{"id":43924,"date":"2024-09-17T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=43924"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:42:52","slug":"sean-diddy-combs-arrested-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/09\/17\/sean-diddy-combs-arrested-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs arrested in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs has been arrested in Manhattan and faces federal charges, the music mogul\u2019s attorney has told US media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\u00a0New York\u00a0Times reported the arrest came after a grand jury indicted him, citing a person familiar with the indictment who was not authorised to speak publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement\u00a0posted on social media\u00a0late Monday that \u201cwe expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of the charges weren\u2019t immediately announced by prosecutors, but Combs\u2019 lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, issued a statement saying: \u201cWe are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr Combs by the US Attorney\u2019s Office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that Combs had gone to New York last week in anticipation of the charges being brought. 

\u201cHe is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal,\u201d Agnifilo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combs was arrested at the Park Hyatt New York on 57th Street in New York about 8.30pm Monday. He was expected to be held overnight and arraigned in court on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal investigation into Combs was revealed when Homeland Security Investigations agents served simultaneous search warrants and\u00a0raided Combs\u2019 mansions in Los Angeles and Miami\u00a0on 25 March.

The day after the raids his defence attorney Aaron Dyer called them \u201ca gross use of military-level force\u201d, said the allegations were \u201cmeritless\u201d and that Combs was \u201cinnocent and will continue to fight\u201d to clear his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, his career has been plagued with sexual assault lawsuits and a federal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combs was once one of the most successful rappers in the US, with a string of hit tracks including US No 1 singles Can\u2019t Nobody Hold Me Down, I\u2019ll Be Missing You and Shake Ya Tailfeather. His label Bad Boy Records was home to popular artists including Notorious BIG and Mase, and he had success with other business ventures such as clothing brand Sean John and vodka brand C\u00eeroc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But his reputation has been damaged since the allegations, which he has denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks New York mayor Eric Adams has\u00a0demanded Combs return the ceremonial key\u00a0to the city he was awarded in September 2023, while\u00a0Howard University rescinded Combs\u2019 honorary degree, discontinued a scholarship programme in his name and returned a $1m donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last November, his former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, became the first of several people to sue him for sexual abuse.

In her November lawsuit,\u00a0Cassie alleged years of abuse, including beatings and rape. Her suit also alleged Combs engaged in sex trafficking by \u201crequiring her to engage in forced sexual acts in multiple jurisdictions\u201d and by engaging in \u201charboring and transportation of Plaintiff for purposes of sex induced by force, fraud, or coercion\u201d. It also said he compelled her to help him traffic male sex workers Combs would force Cassie to have sex with while he filmed.

The\u00a0suit was settled the following day, but its reverberations would last far longer. Three more women quickly came forward with claims against Combs, including sex trafficking and gang-rape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December, Combs posted on social media, \u201cENOUGH IS ENOUGH.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSickening 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May,\u00a0CNN aired a leaked video\u00a0of him punching Cassie, kicking her and throwing her on the floor in a hotel hallway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combs posted a video apologizing, saying, \u201cI was disgusted when I did it\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m disgusted now.\u201d Cassie\u2019s lawsuit was\u00a0followed by at least a half-dozen others\u00a0in the ensuing months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, the prestigious Howard University said it had cut ties with Combs and revoked all honors and privileges associated with an honorary degree it had awarded him. Combs returned the ceremonial \u201cKey to the City of New York\u201d after a request by mayor Eric Adams.

In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging Combs coerced him to solicit prostitutes and put pressure on him to have sex with them. Another of Combs\u2019 accusers was a woman who said the rap producer raped her two decades ago when she was 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combs and his attorneys denied the allegations.

While authorities did not publicly say the lawsuits set off the criminal investigation, Dyer said when the warrants were served the case was based on \u201cmeritless accusations made in civil lawsuits\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week a man who accused Combs of sexually assaulting him\u00a0won a $100m judgment\u00a0after the music producer failed to contest the allegations in a civil courthouse in Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An attorney for Combs issued a statement denying his client knew the plaintiff, Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith. The lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said Cardello-Smith had committed \u201cfraud on the court\u201d and that Combs \u201clooks forward to having this judgment swiftly dismissed\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs has been arrested in Manhattan and faces federal charges, the music mogul\u2019s attorney has told US media outlets. The\u00a0New York\u00a0Times reported the arrest came after a grand jury indicted him, citing a person familiar with the indictment who was not authorised to speak publicly. Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[4791,11261,11264,6975,183,12708,7960,4885,9194,9331,10460,10507,11139,5262,7265,6778,11564,5455,9127,11638,6085,10859,11166,10197,6580,10776,9765,7123,11237,5331,6283,3334,5572,6831,5058,990,12442,10275,11167,8977,9028,5762,7342,11979,10157,1507,8929,5655,7584,11091,1404,6704,10238,6838,5349,11325,9030,5594,9313,10220,146,214,6348,8033,5273,5320,594],"class_list":["post-43924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-abuse","tag-accused","tag-allegations","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-by-force","tag-case","tag-cassie","tag-charges","tag-city","tag-coercion","tag-court","tag-courthouse","tag-cut","tag-damian","tag-engaged","tag-eric-adams","tag-family","tag-february","tag-forced","tag-fraud","tag-girlfriend","tag-innocent","tag-investigation","tag-jury","tag-lawyer","tag-leaked","tag-los-angeles","tag-manhattan","tag-mayor","tag-miami","tag-michigan","tag-military","tag-missing","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mayor","tag-notorious-big","tag-prosecution","tag-prostitutes","tag-rap","tag-rape","tag-raped","tag-revoked","tag-scholarship","tag-sean-diddy-combs","tag-sean-combs","tag-security","tag-sex","tag-sex-trafficking","tag-sex-workers","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assault","tag-singer","tag-social-media","tag-street","tag-success","tag-traffic","tag-trafficking","tag-transportation","tag-truth","tag-university","tag-us","tag-video","tag-woman","tag-women","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43927,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43924\/revisions\/43927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}