Feds unseal indictment on Sean 'Diddy' Combs, charge music mogul with racketeering, sex trafficking

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday unsealed their indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs that charges the music mogul with sex trafficking and racketeering charges.

Prosecutors said they are going to seek detaining Combs while he awaits trial. 

Marc Agnifilo, one of Combs' lawyers, said on Tuesday that the legal team is working to keep Combs free ahead of the trial.

The indictment alleges Combs hit and abused women for over a decade and presided over an underworld of sexual crimes, according to the Associated Press. 

Combs “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals,” the unsealed indictment also reads. 

The indictment also refers obliquely to an attack on his former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, that was captured on video, the wire service also reports.

Combs was arrested late Monday in Manhattan, roughly six months after federal authorities conducting a sex trafficking investigation that included raids on his Los Angeles and Miami homes. He was due in court Tuesday to face the charges.