New Delhi, May 3 -- Hip-hop icon and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs, once a towering figure in entertainment known for lavish Hamptons parties and building the Bad Boy Records empire, is set to stand trial in a federal courtroom this week on a series of serious charges, including sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and coercion.

Prosecutors allege that over the course of two decades, Combs abused his power, wealth, and celebrity to exploit and abuse women in secretive, drug-fueled gatherings referred to as "Freak Offs." According to the indictment, these were orgies in which women were allegedly drugged and forced to perform sex acts, sometimes on male sex workers, while Combs filmed them.

The 17-page federal indictment paints a ...