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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ is a topic of an ongoing federal legal investigation, in response to NBC News, which cited two sources conversant in Combs’ ongoing authorized troubles.
The identical sources confirmed {that a} federal grand jury within the Southern District of New York is listening to proof as a part of the investigation. No particulars have leaked on what’s being checked out.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace declined to remark. Combs’ attorneys didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Deadline has additionally confirmed the investigation.
“That is the following step within the course of for Mr. Combs because the investigation continues,” a regulation enforcement official with information of the grand jury proceedings advised Deadline this night. The official additionally confirmed that Sean Combs and his attorneys had been formally notified final week of the grand jury, as NBC reported.
NBC outlined Combs’ standing as a topic of an investigation as “somebody who’s throughout the scope of a legal investigation, in response to authorized consultants. A person is designated a goal when prosecutors doubtless intend to hunt an indictment from the grand jury in opposition to the particular person.”
There is no such thing as a indication something is imminent, NBC reported, including that Combs has not acquired a goal letter, the sources stated. The Southern District of New York just isn’t required to ship one.
This information comes three months after Combs’ houses were raided in Los Angeles and Miami by regulation enforcement officers.
Combs has been underneath fireplace for not less than the final seven months. A number of girls have come ahead with sexual assault allegations, capped by the surfacing in Might of a video, obtained by CNN, showing him beating his then-girlfriend, Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura at a Los Angeles lodge in 2016.
Combs settled a federal lawsuit filed by Ventura final November. The 2 settled the day following the swimsuit being filed.
Combs has additionally been stripped of honors by Howard University and had a actuality mission dropped by Hulu. He additionally divested his stake in his former firm, Revolt.
