Case 1:24-cr-00542-AS Document 209 Filed 04/03/25
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“Diddy,” a/k/a “PD,” a/k/a “Love,” the defendant, knowingly transported individuals in interstate and foreign commerce with intent that the individuals engage in prostitution, and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused the same, to wit, COMBS transported, aided and abetted, and willfully caused the transportation of multiple individuals, including but not limited to Victim-1 and commercial sex workers, in interstate and foreign commerce on multiple occasions with the intent that they engage in prostitution.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2421(a) and 2.)
COUNT FOUR
(Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion)
The Grand Jury further charges:
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From at least in or about 2021, up to and including in or about 2024, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a “Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “P. Diddy,” a/k/a “Diddy,” a/k/a “PD,” a/k/a “Love,” the defendant, in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, knowingly recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, advertised, maintained, patronized, and solicited by any means a person, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that means of force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion, as described in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1591(e)(2), and any combination of such means, would be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial sex act, and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused the same, to wit, COMBS recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, and maintained Victim-2, and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused Victim-2, to engage in commercial sex acts, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that Victim-2 was engaging in commercial sex acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591(a)(1), (b)(1), 1594(a), and 2.)
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