Diddy blasts prosecutors for 'destroying his reputation' as he makes third bid for release on bail

Diddy has claimed that his 'reputation has been destroyed' as he made a third bail application while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

The disgraced hip hop mogul said that the 'allegations and aggressive and deceptive media tactics' by prosecutors had already shredded his public image and only an acquittal could reverse that.

Diddy claimed the charges that he ran a decade-long criminal enterprise were 'fictional' and that prosecutors were putting a 'theatrical spin' on the truth.

The 55-year-old hitmaker, real name Sean Combs, sought to discredit his accusers - including his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

Diddy said that a second 'victim' wasn't even a victim because she was 'voluntarily intimate with Mr Combs for years'.

Diddy is accused of organizing orgies called 'Freak Offs' in which women were drugged and forced into marathon-long sex sessions, sometimes with male prostitutes.

He has denied sex trafficking and racketeering among other charges and is due to go on trial in May of next year.

Diddy has already been denied bail twice, including a $50million bail package involving round the clock monitoring by security guards and home detention.

 A hearing is due to take place on Friday at the federal court in New York for this third attempt to get free.

In his third bail application, Diddy's lawyers wrote: 'Mr Combs fully intends to face these charges.

'The prospect of a conviction does not materially change his incentives here, where his reputation has already been destroyed by the government's allegations and aggressive and deceptive media tactics, and can only be rebuilt by winning at trial'.

Diddy's legal team took aim at the two victims cited by prosecutors in their legal filings for the previous bail applications.

They said that the 'narrative the government presented was fictional' and that they were putting a 'theatrical spin' on things.

The filing criticized the security camera video of Diddy attacking Ventura at the Intercontinental Hotel on March 5, 2016, and claimed that the full version is not as damning as the version leaked to CNN.

In fact, it was just a 'sad glimpse into a decade-long consensual relationship', the filing from Diddy's lawyers states.

They said that the shocking footage was 'edited' and 'manipulated' in order to make it look worse than it was.

 The incident was merely a 'domestic dispute in which he ran down the hall of the hotel to recover his clothes and cellphone'.

Nor is there 'one piece of evidence' backing up the claim Ventura was trafficked, the document states.

Diddy's lawyers also say that there is 'no second victim at all' as the second victim in the indictment was 'voluntarily intimate with Mr Combs for years'.

Prosecutors have argued that Diddy continues to obstruct justice while in prison, and that no set of bail conditions would stop him from influencing the jury and tampering with witnesses.

 They brought up a video his children posted on his birthday earlier this month as evidence that he is coordinating a 'public relations' campaign from behind bars.

In their filing, Diddy's lawyers fired back and said: 'Grasping at straws, the government makes much of Mr Combs' request that his family make an Instagram post to celebrate his birthday.

'We do not believe that a social media post showing his family's love and birthday wishes violated the court's order, even if it presents him in a more positive light than the overwhelmingly unfavorable media coverage which has dominated the public narrative about Mr Combs for the past year'.

During the hearing on Friday, the judge is expected to deal with questions about alleged prosecutorial misconduct which Diddy's lawyers say could lead to the case being dismissed.

The dispute concerns notes seized by a Bureau of Prisons investigator during an October 28th raid on Diddy's cell in the Metropolitan Detention Centre (MDC) in Brooklyn, where he is being held.

Prosecutors used some of the notes to argue that Diddy was still trying to obstruct justice by paying a female witness to make a positive statement about him on Instagram.

 Diddy's lawyers have claimed that this material is privileged and said in court this week that they need to find out more information before deciding what the remedy could be.

But the matter is so serious that the case could need to be dismissed, or the team of four female prosecutors may need to be recused, defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said.

Diddy was arrested on September 16 and has been in the MDC ever since then.

He appeared relaxed in court during the hearing on Wednesday and was smiling and joking with his lawyers.

Earlier this week, he was hit with five new civil lawsuits, the latest in a deluge which is expected to come to more than 100 when they are all filed.

The new claims include one from a woman who says that she was drugged and raped at one of Diddy's infamous 'White Parties' in the Hamptons in New York.

Diddy's lawyers deny all the civil allegations.