Feds search Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ properties as a part of intercourse trafficking probe, AP sources say

NEW YORK — Two properties belonging to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in Los Angeles and Miami had been searched Monday by federal Homeland Safety Investigations brokers and different regulation enforcement as a part of an ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York, two regulation enforcement officers advised The Related Press.
It’s not clear whether or not Combs was the goal of the investigation. The officers weren’t licensed to publicly talk about particulars of the investigation and spoke to the AP on situation of anonymity.
In a press release, Homeland Safety Investigations stated it “executed regulation enforcement actions as a part of an ongoing investigation, with help from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our native regulation enforcement companions.”
A spokesperson for the U.S. lawyer’s workplace in Manhattan declined to remark.
Messages to Combs’ attorneys and different representatives searching for remark weren’t instantly returned.
There have been a number of sexual assault lawsuits filed in opposition to Combs in current months.
In February a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging Combs coerced him to solicit prostitutes and pressured him to have intercourse with them. Combs’ lawyer Shawn Holley has stated of these allegations that “we have now overwhelming, indeniable proof that his claims are full lies.”
Combs’ former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, sued him in November alleging years of sexual abuse, together with rape. The lawsuit stated he compelled her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he filmed them. The go well with was settled the day after it was filed.
One other of Combs’ accusers was a lady who stated the rap producer raped her 20 years in the past when she was 17.
The Related Press doesn’t sometimes title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly as Cassie did.
Combs had stated in a November assertion, “I didn’t do any of the terrible issues being alleged.”
Combs is among the many most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the previous three many years. Previously referred to as Puff Daddy, he constructed considered one of hip-hop’s largest empires, blazing a path with a number of entities connected to his well-known title. He’s the founding father of Dangerous Boy Information and a three-time Grammy winner who has labored with a slew of top-tier artists together with Infamous B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Religion Evans and 112.
Combs created the style clothes line Sean John, launched the Revolt TV channel with a concentrate on music, and produced the fact present “Making the Band” for MTV.