For more than two decades, Sean “Diddy” combs He was one of Hip-Hop’s most opportunistic entrepreneurs, turning his Hit-Hit talents in a broad commercial empire that included a record brand, a fashion brand, a television network, deals with liquor companies and a key role in a reality show.
But American prosecutors say that behind the scene, combs was coercing and abusing women with the help of a network of associates that helped silence the victims through blackmail and violence.
Comps declared innocent and denied the accusations. The jury selection begins on Monday.
Here is a timeline of the main events in their rise and fall:
1990: combs, then a student at the University of Howard, begins in the music business with an internship at Uptown Records in New York.
December 28, 1991: Nine people die in a celebrity basketball game promoted by combs and rapper Heavy D when thousands of fans try to enter a gym at the City College of New York. A report from the Mayor’s Office falls part of the fault of the catastrophe of the bad planning of the combs.
1992: combs is one of the executive producers of “What’s The 411?”, Mary J. Blige’s debut album.
1993: After being fired by Uptown, Comink establishes its own seal, Bad Boy, which quickly reduces a lucrative agreement with edge records.
1994: Bad Boy launches into the Big promotion album “Ready to die.” Two months later, Tupac Shakur survives a shooting in New York and accuses the combs and greats of having a previous knowledge of the attack, which they deny. Shakur was later killed in a 1996 shooting in Las Vegas.
1996: combs is convicted of criminal mischief after he allegedly threatened a photographer with a gun.
1997: Biggie is killed in Los Angeles. Comink, then known as Puff Daddy, launches “I will miss you” in honor of its murdered star.
1998: combs wins two Grammys, one at the best rap album for his debut “No Way out” and another for the best rap performance of a duo or group of “I’LL be missing you” with Faith Evans. Also that year, the fashion line is based on combs.
April 16, 1999: combs and their bodyguards are accused of attacking the Executive of Interscope Records Music Steve Stoute in his New York office in a dispute over a music video. Combs is sentenced to an anger management course.
December 27, 1999: combs is arrested for positions of possession of weapons after he and his girlfriend at that time, Jennifer López, fled a shooting that wounded three people in a nightclub in New York City. Some witnesses say that the combs police were among the people who shot at the club. He is later accused of offering his driver $ 50,000 to claim the property of the 9 mm pistol found in his car.
March 17, 2001: combs is acquitted of all charges related to shooting at the nightclub. One of his rap protected, Jamal “Shyne” Barrows, is sentenced in the shooting and celebrates almost nine years in prison. Two weeks after the trial, combs announces that he wants to be known as P. Diddy.
2002: combs becomes the producer and star of “Making the Band”, a talent search television program.
February 1, 2004: ComBs is presented in the Halftime Show of the Super Bowl along with Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and others. A week later, combs, Nelly and Murphy Lee win a Grammy for the best rap performance of a duo or group for “Shake and Tailfeather”.
April 2004: combs makes its debut as Broadway actor in “A Raisin in the Sun”.
2005: combs announces that his artistic name is changing to Diddy, getting rid of the P.
March 2008: combs resolves a lawsuit filed by a man who states that Comink hit him after a party after the Oscars out of a Hollywood hotel the previous year. In May, combs is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2015: combs is arrested after a confrontation in UCLA in Los Angeles, where one of his children played football. The assault charges are removed later.
2016: combs launches Capital Preparatory School Autonomous School in Harlem. Also that year, announces that he is donating $ 1 million to the University of Howard.
2017: combs is called The best winner In the Forbes list of the 100 best paid celebrities, which says it brought $ 130 million in a single year.
2018: Kim PorterEx -girlfriend and mother of three children of combs, dies of pneumonia at age 47.
2022: combs receives a Honor for life In the Bet Awards.
September 2023: combs launches “The LOVE LOVE – OFF THE GRID” His first solo study project from the “Press Game” of the 2006 list.
November 16, 2023: KidneyANDB Cassie singer Demand combs, claiming that she submitted her to years of abuse, including batteries and violations. A day later, demand is resolved in unleashed terms. Combs, through your lawyer, denies the accusations.
November 23, 2023: Two more women accuse the combs of sexual abuse in demands. Com combs’ lawyers call false accusations. Dozens of additional demands follow women and men who accuse the combs of rape, sexual aggression and other attacks. The plaintiffs include singer Dawn Richard, a “Making the Band” contestant who alleged years of psychological and physical abuse. Comong denies all accusations.
March 25, 2024: Federal Agents Search for combs houses In Los Angeles and Miami Beach, Florida.
May 17, 2024: CNN Airs video That shows combs attacking and defeating Cassie in a hotel hall in Los Angeles in 2016. Two days later, Combs publishes videos on social networks apologizing for the assault.
September 16, 2024: Combs is arrested at your Manhattan hotel. An accusation of sexual trafficking and organized crime The next day the next day he accuses him of using his commercial empire to force women to participate in sexual actions. Comong denies accusations. His lawyer calls him an unfair prosecution of an “imperfect person.”
May 5, 2025: The jury selection is scheduled to start for the combs trial.
