The Fall of Diddy

by Liv
Posted on October 13, 2024October 22, 2024
California

Sean Combs aka Diddy was arrested in September 2024 on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation for purposes of prostitution.

We are going to run through his background and discuss the crimes that he has been charged with. This isn’t going to be a full biography of his life, we are trying to focus on the most important parts that have led to him being where he is today.

Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969. He was born in Harlem, New York and was raised in Mount Vernon, New York.

His mother is Janice Combs, maiden name Smalls and his father was Melvin Earl Combs. Melvine served in the US Airforce and Janice worked as a model and teacher’s assistant.

Sean has a sister, Keisha.

When Sean was two years old, Melvin was shot dead while sitting in his car on Central Park West in NYC. It is believed that Melvin was murdered during a drug transaction after he was misidentified as an informant. Melvin had been associating with drug-trafficker Frank Lucas at the time. Frank Lucas would later inspire the film ‘American Gangster.’

Keisha and Sean would be raised by Janice as a single mother and it was said they lived in poverty.

Sean spoke in an article with Complex about his childhood.

“I tell this story. People think it’s a joke. I grew up in Harlem. My aunt would babysit me and I would get babysat in Patterson projects. One day we woke up and there was so many roaches on my face and I was like no I’m not going to do that. I’m going to get out of here. I’m going to be somebody. I’m going to own something and be able to take care of my family. I don’t want to live in these conditions no more.”

Sean was raised Catholic. He attended Mount Saint Michael Academy which was an all-boys Catholic school and he graduated from there in 1987. He went on to study business at Howard University but left after his second year.

Sean has said that he was given the nickname ‘Puff’ as a child because he would ‘huff and puff’ when he was angry. This is relevant because for a while, Sean was known as Puff. Other names he has gone by include Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Love, Brother Love.

Sean got into the music industry in 1990. He began working as an intern at Uptown Records in New York. The label had been founded by Andre Harrell. He was promoted to Talent Director at Uptown and he helped to develop Mary J Blige and Jodeci.

Sean had a reputation for throwing huge parties, sometimes with up to a thousand people attending.

Usher lived with Sean for a year in NYC when he was 13 (eek) and he has since said that Sean’s lifestyle was ‘pretty wild.’

One event to note is that Sean promoted a fundraiser for AIDS which was held in 1991 at the City College of New York’s gymnasium. The event was oversold and a stampede occurred. Nine people died as a result.

Sean got fired from Uptown in 1993. In an interview with Oprah, he spoke about the reasoning for that “I was very passionate, and I didn’t understand protocol or workplace politics. So I got fired because there can’t be two kings in one castle. I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful to Andre, but I was fighting so hard. He wanted to be more diplomatic and to make sure everybody felt involved. Getting fired was one of the best things that could have happened to me.”

After he was fired, he established his own label, Bad Boy Records. The label became a joint venture with Arista Records. Sean took Christopher Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G with him to the new label from Uptown.

Other acts that would be associated with the label over the years include Usher, Mary J Blige, Lil’Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men and Aretha Franklin.

Sean released his first commercial vocal rap work in 1996, under the name Puff Daddy. His debut single, “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down”, spent 28 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number one.

Sean had a successful music career – his song ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ was the first rap song to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Over the years, Sean won three Grammy Awards.

In 2001, Sean changed his stage name from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy. He also began acting around this time – he appeared as a drug dealer in the film ‘Made’ and he also starred in ‘Monster’s Ball’ with Halle Berry, Heath Ledger and Billy Bob Thornton.

In 2002, Sean was listed by Fortune Magazine at number 12 in their top 40 entrepreneurs under 40.

He changed his name again in 2005, to Diddy.

On November 5, 2017, Sean announced that he would be going by the name Love, stating, “My new name is Love, aka Brother Love.” Two days later, he told the press he had been joking, but on January 3, 2018, he announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he had changed his mind again, and that he would be using the new name after all.

In 2017, Forbes estimated that Sean had earned $130m in the prior year which ranked him at number one amongst entertainers.

