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What To Know About Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ 2024 Indictment

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Sean “Diddy” Combs, the notorious hip-hop entrepreneur, faces federal sex trafficking and racketeering allegations in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday. He was arrested on Monday in New York after being indicted by a federal grand jury. The arrest and indictment after a months-long sex trafficking investigation and 10 months after a slew of women came forward with sexual and other mistreatment claims.

Prior to the unsealing of the indictment, Combs’ attorney, Marc Agnifilo, stated that they knew what the allegations would be and that Combs was “innocent of these charges.”

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Here are the essential details from the three-count indictment.

Alleged assaults stretch back to 2008.
The indictment includes extensive details about Combs’ alleged assaults on several women since 2008. He is accused of “verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual” abuse, as well as having “hit, kicked, threw objects at, and dragged victims, at times, by their hair” in assaults that took “days or weeks to heal.”

According to the indictment, Combs orchestrated sexual encounters between his victims and male sex workers he referred to as “Freak Offs” — “elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded.”

According to prosecutors, these encounters may last for days and frequently included many commercial sex workers, with Combs drugging the participants to “keep the victims obedient and compliant.” The raids on Combs’ houses in Los Angeles and Miami resulted in the seizure of supplies for the “Freak Offs,” including pills and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant, according to prosecutors.

Combs is accused of leading a criminal business.
The indictment claims that Combs and others he knew were members of a criminal organization that engaged in a variety of illegal activities, including sex trafficking, forced labor, prostitution-related transportation and coercion, narcotics offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice. Combs is accused of leading the illicit operations, and the indictment alleges that individuals who worked for him, such as security personnel, domestic staff, personal assistants, and “high-ranking supervisors,” were all involved in the criminal activity, either consciously or unknowingly.

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According to prosecutors, Combs’ supporters used violence to maintain and safeguard his control, including the use of weapons, threats of violence, coercion, and verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual assault.

“Combs did not do this all on his own,” stated Damian Williams, the United States Attorney in Manhattan, at a press conference on Tuesday morning. “He used his business and employees of that business and other close associates to get his way.”

Williams also said that Combs workers were involved in organizing and coordinating the “Freak Offs,” including supplying items, cleaning hotel rooms after the encounters, and assisting in the cover-up of the assaults.

The racketeering conspiracy allegation has been widely utilized to bring down the Mafia and drug cartels.

Prosecutors allege that Combs used firearms to intimidate and threaten victims and witnesses of his crimes, leading them to remain silent. Law enforcement officials said they discovered guns and ammo, including three AR-15s with “defaced” serial numbers, during raids on his houses in Los Angeles and Miami.

The indictment also accuses Combs of exploiting his victims’ desire to advance their careers in the music industry by utilizing his money and influence. Officials also claimed that Combs exploited recordings of the “Freak Offs” to prevent the victims from coming forward. According to authorities, Combs controlled his victims’ housing, tracked their location, dictated their looks, monitored their medical records, and supplied them with narcotics.

Another court filing outlines Combs and his colleagues’ other acts of violence and intimidation, such as kidnapping one individual at gunpoint and ripping open a car’s convertible top to drop a Molotov cocktail inside, causing the car to explode. According to the lawsuit, these events can be corroborated by police reports, fire department records, and witnesses.

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What To Know About Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Indictment

The investigation is ongoing, and further arrests are possible.
Prosecutors say they’ve interviewed over 50 victims and witnesses to Combs’ abuse, but they expect more to come forward with their stories.

Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, prosecutors have stated that they are unable to divulge certain specifics, such as information regarding the witnesses who have submitted or will provide testimony.

Williams said Tuesday that he wants Combs imprisoned while he awaits trial. When asked if Combs’ acquaintances or employees will face charges, Williams said he “can’t take anything off the table.”

“Our investigation is very active and ongoing,” she said.

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Jason Kelce Smashes Football Fan’s Phone

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Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.

In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.

As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.

Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.

“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”

Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.

Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.

“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.

The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.

The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

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Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.

On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.

“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.

However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.

White claimed that his publicist emailed Dobrev a forged invitation to the event, which was scheduled to take place at the Golden Swan in New York City.

Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”

He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.

Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.

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Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.

According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.

“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.

The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.

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Hollywood Actress Teri Garr Passes Away at 79

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Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," has passed away at 79.

Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.

Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”

Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.

Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.

She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.

In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.

Teri Garr, a comedian

Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”

She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”

Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.

“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.

The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”

Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.

 A gift for spontaneous humor

Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.

She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.

Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.

During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.

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