Music mogul and rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is in jail.
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After years of alleged illegal activity, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested earlier this week on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The arrest comes after nearly a year of ongoing investigations, a raid on several of his homes, a demented video showing him physically assaulting his then-girlfriend — singer Cassie Ventura, and several lawsuits alleging sex abuse and rape.
According to Rolling Stone, Combs came up with an extensive bail package, including a $50 million bond; the passports of his daughters and mother; the equity of the home of his mother’s condo in Florida; an offer to sell his private jet, as well as home detention with GPS monitoring just to stay out of jail until he is brought to trial.
However, the judge twice denied him bail, claiming Combs was a flight risk and would likely attempt to intimidate witnesses if he were allowed to go free until trial.
The case against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is centered around a series of “freak offs” he staged over the years. According to court records, Combs allegedly lured women in under the pretense of a romantic relationship or music career advancement, then used “force, threats of force and coercion” to compel them to participate in unwanted sex. Women were forced to take cocaine, methamphetamine, and oxycodone in order to “get them in the mood” to do whatever he wanted them to do, the indictment claims. Combs would allegedly hire male prostitutes to join in “orgy” style, then serve as the director of the “freak offs” while he filmed them (often without the women’s knowledge or consent) for his own, private masturbation sessions.
A “freak off” could last continuously over a number of days, and then Combs’ team would distribute IV fluids for everyone to recover from the physical exertion and heavy drug use. As proof of these parties, authorities found “freak off supplies,” including drugs and over 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant inside Combs’ Miami and Los Angeles homes when they were raided in March 2024. They also have video proof of the participants being held captive and forced into sexual games.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is not only a performer but the founder of Bad Boy Records. He is responsible for the careers of the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, 112, and others. Forbes estimates he is worth $400 million.
Combs, 54, is currently being detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York — a rat and roach-infested facility where conditions are described as “horrific.”
If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum 15-year prison sentence for just the sex trafficking charge alone. He could also receive a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs could spend life in prison.
New York Times: Though graphic and startling in its details, the indictment of Sean Combs reflects a familiar playbook for federal prosecutions against high-profile men accused of a long-running history of abuse against women. The Combs indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday, resembles the prosecution strategy employed in two other major sexual abuse cases brought by federal investigators in recent years against Keith Raniere, the Nxivm sex cult leader, and R. Kelly, the R&B singer. Both of those men were convicted on some of the same sex trafficking and racketeering charges now facing Mr. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty. Racketeering charges are attractive to prosecutors pursuing powerful defendants because they are designed to present an “enterprise,” a complex web of individuals who helped the defendants carry out alleged crimes that can date back many years. In Mr. Combs’s case, for example, prosecutors have assembled their racketeering conspiracy charge by… Read more »