Sean “Diddy” Combs is seen allegedly bodily assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN.
The footage dated March 5, 2016, reveals what seems to be Combs, holding a towel round his waist, working after a girl who seems to be Ventura after she is seen exiting a resort room and transferring towards a financial institution of elevators. He’s then seen grabbing her by the again of the neck and throwing her to the ground; he then turns to kick her, because the video reveals.
He then retrieves a handbag and suitcase from the ground earlier than he turns to kick her once more although she just isn’t transferring. She is then seen being dragged by him by the sweatshirt she is carrying for a second. Then he walks off. She gathers some gadgets from the ground, however he returns and is seen shoving her then sitting in a chair, pulling an unidentifiable object from a desk and throwing it towards her. He’s then seen strolling away.
“The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory habits of Mr. Combs,” Ventura’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, mentioned in an announcement. “Phrases can’t categorical the braveness and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has proven in coming ahead to deliver this to mild.”
In a civil lawsuit filed in New York in November, Ventura accused Combs of repeatedly raping and bodily abusing her for practically a decade as they’d an on-again, off-again romantic relationship. Within the swimsuit, which additionally names his label, Unhealthy Boy Information, and Sony Music, Ventura mentioned she was “trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse, violence and intercourse trafficking;” the submitting recollects a number of situations the place she claimed Combs “punched, beat, kicked and stomped” on her.
Ventura and Combs reached an undisclosed settlement and the case was dismissed the day after it was filed.
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