Sean “Diddy” Combs blew kisses to family members who packed a Manhattan courtroom Friday to hear his final arguments on why he should be released on bail pending trial on charges of running a depraved criminal empire for more more than a decade – including by forcing women to participate in days-long, drugged sex shows.

Combs, 55, entered the courtroom through a side door in a khaki prison outfit, smiling and waving at his family members in the second row of the gallery, including his 17-year-old twin daughters, Jesse and D’Lila. Combs.

The disgraced music mogul’s lawyers plan to ask Judge Arun Subramanian to release him on $50 million bail as he prepares for his trial, scheduled for May 2025, on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

The disgraced hip-hop queen is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after failing three previous attempts to convince the court to release him pending trial.

Combs was given a fourth chance to argue for his release after the case was assigned to Subramanian, who plans to oversee next year’s trial.

Subramanian could make a ruling by the end of Friday’s hearing.

Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan have argued that Combs poses an “extreme danger to the community” and say he tampered with potential witnesses in the case.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from allegations that he ran his label Bad Boy Records as a “criminal enterprise” for more than a decade, repeatedly physically abusing women around him and testifying to his alleged crimes. Silence.

Raids on his homes in Los Angeles and Miami turned up a trove of evidence — including bags of narcotics and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lube that Combs allegedly planned to use during what he called “Freak Offs,” marathon sex sessions in which he allegedly enticed women to have sex with male prostitutes while he watched, the FBI say.

Combs has pleaded not guilty.

His lawyers have argued that the sexual encounters mentioned in the indictment were all consensual.