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Producer and musician Sean “P. Diddy” Combs accepts the third annual HOOPS (Helping Out Our Public Schools) Award at the 2005 Net Gain basketball tournament at Basketball City, Pier 63, April 11, 2005 in New York City.
Sean “Diddy” Combs He held multiple “sex contests” in which women were forced to have sex with male sex workers, According to the accusation which accuses him of organized crime and other federal charges.
Combs was arrested on September 16, according to The New York Times. The U.S. government released the 14-page indictment against him on Sept. 17, charging Combs with three counts: conspiracy to commit racketeering; sex trafficking by fraud, force or coercion; and transportation for prostitution.
According to the indictment, “these were elaborate and produced sexual contests that Combs organized, directed, during which he masturbated and often electronically recorded.”
The indictment says Combs “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to satisfy his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct.”
At the heart of the allegations are the “freak offs” that authorities say Combs repeatedly hosted. Authorities accuse Combs of having “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and others,” including manipulating women “into participating in highly orchestrated performances of sexual activity with male commercial sex workers.”
During searches of Combs’ homes in Miami, Florida and Los Angeles in March 2024, law enforcement seized “various Freak Off supplies,” including narcotics “and over 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant,” the indictment says.
Combs “used force, threats of force, and coercion to cause the victims to engage in prolonged sexual acts with male commercial sex workers that Combs referred to, among other things, as ‘Freak Offs,’” the indictment says.
In a statement to the New York Times, Combs’ legal team denied any wrongdoing. “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, a self-taught entrepreneur, a loving family man and a proven philanthropist who has spent the past 30 years building an empire, doting on his children and working to uplift the black community. He is a flawed person, but he is not a criminal,” the statement read, according to the Times.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused of assaulting women and controlling them with drugs and threats, the indictment says
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In the indictment, the music mogul was accused of creating “a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”
He is accused of distributing narcotics to women and controlling their careers.
Since 2009 and over the years, Combs is accused of “assaulting women by, among other things, hitting them, punching them, dragging them, throwing objects at them and kicking them,” the indictment says. One instance was captured on video at a Los Angeles hotel, it says.
Combs and other members and associates of Combs Enterprise “wielded the power and prestige of Combs’ role in Combs Business to intimidate, threaten and lure female victims into Combs’ orbit, often under the guise of a romantic relationship, the indictment says.
The “hooks” occurred regularly, the indictment says.
Commercial sex workers were transported across state lines for the “freak offs,” which occurred regularly, “sometimes lasting several days and often involving multiple commercial sex workers,” the indictment says.
During the Freak Offs, Combs “would distribute a variety of controlled substances to the victims, in part to keep them compliant and complaining,” the indictment says. He would also keep videos of the Freak Offs and then give the victims intravenous fluids to help them recover,” the indictment says.
Members of Combs Enterprise facilitated the Freak Offs by stocking hotel rooms with “controlled substances, baby oil, lubricant, extra linens and lighting” and then cleaning the hotel rooms, the indictment says.
Combs maintained control “over his victims through, among other things, physical violence, promises of career opportunities, granting and threatening to withhold financial support, and other coercive means, including tracking their whereabouts, dictating the victims’ appearance, monitoring their medical records, controlling their homes, and controlling them with controlled substances.”
During and outside of Freak Offs, Combs “hit, kicked, threw objects at and dragged victims, sometimes by their hair,” the indictment says, adding that some victims took weeks to heal.
He is also accused of pressuring victims to remain silent through bribery attempts. The government is also seeking the forfeiture of Combs’ property used to facilitate the allegations, the indictment says.
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