Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused in a brand new legal indictment of trafficking a minimum of three girls in a 20-year-long sexual abuse scheme.
Prosecutors stated on Thursday that the rapper – also referred to as P Diddy and Puff Daddy – transported three feminine victims together with industrial intercourse staff throughout state strains and internationally.
One of many victims is Combs’ former girlfriend Casandra Ventura – also referred to as Cassie.
The newly filed New York indictment costs him with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. There are not any further costs within the new indictment.
Combs, 55, is ready to go on trial from 5 Might. He denies all costs and pleaded not responsible to the primary indictment – which referenced only one feminine sufferer – filed towards him final 12 months.
The mogul has been detained at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart since his arrest in September and was denied bail at $50m (£37.8m).
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Combs is alleged to have used his enterprise empire – together with his file label Unhealthy Boy Leisure – to sexually abuse girls.
As a part of the alleged abuse, girls have been made to participate in recorded sexual performances referred to as “freak offs” with male intercourse staff who have been generally transported throughout state strains.
Final 12 months, CNN broadcast a video of Combs kicking, shoving and dragging Cassie in a lodge hallway. He then apologised.
Marc Agnifilo, Combs’ lawyer, has stated the rapper by no means denied assaulting Cassie however stated that the video was not proof of intercourse trafficking.
The lawyer has additionally argued that the “freak offs” described by prosecutors have been consensual sexual exercise.
