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Posted: 2024-09-17T21:06:08Z | Updated: 2024-09-18T00:09:48Z

Federal prosecutors unveiled a disturbing array of accusations against rapper and media mogul Sean Diddy Combs as they charged him with three counts of sex trafficking and racketeering that allegedly spans years.

Combs was arrested late Monday in Manhattan following a grand jury indictment earlier this month that had been sealed. Its the latest addition to an increasingly long list of legal entanglements for the former megawatt star.

He pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon.

Details contained in a 14-page charging document unsealed earlier in the day helped fill in the contours of a case characterized by so-called freak-offs, described as abusive parties Combs allegedly threw, as U.S. Attorney Damian Williams also explained in a news conference.

A letter from prosecutors to U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky provided some additional details.

Heres what we learned.

Law enforcement found 1,000 bottles of lubricant for alleged freak-offs.

Prosecutors said in charging papers that Combs abuse was recurrent and widely known from at least 2008. He allegedly coerced women to perform sex acts with male sex workers, plying the women with drugs and deploying threats against witnesses to keep the parties secret.

Combs allegedly planned and controlled the sex performances, which he called freak-offs, and he often electronically recorded them, Williams said at the news conference.

Law enforcement reported finding more than 1,000 bottles of lubricant and baby oil during a raid.

The freak-offs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers and often involved a variety of narcotics, such as ketamine, ecstasy and GHB, Williams added, referring lastly to a depressant.

Prosecutors have images and videos of the freak-offs with multiple victims, according to the U.S. attorney, although he declined to specify the number of victims. People involved in the parties were allegedly given IV fluids to help them recover afterward.

Combs allegedly coerced people with money and power.

Combs managed to control his victims, prosecutors said, by dangling romantic relationships, career opportunities, housing and financial support, and by other coercive means, such as location tracking, dictating their appearance and monitoring their medical records.

At times, when Combs didnt get his way, he was violent, Williams said.

Charging papers state that Combs caused injuries that took days or weeks to heal.

He is also accused of brandishing firearms and threatening to use the recordings he made against the people filmed in them.

Prosecutors think Combs is a public security threat ...

In a 16-page letter to Judge Tarnofsky, Williams office argued why he should be detained until trial instead of being released on bond.

Combs offered to post $50 million. However, prosecutors said his history of violence meant that Combs poses a threat to the community if released.

Williams spoke of the firearms that law enforcement found at Combs homes in California and Florida, including several handguns, a large capacity drum magazine and three AR-15s with defaced serial numbers two of which were found in Combs bedroom closet in Miami, he said.