True Crime Society – The Fall of Diddy

Sean Combs aka Diddy was arrested in September 2024 on fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking by power, and transportation for functions of prostitution.

 We’re going to run by means of his background and talk about the crimes that he has been charged with.  This isn’t going to be a full biography of his life, we try to deal with crucial elements which have led to him being the place he’s at the moment.

Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969.  He was born in Harlem, New York and was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. 

His mom is Janice Combs, maiden title Smalls and his father was Melvin Earl Combs.  Melvine served within the US Airforce and Janice labored as a mannequin and instructor’s assistant.

Sean has a sister, Keisha.  

When Sean was two years previous, Melvin was shot lifeless whereas sitting in his automotive on Central Park West in NYC.  It’s believed that Melvin was murdered throughout a drug transaction after he was misidentified as an informant.  Melvin had been associating with drug-trafficker Frank Lucas on the time. Frank Lucas would later encourage the movie ‘American Gangster.’ 

Keisha and Sean could be raised by Janice as a single mom and it was stated they lived in poverty.  

Sean spoke in an article with Advanced about his childhood.

“I inform this story. Folks assume it’s a joke. I grew up in Harlem. My aunt would babysit me and I might get babysat in Patterson tasks. At some point we wakened and there was so many roaches on my face and I used to be like no I’m not going to try this. I’m going to get out of right here. I’m going to be someone. I’m going to personal one thing and be capable of maintain my household. I don’t wish to reside in these circumstances no extra.”

Sean was raised Catholic.  He attended Mount Saint Michael Academy which was an all-boys Catholic college and he graduated from there in 1987.  He went on to review enterprise at Howard College however left after his second 12 months.

Sean has stated that he was given the nickname ‘Puff’ as a toddler as a result of he would ‘huff and puff’ when he was offended.    That is related as a result of for some time, Sean was referred to as Puff.  Different names he has passed by embody Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Love, Brother Love.

Sean received into the music trade in 1990.  He started working as an intern at Uptown Data in New York.  The label had been based by Andre Harrell.  He was promoted to Expertise Director at Uptown and he helped to develop Mary J Blige and Jodeci.

Sean had a repute for throwing large events, typically with as much as a thousand individuals attending.  

Usher lived with Sean for a 12 months in NYC when he was 13 (eek) and he has since stated that Sean’s life-style was ‘fairly wild.’ 

One occasion to notice is that Sean promoted a fundraiser for AIDS which was held in 1991 on the Metropolis School of New York’s gymnasium.  The occasion was oversold and a stampede occurred.  9 individuals died in consequence.

Sean received fired from Uptown in 1993.  In an interview with Oprah, he spoke in regards to the reasoning for that “I used to be very passionate, and I didn’t perceive protocol or office politics. So I received fired as a result of there can’t be two kings in a single citadel. I wasn’t making an attempt to be disrespectful to Andre, however I used to be preventing so laborious. He needed to be extra diplomatic and to ensure all people felt concerned. Getting fired was probably the greatest issues that might have occurred to me.”

After he was fired, he established his personal label, Unhealthy Boy Data.   The label turned a three way partnership with Arista Data.  Sean took Christopher Wallace aka Infamous B.I.G with him to  the brand new label from Uptown.  

Different acts that might be related to the label through the years embody Usher, Mary J Blige, Lil’Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Males and Aretha Franklin.  

Sean launched his first industrial vocal rap work in 1996, beneath the title Puff Daddy.  His debut single, “Can’t No one Maintain Me Down”, spent 28 weeks on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, peaking at primary.

Sean had a profitable music profession – his tune ‘I’ll Be Lacking You’ was the primary rap tune to debut at primary on the Billboard Scorching 100.  Over time, Sean gained three Grammy Awards.  

In 2001, Sean modified his stage title from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy.  He additionally started appearing round this time – he appeared as a drug vendor within the movie ‘Made’ and he additionally starred in ‘Monster’s Ball’ with Halle Berry, Heath Ledger and Billy Bob Thornton. 

In 2002, Sean was listed by Fortune Journal at quantity 12 of their high 40 entrepreneurs beneath 40.  

