Sean "Diddy" Combs faces multiple serious charges including:

• Racketeering conspiracy, which involves engaging in illegal activities disguised as legitimate business operations and carries a potential life sentence.
• Sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, which also carries a maximum life sentence with a mandatory minimum of 15 years.
• Transportation to engage in prostitution, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

These charges stem from allegations that Combs abused, threatened, and coerced women and others to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct, using his influence and resources in the music industry to create a criminal enterprise involved in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice

. Additionally, he faces dozens of civil lawsuits from multiple individuals accusing him of drugging, assaulting, raping, intimidating, and silencing victims over decades, with allegations dating back to the 1990s. These lawsuits include claims of sexual assault, battery, rape, sexual abuse, false imprisonment, and kidnapping

. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges and denies all allegations of sexual abuse, describing the lawsuits as attempts for a quick payday and a reckless media circus

. His federal trial began in May 2025, with prosecutors presenting detailed accounts of his alleged criminal enterprise and abuse