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A Manhattan judge on Friday shot down increasingly grey-haired Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bid to delay his sex trafficking trial by two months. The jailed music mogul had asked for opening statements in the closely watched case to be pushed back until July so that he’d have more time to chase down evidence to use in his defense. But Judge Arun Subramanian denied the request, noting that the 55-year-old music mogul has plenty of resources to properly prep for his May trial, including lawyers from four defense firms. “It is unclear why there isn’t sufficient time to prepare,” Subramanian said during...

An amended lawsuit against Sean 'Diddy' Combs has named Maui's police chief as a co-conspirator, alleging the officer helped the music mogul cover up a woman's rape in 2018. Maui's Police Chief John Pelletier, 52, is one of several new defendants, including NFL wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and Drew Desbordes, a comedian known as Druski, added to the damning lawsuit on Friday. The documents, filed by a woman and two additional plaintiffs, accuses Pelletier of posing as a Contra Costa, California sheriff in order to deter a woman from filing a rape charge against the disgraced rapper. At the...

The Department of Education just got BUSTED running a rogue “sanctuary program” for illegal immigrants while hiding secrets from DOGE and Congress via an encrypted messaging app. This conspiracy was revealed by Project Veritas, which dropped a bombshell video exposing Travis Combs, Branch Chief for Applied Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). In the undercover footage, Combs admits that DOE employees are intentionally using the encrypted messaging app Signal to hide internal conversations from oversight. “If you want to have a conversation with somebody, you do have to take it offline, but you’re not supposed to....

An additional 120 alleged victims have now come forward against Sean “Diddy” Combs, including a man who claims he was only 9-year-old at the time of the abuse. One Tuesday, Tony Buzbee, a Texas-based lawyer, stated at a press conference that he will be defending 120 new accusers who have now come forward to accuse the music mogul of a series of charges over a 20-year period. “We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates,” Buzbee said during the news conference. “Many powerful people …...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused of sexually assaulting 25 minors — including a 9-year-old — during a shocking press conference. Texas-based attorney Tuny Buzbee announced Tuesday that he is representing 120 individuals in civil lawsuits for allegations spanning the last three decades. “I want to focus on the ages of these victims. When we talk about the ages of these victims when the conduct occurred, it’s shocking,” Buzbee warned. Buzbee alleged that Diddy’s youngest victim was just 9 years old when the disgraced rapper sexually assaulted them. “This individual who was 9 years old at the time was taken to...

Ariel Mitchell-Kidd, the attorney representing a woman who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of a 2018 sexual assault, made shocking claims during an interview with Ashleigh Banfield on NewsNation. Mitchell-Kidd, who previously represented other plaintiffs against Combs, revealed harrowing details of the alleged assault on her current client. According to Mitchell-Kidd, the incident occurred at a private residence in 2018, when her client was drugged and then sexually assaulted by Combs and another man. The victim, in a state of terror, escaped to the streets, where a neighbor intervened. A police report was filed, though it did not initially name Combs...

Sean “Diddy” Combs welcomed droves of Hollywood’s biggest stars to his Hamptons mansion decades before the feds started looking into his “Freak Off” parties. Following the disgraced rapper’s arrest, photos from some of his star-studded White Parties have resurfaced online, showing everyone from teen heartthrobs to some of fashion’s biggest names attending Diddy’s parties out East. One photo, from July 2000, shows Diddy and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez lounging on a massive white bed covered in pillows. The pair dated from 1999 to 2001. During the same party, the pair were pictured alongside Kimora Lee Simmons and then-husband Russell Simmons, Matthew...

There will be a (large) percentage of readers whose eyes will roll at this headline: You don’t listen to Sean Combs… or P. Diddy… or Diddy… or Puff Daddy… or whatever he’s calling himself today. Not your jam, not your bag: “So, okay, Combs was busted this week for sex trafficking and racketeering and is currently sitting inside a jail cell on suicide watch. But why should I care? For a couple of reasons: First, this seems to be a story with nice, long legs that even Tina Turner would envy. There’s sex, celebrities, wild parties, debauchery, baby oil(!), and...

