Diddy reduce a carefree determine as he cycled round Miami on Thursday – as he faces a intercourse trafficking probe and a number of mounting lawsuits.
The musician, 54 – actual title Sean Love Combs- noticed his Miami and LA houses swarmed by federal brokers final week as a part of an investigation into intercourse trafficking – with Combs branding the raids ‘militant’ and denying all allegations of wrongdoing.
Disregarding the drama, a smiling Diddy flashed the peace signal as he loved some train within the Floridian metropolis.
The star wore a black high and shorts, paired with matching sneakers as he broadly grinned for snappers.
His 17-year-old twins Jessie and D’Lila Combs, are at present vacationing with LeBron James’ son, Bryce, within the Turks and Caicos.
In an announcement after the raids, Diddy’s legal professional Aaron Dyer referred to as them an ‘unprecedented ambush’ and a ‘witch hunt’ in opposition to the businessman.
Diddy reduce a carefree determine as he cycled round Miami on Thursday – as he faces a intercourse trafficking probe and a number of mounting lawsuits
To date, he has not been arrested in relation to the raids, nor has he been charged with any crime.
Dyer’s full assertion on the time learn: ‘Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level pressure as search warrants had been executed at Mr. Combs’ residences. There is no such thing as a excuse for the extreme present of pressure and hostility exhibited by authorities or the best way his youngsters and staff had been handled.
‘Mr. Combs was by no means detained however spoke to and cooperated with authorities. Regardless of media hypothesis, neither Mr. Combs nor any of his relations have been arrested nor has their potential to journey been restricted in any approach.’
The raids got here after the Harlem-born hip-hop star was hit with a slew of lawsuits alleging sexual assault, rape, and different crimes after he settled his ex-girlfriend Cassie’s related lawsuit in November.
‘Sufficient is sufficient. For the final couple of weeks, I’ve sat silently and watched individuals attempt to assassinate my character, destroy my fame, and my legacy,’ Diddy wrote December 6 in his solely assertion on the matter.
‘Sickening allegations have been made in opposition to me by people in search of a fast payday. Let me be completely clear: I didn’t do any of the terrible issues being alleged. I’ll struggle for my title, my household, and for the reality.’
‘I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some stage of management,’ Cassie mentioned in an announcement.
The go well with alleged he managed and abused her for over a decade – in addition to plying her with medication, beating her, and forcing her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he watched and recorded.
The musician, 54 – actual title Sean Love Combs- noticed his Miami and LA houses swarmed by federal brokers final week as a part of an investigation into intercourse trafficking – with Combs branding the raids ‘militant’ and denying all allegations of wrongdoing
Armed brokers entered Diddy’s luxurious properties on each East and West Coasts of the US final week
The star appeared in nice spirits regardless of his authorized turmoil
Disregarding the drama, a smiling Diddy flashed the peace signal as he loved some train within the Floridian metropolis
The pair, who met in 2005 when she was aged 19, cut up in 2018. The lawsuit claimed that simply earlier than the top of their relationship, he pressured his approach into her dwelling and raped her.
After Ventura launched her lawsuit, Liza Gardner and Joie Dickerson-Neal additionally filed papers claiming the rapper sexually assaulted them within the early Nineties.
Combs despatched out a tweet denying the accusations in December and saying that every one allegations made in opposition to him are from individuals ‘in search of a fast payday’.
The star stepped down as chairman of Revolt TV in November and noticed Hulu scrap a deliberate actuality TV present that will have featured his household, in December.
Cassie and a number of different girls who’ve sued him for sexual assault in current months are reportedly cooperating with federal investigators as an alleged intercourse trafficking probe involving the hip hop mogul heats up.
Cassie has been working with investigators for ‘a number of weeks,’ sources with direct information informed TMZ on Wednesday.
The timing signifies that the 37-year-old singer might have even been working with feds within the run-up to the twin Homeland Safety raids on the rapper-turned-executive’s Los Angeles and Miami mansions.
Sources with information of the investigation mentioned that Cassie might have helped authorities set up the possible trigger wanted to get a decide to log off on search warrants on the 2 mansions.
Diddy relaxed as he cycled alongside in Miami
Diddy broadly grinned as he took within the sights
The star was having fun with some train as he hunkers down in Miami Seaside
Though the contents of Cassie’s conversations with investigators are unknown, she has presumably been talking in regards to the accusations contained in her lawsuit, which Diddy settled after simply at some point.
