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Sean Combs, also known as P Diddy, is known as one of the most significant names in the entertainment industry. With his work over the years, P Diddy has managed to find himself on the list of the wealthiest music artists in the world.

P. Diddy Combs for a Vogue interview | Credits: Vogue’s YouTube

However, P Diddy’s popularity and success were tarnished by his past, which included s*x trafficking and racketeering, s**ual assault, and various other s**ual misconduct. The artist was arrested in the Southern District of New York back on September 16, 2024, and has been awaiting trial, which starts May 5, 2025. But an update ahead of P Diddy’s trial is not looking good for him.

P. Diddy’s former partner Cassie Ventura is set to testify in a federal trial

Variety reports that P Diddy’s former partner, Cassie Ventura, who initially filed a lawsuit...

For the second time in as many months, Sean “Diddy” Combs has been indicted on criminal charges by the Department of Justice.

Heading towards a trial next month that could see the Grammy winner in prison for the rest of his life if found guilty by a jury, the 55-year-old Combs on Friday lashed out at the feds once again, claiming with the latest superseding indictment that they are trying to turn his kinky intimate life into crimes.

“These are not new allegations or new accusers,” a spokesperson for the Bad Boy Records founder’s Marc Agnifilo- and Teny Geragos-led legal team said today of the two new charges that have raised the total charges against Combs to five. “These are the same individuals, former long-term girlfriends, who were involved in consensual relationships. This was their private sex life, defined by consent, not coercion.”

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Federal prosecutors have arrested Carl Erik Rinsch, a filmmaker known for directing “47 Ronin,” on charges of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million. The money was intended for a sci-fi series called “White Horse,” later renamed “Conquest,” which he never completed. Authorities say Rinsch misused the funds for personal gain instead of finishing the project.

The trouble began when Netflix paid Rinsch’s company $44 million in 2018 and 2019 to produce the series. The show, centered on a scientist creating artificial humans that rebel, had sparked a bidding war among studios.

By March 2020, Rinsch asked for an additional $11 million, claiming the original amount wasn’t enough. Netflix sent the funds, expecting progress on pre- and post-production work.

Instead, prosecutors allege Rinsch moved the money through various accounts, eventually landing it in his personal brokerage account. Within two months, he lost over half of it in risky stock and cryptocurrency trades. With the remaining cash,...

Carl Erik Rinsch made his feature directorial debut with 47 Ronin. The historical fantasy action film starring Keanu Reeves was eviscerated by critics and declared a box office bomb. Despite that failure, Netflix still agreed to fund Rinch’s ambitious sci-fi series, but instead, he allegedly spent the money on cryptocurrency and Rolls-Royces and paid for his divorce. Now, he could be facing the consequences as the Justice Department has charged Rinsch with defrauding Netflix out of $11 million.

Rinsch was arrested today and, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, has been charged with “one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; one count of money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and five counts of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

A director of a would-be Netflix series has been arrested on fraud charges for allegedly blowing through $11 million meant for the show, accused of spending the money on failed stocks, cryptocurrency, expensive cars, and two mattresses that totaled $600,000.

Carl Erik Rinsch was arrested in Los Angeles on Tuesday after a seven-count grand jury indictment was unveiled against him in the Southern District of New York on March 4. In addition to wire fraud, the 47-year-old is charged with money laundering and monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity. If...

The Justice Department has charged Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of 47 Ronin who struck a deal with Netflix to make a sci-fi series he never delivered, for defrauding the company out of $11 million.

In an indictment filed on Tuesday, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York said Rinsch spent funds meant for the show in risky securities trades. He then allegedly used millions of dollars in profits from the investments to sue Netflix for further payments to finish the show and purchase luxury goods.

Rinsch was charged with wire fraud, money laundering and multiple counts related to engaging in transactions stemming from illegal activity. If convicted, he faces a maximum term of 90 years in prison if the sentences are served consecutively.

