In a superseding indictment, prosecutors increased the number of alleged victims from one to three and said Combs' criminal conspiracy began years earlier.

Sean "Diddy" Combs "abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires" over a longer period of time than first alleged, federal prosecutors in New York said in a superseding indictment filed Thursday.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs trafficked at least three women in a 20-year long sexual abuse scheme, prosecutors said on Thursday in bringing a new criminal indictment against the incarcerated hip-hop mogul. The three-count indictment contains no additional charges,