A timeline of allegations towards Sean Combs : NPR

Dangerous Boy Information founder Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual misconduct by 5 totally different individuals since November 2023.

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Dangerous Boy Information founder Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual misconduct by 5 totally different individuals since November 2023.

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In current months, Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop billionaire who performed a significant position in commercializing rap, has develop into the topic of a number of civil fits accusing him of sexual misconduct, together with rape and assault.

For a few years, Combs represented affluence as he turned his stake within the Dangerous Boy Leisure document label he based into an empire that prolonged to style, media, liquor and past. “No matter I would like, I’ve to I get,” he yelled in a clip from his 2017 documentary, Cannot Cease, Will not Cease, after smashing issues on his desk. What was initially seen as a fodder for the grindset from the final word hustler mogul now feels extra like proof of an aggressive, domineering disposition, one in keeping with the vicious particular person depicted within the filings.

A timeline of those occasions, relationship again 30 years, juxtaposed with milestones from Combs’ profession, shows not solely a chilling historical past of alleged violent habits however the best way energy and celeb have shielded him.

(Allegations from the civil fits seem italicized on the timeline.)

1990

Combs begins his music trade profession as an intern at Uptown Information working below government Andre Harrell.

1990/1991

In accordance with a November 2023 lawsuit, Combs and the R&B singer Aaron Corridor allegedly sexually assault an unnamed sufferer and a buddy after a music trade occasion, then beat her a number of days later when confronted.

1991

In accordance with a November 2023 lawsuit, Combs allegedly medicine, sexually assaults and videotapes 19-year-old Joi Dickerson, after happening a date with him.

1993

After being fired from his duties at Uptown Information, Combs begins his personal label, Dangerous Boy Information. The label grows in reputation and notoriety over the course of the last decade, breaking the careers of Craig Mack, The Infamous B.I.G, Mase, The Lox, Religion Evans and extra.

1996

Combs is discovered responsible of prison mischief for threatening a photographer from the New York Publish with a gun.

1998

Combs begins throwing his annual Hamptons all-white events that come to be generally known as so lavish and unique, he earns the rep of being a “modern-day Gatsby.” Company vary from music trade execs and artists to actors, actual property moguls and sports activities workforce house owners.

April 16, 1999

Combs is arrested and charged with two felonies — second-degree assault and prison mischief — within the beating of document government Steve Stoute, who says Combs and two bodyguards beat him with their fists, a phone, a champagne bottle and a chair. When Combs publicly apologizes, Stoute asks for the fees to be dismissed. (Combs reportedly pays Stoute $500,000.) The assault cost is dropped, Combs pleads responsible to the lesser cost of harassment, and he’s sentenced to sooner or later of anger administration courses.

Dec. 27, 1999

Combs, together with then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and rapper Shyne, are arrested in relation to a taking pictures at Membership New York. Combs is charged for weapons violations however is finally acquitted.

March 2000

The primary season of Making The Band airs on ABC, then later MTV. The truth TV competitors facilities Combs as he searches for brand spanking new expertise to place collectively in a band. Operating for 12 seasons complete, the present later turned a cultural staple for MTV, and, by it, Combs created bands like Day26 and Danity Kane, all signed to Dangerous Boy Information.

March 26, 2001

In a lawsuit, native TV host Roger Mills sues Combs, accusing him of assault, false imprisonment, destruction of property, intentional infliction of emotional misery and a civil conspiracy, in an alternate the place Combs’ entourage roughed him up and destroyed his digicam. “As we have now but to be served with this grievance, we’re unable to touch upon particular allegations,” a Combs spokesperson mentioned in an announcement. “Nonetheless, any declare that Mr. Combs participated in any wrongdoing is completely false. Moreover, facilitating the press with this baseless grievance is a blatant try to use Mr. Combs’ celeb for media consideration.” A jury finds in favor of Combs in 2004.

2003

In accordance with a December 2023 lawsuit, Combs, his former Dangerous Boy Information president, Harve Pierre, and a 3rd unidentified man allegedly gangrape an unnamed 17-year-old sufferer at a Manhattan recording studio.