He modified his title once more in 2005, to Diddy.  

On November 5, 2017, Sean introduced that he could be going by the title Love, stating, “My new title is Love, aka Brother Love.” Two days later, he informed the press he had been joking, however on January 3, 2018, he introduced on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! that he had modified his thoughts once more, and that he could be utilizing the brand new title in spite of everything. 

In 2017, Forbes estimated that Sean had earned $130m within the prior 12 months which ranked him at primary amongst entertainers.

Leaping forward barely, by 2022, his internet price was estimated to be US $1 billion.

Except for music and appearing, Sean additionally dabbled in trend.  He began his personal clothes line in 1998, referred to as Sean John.  He additionally created a males’s fragrance line referred to as ‘I Am King’.  He bought the Enyce clothes line from Liz Claiborne for $20m in 2008.

Sean additionally owned eating places at one level.  He additionally labored to develop Ciroc vodka and was given a 50% share of earnings.  In June 2023, after Ciroc was acquired by Diageo, they ended their partnership with Sean for “refusing to acknowledge or honor his commitments”.

Sean labored with Mark Wahlberg in 2015 to buy a majority holding in Aquahydrate which is a drink for athletes.

Sean additionally has a significant stake in Revolt TV – a television community with a movie manufacturing department. 

In 2019, he invested in PlayVS which supplies infrastructure for aggressive gaming in US excessive faculties.  

When it comes to Sean’s household life, he’s father to seven kids with 4 totally different ladies.  His first organic son, Justin Dior Combs, was born in 1993 to dressmaker Misa Hylton.

Sean had an on-again, off-again relationship with Kimberly Porter from 1994-2007.  He adopted her son Quincy throughout this time.  Quincy was born in 1991.

Sean and Kimberly had three kids collectively – Christian who was born in 1998, and twin daughters,  D’Lila Star and Jessie James Combs who had been born in 2006. 

Kim died from pneumonia in November 2018.  

5 months earlier than the twins had been born, Sean had a child with a lady named Sarah Chapman.  Their daughter is known as Probability.  Sean took obligation for Probability in October 2007.

From 2007-2018, Sean was in a relationship with Cassie Ventura.  They’d no kids collectively.

Sean’s seventh little one, a daughter named Love Sean Combs was born in December 2022.  Her mom is Dana Tran.  

We are going to now talk about Sean’s authorized points.

In 1997, Sean was sued for landlord neglect.  He denied the fees.

In April 1999, Sean and two others broke into the workplace of Nas’ former supervisor Steve Stoute, and attacked him.  Sean was sued by Steve and so they settled out of court docket.  Sean paid him $500k.  Sean pleaded responsible to harassment and needed to full a one-day anger administration class.

In December 1999, Sean and JLo (who he was courting on the time) had been at Membership New York in Manhattan with rapper Shyne when gunfire broke out.  The pictures had been allegedly fired after an argument between Sean and one other patron.  Sean and Shyne had been arrested for weapons violations and different fees.  The case went to trial and Sean was discovered not responsible on all fees.  Shyne was convicted on 5 fees and was sentenced to 10 years in jail.  JLo and Sean broke up shortly after this occasion  – they’d dated for round two years.

Sean was arrested in 2001 in Florida for driving with a suspended licence.  

In 2003, it was alleged that the factories producing the Sean John clothes model had been violating Honduran labor legal guidelines.  It was stated that employees had been being searched illegally and had been subjected to involuntary pregnant exams.  Lavatory entry was tightly managed and the amenities had been locked so that individuals needed to request entry.  Staff had been pressured to do additional time and had been paid a pittance.  Sean launched an in depth investigation and stated ‘I’m as pro-workers as they get.’ Because of the investigation, air-con and water purification methods had been put in within the factories, supervisors had been fired and the staff had been allowed to type a labor union.  

In 2005, Michigan tv character Rogelio Mills filed an assault cost towards Sean.  The difficulty was resolved in Sean’s favor.

In 2005, British DJ Richard Dearlove sought an injunction towards Sean over using the title Diddy.  Richard had been utilizing the title since 1992, 9 years earlier than Sean began utilizing it.  Richard accepted an out of court docket settlement and Sean can’t use the title Diddy within the UK – he’s recognized there as P. Diddy.

