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A person accused of being Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ was arrested attempting to board on the identical time the rapper’s mansion was raided by police.
Brendan Paul, 25, was arrested by Miami-Dade Police, alongside Homeland Safety brokers, at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami about 4.30pm on Monday.
Federal brokers raided Diddy’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami the identical day as a part of a intercourse trafficking investigation and detained two of his sons.
Justin and King Combs have been later launched with out cost. Pictures present at the least two males have been put in handcuffs through the Los Angeles raid.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs whereabouts are unknown after federal brokers raided his houses in Los Angeles and Miami
Diddy was noticed about 3pm at Opa-Locka Airport, not lengthy earlier than Paul was arrested there, hours after the raid began, after his jet flew in from LA.
Division of Homeland Safety and different native regulation enforcement places of work contacted by DailyMail.com on Tuesday haven’t been in a position to touch upon Diddy’s location and it was not clear the place he went.
He was scheduled to fly to the Caribbean and blocked the general public monitoring of his jet after it arrived in Miami. Police seized his telephones however he was not arrested.
The LoveAir LLC Gulfstream 5 jet was later tracked to the Caribbean island of Antigua, however he wasn’t on board.
Paul is being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart in Miami on two $2,500 bonds for cocaine and marijuana possession, in line with jail data.
He had ‘contraband inside his private journey luggage… the suspect cocaine was positioned and examined’, an affidavit learn.
Helicopter cameras have been on the scene Monday afternoon as dozens of brokers are have been advancing on the large Los Angeles-area property
Paul was known as Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ in a lawsuit Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones (pictured) filed in opposition to Diddy, whose actual identify is Sean Combs
Paul was known as Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ in a $30 million lawsuit Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed in opposition to Diddy, whose actual identify is Sean Combs.
The grievance, certainly one of 5 in opposition to Cobs since November, alleged he was concerned in ‘acquir[ing] and distribut[ing] Mr Combs medication and weapons’.
An individual acquainted with the allegations instructed Rolling Stone that the Paul within the lawsuit was the identical one arrested at Opa-Locka Airport on Monday.
Whether or not Paul’s arrest was related to allegations within the lawsuit, or to the raids on Diddy’s properties, was not confirmed.
Jones claimed within the lawsuit that he ‘personally witnessed’ Paul ‘purchase and distribute’ medication to Combs and his entourage, and transport or intend to move medication in baggage on flights.
He wrote the flights have been between Los Angeles, Miami, Virginia, the Caribbean, and London thrice in December 2022, April 2023 and November 2023.
‘Members of the enterprise and their associates procured, transported and distributed ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, mushrooms, by packing these substances of their carry-on baggage and going by TSA,’ he wrote.
Jones hooked up a photograph of Paul holding prescription tablet bottles with a black pouch sitting on his lap the lawsuit claimed was ‘full of ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, mushrooms, and tuci’.
Not less than two males who’ve but to be recognized have been seen being put in handcuffs at Diddy’s Holmby Hills property
The raids of his Miami and Los Angeles houses performed by Homeland Safety have been in connection to an ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation
Jones labored with Combs most not too long ago on his report, The Love Album: Off the Grid.
He’s suing the beleaguered rapper over claims he engaged in ‘critical criminality’ together with sexual assault.
The preliminary lawsuit alleged Combs compelled him to obtain intercourse employees and pressured him into acts with them.
He additionally accused Gooding Jr. of groping him whereas on Diddy’s yacht in January 2023, in line with the filings.
The incident allegedly occurred within the Virgin Islands and noticed Combs attempt to ‘move off’ Jones to actor Gooding, the lawsuit states.
‘Cuba Gooding Jr. started touching, groping and fondling Mr. Jones’ legs, his higher internal thighs close to his groin, the small of his again close to his buttocks and his shoulders,’ Jones’ the lawsuit alleges.
The grievance additionally features a picture showing to point out ‘Jerry Maguire’ star Gooding along with his arm round Jones, in addition to a photos purportedly exhibiting Combs and Gooding speaking on the yacht.
Combs was accused within the lawsuit of failing to step in and cease Gooding from ‘sexually assaulting’ Jones.
Jones claims Gooding (pictured) groped him whereas aboard Diddy’s yacht within the Virgin Islands in 2023
Jones’ lawsuit contains this picture showing to point out ‘Jerry Maguire’ star Gooding along with his arm round him
Jones’ bombshell lawsuit in opposition to Diddy claims Combs subjected him to a 12 months of groping and ‘fixed unsolicited touching of his anus’.
He says he was ordered to recruit prostitutes and have intercourse with them for the star’s pleasure, and has lots of of hours of video documenting Combs’s ‘critical criminality’.
He claims he was additionally sexually assaulted by a feminine cousin of Combs’s girlfriend Yung Miami and compelled to look at a video of report producer Stevie J having intercourse with one other man.
Jones was required to work in Combs’ lavatory the place the star would bathe bare behind a glass display screen, in line with the lawsuit.
The producer alleges Combs boasted of getting shot individuals and threatened to inflict bodily hurt if Jones didn’t comply along with his calls for.
He says the ‘forceful and demanding’ star privately admitted involvement in a 1999 nightclub capturing that noticed him acquitted of gun possession and bribery costs.
‘Mr Combs constantly made it clear that he has immense energy within the music business and with regulation enforcement,’ the lawsuit claimed.
Jones claims that underage women and intercourse employees have been visitors on the star’s home events and that he noticed the star drug their drinks.
He additionally claims he was ordered to Miami trawl bars and nightspots to recruit intercourse employees, and says he himself was drugged in February final 12 months earlier than he awakened bare, dizzy and confused in mattress with Combs and two intercourse employees.
