Disturbing video seems to point out Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting singer Cassie Ventura

Safety video aired by CNN seems to point out Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles resort hallway in 2016, the newest in a months-long sequence of public allegations and revelations of bodily and sexual violence from the hip-hop mogul.

The video aired Friday seems to point out Combs, sporting solely a white towel, punching and kicking the R&B singer who was his protege and longtime girlfriend on the time. The footage additionally reveals Combs shoving and dragging Cassie, and throwing a vase in her course.

The safety digital camera video, dated March 5, 2016, intently resembles the outline of an incident at an InterContinental Resort within the Century Metropolis space of Los Angeles described in a November lawsuit filed by Cassie, whose authorized identify is Cassandra Ventura, that alleged years of sexual abuse and different violence from Combs.

The lawsuit alleges Combs paid the resort $50,000 for the safety video. CNN didn’t say the way it obtained the video however famous it verified the situation it was shot by evaluating the footage to publicly accessible pictures of the InterContinental Resort.

Cassie’s lawsuit was settled the day after it was filed, however spurred intense scrutiny of Combs, with a number of extra lawsuits filed within the following months, together with a federal prison sex-trafficking investigation that led authorities to raid Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.

Representatives for Combs didn’t instantly touch upon the video, however he has beforehand denied the allegations within the lawsuits, and his legal professionals have mentioned he denies any wrongdoing and can battle to show his innocence.

“The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory habits of Mr. Combs,” mentioned Douglas Wigdor, an legal professional for Cassie who has filed different lawsuits in opposition to Combs. “Phrases can not categorical the braveness and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has proven in coming ahead to deliver this to gentle.”

The Related Press doesn’t sometimes identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly as Ventura has.

In accordance with the lawsuit, Combs earlier within the night turned “extraordinarily intoxicated” and punched Ventura, giving her a black eye. After he fell asleep she tried to depart, the go well with says. That is apparently the place the video begins. Ventura could be seen heading to a financial institution of elevators with a packed bag.

Then Combs awoke and commenced screaming at her, following her down the corridor, the go well with mentioned.

He violently grabs her and yanks her to the bottom, kicks her, and throws vases in her course within the video.

The lawsuit says she managed to get away, however later returned out of concern that she would face better abuse if she did not. As she returned, resort employees urged her to return to her condominium, the go well with says. She would flee and conceal out with a pal in Florida.

The lawsuit alleges Combs paid the resort $50,000 for the safety video.

It’s unlikely Combs might be criminally charged within the assault. The statutes of limitations for assault or battery in California run from one to a few years relying on whether or not they’re charged as misdemeanors or felonies.

The video’s launch comes as Combs and his authorized workforce had begun to push again in opposition to the allegations that had are available a gradual stream since November. They lately filed motions to dismiss components of a lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted a girl in 1991, and to dismiss all of a lawsuit alleging he and two different males raped a 17-year-old lady in 2003. The court docket filings known as each units of allegations false.

On March 25, Homeland Safety Investigations served search warrants on Combs’ houses in Los Angeles and Miami in a sex-trafficking investigation. His lawyer known as it “a gross use of military-level drive.” The investigation is constant. Combs has not been charged.

Combs, a three-time Grammy winner and the founding father of Unhealthy Boy Data, is among the many most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the previous three a long time. He turned his hip-hop success right into a broader enterprise empire that features private-label spirits, style, and a TV community. He has needed to step except for a few of his enterprise roles because the allegations started rising.

He and Ventura started relationship in 2007 and had an on-and-off relationship for greater than a decade.

She turned identified for the hit single “Me & U,” which secured the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart in 2006. The tune was the lead single of her self-titled and solely studio album.

As an actor, she has appeared in a number of tv reveals and movies, together with Fox’s “Empire,” “Step Up 2: The Streets” and “Spenser Confidential.”

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