Sean “Diddy” Combs was apprehended Monday, the UNITED STATE Attorney’s Office in New York City claimed.
Combs was apprehended at the Park Hyatt resort on West 57th Street, an agent claimed. He was surprised by the uneasiness, according to an individual aware of the circumstance, that included he had actually been living at the resort for numerous weeks.
UNITED STATE Attorney Damian Williams validated in a declaration that on Monday night, government representatives apprehended Combs based upon a secured charge submitted by the Southern District of New York.
“We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time,” Williams claimed.
Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo revealed dissatisfaction in a declaration. He claimed Combs, 54, had actually been participating with the examination and “voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges.”
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children, and working to uplift the Black community,” the declaration claimed. “He is an imperfect person but he is not a criminal.”
“These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court,” it included.
It was not right away clear on what fees Combs, the rapper-turned-music magnate, was apprehended.
Combs has actually encountered a wave of lawsuits — one as recent as last week — charging him of sexual offense and transgression given that November, when previous sweetheart Casandra Ventura sued him in government court, charging him of years of physical and sexual assault.
Ventura, that is best recognized by her name, Cassie, was as soon as authorized to Combs’ Bad Boy document tag. The 2 resolved her claim a day after it was submitted, without divulging the regards to the negotiation. An lawyer for Combs claimed the negotiation was not a recommendation of misdeed. He formerly refuted the accusations.
Since after that, a variety of others have actually taken legal action against, including Dawn Richard, that declared that he searched and intimidated her when he used her from 2005 to 2012 which she observed him extremely defeatedVentura Combs has actually emphatically refuted the allegations in the legal actions, claiming they were “sickening allegations” from individuals trying to find “a quick payday.”
But in May, after CNN launched resort video clip of Combs kicking, punching and tossing Ventura on the flooring in a corridor in Los Angeles in 2016, he apologized in a video on Instagram in which he claimed that his actions was “inexcusable” which he had actually looked for treatment. The video clip was later on eliminated from his web page.
Richard, that belonged to the lady team Danity Kane, which Combs based on the MTV truth competitors “Making the Band,” and later on the team Diddy– Dirty Money, taken legal action against Combs recently.
An lawyer claimed Combs was “shocked and disappointed” by Richard’s claim, which, like Ventura’s problem, illustrates him as regulating and terrible.
Ventura’s claim consisted of accusations of sex trafficking. She declared that he regularly defeated her, that he required her to take part in sex acts with male woman of the streets– drug-fueled experiences Combs described as “freak offs” and often videotaped– which in 2018, as she was attempting to finish their partnership, he required his means right into her home and raped her.
Richard claimed in her fit that she participated in “drug-fueled parties,” where visitors were needed to surrender their phones. She additionally claimed she observed what she thought were inebriated minor women being sexually gone against by Combs and his visitors.
In March, government private investigators looked Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles.
Investigators spoke with numerous individuals in connection with accusations of sex trafficking, sexual offense and the solicitation and circulation of prohibited narcotics and weapons, a resource aware of the examination informed NBC News in March.
The call for to browse Combs’ residential properties originated from the Southern District of New York, NBC News has actually reported.
Combs, that has actually additionally passed such names as Puffy, Puff Daddy and Love, started Bad Boy in the very early 1990s. He is considered a pioneer of hip-hop, style and media, having actually developed the Sean John apparel line and introduced the Revolt television network, which he sold his stake in over the summer
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a manufacturer on Combs’ latest cd, declared in a lawsuit in February that Combs made undesirable sex-related get in touch with, required him to employ woman of the streets and pushed him to take part in sex acts with them. Jones claimed he lived and took a trip with Combs from September 2022 to November 2023, throughout which time he videotaped hours of video clip and sound of Combs, his personnel and others “engaging in serious illegal activity.”
His lawyers, Rodney S. Diggs and Tyrone Blackburn, that are additionally standing for various other Combs accusers, claimed Combs’ “long awaited arrest” was “an important step towards justice for all of Mr. Combs’ victims.”
“We leave the criminal aspect of this case in the hands of the people and justice system,” they claimed Monday evening. “As for the civil cases, we await our time for the facts to reveal themselves and seek the justice our clients deserve. We also anticipate more victims coming forward. We knew this was coming. The evidence is very clear and it was only a matter of time.”
After the resort video clip of Combs attacking Ventura was released, Howard University cut ties with him In June, the institution retracted an honorary level it granted him and dissolved a scholarship program in his name. The exact same month, Combs recognized a demand from New York Mayor Eric Adams and returned his key to the city
This month, Combs provided his home in Los Angeles that was plundered in March for $61.5 million.
