Sean “Diddy” Combs was scheduled to look in courtroom Tuesday (Sept. 17, 2024) on federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees that accuse him of beating and abusing girls for greater than a decade and presiding over a intercourse crime empire.
The music mogul “engaged in a persistent and pervasive sample of abuse towards girls and others,” in keeping with an indictment unsealed Tuesday (September 17, 2024).
The indictment, which particulars allegations courting again to 2009, accuses him of abusing, threatening and coercing girls for years “to fulfill his sexual wishes, defend his repute and conceal his conduct.”
Combs was arrested Monday evening in Manhattan, about six months after federal authorities conducting a intercourse trafficking investigation raided his luxurious properties in Los Angeles and Miami.
Over the previous 12 months, Combs has been sued by individuals who say he bodily or sexually abused them. Combs has denied a lot of these allegations, and his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, stated outdoors the courthouse Tuesday morning that Combs would plead not responsible and would “combat like hell” to attempt to get his consumer launched.
Of Combs, Agnifilo stated: “He’s in good spirits. He’s assured.”
The indictment accuses Combs of hitting, punching and dragging girls on quite a few events, throwing objects at them and kicking them, and recruiting his private assistants, safety personnel and family employees to assist cowl all of it up.
The indictment describes Combs as the pinnacle of a prison enterprise engaged or making an attempt to interact in actions together with intercourse trafficking, pressured labor, interstate transportation for the aim of prostitution, drug offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.
Combs, 54, was extensively thought to be considered one of hip-hop’s most influential figures earlier than a flurry of allegations over the previous 12 months turned him into an business pariah.
In November, his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, whose authorized title is Casandra Ventura, filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs had overwhelmed and raped her for years. She accused Combs of forcing her and others to have undesirable intercourse in environments the place medication have been used.
The lawsuit was settled inside a day, however months later, CNN aired lodge safety video exhibiting Combs punching and kicking Cassie and knocking her to the bottom. After the video aired, Combs apologized, saying, “It disgusted me after I did it.”
Nonetheless, Combs and his legal professionals denied related allegations made by others in a sequence of lawsuits.
Douglas Wigdor, Cassie’s lawyer, stated in a press release Tuesday that “neither Ms. Ventura nor I’ve any touch upon the matter.”
“We recognize your understanding and if that modifications, we will definitely let ,” he added.
One lady stated Combs raped her twenty years in the past when she was 17. A music producer filed a lawsuit alleging Combs pressured him to have intercourse with prostitutes. One other lady, April Lampros, stated Combs subjected her to “terrifying sexual encounters,” starting in 1994, when she was a school scholar.
The AP doesn’t sometimes establish individuals who say they have been sexually abused until they go public, as Cassie and Lampros did.
Combs, the founding father of Dangerous Boy Data, has been by way of authorized hassle earlier than.
In 2001, he was acquitted of fees associated to a capturing two years earlier at a Manhattan nightclub through which three individuals have been injured. His then-protégé, Shyne, was convicted of assault and different fees and served about eight years in jail.
Revealed – September 17, 2024 08:01 pm IST