The response to Sean “Diddy” Combs settling his multimillion-dollar sexual assault and trafficking swimsuit with Cassie Ventura has ranged from shade thrown by hip-hop legend 50 Cent and Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day to these like rapper Peter Gunz who steered the settlement indicated the Dangerous Boy founder was harmless.
Then there’s pop star Kesha, whose 2009 hit music “Tik Tok” featured the lyrics, “Get up within the morning feeling like P. Diddy.” Throughout a efficiency over the weekend, Kesha modified the lyrics to “Get up within the morning feeling like me,” an obvious try and distance herself from Combs.
50 Cent, nevertheless, was blunter.
“He paid that cash actual fast, ought to have carried out that earlier than the sharks noticed the blood within the water and right here they arrive in 5,4,3,2,1 each lady he put his hand on,” 50 wrote on X.
Aubrey O’Day, who fronted the Diddy-managed group Danity Kane, doubled down.
“Cash > accountability. Each time,” O’Day, 39, wrote through her Instagram Story, sharing a New York Occasions hyperlink to the settlement information.
“Welcome to a different chapter of the system that’s effectively in place,” she continued, including a damaged coronary heart emoji on the finish.
Ventura accused Combs of subjecting her to a traumatic, yearslong relationship characterised by beatings and rape. The allegations painted a disturbing image of Combs’ alleged actions and his extravagant and alleged drug-fueled life-style.
Ventura, now 37, claimed that Combs initiated the sample of abuse shortly after their relationship started in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37. The lawsuit described Combs as “susceptible to uncontrollable rage,” alleging that he subjected her to “savage” beatings involving punches, kicks, and stomping.
Ventura additionally alleged that Combs pressured her to have intercourse with a myriad of male prostitutes and used movies of the encounters as emotional and different types of blackmail. Furthermore, the swimsuit contended that Combs pressured her right into a Los Angeles dwelling in 2018 and raped her when she tried to finish the connection.
Observers, like Gunz, claimed the settlement indicated Ventura lodged the allegations for financial acquire.
Born Peter Pankey, Gunz stated, “You get sufficient cash and shut the f— up. Are you tryna be a voice for others, or are you simply gon’ seize this cash and shut the f— up?”
Wealthy Dollaz, who hosted Gunz on his Instagram, supplied a problem to the rapper.
“You’re entitled to your opinion, however I don’t agree. Primary, it was civil,” Dollaz instructed Gunz. “Civil means cash. So, there was by no means any sort of dispute about what was occurring right here. This isn’t a prison case. He didn’t take a prison case and make it civil. She didn’t begin cooperating with the cops after which change up. She was in a civil case from the start, which meant she needed cash.”
For her half, Ventura defined her choice in a press release to the New York Occasions.
“With the expiration of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act quick approaching, it grew to become clear that this was a chance to talk up in regards to the trauma I’ve skilled and that I will probably be recovering from for the remainder of my life,” Ventura stated.
