Prosecutors in New York have expanded their case against rapper Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, accusing him of coercing two additional women into commercial sex acts, and of dangling a person over an apartment balcony.<\/p>\n
Combs has been in jail since September after an initial indictment charged him with racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation to engage in prostitution.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the indictment was updated to add two more victims, although no new charges were added to the case.<\/p>\n
The musician, 55, has strenuously denied all the accusations against him, including the federal criminal case and more than 30 separate civil lawsuits.<\/p>\n
In response to the superseding indictment, his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said the prosecution\u2019s case \u201cremains flawed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government has added the ridiculous theory that two of Mr Combs\u2019s former girlfriends were not girlfriends at all, but were prostitutes. Mr Combs is as committed as ever to fighting these charges and winning at trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
The original indictment identified only one victim, named in court documents as \u201cVictim-1\u201d, whose accusations aligned closely to those of Cassandra Ventura \u2013 the singer who sued Combs for rape and sex trafficking in 2023.<\/p>\n
In the new filing, prosecutors allege that Combs \u201cused force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims, including but not limited to three female victims\u201d to engage in commercial sex acts.<\/p>\n
That alleged violence was vividly illustrated in a video of the musician kicking, dragging and throwing a vase at Ms Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.<\/p>\n
In the new indictment, prosecutors claim that \u201cCombs, with the assistance of several close associates, paid hotel security staff $100,000\u201d (\u00a380,000) for the footage.<\/p>\n
However, it was leaked to CNN last year. Combs later said he was \u201cdisgusted\u201d by the footage and had sought \u201cprofessional help\u201d after the incident.<\/p>\n
Ms Ventura said the violence she had experienced \u201cbroke me down to someone I never thought I\u2019d become\u201d.<\/p>\n
New claims added<\/strong><\/p>\n The updated indictment signals that federal prosecutors are widening their case against Combs as his trial date in May approaches.<\/p>\n A footnote to the document notes that their investigation is ongoing and that further updates will be filed \u201cas promptly as possible\u201d ahead of the trial.<\/p>\n Amongst the new developments, prosecutors have moved the alleged start date of Combs\u2019 sex trafficking offences back to 2004, four years earlier than previously stated.<\/p>\n They have also expanded the list of narcotics the musician allegedly used to keep his victims \u201cobedient and silent\u201d \u2013 adding methamphetamine and psychedelic mushrooms to the previously cited cocaine, oxycodone and ketamine.<\/p>\n The accusation that Combs dangled a woman from a balcony mirrors a claim made in a civil lawsuit filed by fashion designer Bryana \u201cBana\u201d Bongolan last December.<\/p>\n Prosecutors also added a claim that Combs had assaulted not just women but also \u201chis employees, witnesses to his abuse and others\u201d.<\/p>\n The musician\u2019s legal team has previously dismissed the charges against him as \u201cbaseless\u201d and accused the government of conducting a \u201cwitch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Prosecutors add two more women to Diddy case<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prosecutors in New York have expanded their case against rapper Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, accusing him of coercing two additional women into commercial sex acts, and of dangling a person over an apartment balcony. Combs has been in jail since September after an initial indictment charged him with racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}