Indicted: Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs Alleged to Have Used Guns to Intimidate Victims, Force Participants in Sex Parties

Rapper and record producer Sean “Diddy” Combs aka Puffy aka Puff Daddy aka P. Diddy has changed his name more times than the late Prince (aka some damn symbol we can’t even make on a keyboard aka the artist formerly known as Prince) and the still-performing John Mellencamp (aka John Cougar aka John Cougar Mellencamp). He’s also been sued more times for sexual assault at last count eight including allegations of gang rape, trafficking and forced drug use to Prince and Mellencamp’s combined zero lawsuits. (There were unproven allegations that Prince assaulted some women including the late Sinead O’Connor, but no sexual assault suits ever, and Mellencamp, a noted hot head, has zero such charges though one of his former keyboardists once lived on the FBI’s most wanted list for child porn charges.)

Now, it looks like Combs will also eclipse the other multi-named performers in another arena, after being indicted by a grand jury and then arrested in Manhattan Monday evening on racketeering, transportation to engage in prostitution and sex trafficking charges, it appears Diddy could also face gun charges related to his crimes.

According to multiple news reports including this one from the New York Post:

Sean “Diddy” Combs carried guns “to intimidate and threaten” his victims and the witnesses of his abuse, according to a sex-trafficking indictment against the hip-hop mogul.

The music producer “carried or brandished firearms to intimidate and threaten others, including victims of and witnesses to his abuse,” the court papers say.

Combs also had his security staff carry weapons, and when the feds raided his homes in Miami and Los Angeles, they found three AR-15s with “defaced serial numbers,” other guns, ammunition and a drum magazine, the indictment alleges.

Listening to the press conference held Tuesday in a New York City court by Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, the reading of the indictment made Combs sound like a modern-day Caligula. Describing days-long parties Combs frequently held called “Freak Offs,” these parties featured lengthy forced sexual performances fueled by drugs, often forced on the “performers” through violence, fear and intimidation. Combs would film the parties and use them to maintain control over some of the participants. He would reportedly supply the participants, many allegedly forced, with drugs, personal lubricants, baby oil and extra linens. The narrative of the press conference sounded more like something you’d expect on PornHub. 

The Guns and More

“The indictment alleges on more than one occasion Combs carried or brandished firearms to intimidate and threaten victims and witnesses,” Williams said.

In March of this year, agents executing search warrants found among other evidence of the alleged crimes, “firearms and ammunition including three defaced AR-15s and a large-capacity drum magazine.” They also found in Williams’ words, “cases and cases of the kind of baby oil and personal lubricants used for the Freak Offs.” That included more than 1,000 bottles of lubricant, none of it likely used for cleaning the firearms.

Williams showed off images of the firearms, ammunitions and gun accessories seized during the raids noting how the serial numbers had been defaced to prevent them from being traced.

“A year ago, Sean Combs stood in Times Square and was handed a key to New York City, today he’s been indicted and will face justice in the southern district of New York,” Williams said.

When asked toward the end of the press conference where the firearms and other items were found in his house, Williams said, “some of the AR-15s, two of the three defaced AR-15s, were found in his bedroom closet in Miami broken down into parts along with magazines with ammunition loaded in them.”