54-year-old hip-hop mogul and icon: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution! About six months after federal investigators raided his homes, they said he elaborately schemed to use his finances and status in the entertainment industry to “fulfill his sexual desires” in a “recurrent and widely known” pattern of abuse.
Sean Love Combs, also known as Diddy, Puff Daddy, and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, and executive. He’s known for discovering and developing artists like Mary J. Blige, the Notorious B.I.G., and Usher. Combs started his career as a label intern, background dancer, and party promoter. In the early 1990s, he became a talent scout, label executive, producer, songwriter, and rapper. He’s credited with building a hip-hop empire starting in the 1990s.
The “P” in P. Diddy’s name stands for “Sean Combs’ original first name, “Sean John Combs.” He began using the stage name “Puff Daddy” in the 1990s, and later changed it to “P. Diddy” in 2001, before shortening it to just “Diddy” in 2005.
Prosecutors allegedly have “dozens” of videos depicting Combs’ so-called “freak offs” – sometimes days long sex performances between sex workers and people he allegedly coerced into participating through narcotics and intimidation – that corroborate witness testimony. The indictment also alleges use of guns, arson and other shocking allegations.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was denied bail, ordered detained until trial, and as of today he is still being held in jail with no bail, and his passports were taken away, and his back accounts frozen! Pending trial, he is being held in solitude in the Special Housing Unit at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, a facility that has made headlines for its poor conditions for inmates! He pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges, and a judge denied him bail and ordered him detained pending trial in an explosive case against one of music’s most influential figures.
Diddy’s indictment states Homeland Security Investigations agents procured drugs and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant that were allegedly used in Combs’ “freak offs” in the March 25 raids of Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles. Authorities seized firearms and ammunition including three AR-15 rifles with defaced serial numbers, and large-capacity drum magazines.
The photo below is of hip-hop mogul and icon: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs with Entertainment Today TV Producer: Steve Taylor at the Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel: 
All those times that I meet Diddy in person he was always very nice, easy going, and soft spoken, and he even did a promo for my TV show: Entertainment Today, after an interview that he did for our show. In fact, one time backstage at the Celebrity gifting area- at The Grammy Awards he gave both me and my TV Show Host: Margie Rey- two luxurious, high fashion, $2000 Valor Jogging Suits! These were from his Sean John Clothing line. I still have them, and wear them! I also used to wear his designer eye glasses. So after all these years I never dreamed he would be capable of doing what he was alleged to have done!
Sean John is the award-winning clothing and lifestyle brand founded by Sean “Diddy” Combs. In 1998 Sean Combs launched a signature collection of sportswear under his given name, Sean John. The brand made its debut at retail during a launch event at Bloomingdale’s in New York City. Since its launch, Sean John has enjoyed critical and commercial success with revenues now exceeding $525 million annually. Sean John has often appeared at the award ceremony for the CFDA Fashion Awards held annually in New York. For five consecutive years, from 2000 to 2005, Sean John was nominated for its excellence in design. In 2004, Sean John was awarded the CFDA Men’s Designer of the Year award. In February 2001, Sean John produced the first nationally televised runway show during New York Fashion Week when it simultaneously aired live on E! Television and the Style Network. During fashion week in February 2002, the New York Times ran a front page story on Sean John. 
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct” for decades, according to the unsealed indictment that led to his Sept. 16 arrest on three felony counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
No victims were identified in the 14-page document, but the March 2016 incident in which Combs — also known as “Diddy” and “Puff Daddy” — was captured on surveillance video hitting, kicking and throwing a vase at then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel was referenced. It’s alleged that the Bad Boy Entertainment founder attempted to bribe a member of hotel security who intervened to ensure silence.
The indictment, filed on Sept. 12, contains a litany of allegations against Combs, claiming he “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals” after becoming a star in the 1990s and that abuse was “verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual.” He allegedly used his various businesses, headquartered at times in New York and Los Angeles, and employees to cover up alleged criminal behavior, including “sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”
His attorney Marc Agnifilo said outside that his client is innocent, adding that his “spirits are good” and “he’s confident” in his case. Agnifilo said in a statement, “We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children and working to uplift the Black community.”
It concluded: “He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal. To his credit Mr. Combs has been nothing but cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges. Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court.” 
The most shocking allegations: Diddy held “freak offs,” in which women were allegedly coerced to participate in against their will! According to the government, Combs would use his power to “lure female victims into [his] orbit, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship.” Then through “force, threats of force, and coercion” the victims were made “to engage in extended sex acts” with multiple “male commercial sex workers” in sex sessions he dubbed “freak offs.”
Combs is accused of arranging, directing and masturbating during the “sex performances,” which he would often record, sometimes unbeknownst to the victims. The “freak offs” would last for days with multiple sex workers involved. Combs allegedly distributed drugs to the victims to keep them “obedient and compliant.” Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that these drugs were narcotics such as ketamine, ecstasy and GHB. After the days-long sex sessions, “Combs and the victims typically received IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion.” Combs’s employees allegedly arranged for the sex workers to cross state lines. They’d also book hotels, stock rooms with “freak off supplies” and arrange for travel for victims. The recordings Combs made were used as “collateral” to ensure the “silence of the victims,” according to the indictment. The allegations are similar to those outlined by Ventura in her 2023 lawsuit against Combs.
Cassie hotel incident referenced in filing: The government claims Combs’s “pattern of abuse” included “numerous occasions” from “about 2009 and continuing for years” in which he “assaulted women” by “striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them.”
It claims the assaults “were, at times, witnessed by others,” including the one against Ventura which he took responsibility for earlier this year after a surveillance video of the 2016 attack was made public. It’s alleged that Combs attempted to bribe a member of the hotel security staff that witnessed the incident. The indictment claims that Combs’s “violence” was not limited to the female victims, but extended to his employees and people who witnessed his abuse.
Diddy accused of using “arson” and other tactics to control victims: The indictment states Combs used guns, kidnapping and arson to control victims. While it doesn’t name an alleged arson victim, in Ventura’s lawsuit, she claimed that when she briefly dated Kid Cudi in 2012, Combs threatened to blow up Cudi’s car. “Around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway,” her lawsuit stated.
Attempts at bail: His team had been trying to negotiate his release from custody pending his trial on three federal counts, with Combs offering to post a $50 million bond using his Miami home as collateral, NBC News reported, with details from a proposed bail package filed by his defense team.
The rapper, whose career has been derailed over the past 10 months amid the allegations, also offered to wear a GPS monitor and limit travel to New York City and Miami. Documents revealed that Combs is in the process of selling his private plane. He also recently listed his Los Angeles home, in the Holmby Hills neighborhood, that was raided in March.
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