Sean “Diddy” Combs’ notorious events are being known as into query amid the rapper’s authorized troubles.

After dealing with a number of sexual assault and abuse allegations from a number of folks, Diddy, 54, was arrested in New York Metropolis on September 16 and later charged with intercourse trafficking and racketeering. In his 14-page indictment, Diddy was accused of orchestrating events generally known as “Freak Offs,” throughout which “elaborate and produced intercourse performances” would happen.

In keeping with the indictment, Diddy allegedly pressured ladies into partaking in “intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse employees” utilizing medication and would “[masturbate] throughout, and sometimes electronically report” the interactions.

The indictment additionally revealed that Homeland Safety found “numerous ‘Freak Off’ provides” after they raided Diddy’s houses in March, together with “narcotics and greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant.”

Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo claimed the musician was “harmless” in an announcement after his arrest. Diddy was denied bail after pleading not responsible and was ordered to stay in jail till his trial.

Whereas a number of celebrities have spoken out about attending Diddy’s events, it’s unknown who attended in his alleged “Freak Offs.”

Diddy beforehand suspected that his events would increase eyebrows in a 1999 interview with Leisure Tonight, saying, “They’re going to in all probability be arresting me, doing all kinds of loopy issues simply because we wish to have a superb time. Everytime you deliver up a unique ingredient into folks’s atmosphere, issues that broaden folks’s horizons, folks get intimidated. It’s lots of people on the market that really feel intimidated by it.”

The Grammy winner additionally joked about his ways for retaining ladies from ditching his get-togethers in a 2002 episode of Late Evening With Conan O’Brien. When requested easy methods to throw a “killer celebration,” he replied, “Girls. Stunning ladies, in fact. Stunning males for the women, in fact. You want some water. I don’t know if guys have observed this however numerous women drink water at events, so if you happen to don’t have what they want, they’re going to go away. Gotta hold them there. Want locks on the doorways.”

When O’Brien stated his suggestion about utilizing locks sounded “kinda harmful,” Diddy retorted by saying it was “slightly kinky.”

Scroll right down to see what celebrities have stated about selecting to attend or skip events hosted by Diddy through the years:

Ashton Kutcher

“I’ve bought quite a bit I can’t inform,” Kutcher stated when requested about attending Diddy’s get-togethers throughout a 2019 Scorching Ones interview. “Can’t inform that one both. … I’m truly biking by way of them. Diddy celebration tales, man, that was some bizarre reminiscence lane factor.”

He went on to name his relationship with Diddy “actually weird,” explaining, “It began over Punk’d as a result of he was like, ‘Yo, you may’t punk me!’ I used to be like, ‘I don’t know what to inform you, everyone is on the desk.’ That began our dialog. We turned quick pals and we used to simply hang around, watch soccer collectively.”

Ice Dice

The rapper clarified to followers that he had no affiliation with Diddy throughout a September 22 live performance in Las Vegas. “Me and W.C. ain’t by no means been to a Diddy celebration,” he instructed attendees, per social media footage. “You ain’t gotta fear about us on these motherf—ing tapes.”

Kelly Ripa

Throughout a June 2023 episode of Dwell With Kelly and Mark, Ripa expressed her curiosity in attending one in every of Diddy’s celeb gatherings. “I used to be in Capri, and I used to be truly visiting my huge brother Puff’s boat,” visitor Mary J. Blige stated. Ripa replied, “Subsequent time you go on Puff’s boat, we’d wish to!”

Damon Sprint

“I didn’t go to these events,” Sprint stated in a September 22 Instagram Dwell after images resurfaced of him at a Diddy-hosted celebration with Jay-Z and Jennifer Lopez. “I went to at least one within the Hamptons about 20 years in the past with Aaliyah and that’s about it. However lots of people have been at these, you already know what I imply?”

He continued: “Ain’t s— occur within the Hamptons. That’s the day I met [Aaliyah]. We hung on the market after which we left and that’s what occurred. That was 20 years in the past, that was not in L.A. or Miami. I do know they’re gonna play video games with these photos. It’s all good, I don’t actually care.” (Sprint dated Aaliyah from 2000 till her dying the next 12 months.)

Khloé Kardashian

Kardashian seemingly shared particulars about attending a Diddy celebration in an August 2014 episode of Maintaining Up With the Kardashians. “So who was with you this weekend?” Kourtney Kardashian requested Khloé about her weekend in Las Vegas.

