Hip-hop mogul Sean “Daddy” Coombs, 54, has not landed on the Caribbean island of Antigua, despite reports he could have arrived on a private jet, the island’s Prime Minister Gaston Brown said. Newsweek.
“There are no confirmed reports of him being here. On the contrary, he did not get on the flight to Antigua yesterday,” Brown said in a message.
Context
Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles were raided by Homeland Security on Monday, weeks after he was charged with sexual misconduct and alleged trafficking. Homeland Security has not confirmed why it conducted the raids, but the Associated Press reported that two officials said it was part of an alleged sex-trafficking investigation. Homeland Security Investigations said it would release more information as it becomes available.
Some plane trackers said Coombs’ private jet landed on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Jack Sweeney, a private flight tracking expert, posted the supposed route of the Gulfstream jet, which flew from Northern California before stopping in Los Angeles before landing in Antigua at 10:21 p.m. ET. used to fly Sweeney quoted sources as saying that Daddy was not on the flight.
Newsweek Combs’ representatives were reached for comment by email Monday.
What do we know?
A black jet with registration N1969C previously identified by CelebrityPrivateJetTracker.com as Coombs stood on the tarmac at Antigua’s VC Bird International Airport on Tuesday, and Tourism Minister Charles Fernandez said he believed it was The star has a jet, but both he and the prime minister. The minister said there was no report that Coombs was the rider himself.
On the subject of who might be on the plane, Brown said: “I’m told a Caucasian family. A family of four. Don’t know them.”
According to Antiguan journalist Elisha George, the jet first landed at Codrington Airport in the twin island Caribbean nation’s neighboring island of Barbuda, before proceeding to VC Bird Airport on the main island.
Three-time Grammy winner Combs has faced several legal battles in recent months, including lawsuits accusing her of sexual assault and trafficking.
One of the lawsuits filed by a music producer accuses Combs of soliciting prostitutes and then forcing them to have sex with them under duress. Combs’ attorney Sean Hawley previously said. Newsweek that “we have overwhelming, irrefutable evidence that his claims are complete lies.”
In another case, Combs’ ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, sued him in November for alleged sexual harassment. The case was settled the day after it was filed.
Combs was indicted in December on another charge of trafficking and sexually abusing a woman identified as Jane Doe.
According to TMZ, Combs was spotted pacing in a car park at Miami Airport around 6 p.m.
Antigua is a Caribbean island with less than 90,000 people, about the size of Queens County, New York. Tourism accounts for more than half of the country’s gross national product.
Updated 03/26/2024 at 01:54 pm ET with additional references to Browne and of the Jet in Antigua
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