This is The Newest On Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs As Mogul Rejects Plea Deal

Could 1, 2025Combs turned down a plea deal from federal prosecutors, confirming his resolution with federal Decide Arun Subramanian 4 days earlier than he was scheduled to face trial on 5 federal fees together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering, all of which he has pleaded not responsible to.

April 25, 2025At a pre-trial listening to in New York courtroom, Subramanian mentioned the protection didn’t show a video of Combs beating Cassie in a lodge in 2016 is inadmissible, stating there’s no “unfair prejudice to Mr. Combs,” after Combs’s attorneys argued the footage was manipulated.

On the listening to, federal prosecutor Madison Smyser mentioned Combs had rejected a plea provide, although particulars of the deal weren’t disclosed, whereas Combs’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo instructed the decide Combs took half within the “way of life” of a “swinger” and argued his sexual encounters have been consensual, a attainable trace at Combs’s protection for the trial.

April 19, 2025U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian rejected Combs’ request to delay his trial begin date by two months so his authorized crew might have further time to organize a protection in opposition to new fees filed simply two weeks prior, telling the rap mogul he made the request too late, leaving lower than three weeks earlier than Combs stands trial on his felony fees.

April 14, 2025Combs, who has been in jail for seven months, pleaded not responsible to new fees of intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, which means he has pleaded not responsible to all 5 of his federal fees.

April 4, 2025Prosecutors filed one other superseding indictment in opposition to Combs in New York federal courtroom, including two fees to convey his complete to 5—with new counts together with a further cost of intercourse trafficking and one other rely of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, each regarding an unnamed sufferer known as “Sufferer-2,” whom prosecutors allege Combs “recruited, enticed, harbored, transported and maintained” to “have interaction in industrial intercourse acts.”

March 24, 2025U.S. District Decide J. Paul Oetken mentioned Jones—a former producer for Combs who sued the rap mogul final 12 months for allegedly forcing him to have interaction in intercourse acts with intercourse staff and accused him of intercourse trafficking—didn’t present adequate injury to “enterprise or property” to convey claims in opposition to Combs below the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, however dominated his intercourse trafficking allegations might proceed.

March 14, 2025Combs pleaded not responsible to a brand new indictment prosecutors in Manhattan had filed per week prior, accusing the rap mogul of utilizing drive and threats to coerce staff to work lengthy hours, with U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian noting jury choice for Combs’ trial will start Could 5 for a tentative trial date of Could 12.

March 6, 2025Prosecutors filed a brand new indictment in opposition to Combs in New York federal courtroom, which didn’t add new fees however accused him of sustaining management over staff by forcing them to “work lengthy hours with little sleep” by subjecting them to, or threatening them with, “bodily drive, psychological hurt, monetary hurt, and reputational hurt,” inflicting them to imagine they might lose their jobs if they didn’t comply along with his calls for, with Combs allegedly forcing one worker to have interaction in intercourse acts with him by threats and drive.

Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifolio instructed a number of information retailers Combs “vehemently denies the accusations,” stating “many former staff stand by his aspect, ready to attest to the dedication, arduous work, and inspiration they skilled” whereas working for Combs, who “seems to be ahead to his day in courtroom when it’ll turn into clear that he has by no means compelled anybody to have interaction in sexual acts in opposition to their will” (Forbes has reached out to Agnifolio for remark).

Feb. 21, 2025Lawyer Anthony Ricco mentioned in a movement filed Friday that “in no way can I proceed to successfully function counsel for Sean Combs.” He did not cite any particular causes he could not keep on the case, however mentioned they d0 exist and are protected by attorney-client privilege. Combs’ different attorneys, Marc Agnifilo and and Teny Geragos, are anticipated to proceed representing him.

