Combs, 55, is about to face trial on Could 5 and has up to now pleaded not responsible to the 5 felony counts.
The rapper can also be dealing with a laundry record of sexual misconduct lawsuits. Greater than 120 accusers have alleged sexual assault, rape, and abuse in opposition to Diddy throughout his three many years of fame as a producer, musician, rapper, and all-round music mogul.
Here’s a full timeline of every little thing we all know to this point in regards to the Diddy case as his trial date looms.
Could 2017 : Cindy Rueda alleges sexual harassment
As early as 2017, Combs’ private chef Cindy Rueda information a lawsuit in opposition to him.
She alleged that she was topic to sexual harassment and never compensated for extra time in a 13-month employment interval.
The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed quantity in February, 2019, virtually two years later.
November 16, 2023: Former girlfriend information civil lawsuit, settled inside a day
A former girlfriend of Diddy, Cassandra Ventura, information a civil lawsuit in opposition to him. She says the rapper and report label proprietor was responsible of rape, assault, coercion, and manipulation throughout their decade-long relationship.
Her lawsuit contains accounts of what she says had been violent abuse and Combs’ drug-fuelled intercourse events, generally known as “freak offs”.
The lawsuit additionally claims that Combs destroyed US rapper Child Cudi’s automotive.
Combs denies all allegations and accuses Ventura of extortion.
Someday afterward November 18, Ventura and Combs say the lawsuit has been settled on undisclosed phrases.
November 24, 2023: Three extra ladies come ahead
Three new lawsuits emerge in the identical month. This time, three ladies accuse Combs of sexual assault in 1991.
Though the statute of limitations has expired, New York state legal guidelines such because the Grownup Survivors Act and the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act imply that lawsuits claiming sexual assault can nonetheless be made.
One nameless girl says she was coerced by Combs and one other man into having intercourse.
The second girl, Joi Dickerson-Neal, stated she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs. She added that the incident was filmed and proven to others.
The third girl, Liza Gardner alleges she was coerced into having intercourse with Combs when she was simply 16.
Combs’ legal professionals dismiss some parts of the Dickerson-Neal’s lawsuit and proceed to disclaim allegations, calling the lawsuits “cash grabs”.
November 29, 2023 : Combs steps down as chair of Revolt
Combs steps down as chair of Revolt, his music-focused cable channel. Plans for a actuality present, produced by James Corden’s Fulwell 73, are additionally scrapped by Hulu.
December 6, 2023: One other lawsuit filed, extra denial from Combs
One other lawsuit is filed by one other nameless girl who alleges that Combs was a part of a gang rape in opposition to her and sex-trafficked her when she was 17.
In accordance with court docket paperwork, Jane Doe says she was given medicine and alcohol previous to the assault, with no recollection of how she obtained house.
In an announcement on Instagram, Combs denies all allegations, saying he’ll “combat for [his] title, [his] household, and for the reality”
“Sufficient is sufficient,” says the rapper.
February 27, 2024 : Rodney Jones Jr sues Combs
Music producer Rodney Jones Jr alleges that he was groped and “groomed” by Combs in the course of the making of Combs’ 2023 album, The Love Album: Off the Grid.
Jones says the rapper pressured him to rent prostitutes and take part in sexual acts with them.
Combs’ authorized representatives say the allegation is “pure fiction” and name Jones “a liar”.
March 26, 2024 : Combs’ properties are raided
Could 18, 2024: Footage of Combs assaulting Ventura is launched
The video reveals Combs pushing Ventura to the ground, kicking her, making an attempt to pull her by her shirt, and throwing an object at her.
Combs points an official apology, stating: “I take full duty for my actions in that video. I used to be disgusted then once I did it. I’m disgusted now.”
Ventura additionally points an announcement acknowledging the impression of home violence on her life.
Could 24, 2024: Two extra lawsuits are filed
Two extra ladies file lawsuits in opposition to Combs. The primary, mannequin Crystal McKinney, who claims she was drugged and compelled to carry out oral intercourse by Combs within the rest room of a recording studio in 2003.
The second girl, April Lampros, stated in a separate lawsuit two days later that she was a sufferer of sexual assault in 4 cases between 1995 and 2000.
She says the connection turned “aggressive, coercive, and abuse”, with Combs at one level forcing her to take ecstasy and have intercourse along with his then-girlfriend. The lawsuit additionally alleged that Combs filmed the incident and confirmed it to others.
June 8, 2024: Howard College revokes honorary diploma
Howard College in Washington DC revokes Combs’ honorary diploma, returning his $1 million donation, and terminating the scholarship programme in his title.
