Diddy Facing Life In Prison If Convicted In Amended Indictment

Diddy is now facing a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted after prosecutors amended the indictment against him. According to multiple sources, prosecutors filed a new superseding indictment on Thursday (Jan. 30), expanding their initial September 2024 sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean Combs.

The embattled mogul now faces claims from two additional women accusing him of forcing them into “commercial sex acts” and “dangling a victim over a hotel balcony,” perRolling Stone. Additionally, Sean Combs is being accused of possessing various drugs like cocaine, ketamine, meth, and mushrooms and paying off the hotel staff $10,000 for the surveillance footage of him allegedly assaulting Cassie in 2016. Prosecutors added that Diddy was allegedly involved in an unspecified kidnapping with an unnamed victim.

“When Combs’ authority or reputation was threatened by the possibility of negative publicity or legal or law enforcement action against him, [Combs] pressured witnesses and victims, including through attempted bribery, to stay silent and not report what they experienced or knew to law enforcement,” the indictment reads, per Billboard. The new legal filing added that “Combs provided these victims and witnesses with a false narrative of events in an effort to conceal his crimes.”

It should be noted that the amended indictment expands upon the charges already looming over Combs and doesn’t add additional charges against him. The new filing also extends the time frame of Combs’ conspiracy, starting in 2004 instead of 2008.  

Sean Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, spoke out against the expanded indictment, claiming that there were “flaws” in the prosecution’s primary argument, saying, “The government has added the ridiculous theory that two of Mr. Combs’ former girlfriends were not girlfriends at all but were prostitutes.”

Combs currently remains behind bars, where he will stay until his trial on May 5, 2025.