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Sean Combs aka P Diddy has settled a federal lawsuit introduced by the R&B singer Cassie simply sooner or later after she leveled explosive accusations on the hip-hop mogul of rape and several other cases of bodily abuse.
On Friday night the pair each launched statements saying that they had reached an settlement and resolved.
No particular particulars on the phrases of the settlement had been revealed.
‘I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some degree of management,’ Cassie, whose full identify is Casandra Ventura, stated in an announcement.
‘I need to thank my household, followers and attorneys for his or her unwavering help.’
In the meantime, in an announcement, Combs stated: ‘We’ve got determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the perfect. Love.’
Lawsuit: Within the lawsuit which got here to mild on Thursday, Cassie alleged that the Coming Residence hitmaker – whom she cut up from in 2018 – managed and beat her, and likewise compelled her to have intercourse with male prostitutes; seen in 2017
On Thursday, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was accused of rape and repeated bodily abuse by Cassie.
The go well with alleged how he allegedly managed and abused Cassie for over a decade – in addition to plying her with medication, beating her, and forcing her to have intercourse with a number of male prostitutes whereas he watched and recorded.
The pair, who met in 2005 when she was aged 19, cut up in 2018. The lawsuit claimed that simply earlier than the tip of their relationship, he compelled his means into her residence and raped her.
Diddy, 54, vehemently denied all the ‘offensive and outrageous allegations.’
Cassie, whose actual identify is Casandra Ventura, stated in a authorized doc that was filed in Manhattan’s Federal District Court docket on Thursday: ‘After years in silence and darkness. I’m lastly prepared to inform my story, and to talk up on behalf of myself and for the good thing about different ladies who face violence and abuse of their relationships.’
Her lawyer Douglas Wigdor claimed Diddy supplied her ‘eight figures to silence her and stop the submitting of this lawsuit’ however that she declined to ‘give a voice to all girl that suffer in silence’.
On Friday night time Wigdor stated: ‘I’m very pleased with Ms. Ventura for having the energy to go public together with her lawsuit. She must be recommended for doing so.’
The rapper, who goes by P Diddy, allegedly managed and abused Cassie for over a decade – in addition to plying her with medication, beating her, and forcing her to have intercourse with a number of male prostitutes on video
The pair, who met in 2005 when she was 19, cut up in 2018. The lawsuit claims that simply earlier than the tip of her relationship, Combs compelled his means into her residence and raped her
Among the many critical allegations is that Combs intercourse trafficked Cassie, 37, to male prostitutes to fulfil his voyeurism fantasies in inns and at his residence
Among the many critical allegations is that Diddy intercourse trafficked Cassie, 37, to male prostitutes to fulfil his voyeurism fantasies in inns and at his residence.
The lawsuit claims she was directed to have intercourse with a number of males – typically in masks and costumes – whereas the music exec watched, masturbated, and filmed.
Cassie, within the paperwork, known as the ordeals ‘horrific encounters’ and stated she needed to take medication to disassociate in the course of the preparations which Diddy allegedly known as ‘freak offs’.
The lawsuit states that the music govt, who she first met as an adolescent, advised her it might ‘flip him on’ if he noticed her with ‘one other d***’.
He allegedly employed a person and introduced him to his residence in Los Angeles to have interaction within the intercourse acts with Cassie.
‘Mr. Combs directed Ms. Ventura to carry out sexual acts with this man whereas Mr. Combs watched them,’ the lawsuit states.
‘He masturbated whereas he directed Ms. Ventura and the person to do particular sexual acts. The whole encounter lasted a number of days.’
She claimed Diddy received drunk throughout a ‘freak off’ round March 2016 and punched her within the face, leaving her with a black eye.
Cassie stated she tried to depart the resort room when he fell asleep however he awakened and commenced screaming at her.
He allegedly grabbed at her, took the glass vases within the hallway and threw them at her ‘inflicting glass to crash round them as she ran to the elevator to flee’.
