NEW YORK – New Details Emerge in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Sex-Trafficking and Racketeering Case
A superseding federal indictment filed Thursday in the sex-trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs has revealed new details of the music mogul’s alleged abuse and coercion of his victims over the course of two decades. According to the indictment, Combs subjected one victim to horrifying abuse, including an incident in which he dangled her from an apartment balcony.
The indictment also adds the names of two additional victims, whose identities remain sealed. Combs is accused of orchestrating the conspiracy, which alleges that he kidnapped, drugged, and trafficked his victims across state lines. He is accused of providing the victims with monetary payments, career opportunities, and payment of rent and housing expenses, and then threatening to take it away if they “resisted engaging in sex acts with Combs and, at times, with Combs and male commercial sex workers.”
Prosecutors say Combs threatened the women with guns and violence to intimidate them into violent sexual performances he videotaped. In March, federal raids at his Miami and Beverly Hills mansions uncovered more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and drugs, among other supplies, which were reportedly intended for use in orgies known as “freak offs.”
Combs has been behind bars in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since September, when he was arrested for the conspiracy. He has been denied bail three times and is currently set to head to trial in May.
