Sean “Diddy” Combs carried guns “to intimidate and threaten” his victims and the witnesses of his abuse, according to a sex-trafficking indictment against the hip-hop mogul.
The music producer “carried or brandished firearms to intimidate and threaten others, including victims of and witnesses to his abuse,” the court papers say.
Combs also had his security staff carry weapons, and when the feds raided his homes in Miami and Los Angeles, they found three AR-15s with “defaced serial numbers,” other guns, ammunition, and a drum magazine, the indictment alleges.
Combs’ staff sometimes saw Combs’ “violence toward victims” or saw their injuries and did nothing to intervene, the court papers say.
Combs’ physical violence allegedly included kidnapping, arson, throwing things, hitting, dragging, choking and shoving, the feds claim.
Here’s what we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
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- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security in March amid a possible ongoing sex-trafficking investigation.
- Authorities targeted the rapper’s homes to seize phones and computers, sources told The Post.
- At least four Jane Does and one John Doe have been interviewed by New York prosecutors in connection to sex-trafficking allegations and a RICO case, sources told Rolling Stone.
- Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie (Cassandra Ventura) filed a lawsuit against him in November 2023 on several allegations, including rape and physical abuse for over a decade.
- Combs and Cassie settled the lawsuit one day after she filed it.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a woman on a date in 1991.
- A third woman filed a lawsuit against the celebrity in November 2023, claiming that he and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns sexually assaulting her and a friend in the early 1990s.
- In December 2023, Combs was hit with a fourth sexual assault lawsuit that accused him and others of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his NYC recording studio after drugging her and supplying her with alcohol.
- In September 2024, Diddy was sued by Dawn Richard, a participant on Combs’ 2004 MTV show “Making The Band,” claiming that he once broke into her dressing room and began groping her breasts and butt.
And Combs and his employees would often try to stop victims from leaving his home or hotel rooms — forcing them to remain in hiding for days at times — so their injuries could be kept from the public, the court papers allege.
They also attempted to bribe and pressure victims into silence or would feed them a “false narrative of events in an effort to conceal Combs’ crimes,” the indictment alleges.