P Diddy is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He is also facing a string of allegations in a series of lawsuits. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player.
Combs , a three-time Grammy winner and one of the most influential hip-hop producers of the past three decades, has been facing a wave of lawsuits by women who have accused him of sexual assault. Combs is at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where he has been since he was arrested on 16 September last year at a hotel in New York.
Since he was detained, more allegations have emerged, including some of rape, and fresh lawsuits have also been filed. Here's a look at what the charges are, what else he has been accused of and what his lawyers have said. Racketeering conspiracy - which means illegal activity for profit that is disguised as legitimate business dealings - carries a maximum sentence of life in prison; sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion has a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison; and transportation for purposes of prostitution carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
The indictment alleges Combs "abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfil his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct" from at least It claims the year-old used his employees, resources and influence in the music industry to create a "criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labour, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice".
He allegedly induced female victims and male sex workers into drug-fuelled sexual performances, dubbed "freak offs", according to the document. The freak offs, referred to in the document some 16 times, were described as "elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded".
