On Monday night, music mogul Sean “P Diddy” Combs was arrested on the Park Hyatt resort in New York, as reported by The Gateway Pundit. This morning, that indictment was unsealed within the Southern District of New York.
Combs faces three expenses: racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud, or coercion, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Assistant US Lawyer Emily Johnson argued earlier than Justice of the Peace Choose Robyn F. Tarnofsky that the three crimes carry a most sentence of life in jail, or loss of life. Combs plead not responsible.
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In line with protection from Inner City Press of at this time’s listening to, AUSA Johnson argued that Pre-Trial Providers deemed Combs must be detained after an interview with the defendant. She claimed Combs arrange “freak-offs,” forcing intercourse and masturbation of its contributors. The occasions have been often filmed.
AUSA Johnson cited an occasion in March 2015 on the Intercontinental Resort in Los Angeles. Throughout an altercation, a safety guard was serving to a sufferer go away one of many “freak-offs” when she was allegedly assaulted by Combs. Combs then tried to bribe the guard with a “handful of money.” The guard refused.
Video from the resort “disappeared” on the time and Combs denied the incident. Then, in November 2023, the video resurfaced and, at the moment, Combs admitted to being concerned within the assault.
Combs can also be alleged to have tried to contact witnesses who obtained grand jury subpoenas. One witness claims she was contacted 54 instances in in the future by Combs and “intermediaries.”
Because of the accusations, the sources obtainable to Combs, and the witness’s worry of retaliation, Combs was denied bail, regardless of proposing a $50 million bond, and can stay within the NYC Metropolitan Correctional Middle, the identical Manhattan jail that housed Jeffrey Epstein 5 years in the past. Although not but on the docket, Combs has reportedly appealed the bail determination and may have a listening to tomorrow afternoon, in line with Matthew Russell of Inner City Press.
The indictment alleges that Combs “abused, threatened, and coerced girls and others round him to satisfy his sexual wishes, shield his repute, and conceal his conduct.” He’s accused of manipulating girls into performing “extremely orchestrated performances of sexual exercise” with male business intercourse employees and orchestrating their flights to his areas for such acts. He maintained the concealment of his operations by controlling the careers of his victims, leveraging monetary assist for them and finally utilizing intimidation and violence.
In a single instance, believed to be referenced above, Combs “kicked, dragged, and threw a vase” at a lady as she was making an attempt to go away. When resort safety tried to intervene, he tried unsuccessfully to bribe them.
There’s potential for co-conspirators to be named as properly. The indictment alleges that “members and associates of the Combs Enterprise” helped facilitate the “freak-offs.” This included “high-ranking” supervisors, safety, family workers, private assistants and different workers. They have been tasked with reserving resorts and stocking the rooms with “managed substances, child oil, lubricant, additional linens, and lighting.” Additionally they have been tasked with orchestrating the journey of each Combs and the business intercourse employees.
The indictment alleges that managed substances have been used, amongst different techniques, to maintain his victims “compliant.” Members and associates of his enterprise allegedly saved victims hid in hiding, generally for a number of days, whereas they healed from any proof of bodily violence. If a member spoke out, Combs and his workers would threaten them with “acts of violence” which included kidnapping and arson.
You may learn the total indictment here.
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Combs has beforehand confronted a number of lawsuits, together with one reported by The Gateway Pundit that was introduced by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones. The lawsuit alleged quite a few sexual acts and events, selecting up girls from a strip membership in Miami, and named different celebrities, together with Cuba Gooding Jr., within the submitting. Jones additionally alleged that Combs and his son have been concerned within the cowl up of a capturing incident in a recording studio lavatory in September 2022.
Jones’ lawsuit alleges Combs was additionally “chargeable for the capturing within the nightclub in New York with rapper Shyne” and that his then-girlfriend, J-Lo (Jennifer Lopez) “carried the gun into the membership for him and handed him the gun after he received into an altercation with one other particular person.”
The above-mentioned indictment doesn’t reference these occasions.