“A bunch of my pals,” Khloé replied, itemizing names similar to Diddy and French Montana.

Khloé continued to explain the celebration later within the episode, stating, “This celebration, I believe half the folks have been butt-naked.”

Usher

“I went there to see the life-style, and I noticed it, however I don’t know if I may indulge and perceive what I used to be even taking a look at. It was fairly wild, it was loopy,” Usher recalled of dwelling with Diddy for a 12 months when he was a youngster within the ’90s throughout a 2016 The Howard Stern Present radio interview.

When requested whether or not he would let any of his children attend one in every of Diddy’s events, Usher declared, “Hell no!”

50 Cent

“I’ve been very vocal about not going to Puffy events and doing s— like that,” 50 Cent acknowledged in a July interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve been staying out of that s— for years. It’s simply an uncomfortable vitality related to it.”

He went on so as to add: “[Diddy] requested to take me purchasing. I believed that was the weirdest s— on the earth as a result of that could be one thing {that a} man says to a girl. And I’m similar to, ‘Naw, I’m not f—ing with this bizarre vitality or bizarre s—,’ coming off the best way he was simply shifting. From that, I wasn’t comfy round him.”

Ray J

Throughout a September 20 interview on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation present, Ray J claimed that he by no means witnessed any crimes or intercourse trafficking happen at Diddy’s events. “We’ve by no means seen the stuff that’s being stated and the stuff that individuals are discovering out, like, I’ve by no means been in rooms that individuals are speaking about and I by no means knew they existed,” he acknowledged.

Katt Williams

“I’ve needed to flip down $50 million 4 occasions. Simply to guard my integrity and that virgin gap I used to be telling you about, proper?” Williams remarked about turning down a suggestion to attend a Diddy celebration throughout a January interview on the “Membership Shay Shay” podcast. “’Trigger P. Diddy be desirous to celebration, and you bought to inform him no. You bought to inform him no! I did. See, I bought the receipts for every little thing I’m telling you, that’s why I can say them so freely.”

On the time, he additionally teased that extra celeb scandals would quickly come to mild, including, “It’s up for all of them. It don’t matter if it’s Diddy or whoever you is.”

Kendra Wilkinson

The Lady Subsequent Door alum went to “one or two” of Diddy’s events of their heyday.

“I had a good time in my youth. I didn’t actually see something,” Wilkinson stated on the Kyle and Jackie O radio present in September 2024. “Like, I by no means noticed something actually unhealthy taking place round me. Intercourse is intercourse, for my part. I’m not saying that one thing unhealthy didn’t occur. I’m saying that nothing unhealthy ever occurred to me.”

Jenny Mollen

Mollen claimed in a September 2024 Instagram video that she turned down an invite to one in every of Diddy’s events years prior.

“One time once I was like 19, I used to be in San Diego and this man came to visit and he’s like, ‘My boss desires to satisfy you,’” she alleged. “I had on this maroon button-up shirt, like, brick-colored, cotton button-up shirt, hideous denims and a idler. Not giving intercourse vibes.”

Mollen continued, “This man’s like, ‘My boss desires to satisfy you,’ and he’s like this huge bouncer-looking [man], who’s there in a fur coat type of vibes. … He’s like, ‘We’re having a celebration up in my room, do you guys wish to come?’ Guys, would I’ve been in a Freak Off? That’s what I’m studying, it’s known as a Freak Off. Would I’ve been captured in his room in my hideous maroon shirt? Would there be footage to at the present time of me in some kind of loopy exploitative Freak Off?”

Arsenio Corridor

Throughout an October 2024 interview on Howie Mandel’s podcast, the comic stated he’d been to some Diddy events — however not the type referenced within the rapper’s indictment.

“Have in mind, in all equity, there are completely different sorts of Diddy events. I’ve seen Diddy events the place youngsters have been there. … Let me begin over. The place, say for example, you employ an individual’s house and their household’s within the house, so it’s enjoyable, 8 p.m., numerous meals and music,” Corridor defined. “That’s one of many ones I went to. Now I’ve additionally seen those that last more than 8 or 9, and my secret has all the time been, initially, I don’t go anyplace with out my girl. I believe, don’t go anyplace alone. I swear to you, when you have the rule of not going anyplace alone, you don’t get in as a lot bother. … It’s whenever you go someplace alone and keep too lengthy, that’s when bother occurs.”

