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 Could 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. An legal professional for Combs, Marc Agnifilo, famous that the superseding indictment accommodates no new prices.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to intercourse trafficking prices lodged in opposition to him after his September arrest. He stays incarcerated with out bail, awaiting a Could 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 drive, threats and coercion to trigger victims, together with the three girls, to interact in business intercourse acts.
It mentioned he subjected his victims to violence, threats of violence, threats of monetary 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 provided no different details about that allegation.
Agnifilo, in a press release, mentioned Combs stays dedicated to combating the fees.
“The government has added the ridiculous theory that two of Mr. Combs’ former girlfriends were not girlfriends at all but were prostitutes. ”
Earlier this month, protection attorneys 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 government’s theory perpetuates stereotypes of female victimhood and lack of agency.”
They mentioned the federal government’s view relies on 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.”
