Federal prosecutors filed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Thursday, accusing the music mogul of “forced labor” while running a “criminal organization.”
There were no new charges in the superseding indictment, which was obtained by Urban Hollywood 411. But it did include additional allegations related to the mogul’s racketeering conspiracy count, prosecutors said in an accompanying letter to the judge.
The letter was dated March 6, and said Combs will be arraigned on the new indictment on March 14.
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This is the second superseding (revised) indictment against Combs since his arrest. Referred to as “S2 Indictment,” the new document alleges Combs, 55, “maintained control” over some employees and “forced” them to “work long hours with little sleep” or potentially face “physical force, psychological harm, financial harm, and reputational harm.”
The document alleges the Bad Boy Records founder led a “criminal organization” described by prosecutors as “Combs Enterprise,” that was allegedly involved in sex trafficking, prostitution, forced labor, narcotics, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.
The government says the mogul was “assisted” in the enterprise by unnamed associates.
“These individuals included certain Combs business employees, such as members of Combs’ security staff, household staff, personal assistants, and high-ranking supervisors, as well as other close associates of Combs,” the document states.
Prosecutors allege associates “helped conceal” violence and abuse by “assisting Combs in monitoring and preventing victims from leaving locations,” including hotels and the mogul’s homes.
The indictment says there were instances when victims were “required to remain in hiding — sometimes for several days at a time — to recover from injuries Combs inflicted, without being publicly observed.”
Prosecutors allege associates also “assisted Combs in locating and contacting victims who attempted to flee the abuse.”
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In late 2023 following public allegations against the mogul, his associates “pressured witnesses and victims, including through attempted bribery, to stay silent and not report what they experienced or knew to law enforcement,” prosecutors allege.
The communications included phone calls where members of the mogul’s inner circle allegedly “provided these victims and witnesses with a false narrative of events in an effort to conceal Combs’ crimes.” At least two of the calls were recorded, the indictment says.
The late 2023 time period would have been around the time Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, former Syracuse University student Joi Dickerson-Neal, and an anonymous Jane Doe accuser filed sexual abuse civil lawsuits against the mogul.
The S2 indictment also includes a stunning notation that Combs may be forced to forfeit to the U.S. government “any and all property, real and personal, involved in, used, or intended to be used to commit or facilitate the commission” of crimes.
The mogul vehemently denied the allegations in the indictment through his attorney, Marc Agnifilo.
“Mr. Combs has said it before and will say it again: he vehemently denies the accusations made by the SDNY [Southern District of New York],” Agnifilo said in a statement to ABC News. “He looks forward to his day in court when it will become clear that he has never forced anyone to engage in sexual acts against their will.”
The mogul was arrested on Sept. 16, and charged with three federal counts — racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all counts.
Diddy remains jailed in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, after being denied bail by three separate federal judges. His trial is scheduled to begin on May 5, 2025.
Prosecutors say they don’t expect the new indictment to affect the trial start date.
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