In 2007, Sean was sued by Gerard Rechnitzer after it was claimed that he was punched exterior a Hollywood nightclub.  Sean settled the lawsuit for undisclosed phrases in 2008.  

In 2009, the Los Angeles Instances made claims that the Infamous B.I.G and Sean orchestrated the theft and homicide of Tupac in 1994.  They later retracted the story, saying paperwork they’d shared had been fabricated.  

In 2015, Sean was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after he had a combat together with his son’s soccer coach.  The costs had been dropped attributable to a scarcity of proof.  

In 2017, Cindy Rueda, a former worker of Sean’s, filed a lawsuit which claimed sexual harassment and retaliation.  The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed quantity in February 2019. 

In 2021, Sean filed a $60m lawsuit towards the brand new house owners of Sean John.  He stated the corporate had used his picture with out permission and that they’d made up quotes that weren’t from him.

Sean filed a racial discrimination swimsuit towards Diageo in 2023.  He withdrew the lawsuit with prejudice in 2024.  

Cassie Ventura, Sean’s ex, filed a lawsuit towards him on November 16, 2023.  She accused him of rape, intercourse trafficking and bodily abuse.  This lawsuit additionally alleged that Sean had blown up the automotive of Child Cudi in 2012, who was Cassie’s then accomplice.  Cassie alleged she had “endured over a decade of his violent conduct and disturbed calls for,” together with repeated beatings and forcing her to “interact in intercourse acts with male intercourse employees.

In keeping with the grievance, after she tried to separate herself from him in 2018, Sean allegedly “pressured her into her dwelling and raped her whereas she repeatedly stated ‘no’ and tried to push him away.”

Cassie claimed that she suffered “episodes of horrific abuse” throughout their relationship, together with occasions when he would allegedly fly into an “uncontrollable rage” and “beat Ms. Ventura savagely.”

Sean and Cassie reached a settlement the day after she filed the lawsuit, and it was dismissed.  “I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some degree of management,” Cassie stated in a press release issued by her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor. “I wish to thank my household, followers and attorneys for his or her unwavering assist.”

Douglas Wigdor additionally claimed that Sean supplied Cassie “eight figures” to stop her from submitting the lawsuit, which she rejected.

Sean responded with a press release: “We now have determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the most effective. Love.”

Two additional lawsuits had been filed towards Sean in November 2023.  These had been made by two complainants who alleged sexual assault and revenge porn.  One of many lawsuits claimed that Sean and singer Aaron Corridor had sexually abused a lady within the early 1990’s.  Sean is alleged to have recorded the assault.  

This information in regards to the assault is from the Unbiased:

The swimsuit alleges that Combs and Corridor invited the ladies to Corridor’s residence for an afterparty the place the plaintiff “was supplied extra drinks and was coerced into having intercourse with Combs,” and was “shocked and traumatized” afterwards, earlier than “Corridor barged into the room, pinned her down and compelled Jane Doe to have intercourse with him.”

In November 2023, Sean stepped down as Revolt’s Chairman.  

“Whereas Mr. Combs has beforehand no operational or day-to-day position within the enterprise, this resolution helps be certain that Revolt stays steadfastly centered on our mission to create significant content material for the tradition and amplify the voices of all Black individuals all through this nation and the African diaspora,” a press release from the corporate stated. “Our focus has at all times been one which displays our dedication to the collective journey of Revolt — one that isn’t pushed by the person, however by the shared efforts and values of our whole group on behalf of advancing, elevating, and championing our tradition and that continues.”

In December 2023, a Jane Doe alleged that she was ‘intercourse trafficked’ and ‘gang raped’by Sean.  This alleged incident is claimed to have occurred in 2003 when the particular person was 17 years previous.  

Sean launched a press release right now.

“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” he wrote. “For the final couple of weeks, I’ve sat silently and watched individuals attempt to assassinate my character, destroy my repute and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made towards me by people on the lookout for a fast payday. Let me be completely clear: I didn’t do any of the terrible issues being alleged. I’ll combat for my title, my household and for the reality.”

