Sean Combs Arrested After Grand Jury Indictment

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Sean Combs Arrested After Grand Jury Indictment

Sean “Diddy” Combs on May 15, 2022 – Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

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was arrested in Manhattan on Monday after a grand jury indicted the hip-hop mogul. The arrest follows Homeland Security’s raids on the Bad Boy founder’s homes in late March, seemingly triggered by a wave of ******* ****** lawsuits against him.

Combs’ arrest comes nearly a year after his former girlfriend, the R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed an explosive **** trafficking and ****** lawsuit against Combs in November. (He reached a private settlement with Ventura one day after it was filed.) Eight more women and one man have since come forward to sue Combs, with allegations ranging from **** trafficking to ******* ********.

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The investigation is being led by the Southern District of New York, and in early July,

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a grand jury was hearing evidence in relation to the **** trafficking and racketeering investigation. Federal agents ********* a search warrant on Combs’ homes on March 25, swarming his Los Angeles and Miami properties,

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after officials pulled up on him at Miami-Opa Locka airport. The hip-hop executive’s attorney Aaron Dyer called the raids a “****** overuse of military-level force” and a “witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”

“We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children, and working to uplift the ****** community. He is an imperfect person but he Is not a *********,” Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo tells Rolling Stone in a statement. “To his credit, Mr. Combs has been nothing but cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges. Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court.”

In May, Rolling Stone published its six-month investigation into the mogul, uncovering a previously unreported allegation of ********* against a woman on the Howard campus, new details of alleged physical aggression, and claims that Combs ********* harassed a freelance employee at a 2001 party. Several people who spoke to Rolling Stone described Combs as a serial predator who used his fame, fortune, industry status, and reputation as a fun-loving party host to hide a volatile temper and disturbing, narcissistic behavior for decades.

Combs’ fall from grace began with Ventura’s lawsuit, where she claimed that Combs routinely physically attacked her and forced her to have *****-fueled ************ with male **** workers during arrangements he dubbed “freak offs” throughout their 10-year relationship. She also detailed a 2016 physical ******** at a Los Angeles hotel after a freak-off, which was later confirmed by unearthed

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that shows Combs chasing after a fleeing Ventura. He is seen throwing her to the ground, kicking and stomping on her before he attempts to drag her away, later throwing a glass vase at her direction. Although Combs’ attorney previously called Ventura’s 35-page lawsuit a shakedown “riddled with baseless and outrageous *****,” Combs issued an video apology after the video surfaced, saying he was at “rock bottom” and was “truly sorry” for his behavior in the disturbing footage. In response, Ventura’s lawyers called Combs’ mea culpa “pathetic.”

Following Ventura’s lawsuit — just as New York’s ****** Survivors Act was set to expire — two more women stepped forward on Thanksgiving Day with similarly disturbing claims against Combs. Joi Dickerson-Neal alleged Combs drugged and ********* assaulted her when she was a Syracuse University student in 1991. The woman claimed Combs filmed the incident and showed the video to others in an act described as “revenge *****.” Through a rep, Combs denied the allegation. “This last-minute lawsuit is an example of how a well-intentioned law can be turned on its head. [This] 32-year-old story is made up and not credible … This is purely a money grab and nothing more,” the spokesperson said.

The second woman, Liza Gardner, claims she was 16 years old when Combs and

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following an Uptown Records event in 1990. She further claimed that a day later, Combs turned “irate and began assaulting and choking” her until she almost “passed out” because he was worried she might divulge what happened. “These are fabricated claims falsely alleging misconduct from over 30 years ago and filed at the last minute,” a Combs spokesperson said of Gardner’s lawsuit. “This is nothing but a money grab.”

In early December, a fourth accuser alleged Combs’ former Bad Boy President Harve Pierre and a third man gang ****** her at Combs’ New York recording studio in 2003 when she was 17 years old. In February, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones sued Combs for ******* ********, harassment, and not compensating him for work on the Grammy-nominated The Love Album. On May 21, model Crystal McKinney became the sixth person to sue Combs within a span of six months. She claimed Combs drugged her and forced her to perform ***** **** on him at his New York recording studio in 2003. In early July, former ********’s Club dancer Adria English claims that Combs **** trafficked her at his legendary “white parties” when she was allegedly expected to engage in ******* activities with guests.

And the week before Combs’ arrest, former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard sued Combs, corroborating Ventura’s claims of physical ******, alleging that Combs had repeatedly groped her and ********* harassed her, as well as threatened her life.

Combs has denied any wrongdoing in each case. Still, he stepped down from the chairmanship of his Revolt TV media company and sold his stake in the company, as more than a dozen companies fled his e-commerce platform. In January, ******* giant Diageo cut him loose in a private settlement under which Combs will no longer be a ****** owner of the tequila brand DeLeón or have any ties to Cîroc vodka.

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