Diddy has decades of ties to titans of entertainment, politics and business

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Sean “Diddy” Combs is incarcerated in a New York federal prison, awaiting trial on sex trafficking and other charges in a racketeering case that alleges other unnamed parties helped commit crimes, which allegedly took place at the tycoon’s sensual “monster”. “off” parties.

Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams, who once handed Combs the figurative key to the city, faces federal corruption charges unrelated to the East River.

Adams gave Combs, who rose to fame after founding Bad Boy Records in 1993, the gold medal this time last year, proclaiming: “The bad boy of entertainment gets the key to bad city politics boy.”

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Mayor Eric Adams and Sean "Diddy" Combs

Sean “Diddy” Combs, left, receives the key to the city from Mayor Eric Adams in Times Square on September 15, 2023, in New York. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)

No one else has been charged in Combs’ alleged sex trafficking operation. Aside from Adams, whom the Justice Department charged Thursday with bribery and campaign finance crimes, no one else mentioned here is facing federal charges.

But court documents allege that many people around Combs, including close associates, knew of his activities. Some of the lawsuits against him have named names, including one alleging other entertainment industry executives like former Bad Boy executive Harve Pierre.

Sean P. Diddy Combs Hosts Bad Boy and Warner Bros. Musical Partnership Party

Harve Stone and Sean P. ‘Diddy’ Combs during Sean P. ‘Diddy’ Combs Hosts Bad Boy & Warner Bros. Music Partnership Party at Flow in New York. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

Still, it’s too early to tell who might be in federal investigators’ crosshairs based on publicly available information, legal experts say.

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Russell Simmons, Steve Stoute, Jay-Z, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Andre Harrell. (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage for Bad Boy Entertainment)

“Anyone who actually participated in sexual acts with Diddy should be shaking,” said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor who now runs a private practice in Los Angeles.

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Another lawsuit accuses Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. of sexually harassing and groping a man during one of Combs’ parties aboard a yacht in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs interviews celebrities at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston

Sean “Diddy” Combs interviews U.S. Senate candidate and future president Barack Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. The former president is not accused of any wrongdoing in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering case against Combs. (Rebecca Sapp/WireImage for Citizen Change)

Like Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficking financier who owned his own private island, Combs, 54, has been accused of seducing his victims with his luxurious lifestyle and — in some cases — assaulting them aboard a yacht he had chartered for trips to the US Virgin Islands and St. Barthélemy. .

Rodney Jones sitting in a recording studio in dim lighting while another man sits next to him with an arm on his shoulder

Rodney Jones, in his lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, claims that this photograph shows him with Cuba Gooding Jr. on a yacht rented by Combs in which the actor allegedly made unwanted advances. (Southern District Court of New York)

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Prince William (left), American rapper Kanye West

(L to R) Prince William, Kanye West, Prince Harry and P Diddy pose for the media during a backstage party at Wembley Arena, north London, July 1, 2007. (Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images)

Court documents allege he forced his victims to have sex with male prostitutes in events so rigorous that participants and victims were later given intravenous treatments.

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Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Harvey Weinstein attend the 2008 CFDA Fashion Awards at the New York Public Library on June 2, 2008, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)

Combs has had years of ties to entertainment celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Jay-Z and Leonardo DiCaprio, political leaders including Adams and other Democratic leaders and business titans.

Ashton Kutcher, Kim Porter, Diddy and Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2004 NBA All-Star Game

Actor Ashton Kutcher, Kim Porter, music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs and actor Leonardo DiCaprio attend the 2004 NBA All-Star Game at Staples Center on February 15, 2004 in Los Angeles. Neither Kutcher nor DiCaprio were accused of wrongdoing in the recent federal indictment accusing Combs of trafficking women at drug-fueled sex parties. (Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

Federal prosecutors have not accused any of them of wrongdoing in their investigation of Combs. But the question remains: who attended his “creepy” parties and who participated in the abuse if it wasn’t just him?

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, a former Combs protégé who served a decade in prison for a 1999 nightclub shooting in which the mogul was acquitted, was deported after serving his sentence and became a politician in his country of origin.

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Actor John Cusack, center, and entertainer P Diddy, right back, join U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (behind Cusack) on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004, in Boston. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)

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Barrow is now the leader of the opposition in the country’s House of Representatives. At a press conference recently, he claimed Combs threw him under the bus during the trial, music site NME reported.

Although he claimed Combs “destroyed (his) life” after the shooting, he denied knowledge of the infamous “freak off” parties where federal prosecutors say sex trafficking took place.

Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez and Sean “Puffy” Combs arrive for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards on September 7, 2000, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Lopez was previously arrested in a New York nightclub shooting involving Combs, but charges against her were dropped. She is not accused of any wrongdoing in the recent federal sex trafficking case against her ex. (George De Sota/Newsmakers via Getty Images)

“He got away with a lot of times because of who he was,” Derrick Parker, a former member of the New York Police Department’s Rap Intelligence Unit who investigated the shooting in a nightclub in 1999. “Now a lot of it just comes back to him.”

6th Annual P. Diddy White Party

Sean P Diddy Combs and LL Cool J at the 6th Annual P Diddy White Party at the Star Room in Bridgehampton, NY LL Cool J is not accused of wrongdoing in connection with Combs’ recent arrest. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

That investigation also led to the arrest of Combs’ girlfriend at the time, pop megastar Jennifer Lopez.

Prosecutors declined to charge her and she was released.

R Kelly wearing a black t-shirt and bowler hat shakes hands with Diddy, wearing a denim coat, sweater and scarf

R. Kelly, a former singer turned convicted sex trafficker, and Sean “Diddy” Combs, now accused of sex trafficking, are pictured at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York in a file photo. (Théo Wargo/WireImage/Fichier)

“The other members of the RICO conspiracy are criminally responsible for sex trafficking even though they did not actually participate in the sex acts,” said Rahmani, the former federal prosecutor. “So someone who purchased the thousands of bottles of baby oil or who gave the victims post-drug infusions could be charged as a co-conspirator.”

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Prosecutors can pressure anonymous, unindicted co-conspirators to turn against Combs or anyone else involved in the alleged crimes, he said. And if they don’t turn around, they may face charges themselves.

For the current charges, Combs faces life in prison. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.