Prosecutors add two more women to Sean Combs case

Prosecutors successful New York person expanded their lawsuit against rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing him of coercing 2 further women into commercialized enactment acts, and of dangling a idiosyncratic implicit an flat balcony.

Combs has been successful jailhouse since September aft an archetypal indictment charged him with racketeering, enactment trafficking by force, and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

On Thursday, the indictment was updated to adhd 2 much victims, though nary caller charges were added to the case.

The musician, 55, has strenuously denied each the accusations against him, including the national transgression lawsuit and much than 30 abstracted civilian lawsuits.

In effect to the superseding indictment, his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said the prosecution's lawsuit "remains flawed.

"The authorities has added the ridiculous mentation that 2 of Mr Combs's erstwhile girlfriends were not girlfriends astatine all, but were prostitutes. Mr Combs is arsenic committed arsenic ever to warring these charges and winning astatine trial."

The archetypal indictment identified lone 1 victim, named successful tribunal documents arsenic "Victim-1", whose accusations aligned intimately to those of Cassandra Ventura - the vocalist who sued Combs for rape and enactment trafficking successful 2023.

In the caller filing, prosecutors allege that Combs "used force, threats of force, and coercion, to origin victims, including but not constricted to 3 pistillate victims" to prosecute successful commercialized enactment acts.

The papers moves the alleged commencement day of Combs' enactment trafficking offences backmost to 2004, 4 years earlier than antecedently stated.

It besides expands the database of narcotics that the instrumentalist allegedly utilized to support his victims "obedient and silent" - adding methamphetamine and psychedelic mushrooms to the antecedently cited cocaine, oxycodone and ketamine.

The accusation that Combs dangled a pistillate from a balcony mirrors an accusation made successful a civil lawsuit filed by manner decorator Bryana "Bana" Bongolan past December.

The updates awesome that national prosecutors are widening their lawsuit against Combs arsenic his proceedings day successful May approaches.

A footnote to the superseding indictment notes that their probe is ongoing and that further updates volition beryllium filed "as promptly arsenic possible" up of the trial.

Combs' ineligible squad has antecedently dismissed the charges arsenic "baseless" and accused the authorities of conducting a "witch hunt."