Jumping ahead slightly, by 2022, his net worth was estimated to be US $1 billion.

Aside from music and acting, Sean also dabbled in fashion. He started his own clothing line in 1998, called Sean John. He also created a men’s perfume line called ‘I Am King’. He purchased the Enyce clothing line from Liz Claiborne for $20m in 2008.

Sean also owned restaurants at one point. He also worked to develop Ciroc vodka and was given a 50% share of profits. In June 2023, after Ciroc was acquired by Diageo, they ended their partnership with Sean for “refusing to acknowledge or honor his commitments”.

Sean worked with Mark Wahlberg in 2015 to purchase a majority holding in Aquahydrate which is a drink for athletes.

Sean also has a major stake in Revolt TV – a tv network with a film production branch.

In 2019, he invested in PlayVS which provides infrastructure for competitive gaming in US high schools.

In terms of Sean’s family life, he is father to seven children with four different women. His first biological son, Justin Dior Combs, was born in 1993 to fashion designer Misa Hylton.

Sean had an on-again, off-again relationship with Kimberly Porter from 1994-2007. He adopted her son Quincy during this time. Quincy was born in 1991.

Sean and Kimberly had three children together – Christian who was born in 1998, and twin daughters, D’Lila Star and Jessie James Combs who were born in 2006.

Kim died from pneumonia in November 2018.

Five months before the twins were born, Sean had a baby with a woman named Sarah Chapman. Their daughter is named Chance. Sean took legal responsibility for Chance in October 2007.

From 2007-2018, Sean was in a relationship with Cassie Ventura. They had no children together.

Sean’s seventh child, a daughter named Love Sean Combs was born in December 2022. Her mother is Dana Tran.

We will now discuss Sean’s legal issues.

In 1997, Sean was sued for landlord neglect. He denied the charges.

In April 1999, Sean and two others broke into the office of Nas’ former manager Steve Stoute, and attacked him. Sean was sued by Steve and they settled out of court. Sean paid him $500k. Sean pleaded guilty to harassment and had to complete a one-day anger management class.

In December 1999, Sean and JLo (who he was dating at the time) were at Club New York in Manhattan with rapper Shyne when gunfire broke out. The shots were allegedly fired after an argument between Sean and another patron. Sean and Shyne were arrested for weapons violations and other charges. The case went to trial and Sean was found not guilty on all charges. Shyne was convicted on five charges and was sentenced to ten years in prison. JLo and Sean broke up shortly after this event – they had dated for around two years.

Sean was arrested in 2001 in Florida for driving with a suspended licence.

In 2003, it was alleged that the factories producing the Sean John clothing brand were violating Honduran labor laws. It was said that workers were being searched illegally and were subjected to involuntary pregnant tests. Bathroom access was tightly controlled and the facilities were locked so that people had to request access. Employees were forced to do overtime and were paid a pittance. Sean launched an extensive investigation and said ‘I’m as pro-workers as they get.’ As a result of the investigation, air conditioning and water purification systems were installed in the factories, supervisors were fired and the employees were allowed to form a labor union.

In 2005, Michigan television personality Rogelio Mills filed an assault charge against Sean. The issue was resolved in Sean’s favor.

In 2005, British DJ Richard Dearlove sought an injunction against Sean over the use of the name Diddy. Richard had been using the name since 1992, nine years before Sean started using it. Richard accepted an out of court settlement and Sean can not use the name Diddy in the UK – he is known there as P. Diddy.

In 2007, Sean was sued by Gerard Rechnitzer after it was claimed that he was punched outside a Hollywood nightclub. Sean settled the lawsuit for undisclosed terms in 2008.

In 2009, the Los Angeles Times made claims that the Notorious B.I.G and Sean orchestrated the robbery and murder of Tupac in 1994. They later retracted the story, saying documents they had shared were fabricated.

In 2015, Sean was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after he had a fight with his son’s football coach. The charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence.

In 2017, Cindy Rueda, a former employee of Sean’s, filed a lawsuit which claimed sexual harassment and retaliation. The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount in February 2019.