She managed to flee to her residence however claimed she returned over fears he could be even angrier.
‘When she returned, resort safety employees urged her to get again right into a cab and go to her residence, suggesting that that they had seen the safety footage displaying Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her within the resort hallway,’ the lawsuit states.
She alleged that Diddy paid the resort employees $50,000 for the hallway safety footage from that night.
On one other event in 2013, Diddy allegedly arrange a ‘freak off’ and was charged tens of hundreds of {dollars} in damages by the resort.
Cassie was anticipated to facilitate the situation and hiring of male intercourse staff for the ‘freak offs’, in line with the lawsuit.
She was allegedly instructed to make use of web sites and escort providers to search out males with ‘giant black penises’.
It alleged that Diddy would insist on the encounters weekly and that he repeatedly advised her it was ‘our factor’ and ‘our secret’.
Cassie claimed the ‘freak offs’ would typically happen in resort suites together with the Trump Worldwide Resort in Columbus Circle, L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, The London Resort in Los Angeles and InterContinental Lodges throughout the nation.
His assistants would allegedly assist arrange the ‘freak offs’ by offering child oil and lubricant.
The lawsuit states: ‘Mr. Combs all the time provided Ms. Ventura (and the intercourse employee) with copious quantities of medication earlier than and in the course of the FOs.
‘Ms. Ventura was given ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, and alcohol in extreme quantities throughout FOs, which allowed her to disassociate throughout these horrific encounters.
The lawsuit claims she was directed to have intercourse with a number of males – typically in masks and costumes – whereas the music exec watched, masturbated, and filmed
Cassie, within the paperwork, known as the ordeals ‘horrific encounters’ and stated she needed to take medication to disassociate in the course of the preparations which Diddy allegedly known as ‘freak offs’
She claimed that she tried to flee him a number of occasions however could be discovered by Diddy’s ‘huge community of firms and affiliated entities’ who advised her to return to him
The lawsuit states that the music govt, who she first met as an adolescent, advised her it might ‘flip him on’ if he noticed her with ‘one other d***’.
He allegedly employed a person and introduced him to his residence in Los Angeles to have interaction within the intercourse acts with Cassie
‘It turned widespread place to get IV fluids within the days after an FO to get better from the extreme substances pushed upon her.’
Cassie was allegedly required to decorate up in lingerie for the intercourse encounters and put on white nail polish to distinction with the pores and skin of the black male intercourse staff.
She claimed Diddy would ask her to pour extreme quantities of oil over herself earlier than he instructed her and the intercourse staff what to do.
‘Mr. Combs would say issues like, ‘seize that huge Black d***’ and ask her ‘how does it really feel?’ as he directed her to carry out for him,’ the lawsuit states.
Diddy allegedly used his cellphone, laptop computer and pill to movie the ‘freak offs’ and handled it like a ‘private artwork undertaking’, adjusting the lighting.
Cassie stated she deleted images and movies of the intercourse acts in the event that they had been taken on her cellphone however claimed Diddy advised her he saved many.
The lawsuit additionally claims that he requested Cassie to hold his gun in her purse on at the very least two events.
Diddy allegedly plied her with ecstasy and ketamine, and sometimes beat her up. She by no means advised authorities as a result of it ‘would merely give Mr. Combs one other excuse to harm her.’
Cassie alleged that Diddy blew up Child Cudi’s automotive round February 2012 after he came upon they had been in a relationship collectively.
She claimed he went via her cellphone and located emails between her and the American rapper and have become enraged.
Diddy allegedly positioned a handbook corkscrew in between his fingers and lunged at her, in line with the lawsuit and she or he ran away to stick with Child Cudi.
Cassie later returned and the music govt allegedly hit her a number of occasions, after which kicked her within the again as she tried to expire the door.
Throughout Paris Style week, she claims Diddy advised her he was going to explode Child Cudi’s automotive and that he wished to ensure he was residence along with his buddies when it occurred.