Feb. 18, 2025Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs requested a decide to dismiss one of many fees introduced in opposition to him in a superseding indictment final month—transportation to have interaction in prostitution—claiming “no white individual has ever been the goal of a remotely related prosecution. Combs was charged with transportation to have interaction in prostitution below The Mann Act, which in 1910 made it unlawful to move ladies for prostitution and human trafficking. Combs’ attorneys argued in a memorandum filed Tuesday that the statute has racist origins, and that Combs “has been singled out as a result of he’s a robust Black man, and he’s being prosecuted for conduct that frequently goes unpunished.”

Feb. 14, 2025A high-profile go well with accusing Combs and fellow rapper Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old in 2000 was dropped by the plaintiff’s attorneys, after each Combs and Jay-Z denied the allegations (Learn extra about it right here).

Feb. 12, 2025Combs claimed NBCUniversal and Ample Leisure allowed claims they knew have been false to be broadcast within the documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy,” which launched final month. The lawsuit claims executives knew a number of allegations made within the movie have been false—together with that there are movies of Combs sexually assaulting inebriated celebrities and minors and that Combs was chargeable for a number of murders—however allowed them to air anyway with “reckless disregard” for the reality.

Within the documentary, a number of individuals interviewed make all kinds of allegations about Combs and people near him, together with that Combs had threatened individuals. Representatives for NBCUniversal, Peacock & Ample Leisure didn’t instantly reply to Forbes request for remark Wednesday.

Jan. 30, 2025Prosecutors filed a superseding indictment that accuses Combs of utilizing drive, threats and coercion to trigger no less than three unnamed, feminine victims into industrial intercourse acts, and additional accuses him of abuse that included throwing issues at individuals, hitting, choking, pushing and, at one time, dangling a sufferer over an condo balcony. His lawyer denied the brand new allegations in a press release to the Related Press.

Jan. 30, 2025Combs was reportedly transported from jail to the Brooklyn Hospital Heart at round 10 p.m. for an MRI after complaining of ache in his knee. He returned hours later.

Jan. 14, 2025Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs submitted a letter to federal decide Arun Subramanian demanding prosecutors produce movies talked about within the indictment in opposition to him of his so-called “freak off” events, claiming they present his sexual exercise with one in every of his alleged victims was consensual and that they’ll show the federal government is attempting to “police non-confirming sexual exercise.” Combs’ attorneys declare the 9 movies possessed by prosecutors will present “adults having consensual intercourse, plain and easy” and comprise no proof of violence, coercion, threats, intercourse trafficking or different claims made in opposition to Combs.

Dec. 18, 2024Combs appeared in courtroom for a quick listening to in his federal case at which federal prosecutors mentioned they plan to reveal all obtainable proof to his protection crew by the tip of the 12 months in preparation for a Could trial date. One courtroom reporter described Combs as showing “thinner” and “grayer” than when he was final seen in public, and the music mogul wished spectators a “Comfortable Holidays” as he left.

Dec. 2, 2024Maurene Comey, former FBI director James Comey’s daughter who litigated the case wherein Maxwell was convicted for her function in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor women with Jeffrey Epstein, on Monday notified the federal courtroom within the Southern District of New York that she has joined the prosecution in opposition to Combs.

Nov. 27, 2024Subramanian denied Combs’ request to be launched on bail citing “compelling proof of Combs’s propensity for violence.” Subramanian’s ruling additionally acknowledged that there was proof supporting “a severe danger of witness tampering,” together with proof that he “violated Bureau of Prisons laws throughout his pretrial detention to obscure his communications with third events.” The decide additionally wrote the federal government prosecutors have proven “by clear and convincing proof that no situation or mixture of circumstances will moderately guarantee the security of the group.”

Nov. 25, 2024Attorneys for the federal authorities argued in opposition to Combs’ push to get launched on $50 million bail and a laundry listing of different circumstances, telling Decide Arun Subramanian in a letter the bundle “doesn’t come shut to making sure the safety of the group” or to making sure Combs will not intervene with the case or attempt to flee earlier than the trial—citing an alleged “sample of violence” towards ladies and his personal employees. In their very own letter, protection attorneys argued Combs has been unconstitutionally held in jail and silenced since he was first arrested in September, that the federal government has launched a marketing campaign in opposition to him to maintain him from getting a good trial and that Combs “isn’t required to sit down idly by and acquiesce to all of this.” Subramanian is predicted to decide on bail by Thanksgiving.

