Sean 'Diddy' Combs was arrested late Monday in New York, where he faces a sealed criminal indictment, prosecutors announced late Monday.
Sean"Diddy" Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of"The Four: Battle For Stardom" at the CBS Radford Studio Center on May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles.
The U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Damian Williams, said in a statement that federal agents arrested Combs."We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time."Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, issued a statement saying:"We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney's Office.""He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal," Agnifilo said.
His defense attorney Aaron Dyer the day after the raids called them"a gross use of military-level force," said the allegations were"meritless," and said Combs was"innocent and will continue to fight" to clear his name. In her November lawsuit, Cassie alleged years of abuse, including beatings and rape. Her suit also alleged Combs engaged in sex trafficking by"requiring her to engage in forced sexual acts in multiple jurisdictions" and by engaging in"harboring and transportation of Plaintiff for purposes of sex induced by force, fraud, or coercion."
The following day, in his first real acknowledgement of wrongdoing since the stream of allegations began, Combs posted a social media video apologizing, saying"I was disgusted when I did it" and"I'm disgusted now." Cassie's lawsuit was followed by at least a half-dozen others in the ensuing months. Another woman who filed a lawsuit, April Lampros, said she was a college student in 1994 when she met Combs and a series of"terrifying sexual encounters" with Combs and those around him began that lasted for years.While authorities did not publicly say that the lawsuits set off the criminal investigation, Dyer said when the warrants were served that the case was based on"meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.
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