What to find out about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ indictment

Sean “Diddy” Combs, the disgraced hip-hop mogul, faces federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses in an indictment that was unsealed Tuesday. He was arrested Monday in New York after being indicted by a federal grand jury. The arrest and indictment come after a months-long intercourse trafficking investigation and 10 months after a flurry of girls got here ahead with allegations of sexual and different abuse.

Here’s a have a look at the important thing particulars of the three-count indictment.

The indictment covers express particulars of Combs allegedly assaulting a number of ladies since 2008. He’s accused of “verbal, emotional, bodily and sexual” abuse and that he “hit, kicked, threw objects at, and dragged victims, at instances, by their hair” in assaults that took “days or perhaps weeks to heal.”

In a big focus of the indictment, investigators mentioned Combs orchestrated sexual encounters between his victims and male intercourse staff that he known as “Freak Offs” — outlined within the indictment as “elaborate and produced intercourse performances that Combs organized, directed, masturbated throughout, and infrequently electronically recorded.”

In accordance with authorities, these encounters generally lasted for days and infrequently concerned a number of industrial intercourse staff, with Combs drugging the members to “maintain the victims obedient and compliant.” The raids of Combs’ Los Angeles and Miami houses resulted within the seizure of provides for the “Freak Offs,” together with medicine and greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant, prosecutors mentioned.

The indictment alleges that Combs and others he related to have been members of a felony group that engaged in a number of unlawful actions, together with intercourse trafficking, pressured labor, prostitution-related transportation and coercion, narcotics offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice. Combs is accused of main the felony operations, and the indictment says those that labored for him, together with safety workers, family workers, private assistants and “high-ranking supervisors” have been all part of the felony enterprise, both knowingly or unknowingly.

In accordance with prosecutors, the group surrounding Combs labored to protect and shield Combs’ energy by violent means, together with through the use of firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, bodily and sexual abuse.

Combs carried or brandished firearms to “intimidate or threaten others,” together with victims and witnesses of his assaults, in accordance with the indictment. Within the raids of his Los Angeles and Miami houses, legislation enforcement officers mentioned they discovered weapons and ammunition, together with three AR-15s with “defaced” serial numbers.

The indictment additionally accuses Combs of leveraging his victims’ wishes to construct careers within the music business through the use of his cash and affect to reap the benefits of them. Officers additionally mentioned Combs used recordings of the “Freak Offs” to maintain the victims from coming ahead. Combs additionally managed his victims’ housing, tracked their location, dictated their look, monitored their medical data and provided them with medicine, investigators mentioned.