Diddy Arrest Video Released: Latest Wagering Markets

TMZ has released exclusive video of the arrest of rap mogul and producer Sean "Diddy" Combs from last Monday night.

Diddy was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.  BetUS currently offers  Diddy wagering markets for a release on bail prior to his next court appearance October 9 (-3000 of that NOT happening) and whether he gets transferred to another facility prior to that hearing (-1600 of that NOT happening).

In the video, Combs is seen walking into a hotel lobby with a group of people and is immediately led away by two men. In another scene, four men lead Combs back out the lobby doors while his hands are behind his back, seemingly in handcuffs.

The incident took place Monday at the Park Hyatt New York, where Combs had been staying for more than a week after traveling to New York, as his lawyers have described, to "surrender" to authorities.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday unsealed a 14-page federal grand jury indictment.

#TMZ has obtained #exclusive video of #Diddy's Monday night arrest in #NYC. pic.twitter.com/gJPKQEiw66

— TMZ (@TMZ) September 20, 2024

According to the Indictment, from at least 2008 through the present, COMBS led a criminal enterprise that existed to facilitate his abuse and exploitation of women, to protect his reputation, and to conceal his conduct.  As part of that criminal enterprise, COMBS, along with other members and associates of the enterprise, committed crimes including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.

Among other things, COMBS’ sexual abuse of women included causing them to engage in frequent, days-long sexual activity with male commercial sex workers, some of whom were transported over state lines.  These events, which COMBS referred to as “Freak Offs,” were elaborate sex performances that COMBS arranged, directed, and often electronically recorded.  To ensure participation in Freak Offs, COMBS used violence and intimidation, and leveraged his power over victims—power he obtained through obtaining and distributing narcotics to them, exploiting his financial support to them and threatening to cut off the same, and controlling their careers.  COMBS also threatened his victims, including by threatening to expose the embarrassing and sensitive recordings he made of Freak Offs if the women did not comply with his demands.   

COMBS’ efforts to control women included repeated physical abuse.  COMBS assaulted women by, among other things, striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them.  COMBS similarly assaulted witnesses to his abuse.  These assaults often resulted in injuries to the victims, which took days or weeks to heal.

To commit these crimes, COMBS relied on his power as the leader of a multi-faceted business empire.  Employees of COMBS' businesses—including high ranking supervisors, security staff, personal assistants, and household staff—acted as COMBS’ intermediaries to, among other things, arrange travel and hotel rooms; stock the hotel rooms for COMBS’ commercial sex activity; contact or locate women and other individuals whom he targeted for abuse; and conceal and cover up the abuse.  This criminal concealment included efforts to prevent law enforcement from learning about his abuse.