‘Round that point, Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway,’ the lawsuit acknowledged.
‘Ms. Ventura was terrified, as she started to completely comprehend what Mr. Combs was each keen and capable of do to these he believed had slighted him.’
In August 2015, Diddy allegedly picked up her good friend ‘like a baby’ and dangled her over a Seventeenth-floor balcony whereas intoxicated at Cassie’s shock dinner for her twenty ninth birthday.
Cassie claimed that Diddy compelled her to remain at his residence in Holmby Hills with one in all his sons after one beating.
‘Whereas there, Mr. Combs FaceTimed Ms. Ventura, and acknowledged, ‘you gotta go up and put extra make-up on, my son cannot see you want that.” the lawsuit acknowledged.
Cassie additionally claims that Diddy would threaten to suppress her music if she didn’t obey his ‘violent’ orders. He additionally paid for her automotive and residence, and had entry to her private medical data, the go well with claims.
She claimed that he raped her in September 2018 and that he compelled his means into her residence after dinner in Malibu, California.
He allegedly tried to kiss her earlier than forcibly eradicating her garments and unbuckling his belt.
‘He proceeded to rape Ms. Ventura whereas she repeatedly stated ‘no’ and tried to push him away,’ the lawsuit claims.
Following this alleged incident, Cassie stated she took steps to utterly separate herself from ‘her long-time abuser’.
She ultimately left the house he paid for and returned the automotive he bought for her.
However Cassie stated she suffers from immense emotional misery from the ‘immense trauma endured over a decade with Mr Combs’.
The lawsuit claimed that Diddy received Cassie excessive for the primary time in September 2007 when he handed her an ecstasy tablet.
It acknowledged that on one event, the pair had been utilizing medication at his Los Angeles residence when one in all Diddy’s safety employees barged in and advised him that his ‘longtime rival’ report govt Suge Knight was noticed at Mel’s Drive-In Diner in Los Angeles.
He allegedly received dressed, retrieved a number of weapons from a protected and ran out to search out the place Knight was stated to be eating leaving Cassie terrified and in tears.
The lawsuit claims that Diddy ‘used his cash and energy to orchestrate intensive efforts to cover the proof of his abuse’ by forcing Cassie to cover in inns for days at a time to let her bruises heal.
It alleges that he beat her repeatedly in an Escalade by kicking and hitting her following a celebration with Jay-Z.
The lawsuit claims that in January 2009 that Diddy assaulted her after he came upon she spoke to a different music supervisor at a celebration in Los Angeles.
‘Within the automotive leaving the membership, Mr. Combs beat Ms. Ventura, pushing her right into a nook of the car and stomping on her face,’ it acknowledged.
‘Mr. Combs’s safety employees, Roger Bonds, tried to cease the beating, however was unable to deescalate the state of affairs.’
She is alleged to been bleeding profusely and tried to run away earlier than being ushered into Diddy’s residence the place she started to throw up.
‘Upon recognizing the harm he had executed and the bodily proof of his abuse, Mr. Combs panicked, and compelled his employees to convey Ms. Ventura to a resort suite at The London Resort in Los Angeles, the place she was required to remain for every week,’ the lawsuit claims.
Cassie claimed she requested to go residence to her dad and mom however was not allowed to depart so she lied to her mom when she requested her about a web-based gossip discussion board that reported on the alleged assault.
She stated she was ‘terrified, remoted, and unable to see a pathway out’. ‘She discovered herself turning into numb to the abuse she was experiencing, and have become solely beholden to Mr. Combs’s calls for,’ the lawsuit acknowledged.
‘She started to blindly observe his directions out of worry of once more being on the receiving finish of a vicious beating.’
