In the United States, a rapper known under the pseudonyms Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and Diddy was detained. He was arrested in New York on serious charges. A person familiar with the indictment confirmed the filing of a lawsuit against the impresario in the world of rap and hip-hop.
Combs was arrested by Homeland Security officers at a five-star hotel in midtown Manhattan and taken to the local FBI office. “Authorities planned to arrest P Diddy on Tuesday, but something happened that forced federal officials to take him into custody earlier than planned,” the insider said.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Combs was detained in connection with an indictment issued by the Southern District of New York. Federal officials searched the suite in which they detained the musician. P Diddy’s lawyer Mark Agnifilo issued a statement regarding the arrest of his VIP client.
“We are disappointed by the decision of the U.S. Attorney’s Office to continue, in our opinion, unfair prosecution of Mr. Combs. Sean “Diddy” Combs is a musical icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and established philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children, and working to elevate the Black community. He is an imperfect man, but he is not a criminal,” Agnifilo assured.
Damian stressed that Mr. Combs not only cooperated with this investigation, but also voluntarily moved to New York last week pending charges. “Please defer your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the actions of an innocent person who has nothing to hide, and he hopes to acquit his name in court,” the artist’s representative added.
The clouds over the three-time Grammy Award winner began to gather last November, when ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed charges against him for assault, battery and sex trafficking. The singer stated that P. Diddy forced her to have sex with other men in his presence. Soon the girl’s claims were resolved, but the problems began to grow like a snowball.
In February, the music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs coerced him into recruiting prostitutes and having sex with them in front of him. Another accuser was a woman who claimed that the rapper rapped her two decades ago, when she was 17 years old. Another defendant in the case, April Lampos, said that she was a college student in 1994 when she met Combs, and a series of “terrifying sexual encounters” with the rapper and his entourage began, which lasted for years. On March 25, the estates of the owner of the music label Bad Boy Records in Los Angeles and Miami were searched. Combs and his lawyers have denied all allegations in the trials.
In May, a 2016 video appeared in a Los Angeles hotel room. It shows Cassie Ventura trying to escape the hotel, but P Diddy catches up with her in the hallway, brutally beats her with his hands and feet, and then drags her back to the room by her hair. It turned out that the rapper then paid a large sum to destroy the recording from the surveillance cameras, but someone still saved it for the right occasion, reports Daily Mail.
After that, the actor of the film “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” was forced to apologize, in which he stated that he had hit rock bottom and took full responsibility for the unforgivable and undignified behavior in the video. Sean Combs has seven children from different women. In 2022, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $1 billion, making him the second richest hip-hop artist after Jay-Z, Beyoncé’s husband.
