NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� was expected to appear before a federal judge in New York on Tuesday after his indictment on undisclosed criminal charges.
The music mogul in Manhattan, roughly six months after federal authorities conducting a sex trafficking investigation in Los Angeles and Miami.
The indictment detailing the charges was expected to be unsealed Tuesday morning, according to U.S. Attorney Damian Williams.
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, called the new indictment an 鈥渦njust prosecution.鈥�
鈥淗e is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal,鈥� Agnifilo said in a statement late Monday.
Combs, 58, 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, his former girlfriend, the , filed a lawsuit . She accused Combs of coercing her, and others, into unwanted sex in drug-fueled settings.
The suit was but months later CNN aired hotel security footage showing Combs and throwing her on a floor. After the video aired, , saying 鈥淚 was disgusted when I did it.鈥�
Combs and his attorneys, however, denied similar allegations made by others in a string of lawsuits.
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 鈥渢errifying sexual encounters,鈥� 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 Cassie 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-prot茅g茅, Shyne, was convicted of assault and other charges and served about eight years in prison.
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Associated Press writer Andrew Dalton contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
Larry Neumeister And Michael R. Sisak, The Associated Press