The duo had been collectively for 11 years, from when Cassie was 19
Diddy, who additionally goes by the stage identify Puff Daddy, is value an estimated $1 billion after being one of many star figures within the commercialization of hip-hop within the Nineteen Nineties
Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura pictured in Might 2017
‘Cassie—Ms. Casandra Ventura—was held down by Mr. Combs and endured over a decade of his violent habits and disturbed calls for,’ the lawsuit acknowledged.
‘For Ms. Ventura, the ‘darkish occasions’ had been these she spent trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse, violence, and intercourse trafficking.
‘He lured Ms. Ventura into an ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled life-style, and right into a romantic relationship with him—her boss, one of the crucial highly effective males within the leisure business, and a vicious, merciless, and controlling man almost 20 years her senior.’
Cassie claimed that all through their relationship ‘was susceptible to uncontrollable rage’ and steadily beat her.
‘These beatings had been witnessed by Mr. Combs’ employees and staff of Unhealthy Boy Leisure and Mr. Combs’s associated companies, however nobody dared to talk up towards their scary and ferocious boss,’ the lawsuit alleged.
‘He typically showered her with items following incidents of bodily violence, a typical sample of habits by serial abusers.
‘Including insult to harm, Mr. Combs used unlawful substances and threats of violence to drive Ms. Ventura into repeated undesirable sexual encounters with male intercourse staff.’
She claimed that she tried to flee him a number of occasions however could be discovered by Diddy’s ‘huge community of firms and affiliated entities’ who advised her to return to him.
Cassie stated that though she has ‘absolutely escaped’ Diddy the ‘hurt that the assaults and sexual abuse he induced her to expertise for almost a decade will eternally hang-out her’.
The lawsuit claimed she has required intensive medical and psychological care to get better from ‘trauma she lived via’.
She is in search of unspecified damages. The lawsuit is introduced underneath the Grownup Survivors Act – which is a New York legislation permitting folks to file claims even after the statute of limitations has run out.
The go well with stated: ‘With the expiration of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act quick approaching it turned clear that this was a possibility 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.’
Ben Brafman, Diddy’s lawyer, stated: ‘Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations.
‘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 dangerous 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 popularity and in search of a payday.’
However her lawyer Wigdor advised DailyMail.com: ‘Mr. Combs supplied Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and stop the submitting of this lawsuit. She rejected his efforts and determined to offer a voice to all girl that suffer in silence. Ms. Ventura must be applauded for her bravery.’
The lawsuit notes one occasion in 2009 the place Combs noticed her talking to a different agent, so he pushed her right into a automotive and kicked her repeatedly within the face till she was bloodied
The hip-hop couple, who cut up after a decade of relationship, are pictured on the Met Gala in 2018
Diddy, who additionally goes by the stage identify Puff Daddy, is value an estimated $1 billion after being one of many star figures within the commercialization of hip-hop within the Nineteen Nineties.
He grew to be one in all his era’s most notable music producers – working with names comparable to Infamous B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige.
Diddy based Unhealthy Boy – his report label – which Cassie was signed to in 2006.
Cassie has since married Alex Positive and has two youngsters with him.
She was swept up in his luxurious life-style and reaped the advantages of getting her debut album launched underneath his label.
Diddy isn’t any stranger to lawsuits – however they typically are surrounding his alcohol manufacturers.
In Might this yr, he sued spirits firm Diageo claiming his vodka and tequila manufacturers did not obtain promised investments whereas being handled as inferior ‘city’ merchandise.
The lawsuit filed by Combs Wine and Spirits in New York Supreme Court docket in Manhattan alleged that Diageo North America starved Combs’ Ciroc vodka and DeLeon tequila manufacturers of sources even because it showered consideration on different movie star manufacturers.
Diageo purchased actor George Clooney’s Casamigos tequila model for $1 billion in 2017, for instance.
Diddy stated Diageo management advised him his race was one of many causes it restricted distribution to city neighborhoods.
He was additionally advised that some Diageo leaders resented him for making an excessive amount of cash, in line with the lawsuit.
