Prosecutors Added details to their indictment against sean ‘Didy’ combs on Thursday, Saying the hip-hop scheduled for a may trial is accused of sex trafficking at least three women wo-decade racketeering conspiracy,
The refreshed indictment was filled in manhattan federal court. An attorney for combs, marc agnifilo, noted that the supercending indictments contains no new charges.
Combs, 55, have please not guilty to sex trafficking charges Lodged against him after his September arrest. He remains incarcerated without bail, Awaiting a May 5 Trial.
In the supercending indictment, Prosecutors added four years to the length of the alleged racketeering conspiracy, saying it laasted from about 2004 to 2024. The original indictment said the Conspiracy BY 2008.
The indictment specified that there are at least three female Victims, Listing them only as “Victim-1,” “Victim-2” and “Victim-3.”
Prosecutors said combs used the “Power and Prestige” He Wielded as a Music Mogul to Intimidate, Threten and Lure Women Into His Orbit, often Under the Pretense of a romantic relationship.
The indictment said he then used force, threats and coercion to cause Victims, Including the three women, to engage in commercial sex acts.
It said he subjected his Victims to Violence, Threats of Violence, Threats of Financial and Reputational Harm and Verbal Abuse.
“On Multiple Occasions, Combs Threw Both Objects and People, As Well as Hit, Dragged, Choned and SHOVED Oths,” It Said. “On One Occination, Combs Dangled A Victim Over An Apartment Balcony.”
Prosecutors offered no other information about that allegation.
Agnifilo, in a statement, said combs remains committed to fighting the charges.
“The government has added the ridiculous theory that two of mr. Combs’ Former Girlfriends was not girlfriends at all but was prostitutes.”
Earlier this month, defense lawers said in court papers that the allegations described in the indictments were a “sexist and peritanical” reactions by prosecutors to consucesual sex acts.
They wrote that “the government’s theory perpetuates stereotypes of female victimhood and lacked of agency.”
They said the government’s view depends on the characterization of the sex performance as “dirty, disgusting, or inharently unsavory” and shows that the government “seeks to politics It assumes – despite all evidence to the contrary – that A Woman’s Wiling Participation must have been corained. “