Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs arrested amid sexual assault lawsuits

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been arrested based on unspecified national charges.

The rapper was enactment into national custody successful New York connected Monday nighttime successful transportation with an ongoing investigation.

TMZ claim that US Homeland Security arrested Diddy, 54, astatine a midtown hotel.

Marc Agnifilo, who is acting arsenic lawyer for Diddy, said they were ‘disappointed’ by the apprehension of an ‘innocent man’.

He issued a connection saying: ‘We are disappointed with the determination to prosecute what we judge is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.’

He added that Diddy ‘is an imperfect idiosyncratic but is not criminal. To his recognition Mr. Combs has been thing but cooperative with this probe and helium voluntarily relocated to New York past week successful anticipation of these charges. Please reserve your judgement until you person each the facts. These are the acts of an guiltless antheral with thing to hide, and helium looks guardant to clearing his sanction successful court.’

Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, confirmed the apprehension with a statement.

‘Earlier this evening, national agents arrested Sean Combs, based connected a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY,’ it said. The authoritative added they person plans to unseal the indictment connected Tuesday morning, and they’ll ‘have much to accidental astatine that time.’

In caller months, serious allegations person surfaced against Diddy. Police raided properties belonging to him successful Los Angeles and Miami earlier this year.

Ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed a suit against him successful November 2023, which accused him of raping and physically abusing her implicit a play of 10 years – thing helium denied astatine the time. It was besides claimed that the Me & U singer, who was 19 erstwhile they met, was raped ‘in her ain location aft she tried to permission him’ and ‘endured implicit a decennary of his convulsive behaviour and disturbed demands’. Two different women came guardant with their ain allegations, claiming maltreatment and assault.

Ventura’s suit was settled soon aft it was announced, but others stay ongoing.

In May, CCTV footage of him attacking Ventura in a edifice was obtained by CNN. Two days aft the footage was archetypal published, Combs issued a sombre video, apologising for his actions.

Ventura, 38, aboriginal issued a lengthy connection connected her Instagram page, thanking those who had rallied astir pursuing a pugnacious time.

Diddy is also facing claims of enactment trafficking, raping an underage woman and trying to ‘groom’ a producer, and has fiercely denied each allegations against him. He has been accused ofto person enactment with different man.

The astir caller suit against him was filed past week by erstwhile Danity Kane singer, Dawn Richard, who claimed Combs ‘manipulated’ her into reasoning that ‘abuse and exploitation were required for pistillate artists to win successful the euphony industry.’ She besides claims she witnessed the vocalist maltreatment Ventura connected aggregate occasions.

Amongst the different claimants is April Lampros, who is suing him for intersexual assault, artillery and intentional infliction of affectional distress, alleging that helium plied her with intoxicant astatine a barroom successful 1995 earlier raping her successful a edifice room.

She besides claimed that helium forced ecstasy down her pharynx aft gathering his past girlfriend, the precocious Kim Porter, and demanded that the 2 women person enactment portion helium masturbated earlier helium allegedly raped her again.

Crystal McKinney has besides came forward, accusing the Victory rapper of forcing her to execute a enactment enactment connected him aft allegedly promising her a vocation boost, successful 2003.

In a erstwhile statement, Diddy said: ‘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.’

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