AFP
Updated Tuesday, March 26, 2024-08:54
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The residences of American rapper
Sean Combs, alias "P. Diddy",
have been searched by the Los Angeles police in the last few hours, according to a source close to the case. Diddy." The hip hop star is at the center of a series of rape and sexual assault allegations.
A group of armed police officers entered the rap star's luxurious properties on the west and east coasts of the United States. The New York Department of Homeland Security Investigation Office has announced in a statement that it has taken action together with the Los Angeles and Miami offices, as well as local law enforcement.
In mid-November, Diddy's ex-partner, R&B
singer Cassie
, was the first to file a civil lawsuit against the rapper for rape and physical violence. The singer's complaint accused the rap star of having engaged in "violent behavior" and "deviant demands" for "more than a decade."
Since then,
two other women have come forward with complaints,
one of them openly accusing him of "drugging and sexually assaulting her" in 1992, when the rapper was known as "Puff Daddy."
The complainant claimed that he had filmed the scene and distributed the video as "revenge porn", a practice intended to publicly reveal generally non-consensual sexual images in order to get revenge on someone. In December, the rapper was also the subject of a civil lawsuit in New York in which he is accused of gang raping a 17-year-old girl in 2003.