Later that month, Combs can also be ordered to return the ceremonial key to New York Metropolis after Mayor Eric Adams stated he was deeply disturbed by the CCTV footage launched the earlier month.
July 4, 2024 : Eighth lawsuit filed in opposition to Diddy
Adria English claims she was groomed into intercourse trafficking at occasions between 2004 and 2009 at Combs’ “white events”.
Combs’ authorized workforce sustains that Combs has by no means sexually assaulted or sexually trafficked anybody.
September 10, 2024: Combs fails to indicate at a listening to for brand new submitting
Combs fails to attend a listening to for a lawsuit filed in opposition to him by Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith.
Cardello-Smith alleges he was drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs at a celebration in Detroit in 1997.
A default judgement means Combs is pressured to pay Cardello-Smith $100 million. On the time, Cardello-Smith was in jail for an unrelated case.
Emergency motions are filed by Combs’ authorized workforce a couple of days later to dismiss the case and overturn the ruling. They are saying Combs has by no means heard of Cardello-Smith.
September 11, 2024: Musician information sexual assault lawsuit
Musician Daybreak Richard information a lawsuit in opposition to Combs, alleging sexual assault, verbal assault, and being overworked.
Richard was a part of the Combs-signed lady group Danity Kane and one other trio known as Diddy-Soiled Cash, which Combs was part of.
There may be additionally a declare that Richard was witness to the abuse skilled by Ventura.
September 16, 2024: Combs is arrested
Combs is arrested at a resort in Manhattan, New York, of three counts of intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
The federal indictment says Combs was a part of a “felony enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and tried to have interaction in, amongst different crimes, intercourse trafficking, pressured labour, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”
Combs’ lawyer stated the rapper was “an harmless man with nothing to cover.”
September 24, 2024: One other lawsuit emerges
Thalia Graves claims Combs and his bodyguard sexually assaulted her greater than 20 years in the past, including the assault was filmed and the footage distributed.
October 1, 2024: 120 individuals allege sexual misconduct
In accordance with Buzbee, claims in opposition to Combs will embody sexual assault, rape, facilitated intercourse with managed substances, dissemination of video recordings, and sexual abuse of minors.
The 120 separate lawsuits are anticipated to be filed in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, says Andrew Van Arsdale, one of many attorneys.
On October 10, Combs’ sex-trafficking trial will get scheduled for Could 5, 2025.
Combs is predicted to face extra costs, say prosecutors in court docket proceedings.
He stays in custody on the Metropolitan detention centre, with bail frequently refused since his September arrest.
October 14 2024: Six lawsuits filed, one contains teen
The lawsuits proceed to mount, with six new lawsuits alleging the rape of girls, sexual assault of males, and the molestation of a 16-year previous boy.
The claimants within the lawsuit are all nameless, recognized as two Jane Does and 4 John Does.
One plaintiff says he was requested to undress by Combs when he was aged 16. One other girl says Combs raped her at a resort following a photoshoot.
In accordance with Manhattan federal court docket paperwork, Combs asks prosecutors round this time to reveal the names of his accusers in order that his authorized workforce can put together for the trial in Could.
October 27, 2024: One other torrent of lawsuits, together with 13-year previous lady
One other torrent of lawsuits are filed in opposition to Combs. This time, one lawsuit alleges the rape of a then 13-year previous lady, claiming that Combs drugged and raped her on the MTV Video Music awards afterparty.
A number of days later, two new sexual assault lawsuits are filed. One alleges the sufferer was 10 when he was assaulted on the audition of MTV’s actuality present Making the Band.
November 17, 2024: Combs makes an attempt to contact witnesses, extra lawsuits filed
Combs is accused of reaching out to witnesses and making an attempt to affect public opinion from jail, say prosecutors in a court docket submitting to forestall bail.
On November nineteenth, 5 extra nameless lawsuits are filed from three males and two ladies, alleging sexual assault at Combs’ events.
Across the similar time, a lawsuit is filed in opposition to Tony Buzbee, the lawyer who has filed nearly all of lawsuits in opposition to Diddy. He’s accused of abusing his energy as an lawyer; a declare he denies.
November 27, 2024: Bail frequently denied
Combs’ request for bail is frequently denied. The choose in New York Metropolis says Combs is a critical threat for witness tampering.
He stays on the Metropolitan detention centre in Brooklyn, New York.
November 29, 2024: Designer claims she was dangled from balcony
A clothier Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan says in a lawsuit that Combs threatened to kill her and dangled her over a seventeenth flooring balcony in 2016.
She additionally alleges being witness to his abusive relationship with Ventura.
