Ten months after Sean “Diddy” Combs' ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, accused him of rape and physical abuse, the rap mogul appeared before a federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday to face broad charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Here's how Combs, 54, is being held without bail based on an indictment that details nearly two decades of misdeeds.
November 16, 2023 — Combs' ex-girlfriend, Cassie, accuses him of abuse in lawsuit
Cassie, an R&B singer who was once signed to Combs' record label, Bay Boy Records, has filed a shocking lawsuit alleging that Combs raped and physically abused her for over a decade.
The singer, whose real name is Cassandra Ventura, alleges that Combs trafficked her, raped her and brutally assaulted her from 2005 to 2018, according to the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.
The lawsuit, which was filed with an explicit “trigger warning,” alleges that Combs regularly gave her drugs and alcohol and forced her to engage in sex acts with male prostitutes, filming them as “freak-outs.”
According to the lawsuit, Cassie also alleges that Combs blew up rapper Kid Cudi's car after learning that Cudi was romantically interested in her.
Their relationship began shortly after they met in 2005, when she was 22 and he was nearly 40, and was on and off since.
Nov. 17, 2023 — The day after the lawsuit was filed, Combs reaches a settlement with Ventura.
Just one day after the federal lawsuit was filed, Combs and Cathy reached a settlement that “resolved the claims to each party's satisfaction.”
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
“We have decided to resolve this matter amicably and I wish Kathy and her family the best,” Combs said in a statement at the time.
What we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
Nov. 23, 2023 — Combs is facing new charges that he drugged and raped a woman in 1991.
The allegations are similar, but against different people.
Combs had been accused by another woman of drugging and sexually assaulting her on a date in 1991 and filming the assault.
In a complaint filed by Joy Dickerson Neal, a former Syracuse University student, Combs sexually assaulted her during dinner at Wells Restaurant in Harlem. The complaint said Combs gave her drugs that left her “physically unable to stand or walk unaided.”
A spokesman for Combs denied the allegations and called the lawsuit “merchant-driven.”
November 24, 2023 – A third woman comes forward to accuse Combs of raping her and a friend in the early 1990s.
A third woman, identified in the new complaint as Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit alleging that both Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her and a friend in the early 1990s.
The plaintiff said she and a friend met Combs and Hall at an event hosted by MCA Records in New York City in 1990 or 1991.
According to the lawsuit, filed just before the Adult Survivors Act expired, Combs and Hall then invited the women to an afterparty at Hall's apartment, where the women were “coerced” into having sex with Combs.
“These are fabricated claims falsely alleging misconduct from over 30 years ago, filed at the last minute. This is nothing more than a money-making scheme,” a spokesman for Combs said at the time.
December 6, 2023 – Combs accused of drugging and gang-raping a 17-year-old girl: lawsuit
Combs is facing a fourth sexual assault lawsuit, alleging that 20 years ago he flew a 17-year-old girl to Manhattan, drugged her and then gang-raped her in his recording studio.
The woman, who filed the lawsuit anonymously in Manhattan federal court as Jane Doe, claims she was in the 11th grade when she was raped in 2003 by Combs, Harve Pierre, the longtime president of his Bad Boys record label, and a third party.
Combs released a statement through his representative, strongly denying the allegations and saying, “Enough is enough.”
Dec. 14, 2023 — Hulu cancels Combs' reality show “Diddy + 7” following sexual assault allegations.
According to Variety, Combs was set to have his own TV show on Hulu called “Diddy + 7,” but the streaming giant decided to cancel the show due to his ongoing legal troubles.
The show was produced by James Corden's production company, Fulwell 73.
February 26, 2024 – Combs accused of sexual harassment, assault by male producer: $30 million lawsuit
Producer Rodney “Lil' Rod” Jones filed a $30 million lawsuit alleging that Combs He repeatedly sexually assaulted her while working on his latest album. From September 2022 to November 2023.
The producer, who also worked as Combs' videographer, accused Combs of groping his genitals and touching his anus to solicit sex, and that Combs downplayed the assaults as “flirting.”
According to an amended complaint filed earlier this year, Combs' ex-girlfriend, Young Miami (aka Caresha Rameka Brownlee), was accused of transporting a drug known as “pink cocaine” for Combs in April 2023. The complaint also alleges that Combs paid Instagram influencer Jade Lamy a “monthly stipend” as compensation for sex work.
March 25, 2024 – Combs' Los Angeles and Miami homes are searched by Homeland Security.
Federal authorities searched Combs' homes in Los Angeles and Miami.
Investigators were seen arriving with guns drawn at the rap mogul's property in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and leaving with boxes and bags of evidence, including electronic devices.
At the time, law enforcement sources told The Post that they entered because they wanted to seize Combs' cellphone and computer.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that during the search they found firearms, including three AR-15 guns with “defaced” serial numbers, ammunition and hundreds of bottles of baby oil and lubricant.
At the time, Combs' lawyers blasted the federal investigation, calling it a “witch hunt.”
May 17, 2024 – Combs was seen beating his then-girlfriend, Cathy, in a hotel hallway in 2016.
Surveillance camera footage obtained by CNN shows Combs shoving, kicking and dragging his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in a hallway at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles on March 5, 2016.
Combs is seen chasing Ventura with a bath towel wrapped around his waist, before grabbing her by the back of the neck and throwing her to the floor.
The video shows the man holding a towel in one hand and kicking her, then grabbing her purse and suitcase, kicking her again and dragging her across the carpet in the hallway.
Combs allegedly paid the hotel $50,000 for the security camera footage.
Two days after the video was released, Combs posted a video on Instagram in which he said he “takes full responsibility” for his “unacceptable” behavior and described the footage as “disgusting.”
May 21, 2024 – A former model and TV star claims Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2003.
Crystal McKinney, who rose to fame after winning MTV's first-ever beauty pageant, “Model Mission,” in 1998, claims she kept the unwashed clothes from the night Combs allegedly assaulted her, wrapped in a plastic bag, for more than 20 years.
McKinney, who was 22 at the time, says she met Combs at a Men's Fashion Week event in 2003 and he told her he could help her advance her modeling career. According to the lawsuit, Combs then forced her to perform oral sex on him at his studio on West 44th Street in Midtown.
May 23, 2024 – A woman claims that Combs raped her when she was a student at FIT in the 1990s.
April Lampros, a former student at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology in the 1990s, has accused Combs of sexually assaulting her four times between the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
This is the eighth lawsuit against Combs since November and the seventh to allege sexual assault.
June 15, 2024 – Mayor Eric Adams revokes Combs' keys to New York City.
Mayor Eric Adams revoked Combs' keys to the city's gates just three weeks after a shocking video of Combs punching Ventura was released.
Combs received the keys in November 2023, to mark the release of his first studio album in 17 years.
Howard University also revoked Combs' honorary degree and returned a $1 million donation around the same time.
July 3, 2024 – A former porn star claims Combs forced her to have sex with him at a famous Hamptons party.
Former adult film star Adria English filed the lawsuit, alleging that she was “framed” as a sex trafficking victim while working as a go-go dancer at the rapper's annual white parties nearly 20 years ago.
September 16, 2024 – Combs is arrested at a New York hotel amid a federal sex trafficking investigation.
Combs was arrested Monday night at the Park Hyatt in New York by Homeland Security Investigations, an agency that normally investigates sex trafficking cases.
September 17, 2024 — In a shocking indictment, Combs is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to a broad indictment that includes racketeering conspiracy, coercion, fraud, compulsion to commit sex trafficking and transportation for the purposes of prostitution.
