Sean 'Diddy' Combs hit with new criminal charges in sex trafficking case

Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News on Apr 4, 2025

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NEW YORK — Embattled hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with two new criminal counts in his sweeping sex trafficking and RICO case Friday, including allegations he brutalized women as recently as 2024.

The superseding indictment filed in Manhattan federal court includes a new Mann Act count related to one of the victims in the case. It accuses Combs of participating in sex trafficking from 2021 through last year, before his arrest, in New York.

It also includes a new charge of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Lawyers for the jailed rapper did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Jury selection is set to kick off later this month in the feds’ case against Combs, 55, who has been incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since his September arrest. His trial is expected to begin in earnest on May 5.

The Bad Boy Records co-founder has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and related allegations and faces a decadeslong sentence if convicted.

Prosecutors at the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office allege Combs used his vast business empire and men under his employ to sexually victimize women, often in so-called “freak off” sessions lasting days, which involved forced sexual performances with male commercial sex workers.

Charging papers accuse the once larger-than-life hip-hop producer and his associates of multiple acts of kidnapping, including one instance when he allegedly brandished a firearm while operating the sex trafficking enterprise.

Combs has also been accused of rape, sexual assault and other sex crimes in a slew of lawsuits brought by women and men ranging in age. He denies those allegations.

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