The three count indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs charges that the hip hop mogul “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct” and did so “for decades.”
Among the methods used, the indictment details what it calls “Freak Offs”: “elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded.” Such events sometimes lasted for days, the indictment says, and Combs and the victims “typically received IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug use.”
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Combs was arrested late Monday night and appeared in a Manhattan federal court Tuesday morning, as CrimeOnline reported.
Under the racketeering conspiracy charge, Combs created “a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice,” the 14-page indictment reads in its first paragraph.
The indictment charges that Combs used his fame — and drugs, intimidation, and violence — to control the women he abused.
Physical abuse, the indictment says, “was recurrent and widely known.”
“On numerous occasions, Combs assaulted women by, among other things, striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them,” the document says, specifically referencing the 2016 video of Combs assaulting his then girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel hallway, although it does not use her name.
The indictment details what it calls “The Combs Enterprise,” a “criminal enterprise” that engaged in the activities listed in the indictment, which including “preserving, protecting, promoting, and enchanceing the power, repurtation, and brand of Sean Combs.”
Among the methods used to “intimidate, threaten, and lure” women into Combs’ orgit, the indictment discusses “Freak Offs.” Combs “threatened victims’ careers and livelihoods, including if they resisted participating in Freak Offs,” the document says. The records of the events were used “to ensure the continued obedience and silence of the victims.”
The second count, sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, says that Combs “recruited, enticed, oharbored, trasported, and maintained a person, and attempted, aided and aetted, and willfully caused Victim-1 to engage in commerceial sex acts, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that Victim-1 was engaging in commercial sex acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion.”
The third count charges Combs with transportation to engage in prostitution.
The indictment calls for a sweeping forfeiture of interests associated with the alleged criminal enterprise and says the federal government will pursue payment of any forfeitable property that cannot be located, has been transferred to a third party, or has been placed outside the court’s jurisdiction.
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[Featured image: FILE – In this May 30, 2018, file photo, Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of “The Four: Battle For Stardom” at the CBS Radford Studio Center in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)]
