Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs timeline: From one of hip-hop’s most nimble entrepreneurs to prostitution-related convictions

Then he was charged with forcing former sex friends, threats and manipulating them in the drug nourishing marathon, with the help of a network of colleagues.

Combs denied these allegations and went to trial in high -risk federal sex crimes. The trial ended on Wednesday by virtue that his lawyer fired victory: Coms was convicted of crimes related to prostitution, but they acquitted the higher charges of extortion and sex trafficking.

Here is a schedule for major events in his life story:

1990-1999

1990: Combs, who was a student at the University of Howard, started in the field of music with internal training at Uptown Records in New York.

December 28, 1991: Nine people die in the celebrity basketball game that COMBS and rapper Heavy D are dies when thousands of fans try to enter the Gymnastics Hall at the city college in New York. The mayor’s report shows part of the blame for the disaster for weak planning by combs.

1992: Combs is one of the executive producers in the first album Mary J. Blige, “What is 411?”

1993: After launch by Uptown, COMBS establishes its own brand, Bad Boy, which quickly cuts a profitable deal with Arista Records.

1994: Bad Boy releases the notorious Big album “Ready to Die.” Two months later, TUPAC Shakur survived the shooting in New York and accuses the Combs and Biggie of the prior knowledge of the attack, which they deny. Shakur was later killed in a 1996 shooting in Las Vegas.

1996: Kumz was convicted of criminal harm after threatening a pistol.

1997: Baiji was killed in Los Angeles. Rain, known as Puff Daddy, is called “I will miss you” in honor of his dead star.

1998: COMBS wins two Grammys, one for the best RAP album for the first time, “No Way Out” and another for the best rap performance by a duo or “I will miss you” with Fayits Evans. Also in that year, Combs’ SEAN JOHN FASHION LINE.

April 16, 1999: Compass and his personal guards were accused of attacking the music manager in the Interscope Steve Stoute records in his office in New York in a dispute over a video clip. Combs is judged by the year of anger management.

December 27, 1999: Koms was arrested on charges of possession of weapons after he and his girlfriend fled at the time, Jennifer Lopez, from shooting three people in a nightclub in New York City. Some witnesses told that the police were among the people who were shooting at the club. He later accused of providing his driver of $ 50,000 to demand the ownership of a 9 mm pistol located in his car.

2001-2008

March 17, 2001: Combs was acquitted of all fees related to night shootings. One of the rappeons, Jamal “Shen” Barrow, was convicted of shooting and serving nearly nine years in prison. Two weeks after the trial, Koms announced that he wanted to be known as P. Didddy. (Barrow also changed his name later, to Musa Baru, and became parliamentarian in his hometown of Blaise.)

2002: Combs becomes a producer and star for “Make The Band”, a TV program to search for talent.

February 1, 2004: Combs works at the Super Bowl show alongside Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and others. A week later, Koms, Nelly and Murphy Lee won the Best Rap Performance Award through a duo or group for “Shake Ya Tailfeather”.

April 2004: Combs makes his first appearance in Broadway in “Raisin in the Sun”.

2005: Coms announces that he changes the theater name to Didi, and get rid of P.

March 2008: Coms has settled a lawsuit filed by a man claiming that Combs Pick up after the post -Osar party outside the Hollywood Hotel in the previous year. In May, Coms is honored with a star for Hollywood celebrities.

2015-2022

2015: Comes was arrested after a confrontation on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles, where one of his sons played football. The assault fee is subsequently dropped.

2016: Combs launches Harlem Charter School, Capital Preparatory School School. Also in that year, he announced that he donated $ 1 million to the University of Howard.

2017: Combs was chosen as the best price in the Forbes list of the highest 100 celebrities, which he says has brought $ 130 million in one year.

2018: Kim Porter, a former Kumz girlfriend and a mother of three of his children, dies from pneumonia at the age of 47.

2022: Coms receives a lifetime of BET Awards for Life Awards.

2023-2025

September 15, 2023: Combs “The Love Album -ff The Grid”, has its first solo project since 2006 “Press Play”.

November 16, 2023: The R&B Cassie singer sued Combs, claiming that during the excessive contract as a couple, he suffered abuse, including beating and rape. A day later, the case is settled according to unannounced conditions. Rain, through his lawyer, denies accusations.

November 23, 2023: Two other women are accused of mothers of sexual assault in lawsuits. Comes lawyers call false allegations. Dozens of additional lawsuits are followed by women and men who accuse rape, sexual assault and other attacks. Among the plaintiffs without Richard, a “man -making” contestant who claimed years of psychological and physical abuse. Rain denies all allegations.

March 25, 2024: Federal agents are looking at the Comes houses in Los Angeles, Miami Beach, Florida.

May 17, 2024: CNN broadcasts a video showing Koms attacking and hitting Cassi in the horror of the Los Angeles Hotel in 2016.

September 16, 2024: Coms was arrested at his hotel in Manhattan. Federal accusation of sex trafficking and arranging blackmail the next day accuses him of using his commercial empire to coercion women in participating in sexual offers. Rain denies these allegations. His lawyer calls him an unjust prosecution for “an incomplete person.”

May 5, 2025: The jury selection begins in the Comes trial.

May 12, 2025: The jury is chosen and the certificate begins in the Comes trial.

June 30, 2025: The deliberations of the jury begin in the Comes trial.

July 2, 2025: The jury condemns the safety of two charges from a crime related to prostitution, but it highlights high -level blackmail and sex trafficking. The result significantly reduces the possible prison sentence of rapper, which the judge will determine in the coming months. In the meantime, his lawyers are asking for his release on Bond. Combs is clearly relieved of the ruling, and his main lawyer calls him a “victory for all victories”.