{"id":319082,"date":"2024-09-22T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=319082"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:13:12","slug":"rapper-p-diddy-coerced-abortions-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rapper-p-diddy-coerced-abortions-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper P. Diddy, accused of multiple coerced abortions, is jailed on sex trafficking charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less than a year after an explosive lawsuit was filed by his girlfriend, rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs has been arrested on multiple charges relating to sex crimes. The arrest comes after multiple women accused him of coercing them to have abortions, physical abuse, rape, and sex trafficking.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Combs was formally charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He faces a minimum of 15 years in prison, and a maximum sentence of life in prison if found guilty. During the hearing, Combs pled not guilty, but was denied bail, and was sent to jail immediately while awaiting trial. Prosecutors argued that he should not be allowed to go free while awaiting his fate, because he had engaged in witness tampering<\/a>. After one woman, Dawn Richard, sued Combs, he reportedly proceeded to call or text a potential witness, Kalenna Harper, 58 times in four days. After Harper posted on social media that she had not witnessed any of the things of which Combs was accused, Combs’ harassment stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis incident is just one way of making clear that this defendant has the ongoing ability to keep witnesses, even witnesses who might have been around for very distant-in-time abuse, in his pocket and at his disposal,\u201d Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson told U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky, who agreed that she could not \u201creasonably assure his return to court or the safety of the community, or a lack of witness tampering.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first lawsuit<\/h3>\n

Casandra Ventura, better known by the stage name “Cassie,” filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Combs in November, which is widely credited with launching the now-disgraced rapper’s eventual downfall. Ventura was known as Combs’ long-time girlfriend, but in her lawsuit, she accused Combs of raping and drugging her, and controlling virtually every aspect of her life \u2014 making it nearly impossible for her to separate herself from him.<\/p>\n

Ventura also accused Combs of trafficking her, forcing her to participate in incidents he called \u201cfreak-offs,\u201d or FOs, where she was drugged and raped for extended periods of time by people of Combs’ choosing. If she tried to escape or refused her to participate, she said Combs’ security team forced her. And all the while, she said Combs was physically violent, so much so that she required ongoing medical intervention.<\/p>\n

A video was released supporting many of her claims; it showed Ventura trying to escape Combs in a hotel hallway as he chased her, clad only in a towel. After catching up to her, Combs can be seen in the footage throwing her to the ground, hitting her, kicking her, throwing objects at her, and dragging her on the ground by her sweatshirt.<\/p>\n