Sean Combs Allotted Meth, Ketamine: Prosecutors

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of “ownership with the intent to distribute” a lot of medication and victimizing two extra girls in his racketeering and intercourse trafficking felony case, consistent with court docket paperwork received by means of Rolling Stone.

Below the racketeering rely, which is now backdated to 2004 from the unique indictment’s 2008, prosecutors accuse Combs and his pals of dealing a lot of managed ingredients, together with cocaine, oxycodone, Ecstasy, ketamine and different psychedelic medication.

The 15-page superseding indictment, which was once unveiled in court docket on Thursday, didn’t identify any co-defendants or upload further counts in opposition to Combs. The 55-year-old is these days charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. If convicted, he faces 15 years to lifestyles in jail. An ordeal date is about for Might 5.

Combs has been held with out bail since his Sept. 16 arrest, pleading no longer to blame to the unique 3 fees in opposition to him. 3 judges denied his request for liberate — which integrated a considerable $50 million bail package deal and around-the-clock tracking — mentioning fear of witness tampering and being a risk to the group. Even if Combs’ staff of high-profile legal professionals had put the topic in entrance of an appellate court docket, Combs’ legal professionals voluntarily pushed aside the bid on Dec. 13. (Rolling Stone has reached out to representatives for Combs.)

There have been no further main points given within the superseding indictment concerning the two different alleged feminine sufferers within the case. Then again, prosecutors prior to now claimed in court docket paperwork that Sufferer-2 had texted Combs within the days after Ventura filed her bombshell intercourse trafficking lawsuit that studying the swimsuit was once like studying her personal “sexual trauma.” (Combs’ staff denied the girl was once a sufferer.)

Prosecutors prior to now said {that a} superseding indictment might be in play, telling U.S. District Pass judgement on Arun Subramanian at a convention listening to in October that their investigation was once ongoing and there was once a most probably risk of extra fees being introduced in opposition to Combs. The similar month, CNN and NBC reported {that a} grand jury have been listening to testimony from witnesses.

The unique 14-page indictment in opposition to Combs looked as if it would intently observe the accusations that R&B singer Ventura leveled in opposition to him in her explosive sexual abuse lawsuit from November 2023. Ventura alleged that right through her decade-long courting together with her Unhealthy Boy label boss, she was once bodily crushed and compelled to devour narcotics whilst having intercourse with male intercourse staff. Combs denied her allegations and the lawsuit was once settled inside 24 hours.  

Prosecutors didn’t identify Ventura within the indictment nevertheless it was once transparent that she was once “Sufferer 1,” with incidents alleged in her grievance mirroring occasions detailed within the charging papers. Prosecutors accused Combs of the usage of his billion greenback empire as a “felony undertaking” to dedicate a variety of offenses, consistent with the indictment, together with “intercourse trafficking, compelled hard work, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.” 

They painted an image of a deadly and abusive guy, who compelled romantic companions to put up to his will and sexual fantasies thru manipulation, coercion, threats and violence, together with as soon as making an attempt to beat down a girl’s door with a hammer. He’s accused of weaponizing his billion greenback empire and a staff of dependable staffers to hold out his calls for.

Combs’ lead protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo admitted that whilst Combs’ courting with Ventura was once deeply “poisonous,” they argued that there was once not anything felony about their courting and claimed all sexual acts had been consensual. Denying accusations of intercourse trafficking, Agnifilo accused the “federal executive” of “entering this guy’s bed room.” “They’re making no longer simply judgments, they’re charging him with statutes that, as they stated, may just put him in prison for lifestyles,” Agnifilo instructed the court docket.

Ventura’s 2023 swimsuit sparked a domino impact, with greater than 40 different men and women submitting civil complaints in opposition to Combs and his alleged pals. The complaints come from former Danity Kane member Crack of dawn Richard, track manufacturer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, ingenious Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, a former Unhealthy Boy worker, and males and females who allege Combs drugged and/or assaulted them within the Nineties and as lately as July 2024. Combs has maintained his innocence and denied their allegations. “In court docket, the reality will succeed: that Mr. Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked someone—guy or lady, grownup or minor,” a consultant for Combs stated in a commentary.

A handful of the civil complaints come from outstanding Houston legal professional Tony Buzbee and co-counsel Andrew Van Arsdale. The corporations introduced in September that they had been representing greater than 120 shoppers with claims in opposition to Combs and his pals, together with accusers who had been minors on the time of the alleged encounters. Buzbee could also be representing a Jane Doe accuser who claimed that after she was once 13 years outdated she was once raped by means of Combs and Jay-Z all over a VMAs afterparty in 2000. (Jay-Z has vehemently denied the accusation and filed an extortion and defamation lawsuit in opposition to Buzbee.)