Rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been charged federally with conspiracy to commit extortion, human trafficking and transporting persons for prostitution, according to an indictment released today.

The indictment was unsealed after the 54-year-old Combs was arrested by federal agents Monday night in Manhattan. In the previous months, his career was sunk after several lawsuits were filed against him for physical and sexual abuse.

According to the 14-page indictment, Combs turned his business empire into a criminal organization, with him and his associates involved in human trafficking, forced labor and other crimes. Cobbs threatened and coerced women to “fulfill his sexual desires” and on several occasions, beginning around 2009, assaulted women by “hitting, punching, dragging them” and throwing objects at them.

According to prosecutors, Combs gave the women drugs and money to participate in “well-staged performances” with male prostitutes.

Prosecutors also said that in a videotaped incident that became widely known in March 2016, Combs attempted to bribe a hotel security guard who intervened when he threw a vase at a woman who was trying to leave.

His attorney, Mark Agnifilo, said Combs, 54, will plead not guilty to all charges. His client, he said, was “voluntarily” in New York “to surrender” and wants to cooperate with the investigation.

The rapper’s luxury residences in Miami and Los Angeles were searched by federal agents last March.

Combs, who previously went by the aliases ‘Puff Dundee’, ‘P. Diddy’, ‘Didi’ and others, founded the record label Bad Boy Records in 1993. The album ‘No Way Out’ won the Grammy for Best Rap Album in 1997. Thanks to his investments in the distillery, he acquired a huge fortune in the following years . But despite his efforts to cultivate the image of a tycoon, the lawsuits against him describe him as a violent man who used his fame to attack women. A former adult film actress, Andrea Inglis, accused him in July of using her “as a sexual pawn for the gratification and financial gain of other persons” between 2004-2009 at parties he threw in the Hamptons, New York, and Florida.

In total, nine lawsuits have been filed against him since November 2023, including one by his ex-partner, Cassie Ventura.