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(NewsNation) — Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested Monday successful Manhattan pursuing a expansive assemblage indictment, multiple outlets are reporting.
Diddy's attorney, Marc Agnifilo, issued the pursuing statement: "We are disappointed with the determination to prosecute what we judge is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office."
He called Diddy an "imperfect person," adding: "To his recognition Mr. Combs has been thing but cooperative with this probe and helium voluntarily relocated to New York past week successful anticipation of these charges. Please reserve your judgement until you person each the facts."
It's not wide which charges the rapper was arrested for, but helium has respective intersexual misconduct and assault allegations spanning implicit 30 years. He has denied each allegations.
Two of the rapper's properties were searched successful a raid by national investigators months agone arsenic portion of an ongoing enactment trafficking investigation, according to NewsNation affiliate WPIX. Firearms and phones belonging to Combs were confiscated during that search.
Two sources acquainted with the concern confirmed to NBC News that national investigators presented grounds against Combs to a expansive assemblage successful the confederate territory of New York, though nary transportation to his reported apprehension has been confirmed.
Formerly known arsenic “Puff Daddy,” Combs faced backlash aft the lawsuits, but helium was erstwhile considered 1 of the astir influential hip-hop producers and executives of the past 3 decades.
The laminitis of Bad Boy Records has worked with artists specified arsenic Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Faith Evans and 112, and besides created a manner covering enactment and a music-focused TV channel.
NewsNation's Cassie Buchman and Safia Samee Ali contributed to this report.