His lawsuit additionally names Combs’ son Justin, his chief of employees Kristina Khorram, and Common Music Group chief govt Sir Lucian Grange as defendants.
It accuses Khorram of ‘grooming’ him on Combs’s behalf and claims that Motown Information, Love Information and Common Music Group comprised a ‘Rico enterprise’ that ‘did not adequately monitor, warn or supervise’ Combs and his internal circle.
Jones named among the business’s greatest names as co-defendants within the $30 million swimsuit, claiming report boss Ethiopia Habtemariam dismissed Combs’s groping as ‘pleasant horseplay’, and his approach of ‘exhibiting that he likes you’.
His lawsuit alleged Diddy’s ‘affiliation’ to Prince Harry and different stars gave him and his associates ‘legitimacy’.
The courtroom paperwork don’t counsel any wrongdoing on Prince Harry’s half.
Jones’ legal professionals declare visitors have been drawn to Diddy’s alleged sex-trafficking events due to his ‘entry to celebrities akin to well-known athletes, political figures, artist, musicians, and worldwide dignitaries like British Royal, Prince Harry’.
Prince William and Prince Harry met Diddy and Kanye West at a post-concert get together the Princes hosted to thank all who took half within the ‘Live performance for Diana’ at Wembley Stadium’ in 2007.
Nevertheless, the Prince of Wales will not be named within the courtroom paperwork.
Diddy denied the present allegations in opposition to him, calling them ‘sickening’, and his lawyer dismissed Jones’s claims as ‘pure fiction’.
‘Lil Rod is nothing greater than a liar who filed a $30 billion lawsuit shamelessly in search of an undeserved payday,’ lawyer Shawn Holley instructed TMZ in February.
Rapper and music mogul Diddy has been combating at the least 5 authorized battles, together with one in opposition to an unnamed girl who claimed he and two associates sexually assaulted her when she was 17.
Kanye West, Prince Harry and P Diddy after the after Live performance for Diana at Wembley in July 2007
Harry laughs as he tries on Kanye’s trademark glasses with a smiling Diddy subsequent to him carrying a Princess Diana T-Shirt
Harry is called on Web page 63 of the $30million lawsuit by Jones
Diddy’s former girlfriend R&B singer Cassie Ventura in a lawsuit filed in federal courtroom in November additionally accused him of intercourse trafficking.
She claimed Diddy managed and abused her for over a decade – in addition to plying her with medication, beating her and forcing her to have intercourse with a number of male prostitutes whereas he watched and recorded.
Ventura mentioned she was 19 when Combs, then 37, signed her to his report label, Dangerous Boy, in 2006.
She claimed Combs gave her medication, together with ecstasy and ketamine, quickly after to make her ‘compliant’. Ventura alleges that ‘all elements of her life’ have been managed by Combs, together with her medical data.
Among the many alleged episodes of ‘intense violence’ was a beating in an SUV on the way in which house from a celebration with rapper Jay-Z.
On one other event, a jealous Combs allegedly pulled Ventura out of a membership, ‘stomping on her face’, leaving her with accidents so dangerous she needed to recuperate for every week in a lodge.
Maybe essentially the most disturbing claims are that Combs allegedly compelled Ventura to participate in drug-fuelled events the place she had intercourse with male prostitutes whereas carrying masquerade masks as he filmed it and carried out a intercourse act on himself.
The lawsuit states: ‘Ms Ventura was repulsed by Mr Combs’ calls for, however between the bodily beating and recognising his unbelievable energy and unbelievable mood, Ms Ventura turned terrified of her accomplice and boss, and felt that she couldn’t say no.’
In one other alleged incident, an enraged Combs dangled Ms Ventura’s pal over a seventeenth ground lodge balcony.
The rapper and music business mogul was sued in November by the singer Cassie Ventura, who accused him of rape and bodily abuse earlier than the case was settled out of courtroom
A number of accusers of rapper Diddy – together with R&B singer Cassie Ventura (pictured left) – have spoken out
Additionally it is claimed he threatened to explode the automotive of affection rival, rapper Child Cudi – which later exploded on his driveway, although it’s unclear who was accountable.
In September 2018, after Ventura tried to interrupt issues off, Combs allegedly compelled his approach into her house and raped her.
The lawsuit is in search of unspecified damages for intercourse trafficking, sexual battery, sexual assault and harassment.
Combs denied the ‘offensive and outrageous allegations’ and settled with Ventura out of courtroom.
The lawsuit by Ventura was certainly one of at the least 5 civil complaints introduced in latest months leveling sexual assault allegations in opposition to Combs, together with one from Jones.
Joi Dickerson-Neal, one other accuser, claims Combs slipped one thing into her drink and sexually assaulted her in 1991 whereas she was a pupil at Syracuse College. She alleges that he filmed the assault and shared the video along with his social circle.
One other Jane Doe alleges that she and a pal have been raped by Combs and his pal, the singer–songwriter Aaron Corridor, within the early Nineties.
Rolling Stone reported Monday that ‘4 Jane Does and one John Doe’ have already been interviewed by the US Legal professional for the Southern District of New York ‘for a probe associated to alleged intercourse trafficking, home violence and racketeering,’ with extra scheduled.
Combs, 54, based the Dangerous Boy report label in 1993, and was a significant determine in hip-hop’s commercialization over the many years that adopted. His proteges included the late Infamous B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige.
He’s among the many business’s billionaires, not least because of his ventures within the liquor business.
However opposite to a public picture of suave businessman, lawsuits describe Combs as a violent man who used his movie star to prey on and intimidate girls.
