Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrested by federal agents in New York City

[iemanja]

Source: ABC News

Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested Monday night in New York City by federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations, ABC News has confirmed.

"Earlier this evening, federal agents arrested Sean Combs, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY," United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement. "We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time."

Combs was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan, sources said. He will spend the night in federal custody before he is brought to court for arraignment Tuesday, sources told ABC News.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan returned an indictment against Combs, which set in motion his arrest, sources told ABC News.

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[iemanja]

1. WaPo has more

The arrest comes months after the first of eight sexual assault lawsuits was filed against Combs last year and follows raids by the Department of Homeland Security on his mansions in Los Angeles and Miami in March. The agency did not publicly confirm the nature of the operation at the time, but a law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, told The Washington Post that the searches were part of a sex-trafficking investigation.

The first suit was filed in November 2023 by Cassie, who dated Combs between 2007 and 2018, when she was a singer signed to his Bad Boy record label. Her suit accused Combs of more than a decade of “abuse, violence and sex trafficking,” including an incident at a Los Angeles hotel where, Cassie claimed, Combs beat her and paid hotel staff to obtain the security footage.

Cassie and Combs settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount a day after it was filed, with Combs maintaining his innocence. Months later, surveillance footage obtained by CNN showed Combs assaulting Cassie in 2016 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Century City hotel. The video clips showed Combs pursuing her down a hallway, throwing her to the floor as she tried to call an elevator and dragging her off-camera.

Reports circulated in July that a federal grand jury in New York was weighing evidence against Combs. By that time, eight people had accused the famed music executive of sexually assaulting or trafficking them. The allegations spanned the length of Combs’s career, with several women accusing him of raping and drugging them in the 1990s. Four people, including Cassie, have also alleged that Combs engaged in sex trafficking. Rodney Jones, a producer who worked with Combs on his most recent album, alleged that Combs was trafficking sex workers as recently as 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/09/16/diddy-arrested-sean-combs-new-york-indictment/

[LeftInTX]

7. OMG!

[speak easy]

2. Alleged Sex Trafficking

Forcing girls / girlfriends to have sex with men while Combs filmed them.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Diddy didn't do it.....

for me. Mr. Fantasy did, though....

https://music.

&si=GJWn6odSW4H6jLRo

[FirstLight]

4. Good.

Couldn't happen to a nicer fella : sarcasm:

It'll be interesting to see what comes out in the days to come. Better than 24-hour assassin coverage

[NJCher]

5. From the Park Hyatt

To federal custody.

Neither one sounds good to me. I’ll take my quiet bedroom in the woods any old day. Throw in a purring kitty and call it content.

Some people need complicated lives, I guess.

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. Funny that you say this.

I have two acquaintances who are like this. They literally cannot function unless there is all kinds of drama and strife in their lives. They will wither and wilt if they are placed in a utopian situation. They don't go on vacations, they go on trips, because they cannot appreciate the fact that they are suppose to be 'relaxing'. They don't know how to do this. So, they fill their trip with all kinds of things to do which turn a 'vacation' into a constant race to try and get it all done.

I guess some people just feed off of stress. Such a person scares me, but they certainly exist.

[NJCher]

6. He had a key to the City of NY

But after that footage of him kicking Cassie was on tv, Mayor Adams asked for him to return it.

Wonder if he’ll be thinking about that when they lock the door of his cell tonight.

[SunSeeker]

9. That hotel hallway closed circuit camera footage of Diddy assaulting Cassie was disgusting.

Imagine what he does in private!

He could have easily killed her with those kicks or the way he threw her around like a rag doll. He belongs in jail. He has zero remorse, total pig.

[Justice matters.]

8. Looks like he FAed and is about to FO. nt

[hlthe2b]

10. So will Jennifer Lopez still offer support this time around?

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. Probably. She normally uses people to advance her career, so she's gotta keep that door open

I've met her at Biz events a couple of times. The way she latches on to powerful people to get ahead sickened me. When she transitioned from movies to music, she was all over Puff Daddy.

[Zorro]

12. Diddy Diddit

[twodogsbarking]

13. More dan once.