BREAKING NEWS
Watch: Aerial footage reveals raids at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s properties
By Samantha Granville in Los Angeles & Phil McCausland
BBC Info
Properties connected to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs possess been raided on Monday by federal agents.
The Division of Web page of starting assign Security talked about it had pursued the “regulations enforcement actions as fragment of an ongoing investigation” in Current York, Los Angeles and Miami.
Two properties possess been searched in Los Angeles and Miami as fragment of the probe.
Officials did no longer specify the causes for the raids or whether or no longer they possess been tied to Mr Combs.
Representatives for the hip-hop multi-millionaire did no longer respond to the BBC’s requests for comment on Monday.
Several most recent complaints possess accused Mr Combs of sexual misconduct. His attorneys possess beforehand denied all the allegations made against him in the complaints.
On Monday, Web page of starting assign Security Investigations agents possess been conducting their operations in the 17,000 square foot mansion the assign Mr Combs launched his most recent album release final September.
The take care of of the house is associated with Mr Combs’ Execrable Boy Motion footage production firm. Positioned in the filthy rich Los Angeles neighbourhood of Holmby Hills, the effect is home to a immense series of celebrities and the Playboy Mansion.
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Two regulations enforcement officials told the Linked Press that the raids possess been fragment of an ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation.
The BBC has no longer independently confirmed this reporting.
Closing one year, R&B singer Cassie, whose elephantine title is Casandra Ventura, filed a lawsuit in Current York federal court docket against Mr Combs, whom she had dated between 2005 and 2018.
In court docket paperwork, she alleged years of abuse at the arms of the rapper, though she later settled the lawsuit with him.
Two other females then came forward with their beget complaints, accusing him of sexual abuse. A person also has advance forward accusing Mr Combs of sexual misconduct.
Douglas Wigdor, attorney for Ms Ventura and but every other alleged victim, talked about on Monday that his customers supported the regulations enforcement efforts.
“Optimistically, right here’s the starting assign of a course of that will preserve Mr Combs guilty for his execrable habits,” Mr Wigdor talked about in a assertion.
Mr Combs remains one of many most influential and valuable hip-hop producers of the previous several decades.
He’s the founding father of Execrable Boy Data and is a 3-time Grammy winner who has worked with A-checklist artists like Usher and Mary J Blige.
