Claims that Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura endured brutal assaults throughout her relationship with Sean “P. Diddy” Combs have seemingly been corroborated in newly obtained video footage of a 2016 assault. The previous pair dated on and off between 2007 and 2018.
The content material was completely shared by CNN on Could 17, six months after the “Me & You” singer filed a bombshell lawsuit in New York alleging that she was intercourse trafficked and a sufferer of varied abuses.

The November petition fell beneath the state’s Grownup Survivors Act, which lifted the statute of limitations, permitting victims to pursue authorized motion towards their alleged abusers between November 2022 and this previous fall. The dispute was swiftly settled inside 24 hours, with the disgraced music govt persevering with to assert his innocence.
Nevertheless, the footage captured by safety cameras contained in the since-shuttered InterContinental Resort in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles, on March 5, 2016, reveals a special story. The Unhealthy Boy Data founder is alleged to have paid $50,000 for the footage of him “beating” Cassie, as famous in her lawsuit.

In accordance with TMZ, no police report concerning the 2016 incident has been filed and there’s no chance Los Angeles cops will additional examine to convey prices towards Diddy because of the statue of limitations.
The footage reveals a barefoot Cassie wearing denims with a black hoodie over her head and toting a handbag and a bigger bag as she leaves a room and heads to the elevator.
Moments later, Diddy runs out of his suite in a white towel to confront his then-girlfriend. Upon encountering her, he seems to seize her by the again of the neck, slam her to the bottom, and kick her twice earlier than he grabs her belongings and begins to pull her down the corridor by her sweatshirt. He releases his grip on her clothes quickly after and continues to make his means again to the room.
In his absence, Cassie makes use of a resort cellphone to position a name. One other second confirmed him reappear, nonetheless wearing solely a towel and socks, as he manhandled her whereas she was cornered off digital camera. He then sits in a close-by hallway chair and throws a glass vase in her path.
Her legal professional, Douglas H. Wigdor, mentioned, “The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory habits of Mr. Combs. Phrases can not categorical the braveness and fortitude that Ms. [Ventura] has proven in coming ahead to convey this to gentle,” because it started to flow into on-line.
Cassie’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor emailed this assertion concerning the new video of Diddy.
“The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory habits of Mr. Combs. Phrases can not categorical the braveness and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has proven in coming ahead… https://t.co/h1AWFipOMR pic.twitter.com/uMCFiVAdtE
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) Could 17, 2024
In her lawsuit, Cassie mentioned that they had been on the resort for one of many producer’s many “freak-offs,” that are described as organized conferences the place she was piled with medicine and alcohol and compelled to carry out intercourse acts with male prostitutes as Diddy recorded.
She claimed that sooner or later he allegedly punched her within the face, inflicting her to endure a black eye. She tried to flee whereas he was asleep, which is what safety cameras captured.
The mannequin finally did make it into an elevator and again to her condo, however returned to the resort to apologize. She was suggested by safety to return to her residence.
Two days earlier than the incriminating video was publicized, Diddy shared a cryptic submit that learn, “Time tells reality.” The feedback now learn, “Nicely time occurred. We noticed the CNN video the place you brutally attacked Cassie. So sure, you might be proper.” In addition to, “And as we speak is your day. Shameful.”
One other particular person wrote, “You’re undoubtedly gonna serve a while I can inform you that…” Within the state of California, victims of assault and battery have two years from the time of the incident to hunt justice. California lawmakers, nevertheless, have enacted a regulation permitting those that have endured sexual assault between Jan. 1, 2009, and Jan. 1, 2019 can file civil fits earlier than the loopback window expires on Dec. 31, 2026.
In November, when the non-public settlement happened, Cassie’s public assertion learn, “I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some stage of management. I wish to thank my household, followers and legal professionals for his or her unwavering help.”
Whereas, Diddy’s lawyer, Ben Brafman, mentioned, “Mr. Combs’ determination to settle the lawsuit doesn’t in any means undermine his flat-out denial of the claims” and that “he [Diddy] is pleased they bought to a mutual settlement and desires Ms. Ventura the very best.”
The “All In regards to the Benjamins” rapper has since been named in 5 further lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct, one accusing him of raping a girl when she was 17 years outdated in New York. The fallout from his irreparably tarnished repute contains his lack of enterprise relationships, his liquor model Deleon, and his standing as a boss on REVOLT, the media firm he based in 2013.
In March, his properties in Los Angeles and Miami had been each raided by federal brokers amid an ongoing investigation into allegations of intercourse trafficking.