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BREAKING NEWS-: Popular Rap Mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is in the News again…..following the recent raid by the Department of Home Land Security March 25 at Combs’ multimillion-dollar mansion in Los Angeles and his Miami waterfront home. Sean “Diddy” Combs finally gets arrested see more…………..
Homes belonging to Sean “Diddy” Combs were swarmed by federal investigators over four months ago, and it appears the rap mogul has been sticking close to Miami, although he was seen taking a rafting trip to Wyoming late last month.
Department of Homeland Security agents conducted raids March 25 at Combs’ multimillion-dollar mansion in Los Angeles and his Miami waterfront home. Little is known about the investigation, and Combs has not been charged in relation to the raids.
The rap mogul is reportedly the subject of a federal criminal investigation in New York, with a grand jury hearing evidence of alleged sex trafficking by Combs.
Investigators collected evidence during the raids, including electronic devices and phones, that will need to be analyzed.
Nadia Shihata, who prosecuted R. Kelly for sex crimes in New York, told NewsNation that the complexity of this particular case will require a significant amount of time for fact-finding.
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Where was Diddy during the raid?
Where was Diddy during the raid?
While it’s still unclear exactly where he was during the searches, images from TMZ appear to show Combs walking around and coming face-to-face with federal authorities at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport when Brendon Paul, someone described as Combs’ “mule” in a lawsuit, was charged with possession of cocaine and “marijuana candy.” This happened just hours after the raids at Combs’ homes started.
Paul later pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Where is Diddy?
While Combs had been keeping a low profile, at last check, he appears to be traveling on his private jet and was on vacation in Wyoming.
Photos of him white-water rafting in Jackson Hole with several people were reported by TMZ.
“I don’t think white water rafting will prepare him for the choppy waters that lie ahead,” Douglas Wigdor, an attorney representing singer Cassie Ventura, told the outlet. Ventura earlier this year sued Diddy alleging years of sexual abuse, and the lawsuit was settled a day after it was filed.
Combs posted a video on his Instagram story showing him walking toward his private plane at an airport with a mat on the ground that read “Combs Air” this week, the outlet reported. He then gave the pilot a fist bump before climbing a flight of stairs into the aircraft and mumbling, “No place like home.”
It was his first post since completely deleting his social media posts.
Less than a week after the raid, he was reportedly spotted at a Miami Topgolf with his 17-year-old daughters. A day later, fitness coach Wes Watson posted a picture of himself and Combs at the Pura Vida restaurant.
“Came to just GRAB a SHOT of ESPRESSO and I Ran into DIDDY‼️” Watson wrote. On Easter Sunday, Combs posted a picture of his daughter, writing, “HAPPY EASTER from Baby Love” as the caption.
Immediately after the raids, TMZ tracked the rapper’s personal jet. The news outlet initially reported the aircraft was on the ground in Antigua. It’s unknown if Combs was on the plane.
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“Antigua, as we know, is an extradition country, so probably not the best place to flee to if Diddy was indeed on that plane, if that’s where he is,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani said during an interview on “Banfield” at the time.
Combs’ private plane, a black Love Air USA LLC-owned Gulfstream G550, has vanished from public tracking site Fligh tAware. Oli Coleman, deputy editor for Page Six, told “Banfield” that people can remove their planes from tracking sites.
“They’re keeping his whereabouts pretty close to the chest,” Coleman said. “As much as you can track those things, you can also go to some trouble and black yourself out of them. On this occasion, his plane disappeared, gone private as it were.”
Diddy was seen going out to dinner over Mother’s Day weekend in Miami with five of his children. He was pictured wearing all black and stepping into a vehicle the evening of May 11, the Daily Mail reported.
The embattled music producer previously deleted all of his Instagram posts, including an apology video in which he admitted that he beat his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway in 2016 after CNN released video of the attack on May 17.
In the now deleted post, Combs said he is “truly sorry” and his actions were “inexcusable.”