An online flight tracker shows a private jet registered to jailed music mogul Sean Combs landed in NYC on Friday.
The Gulfstream jet, registered to an LLC Combs owns, landed in NYC early Friday, ahead of Combs’ third bond hearing. Combs is expected to be released on $50 million bond with restrictions on Friday.
Judge Arun Subramanian is the third justice to preside over a bond hearing for Combs. The music mogul’s previous bond requests were denied by 2 separate judges.
The presence of Combs’s jet in NYC is a possible sign that he will walk free after spending 2 months in a tiny jail cell at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Combs’ family members are expected to be in the courtroom.
In a legal victory this week, Judge Subramanian told federal prosecutors they can’t use 20 pages of Combs’s notes at his upcoming bond hearing.
The notes were confiscated by the feds during a raid at MDC Brooklyn, where Combs is awaiting trial following his arrest on sex crime charges in September.
In another legal victory for Combs this week, a Manhattan judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a then-39-year-old man who claims Combs sodomized him at a 2022 house party in New York.
The man, who now lives in Georgia, claims he “lost control of his body” and “lost consciousness” after consuming drinks provided to him by others at the party.
The man said, when he regained consciousness, “he was in a dark bedroom with black walls, on a bed with black sheets. Everything around him was dark. Plaintiff was horrified to find Combs on top of him, sodomizing him.”
The judge dismissed the man’s lawsuit on Wednesday because the plaintiff failed to identify himself or get the court’s permission to file anonymously.
The man’s lawsuit was one of 5 new suits filed against Combs this week.
Judges are cracking down on dozens of anonymous plaintiffs filing lawsuits accusing Combs of sexual assault and harassment.
Dozens of lawsuits filed against Combs by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee involve anonymous plaintiffs.
Buzbee was sued this week in Los Angeles by a prestigious New York-based law firm representing an A-list client who accused the personal injury attorney of extortion.
The A-list client was not named in the lawsuit.
Combs’ attorneys addressed the lawsuit against Buzbee in a statement to ABC News on Tuesday, saying, “The extortion lawsuit against Mr. Buzbee exposes his barrage of lawsuits against Mr. Combs for what they are: shameless publicity stunts, designed to extract payments from celebrities who fear having lies spread about them, just as lies have been spread about Mr. Combs.”