Along with accusing the document label head of rape, sexual battery and bodily abuse, she additionally claimed that he had pressured her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he watched and masturbated.
The rapper allegedly photographed and filmed a few of these encounters, and Cassie claimed that she was pressured to look at the recordings of herself having intercourse with different males whereas beneath the affect of copious medication.
Elsewhere in her go well with, the singer alleged that Diddy at one level made her maintain his gun in her purse, and he or she claimed that in 2012 he blew up the rapper Child Cudi’s automobile in retaliation for a short relationship he and Cassie had when she was on the outs with him, which Diddy allegedly informed Cassie he deliberate to do beforehand.
Cudi agreed with Cassie’s claims in regards to the automobile bombing, inform the New York Instances that ‘That is all true.’
Diddy and Cassie had been collectively for round 10 years, although they had been on and off at a number of occasions earlier than the connection ended for good in 2018.
Diddy has vehemently denied all of Cassie’s claims, in addition to the claims of the successive girls who sued him over related offenses in subsequent months.
Nonetheless, not less than a few of these girls are additionally reportedly talking with investigators.
The extra accusers might have strengthened the authorities’ case, as most of the girls’s allegations bore robust similarities to Cassie’s preliminary set of accusations.
Nonetheless, it is not at present recognized which of the opposite accusers are cooperating.
Diddy’s former producer Rodney Jones has additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to him, claiming he witnessed intercourse trafficking and was groped and threatened whereas working for the mogul, nevertheless it’s not recognized if he has been talking with federal investigators.
Diddy’s outing comes as one among his previous rap mates Travell ‘G. Dep’ Coleman was launched from jail on Thursday after serving 13 years for homicide.
Information from the New York State Division of Corrections and Neighborhood Supervision obtained by TMZ present Dep was launched beneath the jail’s Restricted Credit score Time Allowance program, which permits eligible inmates a six-month credit score on their present sentences.
The rapper, now 49, must ‘examine in together with his parole officer, chorus from possessing weapons and medicines with out medical authorization, and must get permission to go away the State of New York’.
Coleman turned himself in for an almost two-decade-old chilly homicide case in 2010 – and was convicted in 2012 for the homicide of John Henkel,
The rapper was one of many rising stars of hip-hop impresario Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs´ Unhealthy Boy Information label within the late Nineties.
He had hits with ‘Particular Supply’ and ‘Let´s Get It’ and helped popularize a loose-limbed dance referred to as the Harlem shake within the early 2000s.
However his profession slumped by late 2010, with not less than a dozen arrests on drug, trespassing and different costs.
Diddy’s outing comes as one among his previous rap mates Travell ‘G. Dep’ Coleman was launched from jail on Thursday after serving 13 years for homicide
The rapper, who was convicted in 2012 for the homicide of John Henkel (pictured) is now a free man
Governor Hochul granted 12 pardons and 4 commutations forward of the vacation weekend, marking the third time Hochul has granted clemency in 2023
The rapper was one of many rising stars of hip-hop impresario Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs´ Unhealthy Boy Information label within the late Nineties
Legal professional Anthony L. Ricco mentioned on the time that Coleman ‘had been haunted’ by the 1993 deadly capturing of Henkel and determined to admit to it.
The rapper confirmed up on the police precinct on December 15, 2010, and admitted to killing Henkel, a father of three, exterior a Harlem house advanced round 1 am on October 19, 1993.
Coleman calmly defined that he had shot somebody after demanding cash on a avenue nook when he was 18 years previous, two detectives mentioned at a court docket listening to in 2012.
‘He mentioned that he felt dangerous and that it was consuming him up,’ Detective Dave Feliciano mentioned.
In December he was granted clemency by New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
Two years forward of his unique parole eligibility in 2025, his sentence was commuted by the Democratic governor, who additionally granted clemency to fifteen different people on Friday.
Combs was sued November 16 by the singer Cassie, who accused him of rape and bodily abuse earlier than the case was settled out of court docket
Governor Hochul granted 12 pardons and 4 commutations forward of the vacation weekend, marking the third time Hochul has granted clemency in 2023.
The sufferer’s brother, Robert Henkel, had demanded Hochul reject the urgings by prosecutor David Drucker to launch Coleman, calling it a ‘farce.’
He informed the New York Put up that ‘it’s one factor to hunt (clemency) for drug crimes – however not homicide.’