U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents have opened an investigation of hip-hop star Sean "Diddy" Combs, searching his properties in Los Angeles and the Miami area, agency officials said on Monday.
Reuters reports the inquiry was led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in New York, where a lawsuit was filed against Combs by a former girlfriend in federal court in November accusing him of engaging in sex trafficking.
Combs, 54, has said that he is innocent and that his accusers were seeking "a quick payday."
Television stations in Los Angeles carried aerial video footage showing HSI agents and other law enforcement authorities raiding Combs' lavish estate in the city's upscale Holmby Hills neighborhood.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security agents and other law enforcement officers due to a possible ongoing sex trafficking investigation, U.S. officials confirmed Monday. https://t.co/COM7vDNrWS pic.twitter.com/z1JyFb9Fr6
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Los Angeles City News Service reported several people were detained outside the home but it was unclear whether any arrests were made.
Local news outlets reported that federal authorities also executed a search warrant at the rap mogul's Miami-area home. Reuters footage showed officers going in and out of his property on Miami Beach's Star Island, with agents seen carrying a box of material from the home.
Homeland agents raid Sean Diddy Combs‘ home in Los Angeles.
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Combs was spotted pacing back and forth outside the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Monday after his homes were raided by the feds. The rapper, who was wearing dark blue sweatpants and an oversized white T-shirt in footage obtained by TMZ, was seen with one hand in his pocket and the other holding what appeared to be a cell phone while outside a Customs office.
The video was shot around 6 p.m. E.T. — just a couple hours after Homeland Security descended upon his properties in Los Angeles and Miami.
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