Manny Medrano - KNBC News in Los Angeles

Federal authorities have made clear that Sean "Diddy" Combs isn't the only one accused of crimes that include bribery, making threats, and sex trafficking. They say he had plenty of help.

NBC4's Ted Chen is live at Combs' home in Holmby Hills with the implications for everyone else in Combs' orbit. Ted.

Annabelle, Kathy, the alleged crimes that took place here in Holmby Hills and in Miami, prosecutors say, involved a network of Combs' employees. The question now is Who might be charged next and who might get deals?

A sex entertainment scheme like this required a lot of enablers.

Sean Combs didn't do it by himself, according to his indictment on federal charges of sex trafficking and threatening and abusing women who were part of his so-called freak-offs or sex parties. The indictment says he used, quote, certain employees to carry out, facilitate, and cover up his abuse and commercial sex, including security, household staff, personal assistants, and high-ranking supervisors.

It's clear that the person calling the shots is Combs, but he cannot run this massive alleged sex scheme without helpers and enablers.

Former federal prosecutor Manny Medrano says some of the employees will likely make deals to testify against Combs, but others will be criminally charged. He says who gets prosecuted and who doesn't depends on whether they're considered a high-level or low-level enabler.

A low-level would be, let's just say, the housekeeper who picked up after one of the sex parties. But a high-level enabler would be someone who lured the women to come into the sex parties.

The indictment says some employees helped Combs get drugs for the parties, made travel arrangements to lure victims, and got cash to pay sex workers to participate. Medrano says it's likely Combs wasn't the only famous face in the room.

I have no doubt that perhaps there are some other high-level celebrities, high-profile individuals who attended these parties, participated in them. He believes he's innocent. I believe he's innocent.

Medrano says Combs' defense attorney will likely argued no one was forced to do anything.

Did the women participate voluntarily and consensually, or were they forced? If they were forced, Holmes will likely spend the rest of his life in federal prison.

And Medrano says any high-profile people that attended the parties may not be criminally charged, but any such revelation might be career-ending. Reporting live from Holby Hills, Ted Chen, NBC 4 News. Kathy Annabelle, back to you.