The director allegedly “orchestrated a scheme to steal millions by soliciting a large investment from a video streaming service, claiming that money would be used to finance...

Two months before Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial begins in New York, the U.S. Attorney’s office today brought down a new charge against the “All About the Benjamins” performer and shoved back hard on the former mini-mogul’s efforts to have evidence held by federal agents squashed.

“The S2 Indictment contains no new charged offenses but includes additional allegations related to the racketeering conspiracy charged in Count One,” a short accompanying letter to Thursday’s superseding indictment says. This is the second superseding indictment against Combs since his arrest last fall. “Specifically, the S2 Indictment contains additional allegations as to the means and methods of the racketeering enterprise related to forced labor.”

Read the superseding indictment here.

According to prosecutors, one of the ways that forced labor was induced was Combs demanding sex with staff. “These employees to believe they would be harmed — including by losing their...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is fighting to stay out of prison for the rest of his life if found guilty on sex trafficking and other charges. To that end, with a trial set to start May 5, the much-accused and currently incarcerated performer/producer and his defense team have been tossing one legal grenade after another to blow up the feds’ case.

Now Combs’ crew wants the so-called “unconstitutionally broad” search warrants the government utilized quashed, along with “the evidence and all fruits obtained from the warrants to search Combs’s residences, his person, his iCloud account, and his devices.” Along with past accusations that prosecutors are using “racist” laws against him and desiring to “police non-conforming sexual activity,” Diddy’s team is hoping to bleed out the case from the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York before it even gets in front of a jury.

“On a theory that Mr.

Exclusive: Two months before the start of a sex trafficking trial that could see the much accused Sean “Diddy” Combs behind bars for the rest of his life, one of the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ rapper’s top lawyers wants out of the case.

The request today by Anthony Ricco to Judge Arun Subramanian partially pulls the veil back on a defense team that is consumed with in-fighting and lacks focus, I’m told.

“It’s become a real sh*tshow, they’re desperate to not go to trial,” a well-positioned attorney told Deadline of the Marc Agnifilo, and Teny Geragos-led Combs criminal trial defense. “Look at the filings, they’re throwing everything at the wall and praying something sticks.”

Ricco’s move Friday for permission for “withdrawal” from Diddy’s multi-claims case is thin on details and admittedly unorthodox in the way it is being conducted due...

“Mr. Combs has been singled out because he is a powerful black man, and he is being prosecuted for conduct that regularly goes unpunished,” declares a Tuesday filing by the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs to toss out the government’s claim the Bad Boy Records founder violated the Mann Act, officially known as the White-Slave Traffic Act.

Facing dozens and dozens of civil lawsuits claiming assaults, abuse and retaliation, Combs has been behind bars at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since his September 16 arrest on criminal charges. The day after the arrest, Combs entered a not guilty plea and has consistently denied he raped or abused anyone — even walking back his apology from the 2016 hotel security footage of him beating then girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Failing on several occasions to get released on $50 million bail, Combs is set to go to trial on racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in...

Now in its 18th year, the San Diego Intl. Film Festival, produced by the nonprofit San Diego Film Foundation, once again steals the movie glamour spotlight from its neighbor to the north, combining major regional premieres with a focus on social and environmental issues.

Running Oct. 15-20, the festival received more than 3,000 submissions from 68 countries, including feature films, shorts and documentaries. The result is a lineup that includes 107 films, with five in the narrative spotlight competition, 20 in the narrative contest, nine in the doc competition and 66 short films, says Tonya Mantooth, CEO and artistic director.

Opening night at the historic Balboa Theatre will see the premiere of “Jojo Rabbit,” a World War II black comedy written and directed by Taika Waititi. Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” starring Robert De Niro, opens the screenings at the ArcLight Cinema La Jolla on Oct. 17. “A Hidden Life,” a drama set during WWII, written and directed by Terrence Malick,...