The charges against Sean 'Diddy' Combs explained

Two years ago, rap instrumentalist and mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs threw a lavish 53rd day enactment astatine his $61m mansion successful Beverly Hills.

A big of stars lined up to toast his career, with a impermanent database that included Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Mary J Blige, Kehlani, Tinashe, Chris Brown and Machine Gun Kelly.

The enactment coincided with his 30th twelvemonth successful the euphony manufacture - 3 decades successful which helium formed his ain amusement empire and changed the dependable of hip-hop, some arsenic an creator and a shaper for the likes of Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and The Notorious B.I.G.

Fast-forward to 2024, and his vocation is connected the ropes.

In a lawsuit filed successful New York, the prima has been accused of kidnapping, drugging and coercing women into intersexual activities, sometimes done the usage of firearms and threats of violence.

The aforesaid Los Angeles mansion that hosted his day enactment was raided by constabulary successful March. There, officers seized supplies that they accidental were intended for usage successful orgies known arsenic "freak offs", including drugs and much than 1,000 bottles of babe oil.

Mr Combs has denied each the charges, entering a not blameworthy plea connected Tuesday, 17 September.

The tribunal lawsuit comes aft a twelvemonth successful which the instrumentalist has faced lawsuits from a fig of women.

Here is however the allegations against Mr Combs person stacked up.

Casandra Ventura, a vocalist and exemplary known arsenic Cassie, was signed to Mr Combs' grounds statement and dated him for much than a decade.

But successful a civilian lawsuit, she said the mogul had utilized his presumption of powerfulness to "set the groundwork" for a "manipulative and coercive romanticist and intersexual relationship".

Her suit included graphic descriptions of convulsive abuse, alleging that Mr Combs "regularly bushed and kicked Ms Ventura, leaving achromatic eyes, bruises, and blood".

She described parties known arsenic "freak offs" - drug-fuelled, days-long intersexual performances - which Mr Combs allegedly coerced women into, and filmed for his ain pleasure.

Ms Ventura besides accused the instrumentalist of intersexual maltreatment and rape, and claimed that galore of these incidents were witnessed by his "tremendously loyal network" who "were not consenting to bash thing meaningful" to halt the violence.

The suit besides alleged that Mr Combs destroyed a car belonging to US rapper Kid Cudi, to dissuade him from dating her.

Mr Combs strenuously denied the allegations and accused Ms Ventura of extortion.

They settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed magnitude a time aft it was filed successful New York, with Mr Combs maintaining his innocence.

In the weeks aft settling Cassie's lawsuit, Mr Combs was accused of intersexual battle dating backmost to 1991 by aggregate women.

One suit was filed anonymously by a pistillate who claimed Mr Combs and different antheral had coerced her into sex.

In a second, Joi Dickerson-Neal accused the prima of drugging and sexually assaulting her erstwhile she was a assemblage pupil successful 1991. She besides claimed helium filmed the onslaught and showed it to different radical without her consent.

A 3rd woman, Liza Gardner, filed tribunal papers accusing Mr Combs and different antheral of raping her and her person much than 30 years ago, erstwhile she was 16.

Ms Gardner besides alleged that Mr Combs had turned convulsive days aft the attack, choking her truthful hard that she passed out.

In the lawsuit, she said Mr Combs had go irate portion trying to way down her friend, due to the fact that helium was disquieted she would pass "the miss helium was with astatine the time".

The lawsuits each came soon earlier the expiration of the New York Adult Survivors Act, which temporarily allowed radical who said they had been sexually abused to record claims, adjacent aft the statute of limitations had expired.

Mr Combs denied each the allegations, and his spokesperson called the lawsuits a "money grab".

Another pistillate sued successful December, claiming she was "sex trafficked" and "gang raped" by Mr Combs, erstwhile Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre and different antheral successful 2003, erstwhile she was 17.

In tribunal papers, the woman, known lone arsenic Jane Doe, alleged she was fixed "copious amounts of drugs and alcohol" earlier the onslaught and was near successful truthful overmuch symptom that she could hardly basal oregon retrieve however she got home.

In response, Mr Combs said helium "did not bash immoderate of the atrocious things being alleged", portion Mr Pierre said the "disgusting allegations" were "false and a hopeless effort for fiscal gain".

On 6 December, Mr Combs responded to the flurry of lawsuits with a connection connected his Instagram page.

"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH," helium wrote. "For the past mates of weeks, I person sat silently and watched radical effort to assassinate my character, destruct my estimation and my legacy.

"Sickening allegations person been made against maine by individuals looking for a speedy payday. Let maine beryllium perfectly clear: I did not bash immoderate of the atrocious things being alleged. I volition combat for my name, my household and for the truth."

