Is Diddy back in Miami Beach after the feds raided his Star Island home? What we know
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Federal probe into music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs
Sean “Diddy” Combs was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges after his Star Island mansion was raided.
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Reporters, photographers and TV cameras lined up outside one of Diddy’s Star Island mansions Wednesday for the third day in a row after federal agents raided it earlier this week, part of an ongoing sex-trafficking investigation into the rap mogul.
Sean Combs, also known as Diddy or Brother Love, was last seen Monday evening speaking with federal agents at Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport shortly after Homeland Security Investigations agents executed search warrants at his mansions in Los Angeles and on Star Island in Miami Beach. There, agents collected electronic equipment such as laptops, mobile phones and other devices at the rapper’s estates, according to a source familiar with the probe.
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Since then, the 54-year-old Harlem native has eluded TV cameras and his attorney has denied that Combs pressured his staff and associates to hire prostitutes, and possibly minors, to have sex with him as he traveled across the country, as alleged in recent civil lawsuits. Diddy has not been criminally charged.
Diddy’s plane spotted again at Opa-locka airport?
On Monday, a private jet linked in media reports to Diddy landed in Antigua and Barbuda. But two high-ranking government sources there told the Herald a day later that there was no record of him being inspected by Customs officials before traversing the Caribbean island, which is mandatory.
It was not until Wednesday afternoon that the plane was spotted again at the Opa-locka airport, Local 10 reported.
Meanwhile, outside the rappers’ Miami Beach mansions, a black Cadillac Escalade, several opened umbrellas placed strategically on and around the SUV and a damaged gate blocked the view into Diddy’s 2 Star Island Drive mansion, the home that was raided. In the afternoon, a tour bus briefly stopped outside Diddy’s mansion.
Combs owns two estates on the island — 2 Star Island and 1 Star Island Drive, which he purchased from the Estefans in 2021 for $35 million. That home was not raided.
A domestic worker who cleans and cooks for one of Diddy’s neighbors told the Herald on Wednesday she has not seen him for a while.
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She was leaving Star Island around 3:30 p.m. Monday when she saw a couple of agents, a fire rescue vehicle and an armored truck in front of the mogul’s estate. As the woman was driving with a coworker toward the exit of the luxury enclave, one of the agents shouted at them, “Go! Go! Go!,” she said.
The woman told the Herald she has seen Diddy and his bodyguards walking around the Star Island loop before, sometimes greeting her from a distance.
“I believe everyone is innocent until the opposite is proven,” she said.
This story was originally published March 27, 2024 at 10:15 PM.
