Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested Monday night in New York City following an indictment from a grand jury.
A person familiar with the indictment confirmed the legal action against the 54-year-old musical impresario, according to The New York Times; but it was not immediately clear what the charge or charges were in his indictment.
Combs was arrested by Homeland Security officials at a midtown Manhattan hotel late Monday, law enforcement sources told TMZ, and transported to the FBI’s Manhattan field office.
Authorities had planned on arresting Combs on Tuesday, ‘but something happened that caused’ federal officials to take him into custody earlier than planned, an official told the outlet.
Federal officials had been searching the room in which they apprehended Combs, according to TMZ, citing ‘unconfirmed reports.’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested Monday night in New York City following an indictment from a grand jury. Pictured in September 2023
Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo released a statement to DailyMail.com which read: ‘We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
‘Sean “Diddy” Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children, and working to uplift the Black community.
‘He is an imperfect person but he [is] not a criminal. To his credit Mr. Combs has been nothing but cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges.
Agnifilo added: ‘Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court.’
Monday evening’s indictment comes less than six months after the music mogul’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities March 25. (TMZ noted that Monday’s high-profile arrest had been apparently connected to the probes).
Combs, who has also been known as Diddy and Puff Daddy, has been in the limelight for most of the past year, after he swiftly settled a lawsuit from his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura late last year, in which she claimed he engaged in sex trafficking and abused her.
He subsequently apologized after a video of him attacking her in 2016 in a Los Angeles hotel room circulated this past May.
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