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Hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to enactment trafficking and different charges successful a New York national tribunal connected Tuesday.
He has been accused of moving a transgression endeavor that relied connected drugs and unit to unit women to "fulfill his intersexual desires", according to prosecutors.
Mr Combs appeared successful tribunal aft his apprehension connected Monday evening successful New York. A justice ordered him detained until his proceedings begins, siding with prosecutors who argued Mr Combs represented a "serious formation risk".
A 14-page indictment, released connected Tuesday morning, had charged Mr Combs with racketeering, enactment trafficking by force, and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
Mr Combs's lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, says the defence squad person already launched an entreaty of the judge's decision, with a proceeding acceptable for Wednesday.
"We judge successful him wholeheartedly. He didn't bash these things. There's nary coercion and nary crime," Mr Agnifilo told reporters astatine the courthouse. "He's not acrophobic of the charges."
Mr Agnifilo said Mr Combs is the people of "an unjust prosecution".
In tribunal documents, national prosecutors said that Mr Combs "abused, threatened, and coerced women and others astir him to fulfill his intersexual desires, support his reputation, and conceal his conduct".
Prosecutors accused Mr Combs of "creating a transgression enterprise" whose members - nether his absorption - engaged successful enactment trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson and bribery.
"On galore occassions", the documents said, Mr Combs assaulted women by "striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them".
Mr Combs has faced galore of the accusations before.
In precocious December, Mr Combs's then-girlfriend, vocalist Casandra Elizabeth Ventura, filed a civilian suit against Combs that included graphic descriptions of convulsive abuse. He denied the accusations and settled the lawsuit a time aft suit was filed.
However, successful May, Combs released a nationalist apology aft video footage from a Los Angeles edifice appeared to amusement him beating Ms Ventura successful the hallway.
The caller indictment against Mr Combs accuses him of akin unit with further details astir his intimate behaviours and relationships.
Ms Ventura's lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, declined to remark connected Mr Combs's arrest.
According to tribunal documents, Mr Combs "wielded the power" of his presumption to "lure pistillate victims... to prosecute successful extended enactment acts" called "Freak Offs".
"During Freak Offs, Combs distributed a assortment of controlled substances to victims, successful portion to support the victims obedient and compliant," the indictment said.
In a property briefing aft the indictment was unsealed, US authoritative Damian Williams said officials recovered firearms, ammunition and much than 1,000 bottles of lubricant during raids connected Mr Combs's homes successful Miami and Los Angeles astir six months ago.
Mr Williams said national agents besides recovered 3 semi-automatic rifles with defaced serial numbers, and a drum magazine.
Mr Williams told reporters that further charges were not disconnected the table, but helium did not connection circumstantial details.
The charges travel a drawstring of intersexual battle allegations against Mr Combs, 1 of the astir palmy euphony moguls successful the past of rap.
Four women, including Ms Ventura, person filed lawsuits accusing him of intersexual and carnal abuse.
In a connection issued past December, Mr Combs defended himself against what helium described arsenic "sickening allegations" made by "individuals looking for a speedy payday".
His estimation has taken a hit, however.
In June, Mr Combs returned a ceremonial "Key to the City of New York", fixed to him by Mayor Eric Adams conscionable 9 months prior.
Days later, Howard University announced it was revoking Mr Combs's 2014 honorary degree.
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