Sean “Diddy” Combs Sitting in a federal prison in New York, awaiting trial on sex trafficking and other charges in a racketeering case that alleges that other, unnamed parties helped commit the crimes, the mogul’s sultry ” Alleged to be at “Freak Off” parties.
Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams, who once handed Combs the figurative keys to the city, is facing unrelated federal corruption charges in the East River.
Adams gave Combs, who rose to fame after founding Bad Boy Records in 1993, a golden opener around this time last year, declaring, “The bad boy of entertainment is getting key to the city From the bad boy of politics.”
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Sean “Diddy” Combs, left, receives the key to the city from Mayor Eric Adams in Times Square on September 15, 2023 in New York City. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)
No one else has been charged in Combs’ alleged sex trafficking operation. Apart from Adams, who was charged by the Justice Department on Thursday with corruption and campaign finance crimes, no other individuals mentioned here are under federal indictment.
But court documents allege that several people, including close business associates of Combs, were aware of his activities. Some of the lawsuits against him by name include allegations from fellow entertainment industry leaders such as former bad boy executive Harvey Pierre,
Harvey Pierre and Sean P. “Diddy” Combs during Sean P. “Diddy” Combs host the Bad Boy and Warner Bros. Music Partnership Party at Flow in New York City. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Still, according to legal experts, it is too early to say based on publicly available information who may be the target of federal investigators.
Russell Simmons, Steve Stoute, Jay-Z, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Andre Harrell. (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage for Bad Boy Entertainment)
Former federal prosecutor Nima Rahmani, who now runs a private practice, said, “Anyone who actually participated in sexual acts with Diddy should be shamed.” Los Angeles.
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Another lawsuit accuses the Oscar-winning actor cuba gooding jr Accused of sexually assaulting and groping a man at one of Combs’ parties on a yacht in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Sean “Diddy” Combs interviews U.S. Senate candidate and future President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004. The former president is not accused of any wrongdoing in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering case against Combs. (Rebecca Sapp/WireImage for Citizen Change)
Like Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficking financier who has his own private island, Combs, 54, is accused of luring victims with his luxury lifestyle and – in some cases – on a yacht chartered for trips to the USVI and St. Barthélemy. He has been accused of assault. ,
Rodney Jones alleges in his lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs that the photo shows him with Cuba Gooding Jr. on the yacht Combs rented in which the actor allegedly made unwanted advances. (Southern District of New York Court)
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(L-R) Prince William, Kanye West, Prince Harry and P Diddy pose for the media during a backstage party at Wembley Arena in north London on July 1, 2007. (Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images)
Court documents allege that he forced victims to have sex with male prostitutes in incidents that were so severe, participants and victims alike received IV treatments afterward.
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Harvey Weinstein attend the 2008 CFDA Fashion Awards at the New York Public Library on June 2, 2008 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)
Combs has had connections to entertainment A-listers over the years Ashton Kutcher, Jay-Z and political leaders including Leonardo DiCaprio, Adams and other Democratic leaders and business titans.
Actor Ashton Kutcher, Kim Porter, music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs and actor Leonardo DiCaprio attend the 2004 NBA All-Star Game at Staples Center on February 15, 2004 in Los Angeles. Neither Kutcher nor DiCaprio are accused of any wrongdoing in the recent federal indictment, which accuses Combs of trafficking women at drug-filled sex parties. (Vince Bucci/Getty Images)
Federal prosecutors have not accused any of them of wrongdoing in the investigation of Combs. But the question is who was attending his “freak off” parties and if it wasn’t just him who was participating in the abuse?
Moses “Shine” Barrow, a former Combs protégé who spent a decade in prison for a 1999 nightclub shooting in which Mogul was acquitted, became deported after serving his sentence and became a politician in his home country. became.
Actor John Cusack, center, and entertainer P Diddy, right, joined by U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (behind Cusack) during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Boston on July 29, 2004. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
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Barrow is now the leader of the opposition in the country’s House of Representatives. At a recent news briefing, she alleged that Combs threw her under the bus during the trial, music website NME reports.
Although he claimed that Combs “destroyed (his) life” after the shooting, he denied any knowledge of the infamous “Freak Off” parties where federal prosecutors say sex trafficking took place.
Jennifer Lopez and Sean “Puffy” Combs arrive for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on September 7, 2000. Lopez was once arrested in the shooting of Combs at a New York City nightclub, but the case against him was dropped. She is not accused of any wrongdoing in the recent federal sex trafficking case against her ex-husband. (George De Sota/Newsmakers via Getty Images)
“He got away with it a lot of times because of who he was,” Derrick Parker, a former member of the NYPD’s Rap Intelligence Unit who investigated the 1999 nightclub shooting, previously told Fox News Digital. “Now, a lot of things are coming back to him.”
Scene P Diddy Combs and LL Cool J during the sixth annual P Diddy White Party at the Star Room in Bridgehampton, NY He is not accused of wrongdoing in connection with Combs’ recent arrest. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
That investigation also led to the arrest of Combs’ girlfriend at the time, pop megastar Jennifer Lopez.
Prosecutors declined to charge him and he was released.
R. Kelly, a former singer turned convicted sex trafficker, and Sean “Diddy” Combs, now an accused sex trafficker, are pictured at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City in a file photo. (Theo Wargo/WireImage/File)
Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, said, “Other members of the RICO conspiracy are criminally liable for sex trafficking, even if they did not actually participate in the sexual acts.” “So, someone who bought a thousand bottles of baby oil or who gave IVs to victims after they were medicated could be charged as a co-conspirator.”
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He said prosecutors could pressure unnamed and unnamed co-conspirators to turn in charges against Combs or anyone else involved in the alleged crimes. And if they don’t turn up, they could face charges themselves.
For the current charges, Combs faces up to life in prison. He has pleaded innocent and is being held in custody without bail.
