Combs, who is free on $15,000 bail, could be sent to prison for seven years if convicted.Ĭombs and officials of Bad Boy, which generated nearly $130 million last year for Munich, Germany-based Bertelsmann, declined to discuss the altercation. At least one of Combs’ alleged accomplices is still at large, and a hearing on the matter is scheduled for June 24. The unprecedented incident involving executives of rival music companies, sparked by a dispute over a music video in which Combs appears, is under investigation by New York police. Then Puffy throws my desk over and they just walk out like nothing happened.”Ĭombs, a 29-year-old multimillionaire rap star and chairman of Bertelsmann’s thriving Bad Boy Entertainment unit, was arrested April 16 on felony charges that he and two of his bodyguards assaulted Stoute during business hours at the New York office of Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group. One of them picks up a chair and throws it at me. “One minute I’m in the middle of a meeting,” he told The Times in his first interview since the alleged assault, “and the next minute I’m down on the floor and Puffy and his guys are kicking and pounding me. “He punched me in the face, and then he grabbed the phone and bashed me in the head with it,” said Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute, describing the afternoon last month when he says rap tycoon Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs burst into his office with two accomplices and attacked him.