Diddy Arrest Video Released: Latest Betting Markets

TMZ has released exclusive video of the arrest of rap mogul and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs from Monday night.

Diddy was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. BetUS is currently offering Diddy a bet for bail ahead of his next court appearance on October 9 (-3000 of those do NOT happen) and whether he is transferred to another institution before that hearing (-1600 of which do NOT happen).

The video shows Combs walking into a hotel lobby with a group of people and being immediately led away by two men. In another scene, four men lead Combs back out through the lobby doors while his hands are behind his back, seemingly handcuffed.

The incident occurred Monday at the Park Hyatt New York, where Combs had been staying for more than a week after traveling to New York to, as his lawyers called it, “surrender” to authorities.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday unsealed a 14-page indictment from a federal grand jury.

#TMZ has obtained #exclusive video of #Diddy‘s arrest on Monday evening in #NYC. photo.twitter.com/gJPKQEiw66

— TMZ (@TMZ) September 20, 2024

According to the indictment, from at least 2008 to the present, COMBS operated a criminal enterprise that existed to facilitate his abuse and exploitation of women, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct. As part of that criminal enterprise, COMBS, along with other members and associates of the enterprise, committed crimes including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.

Among other things, COMBS’s sexual abuse of women included forcing them to engage in frequent, days-long sexual activities with male commercial sex workers, some of whom were transported across state lines. These events, which COMBS called “Freak Offs,” were elaborate sexual performances that COMBS organized, directed, and often electronically recorded. To secure participation in Freak Offs, COMBS used violence and intimidation and leveraged his power over his victims—power he gained by obtaining and distributing drugs to them, exploiting and threatening to cut off his financial support of them, and controlling their careers. COMBS also threatened his victims, including by threatening to release the embarrassing and sensitive recordings he made of Freak Offs if the women did not comply with his demands.

COMBS’s attempts to control women included repeated physical abuse. COMBS attacked women by hitting, punching, dragging, throwing objects at them, and kicking them. COMBS similarly attacked witnesses to his abuse. These attacks often resulted in injuries to the victims that took days or weeks to heal.

To commit these crimes, COMBS relied on his power as the leader of a multifaceted business empire. Employees of COMBS’s companies, including high-ranking supervisors, security personnel, personal assistants, and housekeepers, served as COMBS’s intermediaries to, among other things, arrange travel and hotel rooms; stock hotel rooms for COMBS’s commercial sex activities; contact or locate women and other individuals he targeted for abuse; and conceal and cover up the abuse. This criminal concealment included efforts to prevent law enforcement from learning of his abuse.