Notorious 1999 taking pictures may very well be re-investigated as a part of federal probe into Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ previous is again within the highlight as a sweeping federal intercourse trafficking probe into the rapper is ready to widen after brokers raided his mansions in connection to the investigation.

The notorious Membership New York taking pictures from 1999 and the sensational 2001 trial may probably be re-investigated as a part of the probe, two legislation enforcement officers instructed The New York Submit.

The probe comes as Combs faces accusations of sexual abuse from a number of alleged victims in a sequence of lawsuits in current months – together with an explosive lawsuit from February that alleges Combs sexually assaulted music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones and compelled him to have intercourse with intercourse employees.

Mr Jones additionally alleged in his lawsuit that Combs was violent, threatened to “to eat” his face, brandished weapons, and was typically “bragging about bribing witnesses, and jurors within the prison case in regards to the 1999 NYC nightclub taking pictures with Shyne.”

Combs, then referred to as Puffy, his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, his bodyguard, Anthony “Wolf” Jones, and rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, had been arrested after the membership taking pictures that injured three folks.

The trial ended with Combs and Mr Jones strolling free and Barrow, then 21, being convicted for assault and gun possession and sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Mr Jones additionally alleged within the go well with that Combs brazenly bragged about committing the taking pictures and bribing witnesses and jurors to safe his acquittal.

“Mr Combs shared that he was accountable for the taking pictures within the nightclub in New York,” he alleged.

He mentioned Combs bragged about utilizing Jennifer Lopez to smuggle the gun into the membership, in keeping with the go well with.

“He shared that artist, and Mr. Combs’ girlfriend on the time, Jennifer Lopez, aka, J.Lo carried the gun into the membership for him and handed him the gun after he received into an altercation with one other particular person,” Mr Jones alleged within the go well with.

However now Combs, a rapper and music mogul credited with serving to to launch the careers of a number of the business’s largest stars, is now dealing with a number of civil lawsuits accusing him of intercourse trafficking, sexual abuse and rape.

“They received eyes on him in Miami and the feds are speaking to witness after witness,” New York prison protection lawyer Michael Discioarro who’s conversant in the case instructed The Submit.

“They’re corroborating every little thing they’ll. However every little thing previous and current is on the desk with Mr. Diddy proper now.”

Combs, 54, has strongly denied the entire allegations towards him. His attorneys have branded the lawsuits and their accusations as cash grabs, “baseless” or “sickening.”

The brand new lawsuits come months after Combs’s former companion, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed a lawsuit towards him in November. She accused him of raping her in 2018, beating her, demanding she carry a firearm to “make her uncomfortable and display how harmful he’s” and forcing her into “undesirable sexual encounters with male intercourse employees.”

Ms Ventura’s lawsuit towards Combs was settled a day after she filed it for an undisclosed amount of cash.

The slew of allegations in lawsuits towards Combs date way back to the Nineteen Nineties, when he based his personal document label, Unhealthy Boy Information.