Mansions in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York were stormed by heavily-armed agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on March 25. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) confirmed the raids to TMZ and said the agency “executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our local law enforcement partners. We will provide further information as it becomes available.” TMZ reported that the case is being handled out of the Southern District of New York and is likely tied to sex trafficking allegations against Combs in multiple lawsuits in recent months. The music mogul has been fighting multiple legal battles, including from a woman who claims that Combs gang-raped her at his New York recording studio after plying her with drugs and alcohol when she was only 17. That case, filed last December, was the fourth sexual assault lawsuit against Combs. Dramatic footage shows dozens of agents in armored vehicles on site at his properties. ABC News confirmed the Los Angeles property was a Holmby Hills mansion associated with Combs. Fox News captured footage of several individuals in handcuffs near one of the properties, whom TMZ identified as Combs’ sons, Justin and King. The raids come just weeks after a lawsuit from one of his former producers was filed, alleging a criminal racketeering enterprise that included murder, sex trafficking, illegal firearms, and drug trafficking. Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who filed the 73-page lawsuit, had collected video and photo evidence of Combs’ alleged crimes going back years. Some of those images are included in the legal filing. As stated in the lawsuit, the defendants named in the above paragraph knew that Combs used private jets, yachts, and commercial planes “to entice, recruit, solicit, harbor, provide, obtain, and transport young women, young men, and underage girls for purposes of causing commercial sex acts.” Jones also states in the filing that Combs “has hidden cameras in every room of his homes,” while maintaining recordings and “compromising footage of every person that has attended his freak off parties, and his house parties,” including celebrities, music label executives, politicians, and athletes. Details of the hidden camera operation have led to some now equating Combs’ enterprise to that of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a global sex trafficking network to purportedly blackmail powerful individuals.Federal agents have raided multiple homes owned by American music producer and label owner Sean “Diddy” Combs.
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According to NBC News, three women and a man have been interviewed by federal officials in New York, while three other interviews are scheduled to investigate claims of sex trafficking, sexual assault, as well as the solicitation and distribution of illegal drugs and firearms.
