Sean ‘Diddy ‘ Combs used guns, kidnapping and arson to intimidate victims: feds
Sean “Diddy” Combs carried guns “to intimidate and threaten” his victims and those who witnessed his depraved abuse, a sex-trafficking indictment against the hip-hop mogul alleged Tuesday.
The music producer, 54, is accused of brandishing the firearms while overseeing a cri🐬minal empire that allowed him to coerce and abuse a slew of women for more than a decade, according to the indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court.
When the feds raided his Miami and Los Angeles mansions roughly six months ago as part of the long-running probe, they seized three AR-15s with “defaced serial numbersꦿ”, as wཧell as other guns, ammunition and a drum magazine, the filing alleges.
Combs, who has been hit with sex trafficking and racketeering charges, also had his security staff carry weapons as he and his associates wielded his “power and prestige” to “intimidate, th👍reaten, and lure” women into his orbit, the court papers say.
Th♛e fallen rapper would then allegedly choke, hit and kick the women – causing injuries that could sometimes take🌞 weeks to heal.
Here's what we know about the allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs
- Combs was arrested at a New York hotel by Homeland Security agents on September 16.
- Prosecutors allege Combs participated in and “freak off” parties.
- Combs was denied bail and is on suicide watch as he awaits his sex trafficking trial in jail.
- Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security in March amid a possible ongoing .
- A video of Combs viciously assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel hallway was made public in May.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a woman on a date in 1991.
Combs’ staff sometimes witnessed his “viol🥃ence toward victims”, or saw their injuries but did nothing to intervene, the court papers say.
He and his associates – dubbed the☂ “Combs Enterpris🦩e” – would often try to stop victims from leaving his home or hotel rooms in the wake of the alleged attacks, prosecutors said.
They would force the women to remain in hiding for days ♛at a time to keep their injuries hidden from the public, accordi🔯ng to the indictment.
In the instances where the women did manage to leave, Combs would have his associ൩ates track them down, the complaint states.
They also attempted to bribe and pressure his victims into silence — or would feed them a “false narrative of events in order to conceal Combs’ crimes” — as threat of charges loomed, court papers say.
The charges come after Combs was hit with several lawsuits over the past year by victims who allege he subjected them to physical or seജxual abuse during the height of his fame as 🌌a producer in the 1990s and 2000s.
His former girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, was the first to publicly accuse him of a years-long pattern of domestic and sexual violence when she filed♋ a federal lawsuit against him last November that was later settled.
Combs, who was set to appear before a Manhattan federal co𒊎urt judge Tuesday, has long denied the ac💖cusations against him.
💯His lawyer said he would plead not guilty to the ch⛄arges.
