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Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement posted on social media late Monday that “we expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning” Details of the charges weren’t immediately announced by prosecutors, but Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, issued a statement saying: “We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr Combs.”
In November, his former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, became the first of several people to sue him for sexual abuse. Three more women quickly came forward with claims against Combs, including sex trafficking and gang-rape. In May, CNN aired a leaked video of him punching and kicking her in a hotel hallway.
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging Combs coerced him to solicit prostitutes and put pressure on him to have sex with them. Another of Combs’ accusers was a woman who said the rap producer raped her two decades ago when she was 17.