The previous speak present host added: “I’ve been to dinner events at Diddy’s homes. I’ve by no means been to those that I do know you’re hoping I can speak about.”

Nick Cannon

The Masked Singer host stated in October 2024 that he’d been to Diddy’s events however by no means noticed any of the notorious “Freak Offs” talked about within the indictment.

“I bear in mind standing exterior, you already know, attempting to get right into a Puff celebration out right here in New York,” Cannon recalled throughout an interview on Energy 105.1’s The Breakfast Membership. “Like, everyone was out. Like how the ‘One Extra Likelihood’ video appeared, that was actual, actual stuff out right here. Like, folks standing on the door [to see] who can get in and stuff like that. Unhealthy Boy events was official in New York within the late ’90s.”

Cannon famous he’d gone to at least one celebration round age 16 or 17, including: “Everyone will get scared to speak as a result of they in all probability bought one thing to cover. I ain’t bought nothing to cover. … I used to be in there [in] Harlem shaking, doing all of that stuff, nevertheless it wasn’t — come on, no matter.”

Bow Wow

“I by no means thought I might see it like this,” the rapper stated of Diddy throughout an October 2024 look on the “Extra to the Story” podcast. “He’s just like the gatekeeper to the sport, to the purpose to the place BET Award weekend, just like the previous two, it simply didn’t really feel proper as a result of there was no movement, there was no events.”

The previous little one star continued: “However it exhibits how monumental how necessary he was to the tradition. I stated, ‘Jermaine [Dupri], there was no events.’ And you’re feeling it. It’s like a gap. He was simply such a gatekeeper for the liquor and the golf equipment. He was every little thing hip-hop. So for that to die out, you simply actually by no means thought. Particularly whenever you take a look at any person as any person you studied, any person you idolized.”

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been below investigation for not less than a yr after being accused of sexual assault by a number of folks.

The rapper and music mogul, 54, made headlines in November 2023 after his ex-girlfriend Cassie accused him of sexual abuse in a bombshell lawsuit. She accused Diddy of beating her, forcing her to take medicine and have intercourse with male prostitutes on digicam. She alleged that the incidents occurred at Diddy’s houses throughout the U.S.

Within the lawsuit, Cassie additionally claimed that Diddy threatened to explode Child Cudi’s automotive after she had moved on with him following their 2018 break up. (Cassie has been married to Alex Wonderful since 2019.)

Diddy’s lawyer Ben Brafman denied the accusations on his behalf on the time, stating that Cassie’s lawsuit was “riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’ status and [is] searching for a payday.”

The case was settled simply at some point after Cassie’s submitting. “I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some stage of management,” she advised Us Weekly in an announcement by her lawyer Douglas Wigdor. “I need to thank my household, followers and legal professionals for his or her unwavering help.”

In an announcement of his personal, Diddy stated: “Now we have determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all one of the best. Love.”

Scroll down for a timeline of Diddy’s sexual assault authorized troubles:

November 2023

Following Cassie’s case settlement, a 2004 New York Journal interview with Kimora Lee Simmons resurfaced, wherein she claimed that Diddy “threatened to hit her” whereas she was pregnant. The interview famous that Diddy “finally obtained down on his knees in public to apologize.” (Kimora is a mom to 5 youngsters, whom she shares with a number of companions. Diddy didn’t deal with her feedback on the time.))

Diddy was quickly hit with one other lawsuit from a girl named Joi Dickerson-Neal. In courtroom docs obtained by Us filed on November 23, Dickerson-Neal claimed that the musician “drugged, sexually assaulted and abused” her when she was a university pupil in 1991 and was a sufferer of “revenge porn” Diddy created and launched. Diddy’s spokesperson known as the lawsuit a “cash seize” in an announcement to CNN.

December 2023

An nameless lady, dubbed Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit in opposition to the music mogul claiming she was sex-trafficked and gang-raped by Diddy and different males when she was 17 years previous in 2008. She allegedly flew out to satisfy him in New York Metropolis and was given “copious quantities of medication and alcohol” earlier than the lads pressured themselves on her, in accordance with courtroom docs obtained by Us.

Diddy declared that “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” in an announcement to Us on the time, including, “For the final couple of weeks, I’ve sat silently and watched folks attempt to assassinate my character, destroy my status and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made in opposition to me by people searching for a fast payday. Let me be completely clear: I didn’t do any of the terrible issues being alleged. I’ll battle for my title, my household and for the reality.”

