Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutor joins Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex trafficking case
Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ sex trafficking case has had a development regarding the prosecutor. Maurene Comey, one of the prosecutors who secured a conviction against Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021, has joined the highly publicised case.
Comey told the court that she had joined the case against Combs on December 2nd, having previously been one of the three lead prosecutors behind convicting Maxwell for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse and traffic minors.
Famed socialite Maxwell is currently serving 21 years in prison after being sentenced in June 2021 for child sex trafficking and other offences related to Epstein.
Financier Epstein was arrested in July 2019 for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida in New York, before dying in his jail cell in August that year. While a medical examiner ruled his death suicide by hanging, his lawyers have disputed the claim.
Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, has spent nine years as a US attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is one of the biggest federal prosecutor’s offices in the US. Prior to working as a prosecutor, Comey clerked for a federal judge in New York and was also an associate at law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, according to The Hollywood Reporter,
Combs’ trial is set to begin on May 5th, 2025. He was arrested and indicted in September on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force and transportation for purposes of prostitution, and is currently in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
He was denied bail for a third time last week due to his alleged violent history, including the use of firearms, kidnapping and arson to intimidate victims and witnesses. Combs has pled not guilty and denied all of the accusations of wrongdoing.
Prosecutors have called Combs a danger to the community and stated that he should be held without bail. Court documents say Combs’ employees have “described the defendant threatening to kill them, throwing objects at them, and being struck, punched, and shoved by the defendant, and seeing him do the same to others.”
US District Judge Arun Subramanian said in his ruling, “The government has shown by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community.”