NEW YORK. – As Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs stood in a New York City courtroom on Tuesday and pleaded ‘not guilty’ to charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy and prostitution, his three sons stood by him. Justin, 30, Christian ‘King’, 26, and Quincy Taylor Brown, 33, arrived together at the federal courthouse, each attired in dark sunglasses and two-piece matching loungewear sets.
In the seventh-floor arraignment room, Christian Combs requested a copy of the three-count federal indictment and sat leafing through the 14-page document outlining the disturbing allegations against their 54-year-old father. Combs’s three glamorous daughters and 23-month-old baby girl, meanwhile, were nowhere in view – perhaps wisely. One might ask: How could the three brothers stand there in solidarity with a father accused of staging violent, drug-fuelled orgies known as ‘freak-offs’ and, according to the court records, physically abusing a slew of women, ‘striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them’? Certainly, two of the three boys have colourful pasts of their own – and, in the case of Justin, questions to answer about the extent of his involvement in Combs’s alleged abuse.
Earlier this year, the 30-year-old son of Sean Combs and fashion designer Misa Hylton was named in a lawsuit filed by his father’s long-time business partner, Rodney Jones. Legal papers claim Justin solicited prostitutes, including underage girls. According to Jones.