Sean 'Diddy' Combs Faces New Claims of Allegedly Forcing Employee to 'Engage in Sex Acts'

Mar. 15, 2025

ean “Diddy” Combs attends Day 1 of 2023 Invest Fest at Georgia World Congress Center on August 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo:Paras Griffin/Getty

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Combs, 55, is currently in jail onsex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution charges. His trial isscheduled to beginon May 5.

New claims were filed in the indictment against him in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, March 6, where Combs and his business associates are accused of forced labor against employees.

Combs and his associates allegedly “maintained control over certain employees of the Combs Business, whom he forced to work long hours with little sleep, through use of, among other things, physical force, psychological harm, financial harm, and reputational harm, and/or threats of the same,” per the indictment. Employees believed they would be harmed or lose their jobs if they didn’t follow Combs' alleged “demands,” the court documents add.

Combs allegedly used physical force and threats to coerce one employee to “engage in sexual acts” with him, the indictment alleges.

He is scheduled to be arraigned on the updated indictment on March 14.

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Combs was arrestedin Manhattan on Sept. 16, 2024. Theindictment against him was unsealedthe next day. It alleged Combs forced victims to participate in “freak offs,” which prosecutors described as “elaborate and produced sex performances.” He also allegedly used drugs like cocaine, oxycodone and ketamine as well as influence and intimidation to coerce women to participate.

Prosecutors previously alleged that Combs' employees from security staff to personal assistants were compliant in helping him facilitate the alleged freak offs.

Combs is being held atBrooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centerafterbeing denied bail three times.

source: people.com