July 6, 2004

Combs arrives at his annual Hamptons all-white celebration in possession of the Declaration of Independence, marking a brand new stage of fortune and braggadocio for the mogul.

2005

Combs and the singer Cassie Ventura meet for the primary time and Combs expresses curiosity in eager to signal her to his label. Ventura is nineteen years outdated and Combs is 37.

February 2006

Ventura signed a 10-album take care of Dangerous Boy Leisure. Her debut single “Me & U” is launched and her self-titled album drops the identical 12 months. In accordance with a November 2023 lawsuit, Combs’ “vicious cycle of abuse” begins right here.

Ventura alleges years of bodily, psychological and emotional abuse. She claims Combs pressured her to buy and take unlawful medicine like cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy; that he filmed her as he pressured her to take part in intercourse with male intercourse employees in a number of cities for his personal voyeuristic pleasure in a observe he known as “freak offs”; and that he beat her on many events in retaliation for speaking to different males, usually with witnesses current.

Oct. 24, 2007

Combs turns into a advertising and marketing ambassador and stakeholder in Ciroc Vodka by beverage maker Diageo. Gross sales of the vodka skyrocket and Combs turns into synonymous with the model.

March 6, 2007

In a lawsuit, Gerard Rechnitzer alleges that Combs punched him, pushed his girlfriend and tried to spit on one other girl exterior Teddy’s nightclub on the Hollywood Roosevelt Lodge. In an announcement, Combs’ legal professional, Benjamin Brafman, says, “It is simply one other instance of an opportunist in search of to manufacture a lawsuit primarily based on a flat-out mislead attempt to make the most of Mr. Combs’ celeb standing.” The case is settled out of court docket in March 2008, the phrases undisclosed.

Could 11, 2007

In a grievance to the police, Combs’ Making the Band co-star Laurieann Gibson alleges that he threatened her with a chair whereas New Version’s Michael Bivins held her in place. Combs’ legal professional, Brafman, claims Gibson overreacted to theatrics carried out for the cameras. (Sources claimed to The New York Day by day Information that he yelled for the cameras to be turned off.) “That is simply one other instance of a false accusation by somebody making an attempt to make the most of Sean’s success and celeb standing,” Brafman says.

2010

Within the November 2023 swimsuit, Ventura claims all elements of her life had been “managed by both Mr. Combs or his administration firms.” She claims he paid for her condo and all dwelling bills and that he had entry to her medical data: “As an illustration, when Ms. Ventura started experiencing reminiscence loss — probably as a result of extreme drug use and/or head accidents attributable to Mr. Combs’s beatings, as described under — her MRI outcomes had been offered on to Mr. Combs. Mr. Combs additionally repeatedly organized for his workers to drive Ms. Ventura to sure docs’ appointments. On this means, Mr. Combs exerted possession over Ms. Ventura.”

February 2012

Within the November 2023 swimsuit, Ventura alleges that Combs mentioned he was going to explode the automotive of rapper Child Cudi, whom Ventura was relationship on the time, “and that he wished to make sure that Child Cudi was house along with his pals when it occurred. Round that point, Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway.”

Child Cudi, in an announcement to The New York Occasions, corroborated the account.

Oct. 21, 2013

Combs launches his cable information community, Revolt TV. The community later expands into the radio, digital and movie area.

Jan. 8, 2014

Combs declares a brand new three way partnership with Diageo, DeLeon Tequila, and once more turns into synonymous with a liquor model.

2015

Combs celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Dangerous Boy Information with a field set and a tour that includes the label’s legacy signees.

September 2018

After a number of makes an attempt to sever ties with Combs, Ventura says she met with him to have dinner and believed it was to speak of concluding her Dangerous Boy contract and “have a dialogue about concluding their relationship for good.” However after the dinner, Ventura alleged he pressured himself into her condo and forcibly raped her.

