The rapper is accused of sex trafficking. Federal agents from US Homeland Security raided two of his homes in Miami and Los Angeles.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is a rapper and music mogul credited with helping launch the careers of some of the biggest stars in recent years. He is now facing multiple civil lawsuits accusing him of sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and rape.
The 54-year-old Combs has vehemently refuted every accusation made against him. His lawyers have described the claims made in the lawsuits as “sickening,” “baseless,” and money grabs. The entertainer has not been formally charged or accused by federal prosecutors of any crime.
Raid on Sean ‘Diddy’ House
The Los Angeles home of Sean “Diddy” Combs was raided by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Monday in connection with a federal sex trafficking case. The federal raid occurred at Combs’ $40 million home in LA’s lavish Holmby Hills neighbourhood, and across the coast, HSI also raised the music mogul’s Miami home on Star Island.
#TMZ has the first video of #Diddy after his homes were raided by the feds Monday — he was caught pacing around Miami airport. https://t.co/F84js7uo79 pic.twitter.com/vGSlxBrtNX
— TMZ (@TMZ) March 26, 2024
Allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Lawsuits against the rapper began on November 16, 2023, when he was sued by singer and dancer Cassie, his former partner, for alleged years of abuse.
Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura
Casandra Ventura is a R&B singer, famously known as Cassie. She filed a lawsuit in 2023, alleging that she was trafficked, raped, and beaten by Combs on many occasions over 10 years.
Her lawsuit claimed that Combs brought the singer into his “ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle” not long after she met him and signed her to his label in 2005 when she was just 19 and he was 37.
Ms. Ventura said that the pattern of abuse began as soon as their relationship started. She tried to end it in 2018. But he forced himself into her Los Angeles home and raped her. She also accused him of demanding she carry a firearm to “make her uncomfortable and demonstrate how dangerous he is.” He also forced her into “unwanted sexual encounters with male sex workers.” The lawsuit against Combs was settled a day after she filed it for an undisclosed amount of money.
Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones
The most recent lawsuit was filed against Combs on February 26, 2024, in New York. Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones was “subjected to unwanted advances by associates of Diddy at his direction.” He was forced to engage in relations with the sex workers Combs had hired.
The lawsuit also alleges that Combs regularly hosted “sex-trafficking parties” with underage women and illegal drugs. He also implied that record label executives who looked the other way financially benefited from access to celebrities and dignitaries, including the British royal Prince Harry.
Although, Prince Harry is not accused of any wrongdoing or of attending parties himself,.
Joie Dickerson-Neal
In November 2023, Joie Dickerson-Neal filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs drugged her, sexually assaulted her, and secretly recorded the assault while she was a college student in 1991.
Unnamed Accuser ‘Jane Doe’
In December, Combs was hit with another lawsuit, which claimed he had drugged and gang-raped a 17-year-old girl in 2003.
The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, accused Combs of drugging her at his New York studio and then raping her along with two associates. The suit also accused Combs of a “sex trafficking scheme,” in which Jane Doe was flown by private jet from her home in Michigan to New York.
More women come forward
Since November, three more women have come forward with lawsuits in the Southern District of New York. They are alleging that they were sexually assaulted by Combs. Two of the women said they were minors at the time of the alleged assaults.