In 2021, Sean filed a $60m lawsuit against the new owners of Sean John. He said the company had used his image without permission and that they had made up quotes that were not from him.

Sean filed a racial discrimination suit against Diageo in 2023. He withdrew the lawsuit with prejudice in 2024.

Cassie Ventura, Sean’s ex, filed a lawsuit against him on November 16, 2023. She accused him of rape, sex trafficking and physical abuse. This lawsuit also alleged that Sean had blown up the car of Kid Cudi in 2012, who was Cassie’s then partner. Cassie alleged she had “endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands,” including repeated beatings and forcing her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers.

According to the complaint, after she attempted to separate herself from him in 2018, Sean allegedly “forced her into her home and raped her while she repeatedly said ‘no’ and tried to push him away.”

Cassie claimed that she suffered “episodes of horrific abuse” during their relationship, including times when he would allegedly fly into an “uncontrollable rage” and “beat Ms. Ventura savagely.”

Sean and Cassie reached a settlement the day after she filed the lawsuit, and it was dismissed. “I have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms that I have some level of control,” Cassie said in a statement issued by her attorney, Douglas Wigdor. “I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for their unwavering support.”

Douglas Wigdor also claimed that Sean offered Cassie “eight figures” to prevent her from filing the lawsuit, which she rejected.

Sean responded with a statement: “We have decided to resolve this matter amicably. I wish Cassie and her family all the best. Love.”

Two further lawsuits were filed against Sean in November 2023. These were made by two complainants who alleged sexual assault and revenge porn. One of the lawsuits claimed that Sean and singer Aaron Hall had sexually abused a woman in the early 1990’s. Sean is alleged to have recorded the assault.

This info about the assault is from the Independent:

The suit alleges that Combs and Hall invited the women to Hall’s apartment for an afterparty where the plaintiff “was offered more drinks and was coerced into having sex with Combs,” and was “shocked and traumatized” afterwards, before “Hall barged into the room, pinned her down and forced Jane Doe to have sex with him.”

In November 2023, Sean stepped down as Revolt’s Chairman.

“While Mr. Combs has previously no operational or day-to-day role in the business, this decision helps ensure that Revolt remains steadfastly focused on our mission to create meaningful content for the culture and amplify the voices of all Black people throughout this country and the African diaspora,” a statement from the company said. “Our focus has always been one that reflects our commitment to the collective journey of Revolt — one that is not driven by the individual, but by the shared efforts and values of our entire team on behalf of advancing, elevating, and championing our culture and that continues.”

In December 2023, a Jane Doe alleged that she was ‘sex trafficked’ and ‘gang raped’by Sean. This alleged incident is said to have happened in 2003 when the person was 17 years old.

Sean released a statement at this time.

“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” he wrote. “For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday. Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”

Hulu had plans to make a reality show around Sean’s life. It was going to be called ‘Diddy+7’. The project was scrapped by the production company in December 2023.

In February 2024, music producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed a lawsuit against Sean and his son Justin. The lawsuit alleged they engaged in a “massive” cover-up of their involvement in the shooting of a 30-year-old man at a “writers and producers camp” that was held at Combs’s Chalice Recording Studio in Los Angeles in September 2022.

This info about the incident is from NBC:

The original complaint includes Jones’ account that he heard multiple gunshots after a “heated conversation” in a nearby bathroom. When the bathroom door opened, Combs and his son walked out and Jones found G “lying on the restroom floor in a fetal position, holding his stomach and bleeding out of his leg/hip area,” the lawsuit said.

Lil Rod has said that Sean sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him from September 2022 to November 2023.

The suit also alleges that Sean is part of a “RICO enterprise” and that he and others are involved in a “sex trafficking venture.” A RICO enterprise is one in which people or groups act together to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which is meant to target organized crime.

Lil Rod has accused a man named Brendan Paul of being Sean’s ‘drug mule’ in court documents. Brendan was arrested in March 2024 on charges of cocaine and controlled substance possession.

On March 25, 2024, Sean’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal agents.

The Homeland Security raids were reportedly done “in connection” with an ongoing federal sex trafficking investigation, according to CNN.

“Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our local law enforcement partners. We will provide further information as it becomes available,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Sean’s attorney Aaron Dyer spoke out after the raids about the ‘gross overuse of military-level force.’ He said that there was a ‘witch hunt’ against Sean.

“There was a gross overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Dyer told Billboard in a statement. “There is no excuse for the excessive show of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated. Mr. Combs was never detained but spoke to and cooperated with authorities.”

The attorney said that Sean and his family had not been arrested and were allowed to travel how they please, even after the raids.

“This unprecedented ambush — paired with an advanced, coordinated media presence — leads to a premature rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” he continued. “There has been no finding of criminal or civil liability with any of these allegations. Mr. Combs is innocent and will continue to fight every single day to clear his name.”

In May 2024, CNN released footage of Sean physically assaulting Cassie at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles in March 2016.

Two days after the footage was made public, Sean issued public apologies on Instagram and Facebook.

The office of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón released a statement explaining why the hotel video, though “disturbing,” would not directly lead to Sean being prosecuted.

“We find the images extremely disturbing and difficult to watch,” it read. “If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, unfortunately we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted.”

On May 10, 2024, Sean asked a judge to dismiss the Jane Doe rape claim that we mentioned earlier.

“Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old tale against them, which has caused incalculable damage to their reputations and business standing before any evidence has been presented,” read the filing. “Plaintiff cannot allege what day or time of year the alleged incident occurred, but miraculously remembers other salacious details, despite her alleged incapacitated condition.”

The filing also asked that the case be “dismissed now, with prejudice” to prevent anymore “reputational injury” and waste of judicial resources.

On May 21, 2024, former model Crystal McKinney accused Sean of sexual assault in a lawsuit. She alleged that he had forced her to perform oral sex on him in the bathroom of a recording studio in 2003.

Crystal also claimed that she was given alcohol and marijuana that she later came to believe was laced “with a narcotic or other intoxicating substance.” After the alleged assault was over, she says she “awakened in shock” to find herself in a taxi leaving the scene.

Also named as defendants in the lawsuit are Combs’ label Bad Boy Records, its parent company Universal Music Group and Combs’ clothing company Sean John Clothing, all of which McKinney claims “enabled” the alleged assault by “actively maintaining and employing Combs in a position of power” despite the fact that they allegedly “knew or should have known that Combs posed a risk of sexual assault.”

A woman named April Lampros claimed days after Crystal’s lawsuit was filed that Sean had sexually assaulted her multiple times between 1995 and the early 2000s.

After meeting her at a bar in New York, she “succumbed to pressure” to drink alcohol after “delusional and violent outbursts”, according to the federal complaint filed in New York City.

April claimed she began to feel like the “walls were closing in on her” after sipping her drink and Sean escorted her back to a hotel. The lawsuit alleged Sean forced himself on April. “Ms Lampros was being raped by Mr Combs, and she soon passed out,” it said.

Sean allegedly then “love-bombed her” and his advances later “manifested into an aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship based on sex”.

The lawsuit claimed Sean assaulted April a second time by physically forcing her to perform oral sex in a garage near his apartment in Manhattan. When April tried to get out of the situation, he allegedly gave her “gifts and empty promises” before turning “angry, threatening and forceful” and claiming he would destroy her career.

In 1996, Sean sexually assaulted April for a third time when he forced her and his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter to take ecstasy and have sex together, the lawsuit alleged. Sean masturbated while he watched the women together before assaulting April, according to court documents.

April said she ended her relationship with Sean two years later. However, when she saw him at an event at the Rockefeller Center in the early 2000s he begged to see her again and she allowed him to come to her apartment where he kissed and touched her against her will, the lawsuit alleged.

In 2023, April alleges an unidentified man approached her partner at the time and said he had seen a sexual video of Sean and her from years earlier. April was informed “Mr Combs apparently recorded them having sex without her knowing and showed it to multiple people,” the filing claimed.

A man named Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith filed a lawsuit and alleged that Sean drugged and sexually abused him at a party 30 years ago.

The lawsuit claims that Derrick and Sean met while he was working at a Detroit-area restaurant in 1997. During a night of drinking and weed-smoking, they reportedly had sex with a group of women, according to the suit. Derrick said he felt a man’s hand, which he claims was Sean’s touching him.

The suit also alleges that Sean served him a spiked drink that caused him to pass out. When he woke up, Sean was having sex with a woman and allegedly said to him, “I did this to you too.”

Sean’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, disputed the judgment and Derrick’s account.

“This man is a convicted felon and sexual predator, who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping over the last 26 years,” he said.

Sean has moved to dismiss the suit.

Derrick alleges that Sean visited him in prison and offered him $2.3m to dismiss the lawsuit, and Derrick rejected the offer. On September 9, 2024, Derrick was awarded a $100 million default judgement after Sean failed to appear for a virtual hearing.

A Lenawee County Circuit Court judge set up a payment schedule of $10 million per month for Sean, which was due to start on October 1.

In September 2024, Sean was arrested and charged with racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation for the purposes of prostitution. He was arrested at 8.30am on Monday September 16, at the Park Hyatt New York on 57th Street in New York.

The US Attorney’s Office released this statement:

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William S. Walker, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), announced that SEAN COMBS, a/k/a “Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “P. Diddy,” a/k/a “PD,” a/k/a “Love,” was arrested last night and charged in a three count Indictment with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The Indictment unsealed today alleges that between 2008 and the present, COMBS abused, threatened, and coerced women and others, and led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, among other crimes. COMBS is expected to be presented in Manhattan federal court this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As alleged in the Indictment, for years, Sean Combs used the business empire he controlled to sexually abuse and exploit women, as well as to commit other acts of violence and obstruction of justice. Today, he is charged with racketeering and sex trafficking offenses. If you have been a victim of Combs’ alleged abuse – or if you know anything about his alleged crimes – we urge you to come forward. This investigation is far from over.”

From at least 2008 through the present, COMBS led a criminal enterprise that existed to facilitate his abuse and exploitation of women, to protect his reputation, and to conceal his conduct. As part of that criminal enterprise, COMBS, along with other members and associates of the enterprise, committed crimes including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.

Among other things, COMBS’ sexual abuse of women included causing them to engage in frequent, days-long sexual activity with male commercial sex workers, some of whom were transported over state lines. These events, which COMBS referred to as “Freak Offs,” were elaborate sex performances that COMBS arranged, directed, and often electronically recorded. To ensure participation in Freak Offs, COMBS used violence and intimidation, and leveraged his power over victims—power he obtained through obtaining and distributing narcotics to them, exploiting his financial support to them and threatening to cut off the same, and controlling their careers. COMBS also threatened his victims, including by threatening to expose the embarrassing and sensitive recordings he made of Freak Offs if the women did not comply with his demands.

COMBS’ efforts to control women included repeated physical abuse. COMBS assaulted women by, among other things, striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them. COMBS similarly assaulted witnesses to his abuse. These assaults often resulted in injuries to the victims, which took days or weeks to heal.

To commit these crimes, COMBS relied on his power as the leader of a multi-faceted business empire. Employees of COMBS’ businesses—including high ranking supervisors, security staff, personal assistants, and household staff—acted as COMBS’ intermediaries to, among other things, arrange travel and hotel rooms; stock the hotel rooms for COMBS’ commercial sex activity; contact or locate women and other individuals whom he targeted for abuse; and conceal and cover up the abuse. This criminal concealment included efforts to prevent law enforcement from learning about his abuse.

Sean’s attorney Marc Agnifilo, issued a statement saying: “We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr Combs by the US Attorney’s Office.”

He added that Sean had traveled to New York in the week before the arrest in anticipation of the charges being brought. “He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal,” Agnifilo said.