Hulu had plans to make a actuality present round Sean’s life.  It was going to be referred to as ‘Diddy+7’.   The challenge was scrapped by the manufacturing firm in December 2023.  

In February 2024, music producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed a lawsuit towards Sean and his son Justin.  The lawsuit alleged they engaged in a “huge” cover-up of their involvement within the taking pictures of a 30-year-old man at a “writers and producers camp” that was held at Combs’s Chalice Recording Studio in Los Angeles in September 2022.

This information in regards to the incident is from NBC:

The unique grievance consists of Jones’ account that he heard a number of gunshots after a “heated dialog” in a close-by lavatory. When the toilet door opened, Combs and his son walked out and Jones discovered G “mendacity on the restroom ground in a fetal place, holding his abdomen and bleeding out of his leg/hip space,” the lawsuit stated.

Lil Rod has stated that Sean sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him from September 2022 to November 2023.  

The swimsuit additionally alleges that Sean is a part of a “RICO enterprise” and that he and others are concerned in a “intercourse trafficking enterprise.” A RICO enterprise is one through which individuals or teams act collectively to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which is supposed to focus on organized crime.

 Lil Rod has accused a person named Brendan Paul of being Sean’s ‘drug mule’ in court docket paperwork.  Brendan was arrested in March 2024 on fees of cocaine and managed substance possession.  

On March 25, 2024, Sean’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami had been raided by federal brokers.  

The Homeland Safety raids had been reportedly executed “in connection” with an ongoing federal intercourse trafficking investigation, in keeping with CNN. 

“Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) New York executed legislation enforcement actions as a part of an ongoing investigation, with help from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our native legislation enforcement companions. We are going to present additional data because it turns into out there,” the Division of Homeland Safety stated in a press release.

Sean’s lawyer Aaron Dyer spoke out after the raids in regards to the ‘gross overuse of military-level power.’ He stated that there was a ‘witch hunt’ towards Sean.  

“There was a gross overuse of military-level power as search warrants had been executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Dyer informed Billboard in a press release. “There is no such thing as a excuse for the extreme present of power and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way in which his kids and staff had been handled. Mr. Combs was by no means detained however spoke to and cooperated with authorities.”

The lawyer stated that Sean and his household had not been arrested and had been allowed to journey how they please, even after the raids.

“This unprecedented ambush — paired with a sophisticated, coordinated media presence — results in a untimely rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing greater than a witch hunt primarily based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” he continued. “There was no discovering of legal or civil legal responsibility with any of those allegations. Mr. Combs is harmless and can proceed to combat each single day to clear his title.”

In Might 2024, CNN launched footage of Sean bodily assaulting Cassie on the InterContinental Lodge in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles in March 2016.  

Two days after the footage was made public, Sean issued public apologies on Instagram and Fb.

The workplace of Los Angeles County District Legal professional George Gascón launched a press release explaining why the lodge video, although “disturbing,” wouldn’t immediately result in Sean being prosecuted.

“We discover the photographs extraordinarily disturbing and troublesome to observe,” it learn. “If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, sadly we’d be unable to cost because the conduct would have occurred past the timeline the place against the law of assault will be prosecuted.”

On Might 10, 2024, Sean requested a choose to dismiss the Jane Doe rape declare that we talked about earlier.  

“Mr. Combs and his firms categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old story towards them, which has induced incalculable harm to their reputations and enterprise standing earlier than any proof has been introduced,” learn the submitting. “Plaintiff can’t allege what day or time of 12 months the alleged incident occurred, however miraculously remembers different salacious particulars, regardless of her alleged incapacitated situation.”

The submitting additionally requested that the case be “dismissed now, with prejudice” to stop anymore “reputational damage” and waste of judicial sources.

On Might 21, 2024, former mannequin Crystal McKinney accused Sean of sexual assault in a lawsuit.  She alleged that he had pressured her to carry out oral intercourse on him within the lavatory of a recording studio in 2003.  

