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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Edward Helmore

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs charges are ‘a win for women’ says ex-Danity Kane member

three women in silver outfits perform on stage
Aubrey O’Day, right, performs with Danity Kane in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 21 January 2019. Photograph: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images

A former member of Sean Combs’s Danity Kane girl group says the federal sex-trafficking charges filed against the disgraced music mogul are “a win for women all over the world”.

The singer Aubrey O’Day is not among several women who filed civil claims against Combs alleging rape and other physical violence before an indictment unsealed on Tuesday charged him in graphic terms with a conspiracy involving forced, days-long group sex acts that he described as “freak offs”. But her reaction is notable because she has been an outspoken critic of the Bad Boy entertainment star and executive long before he was indicted.

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