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Federal district attorneys in the Southern District of New York have actually billed Sean Combs with racketeering, sex trafficking and transport to take part in hooking
Cassie Ventura has actually implicated Sean Combs of abusing her and pushing her right into undesirable sex acts called the ‘freak-offs’ throughout their 11-and-a-half-year partnership. (Photo: Bang Showbiz)
The opening up declarations were listened to in the test of American songs magnate Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, that is implicated of running an extensive sex trafficking procedure throughout 20 years.
The 55-year-old rap artist was apprehended last September on fees of racketeering, sex trafficking and transport to take part in hooking.
Combs has actually begged innocent to all fees, yet if he is condemned, he might invest the remainder of his life behind bars.
Who Is Sean Combs?
Combs, that is far better understood by labels like Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and Diddy, started his job in the very early 1990s as a hip-hop manufacturer and document tag exec.
Till the 2000s, throughout the prime time of Bad Boy Records, the tag he co-founded, Combs supported the jobs of musicians like The Notorious B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls), Faith Evans andMase
He can be called the driving pressure to bringing the hip-hop neighborhood with mainstream pop– and made himself the face ofBad Boy After Biggie was killed in 1997, Combs himself turned into one of Bad Boy’s greatest musicians, with hits like “I’ll Be Missing You” and “Been Around the World,” and remained to bring hip-hop right into the popular song graphes.
With possessions consisting of a clothes line (Sean John), television manufacturing (consisting of the MTV truth collection “Making the Band”), and a lucrative liquor deal (developing the vodka brand Ciroc with the liquor conglomerate Diageo), Combs retooled himself as an entertainment and lifestyle brand.
By 2022, Combs had reportedly amassed a fortune of some $1 billion.
In 2022 and 2023, he was given lifetime achievement honours at both the BET Awards and the VMAs. In November 2023, his new album was nominated for a Grammy. But less than a week later, Cassie Ventura filed a civil lawsuit against Combs alleging years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
What Are The Crimes Combs Has Been Accused Of Committing?
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Combs with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
In the current indictment, which was issued in April, the government alleges that between 2004 and 2024, Combs sexually trafficked three women, controlled them via physical and emotional abuse, paid them and others to keep quiet, and supplied alleged victims with a host of drugs to keep them compliant.
The indictment also said Combs elaborately planned, staged and often videotaped marathons of sex and drug use.
Besides, Combs is also facing dozens of civil lawsuits that followed one filed by his ex-girlfriend, the singer and model Cassie. In many of the lawsuits, the accusers say they were raped or sexually assaulted after being drugged at one of his lavish parties. Some alleged they were made to participate in one of the “freak offs”
Meanwhile, the various other founder of Bad Boy Records, Kirk Burrowes, taken legal action against Combs’ mom, Janice Combs, in February, asserting that she unlawfully presumed control of his 25% possession risk in Bad Boy, after Sean Combs supposedly persuaded him right into transferring his share under danger of physical violence, based on NPR.
What About Racketeering?
Prosecutors declare that Combs utilized his company realm to gas and hide his criminal tasks, which he utilized his cash, power, impact and workers to criminal ends.
Meanwhile, district attorneys in Fulton County, Georgia, billed the rap artist Young Thug with racketeering along with a number of various other gang, weapon and medication offenses, implicating his YSL Records of at the same time functioning as a recording tag and as a criminal road gang.
What Is Ex-Girlfriend Cassie Ventura’s Testimony?
Ventura indicated in the government sex trafficking, racketeering and hooking instance versus Combs, whom she charges of abusing her and pushing her right into undesirable sex acts called the “freak-offs” during their 11-and-a-half-year relationship.
Ventura told the court that she met Combs when she was a 19-year-old aspiring musician. Combs, 17 years her senior, signed her onto his record label. Their romantic relationship began soon after, when Ventura fell in love with the “larger-than-life” artist and business owner, she stated.
She informed the court that Combs wished to manage every element of her life. He spent for her lease, her auto, and her phone, occasionally taking the things away to “penalize” her when he was upset, she said.
She testified about the time when Combs attacked her because she was sleeping, slashing her eyebrow as he threw her onto the corner of her bed as her two friends tried to stop him.
In May 2024, CNN aired footage of Combs attacking Ventura in a hotel hallway in California, in which he kicked, shoved and dragged her – an incident that was part of Ventura’s complaint. Two days after CNN aired the video, Combs issued a public apology via Instagram, saying: “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now.”
Ventura indicated that the “freak-offs” were drug-fuelled marathons that could last from 36 hours to four days. She said they left her so drained that she needed days to recover. She said she had agreed to participate out of fear that Combs would become violent, as per a report by The New York Times.
Ventura ended her relationship with Combs for good in 2018, the same year she alleges the rapper raped her in her home as she cried.
Ventura went on to date and marry her personal trainer, Alex Fine, with whom she has two children, but the trauma of her relationship has stayed with her.
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