Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs has been arrested in New York on federal charges of sexual assault and human trafficking, his attorney confirmed to CNN.
The rapper has faced multiple sexual assault lawsuits and a federal human trafficking investigation over the past year.
Combs - who has been in New York since last week - was arrested Monday at the Park Hyatt Hotel on 57th Street in Manhattan and taken into custody by Homeland Security Investigations around 20:15 p.m. last night, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The charges and details of the case against Combs are unclear at this time, N1 reported.
Negotiations to extradite Combs were ongoing, and a sealed indictment was issued Monday, the source said.
"We are disappointed in the decision to continue the unfair prosecution of Mr. Combs by the United States Attorney," Mark Anjifilo, attorney for Combs, told CNN.
Combs' attorney said the musician cooperated with the investigation that led to the indictment and "voluntarily relocated to New York last week pending these charges." His team maintains his innocence and says he has nothing to hide.
"Sean 'Diddy' Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, but also doting on his children and working to improve the conditions of the African-American community. He is not a perfect person, but he is not a criminal," Anjifilo told CNN.
Anjifilo asked citizens not to "judge his client until they know all the facts." These are the actions of an innocent man who has nothing to hide, and he looks forward to defending his honor in court."
Also Monday, Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that "earlier this evening, federal agents arrested Sean Combs, pursuant to a sealed indictment filed by the SDNI."
"We expect to start revealing the allegations of the indictment in the morning, and then we will have more to say," he added.
Earlier this year, Combs was the subject of a months-long human trafficking investigation by the Homeland Security Investigations Agency, which included detailed searches of the musician's homes in Los Angeles and Miami.
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