February 2024

Diddy as soon as once more denied any wrongdoing after being accused of sexual assault in one other lawsuit, this one filed by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones. Jones alleged that in his time residing and touring with Diddy from September 2022 to November 2023, he witnessed and recorded Diddy and his employees “participating in severe criminal activity.” Jones claimed he was sexually assaulted by Diddy in additional than one of many rapper’s houses, in addition to on a yacht rented by Diddy.

Diddy known as Jones — who was searching for $30 million in damages — “a liar” in an announcement by his lawyer Shawn Holley. “Now we have overwhelming, indeniable proof that his claims are full lies. We’ll deal with these outlandish allegations in courtroom and take all acceptable motion in opposition to those that make them,” Holley added.

March 2024

Diddy’s Los Angeles and Miami houses have been raided in reference to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation by Homeland Safety. Diddy was not current at his houses on the time of the raids however was later discovered boarding a non-public jet at a Miami airport. Two of his sons have been reportedly detained within the raid on his L.A. property however have been launched with out fees.

“Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level pressure as search warrants have been executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Diddy’s lawyer Aaron Dyer stated in an announcement to Us, denying that any of his members of the family had been arrested. “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 have been handled.”

Following the raids, it was revealed that Diddy’s eldest son, Justin Combs, was named in an amended grievance filed by Jones. Within the courtroom docs, obtained by Us, the phrase “intercourse trafficking” was talked about 50 instances. Reps for Justin stated in an announcement that he “categorically denies these absurd allegations,” per NBC Information.

April 2024

Diddy’s youngest son, Christian “King” Combs, was accused of sexually assaulting a girl who labored on a yacht Diddy chartered for a 2022 journey in a Los Angeles County Superior Court docket lawsuit. The girl, Grace O’Marcaigh, additionally accused King of sexual harassment and emotional misery and Diddy for aiding and abetting.

Diddy’s lawyer Dyer slammed the lawsuit in an announcement to Us. “Now we have not seen this lady’s declare however I’m certain we will anticipate the identical form of manufactured lies … simply as we noticed in Rodney Jones’ lawsuit — which has but to be served.”

Later that month, information broke that Diddy’s alleged drug mule, Brendan Paul, was arrested for cocaine and marijuana possession. Paul was later charged with one felony rely of drug possession. (Paul averted jail time however was ordered to enter a six-month drug diversion program the next month.)

Might 2024

Lower than per week after Diddy filed a movement to dismiss Jane Doe’s December 2023 lawsuit in opposition to him, CNN launched safety footage from 2016 allegedly exhibiting Diddy bodily assaulting Cassie in a now-closed Los Angeles resort. Within the clip, Diddy was proven allegedly hitting and kicking Cassie, in addition to throwing an object at her.

The Los Angeles District Lawyer’s workplace defined in an announcement that Diddy couldn’t be charged for the safety footage “because the conduct would have occurred past the timeline the place a criminal offense of assault could be prosecuted.”

Diddy addressed the footage in an Instagram video, telling followers, “My habits on that video is inexcusable. I take full duty for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted.” Although he didn’t point out Cassie by title, he captioned the put up, “I’m sorry.”

A member of Cassie’s authorized crew, Meredith Firetog, criticized Diddy’s apology video in an announcement to Us. “When Cassie and a number of different ladies got here ahead, he denied every thing and instructed that his victims have been searching for a payday,” she stated. “That he was solely compelled to ‘apologize’ as soon as his repeated denials have been confirmed false reveals his pathetic desperation, and nobody shall be swayed by his disingenuous phrases.”

Cassie addressed the safety video in a prolonged social media assertion, writing, “Thanks to everybody that has taken the time to take this matter significantly. My solely ask is that EVERYONE open you hear to believing victims the primary time. It takes a variety of coronary heart to inform the reality out of a scenario that you simply have been powerless in.”

Might 2024

Diddy continued to face extra allegations after a girl named April Lampros accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her a number of instances in a brand new lawsuit. The alleged abuse occurred after she met Diddy in NYC in 1995 throughout her time as a pupil on the Style Institute of Know-how.

Lampros’ lawsuit alleged that she was as soon as pressured by Diddy to have intercourse along with his late ex-girlfriend, Kim Porter, as he watched and that the music mogul recorded one among their sexual encounters with out her data.

