NEW YORK— Federal district attorneys on Friday included 2 costs to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ charge and stated they anticipate 4 accusers to indicate versus him, broadening on accusations that the incarcerated hip-hop magnate taken part in sex trafficking with numerous ladies and as lately as in 2015.
A superseding charge charges Combs of making use of pressure, scams or threat to oblige a lady to take part in business sex acts from a minimum of 2021 to 2024.
The charge, returned by a government grand court in Manhattan, likewise declares that Combs was associated with transferring the lady– determined just as “Victim-2”– and other individuals, consisting of business sex employees, to take part in hooking throughout the exact same duration.
The brand-new costs remain in enhancement to racketeering conspiracy theory and sex trafficking costs submitted versus Combs when he was apprehended in September. They raise the complete variety of costs versus him from 3 to 5.
In a court declaring, government district attorneys stated the racketeering conspiracy theory fee includes accusations that Brushes sex-trafficked 3 targets and compelled a 4th, among his workers, right into sex with him.
Combs, 55, refutes devoting any type of criminal offenses. He is arranged to stand test Might 5 and continues to be secured without bond at a government prison in Brooklyn.
” These are not brand-new accusations or brand-new accusers. These coincide people, previous lasting partners, that were associated with consensual connections,” Combs’ lawful group stated in a declaration. “This was their personal sex life, specified by permission, not threat.”
Friday’s superseding charge is the 3rd submitted versus Combs.
In the initial, in January, government district attorneys revealed that their instance included a minimum of 3 ladies whom they stated Combs compelled to take part in business sex acts. They likewise declared Combs revealed a weapon to a women target throughout a kidnapping and as soon as hung a lady over a house porch.
Combs’ January charge really did not consist of surcharges however changed some information of the existing ones, consisting of including 4 years to the supposed racketeering conspiracy theory. District attorneys currently state it begun in 2004, not 2008 as the initial charge had actually declared. A superseding charge in March had marginal adjustments.
Combs has actually begged blameless to the initial collection of costs, which declare that he persuaded and abused ladies for many years with aid from a network of affiliates and workers while silencing targets via blackmail and physical violence, consisting of kidnapping, arson and physical poundings.
His accusation on the brand-new costs has actually not been arranged. District attorneys asked Friday that it be held at his last pretrial meeting on April 25.
In their declaring Friday, district attorneys stated 3 of the 4 accusers that are anticipated to indicate have actually asked that their identifications not be disclosed to journalism or the general public which they rather be described by at test making use of just pseudonyms.
The accuser described as “Victim-1” in Combs’ billing records is prepared to indicate under her very own name, district attorneys stated in the declaring, which was greatly redacted.
Federal district attorneys declare the “I’ll Be Missing You” vocalist and Negative Kid Records creator utilized his “power and stature” as a songs celebrity to cause women targets right into drugged-up, elaborately generated sex-related efficiencies with male sex employees in occasions called “Fanatic Offs.”
Central to the instance is a March 2016 video clip revealing Combs striking and kicking his then-girlfriend, R&B vocalist Cassie, in a Los Angeles resort corridor. District attorneys compete the attack occurred throughout a “Fanatic Off.” Combs attorneys suggest the video footage was absolutely nothing greater than a “glance right into a complicated however decade-long consensual partnership” in between both.
Combs’ attorneys compete the instance ought to never ever have actually been brought and are combating to disregard a cost including accusations he transferred a male companion throughout state lines.
” The federal government has actually prepared a criminal instance based largely on accusations that Mr. Combs and 2 of his long time partners occasionally brought a 3rd party– a male companion– right into their sex-related partnership,” Combs attorney Alexandra A.E. Shapiro created in a February court declaring.
” Each of the 3 costs in the instance are predicated on the concept that this kind of sex is a government criminal activity,” Shapiro included.
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