Sean 'Diddy' Combs indicted for sex trafficking, racketeering

(NewsNation) — Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs alleges helium abused, threatened and coerced women to fulfill his intersexual desires. He is being charged with racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

Prosecutors allege Combs utilized the resources of his euphony empire to make "a transgression endeavor whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to prosecute in, among different crimes, enactment trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice."

Prosecutors qualify Combs arsenic having a signifier of abusing women and elaborate allegations of assault, maltreatment and prostitution. They besides impeach him arsenic having utilized his employees to assistance him prosecute successful these activities.

Diddy's arrest

A national indictment against hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was unsealed Tuesday, revealing details that led to his arrest.

Combs was arrested Monday successful Manhattan aft a expansive assemblage indicted him connected charges that — until Tuesday — were chartless to the public, his lawyer Marc Agnifilo confirmed.

“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,” Agnifilo said successful a connection Monday.

The U.S. lawyer successful Manhattan, Damian Williams, confirmed successful a connection that Combs was successful custody.

He’s expected to look successful national tribunal astatine 10 a.m. ET Tuesday.

Diddy's properties raided

The charges travel astir six months aft national Homeland Security agents and different instrumentality enforcement searched Combs’ properties successful California and Florida. The expanse was portion of an ongoing enactment trafficking probe by New York national authorities, NewsNation section affiliate WPIX confirmed astatine the time.

Rumors person circulated astir Combs for decades, and allegations of intersexual misconduct began surfacing successful civilian lawsuits precocious past year. His erstwhile girlfriend, R&B vocalist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, sued Combs successful November 2023, alleging successful New York national tribunal that helium brought her into his “ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle” erstwhile she was 19 and helium was 37. The vocalist elaborate a yearslong narration that she said included beatings and intersexual assault, alleging that a signifier of maltreatment began arsenic soon arsenic the narration started.

Combs’ lawyer Ben Brafman said helium “vehemently denies” the allegations.

Ventura and Combs settled the suit quickly — but allegations continued to surface.

A 2016 surveillance video circulated successful May showed Combs attacking the vocalist successful a California hotel.

Reached by email Tuesday, Ventura's lawyer said neither helium nor his lawsuit wished to remark connected the indictment.

Diddy faces aggregate lawsuits

In precocious November and aboriginal December 2023, Combs was accused of sexually assaulting and attacking aggregate women successful the decennary spanning the aboriginal 1990s and 2003.

By July 4 of this year, Combs was named successful a 10th civilian suit alleging intersexual misconduct. Later that month, the antheral charged successful rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 sidesplitting said Combs allegedly offered $1 cardinal for the hip-hop legend’s murder. Despite longstanding speculation astir Combs’ imaginable engagement successful Shakur’s death, helium hasn’t been named successful immoderate probe connected to the killing.

Most recently, a justice successful a abstracted lawsuit ordered Combs to wage a $100 cardinal default judgement aft helium failed to quality a Michigan inmate’s intersexual battle allegations. Combs filed a petition to vacate that order past week.

Read the indictment below: