Liam Saranich | News editor
In March, famous rapper 54-year-old Sean Love Combs, also known as P. Diddy, homes were searched in Miami and Los Angeles by federal agents for evidence of the music icon’s alleged involvement in a sex trafficking scandal.
Combs was arrested last week and charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, according to an unsealed indictment against him by the U.S. Attorney's. Combs has pleaded not guilty and is being denied bail.
According to the indictment, federal prosecutors allege that Combs, “abused threatened, and coerced women and others” to “fulfill his sexual desires” in a “recurrent widely known” pattern of abuse. Comb’s abuse, they claim, ranged from emotional, verbal, physical and sexual.
Prosecutors also alleged that his “criminal enterprise” included sex trafficking, labor, interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, coercion and enticement to engage in prostitution, kidnapping, bribery, drug offenses and arson, among other crimes.
The indictment refers to Combs parties, or “elaborate and produced sex performances” that were recorded without the victims’ consent and at times used as collateral against them.
During the raid at Combs homes in Miami and Los Angeles law enforcement seized more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant. During the raids, police also seized “evidence” of crimes in the indictment and three AR-15s with scratched-off serial numbers.
If convicted of all three crimes charged against him, he will face up to life in prison, with a minimum of a 15-year sentence.
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