Diddy is being sued by his ex-girlfriend, Cassie, after what she alleges was years of rape and abuse by the hands of the Dangerous Boy Data producer.
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The producer–full identify Sean Combs–was sued in federal court docket by Cassie on Thursday, based on experiences from The New York Instances. In her lawsuit, she accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape and repeated bodily abuse over roughly a decade.
Within the go well with, Cassie–full identify Casandra Ventura–says that Diddy started a sample of management and abuse not lengthy after she met him in 2005 when she was simply 19 years outdated. Her accusations included Combs plying her with medication, beating her, and forcing her to have intercourse with a succession of male prostitutes whereas he filmed their encounters. Greater than a decade later, in 2018, the go well with says Combs compelled his approach into her residence and raped her close to the tip of their relationship.
“After years in silence and darkness,” Cassie mentioned in a press release, based on the publication. “I’m lastly prepared to inform my story, and to talk up on behalf of myself and for the advantage of different girls who face violence and abuse of their relationships.”
A lawyer for Combs, Ben Brafman, says the music mogul denies the entire allegations being leveraged towards him.
“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” he started. “For the previous six months, Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, underneath the specter of writing a harmful e book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail. Regardless of withdrawing her preliminary menace, Ms. Ventura has now resorted to submitting a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’s repute and looking for a payday.”
Quite the opposite, Ventura’s lawyer says her ex was the one to supply cash to cease the lawsuit.
“Mr. Combs provided Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and forestall the submitting of this lawsuit,” laywer Douglas Wigdor mentioned. “She rejected his efforts.”
Whereas naming extra defendants within the go well with, the court docket papers assert that others who labored for Diddy helped him management his then-girlfriend, threatening her with issues like suppressing her music if she didn’t obey his orders.
In an fascinating a part of the go well with, Cassie additionally alleges that Diddy retaliated towards Child Cudi after studying that they had been relationship in 2012 and the rapper confirmed the validity of the allegation to The New York Instances.
“In a single incident described within the court docket papers, Ms. Ventura says that in early 2012, Mr. Combs grew so offended about her relationship the rapper Child Cudi that he mentioned he would blow up the rapper’s automotive.
“Round that point,” the go well with says, “Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway.”
By a spokeswoman, Child Cudi confirmed Ms. Ventura’s account.
“That is all true,” he mentioned.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
