Just before Diddy’s upcoming racketeering and sex trafficking trial next month, prosecutors have slapped the fallen Bad Boy Records mogul with two additional criminal charges.
According to Rolling Stone, prosecutors have filed a superseding indictment against Diddy. He now faces one more charge of sex trafficking and another charge of transportation to engage in prostitution. These are on top of his existing charges: one count each of the two previously mentioned offenses and one count of racketeering.
In their statement, Diddy’s legal team emphasized that these charges don’t involve new accusers. “These are not new accusers; these are the same individuals, former long-term girlfriends, involved in consensual relationships,” his lawyers stated. “This was their private sex life.” His defense team has described the two victims named in the indictment as former girlfriends. While Victim-2’s identity remains unclear, they confirmed Victim-1 is Cassie.
The new sex trafficking charge claims Diddy “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.”
Diddy entered a not guilty plea to the previous charges during his court appearance last month. His trial is tentatively set to begin on May 5, with jury selection expected to start soon.
