bullying potential witnesses into silence.
Combs lured women into participating in what he called “Freak Offs,” days long sex sessions in which he drugged alleged victims and forced them to have sex with male sex workers while he watched, prosecutors at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York say.
The record label head’s lawyers have argued that all of the sexual encounters mentioned in court papers were consensual.
Combs has been ordered held without bail at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he’s being housed away from the general jail population and in the same unit as convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, sources told The Post.
