a staggering yearslong Fall From Grace for the man once known as Hip Hop's wealthiest Mogul his business Empire estimated at $1 billion by Forbes just two years ago now held without bond in a Brooklyn jail cell at the center of lawsuits raids on his home and now a scathing Federal indictment so how did one of the world's richest and most well-known rappers known for a lifestyle of excess with Yachts private Jets sports cars fur coats and women end up trading in his $50 million Miami mansion for a prison jumpsuit and a bunk with crypto fraudster
Sam bankman freed it was one of those women coming forward with explosive allegations who brought it all crashing [Music] down on November 16th 2023 R&B singer Cassie Ventura filing a bombshell lawsuit with accusations so salacious it was emblazoned with a trigger warning on the first page music mogul sha Diddy Colmes accused of rape sex trafficking by his exgirlfriend describing the music mogul as a vicious cruel and controlling man the singer Cassie says the incidents occurred throughout her 10year relationship with Combs Cassie saying she was subject to Savage beating set off by Diddy uncont controllable rage
the lawsuit claiming he plied her with drugs and forced her to have dayslong sex sessions with malale sex workers a practice the suit says Diddy dubbed freak offs language now echoed by the Federal indictment against him Colmes vly denying the accusations then settling the suit the very next day in a New York lawsuit filed by R&B singer Cassie word of a settlement overnight more than 24 hours ago damning allegation of rape and abuse tonight a settlement but just a week later two more alleged victims filed suit as the deadline loomed for New York's adult survivors
act extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse survivors November 23rd Joy Dickerson Neil claiming Colmes drugged and raped her when she was a student at Syracuse University the next day Jane Doe later named as Liza Gardner claiming comes an R&B singer Hall plied her with drinks and forced her to have sex when she was just 16 years old Colmes and his lawyers labeling the suits as nothing more than a money grab saying the women were simply out for a Payday nonetheless cracks begin showing in com's entertainment liquor and fashion Empire days after the third
suit drops Diddy steps down as chair of his cable network a direct result of the allegations dozens of companies begin distancing themselves from the Mogul The Dominoes keep falling another lawsuit another Jane Doe alleging when she was 17 Colmes and two others gave her drugs and alcohol then took turns raping her the day the suit is filed Colmes posting a statement on Instagram broadly denying all of the mounting allegations saying he quote did not do any of the awful things being alleged and vowing to fight to clear his name a month later a male accuser
music producer Rodney Jones comes forward claiming Colmes groped and sexually harassed him and alleging comes forced Jones to have sex with prostitutes Diddy's attorneys calling the accusations quote replete with blatant falsehoods but it was on March 25th when an incredible scene played out simultaneously Coast to Coast at comes LA and Miami homes breaking news was federal agents swarmed the homes one of the biggest names in rap and entertainment breaking news music mogul Diddy's Mansions raided by Homeland Security I never in a million years expected to see that mansion with that level of raid activity Homeland
Security agents in tactical gear and armored vehicles raid Diddy's mansions in what officials describe as a sex trafficking investigation two of his sons who were home at the time were also briefly detained com's attorney later complaining the agents used a quote quote gross overuse of force the indictment would reveal agent seized firearms and ammunition including three AR-15s with defaced serial numbers as well as a drum magazine all the while Coles maintaining he's innocent yet there is no end in sight with lawsuits and legal setbacks that keep coming and beginning to Encompass not just Diddy but
members of his family and others in his orbit Diddy and his son accused of sexual assault and a coverup involving a female worker on Diddy's yacht eliciting another denial issued by col's team later that month lawyers pushed to dismiss major parts of Joy Dickerson Neil's suit and the earlier suit from Jane Doe who said she was 17 when Combs and two men raped her his team again slamming the allegations as offensive hideous and false but the pressure is mounting on the music mogul who long prided himself on projecting status Prestige and power he knows how
to manipulate a narrative now losing control of the plot and on May 17th new surveillance footage obtained exclusively by CNN appears to corroborate some of the allegations of abuse against music mogul sha Diddy Colmes CNN airing the now Infamous surveillance video of Diddy in a towel attacking beating and dragging Cassie Ventura through a La hotel hallway after an alleged freak off the 2016 incident was detailed in Ventura's lawsuit which accused combms of paying off hotel security to cover it up that video now Central in the federal case against him Days Later Colmes issuing his first
and only public apology my behavior on that video is inexcusable I take full responsibility for my actions in that video I'm disgusted I was disgusted then when I did it I'm disgusted now I went and I sought out professional help had to go in the therapy and go in the rehab had to asked God for his mercy and Grace I'm so sorry but the train was now fully off the tracks honors rescinded business relationships crumbling and federal charges only a matter of time Ventura releasing a statement reading in part quote thank you for all of
the love and support from my family friends strangers and those I have yet to meet the outpouring of love has created a place for my younger self to settle and feel safe now but this is only the beginning indeed much more was yet to come more lawsuits including from girl group Danity cane member Don Richard alleging psychological and physical abuse and still more denials from com's team in early September even as he continues to fight his accusers in Civil Court asking a judge to throw out the sex assault suit by producer Rodney Jones Diddy travels
to Manhattan in anticipation of a Federal indictment the weekend before his arrest news Nation obtaining an exclusive picture of Diddy with his attorney and Son in Central Park the next day Diddy is out again smiling and posing for fans while out with his family the Cheery air ends abruptly with com's arrest the following night inside his Manhattan hotel surveillance footage shows the moment he's approached by Homeland Security agents at the Park Hyatt Hotel agents placing the one-time billionaire in handcuffs and leading him out the front door his legal team Furious he came here to turn
himself in why doesn't the government want him to turn himself in because then they can't ask for detention so they go and they arrest him Mr Colmes is a fighter he's going to fight this to the end he's innocent Colmes was denied bail twice in the coming days the judge deeming him a danger to the community and a danger to obstruct Justice and intimidate Witnesses and ordering him held until trial now obviously his attorneys are working really hard uh to get him out of here they actually they say if he can't be out on bail
they want to at least get him moved to a different facility uh because the MDC is so notoriously known for violent episodes for short staff issues and there's a lot of bad things that have gone on here and they want to get him away from here but two federal judges have said this is where he's going to stay for now at least until he goes to trial and that can be months and months the explosive first paragraph of the federal indictment lays out the government's case in dramatic detail alleging that quote for decades Combs abused
threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires protect his reputation and conceal his conduct by relying on a criminal Enterprise he created which engaged in sex trafficking forced labor kidnapping arson bribery and obstruction of justice comes allegedly planned and control the sex performances which he called freak offs and he often electronically recorded them the Freak off sometimes lasted days at a time involved multiple commercial sex workers and often involved a variety of Narcotics such as ketamine ecstasy and GHB which Combs distributed to the victims to keep them obedient and compliant
he faces charges of racketeering conspiracy sex trafficking by Force fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution and even as com sits in a jail cell yet another lawsuit this time from a woman named Thalia Graves who says Diddy along with his head of security raped her and recorded it in 2001 when she was just 25 the internal pain after being sexually assaulted has been incredibly deep it's a pain that we es into your very core of who you are and leaving emotional scars that may never fully heal Colmes and his Representatives have not
responded to grav suit he remains in Lockup in Brooklyn and it is no secret the feds are focused on the alleged co-conspirators referenced in the indictment who allegedly kept his criminal Enterprise going thanks for watching go to join nn.com to find newsnation on your screen and don't forget to click the red subscribe button below to get more of news nation's fact driven unbiased coverage
