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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seems in court docket, pleads not responsible to new expenses

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seems in court docket, pleads not responsible to new expenses

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Sean “Diddy” Combs has once more pleaded not responsible to new expenses introduced towards him by U.S. attorneys, who accuse him of turning his “multi-faceted enterprise empire” right into a “prison enterprise” over 20 years.

Three weeks earlier than Combs’ prison trial is about to start, the 55-year-old Grammy-winning hip-hop mogul appeared in Manhattan court docket Monday afternoon for an arraignment. Reuters reviews Combs entered a not responsible plea in response to the newest prison indictment, filed April 3, that provides one depend of intercourse trafficking and one depend of transportation to interact in prostitution of “Sufferer-2” to the earlier three expenses towards him.

Within the third superseding indictment, prosecutors claimed Combs’ alleged conduct within the extra prison claims happened from 2021 to 2024.

In response to the revised indictment, Combs’ authorized staff beforehand stated in a press release to USA TODAY, “These will not be new allegations or new accusers. These are the identical people, former long-term girlfriends, who had been concerned in consensual relationships. This was their non-public intercourse life, outlined by consent, not coercion.”

USA TODAY has reached out to Combs’ staff for remark.

What crimes is Diddy accused of committing?

Combs now faces two counts of intercourse trafficking, two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution and one depend of racketeering forward of his Might 5 trial. He has adamantly maintained his innocence within the prison case in addition to in response to dozens of sexual assault lawsuits, which element alleged occasions that date again to the Nineties, which have been filed over the previous 1½ years.

The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York first unsealed its prison expenses towards Combs on Sept. 17. Federal prosecutors have since leveled a number of new accusations in three superseding indictments as their investigation continues to unfold.

In prosecutors’ second superseding indictment from March, new accusations towards Combs claimed he subjected staff to compelled labor beneath inhumane circumstances.

Combs and his conspirators “maintained management over sure staff of the Combs Enterprise” and “compelled” them to “work lengthy hours with little sleep, by means of use of, amongst different issues, bodily power, psychological hurt, monetary hurt, and reputational hurt, and/or threats of the identical,” per the indictment.

This was an amended model of the primary superseding indictment in January, which added three unnamed ladies who had been allegedly victims of his so-called intercourse trafficking enterprise.

Prosecutors allege that as a part of Combs’ alleged “prison enterprise,” he and his associates engaged in kidnapping, arson and bodily violence, intercourse trafficking and compelled labor, amongst different crimes.

In November 2023, Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed — and shortly settled — a lawsuit with bombshell assault and abuse allegations towards the Unhealthy Boy Data founder. The unnamed “Sufferer 1” within the prison indictment towards Combs has been recognized as Cassie.

Combs is presently in jail after being denied bond a number of instances. Jury choice is scheduled to start out Might 5, with an anticipated Might 12 date for opening statements.

When you or somebody you understand has skilled sexual violence, RAINN’s Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline affords free, confidential, 24/7 help to survivors and their family members in English and Spanish at: 800.656.HOPE (4673) and Hotline.RAINN.org and en Español RAINN.org/es.

Contributing: Jay Stahl, USA TODAY