A lawsuit alleging that Diddy orchestrated a trafficking scheme within a secret tunnel has been closed, according to court documents obtained by complex.
On Monday (August 18), Southern District of Florida Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks closed a case involving the music executive and plaintiff, Manzaro Joseph, who alleged that since 2015, he was drugged, transported against his will, and sexually maimed as a victim of a coercive and organized criminal enterprise.” The tunnel was alleged to have been housed between the Florida homes of Diddy, real name Sean Combs, and Latin musician Gloria Estefan, which both have denied.
The amended complaint consisted of fifteen counts, with charges including racketeering, kidnapping and human trafficking. In July, after a seven-week-long racketeering and trafficking trial, Diddy was cleared on two charges, although he was found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Plaintiff Joseph claimed that he was kidnapped and brought to Estefan’s Star Island residence, where he was transported through an underground tunnel that led to Diddy’s former home. Joseph also alleged that he spotted high-profile celebrities like LeBron James, Jay-Z and Beyoncé before he was held at the residence.
Judge Middlebrooks questioned the evidence of Joseph and his attorney, Travis Walker, including “nondescript stills of a guardhouse and private road,” along with a “heavily redacted police report” from a date different from the one list
Diddy, who’s been housed at Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn since his arrest last September, faces a sentence of twenty years in his two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The music mogul will be sentenced on October 3.
