Sean "Diddy" Combs has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking and racketeering. The music mogul was taken into custody on Monday night following a grand jury's indictment, in which federal prosecutors accused the hip hop mogul of directing a vast criminal enterprise through which he assaulted and trafficked women from at least 2008.
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00:00Sean Diddy Combs has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking and racketeering
00:05The music mogul was taken into custody on Monday night following a grand jury's indictment in which federal prosecutors
00:12accused the hip-hop mogul of directing a vast criminal enterprise through which he assaulted and trafficked women from at least
00:192008 in the indictment unsealed on Tuesday
00:22The US Attorney's Office further alleged that the mogul engaged in a pervasive pattern of abuse that included
00:28Assaulting and arranging forced sexual encounters with women with the help of his various businesses
00:33He coerced them into sex by drugging them threatening their careers and using intimidation and violence as alleged when Combs didn't get his way
00:41He was violent and he subjected victims of physical
00:46Emotional and verbal abuse so that they would participate in the freak-offs
00:50Combs is said to appear in court on Tuesday and is expected to plead not guilty
00:55Combs his attorney said in a statement. We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of mr
01:02Combs by the US Attorney's Office
01:04Sean Diddy Combs is a music icon
01:06Self-made entrepreneur loving family man and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years
01:12Building an empire adoring his children and working to uplift the black community
01:16He is an imperfect person
01:18But he is not a criminal the arrest comes as Combs continues to face serious legal trouble his former girlfriend
01:25Cassandra Ventura filed a lawsuit detailing years of physical and sexual abuse last year that action quickly settled
01:32But led to other accusers in March federal law enforcement
01:36Raided Diddy's homes as part of an investigation into human trafficking for more on this story head to THR.com
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