A timeline of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ career and legal problems as he is set to be sentenced

For more than two decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of the most agile entrepreneurs of hip-hop, transforming his talents to Hit into a large commercial empire which included a record company, a fashion brand, a television network, deals with alcohol companies and a key role in a reality show.

Then he was accused of forcing, threatening and manipulating two ex-friends in sexual marathons fueled by drugs, with the help of a network of partners.

Combs denied allegations and judged himself. The jury acquitted him from racketeering and sexual traffic, but condemned him to transport people through the state lines to engage in prostitution.

He should be sentenced on Friday.

Here is a chronology of major events in his life:

1990: Combs, then a student at Howard University, made their music in the world of music with an internship in Uptown Records in New York.

December 28, 1991: Nine people die in a celebrity basketball match promoted by Combs and the Heavy D rapper when thousands of fans try to get into a gymnasium at the City College in New York. A mayor’s report calls into disaster on bad planning by comb.

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

1993: After being dismissed by Uptown, Combs establishes his own label, Bad Boy, who quickly concluded a lucrative agreement with Arista Records.

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

1996: Combs is found guilty of criminal mischief after allegedly threatened a photographer with a firearm.

1997: Biggie is killed in Los Angeles. Combs, then known as Puff Daddy, releases “I’m going to miss” in honor of his dead star.

1998: Combs wins two Grammys, one for the best rap album for its beginnings “No Way Out” and another for the best rap performance by a duo or a group for “I’m going to miss” with Faith Evans. The Sean John de Combs fashion line is founded.

April 16, 1999: Combs and his bodyguards are responsible for attacking the Director of Disks at Interscope Steve Stout in his New York office in a dispute on a video clip. Combs is condemned to a anger management course.

December 27, 1999: Combs was arrested for possession of firearms after he and his girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez, fled a shooting that injured three people in a New York nightclub. Some witnesses tell the police that the combs were one of the people who drew in the club. He was later accused of offering his driver $ 50,000 to claim the property of the handgun found in his car.

March 17, 2001: Combs is acquitted of all charges related to the shooting of the nightclub. One of his rap protégés, Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, is sentenced during the shooting and purges almost nine years in prison. Two weeks after the trial, Combs announces that he wants to be known as P. Diddy. (Barrow also changed its name to Moses Barrow later, and became a parliamentary in its native of Belize).

2002: Combs becomes the producer and star of “Making the Band”, a talent research television program.

February 1, 2004: Combs occurs at the Super Bowl Halftime Show with Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and others. A week later, Combs, Nelly and Murphy Lee win a Grammy for the best rap performance by a duo or a group for “Shake Ya Tailfeather”.

April 2004: Combs made his actor in Broadway in “A Raisin in the Sun”.

2005: Combs announces that he changes his stage name to Diddy, getting rid of the P.

March 2008: Combs will settle a lawsuit brought by a man who claims that Combres struck him after a post-oscar party outside a Hollywood hotel the previous year. In May, Combs was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2015: Combs is arrested after a confrontation on the UCLA campus, where one of his sons played football. Assat accusations are later abandoned.

2016: Combs is launching a school in Charter Harlem, the preparatory capital. That year also, he announced that he is a donation of $ 1 million to Howard University.

2017: Combs is named the best employee on the forbes list of the 100 best paid celebrities, which indicates that he reported $ 130 million in a single year.

2018: Kim Porter, the former girlfriend of Combs and the mother of three of her children, died of pneumonia at 47 years old.

2022: Combs receives an honor for life at the BET Awards.

September 15, 2023: Combs released “The Love Album – Off The Grid”, his first solo studio project since the 2006 graph “Press Play”.

November 16, 2023: R&Singer B Cassie continues Combres, alleging that during their decade as a couple, he submitted it to abuse, including blows and rapes. A day later, the trial is settled under non -disclosed conditions. Combs denies the accusations.

November 23, 2023: Two other women accuse combs of sexual abuse in prosecution. Combs lawyers call for false allegations. Dozens of additional prosecution follow women and men who accuse combs of rape, sexual assault and other attacks. The complainants include singer Dawn Richard, a competitor of “Making the Band” who allegedly allegedly allegedly, years of psychological and physical violence. Combs denies all allegations.

March 25, 2024: Federal agents are looking for combat houses in Los Angeles and Miami Beach, Florida.

May 17, 2024: CNN broadcasts a video that shows attacks attacking and beating Cassie in a corridor of the Los Angeles hotel in 2016. Two days later, Combs published videos on social networks apologizing for the attack.

September 16, 2024: Combs was arrested at his Manhattan hotel. Federal sexual traffic and an act of indictment of racketeering not sealed the next day accuses him of using his commercial empire to force women to participate in sexual performance. Combs denies allegations. His lawyer calls this an unjust prosecution of an “imperfect person”.

May 5, 2025: The selection of the jury begins for the Combs trial.

May 12, 2025: The testimony begins in the Combs trial.

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

July 2, 2025: The jury condemns the combs of two charges of an offense linked to prostitution but the acquired to accusations of racketeering and sex trafficking.

October 3, 2025: A judge should decide on the sentence of Combs.