NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors added particulars to their indictment in opposition to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs on Thursday, saying the hip-hop star scheduled for a Might trial is accused of intercourse trafficking no less than three girls and of as soon as dangling somebody off a resort balcony throughout a two-decade racketeering conspiracy.
The refreshed indictment was filed in Manhattan federal court docket. A request for remark was despatched to a lawyer for Combs.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to intercourse trafficking expenses lodged in opposition to him after his September arrest. He stays incarcerated with out bail, awaiting a Might 5 trial.
Within the superseding indictment, prosecutors added 4 years to the size of the alleged racketeering conspiracy, saying it lasted from about 2004 to 2024. The unique indictment mentioned the conspiracy started by 2008.
The indictment specified that there are no less than three feminine victims, itemizing them solely as “Victim-1,” “Victim-2” and “Victim-3.”
Prosecutors mentioned Combs used the “power and prestige” he wielded as a music mogul to intimidate, threaten and lure girls into his orbit, typically beneath the pretense of a romantic relationship.
The indictment mentioned he then used pressure, threats and coercion to trigger victims, together with the three girls, to have interaction in business intercourse acts.
It mentioned he subjected his victims to violence, threats of violence, threats of economic and reputational hurt and verbal abuse.
“On multiple occasions, Combs threw both objects and people, as well as hit, dragged, choked and shoved others,” it mentioned. “On one occasion, Combs dangled a victim over an apartment balcony.”
Prosecutors supplied no different details about that allegation.
Earlier this month, protection legal professionals mentioned in court docket papers that the allegations described within the indictment had been a “sexist and puritanical” response by prosecutors to consensual intercourse acts between prepared adults.
They wrote that “the federal government’s idea perpetuates stereotypes of feminine victimhood and lack of company.”
They mentioned the federal government’s view depends upon the characterization of the intercourse performances as “dirty, disgusting, or inherently unsavory” and reveals that the federal government “seeks to police non-conforming sexual activity and that it assumes — despite all evidence to the contrary — that a woman’s willing participation must have been coerced.”
