Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is getting ready for a high-stakes gamble, as he faces federal costs of intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for the needs of prostitution.
Combs, 54, is able to take the stand in his personal protection, in keeping with his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, in a stunning revelation previewed within the new TMZ documentary, “The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment.“
The documentary, which delves into the damning allegations towards the rap icon, claims that Combs is raring to inform his facet of the story, regardless of the large authorized dangers concerned.
Agnifilo, whereas acknowledging the damaging sport his shopper is taking part in, insists there’s nobody higher outfitted to defend Combs than Combs himself.
“He’s trying ahead to it,” Agnifilo stated. “It’s a narrative of affection, damage, and heartbreak, and Diddy can’t wait to inform it to the jury.”
However that is no extraordinary trial. Combs’ determination to testify opens him as much as cross-examination by federal prosecutors, who’re more likely to carry up a protracted record of salacious and disturbing allegations.
In line with the unsealed federal indictment, Combs is accused of main a decade-plus legal enterprise that facilitated the exploitation and abuse of ladies.
Combs is accused of utilizing threats, intimidation, and violence to coerce girls into partaking in sexual acts at his notorious “Freak Off” events.
These occasions allegedly featured business intercourse employees, and in some instances, girls had been transported throughout state strains for the only function of being sexually exploited.
Prosecutors allege that Combs electronically recorded these encounters and used the footage as blackmail to manage his victims, threatening to launch it if they didn’t comply along with his calls for.
Victims of Combs’ enterprise, prosecutors say, suffered repeated bodily abuse. Allegations embody cases of Combs putting, punching, dragging, and throwing objects at girls.
A search of his Miami mansion uncovered a disturbing cache of weapons, which he’s accused of utilizing to “intimidate and threaten victims and witnesses.”
The legal enterprise Combs allegedly ran extends far past simply himself. Prosecutors say that Combs relied on staff from his sprawling enterprise empire—together with high-ranking executives, safety personnel, private assistants, and family workers—to facilitate his abuses.
These staff reportedly helped organize journey, inventory resort rooms for sexual encounters, and find the ladies focused for exploitation. Additionally they allegedly helped cowl up Combs’ crimes.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to the fees.
In line with the DOJ, Diddy has been charged with “one rely of racketeering conspiracy, which carries a most sentence of life in jail; one rely of intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud, or coercion, which carries a most sentence of life in jail and a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years in jail; and one rely of transportation for functions of prostitution, which carries a most sentence of 10 years in jail.”
PEOPLE reported that Combs had been positioned on suicide watch.
