A timeline of the rise of Sean 'Diddy' Combs and his legal troubles

For much than 2 decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was 1 of hip-hop's astir nimble entrepreneurs, spinning his hitmaking talents into a wide concern empire that included a grounds label, a manner brand, a TV network, deals with liquor companies and a cardinal relation successful a world TV show.

Then helium was charged with forcing, threatening and manipulating 2 ex-girlfriends into drug-fueled sex marathons, with assistance from a web of associates.

Combs denied the allegations and went to proceedings successful a high-stakes national enactment crimes and racketeering case. The proceedings ended Wednesday with a verdict that his attorneys called a victory: Combs was convicted of prostitution-related offenses but acquitted of higher-level charges of racketeering and enactment trafficking.

Here is simply a timeline of large events successful his beingness story:

1990-1999

1990: Combs, past a pupil astatine Howard University, gets his commencement successful the euphony concern with an internship astatine Uptown Records successful New York.

Dec. 28, 1991: Nine radical dice astatine a personage hoops crippled promoted by Combs and the rapper Heavy D erstwhile thousands of fans effort to get into a gym astatine the City College of New York. A mayoral study lays portion of the blasted for the catastrophe connected mediocre readying by Combs.

1992: Combs is 1 of the enforcement producers connected Mary J. Blige's debut album, “What’s the 411?"

1993: After being fired by Uptown, Combs establishes his ain label, Bad Boy, which rapidly cuts a lucrative woody with Arista Records.

1994: Bad Boy releases Notorious B.I.G.’s medium “Ready to Die." Two months later, Tupac Shakur survives a shooting successful New York and accuses Combs and Biggie of having anterior cognition of the attack, which they deny. Shakur was aboriginal killed successful a 1996 shooting successful Las Vegas.

1996: Combs is convicted of transgression mischief aft helium allegedly threatened a lensman with a gun.

1997: Biggie is killed successful Los Angeles. Combs, past known arsenic Puff Daddy, releases “I’ll beryllium Missing You” successful grant of his dormant star.

1998: Combs wins 2 Grammys, 1 for champion rap medium for his debut “No Way Out” and different for champion rap show by a duo oregon radical for “I'll Be Missing You” with Faith Evans. Also that year, Combs' Sean John manner enactment is founded.

April 16, 1999: Combs and his bodyguards are charged with attacking Interscope Records euphony enforcement Steve Stoute successful his New York bureau successful a quality implicit a euphony video. Combs is sentenced to an choler absorption course.

Dec. 27, 1999: Combs is arrested connected weapon possession charges aft helium and his woman astatine the time, Jennifer Lopez, fled a shooting that wounded 3 radical astatine a New York City nightclub. Some witnesses archer constabulary Combs was among the radical shooting successful the club. He is aboriginal charged with offering his operator $50,000 to assertion ownership of the 9 mm handgun recovered successful his car.

2001-2008

March 17, 2001: Combs is acquitted of each charges related to the nightclub shooting. One of his rap protégés, Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, is convicted successful the shooting and serves astir 9 years successful prison. Two weeks aft the trial, Combs announces helium wants to beryllium known arsenic P. Diddy. (Barrow besides aboriginal changed his name, to Moses Barrow, and became a parliamentarian successful his autochthonal Belize).

2002: Combs becomes the shaper and prima of “Making the Band,” a endowment hunt TV show.

Feb. 1, 2004: Combs performs astatine the Super Bowl halftime amusement on with Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and others. A week later, Combs, Nelly and Murphy Lee triumph a Grammy for champion rap show by a duo oregon radical for “Shake Ya Tailfeather.”

April 2004: Combs makes his Broadway acting debut successful “A Raisin successful the Sun.”

2005: Combs announces helium is changing his signifier sanction to Diddy, getting escaped of the P.

March 2008: Combs settles a suit brought by a antheral who claims Combs punched him aft a post-Oscar enactment extracurricular a Hollywood edifice the erstwhile year. In May, Combs is honored with a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2015-2022

2015: Combs is arrested aft a confrontation connected the field of UCLA, wherever 1 of his sons played football. Assault charges are aboriginal dropped.

2016: Combs launches a Harlem charter school, the Capital Preparatory School. Also that year, helium announces helium is donating $1 cardinal to Howard University.

2017: Combs is named the apical earner connected Forbes' database of the 100 highest-paid celebrities, which says helium brought successful $130 cardinal successful a azygous year.

2018: Kim Porter, Combs' erstwhile woman and the parent of 3 of his children, dies from pneumonia astatine property 47.

2022: Combs receives a lifetime honor astatine the BET Awards.

2023-2025

Sept. 15, 2023: Combs releases “The Love Album — Off the Grid,” his archetypal solo workplace task since 2006's chart-topping “Press Play.”

Nov. 16, 2023: R&B vocalist Cassie sues Combs, alleging that during their decade-plus arsenic a couple, helium subjected her to abuse, including beatings and rape. A time later, the suit is settled nether undisclosed terms. Combs, done his attorney, denies the accusations.

Nov. 23, 2023: Two much women impeach Combs of intersexual maltreatment successful lawsuits. Combs’ attorneys telephone the allegations false. Dozens of further lawsuits travel by women and men who impeach Combs of rape, intersexual battle and different attacks. Plaintiffs see vocalist Dawn Richard, a “Making the Band” contestant who alleged years of intelligence and carnal abuse. Combs denies each the allegations.

March 25, 2024: Federal agents search Combs' homes successful Los Angeles and Miami Beach, Florida.

May 17, 2024: CNN airs video that shows Combs attacking and beating Cassie successful a Los Angeles edifice hallway successful 2016. Two days later, Combs posts videos connected societal media apologizing for the assault.

Sept. 16, 2024: Combs is arrested astatine his Manhattan hotel. A national enactment trafficking and racketeering indictment unsealed the adjacent time accuses him of utilizing his concern empire to coerce women into participating successful intersexual performances. Combs denies the allegations. His lawyer calls it an unjust prosecution of an “imperfect person.”

May 5, 2025: Jury enactment begins for Combs' trial.

May 12, 2025: A assemblage is selected and testimony begins successful Combs' trial.

June 30, 2025: Jury deliberations begin successful Combs' trial.

July 2, 2025: The assemblage convicts Combs of two counts of a prostitution-related offense but acquits him of higher-level charges of racketeering and enactment trafficking. The result importantly reduces the rap mogul's imaginable situation sentence, which a justice volition find successful the months to come. His lawyers unsuccessfully inquire for him to beryllium released connected enslaved successful the meantime. Combs is visibly relieved by the verdict, and his pb lawyer calls it "a triumph of each victories.”

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