The latest news on Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ as he awaits trail on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
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Prosecutors will arraign Sean “Diddy” Combs” on Friday over accusations he subjected employees to forced labor and used physical and psychological threats to maintain control over them, which did not add any new charges but arrived two months before he stands trial on his sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges. (Here is a complete list of the allegations against Combs.)TimelineContra
Combs has denied all of the allegations against him, with his attorneys characterizing some of the lawsuits and their accusations to Forbes as money grabs, “baseless” or “sickening.” In a statement in October, Combs’ attorneys said they have “full confidence in the facts, their legal defenses and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone — adult or minor, man or woman.”Key Background
Combs was arrested on federal charges in September and, the next day, an indictment against him was unsealed. The document alleges Combs “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct,” and also accused him of using his business empire to engage in “sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.” Prosecutors allege Combs manipulated women into engaging in “extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers” in what the mogul described as “Freak Offs,” and that he and his associates drugged women to keep them “obedient and compliant.
