17 September 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nSean ‘Diddy’ Combs has pleaded not guilty to allegations of sex trafficking.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Diddy has entered a not guilty plea<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old rap star appeared in a court in Manhattan on Tuesday (17.09.24) after being charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution.<\/p>\n
Asked during a court hearing how he pleaded to the charges, Combs replied: “Not guilty.”<\/p>\n
The hip-hop mogul’s lawyers subsequently requested that Combs be freed on bond, pending trial, after paying a sum of $50 million.<\/p>\n
However, following a a lengthy debate between legal teams on whether Combs represents a flight risk, Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky announced that the rap star will remain in detention until his sex trafficking trial begins.<\/p>\n
\nCombs was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan, New York, on Monday.<\/p>\n
\nThe accusations he’s facing were later made public.<\/p>\n
\nAn indictment reads: “For decades, SEAN COMBS, a\/k\/a \u2018Puff Daddy,\u2019 a\/k\/a \u2018P Diddy,\u2019 a\/k\/a \u2018Diddy,\u2019 a\/k\/a \u2018PD,\u2019 a\/k\/a \u2018Love,\u2019 the defendant, abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct (sic)”<\/p>\n
\nAccording to the indictment, Combs’ alleged crimes “relied on employees, resources, and influence of the multi-faceted business empire that he led and controlled – creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice (sic)”<\/p>\n
\nDamian Williams, the US attorney for the southern district of New York, also alleged during a press conference that the rapper maintained control over his victims by “giving them drugs, by giving and threatening to take away financial support or housing, by promising them career opportunities, by monitoring their whereabouts, and even by dictating their physical appearance”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"17 September 2024 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has pleaded not guilty to allegations of sex trafficking. Diddy has entered a not guilty plea The 54-year-old rap star appeared in a court in Manhattan on Tuesday (17.09.24) after being charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[269,3647],"class_list":{"0":"post-125810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-diddy","9":"tag-sean-combs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}