Diddy Inditement
The charges against Sean "Diddy" Combs are becoming more specific.
A federal indictment charging Combs with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution was unsealed and obtained by NBC News on September 17, just hours after his arrest in New York.
According to the records, the music mogul orchestrated "Freak Offs," or "elaborate sex performances" in which female victims were coerced into engaging in protracted sex acts with male commercial sex workers. According to the indictment, among the goods confiscated by officials from Diddy's homes earlier this year were 1,000 bottles of baby oil.
The docs further accuse Combs of orchestrating, directing, masturbating during, and frequently "electronically recording" the Freak Offs, as well as moving commercial sex workers "across state lines and internationally."
According to the indictment, the alleged Freak Offs occurred on a regular basis, frequently lasting several days and involving many sex workers.
“During Freak Offs, Combs distributed a variety of controlled substances to victims, in part to keep the victims obedient and compliant,” the indictment reads, adding the victims and Combs himself often received IV fluids to recover from the exertion and drug use. “Sometimes unbeknownst to the victims, Combs kept videos he filmed of victims engaging in sex acts with commercial sex workers.”
The rapper's associates—referred to in the indictment as the "Combs Enterprise," which includes supervisors, security and household staff, assistants, and other employees—are accused of facilitating Freak Offs by booking hotel rooms and stocking them with necessary supplies, cleaning the rooms, arranging travel, giving Combs cash to pay the sex workers, and scheduling the IV fluids.
"In or about March 2024," the charges state, "during searches of Combs' residences in Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California, law enforcement seized various Freak Off supplies, including narcotics and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant."
The indictment also describes how the 54-year-old allegedly forced his female victims to participate in the Freak Offs, which included "physical, emotional, and verbal abuse."
According to the arrest warrant, "Combs maintained control over his victims through, among other things, physical violence, promises of career opportunities, granting and threatening to withhold financial support, and by other coercive means, including tracking their whereabouts, dictating the victims' appearance, monitoring their medical records, controlling their housing, and supplying them with controlled substances."
According to the indictment, victims frequently sustained Comb-related injuries during these Freak Offs that "took days or weeks to heal."
According to the documents, a number of people witnessed the alleged abuses, but "Combs and members and associates of the Enterprise engaged in acts of violence, threats of violence, threats of financial and reputational harm, and verbal abuse" against these people when Combs' authority or reputation was threatened.
The suspected acts of violence apparently included "kidnapping and arson."
Combs, who has yet to respond to the latest details in the case against him, arrived in New York on September 17 to face accusations.
His attorney, Marc Agnifilo, told reporters outside court, via NBC News, that he traveled to New York to basically engage the legal system and start the case, which will begin today and he will plead not guilty. He's going to battle this with all of his might, force, and the full support of his attorneys."
Following Combs' arrest on September 16, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams told NBC News that federal agents arrested him based on a then-sealed indictment.
Diddy's legal team indicated at the time that he had "voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges."
"Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts," attorney Agnifilo urged on September 16. "These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court."