Video seems to reveal Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating former Cassie in hotel footage from 2016.
Surveillance footage depicts Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a hotel assault. Cassie revealed the assault in a lawsuit she settled since then.
Surveillance video obtained by CNN appears to show music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie in a 2016 hotel attack she detailed in a since-settled lawsuit that alleged the rapper physically and sexually abused her for years.
CNN stated that the video was a result of an incident that occurred that occurred in March of this year. It shows multiple angles.
Cassie 37, whose real name has been changed to Casandra Ventura, claimed in a federal lawsuit filed in the month of November that Combs brutally abused and raped her, which included punching the floor, beating, kicks and stomping her throughout the period the duration of their friendship. The lawsuit was settled on the same day following the filing.
Representatives of Combs 54 did not respond immediately to inquiries for comment on Friday. Combs has previously denied the allegations, calling them disgusting. After the settlement with Cassie the attorney representing Combs stated that the settlement did not “in no way an admission of wrongdoing.”
In the lawsuit, Cassie alleged Combs lured her into the marriage from the moment they started working together, while she was an emerging artist on Combs label. Cassie claimed in the suit that the abuse lasted for more than a decade. She also said that she accused Combs of being in control of everything in her life.
After Cassie’s suit, Combs has been accused in several lawsuits. number of suit from other people of physical and sexual violence, gang rape and “serious illegal activity.”
He is the part of federal criminal investigations and agents scoured his property this spring.
Combs has denied all allegations and has promised to erase his record.
According to CNN the footage, shot in a hallway of a hotel it shows Combs dressed in a towel and his shirt off. He is seen walking up to a woman in front of an elevator. He the woman is grabbed and thrown her down. The man, identified as Combs by CNN as Combs appears to then punch her two times. The man then starts dragging the woman with her sweatshirt that is hooded while she’s lying on the floor.
The woman, as per the video, grabs her phone and Combs isn’t in camera’s view. Combs appears to enter the frame. He appears to push the woman who is now out of the camera’s view.
Then, Combs, sitting in an armchair appears to grab the object. He then throws the object. The video does not contain audio.
NBC News has not independently verified the content of the video.
“The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr. Combs,” Douglas Wigdor the attorney for Cassie Ventura, told the media on Friday. “Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.”
In her lawsuit, Cassie detailed an alleged assault she claimed to have occurred in an Los Angeles hotel in 2016 during which she received an “black eye” after Combs was drunk and hit her on the head.
She stated that Combs later fell asleep, but remained physically violent once he woke up, and Cassie tried to get out of her hotel, as the lawsuit states.
“He was following her through the hotel’s hallway as he yelled at her. He grabbed her then he took glass vases from the hallway and tossed them at her, which caused glass to break on them as she ran towards the elevator to get away,” the suit stated.
She walked out of the hotel, but returned, with the intention to “apologizing for running away from her abuser,” the suit said.
Hotel staff advised her to return to a cab and head to her home, “suggesting that they had seen the security footage showing Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her in the hotel hallway,” according to the lawsuit.
In her lawsuit, Cassie alleged that Combs paid the hotel $50,000 in order to get footage of the incident in the hallway.
This past Friday IHG Hotels & Resorts announced that the hotel involved that was involved in the incident no anymore being managed by IHG management.
“IHG did not produce this footage, did not receive money for this footage, and does not have access to it,” it stated in an announcement.
A source with knowledge of the criminal investigation that centered around Combs informed NBC the following month that in Marchthree women and one man were questioned by federal authorities in Manhattan regarding allegations of sex-trafficking, sexual assault, and the promotion and sale of illicit drugs and firearms.
Since the fall of last year The rapper was afflicted by five suit from New York accusing him of sexual assault, sexual trafficking, and taking part in other crimes.
The judge has finally settled his lawsuit with Cassie however, the remaining cases are in the process of being resolved.
The lawyers for Combs have filed papers in the court asking to dismiss the Jane Doe lawsuit and partially dismiss the suit of a different woman.
On March 1, federal authorities searched the homes of the rapper located in Los Angeles and Miami. Three people familiar with the situation said to NBC News that firearms were discovered in his homes but no other information was given.
Dyer Dyer, one of Combs lawyers, released an announcement following the raids, stating that Combs “was never detained but spoke to and cooperated with authorities.” Dyer said the incident was an ambush declaring that there was an over-confidence in judgment due to “meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”
“There has been no finding of criminal or civil liability with any of these allegations,” Dyer declared. “Mr. Combs has no criminal record and is going to fight for justice every day in order to clean his name.”
On Thursday the 16th of June, a man detained on drug charges as federal agents searched of Combs’ homes, pleaded to a plea bargain.
Brendan Paul was with Combs when federal agents searched the rapper’s aircraft and detained at the Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport, on charges of possession of cocaine-related suspected and marijuana candy March according to a report from the police report.
“Brendan accepted the prosecutor’s offer to permit his entry into the diversion program which, after completion, the case against him will be dismissed in its entirety,” his lawyer, Brian Bieber, said Thursday.