Nov. 22, 2024Subramanian heard arguments from attorneys on either side however punted a choice to the next week on whether or not Combs ought to be launched on bail. Subramanian rejected the thought Combs be stored below home arrest at a house with a ship dock in Miami however appeared open to doubtlessly releasing him to confinement with around-the-clock safety at a three-bedroom condo on Manhattan’s Higher East Facet. He requested attorneys to submit additional arguments in writing by Monday, Nov. 25.

Nov. 19, 2024Subramanian instructed prosecutors to “do away with” their copies of handwritten notes taken by Combs in jail, making the choice as he considers authorized arguments from Combs’ attorneys that the notes have been topic to attorney-client privilege and counter arguments from prosecutors who accused Combs of writing a few witness tampering plot.

Nov. 15, 2024In a submitting opposing Combs’ request to be launched on bail, prosecutors declare Combs has tried to “corruptly affect witness testimony” by asking his members of the family to succeed in out to victims and potential witnesses and create “narratives” to have an effect on their opinion, whereas additionally asking his youngsters to put up a video to social media in celebration of his birthday and guaranteeing the video had “his desired impact on potential jury members on this case.”

Nov. 12, 2024In “The Downfall of Diddy: Contained in the Freak-Offs,” Ray J claims high-profile celebrities are “reaching out to victims” and providing them cash in trade for avoiding any public publicity, and aspiring singer-songwriter Tanea Wallace described her expertise at a 2018 get together the place she mentioned she noticed minors “dressed up like Harajuku Barbies, pink lipstick, trying like actual horny.”

Nov. 8, 2024Combs’ attorneys once more requested the mogul be launched on bail with a $50 million bond with a laundry listing of latest circumstances, together with house detention in Miami or New York Metropolis, safety lockdown and no web entry, which is scheduled to be heard at a listening to on Nov. 22.

Nov. 4, 2024In a video posted by his son, Combs spoke to his youngsters on the cellphone on his fifty fifth birthday Monday and mentioned, “I can’t wait to see y’all. I simply wish to say that I’m pleased with y’all, particularly the women. I imply, all y’all only for being robust.”

Nov. 3, 2024Comb’s attorneys despatched a letter to Subramanian asking he place all potential witnesses below a gag order till a federal trial scheduled for Could, claiming a “deluge of improper pretrial publicity that’s undermining Mr. Combs’s proper to a good trial.” (The request comes after a buddy of Comb’s late girlfriend Kim Porter spoke outdoors a courthouse in Manhattan, saying he’d testified earlier than a grand jury and has footage of Combs raping and sexually assaulting a number of individuals, together with minors).

Oct. 31, 2024Ty Stiklorius, John Legend’s supervisor, wrote in a New York Instances piece that she herself skilled a “terrifying scenario” wherein she says she was locked in a bed room whereas attending a celebration hosted by Combs in St. Barts within the late Nineteen Nineties and “managed to speak her manner out” of what she assumed was an irregular expertise, however later realized “what occurred that evening was no aberration—it was an indicator of a pervasive tradition within the music trade.”

Oct. 28, 2024Federal authorities mentioned they’d carried out an “interagency operation” on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn the place Combs is awaiting trial, however didn’t present particular particulars about what was performed inside the ability, which has been the goal of rampant criticism from the Combs crew and the placement of a number of crimes in current months, together with a murder-for-hire plot and the stabbing deaths of two inmates.

Oct. 25, 2024In a letter submitted to the courtroom Friday, Combs’ attorneys requested a gag order be carried out for all federal officers concerned in his case, particularly citing a New York Put up article that quotes a “federal legislation enforcement supply who’s concerned within the investigation” as proof the Division of Homeland Safety is purposefully interfering with Combs’ proper to a good trial (in October, Combs’ authorized crew claimed DHS leaked an incriminating video of Combs to CNN, which the company denied). A decide later known as the quotes within the article “plainly improper” however rejected the gag order request.

