Famous rapper, producer, founder of his own television network and three-time Grammy winner P. Diddy (Sean Combs) is behind bars on very serious charges. The musician is accused of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transporting people for prostitution. In the United States, you can receive life imprisonment for the first two offenses and up to 10 years in prison for the third. The indictment states that the rapper “used violence and threats, and also forced women and those around him to satisfy his sexual desires, protect his reputation and hide his actions.” And all this has been going on since at least 2008.
Combs was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in New York on September 16. The rapper’s attorney, Mark Anyifilo, said in a statement to the press that he was disappointed “that Mr. Combs was unfairly prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
“Diddy is not a perfect person, but he is not a criminal either.” in question defense representative
He added that the musician cooperated with the investigation and even voluntarily moved to New York a week before his arrest on the charges.
“Please do not rush to judgment until you have all the facts. “These facts concern an innocent man who has nothing to hide, and he looks forward to the opportunity to clear his name in court,” the lawyer concluded.
The hearing in Combs’ case will be held on October 9. His $50 million bail request was denied. Meanwhile, the content of the indictment has led the public to doubt that the name of an influential name in the music industry could easily be cleared and that he could ever be free again. The accusations stem from P Diddy’s parties, known as “Freak-offs” (slang for sexual intercourse). These won’t be easy to refute, according to the media, but Mark Anyifilo said outside the courtroom on September 17 that the rapper plans to “fight to the end.”
“He is innocent. He came to New York to confirm his innocence. “He’s not afraid, he’s not afraid of accusations.” in question lawyer.
Rapper P Diddy (Sean Combs)
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P Diddy and his “Freaks”
According to the 14-page indictment, P Diddy, 54, used his employees, resources and influence in the music industry to create “a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction.” ” justice.” The rapper involved women and male sex workers in sex parties called “Freak-offs” that were accompanied by heavy drug use.
The case file mentions 16 “Freak-Off” examples; these are described as carefully orchestrated orgies that Combs organized, directed, and videotaped, masturbating in the process.
According to prosecutors, participants in sex parties that lasted several days were pumped up with substances that made them submissive. Combs subjected them to physical and emotional abuse. If the rapper’s victims threatened to reveal details of his parties and tarnish his reputation, Combs himself or his aides resorted to kidnapping, arson, violence, and blackmail.
The text of the official charge was published without details, but the media managed to find out exactly what the police and the prosecutor’s office had learned.
The charge itself was formulated based on evidence found during a search of Combs’ Miami mansion in March 2024. There, law enforcement found sex toys, bondage equipment and hidden cameras. As he told the publication New York Post The house contained rooms entirely “dedicated to sex” and equipped with video cameras, said one of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents who participated in the search.
“If you were at this orgy, you were being filmed from every angle, including ones you didn’t even know about,” the source told the publication. He also compared Combs to Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of pedophilia and sex trafficking. “There [были] young girls. This is either on the verge of law or on the verge of illegality,” the agent noted.
According to him, while the girls were forced to have sex with male prostitutes, Combs could watch the process and masturbate either from another room or even remotely via video link. He fully provided for such “parties” – organized transportation and accommodation for the victims, the availability of lubricants, medicines, body oils and extra bed linen in the house. The Ministry of Security official emphasized that the girls did not participate in these activities of their own free will, and that some of them were completely unconscious while the men had sex with them.
At the same time, Combs withheld the videos to ensure the silence of those depicted.
P Diddy and harassment allegations
The rapper’s arrest was preceded by a series of accusations against him: assault, rape (including gang rape), beating. The latest accuser to date is a woman named Talia Graves. In the lawsuit filed Sept. 24, she said Combs and then-security guard Joseph Sherman raped her in the summer of 2001 at the rapper’s Bad Boy Records studio in New York.
Talia Graves at a press conference in Los Angeles, September 24, 2024
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According to Graves, P was 25 when she dated one of Diddy’s record label employees. Thanks to this, the rapper and the security guard managed to lure the girl to the studio, where she was given a drink that caused her to lose consciousness.
When he woke up he found himself tied up. Graves said the rape was recorded on video and the video was shown to others on multiple occasions. The woman recalled that when she woke up and screamed, Sherman “pressed her face against what looked like a pool table.”
The woman, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder for many years after the incident, thought about committing suicide. “I’m glad Diddy has been shut down, but this is a temporary relief” stated after the rapper’s arrest.
Rapper P Diddy and singer Cassie (Cassandra Ventura), 2016
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The first person to accuse Sean Combs of violence was his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie (real name Cassandra Ventura), who dated him from 2007 to 2018. She sued him in a New York court on November 16, 2023 – the statement stated that the rapper had abused her during their 10-year relationship and when she finally decided to break up with him, he broke into her home and raped her. The rapper categorically denied these accusations, and the next day the parties reached a pre-trial settlement.
But a new accusation soon followed, coming from a woman named Joy Dickerson-Neal. She claimed that the rapper drugged and raped her in 1991, when she was a student at Syracuse University. Then I showed the video to my friends. That accusation was also denied – Combs’ rep clarified that the woman’s story was allegedly untrue.
But another woman, Lisa Gardner, also said Combs raped her when she was 16. According to the rapper’s alleged victim, in 1990 or 1991 he and a friend met Combs and singer Aaron Hall at an MCA Records party in Manhattan. After the incident, she was invited to Hall’s apartment, where she was forced to have sex.
In December 2023, another woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, said she was raped by Combs and the then-president of the record company, Harvey Pierre, in 2003, when she was 17 years old. He said he met the men in Detroit, where they convinced them to board a private jet and fly to New York. There, Combs, Pierre, and another defendant drugged the girl and took turns raping her.
In response to all the accusations, the rapper, who now almost never leaves court, has constantly declared his innocence. In December 2023, he wrote on social media: “ENOUGH. Over the past few weeks I have sat and silently watched as people attacked me and destroyed my reputation and legacy. Heinous accusations have been made against me by people looking for easy money. Let me be clear: I did not do any of these terrible things that have been attributed to me. “I will fight for my name, for my family, and for the truth.”
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Source: Gazeta
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