Former rapper and entertainment mogul, Sean Combs aka Diddy has been arrested. Diddy was taken into custody after a grand jury indicted him. He
Former rapper and entertainment mogul, Sean Combs aka Diddy has been arrested.
Diddy was taken into custody after a grand jury indicted him.
He was arrested in a hotel lobby.
His arrest was confirmed by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, in a post on X.
“Earlier this evening (Monday), federal agents arrested Sean Combs, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.”
While the charges of the indictment remain unclear, a statement from his legal team described Diddy as an imperfect person but not a criminal.
Combs has been under federal investigation since March this year. His legal troubles began when his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, popularly known as Cassie, filed a lawsuit last November accusing him of years of sexual and physical abuse.
Although the music businessman settled with Ventura within a day, more lawsuits alleging sexual and physical abuse as well as sex trafficking have been filed by other women and men inclusive.
On March 25, federal agents raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami Beach, Florida. His electronic devices were reportedly confiscated after he was stopped at a Miami-area airport.
Diddy was back in the spotlight in May after CNN released a hotel surveillance footage showing Combs physically assaulting Ventura. Combs would later apologize in a video but the damage to his reputation almost seemed irredeemable.