Oct. 22, 2024Two of Combs’ seven youngsters—Quincy Brown, Combs’ adopted 33-year-old son, and Probability Combs, his 18-year-old daughter with Sarah Chapman—made a joint put up on Instagram calling the final month “devastating” for his or her household and defending their father from what they known as “accusations, conspiracy theories and false narratives.”

Oct. 15, 2024Combs returned to Instagram for the primary time since his arrest in September with a put up marking the second birthday of his youngest daughter, named Love Sean Combs (he’d beforehand deleted each put up on the social media account as allegations piled up in opposition to him, however has posted a complete of thrice since July, every time with pictures of his youngsters).

Oct. 11, 2024A U.S. Appeals courtroom referred Combs’ newest request for bail to a panel of three judges, however dominated he’ll stay behind bars till a choice is made.

Oct. 10, 2024Combs appeared in courtroom for the primary time since his arrest, the place a trial date of Could 5 was set for him to face federal fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.

Oct. 9, 2024Combs’ crew filed a memo alleging that the Division of Homeland Safety leaked a surveillance video that confirmed him abusing his ex-girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, although prosecutors have denied the allegations and mentioned they didn’t get hold of that video till it was made public by CNN.

Oct. 8, 2024Attorneys for Combs filed paperwork asking he be allowed to await trial outdoors of the Metropolitan Detention Heart the place he resides, claiming the preliminary resolution to disclaim him bail was unfairly “distorted” by the eye on the case (the preliminary decide, who has since been changed, dominated Combs ought to keep in jail so he can’t use his cash and affect to intervene within the authorities’s case in opposition to him).

Oct. 6, 2024Janice Small Combs, Sean Combs’ mom, mentioned in a press release by her household’s legal professional she is “devastated and profoundly saddened” by the allegations in opposition to her son, including these accusing him of misconduct are “searching for a monetary achieve” and likened Combs to “many people” who’ve been “wrongfully convicted because of their previous actions or errors”—although she additionally mentioned Combs “could have been not totally truthful” when denying assault allegations raised by his ex-girlfriend Ventura.

Sept. 30, 2024Attorneys for Combs filed a discover asking the Second Circuit Courtroom of Appeals within the Southern District of New York to overturn the choice to carry him in jail whereas he awaits trial, a alternative Decide Andrew Carter made citing considerations Combs had allegedly tampered with witnesses who had been contacted as a part of the investigation in opposition to him (the request was not granted).

Sept. 26, 2024A documentary was launched for streaming on Tubi and featured an interview with Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo—who addressed a leaked surveillance video of Combs shoving and kicking ex-girlfriend Ventura—wherein he known as the indictment a takedown of a “profitable Black man” and mentioned he does not anticipate Combs to just accept a plea discount.

Sept. 18, 2024 Combs’ attorneys cited “horrific” circumstances on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, New York in a request for bail—which included a $50 million bond provide, GPS monitoring and strict limitations on guests—that was denied by U.S. District Decide Andrew Carter, who mentioned the circumstances weren’t sufficient to make sure the security of the group.

Sept. 17, 2024A federal courtroom in Manhattan unsealed fees in opposition to Combs for racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, alleging he “abused, threatened, and coerced ladies and others round him to meet sexual needs, shield his popularity, and conceal his conduct.”

Sept. 16, 2024Combs was arrested in Manhattan after being indicted by a grand jury.

Could 29, 2024Sources instructed CNN federal investigators have been getting near submitting fees in opposition to Combs, and that plaintiffs who had filed particular person civil lawsuits in opposition to him had been interviewed as a part of the case.

March 25, 2024Federal brokers raided Combs’ properties in Florida and California in relation to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation.

Nov. 2023, 2024A $30 million lawsuit filed by Ventura kicked off a collection of felony complaints in opposition to Combs which have included rape, sexual assault, intercourse trafficking and different claims (see all the allegations right here).