REQUIEM FOR A RAPPER: Sex trafficking probe against Diddy heating up

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The reckoning for hip hop impresario and billionaire media mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been a long time coming.

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On Monday, agents for the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations raided his mansions in Miami and Los Angeles as part of a far-reaching sex trafficking probe.

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So far, he has not been charged, but one former NYPD detective told the New York Post that the rapper’s reckoning has been a long time coming.

“He has a very questionable past that he’s been able to control because of his power for a very long time,” former investigator with the NYPD’s rap intelligence unit (aka “Hip Hop Cops”) Derrick Parker claimed to the tabloid.

“But it looks to me like someone is behind this – someone who really wants to destroy his brand and take him down.”

And big names are being linked to Diddy, 54, including Prince Harry, Justin Bieber and Cuba Gooding Jr.

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Currently, the whereabouts of Combs is unknown.

His private jet can no longer be tracked but media reports suggest he is in the Caribbean after a pitstop at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Monday afternoon.

Over the past six months, Combs has been pounded with a slew of lawsuits connected to sexual impropriety. His longtime gal pal Cassie unleashed the avalanche in November when she settled her lawsuit with Combs.

Among her claims were that she had been forced to have sex with several male prostitutes while the former P. Diddy directed and recorded the action.

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USHER

Usher, 45, said on Howard Stern’s show in 2016 that he had seen “very curious things taking place” at Diddy’s rapper camp, adding he would never send his child there.

“It was pretty wild. It was crazy. There were very curious things taking place and I didn’t necessarily understand it,” Usher told Stern, adding Diddy introduced him to “a totally different set of s–t – sex, specifically.”

SNITCH

Parker, the former NYPD detective, believes the feds have someone in Diddy’s inner circle feeding them intelligence. And the raids are likely only the beginning.

“Someone’s giving them sensitive information. Someone’s cooperating, and it’s probably someone close to him,” Parker said. “This looks, to me, like the tip of the iceberg.”

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Once Combs settled the lawsuit with Cassie, which not only featured unwanted group sex but rape, and being fed drugs and booze, the detective believes that was the green light.

Combs denied the claims but Parker added: “Once Cassie was paid off I knew there’d be a ripple effect.”

Diddy now faces four lawsuits and a federal investigation.

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“This is a major, major play – the feds don’t do this unless they gots something on the man,” one industry player told the Post. “Diddy is all about power … But this don’t look good for him. We’re not used to seeing him like this.”

PAST CATCHES UP

Diddy has been embroiled in numerous controversies in the past. Complaints include instances of intimidation, violence and sexual harassment. And the probe is beginning to resemble the sex trafficking probe of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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Of particular interest is whether Diddy took underage women over state lines for sex.

Murder has also been a friend of the rapper, including the 1990s hit on his pal, Notorious B.I.G., but along the way there was money and women like Jennifer Lopez.

There have also been violent assaults and a Times Square shootout. Diddy’s legal eagle was O.J. Simpson’s future attorney Johnnie Cochran, and he skated.

Author Zack O’Malley Greenburg said: “He’s always seemed to be made of Teflon, he’s usually emerged unscathed from all sorts of situations.”

WOMAN (AND MAN) TROUBLE

Singer Aubrey O’Day – fired by Diddy from Danity Kane – allegedly fell out because she wouldn’t do what he expected of her, “not talent-wise, but in other areas.” Kimora Lee Simmons claimed Combs threatened to hit her while she was pregnant, and his ex-girlfriend Gina Huynh alleged he had stomped on her stomach and punched her in the head. Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a $30-million lawsuit claiming his former boss repeatedly sexually assaulted him. His lawyers have slammed Jones as a “liar.”

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AN INSIDER SAYS.

“He was a real a–hole. And he always had a lot of young girls around him, teenage girls.”

J. LO’S HELL

In the early 2000s, Diddy and Jennifer Lopez were a hot item. A former Lopez employee said the impresario bossed J. Lo’s people around and he made women uncomfortable: “Diddy seemed to classify us all into two categories: f—able and not f—able. Believe it or not, it was better to be not f—able.”

BIEBER BUDDY

Pint-sized pop star Justin Bieber has also made a cameo in Diddygate. The mogul has emerged in a “creepy” video claiming he was going to spend 48 hours with Biebs – 15 at the time. Diddy said he “can’t disclose” what antics the May-December pair were getting up to.

Bieber smiles uneasily, and Diddy says: “Where we hanging out and what we’re doing we really can’t disclose. But it’s definitely a 15-year-old’s dream.”

Later in another video, Diddy confronts the teen and moans he “ain’t been calling me and hanging out with me the way we used to hang out.”

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