Federal agents raided properties owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs in Los Angeles and Miami on Monday as the rapper faces a series of sex trafficking and harassment lawsuits.
Dozens of heavily armed agents from the federal Homeland Security Investigations Department (HSI) stormed the American musician’s luxurious mansion in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Aerial shots from local media captured the enormous deployment of federal forces at the sumptuous property shortly after noon, with official patrol cars and trucks contrasting with the luxury vehicles parked at the mansion.
Other images showed the incursion by water and land on his property in Miami.
“Earlier, the New York Department of Homeland Security Investigations pursued legal action as part of an active investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami and our local partners.“, the office confirmed to AFP.
The reason for the investigation was not reported.
According to TMZ, the rapper was in New York at the time of the raids.
Combs, 54, is the target of several civil lawsuits over sexual allegations.
Known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, the allegations show the rapper, the face of American hip-hop and with a fortune valued by Forbes at one billion dollars, as a violent sexual predator, who used alcohol and drugs to subdue his victims. .
One of the first lawsuits against the musician arose from his ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, who accused him of forcing her to have sexual relations with several men for years. The lawsuit argued that due to its characteristics, the case could be sex trafficking.
“Let’s hope this is the beginning of a process that holds Mr. Combs accountable for his depraved conduct“Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer for Ventura and another woman who sued Combs, said Monday in a statement to AFP.
Several of the lawsuits were filed under a temporary law enacted in New York that allows victims of statute-barred assaults to sue their attackers.
Combs denies the allegations. “I didn’t do any of the horrible things I’m accused of doing.“said the rapper in a statement on his networks in December.
Source: Gestion
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