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Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday and pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that include sex trafficking and extortion and will remain in custody until his trial, prompting a series of sharp reactions from rapper and longtime critic 50 Cent and other hip celebrities. -Hop and R&B communities.
Combs was arrested Monday. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Combs was charged with extortion conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, cause or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution, and prosecutors alleged he engaged in physical abuse, coercion and obstruction of justice when he organized sex parties which he described as “Freak Offs”.
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, he tweeted a photo of him and actor Drew Barrymore was captioned: “I’m in good company here [Barrymore] and I don’t have 1,000 bottles of lube at home,” referring to the researchers’ findings while searched the Combs houses in March, when law enforcement recovered more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lube, according to Combs’ indictment.
Radio host Charlamagne Tha God said during a Monday segment on “The Breakfast Club” if Combs is convicted of extortion and sex trafficking.there will be others involved“, that he will “probably go to jail”.
Singer Audrey O’Day, who has been talked about Combssaid on Monday that he heard “validated” following the rapper’s arrest, following the tweet by saying he “chose to talk to people who could bring justice the way I needed to see it.”
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50 Cent has long criticized Combs before his indictment. In May, 50 Cent re-shared a post from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office condemning a video showing Combs assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. The attack took place beyond the statute of limitations, prompting 50 Cent to say that the office released the video knowing they “can’t charge him for what we saw, but they know we can’t [unsee]
what we saw”. 50 Cent also addressed the raids on Combs’ residences, saying in a tweet they “don’t come like this unless they have a case.” 50 Cent took out a track Sat against Combs in 2006 and announced last year that his production company would produce a documentary about the numerous allegations against Combs titled “Diddy did it?”
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O’Day is a former member of R&B girl group Danity Kane, who signed to Combs’ record label, Bad Boy Records, in 2005.
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Combs was denied bail Tuesday and will remain in federal prison until his trial on the three charges, which carry a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum sentence of life in prison. Prosecutors accused Combs of engaging in “verbal, emotional, sexual and physical abuse” and of manipulating women into engaging in “prolonged sexual acts with male commercial sex workers.” Charges against Combs remain months of allegations made by women against the rapper accusing him of rape, sexual assault and abuse for several years. The allegations, which materialized mostly from late last year until this summer, were denied by Combs’ lawyers, who told Forbes that some of the claims against the rapper were take money“without foundation” or “ill.”
Additional reading
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs denied bail after pleading not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges (Forbes)