Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in Manhattan on Monday (September 16) following a grand jury indictment, though the official fees have but to be divulged. The ball began rolling in November 2023, when ex Cassie Ventura filed a bombshell lawsuit in opposition to the Unhealthy Boy Information mogul accusing him of sexual and bodily abuse. A probe into Diddy’s life-style adopted and a federal investigation ensued.
Federal brokers executed search warrants at his properties in Los Angeles and Miami in March and investigators interviewed a number of folks in relation to allegations of intercourse trafficking, sexual assault and the solicitation and distribution of unlawful narcotics and firearms.
Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo addressed the arrest in a press release to AllHipHop.
“We’re disenchanted with the choice to pursue what we imagine is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace,” Agnifilo stated. “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving household man, and confirmed philanthropist who has spent the final 30 years constructing an empire, adoring his kids, and dealing to uplift the Black group. He’s an imperfect individual, however he isn’t a prison.
“To his credit score Mr. Combs has been nothing however cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York final week in anticipation of those fees. Please reserve your judgment till you could have all of the info. These are the acts of an harmless man with nothing to cover, and he appears to be like ahead to clearing his identify in courtroom.”
Following Ventura’s preliminary lawsuit, Diddy was hit with at the very least eight extra civil lawsuits alleging abuse.
The newest lawsuit in opposition to him got here from former Unhealthy Boy artist Daybreak Richard, who filed a criticism final week in Manhattan federal courtroom. Richard claims she witnessed Diddy abuse Ventura on a number of events and that current lawsuits inspired her to come back ahead.
“As extra girls courageously come ahead, plaintiff has been empowered by this collective energy and now provides her voice to the rising refrain of victims bravely sharing their harrowing tales,” attorneys for Richard wrote. “Collectively, they search justice and stand in solidarity, as the newest victims of the #Me Too motion within the music trade.”
Kaleena Harper, who was as soon as within the trio Soiled Cash alongside Diddy and Richard, issued a press release to her Instagram Story within the wake of the lawsuit.
“I acknowledge the current lawsuit filed by Daybreak Richard through which my identify has been talked about 33 occasions,” Harper started. “Whereas I absolutely respect Daybreak’s proper to recount her experiences, I need to emphasize that her account displays her private perspective and shouldn’t be interpreted as a common fact relevant to everybody concerned.
“It’s necessary to know that whereas I used to be current in among the similar skilled settings talked about, most of the allegations and incidents described on this swimsuit will not be consultant of my experiences, and a few don’t align with my very own fact.”
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One other one among Diddy’s attorneys, Erica Wolf, dismissed it (as soon as once more) as an try to extort cash from him.
“Mr. Combs is shocked and disenchanted by this lawsuit,” Wolff stated. “In an try to rewrite historical past, Daybreak Richard has now manufactured a sequence of false claims all within the hopes of attempting to get a payday — conveniently timed to coincide together with her album launch and press tour.
“If Ms. Richard had such a unfavourable expertise with Making the Band and Danity Kane, she wouldn’t have chosen to proceed working instantly with Mr. Combs for Soiled Cash, nor would she have returned for the Making the Band reboot in 2020 or agreed to be featured on The Love Album final yr. It’s unlucky that Ms. Richard has forged their 20-year friendship apart to try to get cash from him, however Mr. Combs is confidently standing on fact and appears ahead to proving that in courtroom.”
