Diddy's Attorney Says He Came to N.Y. to Cooperate with Authorities. Feds Believe They Found Drugs During Arrest

Mar. 15, 2025

Sean Combs.Photo:Shareif Ziyadat/Getty

Shareif Ziyadat/Getty

Sean Combshad been in New York for 11 days before federal authorities arrested him onsex crime and racketeering chargesat a Manhattan hotel at 8:25 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16.

Inside his hotel room, law enforcement allegedly found bags of pink powder, which prosecutors said at Combs' Tuesday, Sept. 17, arraignment “appears to be narcotics.”

In a14-page indictmentunsealed Tuesday, prosecutors claim that for years the singer known as Diddy coerced women to participate in"freak offs"defined as drug-induced “elaborate and produced sex performances” with male sex workers. Prosecutors say he threatened the women’s entertainment careers if they refused him and used secret recordings of the performances as “collateral.”

Sean Combs in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020.Steve Granitz/WireImage

Steve Granitz/WireImage

Combs – seated between his lawyers and dressed in a long sleeve black shirt and striped gray sweatpants – took a sip of water from a Fuji bottle as Johnson detailed the Monday night seizure.

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Combs’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, did not address the allegations of potential hotel room drugs in court Tuesday and he did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Agnifilo, who told the judge Tuesday that the singer is in “treatment and therapy,” requested that Combs be released on a $50 million bond and told the court Tuesday that the singer had paid off the mortgage of his $48 million residence in a “terrible business decision,” so that he could provide the money.

Sean Combs with Dawn Richards and Kalenna Harper in London, England on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011.Dave Hogan/Getty

Dave Hogan/Getty

But Johnson alleged that the rapper had an “ongoing ability” to obstruct justice, influencing and gaslighting witnesses who she claimed were “in his pocket and at his disposal” if he remained out from behind bars.

Three days later, Harper posted to Instagram Stories, writing that Richard’s “personal perspective” “should not be interpreted as a universal truth applicable to everyone involved.”

Combs will return to federal court Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 3:30 p.m. to appeal the decision to deny his bail.

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source: people.com