Why Was Diddy Arrested? What We Know about the Freak Offs, Baby Oil, and Everything Else

September 18, 2024: Diddy was repeatedly denied bail as his lawyer offered ever more elaborate guarantees to assuage the judge’s fears of potential witness tampering. His lawyers offered to restrict the rapper to his home and only allow family to visit, as well as a $50 million bond and weekly drug testing, among other ideas, per CNN.

His next court appearance is scheduled for October 9, where his lawyer will again appeal the ruling. Until then, he is being held at the Special Housing Unit in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

September 17, 2024: After the indictment against Combs was unsealed, journalists quickly pulled out the most salacious details. Per Page Six, the indictment includes detailed descriptions of drug-fueled sex parties and other activities allegedly hosted by Combs on his property. The indictment alleged that Combs would force women into lengthy sexual sessions with male sex workers while he recorded the encounters (to be used as blackmail against victims to keep them from coming forward) and pleasured himself. He called these sessions Freak Offs.

“Freak Offs were elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded,” the indictment says. Per the document, the rapper lured women into his home with promises of a romantic relationship, then plied them with drugs to facilitate the Freak Offs. One particularly telling detail is that the sessions lasted so long that the women involved had to receive fluids through an IV afterward “to recover from the physical exertion and drug use.”

During the raid in March, we learned, the feds found multiple AR-15s with their serial numbers filed off, as well as other weapons that the mogul allegedly had his staff carry. Per the New York Post, feds also discovered “Freak Off supplies, including narcotics and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.”

September 16, 2024: Combs was arrested at a Manhattan hotel at around 8:30 pm, according to The New York Times, following an indictment, which was sealed at the time of his arrest.

On Tuesday, per the Associated Press, the unsealed indictment revealed that Combs was charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, the same crimes R. Kelly was found guilty of in 2022. Combs’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said outside the courthouse that his client would plead not guilty, and that Agnifilo would “fight like hell” to get Combs released.

May 19, 2024: In a new Instagram post, Diddy apologized for his “inexcusable” actions against Cassie Ventura, which were depicted in the recently released footage from 2016. “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life,” he said in the short video message. “Sometimes you got to do that. I was fucked up. I mean, I hit rock bottom. I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable.”

Diddy went on to say he takes “full responsibility” for his actions “in that video,” though he didn’t expand on any other allegations. “I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it, I’m disgusted now,” he continued. “I went and I sought professional help. Going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace.”