Crystal additionally claimed that she was given alcohol and marijuana that she later got here to consider was laced “with a narcotic or different intoxicating substance.” After the alleged assault was over, she says she “woke up in shock” to search out herself in a taxi leaving the scene.

Additionally named as defendants within the lawsuit are Combs’ label Unhealthy Boy Data, its dad or mum firm Common Music Group and Combs’ clothes firm Sean John Clothes, all of which McKinney claims “enabled” the alleged assault by “actively sustaining and using Combs ready of energy” even supposing they allegedly “knew or ought to have recognized that Combs posed a danger of sexual assault.”

A lady named April Lampros claimed days after Crystal’s lawsuit was filed that Sean had sexually assaulted her a number of occasions between 1995 and the early 2000s.  

After assembly her at a bar in New York, she “succumbed to stress” to drink alcohol after “delusional and violent outbursts”, in keeping with the federal grievance filed in New York Metropolis.

April claimed she started to really feel just like the “partitions had been closing in on her” after sipping her drink and Sean escorted her again to a lodge. The lawsuit alleged Sean pressured himself on April. “Ms Lampros was being raped by Mr Combs, and he or she quickly handed out,” it stated.

Sean allegedly then “love-bombed her” and his advances later “manifested into an aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship primarily based on intercourse”.

The lawsuit claimed Sean assaulted April a second time by bodily forcing her to carry out oral intercourse in a storage close to his residence in Manhattan. When April tried to get out of the state of affairs, he allegedly gave her “items and empty guarantees” earlier than turning “offended, threatening and forceful” and claiming he would destroy her profession.

In 1996, Sean sexually assaulted April for a 3rd time when he pressured her and his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter to take ecstasy and have intercourse collectively, the lawsuit alleged. Sean masturbated whereas he watched the ladies collectively earlier than assaulting April, in keeping with court docket paperwork.  

April stated she ended her relationship with Sean two years later.  Nevertheless, when she noticed him at an occasion on the Rockefeller Heart within the early 2000s he begged to see her once more and he or she allowed him to come back to her residence the place he kissed and touched her towards her will, the lawsuit alleged.

In 2023, April alleges an unidentified man approached her accomplice on the time and stated he had seen a sexual video of Sean and her from years earlier. April was knowledgeable “Mr Combs apparently recorded them having intercourse with out her figuring out and confirmed it to a number of individuals,” the submitting claimed.

A person named Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith filed a lawsuit and alleged that Sean drugged and sexually abused him at a celebration 30 years in the past.  

The lawsuit claims that Derrick and Sean met whereas he was working at a Detroit-area restaurant in 1997. Throughout an evening of consuming and weed-smoking, they reportedly had intercourse with a bunch of ladies, in keeping with the swimsuit. Derrick stated he felt a person’s hand, which he claims was Sean’s touching him.

The swimsuit additionally alleges that Sean served him a spiked drink that induced him to go out. When he wakened, Sean was having intercourse with a lady and allegedly stated to him, “I did this to you too.”

Sean’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, disputed the judgment and Derrick’s account.

“This man is a convicted felon and sexual predator, who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping during the last 26 years,” he stated.

Sean has moved to dismiss the swimsuit.

Derrick alleges that Sean visited him in jail and supplied him $2.3m to dismiss the lawsuit, and Derrick rejected the provide.  On September 9, 2024, Derrick was awarded a $100 million default judgement after Sean failed to look for a digital listening to.

A Lenawee County Circuit Court docket choose arrange a fee schedule of $10 million per thirty days for Sean, which was attributable to begin on October 1.

In September 2024, Sean was arrested and charged with racketeering, intercourse trafficking by power, and transportation for the needs of prostitution. He was arrested at 8.30am on Monday September 16, on the Park Hyatt New York on 57th Road in New York.

