NEW YORK — Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with sex trafficking and racketeering charges on Tuesday as federal prosecutors filed a criminal indictment against the music mogul accusing him of forcing women to participate in wild and violent sexual performances he videotaped. In the 14-page indictment, Combs, 54, is accused of transporting male sex workers and women across state lines to participate in the hedonistic parties he and his colleagues dubbed “Freak Offs.” Manhattan Federal Court Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky ordered Combs held without bail during the star’s arraignment Tuesday afternoon.
The Freak Offs involved wild sexual antics, copious amounts of drugs including Xanax and GHB, and bottles upon bottles of lubricant and baby oil, federal authorities said. They were held in hotel rooms in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and foreign countries between 2008 and earlier this year, prosecutors said. Combs would fly in male sex workers and encourage his girlfriends to participate in the elaborate sex acts that he set up, directed and videotaped, the indictment reads.
If they didn’t want to join in, he would verbally and physically abuse and harass them until they would, then “used the embarrassing and sensitive recordings as collateral against the victims,” United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damien Williams told reporters Tuesday. “This office is determined to investigate and prosecute anyone who engages in sex trafficking, no ma.