Disgraced rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs arrested in New York hotel after sex trafficking raids & link to Tupac murder trial
DISGRACED Diddy Combs was arrested late Monday in New York based on unspecified federal charges.
The rapper’s arrest comes months after federal agents raided his homes in Miami and Los Angeles as part of an ongoing sex trafficking probe.
While a source told The US Sun investigators probing the rapper are secretly liaising with prosecutors in the murder trial of Tupac Shakur.
Combs, 54, was arrested in a Manhattan hotel lobby by Homeland Security Officers.
His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said Combs had been cooperating with the investigation and had voluntarily relocated to New York in anticipation of the charges.
Combs’s lawyer said their team is “disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the US Attorney’s Office.”
US attorney in Manhattan, Damian Williams confirmed the rapper’s arrest.
Details of the charges have not been announced by prosecutors.
“We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time,” Williams said.
Meanwhile, a source told The U.S. Sun that federal investigators have been collaborating with the Clark County District Attorney’s (DA’s) office in Las Vegas over their probe of Tupac’s shooting in 1996.
The source said officials have been “collating information” by Vegas prosecutors about connections to criminal activity, gangland activities, and individuals who wanted Pac dead.
The star’s arrest comes months after federal agents raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami as part of an ongoing sex trafficking probe.
Combs, 54, is currently facing a string of civil lawsuits over allegations of sexual assault.
Earlier this month Combs was ordered to pay $100m in a sexual assault case after he failed to file an answer to the complaint brought by inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith.
The lawsuit was filed by inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith who claimed Diddy drugged and sexually assaulted him in 1997.
Previously he was accused of grooming and sex trafficking by former porn star Adria English.
Adria claimed the music mogul threatened to blacklist her if she didn’t have sex with guests at his lavish parties.
The rapper denied the allegations.
Recent lawsuits against Sean 'Diddy' Combs
Diddy was hit with a wave of lawsuits in late 2023 and 2024 with allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault. He has denied all claims against him.
- November 17, 2023: Cassie, Diddy’s longtime girlfriend, sued him, claiming she endured “a cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking” until their relationship ended in 2018. Diddy and Cassie settled the suit the day after it was filed.
- Diddy was hit with two more lawsuits a week after he settled with Cassie.
- November 23, 2023: Joi Dickerson accused Diddy of drugging and raping her and filming the attack when she was a 19-year-old college student in January 1991.
- November 24, 2023: A second unidentified accuser in a separate lawsuit claimed that Diddy and another man sexually assaulted her and a friend in 1990 or 1991, then showed up at her apartment and beat her several days later.
- December 6, 2023: Diddy was sued again by an unidentified woman who claimed he and two men gang-raped her in 2003 when she was 17 years old.
- February 26, 2024: Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who helped produce Diddy’s most recent album, claimed that the mogul sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him from September 2022 to November 2023 as they worked together.
- May 21, 2024: Model Crystal McKinney accused Combs of sexually assaulting her after meeting at a Men’s Fashion Week event in New York City in 2003. McKinney claims she was drinking alcohol and smoking weed with Combs and several of his colleagues when she took a hit off a joint that she claims was laced with another drug. McKinney claims she felt woozy, and Combs ordered her to the bathroom, where he allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on him.
- May 23, 2024: April Lampros, 51, claimed in her lawsuit that she met Sean Combs in New York City in 1994 while attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. Combs is accused of drugging and raping Lampros in a hotel after promising to help mentor her in the fashion industry.
- July 3, 2024: Adria English, an ex-porn star who went by Omunique, accused Diddy of grooming her into sex trafficking in the early 2000s, according to TMZ.
The music star has been in the spotlight in the past year after he settled a lawsuit from his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
In November 2023, disturbing hallway footage emerged showing him kicking and beating his then-partner.
He released a video at the time apologizing to his ex.
The rapper said, “I was f***ed up. I mean, I hit rock bottom but I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable.
“I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it and I’m disgusted now.”