The US Legal professional’s Workplace launched this assertion:

Damian Williams, the US Legal professional for the Southern District of New York, and William S. Walker, the Performing Particular Agent in Cost of the New York Subject Workplace of Homeland Safety Investigations (“HSI”), introduced that SEAN COMBS, a/okay/a “Puff Daddy,” a/okay/a “P. Diddy,” a/okay/a “PD,” a/okay/a “Love,” was arrested final evening and charged in a 3 rely Indictment with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to interact in prostitution.  The Indictment unsealed at the moment alleges that between 2008 and the current, COMBS abused, threatened, and coerced ladies and others, and led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in intercourse trafficking, pressured labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, amongst different crimes.  COMBS is predicted to be introduced in Manhattan federal court docket this afternoon earlier than Justice of the Peace Decide Robyn F. Tarnofsky.

U.S. Legal professional Damian Williams stated: “As alleged within the Indictment, for years, Sean Combs used the enterprise empire he managed to sexually abuse and exploit ladies, in addition to to commit different acts of violence and obstruction of justice.  In the present day, he’s charged with racketeering and intercourse trafficking offenses.  You probably have been a sufferer of Combs’ alleged abuse – or if you understand something about his alleged crimes – we urge you to come back ahead.  This investigation is much from over.”

From a minimum of 2008 by means of the current, COMBS led a legal enterprise that existed to facilitate his abuse and exploitation of ladies, to guard his repute, and to hide his conduct.  As a part of that legal enterprise, COMBS, together with different members and associates of the enterprise, dedicated crimes together with intercourse trafficking, pressured labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice. 

Amongst different issues, COMBS’ sexual abuse of ladies included inflicting them to interact in frequent, days-long sexual exercise with male industrial intercourse employees, a few of whom had been transported over state strains.  These occasions, which COMBS known as “Freak Offs,” had been elaborate intercourse performances that COMBS organized, directed, and sometimes electronically recorded.  To make sure participation in Freak Offs, COMBS used violence and intimidation, and leveraged his energy over victims—energy he obtained by means of acquiring and distributing narcotics to them, exploiting his monetary assist to them and threatening to chop off the identical, and controlling their careers.  COMBS additionally threatened his victims, together with by threatening to show the embarrassing and delicate recordings he made from Freak Offs if the ladies didn’t comply together with his calls for.   

COMBS’ efforts to regulate ladies included repeated bodily abuse.  COMBS assaulted ladies by, amongst different issues, placing, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them.  COMBS equally assaulted witnesses to his abuse.  These assaults typically resulted in accidents to the victims, which took days or perhaps weeks to heal. 

To commit these crimes, COMBS relied on his energy because the chief of a multi-faceted enterprise empire.  Staff of COMBS’ companies—together with excessive rating supervisors, safety workers, private assistants, and family workers—acted as COMBS’ intermediaries to, amongst different issues, prepare journey and lodge rooms; inventory the lodge rooms for COMBS’ industrial intercourse exercise; contact or find ladies and different people whom he focused for abuse; and conceal and canopy up the abuse.  This legal concealment included efforts to stop legislation enforcement from studying about his abuse.

Sean’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo, issued a press release saying: “We’re dissatisfied with the choice to pursue what we consider is an unjust prosecution of Mr Combs by the US Legal professional’s Workplace.”

He added that Sean had traveled to New York within the week earlier than the arrest in anticipation of the fees being introduced. “He’s an imperfect particular person, however he’s not a legal,” Agnifilo stated.

INDICTMENT DOCS – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U3R93hgfBrU8xuB7AMQdBKprwdQ6gHAd/view?pli=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawF4BR5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbQXnPUMeQ-vLgRI2CaargTusuPhNzk2wvoX0oJ1uS-1ZR9aLVW5-SU7Lg_aem_gih57HpsvBwNNYQAWm077g

Sean utilized for bail and was denied.  His lawyer’s supplied up a $50m bail bundle.

This data is from Rolling Stone:

“Sean Combs has by no means evaded, prevented, eluded or run from a problem in his life. He won’t begin now,” Legal professional Agnifilo wrote within the letter. “As he has dealt with each hardship, he’ll meet this case head-on, he’ll work laborious to defend himself, and he’ll prevail.”  

As a part of the bail bundle, Combs already surrendered his passport to his attorneys in April, in keeping with the court docket paperwork, together with the passports of his daughters Probability, twins Jessie and D’Lila, and his toddler Love. The Unhealthy Boy Leisure founder’s mom Janice had additionally surrendered her passport to Combs’ authorized counsel.  Combs and his three grownup sons — Quincy, Justin and Christian — have supplied to co-sign the settlement.

