Federal prosecutors on Tuesday unsealed a sweeping indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, charging him with racketeering, forcible sex trafficking and transportation for the purpose of prostitution.

The indictment accuses Combs of being the leader of a criminal “enterprise” that enabled him to sexually, physically, emotionally and verbally abuse his victims for years.

Combs “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct,” the indictment says. He also faces charges of drug offenses, arson, bribery, kidnapping, forced labor and other offenses.

The rapper’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, told reporters Tuesday that Combs “knew this was coming” since raids on his Miami and Los Angeles homes in March. In an earlier statement, Agnifilo called the charges against Combs “unjust” and said his client was “an innocent man with nothing to hide” and “looks forward to clearing his name in court.” Diddy entered a not guilty plea Tuesday afternoon.

Here’s what you need to know about the charges against Combs.

Alleged Sexual Assault and Drug-Fueled ‘Freak Offs’

According to the indictment, Combs and the associates and colleagues who made up his alleged enterprise exercised “the power and prestige” of Combs’ name to “intimidate, threaten and lure female victims into Combs’ entourage, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship.”

Some of Combs’ alleged sexual abuse took place in the form of so-called “Freak Offs,” which prosecutors described as “elaborate and produced sexual performances that Combs organized, directed, masturbated to, and often electronically recorded.”

The indictment alleges that “Freak Offs” “occurred regularly, sometimes lasted multiple days, and often involved multiple commercial sex workers,” who were sometimes allegedly transported across state lines or internationally.

According to the indictment, Combs allegedly distributed drugs during these sexual acts to keep the suspects “obedient and compliant.”

Prior to a “Freak Off,” company employees (Combs’ staff and coworkers, the indictment says) allegedly arranged travel for the alleged victims, provided Combs with “large sums of money” to pay the sex workers, and scheduled the administration of IVs, which Combs and the women typically received afterward “to recover from the physical exertion and drug use,” the indictment says.

The indictment also alleges that Diddy stocked his hotel rooms with paraphernalia, including drugs, baby oil, lubricant, linens and lighting. According to the indictment, searches of Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles yielded narcotics and “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.”

If the alleged victims resisted participating in a Freak Off, Combs allegedly jeopardized their careers and livelihoods. At times, he allegedly used “sensitive, embarrassing and incriminating footage” of them taken during Freak Offs “as collateral to compel the victims’ continued compliance and silence,” prosecutors said.

“Victims believed they could not refuse Combs’ demands without jeopardizing their financial situation or their jobs, or without suffering the consequences of physical and emotional abuse,” the lawsuit said.

According to Agnifilo, Diddy’s attorney, the defense argued that the “Freak Offs” were not evidence of sex trafficking, but evidence of consenting adults experiencing intimacy “in a way that two adults would want to be intimate.”

Alleged physical abuse and firearms

According to the indictment, Combs physically abused his victims on various occasions, hitting, punching, dragging, throwing objects at them and kicking them.

Prosecutors said the physical abuse was “recurring and common knowledge” among staff and associates who were part of his alleged enterprise.

According to the indictment, Combs’ alleged victims were sometimes forced to “go into hiding” for days at a time to recover from their physical injuries without being seen.

In addition to the alleged physical abuse, the indictment alleges that Combs exerted control over his alleged victims through “promises of career advancement, providing and threatening financial support, and through other coercive means, including monitoring their whereabouts, dictating the victims’ appearances, controlling their medical records, monitoring their housing, and providing narcotics.”

The indictment specifically cites a March 2016 incident, captured on hotel security footage and made public in May, when Combs was seen hitting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. The indictment alleges that Combs “kicked, dragged and threw a vase” at Ventura as she tried to flee, and alleges that he attempted to bribe a hotel security guard who intervened to ensure silence.

Combs has consistently denied the allegations against him. Ventura’s lawsuit, filed in November, was settled shortly thereafter with no admission of wrongdoing.

After the hotel surveillance footage was made public in May, Combs apologized, saying he had “hit rock bottom.”

The indictment also repeatedly alleges that Combs “carried or brandished firearms to intimidate and threaten others,” including alleged victims and witnesses.

According to the criminal complaint, police officers who searched Combs’ residence seized “three AR-15s with defaced serial numbers and a magazine for a strike weapon.”

A culture of silence

Combs’ alleged enterprise, which prosecutors say consisted of security personnel, housekeepers, personal assistants, supervisors and other employees, was set up for the purpose of “maintaining, protecting, promoting and increasing the power” that Combs had, the indictment said.

Combs’ company reportedly relied on its employees for “absolute loyalty” to maintain their silence.

The indictment alleges that the enterprise served to shield Combs’ alleged crimes from exposure and prosecution through threats of violence, abuse and retaliation. Those who “demonstrated loyalty to Combs and were willing to conceal his crimes” were rewarded, including with bribes, it says.

At times when Combs feared law enforcement might prosecute him — such as less than a year ago, when video of his alleged attack on Ventura surfaced — Combs and alleged members of the enterprise “coerced witnesses and victims, including through bribery, to remain silent and not report what they had witnessed or knew to law enforcement,” prosecutors wrote.

As part of this campaign, Combs and his associates allegedly made phone calls to victims and witnesses (Comms recorded at least two) in which they “gave a false account of events in an attempt to cover up Combs’ crimes,” the indictment said.