Sean “Diddy” Combs spent the night locked up in a notorious Brooklyn federal jail that has long been plagued by tales of “barbaric” and “reprehensible” conditions for inmates — who have included notorious sex abusers R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell. Combs, 54, was hauled away to the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park late Tuesday after he was ordered held without bail on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges. The embattled hip-hop mogul will be held there ahead of a scheduled Manhattan federal court hearing Wednesday afternoon, when he is expected to appeal the decision to keep him behind bars. The...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was seen shoving, kicking and dragging his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in harrowing 2016 surveillance [video] released Friday. The video, obtained by CNN and dated March 5, 2016, shows the rapper and producer running after the singer down a hallway at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. Combs — who has a towel wrapped around his waist — then grabs her by the back of the neck and throws her to the floor. While holding his towel closed with one hand, he proceeds to kick her, the video shows.

The Los Angeles and Miami homes of renowned musician and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs were raided by authorities as part of a federal investigation, officials said. The action is related to a sex trafficking probe in New York, The Associated Press reports, citing officials who are not authorized to speak publicly about details of the investigation. It is unclear whether Combs was the target of the investigation. His sprawling Holmby Hills property in Los Angeles was swarmed with federal and local law enforcement and helicopters Sunday. The musician’s Miami home was also raided, the Department of Homeland Security said. “Earlier...

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n a sign that Sean “Diddy” Combs is serious about making a push to buy the Carolina Panthers, the hip-hop mogul is moving to set meetings with potential investors in hopes of shaping a prospective ownership group, two sources familiar with Combs told Yahoo Sports. Those efforts are expected to include the involvement of Colin Kaepernick, who had a lengthy call with Combs to discuss the former NFL quarterback’s role in forming an ownership group.

A state representative in Kentucky caused a security scare when she accidentally fired her gun while cleaning it in her office at the state legislature. But Leslie Combs has brushed off the accident, claiming that it comes with the territory of gun ownership. 'I'm a gun owner. It happens,' she said today after news of yesterday's accident broke. The Democratic representative was cleaning her semi-automatic handgun inside her office when it accidentally fired and a bully ricocheted, hitting a bookshelf. Local station WHAS 11 reports that a colleague, representative Jeff Greer, was also in the room at the time of...

The city of Birmingham and three of the suburb's cops may be in trouble after being hit with a lawsuit by an 18-year-old Troy high school graduate who was arrested last spring as he walked through the Birmingham business district with a rifle slung across his back. The Free Press reports: Sean Combs, 18, of Troy said he filed the suit to get the city and three police officers to admit they were wrong for arresting him on Old Woodward Avenue in April while he said he was exercising his Second Amendment right to bear arms. "I'm kind of sick...

The Daily Tribute reports that Michigan teenager Sean Combs won a not-guilty verdict after being placed on trial for brandishing a firearm a public. We covered this story a while back and we’ve been cheering for Combs ever since. For those of you who missed our original article, Combs was walking through a public area with a M1 Garand slung over his shoulder. And just to be clear, openly carrying a weapon in legal in Michigan. So, why did three police officers stop Combs and ask for his ID? Officer Rebecca Springer, who testified in the case, said “I had...

BLOOMFIELD TWP. — Sean Combs, the Troy 18-year-old arrested for carrying a rifle in downtown Birmingham, was found not guilty Thursday afternoon of brandishing a firearm and disturbing the peace. After nearly five hours of deliberation on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning at the 48th District Court, many on the seven-member jury were confident in their final decision. "We upheld the law," said Rev. Julius DelPino, a jury member from Rochester Hills. "Based on how the law is written, (Combs) was not breaking the law." Combs was arrested on April 13 after he was stopped by two Birmingham Police officers...

Sean M. Combs is only 18 but he already knows more about civil rights and Michigan gun laws than the officers who arrested him in April for carrying an antique M1 Garand rifle slung over his shoulder. The two officers, Rebekah Springer and Gina Potts, saw Combs carrying the rifle in Troy Michigan and demanded his ID. When he refused, noting that he was not violating any laws, he was arrested and charged with Brandishing, Disturbing the Peace, and Obstructing an Officer. I have written before about the misuse of these “catch-all” charges to chill the rights of citizens and...

A Troy man who carried a rifle around downtown Birmingham in April learned Thursday that six jurors agreed with him: He did not break the law when he carried his gun. Jurors deliberated Thursday morning at 48th District Judge Marc Barron’s courtroom, deciding the case against 18-year-old Sean Combs. Combs was charged with brandishing a weapon and disturbing the peace. An obstructing police charge was thrown out after Combs’ attorney, James Makowski, voiced a motion for a directed verdict, stating prosecutors “have presented absolutely no evidence to set the charge of brandishing nor have they presented any evidence (for the...

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A jury has found an 18-year-old man not guilty of a crime for carrying a loaded M-1 rifle as he walked through the downtown of an affluent Detroit suburb.