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Sean "Diddy" Combs Arrested successful New York
Content warning: this nonfiction details alleged unit arsenic good arsenic carnal and intersexual abuse.
Further details are emerging astir the charges against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Mere hours aft he was arrested successful New York, a national indictment was unsealed and obtained by NBC News Sept. 17, accusing Combs of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
The documents alleged that the euphony mogul organized “Freak Offs,” oregon “elaborate enactment performances” during which pistillate victims were compelled done “force, threats of force, and coercion, to origin victims to prosecute successful extended enactment acts with antheral commercialized enactment workers.” Per the indictment, among supplies seized by authorities from Diddy’s homes earlier this twelvemonth were 1,000 bottles of babe oil.
Combs is besides accused successful the documents of arranging, directing, masturbating during and often “electronically recording” the Freak Offs, and of transporting commercialized enactment workers “across authorities lines and internationally.”
The alleged Freak Offs, per the indictment, occurred regularly and often lasted aggregate days and progressive aggregate enactment workers.
“During Freak Offs, Combs distributed a assortment of controlled substances to victims, successful portion to support the victims obedient and compliant,” the indictment reads, adding the victims and Combs himself often received IV fluids to retrieve from the exertion and cause use. “Sometimes unbeknownst to the victims, Combs kept videos helium filmed of victims engaging successful enactment acts with commercialized enactment workers.”
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The rapper’s associates—referred to successful the indictment arsenic the “Combs Enterprise,” including supervisors, information and household staff, assistants and different employees—are accused of facilitating Freak Offs by booking edifice rooms and stocking them with indispensable supplies, cleaning the rooms, arranging travel, giving Combs currency to wage the enactment workers and scheduling the IV fluids.
“In oregon astir March 2024,” the indictment notes, “during searches of Combs' residences successful Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California, instrumentality enforcement seized assorted Freak Off supplies, including narcotics and much than 1,000 bottles of babe lipid and lubricant.”
The indictment besides details however the 54-year-old allegedly coerced his pistillate victims into engaging successful the Freak Offs, including “physical, emotional, and verbal abuse.”
As the indictment reads, “Combs maintained power implicit his victims through, among different things, carnal violence, promises of vocation opportunities, granting and threatening to withhold fiscal support, and by different coercive means, including tracking their whereabouts, dictating the victims' appearance, monitoring their aesculapian records, controlling their housing, and supplying them with controlled substances.”
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The indictment claims victims besides often suffered injuries from Combs during these Freak Offs that “took days oregon weeks to heal.”
According to the documents, determination were a fig of individuals who witnessed these alleged abuses, nevertheless “Combs and members and associates of the Enterprise engaged successful acts of violence, threats of violence, threats of fiscal and reputational harm, and verbal abuse” against these individuals erstwhile Combs’ authorization oregon estimation were threatened.
The alleged acts of unit reportedly progressive “kidnapping and arson.”
Combs, who has not yet addressed the latest details successful the lawsuit against him, arrived successful New York Sept. 17 to look charges.
His attorney Marc Agnifilo told reports extracurricular court, via NBC News, “"He came to New York to fundamentally prosecute the tribunal strategy and commencement the case, and it volition commencement contiguous and he’s going to plead not guilty. He’s going to combat this with each of his vigor and each of his mightiness and the afloat assurance of his lawyers."
After Combs was taken into custody Sept. 16, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams shared with NBC News that national agents arrested him based connected a then-sealed indictment.
As Diddy's ineligible squad stated astatine the time, helium "voluntarily relocated to New York past week successful anticipation of these charges."
"Please reserve your judgement until you person each the facts," lawyer Agnifilo said Sept. 16. "These are the acts of an guiltless antheral with thing to hide, and helium looks guardant to clearing his sanction successful court.”
For much connected the lawsuit against Combs, support reading.
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