From her November 2023 swimsuit: “Quickly thereafter, Ms. Ventura took steps to fully separate herself from her long-time abuser, together with by leaving the house that he paid for and returning the automotive he bought for her.”

June 26, 2022

Combs receives a Lifetime Achievement Award on the 2022 BET Awards and performs a medley of his hits with particular visitor stars in the course of the awards ceremony.

Oct. 28, 2022

Forbes experiences that Combs is a licensed billionaire because of his offers with Diageo, Revolt TV and music enterprise ventures.

2022 – 2023

In a February 2024 lawsuit, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a former producer of Combs who labored with him on his newest launch, The Love Album: Off the Grid, alleges that the music mogul groped him repeatedly and in the course of the period of constructing the album, Combs pressured Jones to solicit intercourse employees, take unlawful medicine and extra.

The swimsuit names others near Combs, together with Combs’ son, Justin Dior Combs, and high-ranking members of Motown Information and Common Music Group, as co-defendants.

Sept. 15, 2023

Combs receives a key to the town from New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Nov. 16, 2023

Ventura accuses Diddy of years of sexual misconduct, harassment, intercourse trafficking and rape. Ventura’s allegations lasted for everything of their working and private relationship.

Ventura information the civil swimsuit in New York Superior Courtroom below the state’s Grownup Survivors Act, a New York legislation allowing victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file civil motion whatever the statute of limitations of the crimes themselves. (Tiffany Crimson, a songwriter and certainly one of Cassie’s collaborators, later publicly corroborates her claims.)

Combs, by way of his legal professional, Benjamin Brafman, instructed The New York Occasions, “Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations. For the previous six months, Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, below the specter of writing a harmful e book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail.

Regardless of withdrawing her preliminary risk, Ms. Ventura has now resorted to submitting a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’s fame and in search of a payday.”

In the future after the general public submitting of her swimsuit, Ventura and Combs settle exterior of court docket for an undisclosed quantity.

In an announcement, Ventura says, “I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some stage of management” whereas Combs’ assertion learn “I want Cassie and her household all the very best. Love.”

Nov. 23, 2023

In the future earlier than the window for submitting fits below the Grownup Survivors Act is ready to shut, two separate lawsuits alleging misconduct within the early Nineties are filed towards Combs in New York Superior Courtroom: one by Joi Dickerson and the opposite by an unnamed plaintiff.

Nov. 28, 2023

Combs quickly steps down as chairman of Revolt TV amid the lawsuits.

Dec. 6, 2023

The unnamed fourth particular person comes ahead accusing Combs and others of gang rape in 2003.

Dec. 6, 2023

After solely talking by his legal professional up till this level, Combs denies the accusations by way of his Instagram account, writing “Sufficient is Sufficient.”

Dec. 10, 2023

In response to the accusations, 18 manufacturers sever ties with Combs’ Black-owned e-commerce enterprise, Empower World.

Dec. 11, 2023

A public petition began by feminist and survivor advocacy group UltraViolet circulates calling The Recording Academy to rescind Combs’ 2024 Grammy nomination for progressive R&B album amid the sexual abuse allegations.

Dec. 11, 2023

The Recording Academy releases an announcement in response to Diddy’s 2024 Grammy nomination and the allegations: “We’re taking this matter very severely and we’re within the means of evaluating it with the time and care that it deserves.”

Dec. 13, 2023

In response to the accusations, streaming community Hulu scraps a actuality present venture that includes Combs that was beforehand in improvement and centered across the mogul and his household.

Jan. 12, 2024

A consultant for Combs tells The Hollywood Reporter the mogul will not be in attendance on the Grammys. He was subsequently absent from the ceremony and all public occasions main as much as the awards.

Jan. 16, 2024

Diageo and Combs resolve their authorized lawsuit round advertising and marketing of merchandise and formally finish their working relationship.

Feb. 26, 2024

The fifth assault lawsuit is filed towards Combs by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones. Combs’ lawyer denies the allegations, claiming, “We’ve overwhelming, indeniable proof that his claims are full lies.”