Federal investigators detained rapper and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York on Monday. Combs is recognized for having aided in the beginning of the careers of several of the biggest musicians in recent years.
(The Post News)- On Monday, federal authorities in New York detained rapper and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has been accused of rape, sexual abuse, and sex trafficking in many civil lawsuits for months.
Combs is recognized for having helped start the careers of several of the biggest performers in recent years.
Federal prosecutors say that Combs and his associates intimidated, assaulted, and forced women and others around him “to fulfill his sexual desires” in an indictment that was unsealed on Tuesday morning.
Part of the indictment claims that Combs and his associates forced victims to participate in recorded sexual activity that he called “Freak Outs.”
On September 9, the music mogul was also served with a $100 million default judgment over allegations of sexual assault against Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith from a 1997 party.
The award was given to Cardello-Smith by the judge of the Lenawee County Circuit Court. Cardello-Smith was an inmate who sued Combs, claiming the latter had drugged and sexually assaulted him at a party thirty years prior.
The 54-year-old Combs has strongly denied all allegations against him.His legal representatives have called the claims “sickening,” “baseless,” and money grabs.
On May 17, surveillance video taken at a Los Angeles hotel in March 2016 revealed Diddy pursuing Cassie Ventura, his then-girlfriend, down the hallway before assaulting her near the elevators. Then he makes an attempt to yank her toward his hotel room.
He sent an apologetic video to Instagram the next day, calling his acts “inexcusable” and claiming to have taken “full responsibility for his actions in the video.” Numerous accusations against Combs dates back to the period when he founded Bad Boy Records, his own label, in the 1990s.
R&B artist Cassie, whose given name is Casandra Ventura, filed a complaint in 2023 claiming that Combs had repeatedly raped, beat, and trafficked her over a ten-year period.
In her lawsuit, she claimed that shortly after their meeting, Combs signed the singer to his label in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37.She claimed that this led the singer into his “ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle.
Ventura alleged that the abuse began immediately when their relationship started, and in 2018, when she tried to end it, he broke into her home in Los Angeles where he sexually assaulted her.
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