Diddy moved to dismiss Lampros’ case in August 2024, arguing that a few of her claims have been time barred and didn’t apply to New York permitting earlier intercourse offenses to be prosecuted. Lampros filed a cross-motion one month later, asking for permission so as to add extra particulars to her case concerning the alleged time barred claims.

Diddy was additionally accused of sexual assault by mannequin Crystal McKinney for an alleged incident that occurred in 2003. In her lawsuit, McKinney claimed that Diddy pressured her to carry out oral intercourse regardless of denying his development and that she was subsequently blackballed from the modeling business. (Diddy’s crew didn’t reply to Us’ request for remark for both lawsuit on the time.)

McKinney, Dickerson-Neal and Jane Doe got here ahead about their experiences in a Rolling Stone report. “It isn’t about cash,” Dickerson-Neal advised the outlet of their respective lawsuits in opposition to Diddy. “It’s about ensuring the world sees that this man who rose to the extent of an ‘icon’ is definitely sick and has left so many victims in [the wake of his] unpunished disgusting habits for years.”

August 2024

Adria English filed a felony grievance in opposition to Diddy after accusing him of intercourse trafficking her from 2004 to 2009 in a July 2024 lawsuit.

“Ms. English may be very excited and cautiously optimistic about her journey to justice beginning with the submitting of her civil lawsuit on July 3, 2024, and now with the submitting of a felony grievance with the Miami Seashore Police Division,” Ariel E. Mitchell advised Us in an announcement. “Ms. English hopes to file an extra felony grievance in New York however has been precluded thus far as New York requires a person to be in individual as a way to file a felony grievance.”

Diddy’s lawyer Jonathan Davis known as English’s accusations “baseless” in an announcement to Leisure Weekly one month prior, including, “Regardless of what number of lawsuits are filed, it gained’t change the truth that Mr. Combs has by no means sexually assaulted or intercourse trafficked anybody. We stay in a world the place anybody can file a lawsuit for any cause and with none proof. Luckily, a good and neutral judicial course of exists to search out the reality and Mr. Combs is assured he’ll prevail in opposition to these and different baseless claims in courtroom.”

September 2024

Former Danity Kane member Daybreak Richard filed a lawsuit in opposition to Diddy accusing him of sexual abuse, manipulation and terrorizing her. She additionally alleged that she witnessed Diddy abuse Cassie and Porter in entrance of her, and claimed Diddy promised to advance her singing profession if she gave into his sexual calls for following her time on MTV’s Making The Band.

One other of Diddy’s attorneys Erica Wolff famous that he was “shocked and dissatisfied” by the lawsuit in an announcement on the time. “It’s unlucky that Ms. Richard has forged their 20-year friendship apart to attempt to get cash from him, however Mr. Combs is confidently standing on fact and appears ahead to proving that in courtroom,” she added.

Later that month, Diddy was ordered to pay a $100 million default judgment for a civil lawsuit filed by a Michigan inmate who accused him of sexual assault. The default judgment was ordered after Diddy failed to seem in a digital listening to. Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith accused the rapper of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a 1997 get together in Detroit. Diddy proceeded to problem the ruling by submitting an emergency movement to vacate the default judgment. He additionally filed to dissolve a preliminary injunction and momentary restraining order.

With authorities apparently armed with needed proof to maneuver ahead, Diddy was arrested in NYC on September 16 after a grand jury indicted him on fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering. The indictment accuses Diddy of abusing and threatening ladies to “to satisfy his sexual wishes, defend his status and conceal his conduct,” with some incidents courting again to 2009, in accordance with new paperwork.

“To take action, Combs relied on the workers, assets and affect of the multifaceted enterprise empire that he led and managed — making a felony enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and tried to interact in, amongst different crimes, intercourse trafficking, pressured labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice,” the indictment acknowledged.

Diddy plead not responsible to the intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees on the time.

“We’re dissatisfied with the choice to pursue what we imagine is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace,” his lawyer Marc Agnifilo advised Us in an announcement.

He added: “He’s an imperfect individual, however he isn’t a felony. … Please reserve your judgment till you will have all of the information. These are the acts of an harmless man with nothing to cover, and he seems to be ahead to clearing his title in courtroom.”

In the event you or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). In the event you or somebody you already know are experiencing home violence, please name the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential help.