Sean 'Diddy' Combs indictment on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, the unsealed indictment shows.
Sean"Diddy" Combs attends Day 1 of 2023 Invest Fest at Georgia World Congress Center on Aug. 26, 2023 in Atlanta.Federal prosecutors on Tuesday unsealed a criminal indictment of Sean “Diddy” Combs over sweeping allegations of sexual abuse, accusing the once-powerful rapper of running a racketeering conspiracy that included sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson and bribery.
Combs, 54, is expected to be arraigned later on Tuesday at a Manhattan federal courthouse. At the press conference, Williams said prosecutors would asked the judge to deny release on bail and keep Combs in jail until trial. Combs, also known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, was once one of the most powerful men in the music industry, producing massive hip hop hits and running a business empire. But over the past year, he has faced a flood offrom at least eight victims over allegations of sexual abuse, starting with a high-profile case filed late last year by his former longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Much of the case centers on events that Combs allegedly called “freak offs,” which prosecutors describe as “elaborate and produced sex performances” between victims and male sex workers during which Combs would masturbate. They allege Combs and his associates “wielded the power and prestige” of his fame to “intimidate, threaten and lure female victims” into his orbit, then used “force, threats of force, and coercion” to get them to participate.
When faced with the risk that someone would expose his conduct, Combs and others used similar tactics to keep witnesses and victims silent, prosecutors allege, including bribery, kidnapping and arson. The indictment says members of the organization carried firearms, and that “Combs himself carried or brandished firearms to intimidate and threaten others.”
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