Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hit with new intercourse trafficking and prostitution prices

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with two new prison prices together with intercourse trafficking and interesting in prostitution, only a month earlier than he’s set to go on trial in New York.

The brand new accusations, made public on Friday in a Manhattan court docket, embrace allegations of more moderen prison offences and be aware {that a} second sufferer was concerned.

Prosecutors allege that Mr Combs recruited, transported and compelled the second sufferer to have interaction in intercourse acts and prostitution from 2021 to 2024.

The hip-hop mogul has denied all of the allegations towards him, together with these outlined in dozens of civil lawsuits filed. The BBC has contacted his attorneys for touch upon the newest prices.

A grand jury probe indicted Mr Combs final 12 months on prices of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. These two new prices deliver the overall federal prices towards him to 5.

The court docket doc doesn’t present specifics in regards to the new offences, however prosecutors allege that they stem from a grand jury investigation.

The authentic prices of intercourse trafficking and interesting in prostitution filed towards Mr Combs in 2024 tie the fees to allegations from 2009 to 2018 and relate to a distinct sufferer.

A good portion of probably the most extreme allegations towards the rapper relate to the racketeering conspiracy cost, which incorporates accusations of kidnapping, drugging, and coercing ladies into sexual actions, generally utilizing firearms or threats of violence.

The cost consists of particulars from a raid on his Los Angeles mansion, the place police discovered provides that they stated had been meant to be used in orgies generally known as “freak offs”, together with medicine and greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil.

Mr Combs was one of the profitable rappers and music moguls within the US, identified for serving to make folks stars.

Often called Puffy, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Love, or Brother Love over time, he emerged on the music scene within the Nineteen Nineties and shortly turned a family title.

Early in his profession, he helped launch the careers of Mary J Blige and Christopher Wallace – aka Biggie Smalls, or the Infamous B.I.G.

His music label Dangerous Boy Information quickly turned one of the essential labels in rap and expanded to incorporate Religion Evans, Ma$e, 112, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez.

His star energy led to a number of actuality reveals on MTV and VH1 the place he looked for the subsequent large musical expertise.

Since he was indicted, dozens of lawsuits have accused Mr Combs of utilizing that energy to drug, assault, rape, intimidate and silence folks.

At the moment, he’s being held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, New York. His prison trial is scheduled to start on 5 Might.