Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs once bragged about torching victim’s convertible with Molotov cocktail, kidnapped individual at gunpoint: feds
Sean “Diddy” Combs once bragged about torching an alleged victim’s convertible with a Molotov cocktail just weeks after a gunpoint kidnapping, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Tuesday — as they sought to detain the rapper on sex trafficking and racketeering charges pending a trial.The embattled hip-hop mogul and one of his cronies had allegedly kidnapped a victim at gunpoint in December 2011 as they tried to break into the home of another individual, according to prosecutors. Two weeks later, Combs’ crew then set fire to the victim’s car by slicing open the convertible’s roof and dropping the Molotov cocktail inside, the court papers say.Cops and fire officials reported, at the time, that the fire was intentionally set.The fiery allegations were among those laid bare in a detention memo unsealed alongside the sex-trafficking indictment that accuses Combs of abusing women for more than a decade.He faces a mandatory minimum 15-year prison sentence and up to life behind bars if convicted of the three felony counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.Prosecutors, who argue that the stiff potential sentence could give Combs incentive to flee, are asking the judge to keep him locked up.