Music shaper Rodney Jones Jr, who produced 9 tracks connected 2023's The Love Album, sued Mr Combs successful February 2024, accusing the prima of making unwanted intersexual interaction and forcing him to prosecute prostitutes and enactment successful enactment acts with them.

In tribunal papers filed successful New York, Mr Jones besides claimed that Mr Combs tried to "groom" him into having enactment with different man, telling him it was "a mean signifier successful the euphony industry".

Mr Combs' lawyer, Shawn Holley, called Mr Jones "nothing much than a liar" and described his claims arsenic "pure fiction" that could beryllium discredited by "overwhelming, indisputable proof".

CCTV footage emerged showing Mr Combs assaulting Cassie Ventura successful the hallway of a Los Angeles edifice successful 2016.

The pictures, broadcast by CNN, showed a antheral pushing Ms Ventura to the level and kicking her portion she was connected the ground. He aboriginal attempted to resistance her by her garment and propulsion an entity astatine her.

A time later, Mr Combs apologised, saying: "I instrumentality afloat work for my actions successful that video. I was disgusted past erstwhile I did it. I'm disgusted now."

Ms Ventura aboriginal posted a connection highlighting the lifelong interaction of home violence. "It broke maine down to idiosyncratic I ne'er thought I would become," she wrote.

Model and histrion Crystal McKinney accused Mr Combs of drugging her and forcing her to execute oral enactment successful the bath of a New York City signaling workplace successful 2003.

Two days later, Mr Combs was sued again by April Lampros, who alleged 4 instances of intersexual battle betwixt 1995 and astir 2000.

Ms Lampros claimed she met the instrumentalist successful 1994 portion a pupil astatine the Fashion Institute of Tecnhology, and that an initially romanticist narration "quickly turned into an aggressive, coercive, and abusive narration based connected sex".

In 1 incident, she claimed the prima forced her to instrumentality ecstasy and person enactment with his then-girlfriend.

Former big movie prima Adria English claimed she was "groomed into enactment trafficking implicit time" successful a fig of events betwixt 2004 and 2009 astatine Mr Combs’s star-studded parties.

His lawyer Jonathan Davis responded: "No substance however galore lawsuits are filed it won't alteration the information that Mr Combs has ne'er sexually assaulted oregon enactment trafficked anyone."

Mr Combs failed to be a virtual proceeding for a suit filed against him by Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, a Michigan inmate who claimed the prima drugged and sexually assaulted him astatine a enactment successful Detroit successful 1997.

The no-show led to a default judgement against Mr Combs, who was ordered to wage Mr Caredello-Smith $100m (£75m).

The musician's lawyers aboriginal filed an exigency question to overturn the ruling.

Dawn Richard, a erstwhile vocalist successful Mr Combs' miss radical task Danity Kane, filed a suit against the star.

The singer, who aboriginal joined Mr Combs successful the set Diddy Dirty Money, alleged that the instrumentalist sexually assaulted her connected aggregate occasions by touching her body, arsenic good arsenic verbally abusing and overworking her.

The prima was arrested successful a Manhattan edifice room aft a expansive assemblage indictment.

His lawyer said the prima had co-operated with authorities, and voluntarily relocated to New York successful anticipation of the charges.

"These are the acts of an guiltless antheral with thing to hide, and helium looks guardant to clearing his sanction successful court," helium added.

In an quality astatine the US District Court successful New York, Mr Combs was charged with enactment trafficking, racketeering and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

In an indictment that was unsealed astatine the aforesaid time, prosecutors alleged that helium besides engaged successful kidnapping, forced labour, bribery and different crimes.

They described him arsenic the caput of a transgression endeavor that abused women, utilizing threats of unit to unit them into participating successful drug-fuelled orgies with antheral prostitutes.

These "freak offs" were "elaborate and produced enactment performances" and were highly organised parties, prosecutors said.

Mr Combs' associates allegedly booked edifice suites, recruited enactment workers and distributed drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine and oxycodone to coerce partygoers into enactment and support them "obedient".

His unit allegedly arranged question for the victims and organised the proviso of intravenous fluids to assistance them retrieve from the parties, which sometimes lasted for days.

Prosecutors besides alleged that Mr Combs taped the "freak offs" and would usage the footage to unit his victims into silence.

Mr Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, declared his client's innocence, and described the "freak offs" arsenic consensual.

"Is it enactment trafficking?" helium asked. "Not if everybody wants to beryllium there."

Mr Combs pleaded not blameworthy to the charges.

But helium was denied bail aft prosecutors argued that helium posed "a important hazard of obstructing justice", reporting that helium had "already tried to obstruct the government's probe of this case, repeatedly contacting victims and witnesses and feeding them mendacious narratives of events".

The justice cited the star's choler issues and past of substance maltreatment arsenic reasons for keeping him detained until the trial.

"My interest is that this is simply a transgression that happens down closed doors," helium said.