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Sean "Diddy" Combs hired a new lawyer to try to seek bail. The same lawyer represents Sam Bankman-Fried.Derek French/BISean "Diddy" Combs hired a new lawyer to try to get out of jail.The same attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, represents Sam Bankman-Fried.Diddy and Bankman-Fried were placed in the same jail housing.Sean "Diddy" Combs is appealing a judge's decision to keep him locked up in a Brooklyn jail ahead of his trial on sex-trafficking charges.The new lawyer he picked up is also representing his roommate Sam Bankman-Fried, the notorious fraudster.Court filings show that Combs has hired Alexandra Shapiro, an experienced white-collar appellate lawyer who clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Shapiro is representing Bankman-Fried on appeal after the FTX and Alameda Research founder was sentenced to 25 years in prison and convicted by a jury on fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy charges.She filed a 102-page brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals last month, arguing the trial judge excluded evidence from the case in a way that stacked the deck against Bankman-Fried.Bankman-Fried has been living in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center as his appeals process plays out and before he's moved to a more permanent facility.Combs is being detained in the same facility after two judges rejected his $50 million bond offer, with one finding it would be too dangerous to allow him to remain free because he may cause violence or tamper with witnesses.The two have been sharing a room in dorm-style living arrangements, a person familiar with the situation previously told Business Insider.

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