{"id":2637,"date":"2024-09-17T02:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-arrested-in-nyc-after-grand-jury-indictment\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T02:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T02:19:26","slug":"diddy-arrested-in-nyc-after-grand-jury-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-arrested-in-nyc-after-grand-jury-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy Arrested in NYC After Grand Jury Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDiddy was arrested in New York on Monday night (Sept. 16) after being indicted by a grand jury on unknown charges, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/16\/arts\/music\/sean-combs-diddy-indicted.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> and other outlets report. An attorney for the rap mogul confirmed his arrest to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/16\/entertainment\/sean-diddy-combs-arrested-new-york\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDiddy (real name: Sean Combs) has been hit with at least eight civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse over the past year, including the suit that started it all from ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura that was later followed by a video showing him assaulting her. Even before the video emerged, that suit was privately settled in under 24 hours. Combs is also facing an apparent federal criminal investigation after authorities raided his homes in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe most recent lawsuit against him comes from Danity Kane\u2019s Dawn Richard, who filed a complaint last week in Manhattan federal court saying Diddy \u201cmanipulated\u201d her into thinking that \u201cabuse and exploitation were required for female artists to succeed in the music industry.\u201d Richard claims she witnessed Combs abuse Ventura on multiple occasions \u2013 and that recent lawsuits from Cassie and others sparked her to speak out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAs more women courageously come forward, plaintiff has been empowered by this collective strength and now adds her voice to the growing chorus of victims bravely sharing their harrowing stories,\u201d lawyers for Richard write. \u201cTogether, they seek justice and stand in solidarity, as the latest victims of the #Me Too movement in the music industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a response statement issued Wednesday, Combs\u2019 attorney Erica Wolff said her client was \u201cshocked and disappointed\u201d by the new allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diddy was arrested in New York on Monday night (Sept. 16) after being indicted by a grand jury on unknown charges, The New York Times and other outlets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2003,296,2692,3447,392,1965],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-arrested","tag-diddy","tag-grand","tag-indictment","tag-jury","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}