The previous billionaire — whom Forbes now estimates has a internet price of $400 million — additionally famous that he paid the remainder of the $18 million mortgage remaining on his $48 million Miami compound off in August and has been making an attempt to promote his personal aircraft. “Simply this weekend, Mr. Combs entered right into a Letter of Intent with a celebration to promote it,” the court docket paperwork observe. “Mr. Combs understands he’s not to journey to Los Angeles, the place the aircraft had been situated this week, and additional that the aircraft is to not be delivered to any District through which he’s situated till it’s offered.”

He allegedly had an residence rental viewing on Monday evening however was unable to tour the area attributable to his arrest.     

He has additionally been cooperating with prosecutors’ subpoenas, the letter argues, saying Combs’ enterprise entities have “produced over 144,000 pages of paperwork to the SDNY in compliance with the subpoena. ”

There are such a lot of lawsuits towards Sean, it’s laborious to maintain observe.  On September 27, 2024, a tenth lawsuit by an nameless lady was filed.  This swimsuit alleged that Sean abused the girl for 4 years.  

In her swimsuit, “Jane Doe” says she greater than as soon as wakened in Combs’s mattress, badly injured, after blacking out the evening earlier than — with no reminiscence of what had occurred.

Doe says within the swimsuit that she met Combs within the fall of 2020 “at an abroad location.” He paid for her to journey there, and the 2 started seeing one another “often” after that, in keeping with the swimsuit.

They met up roughly as soon as a month, and Combs would typically drug her towards her will, then sexually abuse her, Doe claims, within the lawsuit.

“On one morning she wakened and her ft had been purple and bruised and he or she had a chew mark on her heel,” it says. “Jane Doe didn’t know the way she sustained the accidents.”

Doe later realized she had been unwittingly dosed with ketamine, in keeping with the lawsuit.

An October 2, 2024 article from Selection alleges that Sean shall be going through an extra 120 sexual assault lawsuits that shall be filed in New York, Los Angeles and Miami over the approaching weeks.

A press convention was held on that day in Houston, the place a bunch of attorneys revealed the large quantity of fits which can be pending submitting. “The largest secret within the leisure trade, that actually wasn’t a secret in any respect, has lastly been revealed to the world,” stated lawyer Tony Buzbee, in keeping with Washington Submit. “The wall of silence has now been damaged.”

The agency said that the victims are equally female and male, and that they ranged from the ages of 9 to 38 on the time of the incidents. In keeping with CNN, twenty-five victims had been minors on the time of the alleged acts, and some victims have spoken with the FBI. The assaults span 30 years courting again to the early Nineteen Nineties and up till this 12 months, with half of the victims submitting police stories or searching for medical consideration on the time of alleged assault. Nearly all of the victims state that they had been drugged, and that horse tranquilizer was present in a number of drug exams. Attorneys declare that they acquired greater than 3,000 responses after issuing a name to victims to come back ahead, which they vetted and whittled all the way down to 120 credible circumstances.

In a press release offered to Selection, Combs’ lawyer Erica Wolff stated, “As Mr. Combs’ authorized group has emphasised, he can’t tackle each meritless allegation in what has develop into a reckless media circus. That stated, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors. He appears to be like ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court docket, the place the reality shall be established primarily based on proof, not hypothesis.”

Sean is being held, awaiting trial, in federal custody on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, the place he has been positioned beneath suicide watch.

His cellmate is Sam Bankman-Fried, who’s serving a 25-year sentence.

Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried generally referred to as SBF, is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and associated crimes in November 2023. Bankman-Fried based the FTX cryptocurrency alternate and was celebrated as a “poster boy” for crypto, with FTX having a worldwide attain with greater than 130 worldwide associates. On the peak of his internet price, he was ranked the Forty first-richest American within the Forbes 400.

Throughout a court docket look on October 10, 2024, Decide Arun Subramanian set the trial begin date as Might 5, 2025.

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