2 days Ago By Jonathan Abrams, Elena Bergeron, Matt Stevens
The music mogul, who fuelled the commercial success of rap over a 30-year career, is facing multiple lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault and misconduct. He was arrested on new charges this week. Sean Combs, the hitmaking hip-hop mogul also known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, is facing multiple accusations of sexual assault.
In late 2023, he reached a settlement in an explosive lawsuit with Casandra Ventura, who had alleged that Combs, 54, raped and physically abused her over about a decade. Combs was arrested Monday (Tuesday NZ time) at a hotel in Manhattan on new federal charges. A key driver of hip-hop’s takeover of mainstream pop, Combs has had a career in music, fashion and TV for more than 30 years that has been periodically interrupted by run-ins with the law.
1991: An ambitious intern’s rocky ascent Combs, a relatively unknown 22-year-old radio station intern, co-hosted a celebrity basketball game with rapper Heavy D. A stampede erupted among the jammed crowd inside the oversold City College of New York gymnasium, killing nine people..
