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Combs was in Manhattan, roughly six months after federal authorities conducting a sex trafficking investigation in Los Angeles and Miami. He was due in court Tuesday to face the charges.

Over the past year, Combs who say he subjected them to physical or sexual abuse. He has denied many of those allegations, and his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said outside the courthouse Tuesday morning that Combs would plead not guilty and that he would 含羞草研究社渇ight like hell含羞草研究社� to try to get his client released from custody.

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The indictment describes Combs, 54, as the head of a criminal enterprise that engaged or attempted to engage in activities including sex trafficking, forced labor, interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, drug offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice. He含羞草研究社檚 accused of striking, punching and dragging women on numerous occasions, throwing objects and kicking them 含羞草研究社� and enlisting his personal assistants, security and household staff to help him hide it all.

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As the threat of criminal charges loomed, Combs and his associates pressured witnesses and victims to stay silent, including by attempting to bribe them and providing them with a false narrative of events, the indictment says.

All of this, prosecutors allege, was happening behind the facade of Combs含羞草研究社� global music, lifestyle and clothing empire.

Combs was recognized as one of the most influential figures in hip-hop before a flood of allegations that emerged over the past year turned him into an industry pariah.

In November, Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, filed a lawsuit . She accused Combs of coercing her, and others, into unwanted sex in drug-fueled settings.

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The indictment refers to the attack, without naming Ventura, and says Combs tried to bribe a hotel security staffer to stay mum about it.

Combs and his attorneys denied similar allegations made by others in a string of lawsuits.

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A woman said two decades ago when she was 17. A music producer sued, saying Combs forced him to have sex with prostitutes. Another woman, said Combs subjected her to 含羞草研究社渢errifying sexual encounters,含羞草研究社� starting when she was a college student in 1994.

The AP does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, as Ventura and Lampros did.

Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records, has gotten out of legal trouble before.

In 2001, he was acquitted of charges related to a Manhattan nightclub shooting two years earlier that injured three people. His then-protege, Shyne, was convicted of assault and other charges and served about eight years in prison.