INDICTMENT DOCS – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U3R93hgfBrU8xuB7AMQdBKprwdQ6gHAd/view?pli=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawF4BR5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbQXnPUMeQ-vLgRI2CaargTusuPhNzk2wvoX0oJ1uS-1ZR9aLVW5-SU7Lg_aem_gih57HpsvBwNNYQAWm077g

Sean applied for bail and was denied. His attorney’s offered up a $50m bail package.

This information is from Rolling Stone:

“Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded or run from a challenge in his life. He will not start now,” Attorney Agnifilo wrote in the letter. “As he has handled every hardship, he will meet this case head-on, he will work hard to defend himself, and he will prevail.”

As part of the bail package, Combs already surrendered his passport to his attorneys in April, according to the court documents, along with the passports of his daughters Chance, twins Jessie and D’Lila, and his toddler Love. The Bad Boy Entertainment founder’s mother Janice had also surrendered her passport to Combs’ legal counsel. Combs and his three adult sons — Quincy, Justin and Christian — have offered to co-sign the agreement.

The former billionaire — whom Forbes now estimates has a net worth of $400 million — also noted that he paid the rest of the $18 million mortgage remaining on his $48 million Miami compound off in August and has been trying to sell his private plane. “Just this weekend, Mr. Combs entered into a Letter of Intent with a party to sell it,” the court documents note. “Mr. Combs understands he is not to travel to Los Angeles, where the plane had been located this week, and further that the plane is not to be brought to any District in which he is located until it is sold.”

He allegedly had an apartment rental viewing on Monday night but was unable to tour the space due to his arrest.

He has also been cooperating with prosecutors’ subpoenas, the letter argues, saying Combs’ business entities have “produced over 144,000 pages of documents to the SDNY in compliance with the subpoena. ”

There are so many lawsuits against Sean, it is hard to keep track. On September 27, 2024, a 10th lawsuit by an anonymous woman was filed. This suit alleged that Sean abused the woman for four years.

In her suit, “Jane Doe” says she more than once woke up in Combs’s bed, badly injured, after blacking out the night before — with no memory of what had happened.

Doe says in the suit that she met Combs in the fall of 2020 “at an overseas location.” He paid for her to travel there, and the two began seeing each other “regularly” after that, according to the suit.

They met up roughly once a month, and Combs would often drug her against her will, then sexually abuse her, Doe claims, in the lawsuit.

“On one morning she woke up and her feet were purple and bruised and she had a bite mark on her heel,” it says. “Jane Doe did not know how she sustained the injuries.”

Doe later learned she had been unwittingly dosed with ketamine, according to the lawsuit.

An October 2, 2024 article from Variety alleges that Sean will be facing an additional 120 sexual assault lawsuits that will be filed in New York, Los Angeles and Miami over the coming weeks.

A press conference was held on that day in Houston, where a group of lawyers revealed the massive amount of suits that are pending filing. “The biggest secret in the entertainment industry, that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world,” said attorney Tony Buzbee, according to Washington Post. “The wall of silence has now been broken.”

The firm stated that the victims are equally male and female, and that they ranged from the ages of nine to 38 at the time of the incidents. According to CNN, twenty-five victims were minors at the time of the alleged acts, and a few victims have spoken with the FBI. The assaults span 30 years dating back to the early 1990s and up until this year, with half of the victims filing police reports or seeking medical attention at the time of alleged assault. The majority of the victims state that they were drugged, and that horse tranquilizer was found in several drug tests. Attorneys claim that they received more than 3,000 responses after issuing a call to victims to come forward, which they vetted and whittled down to 120 credible cases.

In a statement provided to Variety, Combs’ attorney Erica Wolff said, “As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasized, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus. That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors. He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”

Sean is being held, awaiting trial, in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he has been placed under suicide watch.

His cellmate is Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving a 25-year sentence.

Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 2023. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a “poster boy” for crypto, with FTX having a global reach with more than 130 international affiliates. At the peak of his net worth, he was ranked the 41st-richest American in the Forbes 400.