December 9, 2024 : Jay Z and Combs accused of rape
As a part of an amended lawsuit, Jay-Z is added as a co-defendant within the lawsuit in regards to the rape of the 13-year previous lady in 2000.
Rapper and father of three, Jay Z denies all allegations and claims the lawsuit is a part of a “blackmail try”. He makes an attempt to have the case dismissed. A choose denies this try.
December 12, 2024: Diddy accused in three extra rape instances
Combs is accused of drugging and raping three males in three extra instances. The plaintiffs say they got spiked drinks after which raped in incidents as latest as 2022.
Combs additionally chooses to drop additional makes an attempt of bail.
December 24, 2024: Former assistant makes claims about Diddy’s intercourse events
Considered one of Combs’ former assistants Phillip Pines alleges that he was pressured to have intercourse with a lady between December 2019 and December 2021, in addition to made to wash up after Combs’ “Wild King Nights” events.
As a part of his duties, Pines claims he was requested to arrange rooms for the events, with “alcohol, pink lights, ice buckets, marijuana joints, honey packs for male libido, child oil, astro glide, towels, unlawful medicine, and energy banger intercourse machines’.
January 8, 2025: Jay-Z information a brand new movement to dismiss the lawsuit
Jay-Z information a brand new movement to dismiss the lawsuit that accused him of sexually assaulting a 13-year previous lady in 2000. His authorized workforce insist that there are inconsistencies within the girl’s account. In a separate lawsuit, Jay-Z is submitting a lawsuit in opposition to Buzbee for extortion and defamation.
Buzbee launches a counter-lawsuit in opposition to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation firm, claiming the corporate and legal professionals are unlawfully persuading former purchasers of Buzbee to file claims in opposition to him.
January 30, 2025: Indictment amended
The felony indictment in opposition to Combs is amended to incorporate the distribution of extra medicine corresponding to methamphetamine and hallucinogenic mushrooms, and to incorporate dangling an individual over an condo balcony. The opposite costs stay unchanged.
February 5, 2025: One other wave of lawsuits
One other wave of lawsuits are filed in opposition to Combs, however he continues to protest his innocence.
A person at New York’s Southern District court docket, recognized solely as John Doe, says he was coerced into sexual acts by Diddy.
Previously an grownup entertainer, the person says he was employed by Combs in 2007 to carry out a strip present. He stated in later bookings, Combs sexually assaulted him, spiked him with Viagra, and secretly filmed the interactions as blackmail.
One other case filed by Kirk Burrowes, the co-founder of Comb’s firm Dangerous Boy Leisure, says Burrowes had on a number of events discovered Combs partaking in sexual acts in his workplace.
February 15, 2025: Civil lawsuit dropped
The girl who alleged she was 13 when she was sexually assaulted by Combs and Jay-Z drops her civil lawsuit.
In accordance with federal court docket filings, the lady voluntarily dismisses the case with prejudice.
In an announcement, Jay-Z says: “As we speak is a victory. The frivolous, fictitious, and appalling allegations have been dismissed. This civil go well with was with out benefit and by no means going anyplace.”
February 21, 2025: Diddy’s lawyer quits
Combs’ lawyer Anthony Ricco information a movement to withdraw as one in all Diddy’s six defence attorneys.
March 11, 2025: Odell Beckham allegedly concerned
It emerges as a part of an amended lawsuit that NFL star Odell Beckham Jr was one of many males concerned in a gang rape initiated by Combs.
The lawsuit was first filed in October by Ashley Parham, who claims she was lured to an condo in California and raped by a number of males.
Beckham says in an announcement on social media: “There may be completely no reality to these allegations. I have no idea and have by no means met the person who filed the go well with.
“I’m assured that these ridiculous claims in opposition to me might be dismissed.”
March 14, 2025: New indictment, new defences
A brand new indictment accuses Combs of working lengthy hours and forcing them to help in his sex-trafficking scheme.
The claims embody that Combs threatened to make use of bodily drive, monetary hurt, psychological hurt, and reputational hurt in opposition to his staff.
In a court docket listening to, Combs’ authorized workforce say the hallway assault video with Ventura was altered in an try to have it dismissed as proof.
April 4, 2025: Extra costs hit Combs
Combs is served a brand new federal indictment, charging the mogul with new counts of racketeering and intercourse trafficking, bringing the entire variety of felony counts to 5. A girl dubbed Sufferer-2 was allegedly transported by Combs throughout state traces, with the intent of being utilized in prostitution.
Diddy’s bid to delay his upcoming sex-trafficking trial by two months is denied on April 18.
Puffy, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Diddy, Love, Sean Combs, or nevertheless you would possibly know him, will now go to trial subsequent month in what is perhaps the music business’s most high-profile case.
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