Stunning footage seems to point out Sean “Diddy” Combs punching and kicking his former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, in a lodge hallway in 2016.
The footage, captured from a number of angles and obtained by CNN, reveals the music mogul chasing Ms Ventura down the hallway in a towel, earlier than attacking her close to to the elevators. He then makes an attempt to tug her again down the hall.
The incident allegedly happened within the InterContinental Lodge in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles. CNN verified the placement primarily based on publicly accessible pictures of the previous lodge’s inside.
After pushing Ms Ventura to the bottom, Combs retrieves a handbag and suitcase from the ground close to the elevators. He turns round and kicks her once more as she lies on the ground.
Ms Ventura is later seen within the footage slowly standing up and gathering objects from the ground earlier than reaching a lodge telephone on the hallway wall close to the elevators. Combs, nonetheless in a towel and socks, returns.
A mirror instantly throughout from the safety digicam reveals Combs showing to shove Ms Ventura. He’s then seen hurling an object at her.
Accordinng to CNN, Combs later paid the InterContinental Century Metropolis $50,000 for the hallway safety footage.
The video seems to corroborate a number of allegations made in a lawsuit introduced by Ms Ventura in 2023, during which she claimed she was trafficked, raped and overwhelmed by Combs on many events over 10 years.
In response to the grievance, which cited the altercation as occurring “round March 2016,” Combs turned “extraordinarily intoxicated and punched Ms Ventura within the face, giving her a black eye.”
After the mogul fell asleep, Ms Ventura had tried to go away the lodge room, however he awakened and “adopted her into the hallway of the lodge whereas yelling at her,” the grievance mentioned.
“He grabbed at her, after which took glass vases within the hallway and threw them at her, inflicting glass to crash round them as she ran to the elevator to flee,” it acknowledged.
The lawsuit additionally claimed that Combs introduced the singer into his “ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled way of life” not lengthy after she met him, and signed her to his label in 2005 when she was simply 19 and he was 37.
Ms Ventura mentioned that the sample of abuse started as quickly as their relationship began and that, as she was attempting to finish it in 2018, he pressured himself into her Los Angeles residence and raped her.
The lawsuit in opposition to Combs was settled a day after she filed it for an undisclosed amount of cash.
Ms Ventura informed CNN on the time she had chosen to “resolve this matter amicably,” whereas Combs’ lawyer mentioned the settlement was “by no means an admission of wrongdoing” and didn’t change his denial of the allegations.
The Impartial has contacted representatives for each Combs and Ms Ventura for remark concerning the incident proven within the surveillance footage.
It comes amid a string of civil lawsuits levelled on the rapper and music mogul, credited with serving to launch the careers of among the greatest stars in recent times, which have accused him of intercourse trafficking, sexual abuse and rape.
Federal brokers with US Homeland Safety raided two of the rapper’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami on 25 March as he faces a string of various accusations. The slew of accusations date way back to the Nineties, when he based his personal file label, Unhealthy Boy Information.
Combs has strongly denied the entire allegations in opposition to him. His attorneys have branded the lawsuits and their accusations as cash grabs, “baseless” or “sickening.” The entertainer has not been formally charged or accused by federal prosecutors of any crime.
